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Cross-posted from my other blog: Malignant Liberal Idiocy

I wish I could support Barack Obama in this election season. The reason for this wish is relatively simple, convenience.

Imagine how much easier life would be if you possessed the loose grasp on reality that would allow you to support Barack Obama. Imagine how simple your daily life would be if you cared only for yourself and viewed the rest of the world in terms of what it could give you. Imagine the liberating sense of being moral-free, as one might need to be in order to support Barack Obama. Imagine what a relief it would be to not care about the march toward an Orwellian vision of society as would be expedited by Barack Obama.

I’ve long thought that to be a liberal, one must be evil, stupid, or a combination of the two. The Obama candidacy and terrifying level of mindless support he enjoys serves to reinforce my original beliefs. Some poor souls actually believe that Obammunism would be a good thing for the common citizens of this nation. Some hope to enjoy power and control over the common citizens under Obammunism. Others don’t care enough to be informed.

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Cross-post from my other blog, Malignant Liberal Idiocy:

Obama supporters are being directed to get “in the faces” of independents and Republicans to make the case for their candidate and the case for you being a racist jerk if you don’t dream of Obammunism.

Michelle Malkin’s column at Townhall.com, “Obama Releases His “In-Your_Face” Hounds“, provides some insight into the Obamorons’ “face-to-face” strategy:

When Republicans get aggressive, it’s “dirty.” When Obama gets aggressive, it’s “feisty.” Exorteth the One: “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”

Team Obama is so committed to this “face-to-face” shock troop campaign that it is now busing activists from state to state (”Drive for Change!”) to target undecided voters — and offering subsidies to volunteers. In advance of Obama’s rally in Nevada, California field director Mary Jane Stevenson organized a pilgrimage to boost the crowd numbers with housing incentives:

“Face-to-face contact with undecided voters is the single most effective way to grow this movement. No experience is required, and we’ll help you make the trip as easily as possible with either housing in Nevada or discounted group rates at an area hotel.”

Yep, a bunch of angry Obama cultists and left-wing ACORN drifters are coming to your neighborhoods to accuse you of racism, call you unpatriotic for not bowing down and forking over more taxes to keep the Mother Ship afloat, and check your tire pressure and thermostats while they’re at it. Feel the power of positive change.

I contend that there are several very good reasons to avoid an “in-your-face” moment with an Obamoron. Most of these reasons depend on the type of Obama supporter with which you are dealing, but there is the basic ignorance that all Obamorons share. Who wants to listen to the ignorant spewings of a raving lunatic, especially at close range? I bet they spit when they espouse the virtues of total government control.

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Thank God for The Heritage Foundation and the alerts they disseminate!

I received an e-mail today which contained links and information on several topics, but the one that grabbed my attention was the link to this message from James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. “Time Is Ticking: Congress Must Re-Authorize E-Verify Now.” It is no surprise that I had no idea that E-Verify is set to expire, considering how dead set our congress seems to be on ignoring the will of its constituents!

Unless Congress steps in, on November 30, E-Verify is set to expire. E-Verify is a system that allows employers to verify electronically whether their newly hired employees are legally authorized to work in the United States. E-Verify should be re-authorized.

A Valuable Voluntary Program

Through E-Verify, participating employers can check the work eligibility status of new personnel they are hiring through an online service that compares information from an employee’s I-9 form against Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This service is provided free to employers (though the individual companies must bear the cost of providing the infrastructure and people to enter the data). So far this year, E-Verify has processed over 4 million eligibility checks. The system has proven to be quite effective, and SSA and DHS continue to work to improve service, reliability, and privacy protections.

Could our members of the “do-nothing” congress (which would be a good thing if they would also refrain from doing the things that harm our nation… perhaps “do-nothing good” congress is more appropriate) be hoping November 30 will come and go quietly? Could many off them be hoping the attention to the presidential election will distract an already apathetic electorate? I would suggest that some of the open borders, flood the labor pool, amnesty for illegals liberals and RINO’s are indeed hoping this deadline passes unnoticed by the masses. Of course some of the career politicians may be too wrapped up in campaigns of their own or of fellow partisans to be bothered by the work of the people. Obviously no one expects my senators from Illinois, Barack “Born Alive, Let Them Die” Obama and the equally worthless Dick Durbin to to their jobs, but some of the rest of you might be able to get through to yours.

