After decades of division between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, white folks and black folks, gays and straights, young and old, rich and poor – the list is almost endless, isn’t it? - it’s time to stop fighting amongst ourselves. Why do I say that which likely seems impossible to achieve? Truly, we’ve never really been enemies, any of us, but simply differ on ideological issues. We disagree and have differences of opinions on some things. Oh, we’ve certainly bought into the mainstream media propaganda that paints us all as enemies, but as the internet continues to facilitate more factual communication among us, amazingly we are discovering that we are not enemies at all. In fact, while we’re busy doing battle with one another our real and mutual enemy – you know who I’m talking about, the one who controls the mainstream propaganda media which pits us all one against the other? - continues to steal, kill and destroy America right in front of our eyes.

I confess that if you read my blogs from prior years, it’s evident that I bought into the “Us vs. Them” fantasy scenario, with “Us” being principled individuals who believe in God, personal responsibility, accountability, liberty and occasional personal sacrifice in order to facilitate honor and integrity for all. “Them”, of course, were the ungodly liberals who (in my propagandized opinion) were responsible for all of America’s problems! Seeing how I am only weeks into my newfound POV, it may seem premature for me to be writing about how absurd my former viewpoint was. However, the great thing about getting new glasses (seeing things in a new way) is that once you’ve got your new glasses on it’s impossible to go back and see them from your old POV. For me, anyway, this is true.

BIG BUSINESS, LOBBYISTS ARE KILLING AMERICA = Big business is pushing for a global economy. The lust for more – greed is what we call it – has driven the ‘haves’ to take American business overseas where they can get child labor to work for pennies an hour and where materials are dirt-cheap.  Big business has been responsible for keeping our borders open, as well, so that cheap labor can continue to pour into our nation, desperate people who don’t the rules or the law or their rights here in America.  Big Business is in the business of taking advantage of ignorant, desperate, largely uneducated and uninformed people across the globe.

The illusion has become that those behind the Federal Reserve Bank are solely responsible for trying to create a one world communist government, but the truth is that the Fed is just a part of that mission. Banks, the auto industry, manufacturing, technology – all have to a great degree left the USA in favor of cheaper labor, ignorant and easy to manipulate foreign populations, and the ability to utilize unethical and immoral means of advertising such as subliminal messages and dishonest promises.

While we bicker about whether or not to legalize marijuana (it would be a bad move, btw) or gay marriage (CA already has Domestic Partnership laws which give homosexuals all the same rights as married folks – Google ‘CA Family Code 297.5’ and see for yourself, so why are gays fighting for rights they already have here in California?) or racism, politics or religion, Big Business has already bought and paid for your Senators and mine, your Congressmen/women and mine and are responsible for destroying our economy today.

We’ve been duped into believing that we are each other’s enemies because if we’re busy fighting amongst ourselves we don’t notice what’s going on in Washington D.C. or anywhere else on the planet. Propaganda has created these imaginary fights among us, and only through a return to principled living and the embracing of American liberty and freedom will we regain control of our nation. Oh, we need to protest alright, but not against one another. We need to get organized, I admit, but not into labor unions owned by Big Business. We need to gather together, put our personal differences aside, start wielding the power that we, the people have left and stop doing business with those who have caused our economy’s collapse.

I’m referring to the American auto makers who are still producing crap compared to the Japanese, Korean, German and British auto industries who have taken our tax dollars to prop up their sinking ships and yet have done virtually nothing to change the way they do business. Their way of doing business caused them to go bankrupt, yet they’ve taken billions of our tax dollars and continue to do business the same way they always have. Bank of America is another business we need to abandon, to let them fail, to show our unhappiness with their taking billions of our tax dollars in order to continue to do business like they always have. You can add Citibank and every other major bank who took ‘Stimulus’ money, which is our money, to prop up their still sinking ships.

While we’re busy fighting for the right to get stoned and for rights we already have, Big Business is killing America. Wake up, America, and do some real research. Turn off ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC propaganda and take a look at what Fox News is reporting today. The mainstream media is run by the government. They singlehandedly propagandized and deceived Americans into electing a man we still don’t even know. If you’re still watching the news on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC then you are intentionally allowing yourself to be subjected to propaganda. The truth is that most of us are smarter than that. It’s time we started to act like it.

United we stand. Divided we fall. That's a fact. I pray today that we find a way to become a united America once more. We can do this.

© Don Cobb

 

America’s Congress has 535 representatives sitting in the House and Senate in Washington D.C. Add to that number one president and 9 Supreme Court justices and we have 545 people in our nation’s capital who are supposed to be serving us. We are all very aware of the corruption and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars that has bankrupted the United States of America. We are all aware, as well, that it is the job of these 536 elected representatives and 9 court appointees to protect our tax dollars from being abused or misused. They represent us. At least, they are supposed to be representing we, the people. Their primary job is to protect our interests in social and economic matters, to manage America’s budget, to make decisions which will secure America’s safety from enemies who might wish to harm us and to secure and protect the rights and liberties of all citizens “for ourselves and our posterity”. Our “posterity” means for future generations, as well as our own. So far, they are failing miserably to do their jobs. I’m not the only person who is pointing this out. So is Charlie Reese (click here).

GOOD: 0 – EVIL: 545

Aside from the lifetime politicians who American lemmings re-elect solely because they’re familiar with their last name, we have to be excited that our political system insures that new members of Congress will be elected regularly, and so we, the people have fresh eyes walking into Washington D.C. every election. One would imagine that these fresh eyes would see exactly what is going on in our nation’s capital and that those newly elected would act as accountability, exposing whatever corruption or misuse of taxpayer dollars is going on by the greedy, lazy and selfish representatives we’ve chosen to represent us. 

