A friend sent me a list of questions that was originally posted on GlennBeck.com. The list was well done, well thought out, and quite thought provoking…
    But I absolutely hated the way it was organized! It was written ALL IN CAPS, was filled with typos, and some of the questions were a little confusing in their structure.

    So I decided to play editor and this is what I came up with! For the most part the credit totally belongs to Mr. Beck. I have added a few things, because as I was reading, it got me thinking. And I think I’ve come up with a great idea to counter the OWS’ idea of our own American Spring.
    So read on! Or if you’ve already read the list of questions, please click here to check out my concluding thoughts about my own take on the American Spring, and the word that should come next.
    Let’s get to it!

Questions for Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street
   - Who is the Father of OWS?
   - How did this movement start?
   - Who planned this event?
   - Who is paying for the Madison Avenue marketing firm? The color-printed newspapers (e.g. The Occupy Wall Street Journal)? The flyers?
   - What role did SEIU & The Working Families Party play in the planning of this event?
   - Who is Stephen Lerner?
   - Who is Van Jones?
   - What is the Center for American Progress?
   - Who is George Soros?
   - What is his relationship to the Center for American Progress? To OWS?
   - Is he a crony capitalist?
   - Does Soros pay his “fair share”?
   - Is Soros getting rich off of the corrupt system of Wall Street speculation?
   - How does Soros make his money?
   - What do George Soros and the economies of the United Kingdom & Thailand have in common?
   - Soros made $7 billion dollars last year personally through his hedge fund and various investments – is that okay? If yes, why? If no, why?

Our Government
   - What system of government do we currently have?
   - In what ways does our current system of government differ from when it was originally founded?
   - What system of government would you prefer?
   - Can you name other nations throughout history which have used your preferred system of government?
   - What happened to those countries?
   - What can we learn from the experiences of those nations?

The Economy
   Name the specific time in history in which the global economy collapsed (as it seems to be shaping up to do now.)
   - If you cannot, please explain why not?
   - If you were to plan a global economic collapse, how long would it take for this system to be dismantled and the new, “fairer” system to be created?
   - Would there be unintended consequences? Can you detail any potential unintended consequences that could occur?
   - Could people die?
   - If not, why?
   - If yes, estimate how many. How do you justify those deaths?
   - By collapsing the system (Wall Street), and causing economic chaos, how does that make you any different than one of the corporations you are protesting? Wouldn’t destroying the system outright – as opposed to thoughtfully reforming it – cause just as much human pain and suffering?

Fair Share & Corporations
It’s a pretty universally agreed point: people should pay their fair share in taxes. That said, please answer the following:
   - What is that specific number? Please quantify what, exactly, is “fair”. Not just for the wealthy, but for everyone.
   - If it’s not zero, please explain GE – another major corporation – evading so many of their taxes, getting excessive tax breaks, etc.
   - Why wasn’t GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, on the protest tour of wealthy billionaires’ homes? Are you planning any protests at his home in the future?
   - Do you even know who he is?
   - What about George Soros?
   - Russel Simmons? Who happens, by the way, to be the owner of a debit card company, in addition to other various Wall Street-related enterprises.
   - Kanye West?
   - Are they Wall Street criminals? Are they not involved in evil corporations which are in bed with the government?
   - Can there be good people in an evil corporation? If so, how do you judge good from bad?
   - GE – led by Jeffrey Immelt – pays no income tax. Immelt, their CEO, is on President Obama’s Economic Council. Why not protest GE?
   - Do you object to the ways in which this President has intertwined himself with so many leaders of large business, like GE?
   - Explain any potential conflicts of interest between President Obama, Jeffrey Immelt, and NBC’s ‘Green Week’ initiatives.
   - If there are conflicts in any way, why? And do you object?
   - If President Obama is in bed with, and/or excuses the bad behavior of, large multinational corporations within the system that you believe should be collapsed, shouldn’t President Obama be deemed guilty as well?
   - If no, explain why.
   - If yes, explain why.
   - If yes, compare GE Green Week answer above.

“Capitalism is Destroying America”
Rockefeller, Astor Mellon, and Carnegie are known as “Robber Barons” and would probably be targets of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Given that, answer the following.
   - Who built the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?
   - Who built MoMA?
   - The New York Public Library?
   - Carnegie Hall?
   - Carnegie Mellon University?
   - The National Gallery of Art?
   - Who began the Smithsonian? Who funds the vast majority of its exhibits?
   - What is the relationship between Rockefeller Center and Columbia University?
   - Does this mean Capitalism helped Columbia University?
   - How did Capitalism help Columbia?
   - Does Capitalism help or hurt Columbia today?
   - If not, how does it continue to operate? How does it even exist at all?
   - If yes, doesn’t that make the majority of their political teachings a teensy bit hypocritical?

