A sign of the times, Ft Hood should be a wake up call!

Every day, it seems, there is something new, something happens that just makes me wanna barf! If it’s not Nancy Pelosi, or our “President” doing something to destroy our country, it is the lack of doing something that will do the same. With all of the info they have on that terrorist at Ft Hood, and that is exactly what he is, why won’t anyone call it that?

Why is it that the progressives are so obsessed with passing the health care bill? Why is it that these people will not listen to the people that are supposed to be in charge? We The People, are the ones that should decide, why not hve a vote, of and by the people to make a big decision like that, maybe state by state, there are 50 states, so, if it comes out 25 states for aand 25 against, then its over! If it comes out 26 for and 24 against, its over and that means it passes, or, just let it be a national vote, by the people. I say get rid of all of the idiots in Washington, vote them out, rid our country of this “progressive” disease!

Back to the terrorist at Ft Hood, why is the military so politically correct, I say it is simple, if a gay guy wants in, let him in, but also let it be at his own risk, when I was in, we weren’t very nice to them, and guess what, they didn’t want in, because they knew they would get picked on, problem solved. Just like with the gay guys, if a muslim wants in, let them, but don’t be surprised when the rest of the people beat them up and make them want out, simple, just don’t make everything a hate crime, that is rediculous! Boys will be boys, now, you get in trouble for it! It is a natural thing, birds of a feather flock together, if a pidgeon tries to get with a buzzard, the pidgeon will get eaten, that is life!

I am so sick of all of this PC crap, speak your mind, and remove the penelty for doing so, it is my mouth, if I want to say something, it is my business and those that I am speaking to, no body else. Just like this site, if you don’t like what I write, post a comment and say so! Vent, let it out! That is what is missing in America now! We used to go to the bar, get drunk, get in a fight, and if the cops een were called, they just broke up the fight and sent everybody home. Now, if you even had one beer, and an idiot pisses you off, and you tell him he is an idiot, you end up in jail! Yet, they let terrorists in the military, yep, that is a sign of the times! We must take our country back, Vote the Assholes out! Hopefully, if they can manage to stop this health care crap, it will never happen again!

Americans are finally waking up, and unless we all get shut down with some new rule where they take over the internet, and get rid of conservative talk radio and tv, then maybe the next president will be worthy of his office! I’m sorry, I used to be somewhat of a moderate, now, I am a Conservative all the way! Yeah, I think pot should be legal for medical purposes, but other than that, we need to fix the border problems, we need to clean out the “muslim extremists”, pack them up, send them where ever, I don’t care. In fact, any of the groups that want to destroy America should be run out of the country, like the progressives, send them to Europe, let them see what its like, I lived there and it sucks! Stand up America, vote out the bad guys, vote in the good guys, lets clean up this mess that snuck up on us while we were busy working within the system that we didn’t notice was changing! It is time to realize that the sign of the times can be changed, VOTE in 2010!

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What has really happened to America, are we dumb or just numb?

After watching Glenn Beck today, I had a realization hit me like a freight train, (maybe I dozed off and it was a nightmare) and honestly, it scared me half to death!  Is Obama trying to bring about a simple Revolution, or is it worse?  As if a revolution isn’t bad enough? I am sure, that if you read anything I write, you more than likely watch Glenn Beck as well, so, it is to you that I am speaking.

As Glenn is pointing out all of the Creeps, Communists, Marxists, and Mao lovers like Anita Dunn ( did anybody else find the wierd tongue thing of hers a bit creepy, like a snake or something?) , and if you follow the link to see why some love who they believe Chairman Mao to be, Wikipedia has him almost as a hero, below  is a quote from Wikipedia .

He is officially held in high regard in China where he is known as a great revolutionary, political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation. Many Chinese also believe that through his policies, he laid the economic, technological and cultural foundations of modern China, transforming the country from a backward agrarian society into a major world power.

After reading this, it is easy to understand how Obama’s Crew plans on deceiving us, if they can convince us that Mao was a good guy, then we won’t see the revolution that is coming as being a bad thing, until it is too late! (Notice the word I made Bold and underlined, does this sound familiar?)