So how often do the newly-elected expose financial mismanagement in Washington D.C.? How many times have we seen a new Senator or Congressman sent to Washington start issuing press releases about what a lack of accountability there is in their new position, or how their expense accounts border on insane in that not only are they all overpaid but that they get free automobiles and free gasoline, huge travel expense accounts that are easily and oftentimes abused and used fraudulently, office credit card accounts that enable them to buy new laptops, pay for their new office and office equipment and staff, and eat every meal at expensive restaurants for free while they are in office? And this is the tip of the iceberg. How about their extravagant health insurance, which covers them for the rest of their lives, and their retirement which gives them full pay for the rest of their lives? Do new Senators ever report back about the insane and excessive spending that each Senator is afforded and allowed to engage in?

How often have we seen those whom we elect to represent us act as a “Sarah Palin”, truly looking out for we, the people, rather than taking advantage of the indulgent, unrestrained spending that  they discover each Congressperson is allowed, because they all voted to set themselves up with undeserved, unnecessary and extravagant expense accounts? I can give you that number, because I’ve been watching and paying attention for all of my adult life. According to my life-long observation, that number is ZERO. I personally have never seen or even heard of a freshman Senator or Representative land in Washington and then report back about all of the unnecessary benefits afforded them while they’re in Washington D.C.. Nor have I witnessed a freshman Congressperson submit a bill designed to expose and stop the exorbitant, unreasonable personal spending of taxpayer dollars which takes place every day by our elected officials.

We have no choice in this matter any longer. Hoping our elected representatives will have integrity has proven to be a fool’s approach. No sooner does a newly elected Congressperson land in Washington and set up their new office complete with staff who do most, if not all, of their work for them, but greed apparently sets in and they appear to forget completely that America is bankrupt, that Congress is solely responsible for our bankruptcy, and that they, the newly elected, are the only real hope that we, the people, have. The newly elected, regardless of their good or noble intentions when running for office, appear to morph like chameleons into greedy, self-serving abusers of the system as soon as they land in Washington.

If this were not so, all of us in America would be able to point to the exceptions to the rule, to list by name those Senators and Congresspersons who did expose the excessive personal spending allowed by our government. We would all be aware of the bills designed to change that abuse of taxpayer dollars, but alas, there is no one noble enough to stand up in Congress or in front of the press and say “This is ridiculous! We are abusing our privilege and taxpayer dollars for our own self-indulgent pleasure and entitlement!”

THE ANSWER

So the answer is clear. We stop electing lifers. We start electing real people, not attorneys or even business owners, but real people who have had a lifetime of working for a living, who have had to learn how to live within their means, who have been forced to live within a budget – honest, hardworking people with the courage to speak up when they see evil and abuse taking place. We need to stop electing familiar names and instead get off our fat, lazy American butts and start investigating who the candidates actually are so we don’t elect another Communist president or Senator or Congressperson who does not represent we, the people, at all.

By the way, I’m willing to go to Washington and help clean House (and Senate). Are you willing to get involved? Start showing up at city council meetings, county Supervisor meetings, and local political party meetings of your choice. Show up, stand up and speak up, and make yourself available. We need real people to go to Washington and clean up at least 40 years of extreme abuse of power and reckless abuse of taxpayer dollars by both the Democrats and the Republicans.

We can do this. © Don Cobb

MAINSTREAM MEDIA BACKPEDALING LIKE CRAZY – Apparently, after realizing that 40 years of televised liberal propaganda hadn’t ‘taken’ as completely as they thought it had, the Propaganda Network (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC) is backpedaling like crazy away from their beloved ‘savior’, whom they refer to openly as “The One”. Only weeks ago planted firmly on their knees in front of Barack Hussein Obama as they worshipped everything he said and did for the past 18 months, Obama’s handlers have obviously given the mainstream news media the nod to start pretending to be journalists again.

As the NY Times and CNN both begin publishing opinions which are mildly critical of The Obama Show, the rest of Obama’s propaganda machine falls in line as well. The entire Propaganda Network (PN) is in reverse in America today. The White House now feigning anger with some of their most faithful and beloved partners (NYT and CNN), it appears that the $660 million dollar marketing campaign which convinced an America disillusioned by faux-Republican George Bush to vote for a secret candidate (no school records, no birth certificate, no passport records) was only effective while the propaganda was actually on the air promoting our Mystery President. Since the year-long onslaught of media-driven promotion of The Obama Show, ratings have dropped considerably as guest star after guest star (Obama administration appointed ‘Czars’) have turned out to be virtually all Communists, criminals and more Communists.

While the national unemployment rate has continued to rise above 10%, The Obama Show claims to have created more than 600,000 jobs! Apparently realizing that this is only a show like any other show, America seems to have become collectively aware that we’ve been duped, that the Mystery President which followers still call “The One” hasn’t got any “change” to offer except for Communism (technically one could make the case that this is ‘old change’) and in less than a year has virtually destroyed all “hope” that this “change” is right for America. As the media pretends to be journalists once more, an educated and experienced America looks on in amazement, that The Obama Show would even have the audacity to take us for such suckers…again.

