Ronald Reagan Christmas Address (video)

Ronald Reagan’s Christmas Address (video), as delivered to the nation December 23, 1981 -  29 years ago this week:

"Like the National Christmas Tree, our nation is a living,
growing thing- planted in rich American soil.

Only our devoted care can bring it to full flower..."

In a world of political correctness and Christmas culture wars, Reagan's national address is almost unbelievable! It is a breath of fresh Christmas air! What happened to the politicians like him who are not afraid to hold fast to the Christian faith despite what others think or say?  No wonder almost everyone loved him, even if they didn’t agree with his politics.  Ronald Reagan inspired people in a positive way!!

President Ronald Reagan’s Christmas Address 12/23/81

Video:  Ronald Reagan Christmas Address (12/23/81)

FACT CHECK: Obama skims over some Afghan realities. Doesn't mention 'victory' in speech

President Obama is not a Wartime President, is not a Pro-
America President and is not an inspirational President to the American People or America’s Troops… No Matter How Often the Lame Stream Tries to Tell Us What a Great Speaker He Is!

There was not enthusiasm, no determination, no anger, no inspiration in Obama’s speech to the cadets at West Point and to the American People. Per Germany’s Der Spiegel the cadets present at Obama’s speech were coached yesterday to respond to his speech enthusiastically! (and still were luke warm).

And, did you know that General McCrystal actually asked Obama for 40 to 60 thousand troops; stressing that 40,000 would be a bare minimum if we wanted to win?!? What did he give him?? 30 to 35,000 almost 4 months later?

DER SPIEGEL: 'Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false'...

Can more U.S. troops in Afghanistan really convert Afghans into an effective fighting force? Will allies answer the call to do more? Is Pakistan truly prepared to take on the extremists who pose the greatest threat?

President Barack Obama said yes in his speech Tuesday laying out his plan to pour 30,000 more troops into the Afghan war, then begin pulling out in 18 months.

The prospects, though, at least judging by recent history, are mixed.
A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the reality on the ground: READ MORE...

Reason 4,298 we despise liberals. Listen to Biden and Obama; idiots, hypocrites and total morons. This video is just more evidence of that.

NOTE ABOUT WEST POINT SPEECH- Can this annoying con artist of a President please expand his vocabulary? 'The status quo is unsustainable! Derisive, Dismissive, Insidious, Incredulous.'

Dude, 'shut up already.' Someone please yank the plug on that teleprompter so he can go back to being the 'real' Obama. The 'stuttering' Marxist 'community organizer' who doesn't like America or it's history.

Google 'The status quo is unsustainable Obama' and look how many times he says it. Israel, health care, Afghanistan, Israeli-Palestinian, the economy, the environment.

The reason we call Obama supporters 'idiots' is because they actually think this guy is a genius because he uses 'played out' phrases, when they can't see that Obama is conning the shit out of them. They should feel like idiots for not paying attention to WHAT he is saying instead of HOW he says it.

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Fox: No Mention of 'Victory'? Click Here for Speech Analysis

President Obama, in a speech Tuesday that could define the rest of his presidency, laid out his plan to quickly send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to revive the struggling war effort while setting a preliminary timeline for withdrawal -- aiming to start handing over security roles to Afghan forces by July 2011.

"The status quo is unsustainable," Obama said as he outlined his case for a three-part strategy: more troops to bolster the military effort, a "civilian surge" to improve living conditions in the country and an increased focus on the United States' partnership with Pakistan.

The much-anticipated strategy decision is one of the most significant foreign policy moves of Obama's early presidency, and the White House is hoping the plan will achieve the tough task of appeasing the military, a war-weary public and the anti-war left. Read more here.

Cadet read 'Kill Bin Laden' book during Obama speech...

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Obama Channels Bush
Setting Up Our Military to Fail
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Obama's Afghanistan Speech: Bush Could Have Done It Better
Obama's Afghan Plan Fails to Satisfy Left or Right
Video: Karl Rove Analyzes Obama's Afghanistan Speech
Fred Barnes: A Disappointing Speech in Support of the Right Policy
McCain: 'Success Is the Real Exit Strategy'
Analysis: A War Strategy With Echoes of Bush
McChrystal 'Encouraged' by Strategy
Sen. Feingold Slams War Strategy
Between the Lines, an Expansion in Pakistan
U.S. Troops Skeptical of Afghan Soldiers' Abilities
116 U.S. Troops Died in Afghanistan While Obama Pondered Reinforcements
Fact Check: Obama Skims Over Some Afghan Realities
Caught on Tape: Obama Lulls Cadet to Sleep
Video: What Obama Thought of Bush's Troop Increase
Opinion: Obama to Terrorists: You Win in 2011
Obama Sets Timetable For Withdrawal On July 1, 2011
West Point Another 'Pretty Good Photo-Op' for the President?
U.S. Opts for Limited Surge
Democrats 'Nervous' About Afghanistan Plan

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Know Your Enemy… have Strategic Goals and Plans and Then Fight To Win

Lieutenant Allen West is Running for Congress District 22 Florida.

Thought For The Day - 09.21.08

“A single idea – the sudden flash of a thought – may be worth a million dollars!”  …Robert Collier, 20^th Century Motivational Author

 

The most amazing products aren’t born from metal, wood, or plastic. They’re born from ideas; Human Ideas.