The Obama Administration
   - Does your University support this administration and its policies?
   - Did you or those you are with vote or campaign for this President in the past?
   - Are you campaigning for him now?
   - If so, are you betraying your ideals by helping someone who has compromised on important anti-corruption principles and policies?
   - If he has not done all that he promised to do, and in fact betrayed the “hope” and “change” he promised, what stood in his way? Especially during the first two years of his presidency.
   - Could you name specific examples? Specific legislative attempts that were in some way blocked? Again, especially during the first two years, when he had the most power and the most political clout.
   - If Obama truly believed the same things you did, that a collapse was imminent and there were villains on Wall Street about to do those in this country grave harm, why wasn’t Wall Street reform the very first thing on his agenda?
   - Who has received more donations than any other politician in history from large banks & Wall Street firms?
   - Obama claims that he is not in bed with bankers and big corporations. Is he lying?
   - Is Obama justified in not telling the truth if it furthers his or your agenda?
   - What are the conditions under which a leader can lie to you and it be justified or morally acceptable?

Investigations, Justice & Protests
   - Why has the Obama administration not initiated or conducted investigations into the banks, major corporations, Wall Street firms, or individual bankers?
   - Why hasn’t this administration initiated an investigation into the actions of the Federal Reserve?
   - Why hasn’t this administration initiated investigations into Freddie, Fannie, or Sally Mac?
   - Why has no one except Bernie Madoff gone to prison under this or the last administration?
   - Wasn’t the Hope we were looking for – and promised – supposed to come from a President that was different? That was beyond politics? Beyond race, creed, color, or class?
   - Wasn’t the Change that America was looking for an end to Crony Capitalism? An end to the marriage of Big Business and Big Government?
   - Were you wrong about this President during the last election?
   - How are you sure this time?
   - If yes, and if none of the GOP candidates are for whatever reason acceptable to you, wouldn’t it be important for the future of this nation to push for a primary challenger against Obama?
   - Did America learn from its mistake of not demanding a clear declaration of what Hope & Change really meant?
   - Should there have been a clear plan to ensure that this new President remained on course to deliver the “Change” he promised? Should more details have been demanded regarding how he would fulfill your “Hope” for an end of corruption and cronyism?
   - If you do not primary Obama, why not demand such detailed plans now before you agree to give him your vote? Before your campaign for him, if you’re currently doing so?
   - What is Solyndra? What is Light Squared?
   - Do you think those who have designed this event (collapse Wall Street) should have a clear plan to ensure that after the collapse, they will deliver the change you hope for, of an end to corruption and cronyism? Shouldn’t we expect more details before we initiate such a potentially dangerous and catastrophic collapse?
   - Did it discredit the Tea Party movement that it was said to be funded, organized and/or co-opted by those who had direct ties and interests in the Republican Party?
   - Would it taint or hurt Occupy Wall Street if that were the case here, but with those involved in the Democrat Party?
   - If not, why not? What’s the difference?

Social Justice vs. Equal Justice
   - Can Social Justice co-exist with Equal Justice?
   - Is everyone on Wall Street guilty?
   - If not, should everyone on Wall Street be punished for the crimes of the guilty?
   - If not, are your actions to collapse Wall Street punishing those who are innocent?
   - If yes, is that Equal Justice, considering you would be punishing the innocent for the sake of Social Justice?
   - Do you believe in fair trials? A jury of your peers? A chance to face your accusers? Innocent until proven guilty?
   - Should Wall Street bankers:
      - A) Lose their jobs?
      - B) Have all of their wealth taken?
      - C) Go to jail? If yes, how long? If you wish for a judge and jury to decide, why? (If yes, see your previous answer regarding Social Justice vs. Equal Justice.)

Lynch Mobs, Then & Now
   - Do you believe the lynch mobs of the civil rights era were wrong? If yes, why?
   - What is the difference between a lynch mob and what you are being encouraged to do now? (e.g. Congressman Lewis, going to the homes of the wealthy even if children are inside, going against the principle of innocent until proven guilty, using tactics of intimidation, shouting down those with whom you disagree, etc.)