Now to my point, this deception or “transformation”, began a long time ago, it started out as “tolerance”, we were re-educated,  our kids have been indoctrinated, and we have been nudged into accepting things that before were unacceptable. Now everything is about some “minority” group’s “rights”. It seems that everybody has “rights” except us Redneck , Veteran, Right Wing Extremists.

What I am about to say, in our Politically Correct World, is going to piss somebody off, but I don’t care, these are my opinions, and I am sure that I am NOT ALONE!

Depending on how old you are, you may remember more or maybe less, but, think about this very carefully.

If you heard Obama’s speach, talking about Transforming America, in this clip,

and judging him by who he is getting his advice from,  and then you see who he is putting in charge of everything, the people they look up to, and the cozy way he is acting with Chavez in the picture below.

This affirms his revolutionary connections and his desire to bring the Hispanic community to his side, but, which side is that. is it America’s side or Obama’s? Read this article from Michelle Malkin,

“We will be at the polls in the cities and counties in many states to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote, which was won through the blood of the martyrs of our people”

Then watch the video below.

Now, doesn’t the Black Panther dude, look a little bit radical to you? If they would have been at the courthouse where I voted, in Texas, the Sherriff’s Department would have arrested them, if some nervous redneck thinking it was terrorists, didn’t shoot them first! Now, hear what Obama says about the US Constitution and “African-Americans.

Hopefully you caught the part about “when the Constitution was written there were no African-Americans”.  I have never seen the country or continent called, Africa America, on the map, at least, not yet. have you? North America, Central America, and South America, yes, they are all there, but no Africa-America. Anyway, Glenn Beck can’t say it, no one in any type of public position can (PC Police will get them), but if you add up all of these things, with the video below,you will see where I am headed.

If you look at all of the liberal changes that have already happened, lets start with the end of slavery, yep, I went there, and yes, I feel that ALL men are created equal and that slavery was bad, but that was the first step in the “transformation of America”. Then came, letting women vote, JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King and all of that, yes, I feel that women are people too and should have the right to vote and so on, stay with me here, I am just making a point.  Don’t you remember when the big issue was “what is the correct term. nigger or negro?” Seriously, I do, adults had it rough, and kids like me heard it, then finally it became black or African-American, but most used the former, not the latter, remember, I am in Texas.

(When I was in school there were but a few black kids, they were really nice kids, and  they were Americans, just like me, we lived in the same neighborhood, many of us walked or rode our bikes to school, we all said the pledge of allegiance, had a morning prayer, and we got along just fine. Today, my old high school has a 10 foot fence, with barbed-wire, around the top and maybe three white kids, and nobody gets along, gangs run the place!)

Think about these things, back when they happened, they were major issues, I am talking about serious Change, remember that word? Things were ok and mellowed out for a long time, Disco happened and then, the gays came out of the closet, and we all had to be “tolerant”, now, its ok to be gay and we are giving our kids classes on gay stuff and so on. Now, after all of these Changes, We Americans are now numb, we can’t say anything about anybody, or we are the bad guy! It has become “unacceptable’ to be white and proud of it! Have you ever heard of “White History or Heterosexual Pride Month? Ask a kid about it, they will call you a racist and or a sexist! Remember the TV show, Black Viewpoint, when can we expect a channel like BET, call it WET , no, not a porn channel, that would be ok, I mean White Entertainment Television. Have you looked at all of the cable channels for everybody, but us rednecks? Ok, we do have a fishing show or two and I can remember when MTV was about Rock Music Videos, now it is all Rap.

Today, we are in the new politically correct world where  kids are indoctrinated into a liberal coma, where competition is bad, pass or fail is now a star or a smiley face, everybody gets graded on a curve that is determined by race, affirmative action weeds out those that can pass the tests, and replaces them with those that can’t, just based on quotas, and the PC police will get you if you say or do anything about it. We  fear offending someone, or we get sued and if a white guy kills a black guy, or if a straight guy kills a gay guy, the penalty is even worse than if you switch the situations, what is up with that? Murder is murder, isn’t it?  One plus one is two, two plus two is four. What is right is right, what is wrong is wrong, but now, everyone is afraid to say so!  We used to live by basic rules, now, everything is complicated, everything is ok, except, to say it’s not ok! What happened to “equal” rights? Do you see my point here? America is numb, not dumb, we are paralyzed with fear and paranoia!

