> >> MY NAME IS WALT TURSKE FROM CLEVELAND , OHIO
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> YES, I’M A BAD AMERICAN
> >>
> >> I Am the Liberal-Progressive’s Worst Nightmare
> >>
> >> I am an American.
> >>
> >> I am a Master Mason and believe in God.
> >>
> >> I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles, and believe in American products.
> >>
> >> I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some
> >> liberal governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican!
> >>
> >> I’m in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
> >>
> >> I think owning a gun doesn’t make you a killer; it makes you a smart
> >> American.
> >>
> >> I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and
> >> does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!
> >>
> >> I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, you should do it in
> > English.
> >>
> >> I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and
> >> where they want to.
> >>
> >> My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G.
> >> Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
> >>
> >> I don’t hate the rich. I don’t pity the poor.
> >>
> >> I know wrestling is fake and I don’t waste my time watching or arguing
> >> about it.
> >>
> >> I’ve never owned a slave, or was a slave. I haven’t burned any witches
> >> or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you!
> >>
> >> I believe if you don’t like the way things are here, go back to where
> >> you came from and change your own country!
> >>
> >> This is AMERICA ..We like it the way it is!
> >>
> >> If you were born here and don’t like it you are free to move to any
> >> Socialist country that will have you. (And take Barack Obama with
> >> you.) Massachusetts started the ball rolling. Keep it going.
> >>
> >> Let’s really clean house starting with the White House. The seat of our
> >> biggest problems.
> >>
> >> I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse
> >> Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part
> >> of the problem and not the solution.
> >>
> >> Can I get an AMEN on that one?
> >>
> >>
> >> I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you’re
> >> breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
> >>
> >> And, no, I don’t mind having my face shown on my driver’s license.
> >>
> >> I think it’s good…. And I’m proud that ‘God’ is written on my money.
> >>
> >> I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don’t want
> >> you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the
> >> world for the next four years.
> >>
> >> I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me
> >> stuff or trying to guilt me into making ‘donations’ to their cause…….
> >>
> >> Get a Job and do your part!
> >>
> >> I believe that it doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes
> >> two parents..
> >>
> >> I believe ‘illegal’ is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.
> >>
> >> I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !
> >>
> >> If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I’m a BAD American.
> >>
> >> If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you
> >> know…
> >>
> >> We want our country back!
> >>
> >> WE NEED GOD BACK
> >> IN OUR COUNTRY!!
> >>
> >>
> >> WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!
> >>

two progressives, one massive failure

OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA

Mr. President;

Your critics have accused you of promoting a socialist agenda, which you
have correctly refuted. Socialism is at least intellectually honest about its
intent, you are not. We are experiencing what is admittedly an unusual
downturn in our economy (due primarily to artificially lowered interest rates
by our government) yet your lapdogs keep asserting that this is the worst
financial crisis since the Great Depression; you are being dishonest, and we
deserve to know why.

Your Treasury Secretary is credited with being the nation’s foremost expert
on the Depression but he has asked for unprecedented authority and power to
close down any business that you or he deem a threat; and you promote this
in the name of the free markets and the “public interest”. Markets are by
definition not free when they are chained; you are lying, so why?

If Mr. Geithner is such an expert then he knows that the very same type of “solutions” that you are inflicting on our nation Presidents Hoover and  Roosevelt implemented which
prolonged and deepened the Depression, only your policy is the New Deal on
steroids-why?

You claim you can spend our lifeblood and our productivity, give it to those
who have not earned it, and that it will produce prosperity; prosperity for who,
and at what cost?

You have capitulated to our enemies; your Treasury Secretary is considering
abandoning our dollar for a global currency; your Homeland Security Chief
will not prosecute the War On Radical Islam; and the Speaker of the House
will not enforce our immigration laws-yet you remain determined, why?

What are you doing? It is not your particular programs which I challenge, but
your moral premise. Why, Mr. President, should we sacrifice our productivity
to incompetence or laziness? Why should we sacrifice our sovereignty and safety to
those who wish to harm us? As Mr. Daniel Hannan of the European
Parliament so eloquently and courageously stated to his own Prime Minister,
you can not spend your way out of deficits and borrow your way out of debt,
so why should we sacrifice our certainty to your whims?

Why?

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We are not dealing with primarily an economic crisis. The crisis
goes well beyond questions of whether markets will fail or
whether we will have our jobs next week. What we are
experiencing is is a crisis of faith. We have, as those who lived
through the Depression experienced, lost faith in our leaders,
our economic system, and most crucially, we have lost faith in
ourselves.

