Ron Silver has passed away

Ron Silver, liberal activist who turned conservative after 9/11, has died. I always liked his style.

"Michael Moore and that faction of the party was one of the factors that did not let me support the Democratic nominee this year," Silver told the AP in 2004. "He is a charlatan in a clown suit." I have to admit, that helped.
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"Hi-ho, Silver........and...............away..." You might say he was a real "lone" ranger in Hollywood. May he rest in peace.

"Journalistic DUTIES..?"

From AP, and a Headline on the Yahoo Homepage:

"Stewart has charged that people at CNBC knew what was going on behind the scenes on Wall Street but didn't tell the public. He has accused CNBC anchors and pundits of abandoning their journalistic duties and acting like cheerleaders for the market."

The irony! He's kidding, right? Here's my response:

"Conservatives have charged that the media in this country knew and recognized the problems associated with the people in Obama's background and his Socialist goals for America but didn't tell the public. We have accused every major network, most cable news networks, and 90% of every newspapers of abandoning their journalistic duties and acting like cheerleaders for the liberal Democrats."

Works for ME! But, it's okay for the LEFT to accuse...........not us.

As for the Cramer/Stewart dust-up; the clear message is "You'd BETTER not question this administration in ANY way, or your whole place of business will be roundly and openly criticized!" YOWEEEE, this is scary.

z

Sunday Faith Blog

"But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.....says the Lord Almighty."

Thank you, God......z

picture by Mr. z



Please pray for the families of the Winnenden, Germany massacre. thanks.
z

The Preschool Patriotism Class..........unbelievable!

Most of you know I volunteer at a preschool. I have two classes, one has children from almost 3 to almost 4 yrs old...the other has almost 4 to almost 5. Which class they're in depends largely on their level of maturity. I taught music there for the last five years or so but, in September, I instituted the patriotic curriculum I'm developing week to week (thank goodness for the internet)! (some of you helped with ideas, remember?)

The patriotism class for the smaller children was too much for them BUT, they do know the Pledge of Allegiance now. Really well, too! It's the cutest thing.."I pwedge awegance to the fwag of de United States of Amewica..." you know how 3 year olds sound! (Sorry that sounds a tad like Barney Fwank! ha!)

BUT, the four year olds are a WHOLE different story. With them, I have persevered with the stories about America and I have been gratified beyond my wildest dreams and I thought you might enjoy hearing about what happened. This week, I had a RED LETTER DAY!

This week, I asked a lot of questions about past classes. You might say PRESCHOOLERS HAD THEIR FIRST POP QUIZ!! So far, I've covered George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Appleseed, The Statue of Liberty, Betsy Ross, Helen Keller, The Wright Bros and Amelia Earhart, and Thomas Edison, among others. For Thomas Edison, I walked into the room, shut the lights, and said "I have an IDEA!" and flipped the lights on! They looked at me from their circle on the floor as if THEIR idea was that "Miss Z's flipped!" I did it again..."I have an IDEA!" On went the lights again. One of the kids caught on and said "I have an idea!" The rest joined in, laughing, and then I talked about the light bulb and Thomas Edison. They were intrigued.

When I did the Wright Brothers, I had only the boys get up and make like airplanes and swoop around the room after me! I had brought photos of that first plane at Kittyhawk.... Then I had the girls get up and be airplanes and I told them about Amelia Earhart. I have an Amelia in the class and she was dying for me to give her a picture of Amelia Earhart, so I did. She will never forget about Amelia Earhart!

When I did Helen Keller, I started the lesson by asking everybody to close their eyes and put their hands over their ears. I said "THIS is what Helen Keller lived like almost ALL of her life.. imagine?" They looked at me as if they just couldn't imagine that...I just had to be kidding them. So, I talked about her life and, as I talked, I'd suddenly stop and say "Close your eyes and cover your ears...!" After a few times of that, boy, did they get it. Then, I had one little girl get up and close her eyes and then I had another get up and had the first girl feel her face and hair to figure out who it was. Suddenly, all the children were doing this with their seat partners! They'll never forget THAT! But, you know? ....you just can't be sure if they'll remember once I leave the classroom, right? So, I tell you all of this because of what happened THIS WEEK.

I decided to quiz them!

Once, during our conversation this week, I had forgotten the Edison thing and actually said, innocently, "I have an IDEA..." and, before I could finish my thought, little Christopher jumped up and shut the light and opened it again! I wasn't sure what he was doing, but the kids all laughed and said "Christopher is Thomas Edison!" (I thought "They REMEMBERED the lights, and they remember Edison's NAME?") Then, I asked who was the lady who helped Helen Keller? "Annie Sullivan!" (THEY REMEMBERED THAT??) We talked about a lot of things we'd learned and I was feeling pretty darned good! One of the teachers said "You know, Miss Z, the children are really remembering a lot!" I complimented the children and left in a kind of glow of "Hey, these mornings are paying off...these children are learning about AMERICANS!"

