America is STILL a sovereign nation

The UN should not be allowed to run anything that is American. PERIOD!

They should not be allowed to tell us how to write our laws. They should not be allowed to tell us how to handle our gun rights. They should not be allowed to run our military. They need to keep their grubby hand out of our wallets. And they should definitely keep their collective mitts off our internet.

We are a sovereign nation. We fought a war 236 years ago that says so. We broke from a distant regime that tried to rule us then and we should not allow these foreigners any power to do so today.

I don't mean we should not cooperate with our neighbors in this world. But let them run their own damn countries and leave ours alone. The internal workings of America is OUR business, not theirs.

The minute our leaders abdicate our rights in the name of world cooperation is the minute we kick their collective butts out of office. And I mean that. I don't care if its a Democrat or Republican controlled government Administration. The UN has no business trying to run our country. Despite what has been going on the last several decades, America is run by Americans. True, the people have had very little say in our own government, but that is OUR fault. Collectively, we have given up our rights to an ever expanding Federal control. But it is still our American Federal government. The folks at the UN have a different idea.

And that simply cannot be allowed.

Get involved. Call and / or write your local, state and Federal officials. Tell them not only NO but HELL NO! to the UN takeover of America!

You can agree or disagree with this that the UN needs to stay out of America's business. You can agree or disagree that we need to maintain the sovereignty we fought to get and maintain over the past 236 years. But whatever you do, do NOT sit idly by as our leaders sell us down the river. Anyway, this is just me, Thinking Out Loud.

Have a great day.

Charles

Jon Stewart tackles SOPA

Literally, Jon Stewart tackled, slam dunked, made SOPA understandable to the common person. It starts out sounding like he is slamming the "angry nerds" who were protesting. But then he just launches into a tirade that should make Congress embarrassed that they even THOUGHT about passing this "draconian" law. (Stewart's comment, so I guess SOPA would shut me down for repeating this copyrighted work on my website.)

Check out Stewart's video here.

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Okay, maybe I took it too far. But The Daily Show actually has a "button" to embed this video. So I guess it is "fair use."

But seriously, Stewart, whom I find incredibly talented and funny as all get out, has a point. A real one. Congress should get - not the nerds, as Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) calls them - the "EXPERTS to enlighten you so your laws don't backfire" as Stewart recommends.

I mean, come on, this stuff is common sense. If you don't know what the hell you are talking about then get someone in who does. And then legislation won't sound as half-assed, half baked or completely inane as the laws Congress has passed in the last few years.

I have never been one for the whole Czar thing that Presidents feel they can appoint. But I think there should be an elected position, or maybe a position appointed by the minority party. Or something other than an appointment by the sitting person with more power than everyone else in the world. And this position would be something like the Reality-Check Czar (check czar, play on words, get it?) or the This Just Doesn't Make Sense Czar, or maybe just the Common Sense Czar. Someone to keep these lawmakers grounded in the real world so they don't do stupid things like write laws (like SOPA and PIPA) that on the surface seem like a good thing, but then get bogged down in the self interest of politicians.

SOPA and PIPA,. on the surface, seem like good ideas. Stopping piracy of someone's copyrighted material. Good thing. Shutting down internet sights, curtailing free speech, imposing "draconian" punishments for said infringements and the vague language of the law. BAD BAD thing!

And putting all this power kin the hands of one man. BAD BAD BAD BAD . . . well, I could go on for quite a while using BAD after BAD, but I hope you get the idea that it is a really bad idea.

I would suggest to Eric Holder and all those who would pass such legislation to look at it from the other side of the looking glass. If someone who was your ideological opposition and was in power tried to pass this law, would you support it? And don't answer that out loud. Answer it in your mind only. This way you won't feel compelled to say what others want to hear. Answer truthfully. Then think about if you really should do it.

If their answers are that they would . . . geez, its incredible how much they even lie to themselves.

Remember, SOPA and PIPA = BAD. Any legislator who would pass such crap = BAD and Anti-American.

Agree, disagree, I don't care. So long as I get you to think for yourself and see how stupid an idea these two pieces of drivel are, then I have done my job. BUT ASK YOURSELF . . . would you even be able to agree or disagree with me if internet censorship is allowed to go forward, will there be anyone out here to even agree or disagree with?? Think about it. Anyway, it doesn't matter to me how you think about it, so long as you think about it instead of listening to someone else, even me. Because,m as usual, this is just me, Thinking Out Loud.

