Our forefathers experienced tyranny and the quest for power and control by the federal government and realized that the one last defense against such abuses was to leave final power in the hands of the state except in extreme cases such as national defense. Our only check on the federal power mongers is to demand and accept no less than the respect for our state’s autonomy and right to self rule.

By this I mean that if any conflict exists between our state laws, especially if voted in by our state’s men and women, our courts and our elected officials should be required to stand for our rights as so sworn to do or be impeached, jailed or both. For instance, I read that the Feds arrested medical marijuana patients and swept them to a federal prison for years even though they were given the right to use it by our voters. Our elected officials should immediately demand the release of these folks or all federal taxes collected in the state should be withheld from the feds until they comply. Jailing anyone for legal activity by the feds is the most blatant and arrogant abuse of power that can be demonstrated and cannot be tolerated.

Every statesman and true American should take any action to put the feds back in their place that is permitted under the constitution including calling upon the formation of a citizen’s militia in the worst case. After all, we all know that our federal government and our political system is rife with corruption and power hungry self righteous crooked politicians on the take from one PAC or the next and they flaunt it in our faces as they believe we are helpless-----and we are unless we stand up as a state united.

Any oath of office in our state should require and stress the full understanding of our dominance over the federal bureaucracy and a promise to take any measures necessary to enforce that policy for the good of our state’s citizenry and for the good and survival of our democracy.

I agree there are many good Iranians, especially the younger generations. But having said that, I feel that it is incumbant upon those fine folks to either change the course of their country or suffer the consequences of their countries policies and actions. Perhaps if we were to unilaterally express our grave concerns and threaten their destruction if they didn't change their ways they might understand the importance of such immediate change and take action. I certainly do not believe that we should sit on our hands for 20 or 30 years and hope.

Ahmadinejad's statements declaring that Israel is a dispicable stain on the map of the middle east and should be destroyed has been well reported. I suggest you do your homework on that. and what do you think all of the centrifuges that he is rushing to build at lightening pace is for===a new carnival ride?

How much time to we give Iran my friend and what do we do in your opinion if Iran is found to have or nearly have nukes? Perhaps send Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Reverend Jackson over there to work it out with those ever-so-reasonable and cooperative folks? What then my friend?

Iran is working vigorously to obtain nukes. Their president has stated that this is their right and he has stated that he wants to wipe Israel off of the map.

Are you saying that we should allow declared enemy nations such as Iran to develop and use nukes on us because it is not right to use them on them??? What??

Look my friend, I have 2 kids and I hate the thought of using nukes. But I hate the thought of my daughters living forcibly under Islam or any other religion and I certainly hate the idea of some rogue 5th century-thinking nation using nukes on my kids and my country.

As for us taking the resources of other countries, we don't do that other than by negotiation unlike all the illegals that invade our country and rape our schools, medical system, and rob our tax dollars with reckless abandon, which I imagine you are in support of. If so, this woulod mean that you believe that the world should share resources which must mean that you would support a policy where we rightfully go take our share of the worlds oil --right?

I mean, the president of Iran has verbally stated as much. Are you refusing to accept his statements as you don't want your beliefs undermined with facts?

My idea of a liberal in most cases is those folks who are politically inclined to put our country's people and/or its financial future in harm due to their blind kindness to fellow man and his plight no matter how self inflicted the man's problems are or how selfish that man may be.

If you think we owe every illegal border jumper something other than a jail cell at that person's country's expense or that every kid who's mother enters the U.S. illegally and plops her kid on our soil deserves something other than deportation, you are a liberal idiot, and idiotic liberal, and all liberals of this ilk are idiots.

If you think that our United States children deserve to suffer from poor education so we can spend our precious education dollars on illegal alien children, you need your head examined.

If you can't seem to take the time to look at the reality that Islam is at the heart of every major conflict around the world with others for no other reason than to force their religion upon others and that their religion is obviously religiously imperialistic and unaccepting of the rest of the world's beliefs, you are ignorant of reality.

If you believe Iran has anything but ill intentions towards the west and is pursueing peaceful nuclear paths, then you owe America the time to think without your blinders on for the sake of our survival.

