Stream of Consciousness

Our blog today was sent via email by our good friend R. E. Jimenez.   R.E.  is an author in his own right, a retired meteorologist, with a myriad of hobbies and interests, he's as concerned about the politics of the Obama administration as those of us who really care about the fate of our country.  We've decided to title this piece  "Stream of Consciousness" because he wrote it  as he sat down in anger and frustration, with no particular purpose, just letting thoughts swirl through his mind.  Aren't anger, frustration and perplexing  thoughts what cross through our minds too often these days, and don't we ask "Why?"

by R. E. Jimenez

Thoughts that run through my mind:  I am horrified that very few people see that our country is not drilling for oil domestically, that we are more and more dependent on foreign production and at the mercy of their prices.   I'm baffled that government agencies continue passing regulations that destroy business, and create unemployment, instead of seeking solutions to put Americans back to work. 

I'm astonished that the president continues to pay attention to out of control environmentalists, Communists, liberals, and religious extremists who attack our Constitution  in an  undisguised attempt to tear down the very fiber of our country.

As we continue to lead our daily lives, our country IS being destroyed. While we attend sporting events, join our friends and family at dances, dinner parties, take in a movie or pay an exorbitant amount of money to see a Broadway show, there are forces at work destroying the country as we have always known it. 


Don't you get it?  Our country,  is  being  shattered as a piece of fragile crystal, by our very own government, by corrupt politicians, by crooked businessmen (i.e. G.E., George Soros, Al Gore, and every socialist entertainer with an opinion), and we, the affected citizens do nothing.


The November 2012 elections demonstrated that the message of democracy vs. socialism can be heard.  Those who joined Tea Parties and other peaceful demonstrations proved that the people do have power and influence.  But we cannot allow that influence and that power to end on election day. 

We have to continue to redouble our efforts.  We must recruit others to join our ranks so that we can preserve our Constitution and our rights as citizens of the United States.   If it takes boycotts, we must boycott, if we must carry posters and signs to propagate our message we must do it.  

Our founding fathers left us words of wisdom and inspiration.  Remember them, USE them.  Carry the message. It was because of their dream that we became the most powerful nation in the world. 

We are a Government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE and FOR THE PEOPLE.  Some of our elected officials have forgotten who it is they work for, and who they represent.  The time has come to remind them.     


Demand that our government and our current president stop trying to destroy our country.  We won't allow it to be demolished.


Without our production of energy  (and we have plenty of our own, oil, gas, and coal) and without nuclear power plants, they will ruin us. Foreign powers, especially the Arab countries want us dependent on them.  It gives them power over us.

We are already dependent, and in other  ways we are already severely damaged.   The ignorance, apathy, indifference and lack of spirit we see in many of our citizens is a dangerous sign.   We need Americans with passion, interest, concern, patriotism, love of country and respect for the Constitution, to  join our voices and make ourselves heard.   

We need to demonstrate our unhappiness and our dissatisfaction, not only at the polls on election day, but NOW, every day, every month and every year, until we are heard.  We can't stop until we see meaningful gains.  Get it? If this doesn't happen, we're a dead country, ruined by Communism, and by radical Muslims  and Shariah Law.

Stop thinking someone else will do it for us,  or that some miracle will appear to stop our decline.  Give up the arrogance that IT can't happen in this country.  It can happen.   It IS happening and the damage is farther along than you might think.


There is no reason in the world that truly justifies not drilling for our own oil.  It is necessary for our survival.


While the environmentalists, communists and socialists, and other radical extremists  continue to brainwash Americans into "saving the planet"  they continue to pollute and destroy it in other parts of the world. 


We're the most conscious nation in preserving our natural environment. Let China, Brazil, India, and all the others join us in the effort.  Government must stop telling us what to eat, get out of our kitchens!  Instead begin to effectively explore other sources of energy for our land.   

WE THE PEOPLE must speak up and not remain silent. 

What Is Causing America's Decline?

This is a fabulous essay written by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,  founder of This World: The Values Network and has just published Honoring the Child Spirit: Inspiration and Learning from Our Children (Vanguard).  In this article, writtten for the Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Shmuley causes one of those moments which make us say:  "We wish we'd written that!"  We didn't, but it expresses our sentiments exactly. 
Two Sisters

The rot in values that is causing America’s decline

By SHMULEY BOTEACH

02/01/2011

Thrift, hard work, close-knit families, a pioneering spiritlove of adventure, a rejection of indolence, faith-based ethics, a God-centric society, a belief in spreading freedom and democracy – where did that all go?

