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FEVERED FANTASIES

Being President is hard.  When I was a little kid, I was as naive and immature about what the President does as any kid was.  I would say "I'm going to be President and make it so that 10 year olds can drive!", or "I'll make all amusement parks free!", or "I'll stop all the wars and give everyone a house and thier own free doctor for when they get sick!" or "I'll make all the world our friends by being nice to everyone!". Yes, those were the golden days of youth, when wide-eyed thoughts of the President as some sort of magician who could wave a wand and make everything the way he wants it..., passed by and truth eventually filtered in. The truth , of course, being that the President isn't serving himself and living in a fantasy land where his dreams are his to make real.  But, some people never get past that fantasy stage, thinking of the Presidency as some sort of mystical throne where upon sitting you suddenly have the ability to will your dreams into reality and that it's all about you, all about what you want and making wishes come true like wandering through Disneyland. It's sad to see a person ascend to that high office who still clings to that silly naive cartoonish image of what a President is.
 
Now we come to the fevered fantasies of the trancontinental lie of man-made global warming. We should celebrate the exposure of the hoax of man-made global warming by eating a big trans-fat soaked burger. Now, the laments will be multiplied 10-fold by the cornered and desperate liars who have no facts except in the fevered fantasies that boil up in their scheming little brain cells. The outrage from these kooks is real. VERY real. Because, you see, no one with a single shred of credibility is ever, EVER, supposed to question their witch's brew of crap science that they stir up in the name of the public good, the fake research and phony cure for which is supposed to be funded...of course... by us the hapless taxpayers. Anyone with credibility who questions the "science" of phony science is supposed to be cast down with aspersions by the media and politicans as agenda-driven know-nothings who are unqualified to comment. When it's the promoters of junk science who need to be scruitinized. There was a time when the press operated with skeptisicm. They used to insist that someone prove what they say before they would print it. But now it's just the opposite. As long as what you have to say fits the liberal talking points mold, you are given instant credibility by the very people who should be suspicious of you, and WOULD have been suspicious of you in the world of 20 or 30 years ago. Now, anyone who uses real facts to question liberal fantasy science are considered castouts, stoned by the media, evil people who are trying to stand in the way of good-intentioned liars. All the hoax-science that exists should be exposed. Why dont junk scientists ever come up with one of their typically stupid theories that could help people? Like maybe "Burning fossil fuels enriches the soil" or "smoking kills the N1H1 virus" or "the ingesting of trans-fats promotes a healthy colon" or "polar bears are great for steak sandwiches".
 
- Mike Silverman
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THE REPUBLICAN JIMMY CARTER

Poor old former Republican Senator Dole, a great man, a war hero, who nowadays is being played like a useful idiot that the Democrats srcaped up from retirement and suckered with a chance to feel important again in the context of current events. I hate to say it but he's become the Jimmy Carter of the Republican Party. He, and former Senator Daschle ( of all people...), have been working together to promote acceptance of the healthcare reform bill by the Republican party, with "bi-partisan" reforms... ( ha ha).  And , the media, so very very predictable..., love it when a Republican "finds his soul" ( as the liberals might see it...) and seeks "redemption" in the form of submission to the liberal Democrat agenda.  Republicans should keep away from any Democrat healthcare bill as if it were poison. The Democrats want to mix a poison potion of government run healthcare for the nation..., so why should Republicans drink ANY of that poison? Why should they dilute it a little and then take a swallow of the poison? The right and principled thing to do is slam any and all healthcare bills that attempt in any way to increase regulation and extend the reach of the government into our private lives and choices. If Republicans want to do something to increase medical insurance competition and promote tort reform, that's fine, they should introduce a separate bill to do that, and ONLY that..., but should keep away from the boondoggle that Obama wants to inflict on the country. Democrats don't want to bear the repercussions from this mess that Obama wants for healthcare.... alone. They want the Republicans to siphon off some of the poison into themselves, like sucking the venom from a rattlesnake bite, in order to soften the grim impact of the Democrat party's re-election prospects. You see, the strategy is not hard to figure out. IF , the Democrats can sucker Republicans into sucking on this venom sack called government Healthcare, then that leaves the angry public hating both parties equally. And thus does not give the public confidence that Republicans would do things differently. Thus, it evens the odds that repercussions from voting up a healthcare bill will effect negative returns on election results. Now, Republicans know this is the political tactic the Democrats are trying to employ when they accuse the Republicans of partisan politics and call them the party of NO. This is something we want partisanship on, because we should all WANT to have sensible politicians taking a principled stand against this boondoggle bill. Republican partisanship against this bill is a good thing.
 
