Hello and welcome to whomever of you may be gazing at my little blog today. And I would also like to extend a very special "Good Morning" to a fine old group of fellows out there. Good Morning Republican party. Good morning General Powell, Senator McCain, Mr. Steel, Senator Ridge, and the rest of you who have expressed reservations about being too critical of Judge Sotomayor for the position of Supreme Court Justice. We appreciate the service, the time, the effort you have given your grand old party. Now, if you will please open and read the letters you have just been handed we would greatly appreciate that. Please don't feel too badly.  It's simply that your services are no longer needed.  Please walk single file as you exit the stage, you will find transportation outside ready to take you permanently back to your private civilian lives. When, as a political party of alleged moral principle and opposition to the spread of the structural disease known as liberalism, it becomes a debate as to whether a debate should be made against the rise to power in the highest unchallengeable lifetime appointment in government a person whose proven rhetoric and body of work represents the antithesis of our foundational freedoms, it is time to clean out the house. When, as a political party founded on preservation of the essential moral and structural framework of the documents which gave rise to independence and freedom and self determination for our nation, the party itself can no longer see the enemy for who it is, it is time to clean out the house. It's so very plain that Liberals and those who call themselves "progressives" want to destroy the Republican party, it rather goes without saying. It's so crystal clear that Powell and the other self proclaimed moderates are the tools being used by enemies of Conservatism for that end. To listen to the lies... the perverse lies... from those who seek to destroy Republicans and more precisely destroy Conservatives... that they are trying to "SAVE" the Republican party is an insult that cuts to the heart of anyone with a scrap or more of intellect. And the thing is , we all know that this is what it's all about. The left wing media knows it, the liberal analysts know it, and the moderates know it. And yet we are treated to this fantasy theater of the likes of Powell clomping around on a media stage like pinnocchio, a useful idiotic puppet of the people who want to destroy the Republicans and he is a willing and happy mouthpiece for them. He sits there like a vetriloquist's dummy mouthing the words of the liberals who hate Republicans and want to dilute Conservatives out of existence as a power, which of course will put the final nail in the Republican coffin. Either Powell and his fantasy-weavers have an Obama-Complex and want to be lead by a Republican version of Obama, in which case if they succeed there is no more Party, or they are happily working to destroy the party principles that they desperately hate and their satisfaction will come from taking it down into the final flames of Hell where it appears is the only fire hot enough in their minds to purge the party of the sin of Conservatism.
 
With regard to recent dangerous actions of North Korea, just a thought... what if... China is using North Korea as a cover to test their own nuclear weapons technology? Given the provocative and radical nature of North Korea's leader why not let him be the front man and scapegoat for testing tht China wants to do? I'm not sure of that, it's just something that occurred to me as I was considering the situation. Anyway, the question I'm looking to have answered is will the Republicans come up with the right response, regardless of whether Obama will implement it. Republicans , according to liberals... ( and of course if we follow the "moderate approach" we must always view Republicans through the liberal lens..., ), are war mongering nuts. So, if Republicans as a party follow suit with Powell leading the way, they will want to "sit down" and "talk" with Kim Jong-il and try to convince him that this is a bad thing he's doing, like some sort of political version of the Jehovah's Witness but without the moral conviction of their beliefs. Instead of being strong on foreign policy and defense which is , or was..., something Republicans had a lock on..., they will kowtow to the pied piper of liberalism beause those Republicans who gaze through the liberal lens see their opportunity as being right now... with the election of Obama being thier proof that "they" are the type of leaders the country really wants. The right approach is to lead... lead the way by laying down the law, not talking but ordering North Korea to immediately cease or face immediate response. We CAN'T just sit here like a bunch of blithering dolts while that little pig Jong-il makes a mockery of US power. Faliure to bring the North Korean government under control, to allow them to mock us, is going to undermine the war on terror, and further deteriorate our effectiveness and image around the world. For God's sake..., our ALLIES are in the line of their fire. We need to have a US Navy battleship off the coast of North Korea and start doing some "test" firings of its cannons in the general direction of North Korea.
 
- Mike Silverman

Many people lately have been discussing the DHS ( Department Of Homeland Security ) report on the alleged threat from people who are basically Conservative issue folks. The report is called "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment".

 I read this report recently and the report singles out three big issues that are alleged to be indications of potential threats to the country because they may spur people who are concerned about these issues to violence.

The issues are;

Increased Gun Control, lack of action on the problem of increasing illegal aliens, and expansion of government control. And yes... Right To life as well.

These are looked at as extremist issues in this report. Now here's the really withering part..., and the most significant part ... you need to pay attention to this... a footnote in tiny print at the very bottom of page two of the report says the following in defining who the dangerous right-wing extremists are...,  this is an exact quote from the DHS report...,

 "* (U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and
adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups),
and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or
rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a
single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."
 
When I read this I felt a wave of absolute disgust and a chilling concern come over me with regard to the attitude and objectives of people in the Obama administration. This definition of who poses the dangers expounded upon this the report is broad in scope and potentially inciteful in context. This is what has most people outraged. And rightfully so.
 