With everybody now afraid of everybody, something is happening that most people are oblivious to, Obama is using his own Liberal base against them, and everyone else! With America so divided, the PC police, food cops and so many previously “unacceptable” groups having more power over the ones that used to say that those groups actions were “unacceptable”, Americans just really want it to be over! We all just want American’s to get along and be proud to ba an American. Some of us have woken up and see what is happening, and we don’t like it. Hopefully, we are getting in Obama’s way, or at least slowing down his efforts, until more people see what is happening and can vote him and the rest of the Marxist out of office. starting in 2010. Otherwise, Obama will start his revolution where those that have, won’t and those that don’t have will, at least that is what those that don’t have think, because they have been indoctrinated and re-educated for so long! Have you noticed that the town hall and tea party folks are mostly the over 35 group? We can remember what America used to be like, before the progressives took over. Global warming? Come on, stop already, the gig is up, Al Gore was wrong!

Think about this, now they are wanting to divide us even further, putting new taxes on everything, this puts smokers against non-smokers, thin people against fat people, and so on, but why? It is all about control, once the people of America have so many restrictions, it will be just like all of the other things that used to be unacceptable. In other words, if you complain about control, you will be singled out, but, by then it will be too late! We are already seeing the beginning, anyone who disagrees with this “Transformation” or revolution is called a redneck extremist!

Lets sum it all up, we have Obama’s friends, Reverend Wright and his Black Liberation Theology, Bill Ayres and The Weather Underground, and the rest of them that nobody paid any attention to, “before” the election, then, during the election, The Black Panthers and ACORN (before, during, and after),  SEIU, Chavez and Obama’s “Apology Tour” immediately after the election, then, Obama appoints a bunch of Czars with extreme views, and no oversight, add this to the bailouts the takeover of General Motors, giving over half of  the company to his Union buddies, Cap and Trade, all of the proposed spending on Health Care, Green Jobs, then the new taxes like the VAT (Value Added Tax) etc, and even a Nobel Peace Prize, after 12 days in office, so, whats next?

Look what happened to Rush Limbaugh, because of  “racist” comments, fake or otherwise? Here is a fake one that he supposedly said, “slavery had its merits” , whether he said it or not, is that so bad? After all, what happened to free speech, doesn’t Rush deserve an opinion? I mean, as un PC as it is, I would have to almost agree to a certain extent, after all, at least slaves couldn’t complain about unemployment and we didn’t need welfare. Has anyone gotten in trouble for the Rap lyrics basically talking about killing white people cops, or whatever? Why can rappers call each other “nigga” , but I should refer to that word as the “N” word? Did you hear about the big party, Fiesta Latina and Obama’s speech in New Orleans? Yes, he was there apologizing for the old “white” government that failed them, have you figured out who the people are that will be rounded up and slaughtered, like Chairman Mao did? What happened to whats left of the America we love, without hyphens, where we are all just called Americans?

I hope I am wrong, but, if not……………………………..

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The Nobel Peace Prize or the Ultra Progressive Liberal of the Year Award?

I think I have seen it all now, for Obama to have been nominated for this years award, that would have been done just 12 days after his inauguration! Does this seem a bit fishy to anyone but me?

Here is the quote, from the NobelPrize.org site, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”, so, how in the heck is this possible?

I believe that it is just following a pattern,  Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919) and Jimmy Carter (2002), Roosevelt and Wilson were before my time, but Jimmy Carter was the President when I was a kid, and I lived through the effects, high unemployment, Iran walking all over us, etc, much like Obama is delivering, but, at least  Jimmy Carter was out of office over 20 years when he got his!

Maybe they should rename the Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe it should be called the Ultra Progressive Liberal of the Year Award? Maybe the NobelPrize folks can see the future? If that is the case, then it should be called the Presidents that trashed America Award? After all, Ronald Reagan only won the Cold War and brought down the wall, what does that have to do with Peace? Ronald Reagan made America strong, so, that disqualifies him. As far as I am concerned, this Nobel Peace Prize is just a joke, and so is Obama, they go together pretty good, kind of like shit and stink!