- Mike Silverman
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A FRIGHTENING EMBARRASSMENT

 The voting was done only a month or two after Obama was in office, and they gave Obama the award. This thrusts the final liberal dagger into the back of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is officially a worthless tool of extremist liberals that has sunk to the bottom of a sea of hatred for the United States by pompous Europeans. Giving the peace prize to President Obama is like the Nobel prize Committee punching the United States in the face as hard as they can. They hate anyone who is Pro US as a superpower. The president winning the Nobel Peace Prize should both embarrass us and frighten us all. It means he is seen as a hero among people who despise our way of life of capitalism, despise our military strength, despise our own belief in the strength of our justice system and constitution, hate us for our success and advanced lifestyle. They revel in Obama's weakness. We should all be immediately suspicious of anyone who wins the Nobel Peace Prize nowadays. I would call it another one of the many reasons to vote Obama out of office at the next presidential election.

Just look at the nut jobs who have won the prize in recent years;

* Yasser Arafat a Terrorist,

* Al Gore... a man given the award for his efforts at spreading an idiotic theory of man made global warming that has no scientific evidence at all to support it and has been disproven in all respectable scientific circles.

* Jimmy Carter, worst president in the history of our country. His record of failure is well known. And most recently, our official National declarer of racism in America.

* Barack Obama, for urinating on the united states every chance he gets when overseas or even domestically..., for being weak and for fomenting fascism. Just what the Noble Peace Prize goons love.

- Mike Silverman, Milford MA

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THE BLIMP AND THE COLD DEAD HAND

Trial balloon time.  Obama's Brigades have been floating a colorful blimp up there into the wild blue yonder, a great big gas bag like the grand old Zepplins of yester-year, and they've named it "Trigger".  But instead of helium the blimp is filled with excrement and is floating around with the notion that perhaps legislation will arise from that creepy old cobweb-filled Frankenstein's laboratory in congress where our national mad scientists rub their hands together in wild eyed glee as they stitch together pieces of a monster that they hope to bring to life.  The monster will be the moldy zombified hand of Obama Care reaching out from under the sheets of  the secret Democrat laboratory to put a death grip on the throats of private insurance companies.  The hand, attached to a warped head and abnormal brain will threaten the Insurers that if they don't comply with the wishes of the mad scientist Obama and his shifty-eyed assistants Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and the others...., by doing what those creepy villians want, basically something that the private insurers can't possibly do and still maintain a semi-reasonable premium rate, ( offer everyone the same level of insurance regardless of existing preconditions or any other factors...)  that it will reach up to that floating blimp called "Trigger" and burst it open, sending the excrement raining down on everyone until we're drowning in it.  The excrement will be the universal public healthcare system that Obama and the hard left desperately want.  It will of course include massive tax increases and witling private insurance agencies, that will drive masses of people like a huge herd of goats into the public healthcare corral..  Don't buy into the latest incarnation of proposed government controlled universal healthcare that they are calling, "the trigger".   It's just more of the same kind of government system that nobody wants.
 
- Mike Silverman
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OBAMA'S FRENCH-KISS TO MUSLIMS

