A Rendezvous With Destiny

Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's famous speech in support of Barry Goldwater for President. The speech is considered one of the greatest and most important speeches in the history of our Republic.

If you love this country and if you care about this country and if you feel that your government has let you down, this message carries the answers we need to bring our country back.

Please enjoy the final four minutes of the speech. The message is as relevant today as it was then. It is a timeless treasure.

OBAMA'S KATRINA

Hello boys and girls, direct from Influenza Central where this writer's household has been battling H1N1 for the past week. While I have not personally suffered from the dreaded virus, members of my family have. Apparently, the large quantity of hot sauce that this writer consumes in a week has aided his immune system.

So ten months into his term, BHO has his own Katrina. 60% of Americans have the H1N1 Flu and they are just STARTING to roll out the vaccines. Now in an end play to take control of more of the health care system, BHO has declared a NATIONAL EMERGENCY because of the H1N1 Flu.

They knew it was coming, they had more than ample warning, they knew who would be the hardest hit, but yet they aren't ready? Where's the outrage for BHO that was there for Bush during Katrina? More Americans are affected by the H1N1 than any hurricane.

If they handle our health care like the H1N1 we won't have to worry about premiums or being covered.

But where's BHO?
He's playing golf! Sunday he played for the 24th time as President. 24 times in nine months! It took the Evil George Bush 2 years and 9 months as President to play 24 rounds of golf! It shows you where BHO's priorities are.

Keep running Dave!

BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS

BEIEVE WHAT YOU WANT.

DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ AND HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE.

So I get this e-mail today from one of those McCrappers or whatever they call themselves. It was just another ranting about Fox News and how the people that watch them are sheep following their Shepherd blindly. This putz went on to tell me how biased Fox News is and how they aren't a real news network. It was a tirade against Fox News. Before I deleted it, I saved a sample for you:

It's not true that they have commentators who are conservative but their news people play it straight.

MSNBC has Maddow and Olbermann on the left. But they also have Scarboro on the right. And they are backed by a legit news organization, NBC NEWS, with facts and standards and editors.

First of all, I think it's wonderful that they allow people in institutions to have access to computers. Second, if you want to make point, make it your own, not Johnny Mac's. Not only is it plagiarism, it just shows that YOU can't think for yourself and you have no original thoughts of your own.

These are the thoughts of Johnny Mac's. (Don't want to be accused of stealing HIS ideas)

MSNBC is backed by a "legit news organization, NBC NEWS, with facts and standards and editors."

Whoa, thanks for that gem of information.

Fox News, CNN News, ABC News even CBS news has standards and editors, as far as facts, MSNBC is a joke. Just last week they attributed quotes to Rush Limbaugh that he NEVER said. They never called and asked him if he said them, they had no corroborating sources or evidence, but they ran with the story because it made Limbaugh look bad. Why let facts get in the way of a good trash job?

How about the news babe Contessa Brewer who just inserts her own hate filled opinions into interviews, harassing guest like John Ziegler and Rick Santelli, calling gun toting protesters "racist" mocking Rush Limbaugh and Liz Cheney, being so convoluted that a writer for the New York Times had no idea what she was talking about and even beating up on Tommy Chong. Her antics are there for all to see on YouTube. In fact, they have their own page for this "News Anchor." Imus was right when he booted her off the air.

Joe Scarboro is not a conservative, he doesn't know his right from his left.

From the Chicago Sun Times:

Recently an MSNBC personality accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of lobbying for policies that amount to being "treasonous to this country." Remember how liberals roared in outrage at any hint of their patriotism being questioned for criticizing the Iraq War? Well, it's the left that doesn't shy from attacking the patriotism of those it dislikes. Recall the repulsive Moveon.org "General Betray-us" ad against Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus. Recent opposition to Chicago's Olympic bid was cast as a sign of a lack of patriotism among Obama critics.

NO one there is Walter Cronkite or Edward R Murow. Uncle Walter may have been a bleeding heart liberal, but he reported the news. Only once did he add a comment or slant a story and he disclosed that beforehand. These rip and readers wouldn't know the first thing about real journalism.

I haven't even touched on Keith the clown or Maddow as they have nothing to do with news. Just as Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly are COMMENTATORS, with their OWN opinion, so are Olbermann, Maddow and Matthews. They are paid to give their OPINIONS. As we all know, opinions are like butt holes......everyone has one. Even me.

CNN for years has been known as the Communist News Network or during the Clinton years, it was the Clinton News network. Their ratings are so low that Ted Turner even wants to come back to "revive" the dying network. Their top talent have been jumping the ship, most are ending up at the Evil Fox Network.