SO, I was just about to leave the yard and get in my car when a mother of one of my children was coming in through the gate to pick her up. I said "You know, your Mimi is really bright! She remembers so much!" The mother said "OH, I have to tell you what happened at the Coffee Bean the other day! We were talking to someone and he brought up Babe Ruth and a baseball thing, and Mimi chimed in with 'Was he better than JACKIE ROBINSON?' I asked Mimi 'How do you know about Jackie Robinson?' and she said 'Miss Z told us'! Then, she told me all about Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart! This is terrific!"

Well....you can imagine how ol' Miss Z felt. I'm no teacher, I'm winging it, THIS WAS GREAT!

This week, I brought in a huge book of pictures from all over America. Every few pages, when they were really admiring a certain scene, I'd say "THIS is another beautiful place in AMERICA!" They were so excited to see the pictures of the deserts and snow and ranches and missions and farmlands and universities, and baseball stadiums, Lincoln's cabin, etc. They saw America this week! It's as easy as that to get them excited and informed!

This has been quite an experience and I hope more and more teachers start classes like this in preschools. We have to teach them to love America before they get to public school and don't hear much of this, right? Sow the seeds, folks!

OH, and they're learning Lee Greenwood's PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! They know the chorus perfectly and pump their arms into the air with "And I want to STAND UP NEXT TO YOU and defend her still today...." I wish you could hear them!

Tell your kids how great America is while they're young....Talk about American heroes and places! WE learned it, why shouldn't these NEW AMERICANS!?

z

Boy, did JOHN ADAMS have it right, or what?

John Adams:

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. ...

If we suffer [the minds of young people] to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. ...

The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families...

How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers? ...

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ...

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People ... they may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. ...

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

Z: Yes, and I've always said that we can't have capitalism without virtues. So, my question might be; Can we have capitalism again in a country the Left and political correctness have weakened as much as they have?

z

We ALL make mistakes...........

We all make mistakes. Here’s his:

1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne “Cappuccino” Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bush’s plan: “You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.”
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
19. “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he took his first question.
20. Going after Rush Limbaugh.
21. Going after Rick Santelli.
22. Going after Jim Cramer.
23. “Never waste a good crisis.”
24. Obama supporter Warren Buffett: “I don’t think anybody on December 7th would have said a ‘war is a terrible thing to waste, and therefore we’re going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things and — but we expect to — expect the other party to unite behind us on the — on the big problem.’ It’s just a mistake, I think.”
25. Writing a love letter to Vlad and Dmitry.
26. Putting Poland under the bus.
27. Putting Tibet under the bus.
28. Putting Israel under the bus.
29. Taking Cuba out from under the bus.
30. Having his tax cheat go after the tax cheats in Switzerland. Cognitive dissonance.
31. “Karzai has a bunker mentality.”
32. Iran has plans to Marine One helicopters.
33. “I won.”
34. BlackBerry singing in the middle of the night/ Take these golden secrets and learn to fly…
35. Obama: “If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” CEO: No. There will be more layoffs.
36. DVDs to Gordon Brown.
37. “You can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.” Vegas convention bookings nosedive.
38. Wagyu.
39. Reset/overcharge button given to Russia.
40. Taking a 4-day holiday weekend before signing “emergency” legislation.
41. “I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement — the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ’socialist’ around can’t say the same.”
42. Stiffing Chicago for nearly $2 million for that Election Night par-tay.
43. Caroline Kennedy.
44. Bombing Pakistan.
45. Sending the bust of Sir Winston Churchill back to the British.
46. “President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.”
47. A window is not a door.
48. Doctors must perform abortions.
49. Signing earmarks while denouncing them.
50. Adding signing statements while denouncing them.
51. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them.
52. Missing the Gridiron Club dinner.

But be of good cheer. He has 1,409 days left to make up for his stumbles out of the starting gate.

"..and PLEASE let us continue to pull the wool over Americans' eyes..........." and an additional bit about Mark Sanford

Is Larry Summers finally waking up to what we Conservative bloggers have been saying for almost 3 months now? He's NOW saying that the constant negativity about the economy is what needs to be changed? Yes, how many times have we said "Who's going to hire an employee or buy stock when Obama's out there practically saying we're on the Eve of Destruction!?" (just a little nod to Barry McGuire there, for those of you who remember!)