This speech Obama gave in Cairo was ill advised. I don't think there was anything he could have said that would appease his critics domestically or abroad. I think the end result is a wash. Those who were critics of Obama before the speech have not changed their minds. Those who loved him, still love him. The segment of Muslims who hated and mistrusted him still hate and mistrust him. The reasons for hatered by radical elements of Islam for western democracies is not going to be appeased or resolved with a speech. It is a religious fanatacism that no words will talk them out of. Only by supporting and promoting and vigorously protecting ( and that may mean military support ) footholds of Democracy in the middle east where Democracy has a chance to bloom will it eventually overtake the radicals and push them into a deeper and deeper corner and deeper and deeper isolation. President Obama carries with him the failed premise that all liberal progressives hold. As an ideology, liberals on the extreme left believe that by the simple goodwill of thier empathy, words, and personality, they can change the world and stop those who hate. This is why contrition is a big part of his approach. Liberals believe in apology as a cure for conflict. It's part of the overall ideology. Unfortuantely , the approach doesn't work. You can no more change the minds of radical elements with a handshake and a hug than you can change any religion or religious practice with a speech. It would have been a far better use of his time to try to convince muslims of the value of a working and productive relationship with Israel and the benefits of commerce and shared technology with them, to promote the reasons why capitalism and free markets are valuable and can change societies for the better, to mention the reasons for the formation of our own country as a breakaway from tyranny and oppression, to show how we defeated a monarch and maybe through example of our struggle in the US to maintain freedom and democracy inspire muslims with a foundational example for overthrowing their own tyrannical leaders. But, unfortunately he didn't choose to discuss that. The news media has been praising Obama's speech to the hilt, glorifying it as comparable to Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall as he demanded that Gorbachev tear it down.  Of course the speeches are not comparable. Obama made no bold demands of the Muslim world but instead praised them with lies about what contributions were made by the Muslim world to mankind. Does it seem to you that Obama had far, far more praise for Islam and the Muslim culture than for his own country and it's core of Christian values? He refused to be pegged as having special symapthies for Islam or Muslims during his campaign, but what are we supposed to think after hearing his toungue-kiss to Muslims?
 What passes for televsion news media today is simply not news media. There are no more real reporters. Brian Williams, Kaite Couric, Charles Gibson, etc.. have a record button on their heads, the Obama administration presses it, leaves a message, and then Williams, Coric, etc... plays it back to their dubious audiences. Thats' what the major press outlets have been reduced to, human tape recorders for left leaning politicians to use to advance their liberal agendas.
 
 
- Mike Silverman
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GOODBYE REPUBLICANS - HERE'S YOUR TERMINATION NOTICE

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

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TEMPER TANTRUMS AND REVENGE FOR CLINTON

The businesses that took TARP funds and now are desperate to repay it, should have done a better risk assessment on what it means to take that TARP money in the first place. But what is infuriating to me, is that we are talking about money coming out of our wallets, money that doesn't even exist yet that will put future generations into debt, money that some institutions want to give back ... GIVE BACK... OUR MONEY...  but Obama and our wonderful Treasury Secretary are "refusing" to allow these businesses to pay it back. Even the most vile of loan sharks would be happy to get paid back the money they lent out. You know what this is? This is reverse extortsion. Instead of demanding money from these banks to "protect" them , Obama is demanding that they take money ... to make them complicit in the socialist schemes of an out of control regime. It's like the cop who doesn't want to take a payoff like other cops he heard about who have taken it and are now the slaves of the crooks who gave them the payoff, but they tell him he has no choice, take it or we make life hell for you.
 