OIL SPILL IN SF BAY: LIBERALS FREAKING OUT ABOUT BIRDS – While California liberals put their sad faces on display in local newscasts for 35 birds covered with oil from a recent tanker spill, more than 4,000 babies were killed in America by abortion doctors again today. The description of American Liberals of “upside down” appears to be accurate as the ultra-left cries tears for 35 oil-covered birds who need cleaning and yet applaud, congratulate and support the mothers who chose to hire doctors and our nation’s largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) to kill more than 4,000 of their babies every single day, celebrating their ‘freedom’ to kill their own children before birth. “At the rescue center, the birds are checked for injuries, photographed, fed and kept warm. Within 48 hours most are healthy enough to have the oil cleaned from their bodies and feathers.”

Let’s think: Crying for oil-covered birds – celebrating dead babies. Priorities, morals and ethics clearly completely upside down, American liberals care more about their imaginary crises such as the global warming hoax and the more recent Healthcare crisis d’jour which is really just our government strong-arming and taking over the healthcare industry than they care for real, Human babies. Perhaps the liberal left is better able to sit in trees and march along gleefully in profane public sex parades in San Francisco than they are able to discern right and wrong or up from down in America today. For my money, I’ll take leaders who tread the middle ground, thank you very much.

IMPEACH OBAMA MOVEMENT GROWING – A national movement is taking place right now after the US government under the direction and authority of The Obama Show has veered hard left into Communism, taking over the auto industry, the banking industry and is pounding on the door of the Health Insurance industry with plans to take over both health insurance and health care in the United States. Websites such as www.impeachobamacampaign.com (more than 70,000 signatures at this one site alone, as of yesterday) are reporting that thousands and thousands of Americans are signing petitions to impeach The One”. This, coming less than 10 months into his reign, I believe is unprecedented in US history.

A recent Google search using the words “impeach Obama” produced 970,000 links which seems to confirm that America has awoken from her propaganda-induced delusion and is aware that our nation has been taken over by extremists. The Obama Show worked really well on paper, and even during promotion it sold very nicely to Americans who had been effectively uneducated by the US government school system and subject to 40 years of media-driven propaganda in schools, on television and in movies. Clearly The Obama Show and its creators and handlers did their homework before launching this new venture, as more than $660,000,000 worth of advertising certainly did glean them many fans initially. As the dream turned into a nightmare, however, and the effects of more than 660 million dollars of propaganda (primetime television and magazine ads) began to wear off, Americans woke up to the fact that the good old USA was being quickly converted to Communism (Socialism, Marxism, Communism – effectively all the same thing) as our government pulled the same routine that many Communists have pulled throughout history.

Rahm Emanuel said it succinctly when he said ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste’ and the ultra-leftists Communists) who control the Democrat Party proceeded to take advantage of our financial crisis, which some believe was initiated intentionally by the Federal Reserve Board who controls our money and who has been accused of associating with the global One World Government conspirators. Adolph Hitler did the same thing: trashed the economy so people were afraid and felt needy, then stepped in, flooded the nation with propaganda and pretended to be their savior…and it worked, just like it worked here in America last year. The difference, of course, is that Hitler duped folks in ultra-liberal Europe. The Obama Show has pulled off the same mass manipulation in the Land of the Free, filled with God-fearing, God-loving, conservative Americans. The Communists really need to get credit for a job well done, because America was truly the biggest and hardest nut to crack, and they definitely cracked her wide open last November.

But today is another day altogether. Americans have awakened and are sounding the alarm for the others to wake up. There is a rooster in the hen house and before The Obama Show gives America over to the rest of the Communists involved in trying to create a One World government next month in Copenhagen, Americans are now beating on the White House door, demanding that this ultra-liberal leftist Communist president and his friends get the Hell out of Washington D.C.

NANCY PELOSI NEWEST CIRCUS STAR - Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California (strike two) has recently submitted a new bill designed to replace the old bill, both of which will allow the US government to take over the health insurance industry and healthcare in the entire USA. Ms. Pelosi’s bill, however, is nearly 2,000 pages long, replacing The Obama Show’s original 1,000 page Communist healthcare takeover attempt. With so much pork in this bill, it’s designed not only to take over health insurance and healthcare industries in America, but to insure that attorneys and special interests get special rights and treatment. From biggovernment.com: “For example, check out this juicy morsel to the trial lawyers (page 1431-1433 of the bill): Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.

So, you can’t try to seek alternatives to lawsuits if you’ve actually done something to implement alternatives to lawsuits. Brilliant! The trial lawyers must be very happy today!”

 So Pelosi’s new offering must be considered a joke and that would make her Washington D.C.’s newest circus star! But wait…no one’s laughing. Quite the contrary, in fact, a lot of people are mad as Hell. Rightly so, in my humble opinion. It’s high time we chased this circus out of town for good. While I agree that America should be able to support a national healthcare system, to provide healthcare for every American citizen, there is currently such a lack of accountability in spending in Washington D.C. that only a complete house-cleaning – which means eliminating all incumbents and electing men and women of character and integrity to both the House and the Senate – will right this financially lilting ship.

WHY CURRENT GOVT. LEADERS CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS - The Department of Energy, as just one example, created under Democrat Jimmy Carter’s regime, is currently requesting a $26.4 BILLION DOLLAR budget drain on the US taxpayers for 2010. Does anyone remember why this department was originally created? Get this: to overcome America’s dependence on foreign oil! Has it succeeded in it’s mission? No! It has been a complete and utter failure! Yet the DOE has over 150,000 people on it’s payroll today, a complete failure of Carter’s presidency, yet still in existence today!