But, here's the deal, folks: Obama and Summers GOT their 2 Stimulus Packages by us and NOW they're joining our bandwagon, right? Easy to talk about how we need to be more optimistic NOW. THEY are optimistic NOW because they've got their wish, they have their packages, their earmark paybacks, robbing the successful and promoting Socialism. They've answered Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's prayers! Why wouldn't they be optimistic!? Even relieved?

So, America's stuck with debt up to our grandchildren's necks .....This administration got their way after creating such fear we "HAVE TO PASS THE BILLS!", and now we're told to be optimistic!? Um................. WHAT?

"What we need today is more optimism and more confidence," Summers said. NOW you tell us.

(Don't you wonder what Reid WAS praying for?) ALSO: DO NOT FORGET TO WATCH GLENN BECK TODAY AT 5 EST. HIS RATINGS ARE SKYROCKETING...PEOPLE ARE HEARING SOME TRUTH...)

RE: MARK SANFORD: Does anybody think he's doing this for political reasons? Wouldn't he be MORE popular if he took all the stimulus money and promised his state the WORLD? Man, the media just can't stop spinning...this in Yahoo, of course.


z

Tried, but just can't NOT blog the Madoff story......

SO.....Mr. Madoff has spent his first night in jail. Here are a few questions I thought are worthy of discussion:

"Prosecutors gave assurances they are investigating Madoff's wife and other family members and employees to determine what role, if any, they played in scam." (from the linked article)

DO YOU THINK HIS FAMILY'S INVOLVED?

"Prosecutors have already said low-level employees in Madoff's New York offices participated by mailing out tens of thousands of phony monthly statements and trading confirmations to make it look as if customers were making money in the market."

IMAGINE HOW COMPLICATED THIS PONZI SCHEME WAS? COULD THESE LOW-LEVEL EMPLOYEES GO TO JAIL, TOO??

"Gibbs said the Obama administration will do everything possible to ensure strict enforcement of securities regulations "and hope that through those actions that that kind of greed and irresponsibility and that kind of criminal activity never happens again."

AND, DO YOU GET THE FEELING THIS HORRIBLE SITUATION JUST COULDN'T HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME FOR THE OBAMA PEOPLE?

I feel a little badly if I walk by someone, didn't at first realize who it was, and hadn't said hello! I'm trying to figure out how I could show my face and, more importantly, LIVE with myself, if I'd wiped out the savings of trusting friends. Well, Madoff will sure be living with himself the rest of his life, in a cell, huh? WHAT a story........

(Kevin Bacon was one victim, so Elmer's Brother knows how I FEEL about this!)

z

Beautiful Vancouver.......WHO KNEW?

In Vancouver, BC, the worries for the safety of the Olympic Winter Games 2010 increase: Shootings increasingly rattle Vancouver through rapidly escalating gang fights, because it has become a center for the international drug trade. Vancouver’s slogan for the Winter Games is “The best town in the world” – these gang fights are hardly the picture the city wants to present to the world. But violent groups, which dispose of an astonishingly large arsenal of weapons, increasingly terrorize the region. In the first 16 days alone of February 2009, there were 12 gunfights which ended deadly for 7 persons. The Canadian Minister of Safety declared Vancouver as “the center of the largest number of groups of organized criminality [in Canada]”.

The costs for the safety during the Olympic Games are currently estimated at more than $700 million (!), more than 5 times the original estimate. It is even considered to ask the US for air surveillance during the Games. Also, additional prisons are built so that criminals do not any longer have to be released because of over population of existing prisons.

More and more gang members protect themselves with armored vehicles and bullet proof vests, and use these means to carry out their mission which is dominance in the drug market. This is not a local phenomenon anymore, these are internationally operating gangs, including an Indo-Canadian gang smuggling heroin from Afghanistan via India to Canada. In addition, Canada has become a large exporter of the designer drug Methamphetamine. It could also be noted that Vancouver has become of the largest Chinese cities outside of China.

The warfare in Vancouver is not limited anymore to certain areas of the city such as the infamous Downtown Eastside area, it has spread into most other areas, including residential areas, substantially impacting the safety of the population.

So, here's an example of very liberal policies as far as immigration.........Is this coming to a town near YOU? Is this what we're facing? And HOW CAN WE STOP THIS?

This is a translation from Sueddeutsche Zeitung....by Mr. Z, who thought this kind of information should be known not only in Germany but in America, too. Thanks, Mr. Z

z

NEW SITE ...... You will LOVE this

I HATE THE MEDIA is a new site you have to check out.

It's fun, it's hard hitting, it exposes a lot about our media. And, let's face it...IT'S ABOUT TIME.

z