On Tuesday, I watched as both men and women genuflected, swooned, and cried because Barack Hussein Obama has claimed the Democrat Party’s nomination as presidential nominee for the 2008 election.  At the same time, cheerleaders of both genders and all ages were waving signs and yelling out cheers for Obama.  You would have thought it was the second coming of Christ…

Wait…

That is exactly what this represents for these people.  It is clear that many people on the left have no religion and lack any real spiritual connection to a higher power.  In fact many of them deny the existence of a higher power, outright.

Lacking any such connection to a higher power, leftists turn people into messiahs and causes into religion.  Look at the situation with Paul Wellstone.  He was a marginal, leftist Senator who used the paths of academia and community activism to gain influence and eventually to be elected to the Senate.  He died in a plane crash just as he was running for reelection.  He died inA memorial ceremony held after his death turned into a revival meeting.  A decade later, people in Minnesota still display the original lawn signs and bumper stickers from the election in which he never got to run.  Those same people still tear up when they hear the sound of his name. 

Now the messiah is Obama.  The same teeth clenching, gut-wrenching sobs, the same cheers, and the same idolization of a human being. 

As far as religion goes, the left has taken environmentalism as its cause.  And it proselytizes that cause with a religious fervor even stronger than that of most missionaries.

After all, if a person doesn’t believe in a God, they need some one and/or some thing to fill the void.

Today, the new messiah is Barack Hussein Obama.  God help us.

Garrison Keillor, of “Prairie Home Companion” fame, is an effete intellectual snob.  He has never been funny, he can’t sing, and his homey stories are neither intelligent nor touching.  In fact, generally they are simply sideways put-downs of the down home, Midwestern folks that made him rich.  In addition to all that, he hates conservatives and has created a role for himself as a front man for the far left.  And he does all this with a sense that he is right while the rest of us are not simply wrong, but stupid. 

While Keillor’s arrogance is appalling, his hypocrisy is even more so.  Years ago, he left St. Paul because he was sick of the attention he was receiving from the press.  After all, a guy with a national radio show is a big deal in small town St. Paul.  He ended up in some Scandinavian country and then in New York.  Apparently he got what he wanted in both places…lack of attention.  He was, after all, just a small town guy with a radio show.  So, he moved back to St. Paul and is soaking up as much attention as possible.  He has added to his presence with a leftist newspaper column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune (go figure…a liberal columnist in that paper??!!)

I know I am being subtle so I guess I will have to be clearer.  I despise Garrison Keillor. 

All of these feelings came to a head like a bad pimple this weekend when I read Keillor’s most recent column (6/1/08).  In that column he wrote about the Memorial Day motorcycle rally in Washington D.C.  He was not pleased, partially because he had to stand on the sidewalk for a few minutes to cross as the bikes went by.  He stated: “Three-hundred-thousand bikers spent Memorial Day weekend roaring around Washington in tribute to our war dead…some flying the Stars and Stripes and the black MIA-POW flag, honking, revving their engines, an endless celebration of internal combustion”.

(Recall that the liberal fascists among us do not approve of internal combustion engines.  I am sure his attitude would have been different if this had been 300,000 bicyclists rolling by.)

Keillor went on to say that “A patriotic bike rally is sort of like a patriotic toilet-papering or patriotic graffiti; the patriotism somehow gets lost in the sheer irritation of the thing.  Somehow, a person associates Memorial Day with long moments of silence when you summon up mental images of men huddled together on LSTs and pilots revving up B-24’s and infantrymen crouched behind piles of rubble steeling themselves for the next push.

“You don’t quite see the connection between that and these fat men with ponytails on Harleys.  After hearing a few thousand bikes go by, you think maybe we could airlift these gentlemen to Baghdad to show their support of the troops in a more tangible way.

“…the bikers riding in formation are more interested in being seen than in learning anything.  They are grown men playing soldier, making a great hullaballoo without exposing themselves to danger, other than getting drunk and falling off a bike.”

All of this agitation from Keillor because he had to wait a few minutes to cross the street so that he could look at a painting: “Renoir’s ballerina in pale blue chiffon and Monet’s children in the garden of sunflowers.”

Or IS that the real source of his agitation.  I would argue his real agitation came from seeing thousands of real Americans, patriotic Americans who were celebrating the men and women who have died for this country and who were celebrating America itself!

By the way, Mr. Keillor should have checked his facts before condemning those Americans as “fat men with ponytails on Harleys”.