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Sarah Palin Steps Aside- Good or Bad Idea?

Sarah Palin has stepped aside as Governor of Alaska and the political feathers are flying! If you are listening to the news, you are sure to have heard all sorts of bad things, that she is comitting political suicide and so on, but I don’t think so. I would be willing to bet that Sarah Palin shows up at a tea party somewhere tomorrow. I believe that her decision is to seperate herself from the Republican party, in order to establish herself as a true Independant, as a true believer in the fact that our current and previous leaders have made a big mess and she wants to fix it! Hey, she fixed Alaska in half a term as Governor, what could be wrong with that? I will be waiting to hear more, I take this as good news!

Sarah Palin is going to travel the country and get herself known, and also learn about the country from the inside out actually being with the people, and not the party! Look out Republicans and Democrats, the new force of the people of America is on her way!

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How did America get so Politically Correct?

Can anyone tell me, exactly when did this whole political correctness mess get started? Who started it? Why was it even considered, much less enforced? I am going to guess here, but I have a feeling it got started in the seventies, just after the “civil rights” era, during that time that everyone was feeling guilty. Now, don’t get me wrong, the white man was guilty of a lot of things back then, hey, you should have heard the way people used to speak back then, I was 8 years old in 1970, I heard it.  I didn’t understand that the use of certain, now forbidden, words, could possibly be a bad thing, after all, I also grew up hearing “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me”, so, somehow, I missed the whole thing!

Since this ‘politically correct’ movement took hold, things have changed! I can see where it is not nice to use certain words, but, I grew up being taught that it was the feeling behind the words that was wrong, not the words themselves, after all, sticks and stones…. Anyway, do you get my point?

Today, almost 40 years later, things have really changed! Now, it is alright for any race to use “white” in a duragatory manner, when referring to race, but it is not alright for a white guy to use any term that can be construed to be “hate” speach when referring to race, and God forbid, if you are a hetero-sexual white guy, you just cannot say anything at all about anything or you get called a bigot!  By the way, when have you ever heard that word to describe anyone, other than a white guy? here is what the dictionary says;

One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

Based on this definition of bigot, I have to admit, I am one! Yes, and my group is, “human beings”, yeah, aliens (yeah, like non-humans, from another planet!) suck! You know, they are green, purple or some other color, have tenticles, they dress funny and they smell bad! (based on movies like men in Black) Can you see where I am headed?

How many generations will go by, before it is no longer politically correct to say what I have just written? Surely, some alien is going to show up and be offended!  If I say, “you stupid, green, smelly son of a female dog”, referring to a ‘non-human’ alien, there is no one here to take offense, and I am sure that unless they conquer us, thus proving real hate, there will be many that say even worse, think about this, and should this ever happen, how long before the PC police ban the use of the word alien altogether? Will we humans, be subjected to a one way restriction on “hate” speech, like us hetero white guys are now? Have you noticed, I am having to qualify the word alien with ‘non-human’, when I use this word? How far will the PC police go?

Here we are in 2009 and I am writing this, if such a concept could have ever even been imaginable, what would the people a few hundred years ago have written? I know that my father’s generation never saw it coming!

Here is where my whole point comes out, are you familiar with Perez Hilton? You know, that gay (no, not happy) guy, that called Miss California several not nice words, I guess I should say ex-Miss California. Funny, this guy, or gal, or whatever it is, somehow was put on a panel to judge a beauty contest, how would he, she, or it, even know what a beautiful woman was supposed to be like anyway? (I could have made this a lot shorter with just one little F word, couldnt I?)  Anyway, did you hear what happened? He, she. it. or whatever, called a dude from The Black eyed Peas a fag and got his ass kicked, or at least he, she, it says he. she, it, did.  I don’t know what started it, but I know this, if that Perez Hilton would have gotten into it with some people, he would have at least had a mark or two on his face while he cried on that video like a little girl that just had her pony tail yanked by a mean little boy in school! Maybe it was karma? I guess it was a really good thing he didn’t call him a white guy!

