-Guest Post: The State of the Nation

I am officially disgusted with what are country is becoming.

A man from Home Depot was fired for wearing a pin that said “God Bless America.” Now how is that so offensive to atheists and liberals that this man had to be fired? Did he really impose his religious views so predominantly that it insulted shoppers? This is similar to the woman who was told to remove her American Flag from her window when her son was serving overseas. Why do we persecute those who are just living out their lives as Christians or as patriots?

Christians are the most persecuted people in our country today. It is not the Muslims or the Jews. Why is it that stores can’t say “Merry Christmas” or sell “Christmas Trees.” I am fed up with these liberals and I will not have my freedoms oppressed because they are afraid that it might offend some Muslim or atheist. They have the freedom to do, say and protest anything there heart desires, but when a conservative or Christian expresses their beliefs they are instantly ridiculed and attacked for simply expressing a different view. I am not insensitive to others views, I just have an opinion of my own.

It comes down to the double standard and political correctness our society has today.

A lady can’t hang a flag to show support for her country and son, but anti-war liberals can protest at soldier’s funerals and show truly hateful signs.

A man can’t wear a pin that says “God Bless America”, but atheists can hang posters all over New York City saying “A million New Yorkers Do Fine without God…Are You.”

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One that I find very disrespectful are the posters that say “What goes around comes around.” Why is okay for these people to blatantly disrespect the men and women who put their lives on the line day in and day out for them just to be ridiculed by the people they are protecting?

This is the country we live in today….and I am disgusted.

I will not shy away from my faith or my conservative beliefs because it might offend some liberal, atheist, or Muslim. They offend me, my fellow Marines, and my country every day with hate speech and protests of their own. I will not stand for this double standard any longer.

GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS. GOD BLESS OUR FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AND RADICAL ISLAM.

~Barrett Mays, USMC

-GUEST POST: Racism, Liberals, and the Dysfunctional Media

If you find yourself disagreeing with President Obama, or any liberal policy for that matter, then you are a racist. Whether you know it or not, you are unconsciously a racist. That is what I learned today from a woman who called on the Ed Shultz show 99.9 FM. She stated that “Anyone who disagrees with a public option, foreign policy, or don’t want their children listen to President Obama’s speech to students is a racist…they can not hide beneath kind words, they may not know it, but they are racist.”

Why does that make a person a racist? Is it sole because they disagree with a minorities view? Minorities always find a way to shut down any opposing view: they pull the race card. At the beginning of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency I was swayed by then Senator Obama’s charismatic speeches. Then as I did more research into his policies, I found many policies and plans he would enact if elected that I did not agree with. Over the course of the campaign I found myself being called a racist because I would not vote for Obama. I would engage initially in a friendly debate and ask “Why do you support Senator Obama?” Many responses I received included “He represents change” or “He is such a cool guy.” When I attempted to engage in a debate about his policies and revealed that I disagreed with them, I was immediately accused of being a racist. I disagree with the majority of President Obama’s policies, but I am not a racist. The only race I see is the Human race. A racist would vote for an individual sole on race…as many of the individuals who voted for Senator Obama did. There was a 90% increase in minority voters from the previous election to this one. To them, I am a racist because I disagreed with his policies and the direction he would take our country ….Interesting.

Another statement that drives me crazy that liberals love to use is “How could you not support a public option, or welfare, don’t you want to help out your fellow Americans.” Well of course I want to help out fellow Americans. Anyone who reaches into his own pocket to help out a fellow citizen should be applauded. However it if I was to reach into the pocket of a neighbor and take money to give to the homeless man down the street, I would be arrested for theft. That is essentially what the government is doing and will do with programs such as welfare and a public option.

I WANT THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY POCKET

~Barrett Mays

-An Obamanation

A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans. All the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he had decided to be
different...again. Little Johnny said, 'Because I'm not an Obama fan.'

The teacher asked, 'Why aren't you an Obama fan?'

Johnny said, 'Because I'm a Republican.'

The teacher asked him why he was a Republican.

Little Johnny answered, 'Well, my Mom's a Republican and my Dad's a
Republican, so I'm a Republican.'

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked,

'If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that
make you?'

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, 'That would make me an Obama fan.'