 Therefore, no matter how valuable the products and services that exist in a business are, the true worth of the business lies with its people and their imagination, creativity, and mind power. 

 How many of us have had a great idea for a product, service or even a movie, show or book that we later see on TV, on a shelf, advertised or hear has made someone rich or changed people’s lives in a positive way?  The difference between them and us is that they acted on or listened to their God-given intellectual and imaginative abilities!

Man is in love and loves what vanishes. 
What more is there to say?
-- William Butler Yeats

Conservatives, who reputedly have lumps of coal where their hearts should be, have fallen in love... in love with Sarah Palin.  

WASHINGTON --So have many people who are not doctrinal conservatives. The world is a sweeter place because Sarah Palin has increased the quantity of love, but this is not a reliable foundation for John McCain's campaign.

The tech bubble was followed by the housing bubble, which has been topped by the Palin bubble. Bubbles will always be with us, because irrational exuberance always will be. Its symptom is the assumption that old limits have yielded to undreamt-of possibilities: The Dow will always rise, as will housing prices, and rapture about a running mate can be decisive in a presidential election.

Palin is as bracing as an Arctic breeze and delightfully elicits the condescension of liberals whose enthusiasm for everyday middle-class Americans cannot survive an encounter with one. But the country's romance with her will, as romances do, cool somewhat, and even before November some new fad might distract a nation that loves "American Idol" for the metronomic regularity with which it discovers genius in persons hitherto unsuspected of it.

McCain should, therefore, enunciate a closing argument for his candidacy that goes to fundamentals of governance, concerning which the vice presidency is usually peripheral. His argument should assert the virtues of something that voters, judging by their behavior over time, prefer -- divided government.

The incumbent Republican president's job approval is in the low 30s but is about 10 points higher than that of the Democratic-controlled Congress. The 22nd Amendment will banish the president in January, but Congress will then be even more Democratic than it is now. Does the country really want there to be no check on it? Consider two things that will quickly become law unless McCain is there to veto them or unless -- this is a thin reed on which to depend -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has 40 reliable senators to filibuster them to deserved deaths.

The exquisitely misnamed Employee Free Choice Act would strip from workers their right to secret ballots in unionization elections. Instead, unions could use the "card check" system: Once a majority of a company's employees -- each person confronted one-on-one by a union organizer in an inherently coercive setting -- sign cards expressing consent, the union would be certified as the bargaining agent for all workers. Proving that the law's purpose is less to improve workers' conditions than to capture dues-payers for the unions, the law will forbid employers from discouraging unionization by giving "unilateral" -- not negotiated -- improvements in compensation and working conditions.

Unless McCain is president, the government will reinstate the equally misnamed "fairness doctrine." Until Ronald Reagan eliminated it in 1987, that regulation discouraged freewheeling political programming by the threat of litigation over inherently vague standards of "fairness" in presenting "balanced" political views. In 1980 there were fewer than 100 radio talk shows nationwide. Today there are more than 1,400 stations entirely devoted to talk formats. Liberals, not satisfied with their domination of academia, Hollywood and most of the mainstream media, want to kill talk radio, where liberals have been unable to dent conservatives' dominance.

Today, as usual, but perhaps even more so, Americans are in the iron grip of cognitive dissonance. It is a genteel mental disorder afflicting those people -- essentially everybody -- who have contradictory convictions and yearnings. Consider health care. Americans want 2008 medicine at 1958 prices, and universal coverage with undiminished choice -- without mandatory purchases or government interference with choices, including doctor-patient relationships. As usual, neither party completely pleases a majority of voters. That is why 19 of the 31 elections since World War II produced or preserved divided government -- the presidency and at least one chamber of Congress controlled by different parties.

Divided government compels compromises that curb each party's excesses, especially both parties' proclivities for excessive spending when unconstrained by an institution controlled by the other party. William Niskanen, chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute, notes that in the last 50 years, "government spending has increased an average of only 1.73 percent annually during periods of divided government. This number more than triples, to 5.26 percent, for periods of unified government."

By picking Palin, McCain got the country's attention. That is a perishable thing and before it dissipates, he should show the country his veto pen.

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Thought For The Day - 9.10.08

“Perception is Everything!!”

 Little Zachary was doing very badly in math.  His parents had tried everything...Tutors, Mentors, Flash cards, Special learning centers; in short, everything they could think of to help his math.

 Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary down and enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, little Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face.  He didn't even kiss his mother Hello.  Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying.  Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work.

 His mother was amazed.  She called him down to dinner.  To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back to his room without a word, and in no time, he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day, while the mother tried to understand what made all the difference.

 Finally, little Zachary brought home his report card.  He quietly laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the books. With great trepidation, his Mom looked at it and to her great surprise, little Zachary got an "A" in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity.

 She went to his room and said, "Son, what was it?  Was it the nuns?" Little Zachary looked at her and shook his head, no. "Well, then," she replied, “Was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the uniforms?  "WHAT WAS IT ALREADY?"

 Little Zachary looked at her and said, "Well, on the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around."  ;-)

  

“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.”

…C. W. Leadbeater