Is pouring 26.4 BILLION DOLLARS every year into a FAILED EFFORT really wise stewardship of American taxpayer money? Of course not. Why hasn’t someone done something about this, and other wasteful spending by both Democrats and the GOP?!? Because there is no accountability in Washington D.C today! That’s why.

Now you know. Elect principled leaders, not familiar names.

© Don Cobb

 

Clearly ABC, CBS and NBC are no longer reliable, unbiased news sources, and neither are CNN or MSNBC. If there was any doubt about this fact, it was proven during the 2008 Presidential primaries, campaigns and elections and continues to bear out over the months since the election. There was nothing unbiased about CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Presidential election as all of these networks worked openly and feverishly to get Barrack Hussein Obama elected. They didn’t feign objectivity nor did they attempt to hide their bias. There was no “fair and balanced” or unbiased journalism taking place on the big three networks. The vast majority of Americans in a recent poll acknowledged knowing that the mainstream media was instrumental in getting Obama and Co. elected, which mean those networks are no longer reliable, unbiased news sources but are propaganda machines.

BIASED MEDIA PROMOTION IS CALLED ‘PROPAGANDA’

Remember back in the the day when the Communists openly used propaganda to demonize the USA? Russia, China, Cuba and other Communist countries have always used propaganda to dissuade their citizens from learning what The United States of America, the Melting Pot of the World was really all about. Why this mass manipulation of public opinion against the USA? Propaganda can be very effective in controlling the masses and in manipulating public opinion. In this case, the Communists didn’t want their citizens to emigrate to the Land of the Free, and quite the contrary, they wanted to foster hatred toward the U.S. Germany used propaganda to convince an already bigoted populace that Jews were less than Human, of no value, and eventually German propaganda led the German citizenry to believe that Jews needed to be killed, that killing Jewish families was a good idea. It was the power of propaganda that convinced and brain-washed the German citizens into supporting the Genocide which resulted in more than 6 million Jewish families being slaughtered, gassed and murdered.

ABC, NBC MSNBC & CBS ARE ALL GUILTY OF PROPAGANDA

America just elected a man whom no one really knows, an unknown Chicago politician with close personal relationships with convicted terrorists (among them: Bill Ayers) who bombed the Pentagon. This unknown man Obama, we learned, also sat in an openly racist and white-hating, America-bashing church for 17 years, listening to a pastor spew hate and condemnation, even cursing America from the pulpit (you’ve likely seen the videos), continually condemned all White people, preaching anger and hate every Sunday for all who would listen. This man Obama that Propaganda just elected has also refused to provide evidence that he is even eligible for the office of the Presidency, and reportedly has spent more than $1,000,000 in attorney fees to fight lawsuits demanding that he produce his birth certificate! Refusing to produce his birth certificate, America doesn’t even know if Obama is an American citizen. Obama has legally locked up all of his school records, college records, passport and travel information so that no one can verify his past or who he really is, in what country he holds citizenship, whether or not he is even eligible to hold this office. Obama refuses to let America know who he really is. Yet, America voted for this unknown and probably ineligible man who is best friends with a convicted terrorist who bombed the Pentagon. America voted for this stranger we know nothing about because the propaganda produced by CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC was just as effective as Adolph Hitler’s propaganda, convincing otherwise intelligent people to vote for a man with ties to criminals, who is still hiding his past so that America won’t find out who he really is. Propaganda works. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC & CBS just proved that.

Propaganda can be so effective, that amazingly, even now, while we’ve watched this man Obama lie to America repeatedly through his campaign and continue to lie about the Communist agenda he and his Marxist/Socialist/Communist friends are trying to force-feed America, many Americans still support him. Effective propaganda can convince people that evil is good, that criminals are trustworthy, that the Constitution isn’t worth defending, and that America is bad. I believe that is what the propaganda networks have accomplished through a subtle, ongoing and continuous propaganda campaign for 4 decades now.

WATCH CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC NEWS AT YOUR OWN RISK

Truly, after the blatant abandonment by the mainstream media of balanced, unbiased journalism displayed through the 2008 presidential election, only a fool or a person already mentally manipulated and seriously affected by decades of propaganda would watch the above-mentioned networks present anything as “news”. The vast majority of Americans have already admitted that these networks engaged in propaganda designed to get an unknown man who is likely not even an American citizen elected to the highest office in the land, an office he is almost certainly not eligible for. We know these networks have an agenda and are willing to do whatever it takes to further that agenda, yet some of us continue to rely on these propagandists for national and world news. Insane? Logic and reason say “yes, it’s insane”.

If you find yourself still watching and relying on any of these supposed “news” sources now, you can know that your mind has already been manipulated by years of propaganda. That an otherwise intelligent person would watch known propaganda news sources in order to get information about U.S. or world events suggests that (a) your mind has already been manipulated into accepting propaganda and lies as the truth or (b) perhaps you’re simply a sociopath who doesn’t care about anyone or anything. I don’t see any other logical reason why a person would intentionally feed themselves propaganda.

PROPAGANDA AT HOME & AT SCHOOL

While gullible, complacent, arrogant and lazy, apathetic and stoned Americans continue to let the mainstream media feed them crap and lies and call it “news”, government-run schools filled with Marxist/Socialist believing teachers have been hard at work feeding their Communist agenda to children in the public school system. While not all teachers are Socialists, there has been an intentional effort by American Marxist/Socialists to become teachers at every level of the education system. If you haven’t read the Communist Manifesto, and you watch mainstream media ‘news’ propaganda, you’ve likely already dismissed what I’m saying because decades of propaganda in America has been aimed at vilifying those who would make even a suggestion of “conspiracy”.

