Does anyone even know what conservatism is anymore? It’s this little idea that’s been grossly and probably purposely undersold to the American public since the days of Reagan.
Conservatism is the idea that given a strong country, strong economy and freedom, that people can fend for themselves. This gets countered as conservatives wanting people to be poor and starve to death. Thank goodness that we have all of these government programs to keep these people barely alive, barely eating, barely having shelter.
Conservatism is the idea that an intact country is a country that has a border. It’s a country that has laws that allow people to immigrate in both directions legally through a process. This gets countered as conservatives wanting America to be closed to the world, a racist and harsh America that looks down on peoples all over the world.
Conservatism is the idea that a smaller government is a better government. This goes completely ignored, because while we are all holding onto our conservative values, the left is selling the idea that jobs, food, housing and happiness all come from the government. They do a damn fine job selling this to the American public.
The American public is bought and paid for. And it’s our fault.
For 20 years, we’ve done nothing to expand our base. We don’t educate blacks and minorities about how better off they’d be living in a country that embraces conservative principles. We don’t control the conversation at all. We’re not doing any talking. We’ve allowed ourselves to be demonized to the point where it will take a generation to undo the damage, and even that may not be enough. We may simply be done.
A. Did we feel we had safety in numbers?
B. Did we feel that we’d win elections on principle, because the good guys always win?
C. Did we think that since our ideas are good that people would just jump on board?
D. Did we assume that blacks and minorities are unreachable?
E. All of the above.
Answer, E.
But while we’ve slept, the left has undone everything that we accomplished under Reagan. And they’ve done more. They’ve infiltrated our party with left leaning Republicans who on some issues will side with the big government liberals every time. Think of it like a casino. We win some battles, but the game is rigged towards the Democrats. This holds true regardless of who controls which chamber or both chambers. In reality, we have 1 political party; The Elite.
Our Elite Overlords.
The elite whom decide our Freedoms.
The elite whom decide our Success.
The elite whom decide our very Survival.
From cradle to grave, this Elite Party controls every part of our lives, from birth, education, family, health and death.
What do we do? As I said, we may simply be done. Welcome to Rock Bottom, nation. The national debt is unthinkable. Total unemployment is 30 percent and probably higher. There’s no manufacturing. No innovation. No invention and no drive. We’ve run out of time. Reagan’s City On A Hill is going dark.
If we have any hope of saving the country, we must begin first with honestly admitting where we currently are as a people. The picture is not good. The outlook is worse. The kind of urgency needed in the righting of the ship is not often seen in human history, but we have no choice. This land was chosen as the last best hope of mankind, and as Ronald Reagan once said, “How can we do any less; we’re Americans.”
A young nation turned to George Washington in their darkest hour. Who will step up this time? Who will be the voice to mend a torn nation?
The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1922 during which time it conquered Arabia, North Africa and a large part of Europe, and was a major world power. It is named for Osman Gazi, whose decedents ruled it for its entirety. The dynasty remains and Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu heads it. Osmanoğlu is an American citizen. and worked in the New York Public Library. He’s 91.
Europhysics News Trutherism — Trutherism, the belief that Al-Qaeda terrorists were not entirely behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, received a boost, Aug. 24, in the latest issue of Europhysics News which carries an article claiming that the World Trade Center was brought down by controlled demolition.
The authors of the piece are Steven Jones, a former full professor of physics at Brigham Young University; Robert Korol, a professor emeritus of civil engineering at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada; Anthony Szamboti, a mechanical design engineer; and Ted Walter, who holds master of public policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
The authors cite, among other things, the lack of heat to melt, or adequately weaken, the girders to cause the collapse.
Melted girders was widely reported as a reason immediately after the attack. This was quickly understood to be impossible, however. In fact, it was even being noted that things didn’t get hot enough to cause enough loss of structural strength.
This paper from the December 2001 issue of JOM, — the member journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society , — is in full agreement with the Jones group on this point. The authors Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso, however, don’t feel the need to deny what was before everyone’s eyes. Their article points out that temperature along the 18-meter long joists was certainly not uniform and that given the thermal expansion of steel, a 300 F temperature difference from one location to another will produce yield-level residual stresses hence causing distortions resulting in buckling failures
Jones et al makes the point that fire never collapsed a skyscraper before 9/11 and has yet to bring one down since.
The rebuttal to this is that jet aircraft have never been flown into skyscrapers before or since. Further, a fire, while not collapsing a skyscraper, did make One Meridan Plaza in Philadelphia unstable enough to cause its demolition.
The Jones article discusses the collapse of the 47-story 7 World Trade Center with no deaths hours after the Twin Towers fell. The official version is that falling debris from the North Tower weakened its structure and caused fires while the Jones group says it had the hallmarks of a controlled demolition. We won’t address the engineering claims but we do find it puzzling that conspirators seeking to bring forth war and the New World Order would bother with bringing down 7 World Trade Center after collapsing the main towers.