The news media, excepting FOX news, yesterday tried to basically lump the Tea Party protests in with the violent extremists that report from the DHS was meant to warn law enforcement about. But all that the liberal press needs to do is look at many of the liberal protests that take place in our country and make a fair comparison. They would see that by comparison, the Conservative issue concerns being expressed at the Tea Parties were handled much differently.

  Look at some of the truly nasty left wing protest groups who interrupt military funerals, throw condoms at priests, rant and rave and scream with hateful rhetoric... and compare that to the Tea Party protest groups yesterday who were wildly enthusiastic while also presenting an image of respect and maturity in a reasonably controlled atmosphere for thier cause without the vicious name calling and hanging effigies that you would see in more liberal types of protests... which type of rally presents a more dangerous uncontrolled atmosphere? The most negative and vicious attacks coming out of the tea parties was from the left wing media who were there to try to throw a monkey wrench into the works and spin the protests as crazy kook fringe nuts who had no case. 
 
- Mike Silverman

We are not amused Mr. President, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid and Mr. Frank.  All the vitriol and hatered you are spewing at the AIG Corporation is not going to distract us from the fact that you have just spent this country into bankruptcy for the foreseeable future and accomplished nothing in the process. Your hypocritical ranting and raving at "executives" and bonuses is not going to make us forget about your socialist agenda to seize control of the healthcare industry, the banking industry, to force economically unsound environmental policies on businesses that will raise costs for all Americans, your rollback of laws designed to keep us safe from terrorism, and your irresponsible continuation of the banking regulations that required a percentage of loans to be granted to those who could not afford them.

Let's briefly look at just a few examples of Liberals in thier role of dissent, protest, and expression of "free speech". In 1989 the world was exposed to "Art" in the form of a plastic crucifix submerged in urine. It was titled  **** Christ. ( the asterisks are a word beginning with the letter P and ending in ISS)  Supporters claimed it to be an issue of free speech and thus the artist's right to express his opinion. In another infamous example, The Berkeley California City Council voted to send a message to the Marines that they're not welcome in the city. It also voted to give Code Pink its own parking spot outside the Marine recruiting center, which allows a group member to protest during the center's office hours. Code Pink founder Jodie Evans said ""We're trying to end the war, and military recruiting is a way that continues war. One of the pillars of war are soldiers that fight it.". Clearly an attack on the men and women risking thier lives to protect our country, but... of course... that's lauded as free speech. Whenever Liberals protest, mock, denigrate, ridicule, with ad hominem attacks, or at times violent attacks, the symbols or monuments or institutions of our country that define conservative values , millions of liberal media types rush to thier defense. The ACLU leaps out of the bushes with thier tails wagging ready to help them, and anyone who criticizes thier protests as wrong headed is labeled as intolerant and phobic. And now we get to Rush Limbaugh, a Conservative political analyst who with rational context, relevancy, and intellectual honesty declared that he hopes Obama fails. Fails in his goals of redistribution of wealth and government central planning. Fails in his plans to weaken the defense of the country by doing things to embolden our enemies such as shutting down Guantanamo bay detention center and granting Iraqi and other middle eastern tyrants propaganda opportunities with unconditional face to face talks. For expressing his opinion, intellectually supported and mild by far in comparison to the riotous over-emotional approach of the left in thier methods of protest and dissent, he is now the focus of attack by liberal militants in the Democrat party ( The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ) who can not bear to have any of thier political icons or deities critiqued, especially not thier dubious leader Barack Hussein Obama. Rush Limbaugh has what none, not one..., of the Liberal media dogs and left wing kook groups has, the ability to coherently and rationally defend his views.  And he has the courage to speak his mind without fearing what a tidal wave of liberal critics will undoubtedly say and do as a result. The Republicans in DC could learn something by observing how Rush Limbaugh vigorously defends the institutions that made this country great, fearlessly denouncing the intellectually vacant arguments of all the liberal architects of socialism who are given credence in the news and entertainment media and pop culture. One might assume , that since the Democrat party won the Presidential election, and holds majorities on both houses of congress, that they wouldn't be so concerned what one .... ONE.... political commentator says on his radio talk show.  Beyond being an outrageous attack on Mr. Limbaugh, this is interesting for what it says about the insecurity of the Democrats. If Obama's own party believes he is not strong enough to survive some critique on a talk show, we need to be very worried about how he will respond in the face of a national emergency,... and maybe this just proves that Rush Limbaugh's criticism of Obama is exactly right.
 