Our leaders are trying to convince us to have faith in the
“system” (a system they have torn asunder and now claim that
they will fix), our ministers and priests assure us that we must
have faith in God and the Church while simultaneously telling us
our problems are the result of countless misdeeds- from support
the ten commandments – and our government bodies tell us to
have faith that they can prevent an Ancient Rome style collapse
with minute to minute changes in the interest rates, tax cuts,
and revisions of the regulatory code. Friends, this is a crisis of
faith, and I for one say good riddance to faith.

Faith, belief in something in the absence of evidence , is not the
answer. We need solutions which are based, not on faith, but a
rigid commitment to the facts, to truth, and to our nature. This
is the precise definition of the process that philosophers have
tried to damn since they reneged on their responsibility to
provide answers-reason.

Reason will tell you that what we have done so far is not
working-therefore change the methods we are employing.
Reason will tell you that our government has failed in its
obligation to protect us from this mess-therefore change the
nature of our government. Reason will tell you that church
leaders don’t have a rational solution-therefore ditch those
archaic and failed institutions which have consistently provided
no answers, and have created the crux of the problem.

In her well articulated article “Faith and Force: the Destroyers of
the Modern World” (printed in Philosophy: Who Needs It
(available at amazon.com)), Ayn Rand clearly demonstrates the
need to return to reason as the solution. For those who claim
otherwise I want to tell you: you will be held accountable.

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Former comptroller General of the United States David Walker
has compared our financial labor pains to the collapse of the roman empire.  This is an argument many of us have been making for years to deaf ears, rolling eyes, and a shrugging of
the shoulders as if to say “what’s the point?” Well someone has
finally gotten the point, and it has only taken global panic and
bail outs aplenty to for them to get the message.

In a headline from the usually timid and pursed-lipped The
Trusted Professional, a journal of New Yorks C.P.A’s, Walker is
quoted as saying the U.S. Government is “unsustainable”-You
said it, brother. Walker estimates that underfunded
entitlements will grow by two to three trillion each year, even if
the budget is balanced. Conservative estimates place us in a
nearly 13 trillion dollar hole. But Mr. Obama and Hillary are
going to take care of that, right?

Mr. Walker attributes Rome’s collapse to four things: “a decline
in moral values, an overconfident and overextended military,
fiscal irresponsibility by the central government, and inability to
control one’s borders”. Neh, that doesn’t sound like us, right?
Besides, it can’t happen here because, well let me think, we’re
not Rome. History always repeats itself unless drastic steps
are taken and the historical context is understood. I’m sure a
$15 billion bailout of the big three auto makers will prevent the
collapse of a culture-wait, how about a huge investment in
green energy? let’s add a mega-trillion dollar socialization of health care–hold on, I’ve got it-let’s have Rick Warren of Christianity
(lite), speak at the new president’s inauguration-that oughta do
it. No, lets see, why don’t we….

Town Hall Mania

Bloggers, the media, elected officials, and social
networking aficionados are all a-twitter over town
halls. You would think Michael Jackson had risen
from the dead or that Carrie Prejean had gone
lesbian. What gives? Hundreds of citizens are
showing up at town hall meetings, when there are
usually a few dozen at these Vivarin dosed
events. Something weird is afoot.

Enough of the less than eloquent sarcasm, lets get
real. Town hall meetings are time honored and
Constitutionally crucial tools of the Republic- they
DO matter. Whether they are genuinely concerned
citizens gathering spontaneously to voice dissent
or they are “astro-turf”, as is claimed by House
Speaker Pelosi and others is not the point. People
are upset, they are uptight, and they are up to
their ears in frustration at being ignored or
ridiculed by the States and Washington. Things
are not well, and regardless of party affiliation, we
all know it.

When Americans who are deemed morally and
intellectually qualified to represent other
American citizens degenerate to name calling,
demagoguery, misrepresentation, and class and
race baiting against those whom they represent;
and simultaneously admit they haven’t even read
the proposals their constituents are worried
about-friends, there is more than health care
reform at stake-we must ask “why”?

Why, you who claim to represent our interests and
welfare, continue to attack us and minimize our
concerns? Why haven’t you read the bills, and yet
wish to challenge and attack those of us who
have? Why do you write Federal legislation that
you claim takes “two days and two lawyers” to
understand, yet you complain and attempt to
silence any challenge to Constitutionally and
morally questionable provisions within the bills
when those who have understood the bills demand
explanations of your motives and methods? Why
are you wishing to silence all dissent, regardless
of the parties, groups, and levels of society that
dissent emanates from?

Why, when the people are speaking loudly and
clearly, are you trying to shut us up with cancelled
meetings, closed doors, and slick, orchestrated
charades posing as town halls by our
commander-in-chief? WHY???