The Police & Criminal Justice
   - Are cops good or bad?
   - Are there good cops and bad cops?
   - If there are both good and bad cops, how do you tell the difference?
   - If you were a good, honest cop, what would you do while performing your duties right now in this situation on Wall Street?
   - If you walked away, as a cop, and allowed the crowd absolute freed to do as it wished no matter what, would you be a hero or a coward?
   - Would damage to private and public property be done if the police should choose to leave? Does that matter?
   - Could innocent people be hurt? Does that matter?
   - If you or anyone in your group answered there are no innocent here, does that matter?
   - If no on above, please check answer for consistency on lynch mobs and jury trials.
   - Define ‘Mob Rule’. Is this good or bad?
   - There are many prisoners that have been wrongfully accused and convicted. It happens the world over, but according to OWS, especially it seems in America. The recent execution in Georgia is merely one example cited by many involved in OWS. In light of this and knowing what we know, what should be done with those who are currently incarcerated?
   - How would you determine who is innocent and who is guilty?
   - Would it matter if a truly guilty prisoner were released?
   - If the criminal justice system is corrupt, how will you assess and fix it?
   - Is it fair to leave the possibly innocent behind bars while that process is going on? (Again, consider your previous answer regarding the truly guilty being released.)

Higher Education
Many of the signs at Occupy Wall Street complain about student loans. Many Americans outside OWS agree that:
    A) Many have stolen from us.
    B) No one should pay such astronomically high costs for a higher education.
Given that, answer the following.
   - Who is responsible for setting the tuition rates for a college education?
   - Who is responsible for the price of that college education rising 8% just last year?
   - How much money is in your University’s endowment fund?
   - Does your University have private savings and/or investments?
   - What are those savings and/or investments used for?
   - Is there nothing that your University can do to lower tuition costs?

Mom & Dad
   - Are you sincerely worried about your parents and what they face as well as what the future holds for you?
   - Have your parents worked hard for their home and what little money they have saved during their lifetime?
   - If you succeed in collapsing Wall Street, who is hurt? Who would be hurt the most?
   - Would your parents be hurt? Your friends’ parents?
   - Union pensions are invested in Wall Street. As is your University endowment. The average American’s retirement is invested in Wall Street (e.g. 401k.) What would happen to those in the event of a collapse of Wall Street?
   - What happens to the lifetime of work by your parents if your actions cause a collapse of the system?
   - Is an absolute collapse worth that much human suffering?
   - Is there perhaps another way that would be less costly and harmful?

Foreign Governments & Outside Influence
   - Do you believe that any government abroad would take advantage of an economic collapse of the United States/?
   - Could such actions by foreign governments have a negative impact on your freedoms?
   - What about your plans to build a new system in its place? Could any actions by foreign governments impact such plans?
   - Do you believe that US troops should be called home?
   - Do you believe our troops are baby killers? Or people like you who were either misguided or used?
   - What happens to those troops overseas if there were an economic collapse?
   - If you don’t pull the troops out before a collapse, would there be a greater or lesser chance of more killing?
   - Do you believe that forces on either side could or would use an economic collapse as an excuse for more killing?
   - Would you have played any role in that possible killing based on your actions here to collapse Wall Street? Would you bear any responsibility?
   - If no, do the ends justify the means?
   - If yes, if the ends justify the means, does that include the death of innocents?
   - If not, why?
   - If yes, explain what makes you different than George W. Bush, who also thought he was right.

Egypt & The Arab Spring
   - How did the Egyptian Revolution turn out?
   - Is it better than what they had?
   - Free, fair and democratic elections were promised to be held by August of this year. What date were they actually held?
   - Who is currently in charge of Egypt?
   - Do you believe in Military Rule?
   - Would you want to live under it here?
   - What would be the difference between the military rule here and in Egypt?
   - The media claims you are the same and are striving for the same ideals as the youth that overturned their oppressive and corrupt system in Egypt. Is that true?
   - If yes, if you wouldn’t want to live under military rule, what responsibility do you have to correct the injustice of their system?
   - If you answer that you do have a responsibility, please explain why.
   - Wasn’t American insertion into global politics what caused the hatred for the West?
   - How do you know that you are fighting on the side of right and not helping those who will develop a repressive regime after the chaos of a collapse?
   - Is Iran a repressive regime?
   - If you answered no to the previous question, please describe what happens to homosexuals in Iran.
   - How are homosexuals & women treated in other Arab nations? Specifically, how does Hamas & the PLO perceive homosexuality & what would they do if they had absolute power?

