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NO MORE BABY TALK...,

Posted by Mike Silverman on Monday, March 30, 2009 12:00:22 PM
On the radio today I heard a soundbite of a voice saying we need to work with the President, and when we have disagreements engage in calm debate ( paraphrasing ) as to our opposition. That was John McCain.  If you heard him, then you heard that gentle, calm , laid back voice of his, talking about how we need to be civil and calm and realize Obama has a very difficult job. Very soothing isn't it?  I love the heroism and admire the sacrifice John McCain made for our country during his time in the military. But he sucks wind as a politician. Period.  He's a compromiser, and we don't need that now. This is not the time for compromise when the American way of life is being roped and gagged and lined up for execution by the firing squad of Obama, Pelosi, Reid , Frank, Dodd and thier ilk. This is the time for anyone who is a real patriot to stand up and start shouting and pounding on the podium to wake up the idiots who voted for Obama. This is when we need an opposition of Parliamentarian Daniel Hannan's quality on a daily basis ripping apart the economic and social train wreck that is the Obama administration. But, let me be clear..., I don't blame Obama for his push to socialism, fascism, and central planning.  I don't blame Pelosi or Reid or Frank for helping it get to his desk so he can make it law.  They are doing exactly what they believe in. They are extremist radical progressives with a full blooded socialist agenda to take over control of every single aspect of our  society from how much money we should be earning, to what sort of medical care each individual should be allotted, to what sort of cars we should be permitted to drive, to what sort of education we should have, to who should be running businesses and which ones deserve to stand and which deserve to die, and to take as much money as they can from our paychecks and investments in order to make thier dreams of tyranny and total dominance come true.  No, I don't blame them at all..., because..., they are simply being the animals that they are.  Just like I don't blame a rhinoceros for charging blindly at anyone who comes near it, or wasps for stinging anyone who gets too close to thier nest, I don't blame radicals for being radical.  I blame my fellow citizens for the ignorance, stupidity, and downright malleability of thier weak minds that made them ignore all the warning signs, all the attempts to educate them as to the extreme radicals we have in our government and what would happen if we put a monster radical like the smooth-talking Obama into the White House. We are getting the hammer put to our heads because of ignorance in our population.  Because of the lame , weak miserable effort by our fellow citizens to understand that looking into the background is key, vital , absolutely imperative to understanding the goals and character of the candidate.  But no, we had well-intentioned but misdirected people shouting thier heads off that we were all misanthropic savages for daring to question Obama's relationship with Wright, Ayers, etc...,  and the uninformed dupes of the masses went along with that because it was populist nonsense to believe that we can't be too critical of anyone of a minority race running for President and that we simply can't hope to understand the culture of his background.  Well, now, in order to remedy this radical agenda that is driving to chop the head off of our constitution and tear the guts out of our nation we need to re-invigorate our fellow citizens with the desire for self determination and turn them away from looking at government as a mother who is there to make everything right, but the time for trying to do that with genteel psychobable talk is over. There's no more time to give a disillusioned Obama voter a cookie and put comforting arm around him and say "I know it looks bad, but times will be better one day.".   We need to make sure our neighbors know they were looked at by Democrats as if they were dunces and that Democrats and News media made fools of them by conditioning them to think like liberals and ignore the danger of who Obama really is, and that they... our fellow citizens..., are fully responsible for the socialist monsters that now inhabit our congress and white house. If you want to know what to do when your local state representative or your state senator is up for re-election, demand that they pledge in writing to cut all federal taxes and spending by 20%, revoke they powers granted to the Treasury Secretary by the Tarp law, and shut down permanently FreddieMac and FannieMae lending institutions, pass a bill for tort reform particularly that will reasonably limit some damage awards in medical malpractice lawsuits so as to help normalize medical costs for doctors and institutions,  and that they will voluntarily limit themselves to two terms and will not run again for political office ever again after that.  We need term limits on all politicians so that there is a cycle of fresh thinking moving into government on a regular basis. Short of having the term limits become law, which will be very difficult, we need to get that pledge from the candidates.  There needs to be a new mindset in DC, and a new level of the greater population taking a very hard and close look at all candidates no matter who they are.
 