The only explanation that makes sense to this writer as to why Americans are still supporting an administration that has Communist roots and has taken swift and wide sweeping steps implementing Communist governance here in America is that propaganda works…and works well. So well, in fact, that some folks don’t even realize why they support what they support.

The bottom line? Propaganda works.

© Don Cobb

WE REALLY DID IT THIS TIME…

Granted, after the 8 year lashing Bush gave America it's no wonder people ran away from Republicans in the last presidential election. Let's be honest about this, however - more people voted against McCain than voted for the unknown Marxist Obama. America still doesn't know if Obama is even qualified to be president. The man has spent more than $1,000,000 keeping his birth certificate a secret, and it's common knowledge that the fraudulent piece of crap he offered us as a "Certification of Live Birth" was a form anyone could get in Hawaii, no matter where they were born.

No, we really did it this time. We let the very media who promoted this man Obama feed us more than $660,000,000 worth of Obama campaign funds to convince us that someone we don't even know, whose best friend is an unrepentant terrorist who Obama initially denied knowing but it turns out he lied - we let this propaganda media convince us that it was a good idea to elect an unknown Marxist who spent 18 years taking his daughters to a white-hating racist church.

So now what? Now we're all watching Obama and the other Communists take America apart piece by piece, dismantling and taking over the banking industry, the auto industry, the healthcare industry, and taking away our rights to worship freely, our freedom of speech, propagandizing our children in government schools and (according to recent news reports) is trying to create a police state where this government thinks they're going to force us all to let them inject us with something that is supposed to protect us from the flu epidemic that doesn't exist. Less than a year in office, and America sounds more like Communist China or Cuba already.

I no longer hesitate to say that Americans really did it this time. Not me, but you, if you voted for this Marxist/Communist who is hiding his past and his birth certificate and has promised to bring America some radical "change". That's the only thing Obama was honest about: change. He's changing the land of the free into just another Marxist/Communist country like any other.

And we thought the Communists were going to attack us all these years. They didn't have to. They simply came to America, joined the Democrat Party, spent more than $660,000,000 on marketing and Americans voluntarily voted Communists into the White House.

I just shake my head. Could be that Senator Joe McCarthy was right, after all. Blackballed by the same liberal media who just promoted and helped elect this new Marxist/Communist president Obama, it appears that Joe McCarthy may have been exactly right about what was going on in Washington.

The saddest part, however, is not that America has already been taken over by a man who isn’t even eligible to hold office here. Nor is it that the Communists have intentionally destroyed our economy like they always do when they take over a nation, or that they now own the White House, the auto industry, the banking industry and are about to take over the healthcare industry in America. The saddest part isn’t that they’ve done all of this without any of us even lifting a thumb to stop them.

The really sad thing about all of this is that the majority of Americans who are responsible for putting these Communists in the White House don’t even have the humility to apologize or even admit that they were wrong, or that what’s going on is wrong. Arrogant and ignorant, the folks who helped turn America over to the Communists are still so deluded they pretend to believe that everything is going to be alright. Americans, many of them at least, are in complete denial about how they helped to kill America as we’ve always known it.

© Don Cobb

Left wing ideology is not, in and of itself, necessarily evil or even bad. It is born from a noble place, and then, when we are left to our own devices it becomes something else altogether.

The same can be said of Right wing ideology. It is not necessarily evil or even bad. It is born from a noble place, and then, when we are left to our own devices it becomes something else altogether.

Both sides of the spectrum, to a great degree, want to help people. The notion is a noble one, and its pursuit is commendable, on both sides of the fence. The problem is not that one side or the other is right or wrong. The problem is that on both sides of the fence we find extremists, literalists and control freaks. They tend to muddy the water and erect the wall that divides us so deeply we cannot see the other’s point of view.

While there are people of faith on both the Left and the Right, those people are not necessarily the shot callers in charge of walking this thing out. True people of faith tend to be humble and quieter than their extreme and more self-reliant peers.

THE GRAND ILLUSION

Conspiracy Theorists (CTs) have long ago been painted quite effectively with the “Lunatic” brush. The reason for that is two-fold. One reason is because when things aren’t adding up in a given arena, people tend to get excited, rather than patient. They start doing the math themselves rather than taking the time to do the research in order to discover the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Because CTs become excited, they oftentimes take what little they know and couple it with what they believe might also be true and present their ideas to the rest of us, fully expecting us to get it. But because what they’ve presented is only partially true, the rest of us tend to dismiss all of it, for fear of appearing as they (the CTs) do: wacky, unstable, and/or crazy.

The other reason CTs get painted with the “Lunatic” brush has nothing to do with the CTs themselves. It has everything to do with what is actually going on and just might be that the people who are involved in real conspiracies also own the media which regularly dismisses CTs as “lunatics”.

That’s right: I said the other reason the mainstream media dismisses conspiracy theories is because the mainstream media is owned by those who are involved in those conspiracies. Call me a CT, I don’t care. The truth is the truth and for those who would prefer to remain blind, you’ve probably already stopped reading.

That anyone would imagine that the most powerful nation on the planet, the greatest wealthiest nation in the history of Mankind wouldn’t be the target for bad, greedy and selfish people, to you I salute you and support your choice to remain ignorant. To those who wish to rule the world, America is the plum on this planet. This is America, after all, and if you think the richest, greediest people in the world aren’t fighting over who will control and run this richest and most powerful nation in the world, then I invite you to put your head back in the sand and go back to sleep.

