Charlie Daniels - An American Sage

He said it in 2007, but it's still relevant today. Especially today!!
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I don't know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.
I don't blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America , as it is a truly wonderful place.
But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat out wrong and I don't care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons.
I don't need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don't have any-thing against Mexicans! I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal and if you don't believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it's tanta-mount to saying, "I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there's nothing you can do about it."
It's an "in your face" action and speaking just for me, I don't like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn't be happening.
Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again?
And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won't mean anything anyway Besides, what good is another law going to do when you won't enforce the ones on the books now?
And what ever happened to the polls, guys? I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters. Well you sure ain't paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want some thing done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.
This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy. Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can't happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?
If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit. But I guess that doesn't matter as long as you get re-elected.
Shame on you.
One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you
Well I've been pounded by the media before and I'm still rockin' and rollin' and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not.
And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.
And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, "Oh it's ok, ya'll can stay here if you'll just allow us to slap your wrist."
And I know that some of you who read this column are saying "Well what's wrong with that?"
I'll tell you what's wrong with it. These people could be from Mars as far as we know. We don't know who they are, where they are or what they're up to and the way the Congress is going we're not going to.
Does this make sense? Labor force you say? We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well?
If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan ? I think not.
All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life.
They don't show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did. They don't tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop.
I want to make two predictions.
No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.
No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.
I don't know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, "I don't care who I make mad and I don't care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I'm going to lead the fight to get it straightened out."
I don't blame anybody for wanting to come to America , but if you don't respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others?
And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes Please get that other one out of my face.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels

Goldman Sachs, Chess, and the Godfather

Fellow cynics, a very insightful piece on the Obama Administration's crusade against Goldman Sachs is excerpted below:

Goldman Sachs, Chess, and the Godfather

 By Damon Vrabel  Friday, April 30, 2010 Between the SEC charges and the congressional panels, the government is finally doing its job going after Goldman Sachs, right?  And this last week in April ends with the Justice Department picking up the baton, which puts Goldman under threat of criminal prosecution.  Things have suddenly gotten serious.
Two weeks ago on a radio interview, I suggested the SEC investigation will either be a chump charge to pacify the masses or it might potentially be the beginning of the sacrifice of Goldman Sachs for reasons explained below.  The Justice Department referral makes the latter more probable.


This article is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how the game is played by the finance/government cartel.  As a former Wall Street player, I find it hard to debunk the premise of the article.  The entire article can be found at the following link
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/22663

Tired of Being Ruled by Self Anointed Elites?

Eric Hoffer, longshoreman philosopher, said, "The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us."  


Elite Pundits of all political persuasions are still scratching their heads over the momentum and emerging longevity of the various "Tea Party" elements. All of the pundits are looking for political reasons for the emergence and persistence of the movement.  They are looking in the wrong place.  They profoundly misunderstand the American psyche.  The great majority of Americans is profoundly apolitical.  It only becomes political when it becomes unsafe to be apolitical.  Citizen soldiers don't leave their farms, families, occupations, schools and churches behind to wage petty political battles.  They love their families, occupations, communities and churches too much for that.


American patriots are among the most patient and tolerant people in the world.  They suffer indignities and oppressions which would drive the average Frenchman insane.  In 2009, intelligent, "ordinary" American patriots spontaneously became fed up.  "Fed up with what?" you may ask.  Fed up with self appointed, arrogant, snotty and not all that smart elites.  Party and political philosophy are in the background.


Intelligent, prudent Americans have had enough with lightly qualified, self important "pundits", politicians, "journalists" and pseudo-intellectuals dictating the terms of their lives.  The ignorant, arrogant, drunken, uninvited "guests" at the family picnic have overstayed their welcome.  It is time to throw them all out.

Where Have Virtue, Humility and Prudence in Politics Gone

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has is stolen." – Friedrich Nietzsche

Public officials would do well to remember Nietzsche's words.  Governments create nothing other than rules (laws) and administration which allow others to create.  All wealth or income redistribution schemes require that government take from the creators in order to "redistribute" to non-creators.  Virtue demands that government does not steal, humility demands that government not steal very much, prudence demands that government not steal so much that the creators rebel.  Where are we now in the West?

For the Christians out there, what do you think of governments which systematically violate the 8th and 10th Commandments?

"You must be an intellectual. Only an intellectual could say something so stupid."
--- George Orwell

This is the inaugural post for my first blog. While, educated, I hope to avoid the trap described above. I plan to comment on a wide range of issues, but with an emphasis on politics,business, economics and the current struggles and successes in my life.

I hope you find the blog interesting. I promise to never talk down to my readers.

Hello World

"You must be an intellectual. Only an intellectual could say something so stupid."
--- George Orwell

This is the inaugural post for my first blog. While, educated, I hope to avoid the trap described above. I plan to comment on a wide range of issues, but with an emphasis on politics,business, economics and the current struggles and successes in my life.

I hope you find the blog interesting. I promise to never talk down to my readers.