How can anyone with a brain who cares about our country argue with this and have the nerve to purport that they care about America and its future?

Iran is without a doubt seeking nuclear weapons, is clearly behind the violence in Lebanon, Israel, and Iraq, and has its hand in the affairs of Pakistan. Iran’s leader has openly stated that he wants to wipe Israel of the map.

Every day Iran completes more of its needed centrifuges to enhance nuclear energy waste into weapons grade plutonium. I cannot fathom our country just sitting here or Israel just sitting by while Iran develops the means to wreak nuclear havoc upon the west in the name of Islam.

We are pressing the U.N. to take meaningful actions to curtail Iran’s activities but nothing is stopping. I can only see one answer coming to stop them--- massive military intervention.

We need to once and for all state a clear and firm policy and plans to the entire world that we mean business. We need to lay the law down to the U.N. and nations like Russia who supplies Iran with technology just how grave this situation is to us and demand unilaterally that everyone involved back off or we will risk full out war right now while we have military advantage rather than waiting for our enemies to gain any more strength.

We certainly need to kill the leader of Iran and his ilk immediately. Listen up liberal idiots-- these people hate you and your perverted values much, much more than they do mine and the conservatives. They want to rid the world of vermin like you and I and put your daughters in burkas after they sexually mutilate them. They want to abolish your rights to run your anti-government mouths without repercussions. They want force a religion upon you and I and there not one chance that anything you, I, the America-hating Obama or anyone can say that will change that.

At this point my friends, it is pretty much a submit and become Muslim or fight world and I for one prefer to fight. And before you take of on some ignorant tangent about them just hating America’s policies, remember that there are about 15 to 20 major conflicts globally right now and it is all Muslims unwilling to accept other’s ways of life. Plug the holes in your unwarranted bleeding hearts, take your heads out of the sand, and look around you before you begin to think for your country’s future and for the future of our kids and grand kids.

Coop

Not only did he belong to that lunatic’s parish and let him marry him and baptize his children, apparently, he and his wife have admitted their dislike of America.

We all heard Obama’s wife clearly state that because her husband is running for president that “this is the first time that I am proud of America”. Surely she meant that from her vile America-hating heart. I for one would love to hear her and he elaborate on that statement as to all of the apparently many reasons she should have contempt for our beloved nation. I would assume much of her feelings are pretty much in line with her reverend friend’s.

I also wonder if she and her husband will go back to America hating if he doesn’t win. I could see them hating the Clintons for their ruthlessness in winning if Hillary does in fact get the nomination against the popular vote, but that is a problem with his own political party, not with our country.

All you blind Obama lovers should be asking yourselves why you don’t demand he and his wife explain her one statement in full before you commit to a man like this to lead our country. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Hillary at all as she is a lying, power hungry, bottom of the barrel human being.

I would suggest you Dems seriously consider voting for McCain as he at least loves America and has some integrity left, which Hillary doesn’t. And there is a lot of truth in that joke going around right now---That I bet $1000 a democrat will win the white house this election, because Obama, Clinton, and McCain are all democrats and the only ones running.

Coop

Kuwait holds $1.3 trillion of debt of our government. The Saudis have between $200 and $300 billion. Other Muslim nations have much more as do private Muslim citizens with great wealth. Each day a portion of this debt becomes due and is renewed and we borrow more from these folks at the same time to keep our government running --Especially the military.

Let’s say these creditors with obviously questionable respect for our country formed a coup and called all of our debt due and refused to lend any more to us. We would then not even be able to pay our more friendly debt holders their payments and surely wouldn’t be able to borrow from almost anyone.

So, we have lets say a year to operate with existing resources---maybe 6 months as our oil would dry up. What are our choices to survive at that point? Especially if we are already in a severe economic depression five or ten years.

Well, I guess we could grovel to the world that has money, our oil rich Muslim “friends”, for help even though they formed a coup to economically kill us and see if they have had a change of heart, which I doubt. Maybe Iran’s new oil rich best friend, Venezuela, would help----not. What do we do.