-Sarah Palin's resignation speech, and some goodies from the liberal blogsphere that likely contributed to it

Sarah Palin's remarks on her resignation. Note the refreshing lack of a teleprompter!



The hatred of the good for being the good. Ayn Rand

Here's some links from the hateful left blogosphere about Palin and her family:

Wonkette
Huffington Post
TBogg

Oh and just to make sure you get the point, Wonkette earlier this year ran the picture below:

with the text
Little baby Trig must be so glad he wasn't aborted for this, his first Halloween, because his parents dressed him up like a political party symbol to be carried around at snarling political events. Aww. Isn't life just grand?


Source: Atlas Shrugs

-Al Gore's brainchild bill requires you to spend thousands before you can even put your home on the market

More and more heinous facts will come out of this travesty of a bill in the coming days. These are going to be facts that 90 percent of our Congressmen did not hear about before their vote. We can only hope that the Senate does the right thing and not vote for this environazi, massive tax bill.

From CNSNews via Gateway Pundit:

The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that.

This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law.

The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.

“The Administrator shall develop and implement, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for single-family and multi-family residences,” the bill reads.

It continues: “The purpose of the REEP program is to facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings across the United States.”

The bill leaves the definition of a retrofit and the details of the REEP program up to the EPA. However, states are responsible for ensuring that the government’s plans are carried out, whatever the final details may entail.

“States shall maintain responsibility for meeting the standards and requirements of the REEP program,” the bill says.

As if selling your home wasn't going to be hard enough in this economy, now you have to spend an extra few thousand dollars to appease the EPA and Democrats and some Republicans who care only about getting reelected.

-A Tale of Two Cheaters: Spitzer vs. Sanford in the Media

Liberal media bias at its finest. It's hard to argue with this one.

From NewsBusters:


In the wake of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s admission to having an affair, evening and morning newscasts on NBC, CBS, and ABC all immediately identified him as a Republican. In contrast, in March of last year, the networks rarely identified disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat in the wake of his affair with a prostitute.

In a 2008 study of evening and morning network newscasts following the Spitzer scandal, NewsBusters’ Rich Noyes found that within the first week of news coverage Spitzer was only identified as a Democrat 20% of the time. However, within the first 24 hours of Sanford’s confession to having an affair, he was identified as a Republican 100% of the time, during coverage on all the networks.

On Wednesday, the NBC Nightly News, which failed to give Spitzer’s party affiliation for three days following his scandal, immediately focused on Sanford’s national role in the Republican Party as anchor Brian Williams declared: "In a Republican Party hungry for young stars, he was one of them: Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina...Tonight his political career is in tatters. His state, his party are in some turmoil. And Mark Sanford is no longer being mentioned as a possible GOP nominee for the White House."

-Barack Obama has come to save the day! FUNNY.

You can't tax your way to prosperity!

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-California Senator Boxer finds it necessary to remind Brigadier General Michael Walsh of her status

Brigadier General Michael Walsh: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, GULF REGION DIVISION, BAGHDAD. This guy has given a lot of himself and is heading much of the reconstruction of Iraq and is helping the Iraqi people lead better lives.

"Senator" Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has succeeded in running the state of California into the ground for the past 25 years or so. Congratulations ma'am. You truly have earned the title of Senator, Barb, and all of the pompous, undeserved arrogance that goes with it.

-John Hawkins' Top Five Myths the Left has created about itself

John Hawkins of Conservative Grapevine wrote a interesting and funny list for Townhall.com on Tuesday... Again, these are Mr. Hawkins words, not mine.

Via Hollywood, the mainstream media, and the school systems, the Left has created a number of positive myths about their ideology, none of which stand up to the slightest amount of informed scrutiny.

1) Liberals are pro-women: No, no: liberals are pro-liberal women -- as long as they know their place. When Hillary Clinton did the most admirable thing in her entire political career, trying to pull out a come-from-behind win against Barack Obama, the long knives on the Left even came out for her. .....But what Hillary faced was nothing compared to the vile smears liberals level at strong, conservative women. Whether it's photoshopping them into pornography, going after their families, or degrading them with "hate f***" lists, the Left does everything it can to destroy women who are courageous enough to stand up to them. Just ask Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Carrie Prejean about it. If liberals hated Al-Qaeda the same way they hate conservative feminist icons, we'd have already won the war on terror by now.

