Reeps must listen to Conservatives…we’ve already heard from THEM!

As a follower of Conservative Talk Radio, I am troubled by the Republican rhetoric pervading the airwaves. It seems to me CONSERVATIVE talkers should be talking about how Conservatives can get the parties (plural) to HEARS US…NOT how the Republicans should modify their message to appeal to the masses.

Now, I understand the two-party system and all that. I invariably vote for Reeps (or not at all) so it’s not as though I am averse to improving the Party’s standing–I’m all for it. HOWEVER, like most Conservatives, I soured on the GOP when it became apparent it was more concerned with power than principle.

George W. Bush, just like his father, was no Conservative. THAT is where the RNC should begin introspecting. That is to say, the GOP hasn’t offered up a true Conservative since Ronald Reagan.

When Talkers start talking about the GOP getting back to a fiscal and personal responsibility platform, I will give them a more thoughtful listen. More to the point, when the GOP starts acting as though it cares about Conservatives, I will start caring about the GOP.

Prager University: the American Trinity

Last night, my wife and daughter and I attended the  “Obama: the First 100 days” event at Jessup University in Rocklin, CA.  Hugh Hewitt,  Michael Medved and Dennis Prager were the 3 speakers–they were nothing short of excellent.  Dennis Prager, our favorite talker,  implored all who are concerned about the direction of this country to view and SHARE his excellent, FREE,  video series, “Prager University.”    Following is his treatise on the American Trinity:

 

Prager University on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=%22prager+university%22&aq=f

Obama & Pelosi: The Execution of duty…

It's a living document...KILL IT!

Original cartoon located unattributed on web.  Edited as political parody, with apologies and no royalties to the artist. 

When it rains, it droughts.

I lived in Southern California for the first 30 years of my life…the past 20 in-and-around Sacramento.   AND, with the possible exception of one year when the concrete conduit called the “Los Angeles River”  nearly “crested,” I’m pretty sure all 50 years were of the  drought variety.

Drought, you see, is the norm here.  At least, that’s what you might infer from the local and state news…especially when it rains.

As a rule, when it’s raining, we check out the weather report for an idea of the severity and likely length of the storm.  However, in addition to the stats and forecast, no wet-weather report in California is complete without announcing the State Water Resources Board’s  drought projection.  It’s almost as though the Water-Bureaucrats and Media Meddler’s think we all rush home to open spigots and flush needlessly as soon as it rains. 

JUST IN CASE you ARE prone to that type of thing, not to worry: you are hereby reminded we are currently at 66% of normal rainfall/snow pack.  Or, as I like to say, we are at 66% of normal drought conditions.

Of course, a state comprised of irrigated deserts will always be short of water.  However, a shortage of water with which to water deserts isn’t  really a drought, is it? 

It’s like the global warming debate: everyone has an opinion about it but EVERYONE seems to ignore the primary question: That is, what is the right amount of ICE? 

 

Think about it.  Nobody asks Al Gore to explain why the ice shelf of 1976  is the correct target versus, say, that of 1776.  The climate, and ice cap, have changed dramatically since the USA was founded.   During the Revolutionary War, the planet was experiencing a mini Ice Age.  As that freeze was pre-industrial, and the current melt is being blamed on industrial/consumer pollutants, is it fair to assume a growing ice shelf is the “natural” state of things?  Apparently, the miniscule blip of temperate  post-Mini Ice Age weather  is the  ideal the planet should maintain. 

Might we expect the “Green” movement to herald a coming ice age with open arms or, as I suspect, will they be blaming the looming ecological (yet natural) disaster on industrialization just the same? 

And so it is, the rain pours until we are chest deep in drought…

He left us a Republic: We settled for Corned Mutton in a Can…

This blog is dedicated to George Washington, American Cincinnatus, and the Farewell Address the nation he founded methodically ignored.  The essence of  The Address was an unqualified warning:   political parties will be the ruination of the Republic.  Yet, the leadership to follow The President summarily ignored the  ”counsels of an old and affectionate friend” in favor of  British Style parties.  

In short, they proceeded to “…organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.”

 

GW Called it...in 1796