For the rest of us, who have admittedly been asleep ourselves or at least dozing at the TV for the past 40 years, it’s clear that when the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR dissolved, the Communists did not go back to what they were doing. They came here. That’s correct, the Communists came to America through our open borders and easy undocumented entry like illegal aliens still come across our borders today.

A BIG PART OF THE GRAND ILLUSION

The Communist Party has always had the freedom to exist here in America. It wasn’t always common knowledge, as Senator McCarthy discovered, but they’ve always been here, working away, patiently coming alongside Democrats as they tried to sell their brand of ‘helping people’. Americans, naïve and arrogant, apathetic and idealistic, have pretended not to see them, preferring not to know in order to avoid having to confront or deal with them. Or perhaps we’ve simply been too self-obsessed to notice.

In 1988, however, the Communist Party in America instructed their members from “1988 to present: Voters urged to support the Democratic Party”. (See top chart here for “Communist Party USA”). I doubt that many Americans know this, because Americans are not big on paying attention to what is really important. Hairstyles, slogans, TV shows and pop music? Americans are hip to it all. Who they are really casting their votes for on Election Day? Not that important, apparently.

So what do you know? It’s not just a conspiracy theory at all. It’s true: Communists have been active in the Democrat Party for decades, like Obama’s short-lived, recently ousted, self-declared Communist ‘Green Jobs Czar’ Van Jones. But Jones isn’t the only admitted Communist President Obama has appointed to serve in his administration. There are others, as well as racists and wackos who serve in Obama’s administration, including John Holdren, a certifiable nut case who advocates compulsory abortion for women (that means forced abortions) and forced global population control (that means killing people randomly just because he believes there are too many people).

While I agree that it certainly appeared that we needed some “change” after George Bush raped and pillaged the USA and gave his buddies the first $700 billion bailout, it also appears, in hindsight, that George Bush might merely have been a set-up to launch this radical ultra-leftist Obama onto America without telling any of us what he was really about, because as it turns out Obama is just like Bush only worse! Change? Yes. It certainly appeared that it was needed. But appointing Communists to serve in his administration? I think it says volumes about who this unknown Jr. Senator from Illinois really is. To my knowledge, Obama is the only president to appoint Communists to his administration. I may be wrong, but I don’t think so.

http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/government/elections/president/timeline.htm

John Holdren: FrontPage Magazine

© Don Cobb

Has there ever been a time more poignant than this in which the very survival of the greatest nation in the history of Mankind was questionable? Have we ever had an openly hostile and Marxist administration in the White House, who no longer serve and are no longer afraid of or respectful of We, the people?

Has there ever been a President of these United States who has been guilty of openly mocking Christianity, releasing terrorists, and intentionally bankrupting America? Has any American president ever tried creating an inner-city degenerate Teletubbie Gestapo or spent two decades attending an extremely racist, radical Leftist, anti-White, anti-American church with his wife and children?

Have any American presidents ever taken over entire private industries such as the auto industry, the banking industry or the healthcare industry, abandoning capitalism in favor of Marxist Communism?

Has any American president ever been so arrogant as to fly our Air Force One low over Manhattan with F-16's in tow, or been guilty of giving the Queen an iPod of himself, with his racist black panther wife disrespectfully touching the Queen?

Have we ever seen an American President refuse to pledge allegiance to our flag, and other than Jimmy Carter, engage in undermining our military in a time of war, dictating to us that we must be tolerant of Islam, the cult of hate and murder? Has any American president hired felons and radical racist communists to fill virtually all of the major positions in his administration?

Has any American president paid to hide his school records and birth certificate and made it against the law to see them? Have any American presidents ever been involved with such radical organizations who have been convicted of illegal activities like ACORN or were openly in relationship with violent thugs like the SEIU?

HAS AMERICA EVER HAD AN ISLAMIC PRESIDENT?

Has any American president ever had multiple terrorist ties or been guilty of openly showing how RACIST against White people he really is?

Have any American president before this one ever celebrated Ramadan, ending with a feast in OUR White House? Have any presidents in American history ever been so arrogant and intimidating that they would mock legal assemblies such as our tea parties, which only happen as a result of our existing Constitutional rights to assemble and protest?

Have any American presidents ever called those who disagree with him “right wing domestic terrorists” or illegally occupied our White House? Have any previous American presidents been guilty of committing treason on a daily basis or in openly defying our Constitution?

Hypothetical questions, of course, but the answer to all of these questions is “Yes”. There is only one American president, however, to whom this answer applies.

IS IT TIME FOR AMERICA TO SURRENDER, ROLL OVER AND DIE?

Has there ever been a time when American sovereignty has been in danger of being intentionally destroyed in favor of some whackadaisical attempt to create a One World Government? And has any American president been guilty of telling more lies in such a short period of time than anyone else in history than the current president?

The answer to both of those questions is “No”.

Perhaps that leaves us, realistically, with only one question left: Will America let Marxist Communists convert their nation into a government of the government, for the government and by the government, letting a Communist administration take away our right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, freedom to protest, the right to privacy, to bear arms and the right of determination of our own individual futures for ourselves and our families?

One more question: How many Americans have been convinced that they are powerless over this kind of takeover by persons hostile to the American way, who feel that they cannot make a difference and so what is the use in trying? I’m guessing that virtually every American who watches television for years and years has now been convinced that there is nothing we can do. That lie couldn’t be further from the truth. We, the people, do not have to let our nation and our freedoms be taken away from us. If we keep feeding ourselves subliminal – and not-so-subliminal - propaganda from the boob tube, however, we will likely do just that.

Not this American, however. Not on my shift.