2) Liberals look out for black Americans: Really? How? By destroying black families with welfare? By championing releasing black criminals back into their communities? By standing up for rioters? By getting promising black college students into schools they're likely to flunk out of via Affirmative Action? By making parasitic buffoons like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton into representatives of black Americans in the eyes of most of the country? The biggest obstacle black Americans face today is not racism; it's the paternalistic, "You poor thing! You need our help to make it day-to-day" attitude of liberals that has shattered the black family in a way that even slavery and Jim Crow laws couldn't.

3) Liberals are compassionate: Liberals love nothing better than to talk about compassion and caring for the poor -- but, only when other people's money is involved. Studies consistently show that conservatives give more money to charity than liberals. What's supposed to be compassionate about robbing Peter to pay Paul to vote for you?

4) Liberals are intellectuals: Liberals portray themselves as brilliant intellectuals who are so much smarter than the riff-raff out there in flyover country. Meanwhile, back in the real world, they run presidential campaigns based on "hope" and "change" and the intellectual roots of their philosophy could be explained by a caveman. Abortion good! People who want to stop abortions bad, bad, bad! Gay marriage good! People who want to protect marriage bad, bad, bad. It doesn't matter whether it's a college professor, a rocket scientist, or Barack Obama -- they all turn into cousin Cletus, the mountain simpleton who lives out by the hog pen, when you try to get them to explain why they believe what they believe.

5) Liberals are tolerant: Liberals are extremely tolerant -- of people who agree with them or of foreigners who hate America. Everybody else? Not so much. If you happen to say, try to give a conservative speech on a college campus, say that you believe marriage should be between a man and a woman after you're asked about it in a beauty pageant, or believe science has led you to draw a different conclusion than liberals have in regard to global warming, you're not going to see much tolerance on display. In other words, the liberal idea of tolerance is, "I agree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it -- and the rest of you need to be quiet."

-Detroit: The wasteland that is America's future

America's Future: Detroit. Seriously. Detroit was governed with the corrupt, socialist policies that the Bush administration began, and Obama administration is continuing and expanding, and a corrupt, power/money hungry Congress allows and approves. Notice the use of the past tense. The city is essentially a ghost town.



Here's the sad follow-up to the first story:



Credit: Moonbattery.com

Video of the day: Earth First ecofanatics sob and scream over the loss of old trees...

Hilarious.




There's not a whole lot else to be said about that...

Credit: IHatetheMedia

-Socialism

Political Cartoons: A day at the unemployment office and taking in Gitmo detainees

Courtesy of Townhall

Barney Frank walks out on CNBC interview

-NY City turns luxury apartment into homeless shelter

From NY Daily News:

Granite countertops. Terraces. Marble bathrooms. Walk-in closets. The homeless are livin' large in Brooklyn. The city is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to rent luxury condos in a Crown Heights building for homeless families, the Daily News has learned.

"It's like a hotel. It's the nicest place I've ever lived in," said Nelson Delgado, 36, who moved into a swanky two-bedroom, two-bath pad two weeks ago.

"When I first saw it, I was like, 'Damn, everything is brand new,'" said Raymond, who wouldn't give his last name. "It has marble counters and marble floors in the bathrooms, too. I like the big kitchen. That's my favorite."

City officials said the condos - which couldn't attract buyers in the fizzled housing market - are part of an effort to help an "unprecedented" number of homeless families who have ended up on the street because of the tough economy. Units priced at $350,000 This spring, Shriki signed a 10-year contract with the Bushwick Economic Development Group to turn the building into a homeless shelter.

Developer Avi Shriki wouldn't say how much he gets paid - but he said he jumped at the chance to get people in his building. "At least we still own the building and we are paying our mortgage, so that's good," said Shriki.

"The outcome is not as bad as some people I know who had to surrender the whole building to the bank." The city is paying Bushwick Economic Development Corp. $90 a night for each of the apartments, about $2,700 a month - a figure that also covers social services, housing help and job counseling designed to get families back on their feet. Shelter residents said it's not their fault they landed in such swanky digs.

"People are saying we don't deserve to live here," said an 18-year-old man who gave his name only as "Boss," who moved into a two-bedroom apartment with his mom last week.