Now the sputz who wrote me also refered me to Media Matters. Oh well, the jig is up! If Media Matters says that Fox is bias it must be so!

This from Media Matters:

Media Matters for America (or MMFA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2004 by journalist and author David Brock. Media Matters for America describes itself as "a web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Media Matters for America defines "conservative misinformation" as "news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda."

It is loaded with liberals like Tom Allison who worked for John Edwards, Eric Boehlert who is a liberal writer as is David Brock. There is nothing that is "Fair & Balanced" about Media Matters.

Take Media Matters and Accuracy in the Media with a grain of salt. Accuracy in the Media is the conservative counterpart of Media Matters and they both have their ox's to gore.

Fox News is legit. Like any other news channel, they have their news division and they have their commentators. The two do not meet, are not held to the same standards and are not on the same playing field.

More and more people are turning to Fox News. It's not all conservatives either. More and more people are turning to fox for their News because it is at is says, Fair & Balanced.

And that's they way it is.

THEY JUST DON'T GET IT EDITION

NANCY'S DROPPING

BARACK'S A TOKIN

DAVID IS A DOPE

Queen Nancy to be dethroned? It doesn't look good for Nancy, of course when does Nancy look good? A recent poll in California shows Her Majesty with just a 34% approval rating and it continues to fall! Now this is a statewide poll, so I don't think there is any chance that the Freaks of San Francisco will vote her out, but there is always hope.

Then there's Barry.
Barry's (BHO was known as Barry most of his life until he graduated from College) Justice Department is not going to go after those that sell or those that use "medical" marijuana. So as Barry did (see picture above) if you got them....toke them!

Allow me a little rant here. Wasn't it just a few years ago that we disqualified a nominee for the Supreme Court because he admitted to tokin' on the weed when he was younger? Now we have a picture of a future President tokin' and a smokin' and IT'S NO BIG DEAL?????? Somewhere between then and now we just jumped head first into the porcelain convenience and are waiting for someone to pull the handle to flush. Maybe it's me, but this (as much as it feels like it) ain't no KISS concert, this is the real world.
Anyway, so those that grow and those that sell "medical" weed are safe with the current administration. Now I am sure that there are positive uses for the "Wacky Tabacky," such as relieving pressure from glaucoma and easing the nausea of chemotherapy, but to open up a store front and sell the stuff with a prescription from Doctor Feelgood may not be the answer.

Right now there are 35 "pharmacies" that sell weed in San Diego alone!

Just pull up to the drive-thru and place your order. Now this may come as a surprise to you, but I'm all for it. Tax the living crap out of it like they did the cigarettes! Make sure they have the tax stamps and tax, tax, tax.

Speaking of getting high.
David Axelrod the Karl Rove of the BHO administration has stated that Fox News is not really a news channel and that the other new channels should not pay attention to what they are putting on the air.

Not a news channel? And CNN and MSNBC are? Give me a break. It's because Fox is looking under the rocks and seeing the slim that lives there and you don't want anyone to know about the slim you are. See as your Communications Director Anita Dunn has said, you want to control the media, what they report and how they report it. It's right there on tape. Go to YouTube and type in Anita Dunn and see what this putz has to say. How they controlled the press during the campaign and how she admires Chairman Mao.
At night the talking heads are leaning to the right that's for sure, but most of the other networks are leaning to the left. During the day or during news, Fox is the most balanced of all the networks. Maybe that's why their show at 3AM has more viewers than Campbell Brown of CNN does at 8PM. But then again, all of their shows have a higher rating than any other news network. I wonder why that is?

Keith the clown who's on MSNBC said that if you took away Fox News and two other shows, he has the number one most watched news show on television.

Well, if I had hair, lost about a hundred pounds and was 20 years younger, the women would love me more than the Sidney Crosby.

OBAMA CARE EDITION

As a candidate for President, BHO on 09-22-08 pledged that any discussion on a health care bill will be transparent and open. It would involve doctors, nurses, members of the health care community and insurance companies. BHO also promised this process would be televised on C-SPAN so that every American would be able to watch the process. According to BHO "There will be no secrecy." (Don't believe me? Look it up)

Today, in Harry Reid's office, members of congress and members of the administration including Rahm Emanuel are meeting behind a closed door as they hammer out the details.

The White House said: "this is how things are normally done."

Talk about transparency.

What does a pledge mean to this guy?

The other day, I received an e-mail from an avid reader who forwarded an e-mail from former Senator Rick Santorum.