The ride Keillor is condemning is called Rolling Thunder.  It is an annual motorcycle rally that is held in Washington, DC during the Memorial Day weekend to call for the government's recognition and protection of Prisoners of War (POWs) and those Missing in Action (MIAs). Well over 300,000 veterans participated on their motorcycles as a tribute to American war heroes.  Its founder and director is a veteran:  Sgt. Artie Muller. 

You see, Keillor didn’t mention the fact that MOST of those “fat men” were veterans.  Those with them were family members and supporters.  They HAVE huddled together on LSTs, they HAVE revved up airplanes to enter into air combat, and they HAVE crouched behind piles of rubble steeling themselves for the next battle.  Many now ride motorcycles…many fly the Stars and Stripes, and many fly the MIA-POW flag to show their respect for America and for its soldiers.  I have found no references in biographical materials on Keillor to suggest that he has ever served his country in the military.

Mr. Keillor owes a profound apology to all the men and women who participated in Rolling Thunder.  More importantly, he owes an equally profound apology to every veteran who has ever served this nation.  Keillor is a coward, an effete intellectual coward, who is able to condemn his country because of the freedoms made possible by our military.  I don’t expect this to happen.  But maybe, just maybe it is time for a wake-up call for Mr. Keillor.  Say by about 300,000 motorcycles driving by his house on a Monday morning?

Many Americans believe that whatever they read in the newspaper or watch on television is the truth.  They do not try to delve more deeply to find the actual truth.  So, just to get us all on the same page, here is a little quiz.  Some of these items were found in the press.  A few, I just made up.  Just highlight the statements that are really facts.  Email your responses to me or add them as comments.

Fact or Fiction?

·        Human generated carbon dioxide brought about the end of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago.

·        The earth is flat.

·        Scientists have factual proof for their theory that humans are causing a warming of the global climate.

·        The sun circles the earth.

·        Scientists have factual proof that there is no God.

·        Islamofascists are really misunderstood good guys who want us all to live in peace.

·        If we had only been nicer to Hitler he wouldn’t have found it necessary to try to conquer the world.

·        If we would just talk to bin Laden, everything would we wonderful in the world. 

·        Jack Bauer will be back next year on “24” and not one backup cop will be killed.

·        Hybrid cars are cheaper and better than real cars and will save the buyer hundreds of dollars in just a few weeks.

·        If I take Frank Sinatra’s advice and do it “My Way” all the time, everything will be just swell.

·        Everyone should be forced to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle, bicycle, horse or while shopping, because no one has ever died or been paralyzed while wearing one.

·        We can instill discipline in schools by allowing people of different races to “just be themselves”.

·        When the government tells us that they are here to help us, we will be just fine.

·        The scientists that asserted that humans were creating global cooling in the 1970’s had irrefutable evidence that their assertion was true.

·        Scientists have real proof that the polar bears are at great risk due to human actions.

Again, just email your responses or add them as comments.  I look forward to hearing what you have to say.

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Marx predicted that the left would take over the world based on a violent revolution.  So far, that has failed.  So, a new tact has been taken by Liberal Fascists.  The goal now is to litigate, legislate, and regulate our nation into destruction. 

Litigate:  The ACLU has litigated away most core American values in so many ways that I won’t even try to list them here.  Just use the search engine on the right and put in “individual rights”.  The list of those rights being taken away continues to grow, partially as a result of litigation or the threat of litigation.  As we have seen in California and even Texas, it just takes one leftist judge to change the definition or marriage or to prevent caring adults from preventing children from being abused.

Legislate/Regulate:  If Liberal Fascists can gain passage of enough legislation favoring their cause (i.e., the moral and ethical decay of America), they can still destroy our nation, without a shot being fired.  So, that is what they are doing.  For example, the very same “scientists” that predicted global cooling in the second half of the 1970’s and who now profess a unique understanding of climate change that now points to global warming, have helped the left to misuse the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to place polar bears on the endangered species list.  The strange part is that those darn bears aren’t playing by the rules and are thriving.  However, they COULD potentially become threatened IF the theory of global warming turns out to be more accurate than the theory of global cooling and IF they don’t like warmer weather.  (see Caribou along the Alaskan pipeline)

The frightening part of all this is that at this point, any leftist judge can now take away even more of our individual rights just by saying that some action that we take endangers those poor polar bears.  For example, if I was to drive a car that the judge didn’t like, I could be found guilty of creating too much carbon that will further threaten the life of those big old bears that have procreated and survived for centuries despite many fluctuations in arctic climate. 

