Thank you, President Bush, for your selfless service to us and our nation. Enjoy your well-earned rest.
Good luck, President Obama. Godspeed to you, and Godspeed to us all.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
With A New President…
…comes a new, timely rant from Alfonzo Rachel.
The BDS Stops NOW.
Laurence Simon confronts the Bush-haters who just can’t seem to let go of their hatred.
I Pledge to NOT Drink the Kool-Aid (UPDATED)
Today, as President George W. Bush transfers power to President-Elect Barack Obama, members of the Hollywood Left want us all to blindly get in line:
MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge
Andrew Breitbart has several words for them:
This video illustrates that the current celebrity class are not citizens but serfs. They need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing. They are not heroic individualists seeking to extend America’s promise but conformists who chose to sit out and complain during the tough years in order to ensure their guy got in the next go-around.
Read the entire piece, and share it with your friends — regardless of ideological bent.
I wish President-elect Obama well, and pray that he will exercise wisdom and common sense in governing our land for the next four years. However, the President serves the American people, and not the other way around. I refuse to join Ashton Kutcher, et. al. in a narcissistic pledge of serfdom to an elected public servant.
There is a difference between having respect for the officeholder of President of the United States, and engaging in idol-like worship of a false savior. As an American, I choose the former.
Update: It has come to my attention that some think that I’m opposed to community service and volunteering. On the contrary, I support it. For one, I am a public servant who DOES volunteer his time and efforts to help others in my local community. I do so because I desire to be helpful to others, not because I feel obligated to “give back” or kiss up to the cult of personality — which is what the “Presidential Pledge” is inferring. The obtuseness of said critics makes me mad.
When I give to charity or volunteer, I do so quietly, not drawing attention to myself, but focusing on being a cheerful giver. The liberal celebs are doing it for self-promotion. Such selfish behavior is the definition of narcissism.
- President Obama is my president, but not my god. I WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO HIM.
- President Obama is an elected public servant, and NOT my master.
- The President and I are equal citizens. I am NEITHER his slave NOR his serf. My critics would heed to re-read the U.S. Constitution and all of its amendments, especially the 13th.
- I DO NOT work for the President; the President, regardless of political party, works for ME — and for YOU.
Those who can’t grasp the above are intellectually and emotionally enslaved. Woe unto them.
The Passing of the Torch
Abraham, Martin, and Barack?
For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Akindele Akinyemi marks today’s remembrance with a must-read essay.
We are celebrating for several reasons today.
(1) We appreciate the efforts of Dr. King and his accomplishments to the world.
(2) Children should not be in the bed. This is not a day off but a day up to learn about one of the greatest men that ever walked the face of this Earth.
However, this year is different because we are preparing to [inaugurate] Barack Obama as our 44th President of the United States tomorrow.
I am having some issues about some people trying to compare Obama to MLK and Abraham Lincoln. Obama yesterday spoke from the Lincoln Memorial.
Let me make it clear that while I applaud Obama’s efforts on becoming the 44th President of the United States he is a long way from Lincoln and King.
There is no comparison.
Instead of trying to imitate Mr. Lincoln and Dr. King, President-elect Obama shoud focus more on being himself and making a sincere effort to strengthen our Union and uphold individual liberty.
Sentences Commuted
Even in the final hours of the Bush Administration, hope springs eternal.
On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.
Their sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.
Ramos and Compean were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.
Nearly the entire congressional delegation from Texas and other lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle pleaded with Bush to grant them clemency. Conservatives hailed Bush’s decision Monday.
Although I’m deeply disappointed that Ramos and Compean did not receive a full pardon as they were simply doing their jobs with the Border Patrol, a commutation is better than nothing.
Thank you, President Bush, for listening to reason and bringing these innocent men closer to freedom.
Let’s not forget Ignacio Ramos, Jose Compean, and their familes when they are released from prison on March 20. Now more than ever, they will need our prayers and our support as they continue working to restore their good names.
As the Inauguration Nears
Zo Rachel wishes President-elect Obama success — in his own way.
Change We May Live to Regret
Ricardo Montalban, R.I.P.
Actor Ricardo Montalban died yesterday at the age of 88.
From classic film heartthrob to the villianous Khan Noonien Singh to the fantasy-fulfilling Mr. Roarke, Montalban was a class act whose performances onstage and his demeanor offstage can still put today’s Hollywood stars to shame.
He will be missed.
Be Seeing You
Actor Patrick McGoohan, who created and starred in the 1960s cult classic TV series “The Prisoner”, has died at the age of 80. He will be missed by many a fan, including this one.
Obamaian Rhapsody
I came across the following posted in comments at Nealz Nuze by ‘TheMuse’. And yes, the blog entry by Boortz is a must-read:
To the tune of “Bohemian Rhapsody”:
Is this republic?
Is this democracy?
When people decide,
Who’re divorced from reality.
When Dems opine,
Open your mind and think.
I’m just a citizen, I need no sympathy.
‘Cause I’m working hard, earning dough,
I’m paying bills, as I go,
Anyway the polls go, only freedom matters to me,
To meObama, will tax all men,
With a bold stroke of his pen,
He’ll raise our rates again.
Obama, that was my money.
But now you’ve taken all of it away,
Obama ooooo
Why do you have to pry
My last nickel from my callused hands??
I’ll revolt! I’ll revolt! Cause only freedom mattersSocialist, they nominate
Sends shivers down my spine
If he wins, we’re in hard times
I’ll lose every freedom I used to know
Forced to give them all right up for greater good.
Obama, oooo (any way the polls go)
I don’t wanna pay
For someone that has never worked for a day!I’m just a free individual of this land!
Democrats, Democrats, why must you micro-manage?
Mercury laden lighting very, very frightening me!
Global warming, global warming
Global warming, global warming
Scam that makes our taxes grow; makes em grow-ow-ow-ow,
I’m just a citizen, my family loves me.
He’s just a citizen raising his family,
Spare his wife and kids from your Socialist decree!
I work hard for my dough, will you tax me low?
O-bama! No! We will not tax you low! Tax me low!
O-bama! We will not tax you low! Tax me low!
O-bama! We will not tax you low! Tax me low!
Will not tax you low! Tax me low!
Will not tax you low! Tax me low!
No,no,no,no,no,no,no- low low low low low low low
Harry Reid, Harry Reid. Harry Reid won’t tax me low.
Pelosi-bub has a tax rate hike for me, for me, and YOUSo she thinks she can tax me at rates sky high??
So she thinks she can tell me which light bulb to buy??
Oh Nancy, can’t do this to me Nancy
Just gonna vote out, gonna vote you outta hereOnly freedom matters.
Anyone can see,
Only freedom matters, only freedom matters to me.Anyway the polls go…
Bringin’ It in the New Year
The latest vlog from Alfonzo Rachel:
Sidebar: Do NOT upset Mrs. Rachel. 
Keynesianism 2.0
John Stossel says “give me a break” to the incoming Obama Administration as they unload their interventionist plans for economic recovery:
Obama wants to act quickly. In the name of stimulating the economy, he plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars the government does not have to convert the economy from carbon-based fuels to “green” alternatives. Even if that were a good idea — and it’s definitely not — it would not bring recovery. Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment.
Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations, hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.
The way to a lasting recovery is to greatly lighten the burdens of government. Then free Americans will save and invest.
Grand interventionist reforms go in precisely the wrong direction.
It’s going to be a long and painful four years — and that’s just on the domestic side of things.
Palin Speaks Out
In an exclusive interview with John Ziegler, Sarah Palin sets the record straight on the media and how they attacked her character and her family during last year’s presidential campaign.