Some Gave All

For all of the heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free, here is Billy Ray Cyrus and Some Gave All:

I knew a man called him Sandy Kane
Few folks even knew his name
But a hero was he
Left a boy, came back a man
Still many just don’t understand
About the reasons we are free

I can’t forget the look in his eyes
Or the tears he cries
As he said these words to me

All gave some and some gave all
And some stood through for the red, white and blue
And some had to fall
And if you ever think of me
Think of all your liberties and recall
Some gave all

Now Sandy Kane is no longer here
But his words are oh so clear
As they echo through out our land
For all his friends who gave us all
Who stood the ground and took the fall
To help their fellow man

Love your country and live with pride
And don’t forget those who died America can’t you see

All gave some and some gave all
And some stood through for the red, white and blue
And some had to fall
And if you ever think of me
Think of all your liberties and recall
Some gave all

And if you ever think of me
Think of all your liberties and recall, yes recall
Some gave all

Some gave all

Remember what we are really celebrating this weekend. Not the beginning of summer, not the cookouts and barbeques. The brave men and women who gave their lives that we may remain free.

The Gringo Mask

A company in South Florida has come up with a mask that can be downloaded from the Internet which it is calling the Gringo mask. Both the male and female versions have blonde hair and light skin and is supposed to be a satirical way for Hispanics to avoid being racially profiled as potential illegal aliens.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL — It’s called the “Gringo Mask” and its creator says its blonde hair and light skin, “Communicates that looking this way will keep you above suspicion of being an illegal immigrant in Arizona.”

The paper masks were free to download on www.gringomask.com.

The creators at Miami-based Zubi Advertising say they created the male and female masks as “A comical tool to convey a message and raise awareness about an issue that is important to all Americans.”

They say they are poking fun at the idea that everyone should look the same but some say, it is racist and sends a message that people who are not white should be ashamed.

Carol Gordon says, “They shouldn’t have to pretend that they’re white if they’re not.  They should just be comfortable with who they are and where they come from.”

Ha ha ha.

It would be more effective if the alleged racial profiling were a reality, but it’s not. And the demagogues pushing this fearmongering know it. They also know this tactic is effective because it puts their opponents on the defensive, having to “prove” they’re aren’t racists.

I think Americans who are in this country as legal immigrants are comfortable with who they are. It’s the ones who are here illegally that are worried and they have reason to be. They are here illegally.

What’s interesting is the proponents of this idea chose to use a slur for white people — gringo — without fear of repercussion over the choice of the word. Here’s what the company said about the use of the word:

We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word “Gringo” with an ethnic slur.  We do not.  It is simply a slang term used to describe Caucasians, and we don’t assign any negative connotations to it. 

Hmmmm. How about if the company’s explanation had said this?

We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word “nigger” with an ethnic slur.  We do not.  It is simply a slang term used to describe black people, and we don’t assign any negative connotations to it. 

Or perhaps this?

We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word “spic” with an ethnic slur.  We do not.  It is simply a slang term used to describe Hispanics, and we don’t assign any negative connotations to it. 

This company would be out of business simply for its choice of words, due to the double standard of political correctness. In other words, it’s perfectly acceptable for the Left to lump all Caucasians together regardless of ethnic background and call them “gringos,” “honkies,” or “crackers.” But let anyone use anything not politically correct to describe any protected perceived victim group and it’s an unforgiveable sin.

I was going to use this as a hypothetical above:

We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word “dago” with an ethnic slur.  We do not.  It is simply a slang term used to describe Italians, and we don’t assign any negative connotations to it. 

That probably would have been OK, since anyone of Italian descent is lumped in with the gringos, honkies and crackers, and Italy gave the world Christopher Columbus, the original cause of all the evil in the world.

Besides, the same lefties have no problem with using another vile slur to describe anyone opposed to the progressive agenda.

More Flori-DUH Intelligence On Display

This had to be someone who didn’t know how to vote properly in 2000. Had to be. A welfare sucking idiot. Product of gummint-run ejookayshun no doubt.

Listen to the entire thing. It’s worth it. Trust me.

For President In 2012

Can we nominate this guy for president in 2012?

This guy is clearly no shrinking violet, no limp-wristed, linguini-spined Go Along Get Along Gang RINO.

Reminds me of this guy:

Allahpundit says:

Only two things are certain, my friends: (1) He’s about to become the most famous agricultural commissioner candidate in America, and (2) Alabama politics are awesome. Exit question: Christie/Peterson 2012?