- Mike Silverman
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RE-DECLARING OUR INDEPENDENCE

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:12:08 AM

 
The Declaration of Independence: ( WITH NOTES ADDED BY ME... in parenthesis)


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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... ( this includes the executives at AIG, the management and employees of Wal Mart, speculators in the stock market, and people at all income levels from the wealthiest to those with no income)...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life ( abortion is not a "right") , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ( the amount of money at your disposal increases the ease at which you can pursue liberty and happiness, thus the more you are taxed the more the government chokes your options for such pursuits) .--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...( our government is not there to rule us, we own it, it functions at our discretion and we will reign it in when it goes too far)..., --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,...( ...when our government tries to determine the fate, future and obligations of the people and forgets that it's role is to serve rather than to limit freedom...) it is the Right of the People to alter ...( elect new leaders)... or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ( .. the Constitution must not be ignored as a matter of convenience )...; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government( ... or perhaps restore to primary importance the founding principles and guiding documents of a great Republic to govern as was the original intent by replacing corrupt leaders with those who respect the Constitution)... The history of the present King of Great Britain ...( or perhaps... the present political leaders in DC )..is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 This first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence lays out the basic reasons for pursuing redress of grievances against a government that has gone out of control.  My notes inserted into it were meant simply to point out the modern equivalence of some of those grievances. It seems that  far too many of our elected leaders have forgotten or forsaken the principles and ideas of our nation's founding. We have a governing body now that seems to have lost its way from the principles primarily embodied in the right to liberty. Freedom. From freedom all the rest of it becomes possible.
 
- Mike Silverman

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THE NEW AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEGUN

Posted by Mike Silverman on Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:12:10 PM
What's going on here is despicable. People whose livelihood is in jeopardy because of badly managed companies are being given false hope that thier jobs can be saved by government redistribution of wealth in the form of multi-billion dollar giveaways to prop up  those failing companies. And this sets up not only a class warfare situation but a war among the common citizens of the country who have every right to expect that thier tax money will not be blown away propping up failing industries, and those who work at the blue collar jobs in those very industries who feel that this multi-billion dollar boondoggle is their only hope. This irresponsible behavior by congress is causing an economic CIVIL WAR. Thank you United States Congress for pitting citizens against each other over the fate of the money you force from our wallets and pocketbooks..., you political wretches!  This is what we can expect from the next four years of an Obama administration as he and Pelosi and Reid sit back like emperors who will determine the fate of each struggling business in the country.., and if they think it will benefit them politically will push to bailout that particular business..., draining tax funds.., which will invite tax increases...and... sadly all of this having been kicked off by President Bush and Hank Paulson with the declaration that a hurting economy must be bailed out by the government.  This is a mess, and an opportunity for Republicans to take a hard line stance against all of it. Will they?  Only time will tell.

- Mike Silverman

 

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AN INCREMENTAL DESTRUCTION OF FREEDOM

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:56:27 AM
That it's even being considered to bail out the auto industry ( again ), is a crime against the founding principles of our country, and puts the government ( and thus the nation)  squarely onto the slippery slope of fascism, in fact at this point we have already fully engaged a part of our economy in fascist measure, with the tether of the lone rope keeping us from falling into the black hole below fraying at the edges. You must realize what it means to have the government taking ownership of formerly private industries. Does the name Hugo Chavez ring a bell?  For "the good of the country" he took away private ownership of all oil companies in Venezuela. There is a theory called incrementalism, which states that the masses will accept anything if it is done gradually, allowing slow acclimation by the public.  We are THERE. We are in the midst of incremental government takeover, inch-by-inch,  of any industry on which the wealth of the nation is measured. The only brake we have is the right to vote, and possibly the Supreme Court, if it will intervene in this ..., which is itself questionable. The right to vote has proven USELESS in this past election cycle since the masses have voted in the most liberal president in history and given him a majority party control of the congress. The blindness of the public eye to the incrementalism of the weakening of free market capitalism is ASTOUNDING. Not that McCain would have been a lot better, after all he voted to allow Paulson to do the ridiculous things he's done so far with his multi-billion dollar budget. This is why we need genuine Conservatives to win the positions of power in our government, to stop this incremental destruction of our system of capitalism and economic freedom.
   
- Mike Silverman, Milford MA
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GOD BLESS NEIL CAVUTO AND THE FEW OTHERS WHO STILL HAVE A FREE SOUL