Science and math. Science and math. President Barack Obama’s new mantra is science and math. If only America’s students focused on science and math, he told us in his State of the Union address, then we’ll be as innovative as China and will no longer have to farm out the building of wondrous handheld gadgets. The gods of science and math will make our economy blossom.

But missing from the president’s new, post-midterm vision for America is any mention of the rot in values that is causing our decline. The reason we don’t excel in education is not because our schools focus on philosophy and the humanities to the exclusion of science and math, but rather because we are becoming a pack of ignoramuses watching inane TV shows, following the lives of mostly decadent celebrities, and engaging in an endless orgy of consumption. Our problem is not that we read too much Nietzsche and too little astrophysics, but rather that our character is becoming corrupt.

The solution for America is not to raise an army of sterile drones, engineered into productive obedience by a government that emphasizes equations. I have no interest in living in China; communist totalitarianism dare not be our model. Rather, our solution is to reembrace the values that made America great: thrift, hard work, close-knit families, a pioneering spirit, entrepreneurship, a love of adventure, fearlessness, a rejection of indolence, faith-based ethics, a God-centric society, and a belief in spreading freedom and democracy.

Thomas Jefferson knew tons of science and math. So did Benjamin Franklin. But George Washington did not. No historian claims that Abraham Lincoln knew calculus like Einstein. The point is that science and math made some Americans great, but were passed over by others who were equally great.

But what all these men possessed in abundance was a sense of mission. Whether it was a hatred of oppression and tyranny, or a desire to see the dynamic American spirit supplant the ossified European aristocracy, or contempt for brutal institutions like slavery, they all embraced America as a great idea, a living dream, one that could lift men and women and inspire children.

IS ANY of that greatness captured in Jersey Shore or in MTV’s new ode to childhood corruption, Skins? Is American exceptionalism evident in the millions trampling each other at the crack of dawn to get 20% off a new HDTV on Black Friday? Was American greatness in evidence at the recent Golden Globe Awards, where the most ‘beautiful’ among us got up to thank hairdressers and fashion consultants, but not a single star thanked God, with the sole exception of Ricky Gervais, who thanked God for being an atheist? The obsession with celebrity is especially startling. Our founding fathers did not idolize humans. That’s what the British, French and Russians did, lifting ordinary mortals to positions of ‘divine’ grandeur. Rather, the founders idolized God alone – faith in Him was stamped even on our money – and brooked no shallow imitation.

Yes, Mr. President. We need better schools and more accountable teachers. But more than anything, we need new values undergirding the schools, the parents and the teachers. So long as we have books out like Amy Chua’s Tiger Mom, which says the only thing that matters is getting your kid into Yale and to play violin at Julliard, we are going to have a nation which, even if it remains wealthy and prosperous, will still be selfish, self-absorbed and narcissistic.

OBAMA SURPRISES me. How much science or math does he know? He was elected because he inspired people with oratory rather than engineering. He gave them a renewed vision of American greatness – something that most mathematicians and nuclear physicists would be hard pressed to do. How appalling that the limits of his vision have now come down to simple, shallow materialism.

Without proper values, we will squander whatever wealth we generate. Without proper values, we will produce world-renowned scientists who don’t know how to stay married, and who have no relationship with their children. Without proper values, one generation will make all the money and the next will waste it.

Many looked to Obama as the embodiment of a new American dream, one of hope and change. But is this the hope we waited for? The hope that our kids will work on the next iPhone? Was the change we waited for so utterly literal that it refers to coins? I thought the Pilgrims risked drowning because they wished to have the freedom to develop their full godly potential, unencumbered by European prejudice. If it was money they wanted, they should never have left the fleshpots of Europe.

Yes, America is still the wealthiest nation on Earth, thank God, and yes, I like money as much as the next person. But if life is simply about accumulation, and if this great nation embraces the soulless Chinese society as a model, where wealth is not accompanied by a reverence for human dignity and where a family is allowed to make millions but to have more than one child is a forbidden nuisance, then I say their wealth is a curse, a curse which I reject, and proudly proclaim “in God we trust” and “God bless America!”


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