"Just because a person fell out doesn't mean they don't deserve a place to stay," he said.

It doesn't mean the taxpayers are obliged to provide a luxury apartment for them either. If they wanted to do that they can, on their own dime and time.

Yes, this is the same New York City who is in a fiscal crisis almost as bad as California's.

-Google slaps our veterans and military in the face

On this 6th day of June, 1944, nearly 12,000 brave young men offered the ultimate sacrifice for their country and their families: their lives.



Now, it is widely known that Google's homepage often commemorates important dates, holidays, seasons, and events with a change to their logo at google.com on the day of said events. What did they commemorate today, this 6th day of June, 2009? Why, the 25th anniversary of the advent of the computer game Tetris of course. Disgusting.

-A Little Olbermann Bashing

Everybody needs to do a little Keith Olbermann bashing once in awhile. Below is an example of the pompous pundit's show on MSNBC. If you're feeling adventurous you can skip ahead to about 3:10 to listen to Garofalo's hate speech and Olbermann say "mmhmm" in agreement like 47 times...



Here's a video making fun of him, to cause everyone to get the sick taste out of their mouths. The ultra-liberal Ben Affleck does a spot on impression on Saturday Night Live of Olbermann. Sorry about the ad, NBC is broke and waitin' for a bailout.



And another one.

-Playboy features column on conservative women they want to "hate f****"

A few days ago, Playboy.com recently featured a column called "Conservative women we'd like to “hate-f**k.” Pretty disgusting, but I guess it's okay because they're conservative. It has since been pulled off the site. Here is Megyn Kelly from Fox News, who was on the list, responding on her morning show:



That's not all. The first writer to criticize the story was fired. Caleb Howe was a writer for AOL.com and was surprised to find that his column had been pulled and was soon informed of his firing.

And for the clincher, Bonnie Erbe a writer for U.S. News (pretty respected publication, right?) Had this to say:

Teri Christoph, whom I have never met, asked me to stand up for conservative women who were maligned by an online article on Playboy magazine’s website. The article has since been taken off the site, but the gist of it was, indeed, disgusting, sexist, of course pornographic, and demeaning to conservative women. The article contained a list of conservative female media commentators whom the author said men would like to, er, have sex with but hate at the same time, or something nonsensical like that. Ms. Christoph sent me a link to a cached page of the now-removed article.

…I also want to note that at least one woman on the list is so venom-spewing, she unfortunately invites venom to be shot back at her: Michelle Malkin. Her posts and her “routine” are so venomous and predictable, in fact, I stopped paying attention to her years ago.

Others on the list, however, are not venom-spewing at all. One woman mentioned on the atlasshrugs2000 blog is a regular guest on my PBS show. Amanda Carpenter, on the show at least, eschews personal judgment of people with whom she disagrees politically. So her inclusion on the Playboy list is much more offensive to me than is the inclusion of Ms. Malkin, although their political views may not differ greatly.

It's pretty disgusting to hear liberals try to justify this. Michelle Malkin, also on the list, had this to say:

Translation: It’s not okay to talk about “hatef**king” conservative women…unless they are rowdy, incivil conservative women who don’t behave nicely enough to be on my obscure PBS show. In which case, they deserve all the vulgar misogynist attacks they get!

Thanks to MichelleMalkin & NewBusters

-WWAGD What Would Al Gore Do?

There is a funny new show called "The Goode Family" on ABC. Allow Wikipedia to give you the run down:

The Goode Family is an ABC animated sitcom from Mike Judge of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head fame. The show premiered on Wednesday, May 27, 2009.

The Goode family is an obsessively "green" family who live an obsessively politically correct lifestyle. The reason their last name is Goode is because they are always trying to do well. For example, they reuse their shopping bags, drive hybrid cars, recycle, etc. They are also vegans. The family lives by the motto "What Would Al Gore Do?", a spin on the Evangelical Christian motto "What Would Jesus Do?".

And here are a few of the funniest clips, courtesy of Brent Baker at Newsbusters:

-Islamic racism continues to be ignored

Some good old fashioned racism on Palestinian TV...yet the left and Obama continue to defend the Muslim religion. What you will see in this video IS a mainstream view in the middle east, it is not a fringe element of Islamic society.



Source: Atlasshrugs