Now, switching to another topic in the news..., we all know that President Obama should never have released the memos detailing interrogation techniques. CIA Directors past and present have said this was a very bad idea, to release these details and even had advised against it before hand. But Obama has an agenda that supersedes the safety of our country. It doesn't matter to him what people far more experienced and knowledgeable than him on this matter have to say, it doesn't matter to him that he has put a knife in the backs of the front line CIA operatives who were risking thier own safety to do what was needed to protect this country. It doesn't matter to him that all the men and women who died fighting terrorists have been stepped on by his personal prejudices and that this released information will set back the war on terror by increasing the boldness of organiztions like Al-Queda and Hamas and others who look at the United States as evil. Obama's agenda invloves poking his finger in the eye of George Bush and the past administration as much as he can to indulge his liberal extremeist propaganda and keep the left wing radicals who support him happy. Personally I don't want to see methods that work being removed from the potential tools that our CIA can use to obtain intelligence that will secure our county's safety. But that is not the position of President Obama. Still, if he felt he had to remove a set of interrogation options from the CIA .., he did not have to make the details available to the world. Instead, Obama could have conducted a very quiet review of the interrogation processes in use now and if Obama felt that methods were still out of line with legal definitions, then he could have instituted further adjustments to bring interrogation methods into line, adjustments that could have been applied quietly..., QUIETLY..., without fanfare, and without our enemies having any knowledge of any change,and if he felt the need to announce anything about it, he could very simply have said something like "I have reviewed the methods being employed and am convinced they are legal". Then he could have said that he would release information about past interrogations after a thorough threat assessment and determination as to whether it would pose harm to the nation. Then he simply could have kept the details under wraps for the forseeable future and that would have been a perfectly acceptable thing a president to do as allegedly the top man defending our country from harm. But for Obama the release of data about interrogations seems more like a game , or even moreso like a goat. Obama has been using President Bush as a goat for everything he wants to do that is the least bit controversial. I think he willingly released the information about interrogations as a way of keeping the Bush bashing alive so that he can perpetually use Bush as a rag to blot out his own socialist plans for the country domestically and abroad. Our freedoms as citizens of the US have not been damaged by the legally questionable methods employed in interrogation of captured terror suspects and known terrorists. The harsh methods which are debated as torture were employed as a last resort, and only in limited cases where CIA operatives were reasonably certain that the subject had information that could save our fellow citizen's lives. If anything, I would argue that these interrogations helped to assure that our freedoms were secured via the protection and insurance of our domestic tranquility, as is stated in the preamble to the Constitution as one of the reasons for establishment of the document itself. It's kind of funny, now, we're getting down into the mire of things like how many times being waterboarded is enough. It's one thing to debate if a process like waterboarding is torture, it's another thing to try to almost nitpick the number of times it is to employed before it's successful. This is what the release of these memos has done. We are now reduced to being armchair interrogators. Most all of the former CIA members I've heard talking about this have said the hard interrogation tactics worked. That's really where the line is drawn on that level. The cutting into the knees of our CIA professionals possibly puts rendition practices as a means of obtaining intelligence back online as a serious alternative. I looked around for instances in the past of any other country's leader willingly doing something like Obama has just done, deliberately making thier country weaker and more vulnerable by willingly exposing information vital to the safety of thier homeland. I can't find anything like it. Ultimately Obama has reduced the effectiveness of CIA interrogations, reduced the fear of our enemies over what might happen to them if they are caught, he has embarrassed our nation yet again with this sort of tabloid expose whch falls in line so nicely with his great apology tour of Europe and South America. Obama is wearing thin and has become one of the most divisive Presidents in US history. Now with President Obama's instigation of this episode we have the spectre being raised by the Obama Justice Department, and now Obama himself not ruling it out, of the possibilty of a war-crimes style investigation of everyone or anyone involved from the Bush administraton in making decisions to use harsh interrogation on captive terror combatants such as sleep deprivation, waterboarding, stress positions, and so on. This is nonsense. Ever since the impeachment trial of President Clinton, the left wing activists and hate mongers have been itching to get some sort of revenge on Republicans for that. If this goes forward, if a show trial investigation of President Bush and his staff or administration is actually instigated, this will be nothing more than a childish temper tantrum from the left out of pure hateful vengeance and nothing to do with any love of the Constitution and freedom. It will spell doom for the Democrats in the next election cycle, as if they haven't already made clowns of themselves in the past 90 days.

- Mike Silverman
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OBAMA'S PUPPET MASTERS

I observed, from the time of his rising through the primaries, that the biggest liberals in government were rushing out to praise and endorse Obama over Hillary Clinton. Initially that struck me as a bit odd. My theory was that the Clinton's made some political enemies in thier own party by being such dominating figures.  I think that is absolutley true  now and i am really convinced that this is what carried Obama into office.  Much as I disagree with both the Clinton's political views, they both knew how to play the middle of the road and how to keep the ultra liberal left wing of thier party from going overboard. I think , people like Ted kenedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry.. etc.. extemist liberals who were playing up Obama early on... saw a useful fool in Obama. They saw a puppet who could be a tool of the ultra left wing socialists to drive thier agenda through congress.  It strikes me that this is coming home to roost now.  President Obama is fast draining the political capital that carried him into office with grossly out of proportion spending bills that even those with little to no economic background can clearly see is not a good thing. There is rising anger across the country at the tidal wave of spending. I think we are seeing the lack of experience rearing its head. I suspect..., that Obama is thoroughly overwhelmed with the task of being President and is so caught up in the  volitile pressures of security, economy, and foriegn affairs..., a hideous pressure that all Presidents face...the like of which he never really understood till he got into position... that he is not capable of stepping back to analyze the impact of his own drive to get all these big liberal agenda items accomplished. And I think that is exactly what the hard core leftists in congress want. They want him as thier rubber stamp and they bascially have accomplished that.  I think... part of the reason for the rushing of the big ticket liberal economic bills through congress is because he is getting pressure from the elitist constituent groups and politicians who propped him up during his campaign and are expecting payback. Also, he does believe in central planning. Obama is a big government liberal and the idea of big government control comes naturally to him. But I also think..., he's being manipulated to some degree by puppet masters around him who are much more experienced and have big socialist agends they want to see happen.  I never thought Obama was ready to be President, and I think he's proving it.  I don't think we have a president who is in control.
 
