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… and apparently drilling isn’t required. The only thing we need to do to solve the energy crisis is inflate our times and get a tune up.

I actually caught Rush talking about this today, and I couldn’t agree more. These are serious times and we need a serious solution to the energy crisis. WE NEED TO DRILL FOR OIL IN AMERICA AND REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN SOURCES. Inflating your times and keeping you car tuned up is not a serious solution to the current crisis. And at $4 per gallon, who can afford tune ups anyway?

Are people so blinded by Obama’s charisma that they are really going to give him a pass on everything. Can you imagine if President Bush said the answer to struggling American families who can’t afford $4 per gallon gas was to inflate their tires? Liberals would have a field day. But some how that ridiculous assertion is ok because it comes from the media’s darling child, egomaniacal socialist Barack Obama.

Stop playing games. These are serious times that call for serious solutions and serious candidates.

Go ahead get a tune-up and check your tires… but its not enough. Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less, and improve our national sovereignty and security.

…and Sarah Palin is still in the mix. Of all the names mentioned still in contention (Governor Romney, Governor Pawlenty, Senator Liberman even), Governor Palin sure has my vote.

For background on Obama canceling a visit to meet with wounded soldiers because he couldn’t bring his camera along, visit Confederate Yankee.

If you’ve read more than a few posts lately, you’ve probably noticed that I pledge to refer to Barack Obama as an “egomaniacal socialist” at least once in every post about him. Why? Because that is exactly what he is.

According to dictionary.com, American Heritage Dictionary defines someone suffering from “egomania” as having an ” [o]bsessive preoccupation with the self.” Well that certainly sounds like Obama doesn’t it? He is afterall the “change” he has been waiting for. He did replace the American flag with the symbol of himself, and put his logo on the Presidential seal, etc..

According to Webster, socialism is:

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

Sounds quite similar to the pronounced plans of Barack Obama doesn’t it (redistribution of wealth, government controlled health care, increase in taxes to pay for UN programs, etc).

In fact, when I searched for “Socialism” at webster’s site, it actually displayed a picture of Barack Obama’s face. I kid you not.

So in two words or less, Obama is perfectly described as an Egomaniacal Socialist. Fitting, isn’t it.

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With that in mind comes our latest t-shirt. Barack Obama: Socialist. We were going to put thw word “egomaniacal” on it too, but with Obama’s big head in the way, there just wasn’t any room.

I came across this post at RightWingNews about the heroic paratroopers who were caught in a battle against RPG wielding terrorists in Afghanistan. You’ve heard that nine of our bravest men died, but you haven’t heard the real story from the liberal press. Well, here it is.

The concluding paragraph sums it up nicely:

Last week, there were 9 funerals in the United States. 9 warriors were laid to rest. 9 warriors who had given their all for their country. All proud members of a brotherhood that will carry on in their name. They fought and died in what most would consider impossible circumstances, and yet they succeeded. A nameless fight in a distant war which, until you understand the facts, could be spun as a defeat. It wasn’t. And it is because of the pride, courage and fighting spirit of this small unit that it was, in fact, a victory against overwhelming odds. And there’s little doubt, given that pride and given that fighting spirit, that they’ll be back to reestablish the base, this time with quite a few more soldiers just like the ones who “kicked ass” the last time there.

And the first comment says exactly why we will win the fight against Islamic terrorism if we don’t lose our resolve.

And they keep telling us that it’ll be the terrorists’ faith which will win the war for them.

No conscripted, brainwashed zealot fights like a free-thinking, volunteer patriot.

God Bless our volunteer patriots. May their families know how brave their sacrifice was and may future generations never have to fight these wars because of the brave men and women fighting today.

…or at least attempt to. “Senate Republicans have threatened to block nearly all other bills pending before the August recess if Democrats refuse to vote with them on expanding offshore drilling.”

Cassy Fiano thinks this is a “brilliant move” for Republicans and I couldn’t agree more. There is no excuse for any elected representative not to act.

We have been beholden to foreign resources and OPEC manipulation for far too long. We should have been working to reduce our dependency on foreign oil for decades. Instead we’ve wasted time and money on the farce of corn-based ethanol and been held hostage to the demands of liberal lunatics and the environmental lobbies. Hopefully Americans are now ready to keep the pressure on, and support Senate Republicans for finally taking up the fight.