I keep looking for the "common ground" BHO always talks about.

From Senator Santorum:

The Obama Administration is working to erase respect for conscience from health insurance and the law in general…

… Don’t believe me?

In his address at the University of Notre Dame, Obama talked a good game about respecting conscience on abortion rights. He did the same thing when he met the Pope. But that was all it was -- talk.

The Obama Administration’s attack on Belmont Abbey College proves that.

Belmont Abbey College is a small, private, Catholic college located in North Carolina. For 130 years, it and the Benedictine monks who run it have been dedicated to handing on the Catholic faith.

But the Obama Administration is now trying to force them to abandon that faith or go out of business.

You see, the Administration at Belmont Abbey College removed contraception, abortion, and voluntary sterilization from its faculty's health care policy after discovering it had accidentally been a part of existing plans.

Employees of the school who objected to this change in policy brought a complaint against the school accusing them of “gender discrimination.”

This accusation against Belmont Abbey College couldn’t be further from the truth.

Belmont Abbey College was not discriminating against women. Unlike many “believers in name only” the college was adhering to the principles of its faith.

At first, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found no evidence of gender discrimination by Belmont Abbey College…..

After a few weeks, the EEOC mysteriously reversed course and announced, in effect, that the college had better toe the Administration’s line, or else.

They are now demanding the school go against the very principles it exists to serve.

Don’t be fooled.

Killing or funding the killing of unborn children has nothing to do with promoting human health. And including these atrocities in every “health care” plan -- no matter how shrewdly hidden or diplomatically stated – violates the consciences of Catholics everywhere.

No Catholic college or other religious institution should ever be required by the government to violate its moral beliefs ...

Too many were silent when Obama went to Notre Dame. As a result his Administration has been emboldened to attack all Catholic institutions. Now, they are shamelessly picking on a small Catholic college – Belmont Abbey.

Tomorrow it could be your local church, the parochial school you send your kids to, it could be the Jesus bumper sticker on your car…

If Obama is given the opportunity to attack even the oldest and most respected religious establishments across the country, what will be next?

The President of Belmont Abbey College has bravely stated that he would rather close the school than go against the church’s most fundamental teachings ...

I commend him for his moral conviction, but I’m afraid for the future of religious freedom in our country.

… Think I’m overreacting?

The impact of even one Catholic college knuckling under or closing would be a catastrophe for all religious institutions.

Luckily, the Belmont Abbey College has enlisted the help of a law firm that specializes in defending against this type of travesty. It’s called the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

The Becket Fund has a solid reputation for being the best in the business.

I know first hand how effective the Becket Fund is in preserving our freedom of religion. I’ve known them for years.

Way back in the Clinton Administration when Clinton threatened to court-martial military chaplains who followed their consciences by preaching against Clinton’s veto of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, it was the Becket Fund that filed suit in federal court and got that gag order struck down.

And just this past week, when the Freedom from Religion Foundation sued to strike “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, it was the Becket Fund that intervened in the case and successfully defended the Pledge.

In between they have successfully defended all sorts of believers and religious institutions.

Archbishop Chaput knows them well too. As he likes to say, “The work of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is more than ‘good.’ It’s vital.”

Make no mistake, this will not be easy. The Obama Administration is relentless about silencing religious believers.

(Editor's Note: While the story is 100% true, I have taken out all references to contributing to the defense fund for the college. While I agree that this would be a good cause to donate to, as a journalist, I am just reporting the facts, not soliciting donations.)

If this can happen to a small college, it can happen to ANY religious entity. Our beliefs are under attack as they have always been, but it goes deeper than that.

Before under the "Conscious Act" if a doctor, nurse or pharmacist objected to providing a service that went against their religious beliefs, they were not forced to perform abortions or give drugs that would cause an abortion.

If a priest, rabbi or minister (the start of a good joke) didn't believe that same sex marriage was in accordance with their church's teachings, they could not be forced to perform the ceremony.

Now everything may be up for grabs.

The Catholic Bishops in the United States have said that if they are forced to offer "services" that go against church teaching or beliefs, they would close their hospitals rather than stay open or sell them to another entity.

That move would devastate the health care system in the United States.

Consider this, ONE THIRD of the hospitals in the United States have been founded and run by Catholic Orders. Many of these hospitals are in rural areas, or in areas where the population have no other access to medical care. If these hospitals are closed, it would have a devastating affect on the people it serves and the health care system in general.

Pay close attention to what is going on behind closed doors, it will have a major effect on you.

I am as serious as a heart attack.