R.S. McCain calls it the best ad ever produced for ag commissioner.

I’ll go further. If Peterson wins, I predict we will see more ads just like it from political candidates who aren’t part of the corrupt political culture in America,

Making The Case Against RINOism

Sarah Palin does her best impression of Ronaldus Magnus, making a compelling case against the business-as-usual approach of the Beltway Republicans such as the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee (think Dede Scozzafava) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (think Charlie Crist) and in favor of doing exactly what Ronald Reagan did in winning two landslides: sell conservatism to the American people and attract the middle and independents.

“Some Republicans have evidently thought that they have to kind of move to the left of the center or move to the middle in order to win,” Palin said during a speech in Rosemont, Ill. “I’m saying, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ You win by letting the middle move to you.”

“You win by letting the middle of the road know that your ideas — based on time-tested truths — are the right ones for the country,” Palin said. “And I think that the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with us when it comes to reining in Washington’s reckless spending.”

Since 2000, under the leadership of George W. Bush and the blueblood country-club elites on Capitol Hill, those Rockefeller Republicans, the GOP in Washington abandoned any pretense of following Reaganism in anything other than lip service. Pork-laden bill after pork-laden bill went from Congress to the White House and the presidential veto pen went AWOL.

Sure, the Republicans paid their verbal homage to Reagan then ran as far away from staunch conservative principles  fast as they could.

Why? Because the blueblood country-clubbers bought into the argument of the Beltway Media — dubbed the “Lamestream Media” by Bernard Goldberg — that to maintain power, they had to become Progressive-lite in advancing the cause of Big Government and being “bipartisan,” which in Washington-speak is Republicans abandoning their principles to agree with Democrats and advance the liberal agenda.

Every time John McCain called the progressives “my friends” and reached across the aisle to the like of Russ Feingold and Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, every time Lindsey Grahamnesty and Mel Martinez worked with Chuck-U Schumer and Senator Depends, Patrick “Leaky” Leahy to advance Cap-and-Tax, amnesty for illegal aliens and every other item on the statist agenda, conservatives felt the knife sharply shoved into their collective back.

Palin is saying the same thing El Rushbo has said for years: namely that the American people are basically conservative. No matter what the state-run media tell you with polls used to shape rather than reflect public opinion. It’s why the last two Democrat presidents had to run far to the right of where they really stood on issues in order to get elected. No matter what The Reverend Al Sharpton says, the American people did not vote for socialism in 2008. They bought a pig in a poke, obsesses with Bush fatigue and hornswaggled by a media so far in the tank for Our Lord and Savior they refused to properly vet Him as they would any other candidate.

And if the Republican Party blows it once again by moving to the Left to placate the state-run media, it will blow a golden opportunity this November and again in November 2012 to turn back the advances of socialism and state control of its citizens, which will become irreversible.

It’s not too dramatic to say the future of our republic is at stake in the next two election cycles.

No matter how the Obama regime and their henchmen currently running Congress push it toward European-style socialism crossed with fascism, the United States is still a center-right nation.

Book it.

All conservatism needs is someone to express those basic American principles of life, liberty, freedom, individuality and success, along with limited government to attract the middle back home.

Reagan did it. Who is the next Reagan?

Eight Years

The Scott Walker for Governor campaign issued this web ad about Walker’s eight years as Milwaukee County Executive:

Read about his extraordinary accomplishments here. Then compare it to the dismal record of Jim Doyle and the Democrats at the state level over the same period of time.

No Laughing Matter

While Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama cracks jokes about the state of Arizona trying to the feds’ job of securing the border, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer strikes back with this:

Blue Carts To Have Tracking Devices

It’s like living behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

The new mandatory blue cart recycling program being shoved down the throats of residents of the city of Racine has a chip implanted to track each cart back to the residence from which it was assigned.

Every blue recycling bin being distributed to homes and apartments throughout the city includes an embedded computer chip. The chip will register when a recycling bin is loaded into the truck, creating data for the city on who is recycling and when they’re doing it. Each cart also comes with a bar code on the front that is tied to the address it was assigned to.

This is troubling, but you’d never guess that by reading the Racine Post’s happy talk coverage. We’ve become so used to unnecessary government surveillance of our every move that such a tracking system with a high potential for abuse isn’t even questioned by the lobotomized statist advocates.

Any government surveillance of any of our regular day-to-day activities is a violation of our basic freedoms. It is Big Brother at its very essence. In this case, it’s tracking to monitor compliance. If you are not in compliance, rest assured you will get a visit from the jackbooted thugs with the Nazi bucket helmets.