Its sad to think that the Dems are doing nothing about this in an effort to keep people feeling the pain at the pump so they are disgusted at the administration and vote against the GOP in November. Similar manipulative tactics worked to enable a Democrat landslide in 2006.. but once they got power, little (if anything) was actually done.

Contrary to what Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid appear to believe, the pocket books and wallets of the American people are not pawns in their arrogant game of chess. Its past time to take real action, now.

Drill Here. Drill Now. There is no other choice.

…for quotes like this from David Gergen:

David Gergen, former White House advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, strongly rebuked the candidate for releasing a statement outlining his discussions with the Prime Minister of Iraq. “We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. [President Bush] is the commander in chief and the negotiator in chief. I cannot remember a campaign in which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position of negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country. I think he leaves himself open to the charge that he’s meddling, that this is not his role, that he can be the critic but he’s not the negotiator. We have a president who does that.”

…and much more about Barack Obama’s arrogance, the media’s bias, and more.

available here: Patriot Post

This post shall be filed in the “I’m rolling my eyes at this very second” file:

MoveOn.org is planning to give away 1 million “Obama ‘08″ bumper stickers this week as part of their campaign to get this manipulating Dem into the oval office come November and set into motion the downfall of our country as we know it. You think our current crisis with the economy, global relations, energy and health care is bad now? Elect Barack Obama as president, let him marinate a few years in Washington, and THEN get back to me on the status of our country and our relationship with other countries.

I stomached the MoveOn.org website to do some research, and I notice the following at the bottom of their home page:

MoveOn.org Civic Action is a 501(c)(4) organization which primarily focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues.

Nonpartisan? Are you freakin’ kidding me? Visit their website now, and you’ll notice a nice big picture of every Dem’s favorite bleeding heart liberal, Al Gore. Apparently MoveOn.org has moved on so completely out of the atmosphere that they consider themselves nonpartisan. Now, they may have started off thinking they were nonpartisan (the founders of MoveOn started their lovely website with an online campaign to censure President Bill Clinton and “move on” to more important political issues). Give it up, MoveOn.org. The gig is up. Move on to your next liberal agenda item and quit purporting yourself to be nonpartisan.

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Written by Melanie, cross-posted from A Coffee To Go.

Two bills are coming up for debate in the House of Representatives.  The Pre-K Act and the Education Beings at Home Act.  The titles sound innocent enough, helpful even… but you can’t judge this book by the cover.

These, likely well-intentioned, bills offer vast powers to the federal government to determine how your children should be raised, educated (medicated, indoctrinated)… without much if any protections for the parents.  The potential for abuse is sweeping.  I won’t begin to articulate that here, as SR from Maritime Sentry has done a much better job herself.

And while you are reading it… check out this post at World Net Daily for more.

There is no Constitutional basis for the government getting involved with this.  There is certainly no Constitutional basis for the powers without consent that these bills provide.  Liberals are trying to find any way possible to further create a society that is dependent on the Federal government for everything and has personal responsibility for nothing.  A society who doesn’t even think for itself but allows the government to tell them what to believe, what is acceptable, and what is right.

Parents and Home Schoolers are under siege in this country… as is the Constitution.   Don’t let these bills pass without making your voice heard.

Yesterday I filled up with regular unleaded at $3.78 a gallon… the cheapest I had seen (if you can call that cheap) in a while. I found out a few miles away, another service station actually had it for $3.69. Wish I had gone there.

What caused the drop in crude futures and thus the price of gas at the pump? Certainly President Bush’s repeal of an executive order banning drilling off the coastal shelf had something to do with it. Now imagine if Congress actually acted and allowed drilling to start. How much more could oil (and gas) prices fall?

Its funny to me that Democrats are always whining about how much the rest of the world likes us and if we are being fair to them… yet they don’t see the hypocrisy in their opposition of drilling here for oil. To take their argument… how fair is it to the rest of the world to take their oil when we can produce our own? If they think its so bad for the environment (its not) then how fair is it to destroy the environment in other countries in order to (falsely) protect the environment at home?

That’s not my argument though. My argument is why continue to put money in the pockets of other countries, some of which have evil leaders who use the profits for evil purposes, when we can keep the money here? Why continue to prop up oil prices unnecessarily, which has allowed dictators like Hugo Chavez to make threats, the Iranians to develop nukes and the resurgence of a Russian Empire? At a time when our economy is struggling, why not kill two birds (or three)? We can lower the price at the pump, decrease the income of some very bad people, AND CREATE AMERICAN JOBS if we start drilling at home.