After the Revolution
   - If those who take power, after the successful Occupy Wall Street collapse, betrayed the revolution and the people by not following the plan (that has not yet been developed), what should the people do?
   - Could they do anything?
   - Would those new leaders step down or would an event like this need to be staged again to force them out?
   - If they didn’t voluntarily step down would you seek to have them arrested?
   - Is violence an option to achieve the goals of revolution?
   - Can you solve violence with violence?
   - Should the people be allowed to have a gun in case those in charge did betray the revolution?
   - If yes, why.
If no, who authorizes the use of force and what force is allowed?
   - Who protects the idea or yet to be formed ideas of the new revolutionary democracy?
   - Who would arrest those who betrayed the revolution if the system has collapsed and the cops were all either fired or jailed?
   - Are jails needed?
   - If yes, who runs the new democratic jails formally known as the prison industrial complex?
   - Assuming there was an immediate citizens police force enacted to replace the corrupt system that we currently have, what system of trial would you engage?
   - Che said, “We don’t need a trial to convict the guilty.” Do you agree?
   - If no, would there be a jury?
   - Who would be the judge?
   - What rules of evidence would there be?
   - Will the people have rights?
   - What are they?
   - Have they been written down anywhere?
   - If no, because you were planning on doing that after the collapse, if the above scenario played out and either your leader betrayed the revolution or an outside force took advantage of the chaos, would you regret that decision?
   - If yes, what are the rights based on?
   - Where do man’s rights come from?
   - If they come from a committee or a specific leader, what’s to stop those leaders from changing your rights and declaring you a traitor to the revolution?
   - Has this ever happened in history?
   - If yes, where?
   - What were the conditions?
   - Were there warning signs?
   - Do any of those signs exist now?

Energy in the New Order
   - Now that the economy has collapsed in America, but has not somehow affected the rest of the world, how can we afford oil? Gasoline? Plastic products?

If you say we cannot afford gasoline and that’s a good thing for the environment, let’s for the sake of argument, agree on that point. Now answer the following.
   - How do we fuel tractors for farming on the scale needed to feed the citizens of the new revolutionary United States and elsewhere?
   - How is said food trucked to stores here in New York if truckers can’t afford fuel?
   - How do your parents get food from the store to their home?
   - Now that the police force has been replaced with a citizen patrol, are your parents safe walking the streets with food in an area after the currency has just collapsed?
   - If one of them were hurt or killed due to a scenario like this, would you be in any way responsible?
   - If they were hurt and couldn’t receive medical treatment in time because the EMS couldn’t afford gas for the ambulance, would you be in any way responsible?
   - How would the hospitals pay doctors and EMS without a currency?
   - Why would doctors and nurses come to work?
   - To ensure they did go to work, who would protect and feed their families while they were at work?
   - How do the doctors afford gas to go to work?
   - What system of electricity is running the hospitals?
   - If oil is no longer affordable, how do we manufacture the plastics products that make modern medicine possible and keep infection rates so low?

Leadership
If you are not planning on your group holding on to power, please answer the following:
   - Who will be in charge? Will it be you? Or the leaders you have not yet chosen?
   - How will you ensure that those who do take power are not currently part of the problem?
   - Who will fund the Universities, health care, K-12 education, the homeless & poor, while a new system is designed to stabilize the population, replace the corrupt system of corporatism, big medicine, big oil, and big farms?
   - Who is in charge of the military and the military industrial complex during this time?

Crony Capitalism
   - Please define crony capitalism.
   - When the government took over General Motors, gave all the banks TARP money, and allowed companies like GE to pay no taxes while making billions & shipping jobs overseas, is that Crony Socialism, Crony Capitalism, or Crony Statism?
   - Is there a difference?
- In all three aforementioned scenarios or titles, what is the problem: the system or the cronyism?
   - What is the best way to end cronyism?
   - Has your approach of collapse and revolution been tried before?
   - If yes, list all examples of attempts, both failed and successful. Or at least list as many as you can.
   - Why did they fail?
   - How did those that failed begin?
   - Who led the way on those failed attempts?
   - How did those who began the revolution fair in the new systems?
   - Who is Thomas Paine?
   - What was his role in the French Revolution?
   - What happened to him?
   - What did he learn about revolutions?
   - How did the French Revolution end?
   - Once the New Order was established, who took power in France?
   - Was that good or bad for the people of France?
   - What does this tell us about the current situation we find ourselves in, here in America?
   - What were the main differences between the French & American revolutions?
   - Why do you think the two turned out so differently?
   - Do you have hostile feelings about these questions? Why?