Regarding the publication of the article by Europhysics News, a cynic might ascribe self promotion or politics. We take a more charitable view.
Not letting dissenters and skeptics air their claims only fans the flames of conspiracy theories. If proponents of global warming theory understood this, their claims — some of them anyway — might be treated with less skepticism by the general public.
Hillary Haverford Visit — Hillary Clinton will be coming to Haverford Township noon, tomorrow, Oct. 4 at the Recreation Center at Haverford Reserve, 9000 Parkview Dr, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041. A protest rally will greet her outside of the facility.
The public is asked to avoid spilling water on her as she may melt.
Trump Vote Explained — Joanne Yurchak of Chester County sent the response below to a progressive friend who sent her an Atlantic magazine article that contended that Hillary’s poll numbers were going down (at that time) because of her gender. The friend wrongly assumed that Joanne supported Hillary and would agree with the essence of the article. She has given us permission to republish.
Possibly not poisonous.
I debated responding to this for some time but feel I must since dear friends have to be honest with one another. Please understand that my frank comments below are not intended to upset but rather to provide you with an understanding of where I’m coming from. My guess is that even though you know I’m conservative, you believe that I couldn’t possibly be voting for Trump. You would be wrong. I will be voting for Trump because I feel I have no acceptable choice. My feeling is that in your circle of friends there are few, if any, who hold conservative beliefs, and I’d bet that perhaps I’m probably your only good friend whose opinions differ so strongly from yours. I think you should hear the viewpoints of someone from the other side. It is because of this that I feel I should relay some of those opinions to you.
Definitely poisonous
I also find the Atlantic magazine article disturbing, but not for the same reasons that you do. I predicted years ago that the Left would play the “woman card” if Hillary were to run, just as they played the “race card” with Obama. I find this despicable and very upsetting. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, truly. I know you’re sincere, but I think it’s nonsense. Identity politics only serves to divide — not bring us together — and Obama has unfortunately done a very effective job of pulling us apart over his eight years in office. I believe that Obama (and also Hillary) are champions of identity politics, both overtly and subtly. Hillary in fact has indicated that she should win BECAUSE she’d be the first WOMAN president. I just want an effective and good president who works for ALL of the people; I don’t care about his/her gender or color. I’m sure you heard her “deplorables” remark. Now THAT was DEPLORABLE!
I personally experienced being called a racist just because I disagreed with Obamacare which was our black president’s signature health plan. It infuriated me. I’m not saying that YOU are doing this, but this is typical of the Left — discourage dissent and play identity politics by demeaning and marginalizing those who disagree with the POLITICAL stances of their chosen ones. It works, and the mainstream media enables and encourages it. Those in the Tea Party were deemed racists just because we voiced disagreement with Obama’s POLICIES — NOT because of his color. This article shows that they are doing it again, but using the gender card instead of the race card, but as I said, it doesn’t surprise me. Do you remember the New York Times article that you sent me about the Latina woman who told her little daughter that she would have an uphill battle to be an engineer because of her heritage and gender? Again, I know you meant well by sending it and thought that I’d agree with it, but it just frustrates me that people still are thinking along these lines. The following is what I wrote and posted in the New York Times as a comment to that article:
“As a female who earned two engineering degrees, I found my path to be relatively smooth and was encouraged, particularly by my male teachers and professors, from junior high throughout graduate school. And that was in the 50’s and 60’s! The author, Dotson-Renta, is unfortunately creating a destructive victimization mentality in her 7 year old with her unfounded presumption of discrimination in her statement – ‘her path is unlikely to be smooth, and the deck remains stacked against her.’ I am surprised that Dotson-Renta doesn’t realize that opportunities for women in the STEM fields abound in this day and age, particularly for minorities. I wish her young daughter well and hope that her mother supports her in whatever career she chooses for herself, rather than prompts her in a specific direction to satisfy her mother’s agenda (which almost seems to be the case from the tone of this article).”
As for the 2016 election, I have to say that I am EXTREMELY upset at the choice I have to make — between a pathological liar of flawed character who definitely belongs in jail (not just for the E-mails but particularly for the quid-pro-quo of her foundation), and an arrogant narcissist who plays fast and loose with facts and whose behavior far too often resembles that of a fourth grader. It’s like being given a choice of being thrown into one of two pits — the first which I KNOW contains poisonous vipers that will kill me immediately, and the second which is an unknown. Without any qualms, I’m choosing the latter and will definitely vote for Trump, under duress, and with a clothespin on my nose because I have absolutely NO CHOICE. I KNOW that if Hillary wins, she will continue Obama’s goals to change our country into one which is totally unrecognizable from the wonderful one in which I’ve spent my entire life. Instead of lifting us up, he’s taken us to the lowest common denominator in the equation since he feels so guilty that our country is richer than most others in the world. In my opinion, Obama has done damage that is almost beyond repair and Hillary’s election will put the final nail in the coffin. I know you don’t agree but that’s the way I feel. I really believe that until Obama was elected, we were headed on the right path racially, but unfortunately, under his presidency, racial relations have deteriorated considerably. The Left would say that it is because of some people not wanting a black president and working against him, but again, I think this is nonsense. In working against his POLICIES, Congress has been accused of this, but again, it’s his far-Left progressive policies that the majority of people in our country disagree with which is why we worked so hard to elect more conservatives in 2010 (and succeeded). Unfortunately, the Republicans that we worked so hard to have elected haven’t done enough to stop him.
