Ford, Carnegie, Pew Are All Spinning In Their Graves

Obama Bought and Paid For

I got a good laugh this morning when I Googled The New Leviathan, How the Left Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and America’s Future. It is a book I am reading and has kept me up at night, and when I finally do fall asleep it gives me nightmares. One of the authors, David Horowitz is a respected spokesman for American exceptionalism.  David was born to parents who lived and breathed Communist Socialism. They raised David as a Socialist. He saw the light in his adult years and renounced socialism for freedom and liberty. I respect what he says about communists and socialists in America because he has lived in their shoes. His website Horowitz Freedom Center is on my blogroll and I recommend you visit his site to learn his story. He is a patriot dedicated to restoring our country to greatness.

Why does this book keep me awake? I always wondered where Obama got a billion dollars to run his campaign for the Presidency, and now I know. He was sponsored by a huge complex of philanthropic organizations who seem to be dedicated to destroying America by turning it into a Progressive State (Progressive is the new word used to describe Liberal=Socialism=Communism=everyone is equal in all respects).

First let me explain something, I always respected philanthropic organizations like the Ford Foundation, Pew Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, John D. Rockefeller Foundation, and more. All of them were founded by men who embraced Capitalism and made tons of money from providing goods and services the country needed and desired. All of them established foundations to give back to the community. Many of them established goals for their trusts to sponsor and fund causes that promoted free market economies. What happened? The men died as did their conservative board members. New board members came into leadership and many were leftists. They in turn, replaced remaining conservative board members with leftists. The new left leaning boards shifted the goals completely toward Socialist or Progressive causes. They have been spending millions on transforming America into a Progressive State. since the 1960’s when this shift occurred.

All along I have wondered where Obama’s message of Hope and Change came from and what it meant. Reading this book makes it very clear that he is bought, paid for, and delivered by these organizations.

I give the authors, Jacob Laskin and David Horowitz credit in unraveling a hugely complex mechanism with hundreds of interconnections and as many agendas in a way that makes it understandable. During my reading, I kept a notebook at my side and noted the many organizations within this complex. In one chapter alone, I listed forty-two different philantropys and organizations initiated by them. All sound  very American and legitimate. No one can decipher that these organizations have goals to turn the USA into a Socialist State. They have hundreds of thousands of contributors (that explains where all Obama’s votes came from) and multi-millions of dollars in assets. THEY ARE THE ONE PERCENT.

Every weird idea coming from the government today, including czars can be traced to one or more of these organizations. The attack on American Exceptionalism, Open Borders, Global Warming, Reduce US Military Supremacy, Gun Control, Close Guantanamo, Cap and Trade, Healthcare, all trace to their agendas.

What is even scarier is that these  philantropys are tax exempt, even though they are highly partisan and promote and give to political parties without even attempting to hide the fact. Where is Congress? Most likely on their payrolls.

Now back to Google. One of the items I found was on Media Matters titled Ten Errors, distortions and Falsehoods in Leviathan. I read it to see what they were talking about.

Media Matters is technically correct on each of the ten items, but let me give you an example:

They cite a passage from the book which refers to ACORN in the present tense. Yes, ACORN had to change its name because they were caught doing a lot of stupid illegal stuff. They did not go away though, they reorganized and changed their name to Community Organizations International (COI). Yes, the authors distorted that fact by calling the COI by its historical name of ACORN. That is the same as calling the Willis Tower in Chicago, that no one knows, by the historical name Sears Tower which everyone knows. The remaining nine challenges are equally stupid, but George Soros knows he has to destroy the information in this book or the millions of dollars he invested in buying Obama is lost.

I give this book five stars for making a complex topic somewhat simple to understand, and I give authors Jacob Laskin and David Horowitz a thousand stars for the courage to expose this attack on the American people.

In My Next Life

I love cartoons and animation. I might have been another Walt Disney in a past life, or maybe a future one who knows. This video is incredible science.

Busted

A few weeks ago Peggy and I were driving home from Santa Fé, New Mexico. We passed through Oklahoma on the Kilpatrick Turnpike. I am totally familiar with toll roads and auto payment lanes, but the signage in Oklahoma confused me. I saw a sign saying PIKEPASS and decided yep I want to go on the Pike. I blasted past the CASH exit at seventy when I realized my I-PASS wasn’t going to work. Had I made a sharp right turn across three lanes in a flash, I might have made it into the pay lane. Oops, Oh Well.

By the time I arrived home a week later, a letter waited for me from PIKEPASS. They had my complete name and address, the exact date, and time of the violation documented in a very nicely and politely written letter of reprimand.

I called them this morning to ask what the toll charge was. I gave them the Transaction Number and a nice voice asked, “is it a white Toyota Avalon?” She very politely forgave the charge. I asked the nice young lady what technology they used to catch my violation. She answered, “a camera took a picture of your rear license plate as you went through.”

I commended her on Oklahoma’s speed and efficiency in apprehending a violator. I said if this happened in Illinois, I wouldn’t get a letter for ten years. She laughed politely. I commented that I didn’t want to take the chance of getting a ticket on my next trip through and have the cuffs thrown on me for having a moving violation on record. She assured me that wouldn’t happen.

The reason I am relating this incident is that Big Brother is watching us with capabilities that are unbelievable.

Doesn’t it make you wonder what else Big Brother does to creep into our private lives?

She Puts Me To Shame

When I was a kid, I lived to fish. I write about my fishing experiences extensively in my book Jun-e-or, Reflections of Life in the nineteen Forties and Fifties (click the link on the right). I will only say those experiences soured me on the sport.

I have seven grandchildren and three step-grandchildren whom I love equally. They range in age from 6 to 33. Of the ten, guess who the best fisherman are? Yep, the youngest ones. For some reason unknown to  me they love the sport. The secret is their parents encourage them. My Dad tolerated my interest at best, my Mom loved to cook and eat them. My Grandfather fostered my interest in fishing the most. It doesn’t matter, I don’t fish anymore.

Yesterday, my grand-daughter Jenna Rose called to tell me a fish story. Yes, at age eight, she is becoming a catch and release fisher. My two grandsons in Michigan ages six and eight are also big time sports fishers.

My heart jumps with joy when they send me photos like the one below to show me their prizes.

Largemouth Bass Taken 4 July 2012 in a C&R pond in New Lenox, IL.

Can you believe that? This little girl loves catching the really big ones. I can’t get over it.

I Believe in God

I believe in God. My heroes and role models do too. As I look back on life I can honestly say I only knew one atheist, and that was my grandfather. Toward the end of  his life, he looked out the living room window of his lonely little farm-house in Michigan at the sixty foot willow tree he had planted as a sapling immediately across the driveway.  A storm brewed, the skies were black and roiling, and the wind picked up with a fury. Grandpa Jim watched in awe as the sixty-foot willow tree ripped out of the ground and slammed over next to the house.

He told me that after seeing that tree rip out like a small twig he began to believe there was a God. It is my belief that Grandpa Jim resides in heaven with our Creator and waits for us to join him.

Here is a video of one of my mentors and a true role model.