It brings to mind the legendary Garbage Gestapo from Mount Pleasant in the early days of Wisconsin’s mandatory recycling program. Mount Pleasant actually had inspectors goosestepping along with the trucks picking up the garbage inspecting the contents. Any bags found not to be in compliance were not picked up.

How did we evolve from a society based on freedom and liberty to tolerating a stormtrooper rooting through our garbage to see if we are in compliance with mandates from state bureaucrats?

I know one Tea Party supporter here who won’t be in compliance at all. Simply put, everything will be going into the garbage here. The new blue bin can sit behind my house until it decomposes for all I care.

It’s time for freedom-loving citizens to launch acts of civil disobedience against the statists at whatever level they exist.

In America, we do not have rulers.

November cannot come soon enough here. In fact, I can see November from my house.

Milwaukee OK’s Streetcar Line

Update: per e-mail from Patrick Dorwin of Badger Blogger, I pulled the map that he originally had on his site that we reproduced here. Apparently the route of the choo-choo has changed but no one will say where it will be going.

I will take a stab at where it’s headed: a fiscal black hole.

Another epic FAIL for Milwaukee, as a local group has approved spending tax dollars on a black hole that’s something out of the early 20th century.

MILWAUKEE - A committee of local leaders called the Milwaukee Connector Study Steering Committee has approved funds to start preliminary work on a streetcar line in downtown Milwaukee.

The line would run on city streets, powered by overhead electric wires, resembling light rail vehicles.

It would cost nearly $96 million and would connect the downtown area to the lower East Side.

Hey, it’s just $96 million, who’s counting? Never mind that the folks who thought this was a good idea will never actually use it. Come to think of it, neither will countless others.

What’s more, downtown Milwaukee is already connected to the Lower East Side by something called streets. Maybe if these idiots came out of their ivory towers, they might discover that inconvenient fact.

Also, keep in mind that it isn’t just $96 million. This is just the start. Once the facts come out — ridership not meeting projections, cost overruns — the caterwauling will come … “It needs to be expanded. We need to spend more money on expanding the system. That way, it will take more people to more places.”

And so on.

Right now, Milwaukee has a mass transit system. It’s called the bus. it goes virtually anywhere, and unlike a street care or light rail (which is where these loonies are headed), it can take people to various locations. By comparison, the streetcar and light rail are limited to the tracks, the installation of which will cause a traffic nightmare on Milwaukee streets.

It’s a black hole.

Just like light rail everywhere it’s been tried.

What is it Einstein said? Oh yeah, that’s right.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It’s been an epic FAIL everywhere from Portland to St. Louis to Phoenix to Minneapolis. Trust me on the last one. I actually rode it last summer when I was in the Twin Cities. I could have done a head count if I had wanted. Waste of money.

It’ll be an epic FAIL in Milwaukee as well. And a drain on already overburdened state taxpayers.

And the people pushing it will never, ever actually use it. Typical of all pinhead lefty elitists.

More Testing For Elderly Drivers

At the age of 92, former Wisconsin Gov. Patrick Lucey is calling for more frequent testing of elderly drivers.

MILWAUKEE – Former Governor Patrick Lucey gets around pretty good these days. Lucey, 92, doesn’t drive much, but he just got his license renewed last month.

“I was sort of taken aback when I realized it’s for eight years and no follow-up exam and in 8 years I will be 100,” says Lucey.

All Lucey had to do was pass an eye exam. There’s no written or driving test. That’s the law in Wisconsin.

“Right now we have no common sense.”

I have no problem with this at all. As we age, our vision and mental capacities have the capability of deteriorating rapidly. Wisconsin law now requires only a vision test every eight years.

Former state Rep. Sheldon Wasserman tried unsuccessfully to get that changed:

[Wasserman] wanted seniors ages 75 to 84 to have a vision test every three years instead of eight. Those 85 and older would have to pass a vision and written test every two years.

Not every elderly driver is a hazard on the road. Many are, as we have seen all around the country as elderly drivers hit the gas instead of the brakes and plow into buildings and pedestrians. Many are incapable of keeping up with the flow of traffic on highways and expressways. Poor vision and deteriorating mental capabilities affecting judgment are no doubt factors in that.

But given the fact that cars are a 3,500-pound lethal weapon if not handled properly, the state legislature is going to have to take on the challenge and deal with it, the objections of the squawkers from AARP and other Gray Panthers be damned.