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:02:38 AM
What must it be like, to be so arrogant that with a sweep of your hand you can dismiss millions upon millions of people as idiots who don't know what's best for themselves? Many of the talking heads of financial news and gurus of Wall Street are out there berating those of us who are angry over the proposal to spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars on bailing out banks from bad loan debts. How dare we common folks complain about this? Don't we jesters and fools understand that this is for our own good? It's tiring and infuriating to see and hear the same cloistered snobs wagging thier fingers at us through the television screen and telling us we're morons. This is the hegemony of the media nobility that comes about when they forget they are no better than the rest of us. To them the masses are just a lot of brainless lemmings full of herd mentality running over a cliff because of some sociopathic disdain for misapropriation of taxes. The media Godfathers don't get it.  Taxpayers in this country are not silent funnels of currency that the government can simply turn the suction on to fill treasury coffers without any reaction. We have a right to speak. It's a God given right recognized by our country's founders and protected by our Constitution. Normally savvy wizards of free market capitalism Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes sat there whining and crying and boo-hooing today that we ignorant simpletons out here in the weeds are holding up the process of spitting 700 billion in taxes at a problem that has no guarantee of being solved with it or evidence that this is the only way of solving it. One of the few heroes out there championing a free market capitalism method to solve this is Fox Business News VP Neil Cavuto. He's has been pushing back against these panicking market moguls and standing up for you and me and the idea of a market based resolution. Republican Representative J. Gresham Barrett is also one of the few putting his foot down on the brake and looking for a better way to resolve the financial crisis. But the majority of wall street wizards, and that includes Treasury Secretary Paulson ( a former Goldman Sachs partner), are screaming now that we un-wise regular people have got to stop demanding that congress stop. SO why has congress stopped? Because they know who thier ultimate bosses are. You and me. And an election is only weeks away. An election that could be trouble for them if they are dealing with an irate constituency. Fox Business News conducted an informal poll today showing that 64% of respondants would be less likely to vote for a congressman who supports the bailout plan. That's got a lot of politicians very nervous.  Good. Nervous politicians are cautious politicians and that's what we need now. Ultimately this bill wll probably pass in some form, but not before "we the people" have made very sure our representatives know that they are not going to get away with running wild with our hard earned tax money.
 
- Mike Silverman
 
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FORGET THE POLLS- A REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION MAY BE COMING

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:33:35 PM
Polls are tight. McCain is up in a few , Obama is up in a few. Only one "poll" matters.  That's the poll at the voting booth on election day.  The way that John McCain and Sarah Palin will become the next residents at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is for Republicans to show up in massive waves at thier local voting place and cast thier ballots for the Republican ticket. While they're at it Republicans may want to make sure to vote for any local Republican officials that are up for re-election or are challenging Democrat encumbents. John and Sarah will need all the help from that they can get in the form of sending additional  Republicans to congress. Democrat gains predicted for this midterm are not at all assured.  Especially now. With the Republican Base electrified and eager to put the McCain / Palin ticket into office, there is a very good possibility that not only will Democrats have to fight to obtain any significant gains in the House and Senate, but may lose seats that they thought were safe. Battleground states are changing. If the Republican base stays pumped, there could be a massive sweeping change in the look of Capitol Hill this November. This, even more than the Presidency, has insider Democrats wringing thier hands. The Democrats were predicting a joyride but John McCain threw a curve ball by bringing Sarah Palin into the mix. All bets are off now. A revolutionary change may be headed our way this November akin to the massive influx of 1994 when Newt Gingrich headed a Republican overhaul of the House and Senate.
 
- Mike Silverman , Milford MA
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PELOSI'S ASTOUNDING IGNORANCE

Posted by Mike Silverman on Monday, April 07, 2008 3:58:25 PM

Last thursday Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi issued a public verbal warning to General Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq whose handling of the recent surge of US military action in Iraq played a key role in turning the tide and forcing embedded terrorists to flee the province. She basically warned him not to give congress any good news when he shows up to deliver his report on the recent outbreak of violence in Basra. She said, “We have to know the real ground truths of what is happening there, not put a shine on events because of a resolution that looks less violent when in fact it has been dictated by al-Sadr, who can grant or withhold that call for violence,”

Obviously Speaker Pelosi has already decided for herself what the report should be, and what the circumstances were regarding the violence.  So why bother with a report from the General?  This is shameful of her. Her comments were a demagogue's spew of pompous arrogance and toxic ignorance.  Madam Speaker..., you are not Commander In Chief of the military, much as you attempt to pretend that you are.  Not only has your own term in congress produced "nothing" of any substance, not only have you failed time-and-time-again to bring stability and unification to your own political party, not only have you failed to deliver on your promise of  "Earmark" ( political pork )reform and instead stood silently as it overflowed, but you have denigrated the men and women of the military with your comments against the war on terror.  Yet you slip away to clandestine visits with terrorist enablers like Basher Assad in Syria to extend him a hand of friendship, while stabbing your own country's military efforts in the back.  In my opinion your behavior makes you a traitor Ms. Pelosi, and in my opinion the worst Speaker Of the House in the history of our country.  That is your legacy. While General Petraeus will be remembered as a hero and a great leader of military successes.  Perhaps you should consider that, before attempting to tell the General that you will not accept his report unless it lives up to your own ignorant standards.
 
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