Friday, January 30, 2009

History has been made! Three times over!!

We have a black president! We have a British subject for president! The constitution is no longer valid! Wait? Did I say that? yeah, due to the fact that we have a native of Kenya in the White House as Commander in Chief of our military, it makes the Constitution void. How is this? Well... all actions taken to prevent this have been diverted by our justice system as previously stated in older posts. The fact that the justice branch of our government ignores the constitution, and ignores the people, this makes the checks and balances put into place by the founding fathers of this nation null. Along with videos that are incriminating against our new dictator king czar president, websites all over are disappearing, and some just change what they stated. (Good thing for sites like www.webcitation.org!)

I really do not know what to say or what to do. I know that there are those that are giving up on the fight, I am now, will not, and never will. Those that do feel that it is too much to take on, I was reading up on Glen Becks website and he talked about this very thing. He then talked about the Alamo. I will just quote him directly:

"You know the Alamo, when you think of the Alamo, what do you think that is? Most people will think, "Oh, it's a fort," but it's not a fort. It wasn't some gigantic fortified castle, you know, built to try to hold off an advancing army. It was a mission. That's all it is is a mission. It had to be made into a fort, but it was the defenders of the Alamo who did just that. They made it into a fort. They faced insurmountable odds. 4,000 soldiers versus 188. 4,000 up against 188? Which one of those soldiers would you be? If you were the 188, would you be going, this is too -- I can't do it, I'm tired, we're alone, we're not going to make it. They were outmanned by over 20:1. This is just after Texas declared her independence. This is just a few weeks later they were forming the Republic of Texas. It was going to become its own country. Not a state. A country. The Mexican general, Santa Ana, demanded that they surrendered. And how did those 188 in the Alamo react? William Travis, who was in command at the Alamo wrote this letter: "I'm besieged by 1,000 or more of the Mexicans under Santa Ana. I've sustained a continual bombardment and candidate for 24 hours, and I haven't lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender. I've answered the demand with cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I will never surrender; I will never retreat." I'm pretty sure I don't speak Texan but I think that means, "Yeah, thanks but no thanks." 188 men alone. They are running low on ammunition, they were running low on food and other supplies. The next day, another letter. This one, this one to Sam Houston. The commander was hoping that Sam Houston would get these letters and send, you know, "Help, help, help, help, send us somebody." He wrote, "Our numbers are few but I shall hold out to the last extremity hoping to secure reinforcements in a day or two. Do hasten on aid as rapidly as possible, from a superior number of the enemy, it will be impossible for us to keep them out much longer. If th ey overpower us, we fall a sacrifice at the shrine of our country," speaking of Texas," and we hope prosperity in our country will do our memory justice. Give me help. Oh, my country, give me help. Victory or death." Somehow these 188 men held out for more than a week against an evading army of 4,000. Have you ever been to the Alamo? It's a little -- 4,000 men advancing and 188 protected that? After ten days Travis was still hoping for reinforcements. He was still hoping, but he had no idea, he had no idea if they were coming or not. He understood the odds. He knew he wasn't going to be able to last much longer, but he didn't back up. He didn't back off. He didn't back up. He didn't whine. He didn't say, "I'm tired." He rode under the flag of independence, "We are ready to peril our lives 100 times a day. I will fight the enemy on his own terms. I'm ready to do it. And if my country men do not rally to my relief, I'm determined to perish in the defense of this place." Later that day he wrote one last time, "Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I will make for him a splendid fortune but if the country be lost and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection but he is the son of a man who died for his country."

Three days later the Alamo would finally fall. The reinforcements didn't make it in time, but it didn't fall for 13 days and not before those 188 took out 600 of Santa Ana's men. More importantly was the number of days, 13 days. It gave 13 days to Sam Houston. He was able to put together a volunteer army, an army that defeated Santa Ana, gave birth to the Republic of Texas, its own country, its own constitution.

Here's the story. These 188 people, they weren't any different than you. Some of them were soldiers, some of them were just regular people, some of them were just, "I'm going to take a stand." You want to feel alone, 188 surrendered by 4,000, they didn't pick the place or the time of their fight. They wouldn't have done it at a mission. If they could have picked anywhere, it wouldn't have been there. They just knew that their cause was just. They just knew that their lives were worth lying down for what was right. They just knew that there was something bigger and more important than them. How did they know it? Why didn't they desert? Why didn't they surrender when they saw 4,000? They did it because they were committed to the idea of liberty. They did it because they felt they owed it to one another: "If he stands, I'll stand. I ain't going anywhere with your brother. We're in it together." When you feel connected to somebody else, you don't give up. That's how soldiers in the battlefield or P.O.W. camps rally around each other because he's standing; I'll stand. It's not about ideology. It's about our commitment to each other. It's about knowing that you're not alone and letting someone else know that they're not alone.

Even when you can't see the people fighting with you, even when you're in the Alamo and you're all alone, just 188 of you and you don't know if that army is coming tonight or never, you just fight on because you're not alone.

It's not just some crazy history lesson about the Alamo. These people didn't die to defend the Alamo which is now some place where you go on vacation and have your picture taken in front of it, and most people don't even know what it means or what it stands for. They didn't just die for protecting the Alamo or even Texas. Today they died to teach us a lesson, to fight on, to never give up. You're not alone.

Today, just today remember the Alamo."


Read the whole thing here.

Hillarious

President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise.


"Let me also say that I remain distressed that the White House during this confirmation process, which overall went smoothly, failed to provide critical documents as part of the record that could have provided us with a better basis to make our judgment with respect to the nomination. This White House continues to stymie efforts on the part of the Senate to do its job."

-Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on the Confirmation of Judge John Roberts

Friday, January 9, 2009

Thougths on a different type of war

So I have been reading a lot about a current film maker and some of his more recent creations. His new documentaries reminded me of the book "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. Tzu states "He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them." How this comes into play with the documentaries done by John Ziegler is that I see people who have been captured by Obama's 'army', or charm. Those people along with the media lapdog that he had with him at all times. These are they who "[made] light of [him]" by not delving into the truth of the man they chose to lead our country. I will not say we chose him, I had no part in it. I believe also that Obama roused many of his legion with a reward of change, one that would revolutionize our country. Sun Tzu stated "...in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards." Obama did well with this. He ignored Tzus wisdom in "Rouse [your enemy], and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots." We are starting to see some of the real Obama. For instance, if I came home and told my wife we were going to get out of debt by spending our way out and that I had already started, she would throw me out. The thought is nuts! Americans have accepted it from Obama. He wants to do what was done in WW2. Well... we had nuclear energy that came from WW2, jet propulsion, a state of the conductor that lead to transistors and computers. We also had the auto industry, and we had microwave technology that we stole from the Germans during the war. We had many more things to offer the world that were new technologies than we do now. I say we should uncover our Groom Lake tests and exploit them. All the zero energy propulsion ideas, the ram jets, the hover crafts, that is if we have them. We need to pull out our aces to cover our a...s. That would take a war to do though, because that is how the government has done it in the past. Wait a minute... We have a war! Is it a big enough war to introduce drastic new technologies? Not yet. Instead we are giving money to industries that are plagued by unions and corruption. Building museums that no one will visit, and all together just wasting it on politics and politicians.

The fruit ripens.


Tzu also stated, "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."