If you are reading in a group of like-minded, open-minded and educated people – take note – have they provoked any serious discussion? If not, why?
   - If so, did you do everything in your power to get those in Washington to investigate and arrest those who will not “change” and begin to do business in a legal and non-corrupt way?
   - Why didn’t that work?

The Importance of Answers
Please consider all of your answers carefully. After all, if OWS is successful, these questions won’t just be an interesting, thought-provoking thought experiment.
It will be real life, with real consequences, and real lives on the line.
Are you really willing to risk everything in this world without having all the answers yet?

My Concluding Thoughts & Where To Go From Here

    Thank you for reading all of that. After investing all that time & hard work, you’ve earned yourself a reward…

    A delicious cookie!

    Now head out to your nearest privately-owned business, where you will willingly part with currency – a symbol of your time and productivity – in exchange for something you would much rather have. Like a sweet, delicious chocolate chip cookie, created by someone else’s hard work and time so you didn’t have to! You will participate in a willing transaction between yourself and the nice cookie vendor, who happens to be quite skilled at baking cookies and does so in exchange for your currency.

    The nice cookie vendor man provides you a service you willingly pay him for. Something that makes your life easier and your taste buds happy. No one is forced to buy cookies, no one is forced to make them. And if the nice cookie vendor man sucks at making cookies, you’ll eventually willingly decide to go to the other nicer cookie vendor down the street. Time, talent, and materials are allocated to where they’ll be most productive, most valuable, and most desired.
    Thus the world goes round and round according to the decisions of millions upon millions of free individuals, choosing with their own hearts and minds to spend their money – their symbols of time, effort & productivity – as they see fit.
    To buy yummy, yummy cookies.

    That is the beauty of capitalism.

    That is, when it’s not infested with a bunch of nepotism and cronyism.

    So rather than scrapping the whole system with our own version of the Arab Spring, why don’t we focus on a different spring tradition?

We can call it American Spring… Cleaning!

    Let’s call our friendly pest control expert to smoke out the infestation of nepotism and cronyism! Let’s put on our gloves & pull out that feather duster to clean out all the cobwebs of our convoluted tax system! Grab your vacuum to suck up all the decades of old, conflicting, confusing regulations that are hindering our economic growth!
    Pull out that dust mop so we can clean up all the dust bunnies that are hiding under our nation’s proverbial couch (otherwise known as the House & the Senate!) Maybe we could even set up regular cleaning schedules – just for funsies, let’s call ‘em “term limits” – to make sure that no dust bunny stays down there so long that it starts to develop its own ecosystem of corruption and special deals.
You bring the cleaning supplies, I’ll wear the maid costume! Let’s get down and dirty scrubbing out every nook and cranny of our Constitutional Republic!

    Spring Cleaning isn’t about just throwing out the old and bringing in the new, no matter what “new” might be. It’s about cleaning, making fresh what we already have. With all this cleaning, there’s no need to chuck the good out with the bad! Let’s keep the original foundation – our family homestead – intact in its original condition.
    You know, it’s like that whole renew, reuse, recycle thing? New isn’t always better, especially when you don’t even know for sure what “new” is.

    So let’s not be wasteful! There’s no need to throw away the system that made us the Land of Opportunity in the first place.
    Instead, let’s get to work and say hello to our American Spring Cleaning!

Yeah, I haven’t been around much. Yeah, we had an awesome election. Yeah, I know I need to blog more.
Meh, I’m human, what can I say?

In the meantime, while I’m busily doing whatever it is I do, enjoy these awesome, fantastic, shareable videos from Bill Whittle explaining so beautifully what it is the Tea Party is all about. I still don’t know if I consider myself a tea partier, but this pretty much explains precisely what I believe. At least, so far anyway. And I bet, if you listened, you might be surprised to find, you believe this stuff too.

What We Believe, Part 1: Small Government & Free Enterprise

More videos in the series “below the fold”. So click here!

I thought I’d share this footage from a Tucson City Council meeting. The Council had pulled in a lawyer to give them legal advice about suing the state of Arizona over their new immigration law. But then a legal immigrant named Gabriella got up to speak her mind.