- Mike Silverman

- Mike Silverman

A war for the freedom of our nation has been lost. When it became evident last night that Barack Obama had been elected as President of the United States, for the first time in my life my faith in the basic common sense of my country's citizens..., genuinely was destroyed. When I saw the landslide victory that Obama achieved, I felt a sinking in my heart..., not so much because we now have a genuine radical as President.., I believe we can survive this as a nation ( though it will be a struggle)..., but because so many of my fellow citizens were proven to be so deeply ignorant and so politically shallow regarding the dangers of electing a man like Obama to be the leader of the free world. There is simply no excuse in an age of information, when so much knowledge is so readily available at the fingertips of so many people at nearly instantaneous speed , that the electorate should have been so blind to the improbable competency of an Obama administration. This is a genuine problem. It means, despite the long and strident effort to reach people's hearts and minds with facts, common sense, and a fundamental foundational understanding of the principles of economics, national security and sound environmental policies..., the effort failed tremendously.  This is a sensationally disturbing event. It means that a high rift exists between those who look to the future with a carefully studied clarity of the present choices available, and those who base thier calculations for the future on the purely emotional trends of the moment and mood swings pushed and pulled by the manipulative practices of a deeply liberalized news media and educational institution. From a Conservative Movement seat, one has to wonder at what it would take to untangle the masses from the choking vines of a liberal jungle that apparently can not be cut simply with a collective shout of common sense from the wilderness. There is real evidence here that liberal institutions have successfuly marginalized the message of the Conservative base. A reorganization of the grass roots effort to bring straight forward undiluted Conservative principles back to the sole vision of the Republican party needs to be examined. If this had been a very close election, it would be a less dramatic change in course that we need to examine and a more nuanced approach to revitalizing the message of Conservatism. But with the blowout of this election's results , we need to jump in headlong and start ripping away the squishy moderate bi-partisanship that has marked the downfall of the Republican Party. We have been lead as a party , by fear of disengagement from the liberal press, fear of disturbing the liberal segments of the electorate, and lived by the focus group and the opinion poll. The message of this election to the Republican Party is that this approach is an abject failure. God help us, now we have to deal with trying to muddle through a presidency of the most radical liberal ever to hold the office with matching majorities in both houses of congress. We will get through this, but we will have a lot of work to do to unscramble the mess that an Obama administration is going to make.

- Mike Silverman

They're getting bold. The liberals are slipping and letting thier real plans surface because they sense an Obama victory and they think that means socialism is the wave of the future. This may be even more dangerous than suspected. An Obama presidency will be used by liberals as an excuse to claim a national mandate to socialize healthcare, energy companies, home ownership, ban fatty foods, extend the waiting period for gun ownership to 90 days.., and it goes on and on. It seems like, once Obama slipped and let the cat out of the bag with Joe The Plumber, liberals got all excited about hoping on the bandwagon. This can't be a good trend. An Obama win could realistically signal the start of a disasterous social experiment via a liberal congress taking advantage of dislike for Bush as a mandate for the extreme opposite. I have an inherent trust in the goodness of... and generally the wisdom of... the vast majority of our country's population. Yet there is no doubt that an aging baby boom generation with significant segments raised without the sorts of ethics thier parents or grandparents had been raised with is so focused on "themselves" that they may not be looking very far down the road.  It will take those of us who are focused on the future to bring those of us who are focused only on the present to thier senses, and we may have to drag "them" metaphorically into the controlling seats of government. It boggles the mind in astounding ways to conceive of the notion that anyone familiar with Obama's fiscal record and stated goals would look to him as the answer for a struggling economy. Everyone has been told, by the Republicans and Conservatives, from every venue, of the dangers of an Obama presidency, but if we are to believe the opinion polls, a large enough segment simply don't care. They are trained to know only one thing, whatever party is in Power during a presidential election must be tossed out if the economy has problems. It's like an inbred DNA program. It doesn't matter that the "other" party might be worse, it's all about decades of political programming. So, what can "we" the people do..., in these remaining days to bring the light of knowledge shining down on the less intuitive members of the population. That "may" be an impossible task. To overcome decades of programming in a matter of days is a tall order. We bring out evidence of the truth for those whose senses have been dulled by decades of liberal exposure, but they've been trained by the media, colleges, whatever.. to be skeptical of anything that smacks of Conservative values. The problem is leadership. There are no universally respected national figures who are decrying an Obama presidency. The icons of our society are mostly trash. When you have Oprah and The View setting the tone for daytime talk, when you have sports figures and whole teams tied up in scandals, when you have the hollywood left producing trash that trashes the US, when you have a political party with a moderate tone that seeks compromise and bi-partisanship at the expense of foundational principle.., "where" is a powerful national figure who can grab the attention of the country who will set the record straight on Obama, national defense and socialism? Changing minds at the grass roots is a long process. The NEW media is pouring out the truth every day, we are all desperately trying to make it understood that we face a seminal moment in our history as to how we approach governance of the country. I'm not sure that there is much more we can do. It may be a generational change that is the only way to really fix this. Kids growing up and seeing the self destructive behavior of the irrational ideals of liberalism and of living only for the moment. AND ONE MORE THING... You know that outrageous Halloween display showing an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose? Where is the same outrage in the press who were all upset over the "false" accusations that McCain/Palin rallies where fomenting hate? Why aren't they harping on a real display of genuine hate with the same eagerness? And where is the rabid investigation into this guy's past who put up the display, any outstanding taxes, any personal problems, what he does for a living and where he works, his political affiliations.... just like those dirt sniffing pigs did to Joe the Plumber? Where is it? We know press outrage simply is not there when the Republican candidate is the target of hate because of the same old double standard the press has held for decades. When liberals engage in open displays of hate it's never called "hate" it's simply lauded and defended by the press as free speech.
 
 - Mike Silverman.