- Mike Silverman
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OBAMA WON

Obama won. He likes to remind us of that when Conservatives criticize his stimulus package. But, just because he won., doesn't mean we need to stand by and allow him to drive down the economy even further with huge frivilous spending. Ostensibly, loans for purchasing homes were given to many people who could not afford them, in order to help them obtain the "American dream". At least that was the cloak in which these bad loans were made and were encouraged to be made by the Federal government telling private banks they "had" to allow this or face penalties. But, in light of this boondoggle of a stimulus that is "allegedly" somehow supposed work to undo the damage done by this policy, we all need to ask ourselves, what is that "American dream"? Is it simply owning your own home...? Or is it achieving a financial level of indpendence... that then permits you to afford owning your own home? The American dream since the country was founded has been individual freedom. Without that , we have nothing. Zip, zero, nada, nothing.The freedom to work and save for the things you want in life is inherent in the greatness of our country. People should not be thought of as "deprived" simply because they can't afford to buy and maintain a house. But.., we have a country and a population that has turned freedom on its head. Instead of being free to work hard and save and earn the things you want to have in life, many people now feel entitled to anything they want simply because they are United States citizens. It's no longer about working to achieve, but feeling entitled , demanding entitlements, and then figuring out later how to handle paying for it or be given an out with some tax funded program. As a population we seem to feel entitled to a house, entitled to a lifetime of medical care, entitled to well paying jobs, entitled to attend college, and entitled to an endless line of credit to get whatever we want regardless of the means to pay for it. This is a huge challenge to overcome. The government does not owe individuals a particular standard of living, and our earnings should not be taxed for the purpose of granting such percieved entitlements as owning a home. Now, Obama's boondoggle of a stimulus law is pure socialist manure and we should be worried that he was so easily able to get this passed through congress. The radicals like Obama have it backwards. We do not work for him, he works for us. Our job as citizens is not to provide him with an endless river of taxes to build his socialist playground with while he and his cronies decide how much of our earned money we are entitled to keep for ourselves. Cutting income taxes and captial gains taxes would be a huge boost to helping people be able to "AFFORD" owning thier own home.
 
If we have to have a mortgage bailout... ( and I don't think that we have to...) then here's my plan to help people who can no longer afford to pay thier mortgage.  It's much better than Obama's plan... and it's astoundingly simple, and it does not penalize anyone, and it helps every home owner who has a mortgage.  Tax forgiveness. Instead of taking tax money from paul to pay peter so that peter can meet his mortgage obligations, reduce all person's federal income tax by a level equivalent to their mortgage payment, to allow every person to meet thier mortgage... for the remaining term of the mortgage. After which time these people's income tax is restored to the standard level for thier income. Selling the house would require to pay back federal income tax equal to the amount that was forgiven. Make this plan optional , so that people who are paying mortgages can opt-in or opt-out at any time ( and as many times as they feel is needed) during the length of thier mortgage. This way the amount that they would have to pay back in tax upon selling the house is up to the individual who can choose at periods of time to take on the full mortgage burden himself at his normal income tax rate, thereby elminiating the tax payback for that period of time, and/or switch to the tax forgiveness option to reduce full burden of the mortgage. This also helps those who have already been foreclosed by helping them through reduced taxes to obtain a new mortgage.
 