After having lived in Arizona for many, many of my childhood years, I have witnessed up close and personal the havoc wreaked throughout that state thanks to rampant illegal immigration. I would urge everyone to please let reason rule the day; avoid knee-jerk reactions, avoid hysteria whipped up by those with preexisting agendas, and instead think about the rule of law. Think not only about illegal immigrants, but legal immigrants like Gabriella. Think about those who have gone out of their way to follow – and therefore show respect for – our laws, by immigrating to our country the right way.

Think about the damage caused in Arizona by those who enter our country illegally who wish to do us harm. Criminals are coming across our borders, terrorists are coming across our borders; Phoenix has become the kidnap capital of the nation, second the world over, because of this! Our citizens are no longer safe! So please do not fall prey to the myth that every person who enters this country illegally is only doing so with the purist of motives. Not everyone who takes advantage of the weakness of our borders is only doing so to feed their families.
Besides, I’m sorry, but if their motives were truly pure, they would have enough respect for themselves and for us to wish to follow our laws. If they cannot do that, then I’m sorry, they are not innocent. No one who breaks a law knowingly and willingly is ever innocent, no matter who they are, where they came from, why they did it, or what color their skin is.
And please remember, not every illegal immigrant is from Mexico.

Please, above all, remember that this country was founded on the principle of equal justice. Whenever anyone, regardless of skin color, violates any law, they are required to face the consequences of justice. No one is above the law. No one. If anyone is afforded special status due to the color of their skin, or whatever sob story they can come up with, then none of us will be afforded equal protection under the law and our entire system of government will crumble. Indeed, in my opinion, that crumbling has already begun. But please, do not let it crumble any farther. Let us pick up the pieces and rebuild on a firm foundation of equal justice, rather than bringing a wrecking ball to make the demolition go faster.

I don’t necessarily agree that the Arizona law is perfect. But this situation is not perfect. The Federal government has failed to act. Arizona is falling apart at the seams because of it. Their entire government has been bankrupted by our failure to stem the tide of illegal immigration. They are attempting to enforce federal laws. As far as I’m aware, they have not written anything that differs from current federal law.
So please, let’s read the law before we jump to conclusions, before we call anyone Nazis. Let’s remember that only when there is equal justice, only when there is respect for the rule of law, will we ever be able to solve this problem.

And please, please remember, this rampant problem with illegal immigration is what’s slowing down the process for those who wish to immigrate here legally! America is a melting pot, I have no other intention but to preserve our beautiful melding of cultures; I have no other wish than to welcome anyone and everyone who wishes to join us and become a part of our American experiment.
But I can only welcome them with open arms when they respect the same laws that I do. When we finally solve the illegal immigration problem, only then can we finally make the legal immigration process faster and more efficient.

Please, the world is welcome on our doorstep, but only when they come with respect for and obedience to our laws.

Here’s why:

A-to-the-freaking-men.

Now let’s repeal that damn bill.

And yes, I’m serious, I’d love to be able to say “President McCotter” one day. That man is unbelievably awesome.
Not to mention, freakishly funny.

Click here for more of what Thad has to say.

P.s. Hmm, who should be Thad’s VP? Maybe Andrew Klavan? It’d be the shiniest White House ever! Hehe.

I want to take a moment to apologize for up and disappearing on all of you several months ago. I’m afraid that shortly before the Christmas holidays, things got kind of crazy around my house. I found myself having some health problems, and in the midst of doctors and tests and things, I just couldn’t handle politics.

I kept meaning to come on here and write a post, explaining where I was and that I’d be taking a short break. But honestly, I was so mentally loopy from all the pain medication and just being under the weather, that I literally just forgot!! I’m so sorry!

I feel especially bad about all my friends who were concerned about me. I’m so sorry to make you all worry! But thank you to everyone who sent me concerned emails, checking in on me to make sure I wasn’t dead, hehe. Don’t worry, I’m still here!

Despite taking my little siesta from politics, I was kind of snapped back into it with all the drama surrounding the special election in Massachusetts for the late Ted Kennedy’s seat. I’m sure like many of you, I was glued to the news Tuesday night, waiting to see which way the voters of Massachusetts would go.

Let me just say, holy crap, was I ever shocked!! I mean, obviously I had hoped that the tides would turn and people would start to wake up to what the progressives have been doing within the Democratic party, and the effect their policies have been having on our nation after only one year of the Obama administration. But I seriously didn’t think that enough people had woken up yet to really sway an election away from the Democrats in Massachusetts!! It’s Massa-freaking-chusetts!!

