Posted on 10/05/2009 8:36:17 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
The week ending September 2009 and ushering in October 2009, was very eventful, in terms of exposing the diminishing role of the US as a world power. The “sleeping giant,” under its new leadership, has been snoring while dictatorial powers have been partying! Party like it is 2009!
China did have a birthday party and it celebrated with the help of its biggest debtor, the USA. “And it is three cheers for the red, white and blue!” Factually, it was light up the Empire State building with the two colors that have come to symbolize repression. Yep, there in a blaze of red and yellow light, was that symbol of American freedom, lustily celebrating Communist China. One pundit suggested that the color red symbolized millions “eliminated” by the regime. Sometimes, or most of the time, a dictatorship has to do what a dictatorship does best. Although to be fair to China, it has come up with a “cocktail” of communism and capitalism, which seems to be working out really well. Taking over about 90% of the world’s manufacturing might make other nations see red, but China is experiencing a flood of currencies in multiplies of color!
Ironically while the Empire State Building was celebrating sixty years of a dictatorship, some folks in Hong Kong and Taiwan were not partying. They were out protesting. They had better be careful in case they are made to learn the lessons of Tiananmen Square. About 2500 learned a deadly lesson in that Square: Protest and die on the streets.
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“This Is Not the Country of the Founding Fathers”
It hasn’t been the country of the founding fathers for almost 100 years. I recall my Grandfather, a WW1 vet, telling me the country has been gradually swayed toward socialism ever since that ‘half-witted Yankee’ FDR was elected. “Eventually, boy, this country will be 100% socialist and you’ll either after to fight against it or submit to it” he preached to me. “Thank God I won’t be around to see the country go down to socialism, but for you and your children, it’s not looking good. And for this socialist BS (he didn’t say BS—I just cleaned it up a bit!) I got my ass shot at in France!”
He was a “crusty” old Republican farmer, auctioneer, realitor and a “jack of all trades” (almost got court martialed for pulling his rifle on a French civilian because “those nasty frog bastards pissed right there in the streets in front of God, women and children.”) Turned out he was right—about the socialism, that is. I got this lecture back in the early or mid 70s. I’ve never forgotten this lecture nor his comments about the French—LOL!
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Cripes, where’d that come from?? Must be my sudafed stupor.
It hasn’t been the country of the founding fathers since a huge wave of immigration from a certain island with a potato problem occurred in the 1840s. Subsequent waves of immigration (including the one that brought my own) forever changed the political and social culture of the US as well.
Founding Fathers: the president can not do anything that is not authorized by the Constitution.
Theodore Roosevelt: the president can do anything that is not prohibited by the Constitution.
number of executive orders:
president Cleveland - 71
president McKinley - 51
president Theodore Roosevelt - 1006
Pushback has begun! Keep an eye on 2010!
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