Just because you are starting to see a decline in gas prices from a few weeks ago… DON’T STOP THE FIGHT. Remember how bad it was when gas prices broke the $3 barrier? Now we’ve seen it break $4. We can’t be satisfied at $3.50 or even $3 as its still much higher than it needs to be. Any price is too high as long as we aren’t using what’s available to us now.

We must double our efforts and keep the pressure on congress. Our economy and our national security are both at stake. There is no excuse. Don’t let this fight leave our consciousness because prices are starting to fall. They won’t fall enough and we won’t lesson our dependence on foreign oil until we act.

Drill Here. Drill Now. There is no other choice.

Thanks to Newsbusters for this clip: Congresswoman Heather Wilson takes on Hardball.

Heather Wilson (R - NM) wiped the floor with Chris Matthews and Robert Wexler about the egomaniacal socialist Barack Obama and his hand-holding European World Tour. If you believe Matthews and Wexler, the only thing important to our Trans-Atlantic relationships is how popular Bush is with Europeans.

I don’t care how popular President Bush is with Europeans. He works for us, not them. And honestly, I don’t even care how popular he is with Americans as long as I believe he’s making the right decision for the country. If doing the right thing were always the popular choice then there would never be a road less traveled.

If your success was based on how popular you are… then Robert Wexler and the rest of Congress are failing worse than President Bush. Funny, Chris Matthews isn’t all that popular either. Apply the “popularity” standard and Chris Matthews is everyone’s bitch… Shepard Smith, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Greta Van Susteren and Bill O’Reily (including the repeat) all get considerably more love.

Thankfully for Chris his success is (obviously) not based on his popularity. I don’t know, maybe they like him in France.

The media’s love affair with Barack Obama just won’t end. And while the liberal media is all hot-and-bothered, the rest of us see the Chosen One for what he really is… an unaccomplished egomaniacal socialist.

The best way to fight the ridiculous devotion the media has for their buddy Barack is to point out just how pathetic it is. So here’s a parody design sure to make your legs start to tingle. I’d send one to Chris Matthews, but I’m not sure anyone at NBC is sophisticated enough to get the joke.

**See this and more Anti-Obama T-Shirts Here**

Check out these before and after pics of AirSocialist 1.  While certainly unintentionally, the symbolism it provides is both telling and not at all surprising.  Who else but the great patriot Obama could remove the American flag and replace it with a logo representing himself.  Think they had to also widen the doors so his head could fit?

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Slightly Shameless Plug: Check out this design we posted yesterday, before discovering Obama remaking the plane in his own image.  Patriotism or Socialism, Anti-Obama T-Shirts.  We think it says a lot, and is rather appropriate based on the Chosen One’s airplane redesign.

The media is speculating (thanks to some innuendo or planned leaks no doubt) that John McCain will announce his running mate this week. Speculation is further fueled by recent visits with Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, and even a planned visit to Louisiana, home of Governor Bobby Jindal. The speculation is great because it actually buys McCain a little airtime amongst the Barack Obama lovefest that has the media all hot and bothered. But if this rumor turns out to be true and an announcement is made this week, is it really good timing?

It all depends on who the choice is.

If McCain were to announce Mitt Romney, Giuliani or Governor Crist as his Veep… it would certainly be lost during the nightly news as the media won’t want to take airtime away from their Chosen One in order to celebrate just another white guy candidate from the Republican Party. Of course any of the above are more than “just another white guy candidate from the Republican Party” but that’s true for McCain too… yet the media honeymoon with him ended the moment they laid eyes upon their beloved Barack.

But, if McCain were to go with someone like Bobby Jindal… then the media might actually give it a second look. Jindal of course has accomplished MUCH MORE than Barack Obama even though he’s 10 years his junior. And Jindal is the real deal… actually taking action instead of just voting present. When Obama was writing books patting himself on the back or playing hooky from the Senate, Jindal was hard at work, earning the trust of support of Conservatives and the people of Louisiana.

Bobby Jindal’s youth and credentials are strong enough on their own, but his Indian decent also adds value in this year that seems to place symbolism well above substance. He’s not the picture of the Republican Party that the Liberal Media and the rest of the Left want you to see. And the symbolism of a Black Man running for President gets deluded a little when the GOP nominates a first generation American born to two Indian immigrants.