This is “Eco-Fascism” (my term) at its worst. 

It is not surprising that Liberal Fascists use quasi-religious, quasi-scientific ecological fundamentalism to gain their way.  They have no religion of their own…they are far from spiritual, and they do not believe (as a group) in a higher power.  They also have limited (at best) scientific backup for their views (see “Cool It”, Bjorn Lomborg, 2007).  It is also not surprising that Liberal Fascists use this approach to gain further control of our lives.  As George Will wrote (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/23/08), “The left exists to enlarge the state’s supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective goods.  Hence the left’s hostility to markets.  And to automobiles -- people going wherever they ant whenever they want….The green left preaches pessimism: …scarcities (of energy, food, animal habitats, humans’ living space) will require a perpetual regime of comprehensive rationing.”  Mr. Will goes on to say that in order to make this happen, all the left has to do is “stigmatize, as a planetary menace, something involved in almost everything – carbon.”

America, we must take notice and stand up right now.  I have written before of how the Vietnam era anti-war terrorists took to the schools (universities, colleges, secondary, and elementary schools) to continue their effort to destroy America.  They are succeeding in brainwashing our children.  Others from the Liberal Fascist left have also become lawyers and judges, legislators, and regulators.  As they litigate, they further their goal of gaining greater control over where we live and what we do, with the help of leftist judges.  As they legislate and create regulations supporting their leftist agenda, they further their cause with incredible power. 

Just count the number of individual freedoms you have lost, even in the last five years.  Create the list.  Email it to me or add it as a comment on this site.  I am sure we will not be surprised…but we should be shocked.

Now it is becoming extremely serious. 

The left is poised to nominate Barack Hussein Obama as their Democrat presidential candidate.  This is a man who apparently is an Oblivion…a person who is either too ignorant to see and learn from facts (Type 1) or a person who chooses to ignore facts to further his own ideology (type 2).  My studied guess on Sen. Obama is that he is a lifelong member of the latter group. 

Why would anyway say that about Sen. Obama?  Let’s look at the issue of gun control.  Most of us who actually read know that gun control has been an abysmal failure.  Scotland and England both have strict laws regarding gun ownership by citizens.  Both have seen a steady increase in homicide by guns.  No kidding, you say.  Doesn’t it make sense?  If only the bad guys can get guns, they have no fear of their intended victims.  When I can carry a gun, they have to be a bit more careful, or I will kill them.

Here is Sen. Obama’s record on gun control.  According to the journal, America’s Freedom (National Rifle Association, June, 2008), he has either voted to enact laws regarding or has voiced support for the following:

·        A ban on all handguns

·        A ban on the sale or transfer of all semi-automatic firearms (be advised, this is not about automatic weapons, i.e., machine guns, it is about SEMI-automatic firearms)

·        A ban on the right to carry a firearm in every state, nationwide

·        A ban on firearms in the home, even for self-protection

He also voted again a “self-defense exception” which would absolve people for “violating gun bans when their reason for violating those bans is to fend off criminal attack in the home.”

In addition to all that, Sen. Obama has “proposed a federal law banning licensed firearms dealers from operating within five miles of any school or park, nationwide”.  This would prevent the legal sale of firearms almost anywhere except possibly in a wilderness, as long as it is not designated as a park. 

As noted by the NRA, “while Obama’s disdain for Second Amendment freedom appears limitless, his attitude toward armed, violent criminals has been one of benign neglect, at best.”  He voted “present” as an Illinois State Senator to regarding a bill to try violent teenage gang members as adults when they fire a gun on or near school grounds.  This amounted to a negative vote.  He also voted in Illinois against making gang members eligible for the death penalty when they commit gang-related murder.  But here is the big one:  “Responding to a…questionnaire, he said he believed federal mandatory –sentencing laws used to put armed and violent predators behind bars should be abolished”.

So here is the picture.  This is Liberal Fascism at it clearest.  Prevent citizens from defending themselves, either through the use of the law or through the use of weapons.  This then allows the government to take even greater control and to eliminate even more individual freedoms.  When we are all disarmed, Barack Hussein Obama can do to us exactly what Mussolini, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein did to their fellow citizens.  Eliminate all that disagree and take total control of the nation.

There is danger ahead.  Are you ready?