Personally, I agree with the ex-Miss California!

Somehow, I feel this Political Correctness crap has just gotten out of hand!

I just found a video on political correctness, I didn’t watch it, so, if it is something crazy, tough, complain to those that made it!

Wow, just watched it, I had to go find the other parts of this, they are found below.

I believe there are only three parts, so, here is the last one, enjoy!

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Is This Obamas Sneaky Little Secret?

I think I have figured out what Obama is up to! I may be wrong, but I believe that I am at least pretty close!

I am sure that you have noticed all of the things happening in our country, and the world, like North Korea trying to provoke us into doing something, Iran having an election, followed by the people rising up, due to miscounted votes, and of course, our own beloved President Obama and his henchmen, and women, spending every penny on the planet that Fedzilla can borrow, yet, the mainstream media says nothing? I believe that I know why!

If you will remember, Joe (the mouth) Biden, even warned us, that within six months President Obama would be tested, was this a gaff? Did Biden say this for a reason? I believe so, after all, I don’t think that his so called gaffs, are what they appear to be, I think it is all part of Obama’s plan! Remember what I wrote here, “Is anyone else getting this?“,  take a closer look at the photos on that page, read what I have written there. Well?

Many people will say that I am nuts, but if you combine all of what our “President” has already done, with what the world is doing right now, maybe I don’t seem quite so crazy?

The whole world hated Bush, yet the whole world, even our enemies, love Obama, doesn’t this make you even a little bit suspicious? When the people of Iraq started to stand up, the first time, after Daddy Bush had driven Saddam out of Kuwait, and promissed them we would be there to support them, yet he fell weak under political pressure and abandoned them, remember that? Well, when G.W. Bush came along, they didn’t trust him, heck, I wouldn’t have either, if you were them, would you? Well, when Dubya actually did what he said, and freed them, then didn’t fall to the political pressure and stood by his word, what happened? The people of Iraq stood up and voted! Freedom actually happened! What happened next?

IRAN, not the people, but the rulers, the Mullahs and Ahmad-the-nut-job (Ahmadinejad), started causing problems in Iraq, but why would they do that? Simple, they were afraid of Bush! They were afraid of America, and the freedom that America represents! Well, look at what has happened now, the Iranian people are standing up! These people know that these protests could lead to their death, not caused by America, but their own rulers! Is this a signal or what? So, what has our, “Ruler” done? Nothing! Why? Obama says he doesn’t want to meddle, but, Iran’s rulers are blaming the U.S. anyway, no, they are not pointing the finger at Obama, like they would have Bush, but, they are pointing it at America! I believe that a “real” American President would have at least made a statement of support for those people, maybe there is a reason he doesn’t want to encourage them? Looks to me like that desire to be free has seeped accross the border from Iraq, maybe Bush was right?

Here in America, soccer (real football, played with the feet), doesn’t mean much to anyone, but, to the rest of the world, it means a lot, you could call soccer the world’s sport, now to the point, did you notice the green armbands that these players of the Iranian team are wearing? These armbands are to show support for the people of Iran that are standing up to their government! OK, the millions of people marching in the streets may be tough to identify, but the Iranian national team? Everyone knows who they are, who their families are and so on, now, to me, that makes a statement!

Now, we get to my point of this article.

Why hasn’t Obama done anything, about anything? What’s up with those bogas Treasury Bonds? Why was Obama grinning the way he was in that picture with Chavez? Why were Chavez and Ahmadinejad smiling and laughing in that other picture? Why was his statement to the Iranian’s so weak? Why was his statement to North Korea so weak? Why is he so obviously spending us into debt? What is going on with all of Biden’s little slips? Why did Hugo Chavez say that Obama is even more liberal than he? Haven’t you figured it out yet? Obama is using all of this as smoke and mirrors! Obama doesn’t want his sheep to find out he is taking them to be slaughtered! Maybe not literally, but financially! Obama wants this country to be so weak, like he appears to be, so that we can’t do anything about what he has done! Dictators, like Chavez, and Hitler took control of the countries by deception, so, why wouldn’t Obama do the same thing? Maybe that is what Chavez was referring to? Maybe that explains it all? I hope not, but if you look at Obama’s friends from the past, like Bill Ayers, ACORN, and that bunch of radicals, even that Reverend Wright could be an indicator of things to come! Once the county is broke and we are all on welfare, then Obama, Chavez and Ahmadinejad can finally get that group hug picture!

