Conservative and Not Ashamed to Say It

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If you haven't figured it out yet, on the political scale, I come down fairly conservative. Ironically enough, that's exactly what most of the Founders would be if you got down to it. Despite personal beliefs, they believed that "the government that governs best governs least", which is exactly what true conservativism really means.

I believe that government should stay out of our lives and out of our economy.

I believe that government's role is to protect its citizens from encroachments from without. As such, I believe in a strong policy of national defense.

I believe in Federalism- where states and localities respond to the whims of constituents, not the upside-down government we have now where the Federal level dictates to the States. The creature does not govern the creator.

I believe that personal ideologies belong at the local level. Let each locality determine which laws it wishes to adopt. Let the federal level facilitate intercourse between the localities.

When we abandoned the township, we lost our way. When we put power into the hands of what Reagan calls "a distant intellectual elite", we created this problem for ourselves. Nobody knows how to fix your problem as well as the people near and dear to you in your own community, and nobody who has never met you can give you useful help to meet those outcomes.

Yes, I'm a registered Democrat. So was Jefferson. If Democrats truly cared about the little guy, they would adopt the politics of conservativism and endorse lower taxes, less regulation, and fewer government interventions. They do none of these things, which is why the nation suffers. Bush may not be a panacea, but he is not the source of our curret dilemma.

Obama Hurts Everyone, Even the Poor

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I don't know how this story got out, but it shows the true design and end of Obama's so-called compassion for the poor, the middle class, and average Americans. Every time he gives us a five spot, it costs us a lot more than that. He gives us a dime and it costs us a dollar. Hardly a good trade.


For a $25/month increase in pay, he lost $300/month in food stamps. Sounds like a poor tradeoff to me.

Obama does what he does to elevate himself. I could link you to gobs of stories about his lies and how nothing he promised has come to fruition and that he does the opposite of what he says. The president made promises to get elected. He follows the admonition of Lewis' Screwtape to "Steal a man's soul and give him nothing in return." Do you really think that extending healthcare to more people without increasing doctors and hospitals will lower costs? That's more peope chasing the same number of goods. Reagan knew the folly of that. I wish more people would today.

Why People Love Disney

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I started listening to some tapes today by Robert Stevens and something really hit home. He points out in the introduction how the music to which we listen dictates our reality to our subconscious. In particular, he refers to the Rolling Stones song "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" and points out how the people who hear that over and over and over constitute a great majority of those who are never satisfied, no matter what they have.

While listening to this tape, I decided to listen to Disney music because a friend of mine does almost exclusively that. As I listened to the words, I was astounded at some of the messages I heard and realized why it was that I used to love Disney and why millions of people flock to Disneyland every year and seem happy despite huge crowds and long lines. Here are a few of my favorites:

And don't spend your time lookin' around for something you want that can't be found. When you find out you can live without it and go along not thinkin' about it, I'll tell you something true- the bare necessities of life will come to you. --Jungle Book

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true. --Cinderella

It's a razzle-dazzle day, a lifetime of joy in just a few hours. --Pete's Dragon

The second star to the right shines in the night for you to tell you that the dreams you've had really can come true. --Peter Pan

A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be...in this whole wide world there's no happier bloke.
--Marry Poppins

Always let your conscience be your guide. --Pinocchio

Whistle while you work and cheerfully together we can tidy up the place, so hum a merry tune. It won't take long when there's a song to help you set the pace. --Snow White

Now, keep in mind that these come largely from older Disney productions. In point of fact, since the passing of Walt and the resignation of Roy, the Disney genre has shifted more towards entertainment than moral messages by and large, but the parks are built still mostly around the older movies that taught us to look up, believe in something larger than ourselves and not lose faith.

So go to the happiest place on earth. In the last day alone since I started listening to classic Disney movie music I have already noticed that it influences and uplifts my thinking. Not that my music was bad; most of the songs were pretty good, but I chose to fill my mind with the highest form of music available that teaches and trains my mind while I drive to go higher, look higher, doubt not and be believing. I testify that it works. Try me.



*note- the author has no stock in Walt Disney, and he has not been compensated to write this article, though he welcomes the prospect

Political Levity

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Rush Limbaugh shared these on his show today, which I though were pretty funny:

"Barack Obama and God DO have something in common. GOD doesn't have a birth certificate either."
"How do God and Obama differ? God does not think he's Obama."
"How else to God and Obama differ? Liberals love Obama."

Trying to Get Peaches From Apple Trees

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I had a dream last night in which the only part I remember was a line that I need to stop trying to get peaches from apple trees. You can try all you want to plant an apple and get the tree to bear peaches, but in our understanding and with our technology it quite frankly cannot be done. Eventually, you have to stop innovating in ways that waste and go back to ideas that wok. Unfortunately, the president refuses to do anything except try old and doomed ideas from his socialistic upbringing and education that will do nothing but bankrpt us and every successive generation.

Why is it acceptable for the bloated and overpaid government to spend itself into mountains of debt? The President excoriates GM for allowing itself to be buried under a mountain of debt for which it cannot possibly hope to pay. China meanwhile started worrying about America's ability to pay on the bonds it owes them for the TARP and other bailout funds financed by that communist regime.

When the price of oil and gas goes up, Big Oil will be punished. The irony is that the government that will punish them is the same entity that has made it difficult if not impossible for Big Oil to do anything about soaring prices. The Obama administration rescinded leases and permits, banned shale oil, and enhanced environmental regulations restricting access to wilderness areas. He wants to nationalize them too. All the while, he flies a pizza chef in, takes an entire wing of fighters and helicopters to NYC to keep a promise to his wife to take her on a date, etc.

Businesses go out of business and he decides to go spend like money grows on trees to have a good time. He can't stay in the city where he lives; he has to trapes about the nation at our expense buying hamburgers and saving 25 policemen's jobs when there's plenty to do in D.C. Yet, he escapes all responsibility and will even be credited for the drop in new unemployment claims and in people taking from unemployment. Nevermind that some people have given up and that others have been on unemployment long enough that their benefit has now lapsed.

Everyone who earns money is richer than those who earn nothing. So, eventually, be ready to be taxed, irrespective of your income, under confiscatory levels to pay for Obama's luxuriation and for the largess which your friends, families, and neighbors exact of the President. Even if he meant to rule well, which I do not believe, he means to rule. Meanwhile, he promises you peaches, and plants only apple trees. Men cannot harvest grapes of thistles. You cannot do wrong and feel right. You cannot live evilly and be blessed. That is contrary to the order of the universe.

Scared but at Least Able to Say it

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I don't usually forward things, but this was worth sharing:

snopes.com: An Open Letter to President Obama - Lou Pritchett

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We need more people who are not afraid to speak truth. Samuel Adams said that "The liberties of our Country and the freedom of our Civil Constitution, are worth defending at all costs".

On the Law

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If the Law is reason free from passion, why is Sotomayor a viable candidate?

Justice Thomas, a leading proponent of this jurisprudence, writes: “In order to be a judge, a person must attempt to exorcise himself or herself of the passions, thoughts, and emotions that fill any frail human being. He must become almost pure, in the way fire purifies metal, before he can decide a case.”

The new court nominee ignores the law in favor of her passions. In fact, she claims that "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

The judgements passed should revolve around the law. DeTocqueville observed that part of America's strength lay in the fact that "In America, the law is king". No other nation has ever done as well at ensconcing that ideal. Don't let Sotomayor unwravel that. Write your representatives and tell her she is unacceptable.