Remember that the next job that goes to an illegal alien might be the one you previously held. I urge you to call your senators and representatives! Make your voice heard (and hopefully your senators aren’t as ridiculously anti-America as mine.) Visit the following links to find the contact information for your members of our illustriously incompetent congress:

www.senate.gov

www.house.gov

While you’re at it you might want to let them know that you aren’t fooled by Nancy Pelosi’s “compromise” energy bill that only allows off-shore drilling were the bulk of the oil ISN”T!

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email brianbonner90- at-gmail- dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.

Common sense dictates that landlords should be allowed to know who rents their apartments, houses, or condos. Common sense cannot be found in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle. What can be found in Boyle’s courtroom is yet another weapon in the federal court war on the citizens of this country. Judge Boyle’s tactical target is the citizens of Farmer’s Branch, Texas.

Newsmax.com reports:

DALLAS — A federal judge on Friday stopped a Dallas suburb’s latest attempt to drive away illegal immigrants, ruling that Farmers Branch cannot enforce a ban on home rentals to those who can’t prove they live legally in the country.

U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle’s temporary restraining order stopped an ordinance that had been set to go into effect Saturday. The ordinance was intended to replace a similar measure that was struck down in federal court.

“We’re very disappointed in Judge Boyle’s view of the ordinance, but we’re confident that ultimately it will be upheld by the federal court system,” said Michael Jung, the attorney representing the city of Farmers Branch.

The judge said the ordinance has the potential to cause irreparable injury to landlords who are likely to lose business to neighboring cities that don’t have similar laws.

I suppose if neighboring cities didn’t have similar laws against public nudity, a city that had outlawed public nudity would not be allowed to enforce its laws. I can see that there would be “irreparable injury to” grocery store owners that refused service to nude shoppers who would likely go elsewhere to shop.

Put another way, illegal aliens are going to rent property so it should be legal. People are going to drive drunk anyway, so that should also be legal. People will commit rape anyway, so , well you get the idea. Do most law schools require a course in “Citizen Persecution For Political Gain?” If not, I can’t fathom why there is such an apparent dearth of common sense and decency in our federal courts.

From predatory prosecutors like Johnny Sutton to judges that side with illegals, you’d think these were Mexico’s federal courts! The good news for the federal court, Mexico, and illegal aliens across our nation is that the next president of The United States is on their side. This is bad news for the citizens of this great nation and a reminder that we need to pound the next administration with letters, e-mails, calls, and faxes to try and convince them to have some concern for the citizens of the nation they lead!

This concept cannot be made clear enough: our federal courts are harming citizens in favor of “ILLEGALS!” The word illegal must have different meanings to different people. Apparently to U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle, “illegal” only means “illegal” when U.S. citizens are the accused.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email brianbonner90- at-gmail- dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.

This excruciatingly pro-longed election season has been a mental and emotional roller coaster for most that follow it closely. I can only speak from my personal conservative perspective and say that the current situation might qualify as a crisis. This crisis demands action… yet who knows which course of action is in the best interests of our nation? This particular day, September 11, is a reminder of what has been done to our nation and what we are up against. Today’s reminder of the threats we face makes the conservative voter’s decision making even more difficult.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines crisis as:

1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; turning point.

2. A sudden change in the course of an acute disease toward improvement or deterioration.

My personal ride on the “Election 2008″ roller coaster began when Rudy Giuliani was being touted as the front-runner for the Republican nomination and peddled by “political strategists” as the only one that could beat Hillary Clinton. Soul searching and self-examination convinced me that I could never cast a vote for a candidate that believes it is acceptable for a mother to request that her child be killed as a matter of “choice.” Once The Republican Party’s preference was eliminated as an option for me, I began to search for a candidate. I found that I could stand firmly behind two candidates while a few more would have been acceptable if the candidates I agreed with were no longer in the race. There were also a couple of candidates for which I doubted I could actually support.

I chose to do everything I could to help the best man in the race, Representative Duncan Hunter, win the nomination of the party to which I believed I belonged. Energized and filled with “hope” (not Barack “Born Alive, Let Them Die” Obama’s brand) I worked as hard as I could for the candidate I still believe to be the best choice for our country. Conservative ideals were not to be heard on public airwaves as the party and talk show hosts decided to push “moderates” with money. Eventually Congressmen Hunter and Tancredo ended their campaigns, leaving a choice between less than conservative Republicans.