I guess we could just sit and suffer but I have a feeling that some would think these acts might be acts of war given the harm inflicted upon the American people from them. And, if there was any intent to use this method to intervene in our sovereignty, it would in fact be just that, wouldn’t it?

Now, lets say again that our military has 6 months to a year to act to secure oil and other assets to concrete our political survival and we have the nukes to do so. Which one do you want our leaders to choose for your children?

I am not advocating anything my friends -----just thinking out loud.

Almost every analyst sees things worsening. I personally believe we are 10 to 15 percent into our economic downturn and too far from recovery to even measure--Maybe 20 years as a guess. So, we are going to need a leader that understands making good decisions in very difficult, if not insane, circumstances. We are going to need someone that can take the criticism of the masses and be frank with us and give us hope in the darkest of time. We will need someone that can stand upright and welcome insecure Americans to his side and not waiver. That certainly doesn’t sound like either Hillary or Obama does it? It almost describes a man like McCain.

As we weaken economically, we will become more vulnerable to being taken advantage of by our Radical Muslim enemies and or “Muslim Friends” like the Saudis. We may need military leadership and strategy more than ever along with courage to act under fire. McCain again.

I do not agree with McCain’s past amnesty and open border attitude but looking at the times and our choices, we have no choice. In fact, McCain may have fatefully fallen into our hands at just the time we truly need a man like him.

When you vote, think realistically about our future. Don’t fall for Hillary’s daily flip flops and lies and recognize that Obama simply is not qualified and his respect for America’s values and way of life are questionable at best.

Oh, and be prepared to bite the bullet big time and weather the upcoming economic tsunami.

Thinkin’ outloud,

Coop

Just like right now--- Instead of our leaders discussing how to buckle down and capitalize on our country’s strong points that we have left and ones that may arise in the future so as to secure our economic future, they are borrowing money to bail out Bear-Sterns and give money away to citizens to stimulate the economy for our past bad decisions with nothing more than a cross-your-fingers-and-hope attitude and virtually no real analytical thought being even considered. Hell, they are still waiting for another six or eight months for the geniuses to let them know that our economy is bad!

I am dying to see what these geniuses thoughts and attitudes will be when this “stimulus package” peaks and dies in a couple of months leaving us in worse economic shape that we already were in. What’s nesx, another rate cut? What will happen from all of this is that our world financial standing will worsen from adding more debt, and our dollar will weaken even further. Given it will take more dollars to buy oil even if the world price stays constant, this economic stimulus will soon compost into more money being taken from us than was given out.

We should have taken those same funds and built a nuke power plant or built a pipeline in Alaska to do real benefit for America including demonstrate some reasonable degree of intelligence to the international community-for once lately. Either of these would have spurred job creation and had the long term benefits of lower living costs to Americans and balancing our trade deficit.

Folks, we need to be thinking about what we Americans have to offer the world and covet and protect it at all costs. For instance, education. Only our legal citizens should have access to higher education (or any education for that matter) so we can regain a hope of a comeback in this world economy. If those from other countries desire our quality education that we have to offer, they should pay very dearly and/or agree that their work be proprietary to the United States for the same length of their education here. In other words, we have rights to their inventions and innovations before and exclusive to all others. Matter of fact, getting a Doctorate should streamline citizenship into our country so we can retain and capitalize off of these professionals for life.

Education is one of the best investments that any society can make as its benefits will reap returns for a lifetime. Perhaps we should have put the entire “economic stimulus” money into our educational system as the best investment we could have made for America. Maybe even using it to get the illegal aliens out of our school system so our own kids could benefit from the money being stolen by them would have been a good idea too. That might have been a “two-fer”.

Just thinkin outloud.

Coop

Investors world wide seek one thing---return on their investment. By that, they mean a reasonable rate of earnings for the amount of money they invest considering the amount of risk they have by that investment. The United States has always enjoyed an excellent cost for the money that we borrowed because we have always been considered a safe haven from runaway inflation, political turmoil, corruption, and default. Investors world wide even came to accept our currency in their own economies, if not at their banks then in booming black market trade. We have enjoyed strength in our dollar as it was thought of as a hedge against uncertainty in other countries’ moneys due to its safety and upside potential.