A special thanks to my new Facebook friend Ann Kelly for inspiring and contributing greatly to this column.

© Don Cobb

A healthy nation starts with healthy individuals. America today is, collectively speaking, not at her optimal health. With freedom comes responsibility, and unfortunately for the generation that not only promised never to grow up but who also kept that promise to a great degree (Baby Boomers), personal responsibility does not appear at the top of America's collective priority list. Quite the contrary, in fact. Some social circles don't even know what the phrase "personal responsibility" means, nor are they interested.

Trying to find volunteers who will actually do something to help the poor is oftentimes like looking for a needle in a haystack. I suppose we could always look for them at the mall, which is packed day after day by people who worship money over He who is truly worthy of worship. Ironic, isn't it, that rather than worshipping our Creator, we've slipped so far from reality that we don't even worship His creation like we used to (dirt worshippers). No, the thing most worshipped in America today appears to this writer to be the Almighty Dollar.

Fathers and mothers alike will abandon their own children in their quest for the Almighty Dollar. The excuse is “We need the money”. Reality reveals that many people value money over their closest relationships, sacrificing valuable time and opportunities to be with their loved ones for a chance to make a few more bucks. Children for several generations now have been left to strangers (daycare providers, babysitters, nannies) or even left to raise themselves as they get home from school to an empty house. It's a good thing there isn't any such thing as Spiritual Warfare going on in this life, or our children would be at the mercy of the one who comes to steal, kill and destroy.

Oh, wait... The stealing, killing and destroying have already begun.

FROM FREEDOM TO MARXISM IN 9 SHORT MONTHS

So, because a handful of people don’t believe in God, think Jesus was but “a good man” or “a great teacher”, and who also buy into the Greatest Lie Ever Told, which is that the devil doesn’t exist, the fate of our children and of our nation has fallen into the hands of a group of folks (our government) who lean on nothing but their own understanding about life. Starting out in 2006/2007, our current administration pretended they were good church-going Americans and pooh-poohed any talk of Socialism or Communism, calling such accusations outrageous and ridiculous. But here we are, some 9 months into what has become a major abomination (Obama nation) and our government has nationalized the banking industry, the auto industry and is about to nationalize the healthcare industry. Not exactly what America has been about for 200+ years, is it?

Democratic Republics don’t take over private industry. Marxist governments take over private industry. Communist governments do that, too. No longer hiding behind the mask of an American, our president shown his hand, and it’s clear that the Che Gueverra poster in his campaign headquarters was there because Obama, it is now clear, admires that Marxist. Not only that, but some of our Senators and Representatives are now pointing to Cuba and Fidel Castro as if they are some model of government to be admired. The cat is out of the bag. Marxists and Communists are now sitting in America’s Congress. There may be a lot of them, and are certainly far more than I realized.

I’m surprised that there are still Americans who support this rapid conversion of our system of government to Marxism because Marxism is nothing more than a pathway to Communism, and we all know that citizens of Communist countries don’t get to vote for their leaders. Marxism and Communism are the same thing, America. Wake the Hell up.

So let us review: Understandably frustrated, (Bush, it turns out, was part of this same group of men we just elected as evidenced by his giving away the first $700 billion dollars to his friends) ignorant, misinformed Americans have put a Marxist in the White House and he is racing toward Communism just as fast as he and his cohorts possibly can. Those Americans who voted for him in the first place seem to lack the humility to admit they were wrong and still refuse to apologize for voting for and supporting a man who thinks America should be a Marxist nation.

I keep waiting to see those bumper stickers come off their cars, but they’re still there. Perhaps the Kool-aid was a bit stronger than anyone realized. 40 years of using the government-owned media to manipulate American thinking seems to have been successful at convincing enough of the only truly free nation in the history of the planet that Marxism is a good idea. I can only shake my head in amazement.

MINISTERING WITH MARXISTS

The truth is that I minister with some of these folks who are cheering and applauding as our leaders convert America’s democratic republic to Marxism. They don’t want to talk about why they support this shift to Communism because they’re either too ignorant or too brainwashed to understand that Marxism is Communism. They don’t get it. I won’t argue with them unless and until they can engage in civil discussion. So far, none of them can. So while I disagree with them that Marxism is a good “change” for America and for Americans, we continue to stand side-by-side, feeding and ministering to the homeless, leading our friends in worship, focusing on what we agree upon, not upon that which we disagree. For our battle is not with flesh and blood. The battle is with powers and principalities of darkness. God has already won that battle. We resist the enemy and he will flee. We cannot buy into the lie that our battle is with one another, even when the “others” are Marxists and Communists who support dismantling the Land of the Free that I love so much. Ultimately, we will win this war. In fact, we already have. We simply need to step up and take what is already ours from those who are trying to steal it from us.

© Don Cobb

If you were broken in the ways I've been broken, you would understand why I do what I do.

If you had suffered in the ways I've suffered, you would understand why I do what I do.

If you had been blessed and gifted in the ways that I've been blessed and gifted, you would understand why I do what I do.

If you had been given the life that I've been given, you would understand why I do what I do.

But you weren't, you haven't, you're not, and you weren't, so you don't.

If I were broken in the ways you've been broken, I would understand why you do what you do.

If I had suffered in the ways you've suffered, I would understand why you do what you do.

If I had been blessed and gifted in the ways that you've been blessed and gifted, I would understand why you do what you do.

If I had been given the life that you've been given, I would understand why you do what you do.

But I wasn't, I haven't, I'm not, and I wasn't, so I don't.