- Mike Silverman
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RUSH LIMBAUGH MAKES THE DEMOCRATS TREMBLE

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

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UNCOORDINATED BALLERINAS

We need someone with GUTS to be the Republican party's Conservative leader. That is what is so infuriating, so frustrating, so deep down disturbing about the Party at this point. Look, we can see liberals all the time boldly standing up for the things they believe, regardless of how illogical they are..., but where is the boldness among Republicans? Where is that energy and drive and absolute commitment to purpose in a Conservative leader among Republicans? The liberal Democrats have the GUTS to do and say what they want. The Republicans lack GUTS, they lack COURAGE. Compared to the Democrats they're a bunch of flitting ballerinas tiptoeing and pirouetting around every controversial issue. And they're not even good at that. They're uncoordinated disjointed ballerinas. Maybe I'm just getting tired. Maybe it's just a fantasy and I'm being foolish to believe our country can produce another great thinker like Jefferson or Adams who knows what it takes to be an inspirational ideological leader among men. It seems like we throw opportunities away when they come to us. I was inspired about the possibility of a Palin VP possibly becoming a Palin presidency, but maybe..., maybe it was doomed to fail regardless. The longer we let liberalism seep into the fabric of our culture the harder it's going to be to find the Conservative who will take it all on and prove that our country's government can be restored to it's proper place and role as our founders intended.

We seem to have lost some former Conservative advocates like Gingrich, who want to take a moderate approach now... not be critical of Obama... etc..., and I think we should not try to pull them back in thier current state... because if they will throw away standing firm for Conservatism for the sake of appearing malleable and polite and gently concerned... basically be the New Tone Republicans ..., then we can't trust thier approach or thier dedication to Conservative ideology. We need someone with the GUTS to be a Conservative leader in political office. It's become plain that Conservatism is on par with the stance the Whigs of the Revolutionary War took against the Loyalists... a bunch of colonists who didn't want to upset the status, who felt that things would be better under the Monarchy. The colonial era Loyalists are like the Moderates of the Republican party today. This is a Revolutionary War of sorts, but instead of military battles we are fighting decay and rot within the Party leadership. Just like it took a General Washington to keep the fight going, to never give it up even under the harshest conditions, we need someone with that same grit to carry the Conservative banner high and be proud to do so. Conservatives... genuine Conservatives should be proud to defend the things we believe. We should be energized and motivated to bring the positive values of freedom and life to the table and have no fear of declaring those ideals openly and with strength. We can't fight a battle like this from a position of cowardice and soft tones. We can't rally people by expressing moderate views.

Now, as for Obama..., lately Obama had some stupid things to say. He has some unique gall to declare that Wall Street needs adult supervision. The liberals have blamed greed for everything except the problems that THEY caused. This statement by Obama shows, what we already know..., that he is an enemy of free market capitalism and that he intends to use anecdotes about greedy CEO's to deflect any blame from himself and his cronies on the banking committees. As for the vitriol and rage from the liberal gay and lesbian activists over Obama's choosing of Rick Warren to appear at his Inauguration, this is only the beginning. This is what we can expect during an Obama administration that portends to be the best friend of every wacky left wing cause under the sun. Any time he makes a token gesture, for show, toward a conservative cause , we are going to see nut cases swinging from the lamp poles and shrieking about Obama being a turncoat. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. Remember all the anger Conservatives had and still have over the political party-hoping antics of McCain? We were told by pundits and reporters and analysts to "grow up" , "get real" , "stop fighting against our own party". But you know they won't dare say that about the gays and lesbians. They won't take it out on the radicals special interest groups and they won't take it out on Obama. They will find a Conservative to spear over any such issues.
 
- Mike Silverman
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HOW REPUBLICANS CAN WIN THE NEXT ELECTION