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An email from Michael Steele 4-14

Dear David,Vice President Joe Biden said during the 2008 campaign that it is patriotic for Americans to pay more in taxes. Since taking over control of Washington, the Obama Democrats have decided we should all be more “patriotic” having passed or proposed more than $5 trillion in new spending and $1.4 trillion in new taxes.

I don’t know about you, David, but I don’t believe there is anything patriotic about giving more of your hard-earned money to the government to bankroll the liberal Democrats’ agenda to increase spending to record levels, change the tax code to redistribute the wealth of working families, and destroy the savings of millions of middle-class Americans.

So on this Tax Day, April 15, the Republican National Committee is asking you, along with hundreds of thousands of grassroots activists across our country, to assert a real patriotic act by sending a virtual tea bag to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of the tax, spend and borrow Democrats. Let them know enough is enough and you don’t approve of their plan to pass the largest tax hike in American history.

And when you send your virtual tea bag today, I hope you will also take this opportunity to make a secure online contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 to the RNC today to help fund our efforts to resist the massive tax and spending increases Barack Obama and the Pelosi-Reid Democrats are attempting to ram through Congress.

The $1.4 trillion in higher taxes is just the tip of the iceberg for the Democrats. The proposed cap and trade program on carbon emissions Obama wants would impose at least $646 billion in new energy taxes — $3,100 for every American family a year. And the President wants to raise taxes on small businesses — the very engine that provides 75% of our economic growth.

David, Americans will pay more in taxes this year than they will spend on food, clothing and housing combined and it is still not enough for Barack Obama and the liberal Democrats. Let them know you already pay enough in taxes by sending them a virtual tea bag by clicking here.

And when you do, please also make a secure online contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 to the RNC today to fight the Democrats’ efforts to take advantage of America’s present economic difficulties to force through their reckless agenda.

Your participation in this project is vital to holding the Obama Democrats accountable for their destructive higher tax and spending policies. Please send your virtual tea bag today. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee

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Email from senator John Cornyn 4-13-09

21st Century Threats
‘Unproven Technology’ Lays Basis for Missile Defense

The following op-ed ran in today’s edition of the Defense News, which can be accessed here.

On April 5, North Korea launched a missile – and sent the world a wake-up call.

Ballistic missiles in the hands of rogue states, potentially armed with weapons of mass destruction, remain one of the most serious security threats of the 21st century. Change of administrations in Washington does not change this strategic imperative: Free nations must defend themselves from ballistic missile attack through robust and layered missile defense capabilities.

North Korea’s launch continues a ballistic missile development program that is now four decades old, and which many believe is the most advanced in the developing world. North Korea’s Taepo Dong-2 long-range missile has the potential capability to strike Hawaii, Alaska and possibly the West Coast of the United States.

Many observers agree that North Korea has proliferated elements of its missile program, along with those of its nuclear program, and has helped accelerate development of dangerous capabilities in Iran and other nations. Iran’s capabilities, in turn, could threaten all our allies in Europe, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East, including Israel.

Despite the growing risk, the new U.S. administration seems determined to scale back our missile defense capabilities and leave us and our allies more vulnerable.

On the same day that North Korea tested its new capabilities, President Barack Obama announced that America’s capabilities would be subject to new restrictions. He said in Prague that our missile defense partnership with NATO, including a tracking radar to be based on Czech soil, would go forward only if it is cost-effective and proven, and if the threat from Iran persists. These qualifications may seem reasonable, yet they signal unreasonable cutbacks throughout our missile defense program.

The next day, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made clear which U.S. missile defense capabilities meet the administration’s new standards. Approved for more funding are the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, the Standard Missile 3 program, and the conversion of six Aegis cruisers for missile defense.