But wow, I seriously couldn’t be more proud of my fellow Independents in Massachusetts! I’m not excited about this election because of Scott Brown, or because he’s a Republican – I refuse to put hope in a single candidate, or even a single party.

Rather, I’m thrilled with the outcome of this election because of the Independents of Massachusetts, taking a stand against monarchistic politics, rising up and declaring their independence from anyone’s political machine. Way. To. Go! The news kept making a big deal about how Democrats out-number Republicans something like 3-to-1 in Massachusetts, but what most people need to realize, they’re ALL out-numbered by Independents like me. And that’s what made the difference: independence.

I wish more people in this country would wake up and realize that loyalty to a single party or a single candidate isn’t the answer. Any one person can – and most likely will – let you down. And worse, party loyalty I think is just a tool to drive us apart.

Rather, I think the answer should be loyalty to principles. Loyalty to standards, beliefs, convictions; loyalty to our country, to what it stands for, its history, and how very bright its future could be if we stand by the principles we were founded on and the principles so many of us still believe in today.

But that can’t happen until more of us wake up and realize that our history has been skewed by far too many people with far too many agendas. We need to wake up, we need to familiarize ourselves once again with our own true shared history, and realize the legacy that we’re risking because of our complacency. We simply cannot be the generation that ends the dream of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Adams, Paine, and all the other brave men and women who risked their lives, honor, and sacred fortunes to give us all freedom, liberty, and the prosperity we have all enjoyed for so very long.

So let’s keep it up! Let’s keep learning, keep educating others, keep rediscovering our principles, and keep fightin’ peacefully – but purposefully – for what we believe in. Massachusetts is just the beginning. We simply cannot stop now!!

I have so much more to say over the coming days. During my little siesta I had lots of time to think and I have a lot of thoughts I’d like to share with you. Particularly some thoughts I had recently about the other side of Alinsky’s influence on Progressives and the Democrat party. After having what I thought was just a friendly political discussion with a liberal friend – which he interpreted to be an argument – I was struck with an interesting thought about the other side of Alinsky’s tactics that I don’t think many people notice. Or at least, they don’t seem to talk about. Meaning, the effect those tactics have on Democrats, on liberals; what it means to them.

But I shall save that for another day, since this is long enough and I have to get some sleep! Congratulations to Scott Brown, but you should know, sir, we’re gonna watch you like a hawk!

But most importantly, congratulations to the people of Massachusetts! Congratulations on your hard-fought, hard-won independence!!

Really? Really?! Senator Al Franken – someone who is in desperate need of an update on his persona as a clown – actually wastes his time addressing the next nominee for our great nation’s Supreme Court by asking her about Perry Freaking Mason?!
It’s a circus, an absolute circus. The Democrats aren’t even bothering with the pretense of appearing fair, even-handed, and bipartisan; they’re flat out making love to this woman in public, praising her nonstop (I swear, I heard one senator this morning repeat the word “good” about five times in five minutes while describing her), or they’re flat out clowning around. It’s disgusting!

Perry Mason… I’d love, love to hear what Minnesotans have to say about their new Senator now. Who wants to bet he’ll be a one-term wonder?

I’m so sick and tired of this whole Sonia Sotomayor mess. I tried to listen to the questioning again this morning, but after a few mind-numbing hours, I just couldn’t take it anymore. Each and every time she said “suprene court” instead of “surPREME court”, I just about wanted to scream. I say if you can’t even pronounce the court you’re being nominated for, you shouldn’t actually sit on it, don’t you think?
I’m sure she’s a lovely woman and all, but I just can’t get past the idiocy displayed by some of these senators, and her absolute nerve in expecting us to believe her each and every time she flat out contradicts herself with regard to her many, many controversial past statements. Either she lied by misrepresenting herself over a 15+ year period of time, or she’s perjuring herself now in changing her story. Neither option is very appetizing, but it has to be one or the other. Honestly now, which one do you think is more likely, hmm?

And sure enough, I knew this would happen, but her repudiations of her past comments are ticking off certain liberals who used to just love her to pieces. Check it out. Big surprise. What’s that old saying? If you try to be everything to everyone, you’ll soon end up being nothing to nobody.
Just tell the truth, Sonia, whatever it is. Isn’t that the honorable thing to do?