Why are Republicans losing? The Republicans as a party have been working it backwards. They start out with trying to figure out what will get them the most votes, they do focus groups and polling, and then adjust the party message to try to appease the widest margin of voters that they can perceive of. They do not begin with a clear unwavering Conservative message and then try to convince people of the greatness of Conservative principles. Strength comes from the core values of principles that work. People admire and respect principles that work. What people don't admire is weakness and malleability in a leader. We don't want shape shifting leaders who will cross-dress in the name of compromise and weaken the image and power of the Presidency. His personal story of courage in combat aside ( we all admire his bravery in the armed forces).., How many times did McCain "the politician" talk about reaching across the aisle as if that were the golden key to a magical world of harmony and light and he was it's angelic keeper? I felt like RETCHING across the aisle every time he said it. How many times did he BOAST... ( good grief ) about spitting in the face of his own party?! That is sick stuff, to swing a hammer down on the people who are backing you..."not" because he's fighting corruption or unethical behavior ( as Sarah Palin was ) in his own party, but because he doesn't believe in the Republican party platform of Conservatism and he doesn't care to stand on the principles and goals of his own party and it's leader but to do whatever he damned well pleases regardless of how it hurts Republican coalitions formed to stand against the Democrats on certain issues. That reeks of back stabbing disloyalty and fosters mistrust.  There's no mystery as to why McCain was, and is one of the most reviled and loathed politicians among Movement Conservatives and was soundly rejected by a great number of them until he picked Sarah Palin to be his VP. He is not a leader of anything, he's a monkey wrench who tosses himself into the gears of Republican political machines built to defy the Democrats. In Obama's acceptance speech the other night, Obama was talking about "remaking" the nation. What country is Obama talking about, Kosovo..., Cuba? Who the hell is he to tell us that the United States needs to be remade? Is that his idea of compassion? We know what compassion is. Conservatism is the definition of compassion because it has faith in the principles of self determination and individual greatness. You know, at one time not too long ago, the people got it. The Contract With America was a conservative agenda and "the people" swept Republicans into Power because of it as the contract was well articulated by people like Newt Gingrich..., who sadly now has gone squishy on Conservatism himself. Part of the problem lingers from the failure of follow up on that surge of Republican power during the Clinton administration. There has been a lingering degradation of trust in the notion of follow-through in those who articulate Conservatism, mainly because when it has been attempted in congress it's been blocked by Democrats and compromise bills have been formed by the squishy centrist Republicans who want to be seen as the "Great Compromisers" who win the day for everyone. We need not only to articulate the principles of Conservatism, but SHOW how it has been applied successfully in every day life, and get Conservative agendas back into the MAINSTREAM consciousness of the Republican congress. To show that we can get legislation passed that supports Conservative principles. Lowering taxes, removing bans on gun ownership, opening up school choice vouchers..., etc.., We also need a Conservative manual. A cleanly expressed statement listing Conservative principles that everyone can easily read and understand. And it MUST be unwavering. Maybe call it the Ten Commandments of Conservatism. Make it a widely known and seen document. Part of the problem with attaining more commonplace understanding is the effort to muddle what Conservatism means. That effort has been made by the left wing media who declare Conservatives as thick headed relics of the past who hate minorities and only support thier rich friends and PACs. The battle to overcome the lies about Conservatism has been waged for years from the edges of the broadcast media systems, web logs, and elite publications. And while headway is slowly being made, it's very slow. What has happened within the political system is that Republicans have been gradually buying the left wing media press. When liberals and Conservatives clash in congress and legislation gets stalled, the press always makes out the Republicans to be villains over it, saying that "the public" wants "something" to be passed or they will be up in arms... and Republicans go squishy and compromise, bend the knee and accept defeat in the form of a fractional victory in order to appease the press so that they will not have nasty stories printed or reported about them. We've got to make it understood by our representatives that we want them to fight not only the Democrats but the press as well, that it is an example of strength and leadership to stand on Conservative principle, even if it means a so-called popular piece of legislation gets shot down over it. Genuine Conservatives are courageous people..., if they are the real article. We've got to make it so that GRIDLOCK means the same as fighting for the people of the country over compromising to the power of the Democrat dictatorship. A whole dynamic needs to be changed in the way elected officials approach thier jobs. I keep thinking of that golden opportunity we missed, when our Republican congress was standing against the Democrats on the bailout bill. Imagine if they had never given in. Imagine the power of that principled Conservative moment winning the day. Imagine if they hadn't squished and agreed to that abomination. It is THAT sort of moment missed time after time after time that is a DIRECT result of the mangled wobbly leadership of people like John McCain who believe that bad legislation is better than none. This is why strength of leadership matters. This is why being a moderate-centrist is predestined failure.
 
- Mike Silverman
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TURNING THE PAGE ON LIBERALISM - HATE ISN'T HATE WHEN A LIBERAL HATES YOU

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.

