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RULES FOR TEA PARTIERS (with thanks to Mr. Saul Alinsky) « Rosita the Prole — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:43 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:33:45 +0000

I share your depression. We live in such a great country and it seems that all the current politicians are trying to do is limit our greatness while pandering to different special interests. I cam across a website that seems to be looking at the ideas of new leaders and has some interesting thoughts and new ideas. It might be worth your time to check it out. It seems to be pretty limited, but hopefully they’ll get some more stuff up soon. The website is freedomsdoor.org.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:32:10 +0000

I share your depression. We live in such a great country and it seems that all the current politicians are trying to do is limit our greatness whil pandering to different special interests. I cam across a website that seems to be looking at the ideas of new leaders and has some interesting thoughts and new ideas. It might be worth your time to check it out. It seems to be pretty limited, but hopefully they’ll get some more stuff up soon. The website is freedomsdoor.org.

By: Michael Crosby

Michael Crosby — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:13:58 +0000

“Depressed on the 4th of July”

Wow, when I read those words, I thought, “Great, I’m not the only one”.

I am so distraught over our country that I wonder if I’m normal. If I’m OK.

I was thinking the other day, maybe I should just not read any more blogs or news.

But folks, we’re in deep deep do-do.

We can look back at our great founding fathers, the great wars we have spilled our blood for and won, and our unprecedented climb to being the greatest country this world has ever seen.

But B. Obama said leading up to the election that he wants “to fundamentally change America” and that is what is happening right before our eyes.

His actions with Honduras, Putin, his speech in Egypt, you get the idea. I actually read today that Putin gave Bush a compliment. And my first thought was that Putin has given more kind words to Bush than our present president. Imagine the irony in that.

I really think we have a man in office that despises America and its principles.

I’m very happy in my personal life. But when I look at the larger picture, I just want to cry. I think I need to read “1984″ again.

By: sheesh

sheesh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:59:43 +0000

The Lamentations of the Damned AKA conservatives . . . it’s like s sun shower. Fresh and crisp and clean and natural and beautiful and reaffirming. Thank you, God. You too, Jesus.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:05:00 +0000

maybe if we got rid of, or at least audited the Federal Reserve (which is entirely comprised of private banks, most of which are based outside of the US), our government could try to act in our best interest again. Now THERE’S a plan.

By: Kipling

Kipling — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:23:54 +0000

Mr. Seerak, I would suggest you read more of the Founding Fathers and less of your liberal textbooks. The original documents make it clear that many of the founders felt they were going to war in 1776 not to start something new but to defend their rights as Englishmen. The Declaration of Independence does not appeal to some new theory of progressivism or marxism or to the French enlightened rationalism but to the Creator and the rights he bestowed upon man. You cannnot get much more conservative than appealing to the creation.

By: Mambo Bananapatch

Mambo Bananapatch — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:56:22 +0000

> She’s an ideological lightweight to boot.

I think that’s high praise, though the poster meant it as an insult.

The quality of a person’s wisdom is in direct and inverse proportion to their loyalty to ideology.

If you’re an “ideological lightweight,” that means you can “think.” Mindless devotion to ideology is just another way of saying “stupid”.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:58:00 +0000

Progressives and lefties were anti-Nazi. They were the core of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought Hitler’s fascist allies in the Spanish Civil war during the 1930’s.

By: Godzilla

Godzilla — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:28:38 +0000

Conservatism is a confession of confusion;

And progressives were solidly on the side of Hitler in the 1930’s.

Conservatism, liberalism, progressivism, moderation, etc., are universtal concepts that, if applied to different times, peoples, regimes, and governments, can of course result in confusing and contradictory patterns.

More succintly, and more generally, and more timelessly and irrespective of location, conservatism is simply a desire of people to maintain the status quo, i.e. the dominant, prevailing traditions currently in vogue where they live. Liberalism is a tendency for people to change the current system into a ‘perceived’ better one.