Defunded or delayed are the Multiple Kill Vehicle program, the Airborne Laser program and additional ground-based interceptors in Alaska. Overall, the administration plans to cut funding for missile defense by nearly $1.5 billion, or about 15 percent.

Reading between the lines, we can see the new administration’s priorities. They recognize our proven but limited capability to destroy missiles in the midcourse and terminal stages of flight, yet they resist developing new technologies that would defeat such missiles much earlier, in the critical boost phase. In Europe, what they haven’t left out of the budget they seem eager to give away at the negotiating table.

And while trillions of dollars in domestic spending are justified as economic stimulus, new defenses against ballistic missiles – built right here in America – must overcome much higher hurdles from the budgetary bean counters.

FIXING THE PRIORITIES

The administration has set the wrong priorities, partly because it takes too lightly the growing missile threat from rogue states, but mostly because it has failed to recognize three crucial developments over the past 25 years.

First, new technologies have proved the skeptics wrong. During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan’s vision of defenses against ballistic missiles was dismissed as science fiction. Today, our nation has deployed ground-based interceptors, early warning satellites, land- and sea-based radars, and an integrated command, control, battle management and communications infrastructure. Together these components give us an emergency capability against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack, yet each of them, decades ago, was merely an “unproven” technology.

Research, development and deployment of today’s unproven technologies are the key to improving our defenses in the decades to come.

Second, the administration seems unaware of the sea change in international public opinion on the issue of missile defense. At the close of the 20th century, our allies and friends were still very skeptical of missile defense. Yet, consistent and patient diplomacy by the Bush administration changed all that. Today, our nation has cooperative agreements on missile defense with the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Japan and Australia.

We are working with Poland and the Czech Republic to give NATO a missile defense capability, and with Israel to improve its defenses against medium-range rockets. India, France and many other nations have expressed interest in cooperating with us on these technologies. Cutting back on U.S. missile defense capabilities makes no sense when so many allies and friends want to deepen their cooperation with us.

Third, support for U.S. missile defenses now crosses partisan lines. Five of my colleagues, including Independent Joe Lieberman and Democrat Mark Begich, wrote President Obama following his administration’s proposed funding cuts for missile defense. They urged him to reconsider these recommendations and to continue development of an integrated, layered defense against the ballistic missile threat.

I share my colleagues’ concerns, as do millions of Americans across the political spectrum. The president has inspired so many with his vision of crossing ideological divides to pursue common, long-term objectives. Building the infrastructure of missile defense presents a tremendous opportunity to make that vision a reality.

President Obama, like every commander in chief, must make difficult choices to protect our people, advance freedom and defend our strategic interests. I applaud his surge of forces in Afghanistan and appreciate the additional defense capabilities he appears willing to fund. Yet I will oppose any cuts to missile defenses, and to any program that gives us a fighting chance to deter and defeat the security threats of the 21st century.

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Is Obama high? This has been a violation for decades! He must be new!

I  am sorry, if you are an Obamaphreak, this will make you mad!

While this guy has been asleep. or whatever, and I have been sitting here, watching the news, waiting for his reply. his briefing to us, the people,  and this is it! Come on! The very “soft Spoken” method, confuses no one!  The teleprompter speaks again, this time without its mouthpiece!  Sorry, but my alarm-clock says more!

This is probably the only time that I will ever, in my lifetime, if I live to be 500,  write to the President, ,,,, Mr President,….. please,,,,, have the energy,,,, have the heart, ,,,have the whatever it takes, ,,to stay up,,,,, all night with those of us that are watching that is, if you are worried, not about us, but the country, as we are,… is this more important to us,…. than it is to you? .. We do not sleep, we wait for you, for you to tell us that it is ok, when we do not hear from you, well, you get the point! We could care Less about Europe, We are AMERICANS and we want you, to LEAD AMERICA, excuse my french but **** them! America is number one, or, it is Not yours to lead! When you worry more about the EU than us, guess where your problems lie? Math is simple, if you let it be!

I thank the BNO Newsroom for being the only source at this time of day, it gives me something to do!

From the BNO Newsroom.

Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC (BNO NEWS) – “North Korea’s development and proliferation of ballistic missile technology pose a threat to the northeast Asian region and to international peace and security. The launch today of a Taepo-dong 2 missile was a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which expressly prohibits North Korea from conducting ballistic missile-related activities of any kind. With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations.

We will immediately consult with our allies in the region, including Japan and the Republic of Korea, and members of the U.N. Security Council to bring this matter before the Council. I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and to refrain from further provocative actions.

Preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a high priority for my administration. The United States is fully committed to maintaining security and stability in northeast Asia and we will continue working for the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through the Six-Party Talks. The Six-Party Talks provide the forum for achieving denuclearization, reducing tensions, and for resolving other issues of concern between North Korea, its four neighbors, and the United States. North Korea has a pathway to acceptance in the international community, but it will not find that acceptance unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and abides by its international obligations and commitments.”

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Email from Senator John Cornyn 4/2

Why I’m Voting Against The Budget

The following op-ed ran in today’s edition of the Austin American-Statesman, which can be accessed here.

This week, I will vote against the massive $3.6 trillion budget proposed by President Barrack Obama and Democrats in Congress, and Texans deserve to understand why. I believe this budget taxes too much, spends too much and borrows too much. This budget will delay economic recovery in Texas and across the nation, and it will reduce opportunities for all of us.

This budget will reduce opportunities for people looking for jobs. Nearly three-quarters of all new private sector jobs are created by small businesses. In Texas, we understand that small businesses are the employment engines of our economy, and so we have put in place policies that encourage entrepreneurs to invest in our state and create more opportunities. As ABC News reported last week, only three of the top 39 job markets in the nation gained jobs last year. All three are in Texas, and one of them is Austin.

I have worked to bring successful Texas policies to Washington, especially our policy of keeping taxes low. Once again this year I offered an amendment to make it harder for Congress to increase taxes in future budgets. Had this amendment been adopted last year, 60 votes in the Senate would be required today to increase taxes on America’s families and small businesses.

Congress chose not to make it harder to raise taxes, and so this year Obama proposed raising net taxes by $1.4 trillion over the next decade. Much of this burden will fall on our state’s most successful small businesses. He has proposed raising the top two tax brackets to a nominal rate of 36 and 39.6 percent, and by limiting deductions for state and local taxes and other expenses, the effective marginal tax rates on thousands of our small businesses will be over 40 percent.

Small businesses make a big contribution to our economy, and charitable organizations do the same for our society as a whole. More than 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the spirit of volunteerism in our country, and how quick we were to form “public associations” for the common good. Today, faith-based and community-based organizations heal the sick, feed the hungry and serve the most vulnerable among us.

Charitable organizations depend on the generosity of donors to serve our communities, and for decades we have encouraged this generosity by making charitable donations deductible. But Obama wants to limit this deduction for charitable contributions, which could cost charities nationwide anywhere from $4 billion to $9 billion.

You can see the potential impact right here in Austin. The Austin Pregnancy Resource Center is a 501c(3) organization that provides counseling and services to women who are pregnant or who may think they are pregnant. Some of their clients are students. Some are homeless. Some are victims of domestic violence and other abuse.

The center provides these confidential services at no cost to women in need. It relies completely on donations from individuals and businesses to fund its programs. Thanks to the generosity of the Austin community, the center now has two full-time employees, one part-time employee and about 60 volunteers.

The recession has made it harder for the center to raise money — even as the demand for its services increases. In just one day this month, the center received nearly 20 calls from women who could not afford to buy diapers. In the words of Executive Director Lori DeVillez, “There are many times where a bag of diapers or a can of formula truly means the difference between ‘Do I eat today, or provide for my baby?’ ”

The center works to ensure that its clients don’t have to face such a terrible choice. DeVillez estimates that up to 10 of the center’s largest donors would see their taxes go up under the president’s plan. She would like to see policies that would expand her pool of potential donors — rather than dry it up.

I believe that charitable organizations like the Austin Pregnancy Resource Center, as well as thousands of successful small businesses across our state, help make Texas a better place. They deserve our support. They do not deserve to suffer the impact of higher taxes. I will continue to bring the experience of successful Texas policies to our nation’s capital, and help more people contribute to the common good.

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