I believe that it is unquestionably Obama’s disastrous presidency that resulted in Trump’s selection as the Republican candidate. Many people in the U.S. are angry at his tyrannical behaviors and his ruling by fiat in so many ways. Among other things, we are upset at the lies and incompetencies and failures of Obamacare, the escalating racial turmoil that is overtaking our country while Obama sits by impotently, the emasculation of our police who are necessary to protect us, the opening up of our borders to innumerable refugees who have not, and cannot be properly vetted, and most importantly, the Iran deal which was formulated with lies and will come back to haunt us in future years. These are only a few of the issues. I could go into more detail but it would take forever. I have to say that I am one of the angrier ones. THAT’S why someone reasonable like Rubio (whom I voted for in the primary) or others –and we DID have quite a choice–was not selected as the Republican candidate. So, IMO, Obama did a two-fold disservice to our country (but of course a two-fold service to the Dems). Not only will we ultimately suffer from the results of his horrendous presidency, but his disastrous tenure has resulted in such anger on the other side that someone like Trump could carry the Republican banner (which will most likely result in Hillary being elected and Obama’s policies being continued to the detriment of America).
When Obama was elected in 2008, I didn’t like it, but I watched the thrilled faces of black people and was truly touched. That night I thought it might work out. But it has NOT and Hillary will only carry on where he takes off.
I will say one more thing — anyone thinking that Hillary is a champion of women is wrong. We all know what a scum her husband is, and she certainly can’t be blamed for HIS behavior. However, the manner in which she treated and tried to marginalize those whom he violated, from sexual harassment to rape (and there’s NO QUESTION OF THIS), is totally HER responsibility. It is SHE who should be held accountable for HER treatment of these women. If you research what she did and how she approached and demeaned many of the women whom he mistreated in one way or the other, you’d know what I mean. I was disgusted at the fact that NOW didn’t defend Paula Jones against his sexual harassment of her, undoubtedly because they considered her “trailer trash” and unworthy of their support. This is hypocrisy to the extreme. And we have to remember that Jones’ charge unquestionably was credible since Mr. Clinton paid Jones $800K to settle.
It is truly a shame that we have such a horrendous choice and I am more upset than one could imagine. Unless something unforeseen happens, I am virtually positive that Hillary will win (partly because she has a poor opponent and partly because I DO think there is a great deal of election fraud which will clinch the deal), and then I’ll probably go into seclusion and drown my sorrows for our country in bridge. Oh well.
Don’t take this personally as you’re entitled to your opinion. I really try hard NOT to discuss politics with those whose views differ so strongly from mine, but since you began the discussion by sending out the Hillary article in the Atlantic, I felt compelled to share my thoughts.
The first city to have to reached 100,000 population is thought to have been Ur in present day Iraq in 2100 B.C. The first city to hit one million is Alexandria, Egypt in 100 B.C. albeit there are those who claim it was Rome 100 years later.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-3-16 First City to hit one million
Libertarians Arise In Delco — Dale Kerns, vice chairman of the Delaware County Libertarian Committee, has declared his organization is viable and revitalized and will be running candidates in 2017 for local offices. He notes that they have begun fundraising and that their monthly meetings at the Riddle Ale House are drawing an average of 20 persons.
The groups next meeting is 7 p.m., Oct. 19 at the Riddle Ale House, 1073 W. Baltimore Pike, Media, PA 19063 (Middletown Township).
It will hold a poll watching seminar open to all regardless of party affiliation, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Oct. 22, at 100 E Chester Pike, Ridley Park, PA 19078.
POW-MIA Chair Dedicated At Penncrest Stadium — Kudos to the Rose Tree Media School District for recognizing the sacrifices made by those who were prisoners of war or became missing in action.
The district dedicated a poignant memorial before the Sept. 16 football game between Penncrest and Haverford. It is a chair marked with the POW/MIA logo, an American flag and the words “We are all thankful. God Bless You. God Bless America.
The chair will be left perpetually empty and displayed at all spring and fall sports events at Louis Scott Stadium and at all winter events at the Kauffman Gym.
But while we’ve slept, the left has undone everything that we accomplished under Reagan. And they’ve done more. They’ve infiltrated our party with left leaning Republicans who on some issues will side with the big government liberals every time. Think of it like a casino. We win some battles, but the game is rigged towards the Democrats. This holds true regardless of who controls which chamber or both chambers. In reality, we have 1 political party; The Elite.