Because you don't understand why I do what I do is not sufficient grounds to judge me, condemn me, attack me or even criticize me. It is sufficient grounds to come alongside me, to talk with me, to ask questions and to find out more information about why I do what I do.

Our battle is not with flesh and blood, although those who are Spiritually undeveloped have no other option or consideration...and so they do battle with one another, thinking the battle is between 'them and me'.

And so I implore my God to instill in me His wisdom and His power, in order to practice principles in my relationship with you. That I might be patient, and tolerant, and compassionate, and humble; that I might love you and give you the benefit of the doubt when I don't understand you, that I might seek a greater understanding and knowledge about you and who you are and why you do the things you do - none of which is possible without my God's additional power and wisdom and love pouring through me. I pray daily for hope and courage, perseverence and self-discipline, and faith and trust and integrity. I pray for the ability to practice these principles so that my ways might become more like His ways, and that my relationships might not be tainted by Humanistic foibles such as jealousy, fear, envy or hatred. My hope is that I might come to love you as my Creator loves me, and I cannot do that without His help.

Man was designed to enjoy relationship with his Creator. He was intentionally wired so that in order to be the person he or she wanted everyone to think they were, they needed more power, more wisdom and more intelligence than they were born with. We were created to fellowship with our Creator. Left to our own devices, we tend to judge one another, get angry at each other and even hate each other. We plot revenge, intentionally choose not to help when we truly can, worship other Humans, worship stuff, worship ourselves, compromise our integrity for money, fame and/or power, manipulate the truth when it's convenient. We lie to our children, our employers, our friends and our spouses. Left to our own devices, most people - the vast majority, in fact - find it difficult to truly love everyone and have compassion for the less fortunate or to sacrifice anything for others unless for personal gain and end up caught up in the web that self-centeredness weaves around us with all that comes with it, prideful and arrogant, resentful, intolerant with regular bouts of self-pity, rich or poor, white or black, educated or not. None of us are immune from the Human condition and all that comes with it.

None are excluded from the opportunity for real, deep and overwhelming joy which comes from pursuing a relationship with one's Creator, either. God is no respecter of persons. He loves us all the same. The determining and qualifying factor is whether or not we're humble, willing and openminded enough to seek and acknowledge Him and be truly grateful for the blessing His grace afforded us with this life experience.

Because I cannot change you, our only Humanistic options seem to be to either reject you, accept you or give you grace and forgive you when I don't understand why you do what you do. Grace doesn't come easily to Humans, unless there is something personal to gain. Today, I see no reason to do battle with you, simply because I haven't walked a mile in your shoes. Instead, I pray for you, that your brokenness would be healed, that your pain be relieved, that your wounds might be healed, no matter how deep, by my loving Creator who loves you just as much as He loves me.

That way, we can come together regarding the things we have in common, and stop letting our differences tear this nation apart.

I agree completely with Pastor Rick Warren, who describes our life experience not as a roller coaster, but as a train track. Always blessings going on in our lives and always problems going on as well, both at the same time. It isn’t that life goes up and down, but that our focus goes back and forth between what is right in our life and what is wrong in our life. It’s a matter of self-discipline which determines whether we focus on what is right or on what is wrong, and it requires discernment if we are to be as effective as we can on changing the things we can and accepting the things we cannot change.

I’ve decided that everything on the left track, where my problems exist, are things which I need to prayerfully give to God, asking Him to manage those issues, problems and relationships with which I struggle. The right track, where blessings and victories and gifts exist are mine to focus on and count, and to be grateful for. Everything on the left track will end up, one way or another, on the right track eventually, as God in His infinite wisdom and power take care of those for me and then put them back in front of me so that I can do my part in them to turn them into victories or blessings, as the case might be.

I love a good challenge. Lord knows I do. Discernment comes into play when I take the time to prayerfully check in about each issue and/or situation, and after years of practicing this process, I understand what is mine to address and what is His, for now, anyway. Spiritual living is an amazing things, because God’s ways truly aren’t our ways. I’m convinced today that our intellect cannot even begin to comprehend how He does what He does, or why. Issues of Spirit aren’t suppose to be ours to figure out, but are for us to be amazed and awed by. As we seek God with all of our heart (half-measures in any relationship rarely, if eve, result in closeness or intimacy), He gives us eyes to see the Truth in ways we’ve never been privy to before. We start to see His intentional intervention in our lives in the ways we’ve prayerfully asked Him to help us. It’s undeniable, His interaction on our behalf, and is like real-life magic. Only it’s not magic. It’s God, and it’s His ways which are so amazing.

Before we come to the end of our little selves, many of us don’t even believe He exists. Despite the plethora of evidence all around us, the endless coincidences, the answered prayers in times of desperation, we can’t see past the nose on our faces and so we can’t see Him or what He’s doing with His creation all around us.

But when we get to that place where we know there is more to life than what we’re experiencing, when we realize that our games and our posturing and who we think we are really aren’t even honest or true, when we long to experience deeper meaning and purpose to our lives, only then do we let our walls come down far enough to venture into the unknown world of Spirit. Only then do our little overblown egos risk reaching outside of the little Self Pond we’ve been in forever, and ask in faith for God to let us know that He is there.

That is the point where Life really gets good. That is when the entire Universe opens up to us and the Truth begins to reveal itself in mind-boggling and supernatural ways. Drugs can’t touch Spiritual living. Even the most vivid imagination is not vast enough to create Life in the way God does Life. This is where Humility really gets ahold of us, and this is where we begin to know peace.

© Don Cobb