While disheartened, I decided to support the most conservative of the remaining candidates. Unfortunately the combination of early “open” primaries and Huckabee’s hatred of Mitt Romney combined to leave one man standing at the end of The Republican Primary fiasco. The low point in the track had been reached as John McCain, champion of illegal aliens, enemy of free speech, and passenger on Al Gore’s anthropogenic global warming bandwagon was left as the the nominee. Naturally, I felt the nausea sometimes associated with a sudden descent, but this time the ill feeling lingered much longer.

Defeated, I searched for an alternative. Where could a conservative go and not feel dirty after voting? The Libertarian Party doesn’t care about the lives of the most innocent so their candidate was not an option. I hope it is obvious that no candidate from the modern Democrat Party could come close to even being remotely acceptable. The Constitution Party appeared promising, but two factors prevented me from joining and supporting its nominee: the American electorate generally doesn’t play close enough attention to politics to allow a third party candidate to win a national election and The Constitution Party nominee does not want to finish the job in Iraq.

The most reasonable course of action (most of the time) appeared to be to vote for John McCain for the sole reason that he is not Barack Obama the socialist… that is of course unless McCain pulled a McCain. Pulling a McCain would involve something along the lines of naming a pro-choice or otherwise liberal running mate or pushing one of his stupid liberal stances during the remainder of the campaign. As the convention drew near and the possible V.P. choices were floated, the empty feeling grew. Hope dwindled to near non-existence.

Then the coaster took a sharp turn skyward when John McCain did the unthinkable. He named a conservative and a “real” person to be his running mate. I was excited! I decided that I would support The McCain-Palin ticket because of a hope that Sarah Palin could be a leader of The Republican Party for the next several years. The goal would be for conservative thought and principles to come home to the party if new, conservative leadership could be established at the highest levels. I still have hope, but it has dimmed somewhat.

The report that a few young men at the Republican Convention were forced to get rid of their “Build The Fence” sign leads one to believe that the roller coaster has reached its peak and is beginning yet another descent. The enthusiasm is dampened by the realization that this is still politics and we are still stuck with two major parties that generally seek power and control with the best interests of our nation along for the ride as an afterthought.

Why is this so difficult? How can we have fallen so far as a society that our next president will be Barack Obama or John McCain? Both men may believe that they will be good for America. John McCain could possibly do a reasonably tolerable job as president. How is that for inspiration? The problem isn’t isolated among the candidates. The party leaders seem to have forgotten our nation’s founding and the actual responsibilities and LIMITATIONS of the offices for which they peddle their substandard candidates!

Are we at a point that a majority just doesn’t care anymore? Do most American citizens:

• feel like victims that cannot provide for themselves and their families?
• believe that they are incompetent and therefore need government to make their decisions for them?
• believe that they are owed something by everyone else?
• believe that the grotesquely inefficient bureaucracy can provide medical care?
• believe that our borders and our jobs should be open to illegal aliens?
• believe that jobs will be created by taxation and regulation of businesses?
• believe that the federal government should hold hearings on professional sports?
• believe that the carbon dioxide humans exhale and plants require is a pollutant that is to be restricted to the further detriment of American industry?

There are so many ridiculous intrusions into American life by our monstrous government that we may indeed be lost. The majority of citizens may be comfortably numb to the reality of our metastasizing government and their may be no hope for “change.” I am not there yet. I am not ready to give in thanks to six particular reasons (the sixth is due in February.) I probably will still vote for McCain because of Palin, but that does not mean he has my support.

I hope that we will badger the next president and the members of Congress, most of whom could be honestly described as parasites, on every important issue that arises. I hope once the election is over, the talk radio voices rediscover McCain’s penchant for kicking conservatives in the crotch and help keep the public informed of the plans being hatched in the pits of Washington D.C. Vigilance will be required as we monitor our elected officials. I hope that as soon as the election results are announced, we begin a new campaign to return our government to the people. We need to find candidates that will not be sucked into the vacuum of Washington power. We need to find candidates that respect The Constitution. Of course we also need to make the majority of citizens aware of the need to return to limited self-government… and that is truly the problem.