Things have changed I think my friends. Our dollar has been plummeting against most other currency in the more developed nations. Investors have been trading our dollars for precious metals like gold and silver as they have some doubt in our future apparently. Part might be that some suspect that we may be increasing our money supply (printing money). Some investors are worried about repayment problems and one report that I heard mentioned that Standard and Poor’s (the premier bond rating firm) might consider moving us from an excellent rating to a “B” rating, which is pretty much like getting a D- in school, unless we move towards balancing our budget and trade deficit. The effect would be to drive away investors causing us to have to pay much more to get investors to finance our country’s activities. We are talking higher interest rates that they want.

Back to lowering our rates to spur our economy. Here is the problem---or part of it. If, because of our lackluster economic growth and sales of goods we truly need lower rates to kick start us back into action for the next few years but investors can earn more else-where in places with expanding economies and money from things like oil, why would they accept our next-to-nothing returns. With each lowering of interest rates in our country, your can be sure that heads are turning in the investment world looking for alternatives. After all, are investors willing to accept zero interest and just lend and invest for the fun of it?

With other economies like China, India, and the Petroleum rich nations building factories to supply the world with cheaply produced goods and services while demonstrating their ever-growing economic and political stability, and their strong demand for money and willingness to pay higher rates to get it, we could be finding ourselves in somewhat of a “pickle”. How can we pay higher rates when we can’t afford the ones we have now without risking a recession---or worse.

One could argue, I guess, that these nations would not want us to collapse into economic hard times as it would damage their own economies as we could not afford their products. But we are but just 300 million of the world’s 6+ billion folks and I kind of think that they might be able to get along fine without us. Of course, even we will be buying some of their cheap stuff in the worst of times---especially in the worst of times as our stuff that we produce costs too much which is evidenced by that little “Made in China” sticker inside everything we already use.

Part of me thinks that the answer is getting rid of our idiot politicians who spend like drunken sailors on those special interest groups that bribe them daily with campaign donations, perks, and put those in their place that truly understand the graveness of our situation and by electing a President who is man enough and has the leadership to guide us into forced hard-times to put our affairs in order to allow us to regain or economic respect and standing. I think the right leader and communicator could have the following of us Americans If he or she led by example and wasn’t hindered by a bunch of uninformed idiot senators and congressmen like we have now.

I kind of wonder if our enemies, like the many Muslim nations that hate us like Saudi Arabia, along with Russia and China, are just sitting back watching and laughing to themselves as the world is giving us just enough rope to hang ourselves.

For instance, if some immigrant community ever expresses that their way of life, customs, or religion trumps our constitution or our freedoms, that person and their ilk should be jailed and deported immediately. You don’t want to remove your veil or burka for a picture I.D., you want to perform genital mutilation on women, or if you threaten violence for the writings of another that somehow insults your religion or god, out you go after you get out of jail. This is not the country for you my friend. That is just that simple.

If any church or organization ever is shown to express a desire to harm our country or commi9t genocide on others due to their race or religion, it should be recognized as subversive to our beliefs and way of life and be disbanded.

To enter our country as anything other than a visitor, all should swear, under penalty of jail and deportation, allegiance to our constitution and its absolute protections of others’ ways to believe as they see fit. One threat of violence and you are out. No individual belief should bring harm to any other person. Again, our constitution trumps all religion and customs.

Every person here should be required to accept our nationalism and submit to it. Our national interest prevails over your loyalty to your homeland or you are gone. Our flag is above those of other countries, our country’s borders are fully respected, and our countrymen and women’s interests are absolute over those of any nation you might have come from or off you go. Any immigrant must understand and submit to the principals that are at the heart of our country’s nature and know their welcome here is fully contingent upon this understanding.

I for one don’t want to become Syrian, Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Hmong, Russian, Irish or any other nationality. I happen to be mostly of Irish descent but I am and I want to be American of the United States type and I want everyone here to want the same or my country is being robbed right out from under me.

Is this too much to ask?