RACIST LIARS & PIMPS EDITION

THE NO FUN LEAGUE

Rush Limbaugh announced this week that he was part of a group that was putting in a bid to by the 0-5 St. Louis Rams. Immediately, penalty flags started flying. You would have thought you were at an Oakland Raider-Pittsburgh Steeler game. The head of the player's union spoke out against it, several black players spoke out against it and the two pimps, Jesse "The shakedown king" Jackson and Al "I'll protest anything" Sharpton spoke out against it. Donovan McNabb even went as far to say he'd never play in St. Louis if Limbaugh owned the team.

McNabb, if someone offered you $$$ (why I wouldn't know) but if someone offered you the money, you'd be there in a heart beat.
Since when does the player's union, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or anyone other than the owners of NFL teams have a say in who buys a team? Al Sharpton even went as far to say it was a "privilege" and not a "right" to buy an NFL team! No Al, you have a RIGHT to buy an NFL team if you are PRIVILEGED enough to have several hundred millions of dollars! It's called (and I'll speak real slowly for you Al) "The free market system." If you have the money, than you can buy a team.

If I you and Jesse are so concerned about the state of the NFL, than get a group of investors together and buy the Detroit Lions. Oh, I'm sorry, the money you get from shaking down companies goes to line your pockets, it's not for investment in the NFL.

What they did was make up comments that they attributed to Limbaugh and put them on Wikipedia. No one checked to see if Limbaugh actually said those things (he didn't) and one network, MSNBC ran with it. Within hours the phony comments were etched into stone and the damage was done.

Why let journalism and ethics get in the way of a good story?

So much for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to spend your money where you see fit.

As one Liberal commentator put it, "Rush has become the pinata for the left."

See the Reverend Al and the Reverend Jackson are shake down artist, racist, pimps and liars. Hey Al, how'd that Tawana Brawley situation work out for you? When are you going to pay the court ordered judgement against you from the slander suit won against you? You show up every time there is an opportunity for you to get your picture taken. I can only imagine the carnage that would ensue if you and Chuckie Schumer were to run to the same camera.

Jesse, would you like to comment on how you shook Anheuser Busch down and your son ended up with the largest distributor in Chicago? What about the "Rainbow Coalition" paying for your mistress and "Love Child?" Can we get a comment on that? How about the time you shook down Toyota? Just how much did you get for that? How about a comment about how you really weren't standing next to Dr. King when he was shot, but you hurried up to the dying man to spread his blood all over you, so that when the cameras came, you could sell your story?

What have either of you two trick-or-treaters done for your community?

Since when do you get to decide who is allowed to spend their money?
The group that Limbaugh was a part of has parted ways with the radio talk show king and he will not be involved in the bidding for the Rams.

It is a loss for the Rams.

It is a loss for the NFL.

It is a loss for decency.

WHERE IS THIS GOBAL WARMING WHEN WE NEED IT EDITION

If the earth has a "fever" why is it snowing in October and I have to put the damn furnace on already?

In the next couple of weeks, all the liberals would bought the lies and the garbage peddled by Al Gore will be meeting to screw you and me to "save" the planet. The planet does not need saving!

There is no such thing as global warming. 30 years ago, there was no such thing as global cooling, but it didn't stop the libs from telling us we were going to enter into the second ice age. When that didn't happen, they changed it to global warming. Now the pendulum is ready to start to swing back to global cooling. I'm getting such a headache!

One of the by-products of this is our dependence on oil. I am all for getting off our dependence of oil. Myself, I believe that hydrogen is the way to go, but there are other alternatives out there and one of them will be the power source of the future.

The future.

The future is not now and it's not going to be 10 or 20 years from now. It's going to be 25 years plus and until that time, we need oil. Now we have a lot of it in Alaska and the Mid-West.

But what about the poor Caribou?
The Caribou are doing quite well thank you. In fact, since the pipeline was put up in Alaska, the Caribou population has doubled! They like the warmth of the oil going through the pipeline and the gather around the pipeline, doing what Caribou do!
The short term answer to our dependence on oil is in our own backyard. We need to tap our resources, which the US Geological Survey says contains more oil than Saudi Arabia. We tap into our own resources while we perfect hydrogen, batteries, cooking oil, whatever works. We perfect it this time before we unleash it on the American public.

Plain and simple, Al Gore isn't out to save the planet. He's out to line his pockets. If Al Gore gave a damn about the planet his electric bill wouldn't be over $20,000.00 per month!

Quit listening to the frauds like Al Gore.

DRILL BABY DRILL!