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THE TRUTH - LIBERAL WOMEN ARE JEALOUS OF SARAH PALIN

The more I ponder the vitriol and venom that liberal women are spewing like acid  at Sarah Palin, the more I have boiled it down to something less complicated than ideology from them. Sarah Palin is what they wish they could be. These liberal ladies want to have the cheers and throngs of full throated support that Sarah has, and they hate the fact that Sarah is an attractive Republican woman. She's strong, confident, Conservative, happy with her life, beautiful and admired by millions. The liberal female pundits, radical feminists and hollywood kooks who have cultivated thier narrow political audiences are bewildered and jealous over this. Sure there's some ideology mixed in, but I think it's used more as a cover for the seething jealousy of her popularity. To these liberal ladies, "they" are supposed to be the pinnacle of popularity. They have prostituted themsleves to the ideology of a fringe viewpoint , and as a result they get "in" to the elite gatherings of social snobbery that represent that radical view of the country. But , do they really believe the lunacy of the liberalism they spew, or are they towing the line so that they can keep that "in" crowd venue with the mopy miserable depressed liberals who wring thier hands at the unfairness of life, financial success, and carbon-dioxide? I think they secretly wish they could "be" Sarah Palin, because Sarah has not had to go "phony" and be something that "others" want her to be in order to "fit in" with the super egos of radical beligerants. She's not one of them. Sarah doesn't care to rub shoulders with the illuminati of liberal inner circles.  It doesn't make sense to the liberal mindset. In thier world view there are not supposed to be "normal" people in this country.  Or, at least the "normal" people are supposed to be the "fringe" nutcases not the rallying point of the great majority. But the rest of us know why Sarah is popular. Precisely because she represents the core values we cherish most. 

 - Mike Silverman, Milford MA
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WHY RADICAL FEMINISTS FEAR SARAH PALIN

Somehow , being normal, being a typical human being is a bad thing in the eyes of modern radical feminists.  Fairness in the workplace is a genuine issue and at one time "feminists" who focused on that had a valid argument, but that issue is now used by radicals as a cover issue for the deeper vicious hatered of anyone who is not a social anarchist. Sarah Palin is not a feminist in this modern radical sense. She's not angry about the fact that she had to work hard to succeed, and not angry at men for being who they are. If men get in her face and try to stop her she gives them hell and defeats them , without needing to be a hate filled feminist to do so. She is a normal hard working woman who loves life and appreciates her family. Feminist groups today, such as NOW, are basically angry, hateful liberals. They see themselves as victims of society and the male gender. Sarah has shown that she doesn't play that game. She doesn't allow herself or her family to be anyone's vicitims. Here is an excerpt from the statement released by NOW chairwoman Kim Gandy on the selection of Sarah Palin; "Gov. Palin may be the second woman vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket, but she is not the right woman. Sadly, she is a woman who opposes women's rights, just like John McCain." ...., A ridiculous statement in itself, but then..., we get to see the real problem that NOW has with Sarah is via the following exceprt... " In a gubernatorial debate, Palin stated emphatically that her opposition to abortion was so great, so total, that even if her teenage daughter was impregnated by a rapist, she would "choose life" -- meaning apparently that she would not permit her daughter to have an abortion.", ah ha...! So if you are pro-life... you are anti-woman. Pure insanity. That's the primary radical view that the NOW groupies cling to in thier hatred of Sarah. What else did the NOW chairwoman say? Only one other example came up in her press release..."Palin also had to withdraw her appointment of a top public safety commissioner who had been reprimanded for sexual harassment, although Palin had been warned about his background through letters by the sexual harassment complainant."..., and that's it. Sarah dropped an appointment she made because she didn't cleanly vet him. But when she found genuine evidence of the harassment claim being real she dropped him. ( by the way, the harassement claim, that he hugged and kissed a female employee, was made against him in 2005 over two years ago and resulted in a reprimand . He was not fired or sued over it. He maintains it was not sexual harassment.) Wow. How devastating ( not).  This is a pathetic, weak, and basically contrived reason for the radical feminsits to dispense with Sarah Palin.  This is why NOW is  viewed by many as a crackpot band of radical extremists firmly in the pocket of the Democrat Party. If you want to see the radical NOW press release that rips Sarah Palin, check it out at  http://www.now.org/press/08-08/08-29.html
 
- Mike Silverman
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