This week we engaged in a bit of free form discussion with our guest Ian from TheDailySwitch.  This was a lively discussion on the merits of performance and success with a heavy dose of analysis on our educational system as the focusing analogy.  Come on in to the garage for this installment and have a seat in the grease pit.

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.  The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln

Barrack Obama sure does love Lincoln.  Perhaps Lincoln knew that one day; this saying could save the Republic that he died preserving.  I do not know Barrack Obama; I only see his actions and hear his words.

His words have a calming affect on most people it seems.  With a grin and a wink, he can herd the masses to the local cliff for a quick jump.  People call that leadership; I call it dangerous.  Under this definition of leadership, one could call Jim Jones a great leader.  Just because the shadow casts him as a leader, does that make him a leader?

Obama is a leader by default; nature will not allow a vacuum.

Let us look at the issues that face our country and see where he stands.

Spending of our government is out of control.  Obama triples it.  That is not leadership; it is stupidity.  There is a problem.  He is anointed the “leader” of the free world and whatever direction he points the ship of prosperity we are all destined to stay on the voyage.  There are no port calls, there are no lifeboats, there is no one to call for help, there is only us.

We are on this ship together until it sinks, runs aground, or reaches its final destination.  Reagan’s destination of the “shining city on a hill” is no longer our destination.  Our new destination is a place in the sty sucking on the nipple of the government for our basic needs.

People around the world are jealous of what he have and done.  This will never change.  The people of the United States have battled these same envious bastards since day one of our country’s founding.  The Germans, French, British, Spanish, Mexicans, Cubans, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Italians, Chinese, and now an entire religion that spans the globe threaten our way of life.  As an American man, father and husband I say it is time to pull off the gloves and show them for the last time that we have “evolved” more in the last two thousand years and we are tired of taking crap for excellence.  Glowing cities of glass dotting the Middle East would not bother me one bit.  However, our “leader” feels the need to talk and make nice with those whose entire belief system promotes slavery, blind obedience, and killing innocent people in the name of a religion.  Excuse me, in the span of human history, has talking and making nice with your sworn enemy ever worked?  Note to Congress, please raise Obama’s pay; he needs to buy a clue.

The war is not over; there is a lull in fighting.  Most Americans stick out their chest and smile because we spanked them in Iraq and Afghanistan.  We did, but there is much to do and plenty of butts left to kick. Remember, the Crusades lasted for almost two hundred years.  It will take us two hundred years to defeat this group or two days.  How far are the American people willing to go?  Remember, the victor writes history.  We need either to win or stop fighting.  Spinning wheels gets you nowhere and causes many deaths.  My biggest fear is this: mushroom cloud over the United States will happen.  Then what will we do?  Will we fight, will we give up, or like 9/11; will we hold hands and then forget?

While we devote a great deal of time each week to the issues that we cover regarding Freedom, Liberty and the principles in our Founding Documents it is becoming more apparent with each passing day that the current administration is oblivious to all of these ideals.  Cpl. Ears is making it clear with every policy put forth that it is the absolute goal of his administration to shift America irrevocably to the far left, bringing us, as a nation, more in line with the third world dictators that he has expressed his love for.  If this continues unchallenged and if the American people do not act decisively in 2010 to change the congressional makeup then we will become a socialist country wholly dependent on the whims and mandates of our government for approval and subsistence in our lives.

The Federal Reserve has officially announced their plan to continue acquiring ostensibly “toxic” mortgages which will have the net affect of further nationalizing our banking system.  They continue with their plan to institute policies that mandate the pay scales and bonus schedules of private firms and they are doing so without regard to the chaos this creates in the stock market or the long term damage it will do to our capitalist system.  Actually, they know exactly what it does because their goal is nothing less than the destruction of capitalism and the decimation of America as a world leader.

These people will not stop until they have ceded control of our country to the international cabal known as the UN.  It was Edmund Burke who said “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”.  Perhaps you can take that into account as you sit back and watch liberals slowly but surely disassemble the freedoms and liberties that our founders bequeathed to us.

Or perhaps you can find a way to call, e-mail and write congress to let them know how utterly unhappy you are with these initiatives and how displeased you are with their personal performance.  If you love America don’t let evil destroy it without giving your all to stop it.  Let’s get busy pushing back the forces of socialism, political correctness, censorship and government control.  In short, let us not stop until we have taken back our country, invalidated the political influence of the left and made certain for our children and generations to come that the freedoms and liberties we cherish are preserved.

Regards,

The Common Patriot

This week we announced the body for our Vehicle of Freedom and Liberty.  You need to come on in to the grease pit this week and find out what the crew thinks of America and how we view our great country.  Send in your opinions on future improvements and what you think we should have on the car.

On this day in 2003, the United States opened a can of Whip Ass on Iraq.

History will prove Bush right on this one, no matter what the talking heads of our time say today.

Remember 9/11/2001? 

Attack Afganistan, cowards run and hide.  We have to fight them at some point, either here or there.

Bush orders the US Military to attack Iraq to force the hand of the terrorists.  It works!  For six years we have killed thousands of would-be terrorists in Iraq rather than on American soil.  We saw what happens when Firemen and Cops fight the war on terrror (9/11/2001).

Arn’t you happy that our Military is fighting them over there istead of your local police force fighting them in your neck of the woods???

This week we tie together the tires and suspension on our Vehicle of Freedom and Liberty with the frame.  Our constitution is the greatest framework for Freedom and Liberty in the history of mankind.  So come on in to the garage this week and take a seat in the grease pit as we continue to build, share, educate and pontificate on what makes America so great.

Okay, we all know the South lost the Civil War, but we need to learn one thing from their Constitution.

It included a LINE ITEM VETO!

The Confederate Constitution was signed on this day 148 years ago.  Imagine that, people living six generations ago KNEW a line item veto was a smart move.

I wish we would learn something from those who lived before us!

This week we continue our work on the Vehicle of Freedom and Liberty as we add in the suspension.  The discussion covers tight vs. loose suspension and the affects of understeer and oversteer as they pertain to our economy.  We use this to illustrate the tightly controlled and regulated economy vs. the loosely controlled free market economy.   Come on in to the garage and take a seat in the grease pit this week to share some time with us.