Of course the media will likely dismiss the ancestry and symbolism of a Republican candidate but maybe it will force them to take a hard look at their own Obama coverage. How can you dismiss the symbolism of one candidate but use that as the sole basis of your admiration for another? Of course that would entail applying logic to the decisions of the liberal press, and we all know that won’t happen. But as the media neglects their duties, maybe the American people won’t. Maybe forcing the symbolism of one ticket against the symbolism of another will cause the American people to reject the symbols of both and actually discover what’s underneath. We are however voting not for symbols, but the leader of the free world. Symbolism is nice but it doesn’t help you answer the phone at 3am or help you make the right decision when American lives are at stake.

The problem of course is once you peel away the symbolism of Barack Obama’s candidacy… you realize there’s nothing left. We are quite close to electing someone whose public experience includes a chain of gaffes and lapses of judgment with no real legislative record or accomplishments. The only thing left is an egomaniacal socialist who has written a couple books about himself, but done little to help anyone else.

And that provides stark contrast to a John McCain and Bobby Jindal ticket.

Once McCain picks his Veep selection, talk will surround Obama’s potential choice, which is also good for McCain. While political analysts and the media often look for VP nominees who are from states where the top of the ticket needs help… most water cooler discussion about Vice Presidential selection seems to be about whether a VP candidate fills the voids where a nominee is lacking. George W. Bush didn’t have much foreign policy experience and that void was immediately answered by giving the second spot to Cheney (debate that decision if you will, but that’s not the point of this post).

When you consider where McCain’s voids are, you immediately think of his age, economics, and whether he is conservative enough for the base. He’s got the legislative experience. He’s fiscally responsible. He’s fought earmarks for years. He’s got the military experience. He understands foreign policy, he’s known and respected on the world stage, and he was right on the surge. He’s an unquestionable patriot and certainly not afraid to take a stand even on unpopular positions.

Bobby Jindal adds youth and vigor, is certainly conservative enough (Rush Limbaugh thinks he’s basically the second coming of Ronald Reagan) and Jindal is working hard to improve the Louisiana economy while fighting corruption. Jindal also is a Catholic who converted from Hinduism when he was in High School and is unapologetically pro-life. The voids are filled and the ticket appears strong.

But what about Obama? Start looking for the gaps his V.P. needs to fill and you realize you can’t just fill gaps when there is nothing there in the first place. Other than being an inspiring speaker, there’s nothing left. And even if you could possibly find someone who fills all the gaps you have to wonder why the candidate has so many holes to begin with. Other than John Edwards, who could Barack Obama possibly tap that would be a serious V.P. candidate and not remind you that Obama has accomplished nothing, and has been wrong about virtually everything. Even if you are one of the Media Elite or the Brainwashed Lemmings… how do you not start to question why your candidate has proven nothing but how many people he can throw under the bus? How do you possibly select someone for second chair whose talent clearly outmatches your own? But when the alternative is someone else who doesn’t belong on the ticket in the first place, what choice do you have? No one will out charisma Obama. Bill Clinton couldn’t even do that. But these are serious times with an economy on the skids, gas prices at all time highs and war on two fronts. Charisma won’t get you very far and the VP selection will (hopefully) wake everyone up to that reality.

The only way to fight the symbolism of the Obama candidacy might be to counter with a symbol of our own. And while I regret to talk about Governor Jindal and his youth and ethnicity as symbols, I am comforted by the fact that in actuality he is so much more. If Governor Jindal is going to be McCain’s pick, I think an announcement now would be fine as it would take some attention from the ObamaThon World Tour and also show some contrast between a serious ticket and a farce. But if McCain picks some other white guy, accomplished or not, he better wait until Obama’s flying circus has landed safely back in the states. Otherwise the announcement, like everything else, will be lost amongst the media’s coverage of their beloved… the unaccomplished symbol of Obama.

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If you are looking for a real inspirational speech about change that is more than just symbolism, check out Governor Jindal’s inauguration speech.

UPDATE: According to a FoxNews report this morning, Governor Jindal has pulled his name out of the hat. That’s probably better (or safer) for his political aspirations in the future. Unfortunately, we need someone like Bobby Jindal on the ticket now.

An hoa/co-op board requires 9/11 relatives to remove American flag from their front door.

Hat Tip: MidnightBlue

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