Have a great day. And an American day, where you still have freedoms.

Charles

People to defeat

Here's a rare thing for me to do. I am going to publicly thank Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Thank you, Nancy.

For providing us a list of those to make sure GET DEFEATED come November.

AN explanation, of course. Nancy sent out an email with this list on it that she wants to get elected in November to help them win the House for Democrats. this, of course, can never happen.

So here is Nancy's email, word for word.

"Charles --

Today, we are pleased to give you a sneak peek at our first round of Red to Blue candidates. These are the top races in the country that will help us to win a House Democratic Majority.

From teachers to doctors to even a NASA astronaut, these candidates are problem solvers who will help us to win in November and move our country forward.

Please watch this special Red to Blue video message and sign our pledge to commit to 2012 alongside our outstanding Democratic candidates.

Thank you for all you do and for always standing with us.

Onward to victory,

Nancy Pelosi"

Not one to be mean, but Nancy really looks a little "plastic" in this video. I sure hope she isn't sick or anything. I wouldn't want to see her leave the House because of illness. I just want to see her leave the House, period.

Anyway, as usual, you can agree or disagree with my desire to not see these Democrats get into the House of Representatives just to GIVE THE DEMOCRATS the majority. It doesn't matter to me. Just don't be SHEEP and simply vote them in. (Especially if its what you're being TOLD to do.) Check them out. Check out their records. Check out their intentions for America, and you, its citizens. If I can get you to think for yourself, I have done my job. Heck, this is just me, Thinking Out Loud.

Have a great day. AND STOP SOPA and PIPA!!!!!!

Charles

The President shows America the middle finger

The President of the United States just flipped us all off. In a time where jobs are needed, desparately, by many Americans, the President used a sneaky, underhanded ploy to get what he wants. He appointed three people to the NLRB that are so anti-business, so anti-American, so anti-jobs that their liberal agenda will stifle any growth possibility for the coming future.

And he has shown his true colors. He is anti-people. This move, however politically motivated or astute, is by far the most ludicrous action by a President who says he lsitens to the people and who says he cares about the peiople and who says he is pro-jobs - jobs are his number one concern.

But as he has lied to the American public in the past, he is lying to us again. And this time he is sending that middle finger loud and clear. All he cares about is protecting his own job. He wants to pander to as many groups as he possibly can, using his social agenda of spreading the wealth (among his labor cronies) and fair share (for his buds in DC and in liberal bastions everywhere) of things they never worked for.

He has appointed these union-friendly thugs to make sure his National Labor Relations Board,, which has proven itself in the Boeing case to be MEGA anti-business (which means anti-job), as the enforcement arm of power mad and money hungry union officials. The same union officials who want to do away with Americans rights to choose, in private, whether they want to be in a union or not.

These unions are anti-American. The NLRB is anti-American. And the President has just proven, once more, that HE IS ANTI-AMERICAN.

(I only say all this because unions don't care about jobs unless they are getting a cut from them. And with their union-friendly White House comrades, they can get things done to whittle the rights of the American worker, because it suits them.)

How much longer are Americans going to sit idly by while they are being insulted by their leaders? How much longer are we going to sit here, jobless, hungry, struggling, while this President sits down to fancy dinners with his "supporters" and, like a dictator of old, proclaims not only does he know what's best for you but he is going to do whatever he wants so his pals can get whatever they want . . . all the while screwing the people.

If he really cared, he wold not have made these controversial appointments, basically behind our backs. He would have waited and argued out the process of appointments. But since he knew we didn't want them, because he knew they were a sleazy deal, he did them when he would face no opposition. (And by the way, Congress may have been on recess, but the members of Congress have been holding meetings practically every few days. So it may have been "recess" but it was a working one.)

And in the background, while everyone is focused on recess appointments and GOP battles and claims of racism by America's top cop, they are slowly eroding even more of our rights. They want to "protect" intellectual property rights by giving themselves the power to arbitrarily shut down sections of the internet. (See SOPA and PIPA, which are - as usual with government legislation - not a bad idea but the wording goes BEYOND helping and delves dangerously toward censorship and not unlike what the Hitlers and Mussolinis of history did. The only people who are for it, are afraid of reprisals from the likes of that sleazy AG, Eric Holder.)

Obama and his ilk know nothing of Freedom, except when it refers to them having the freedom to strip away ours. They know nothing of jobs, except to figure out how to get power and money from those who want to control them. They know nothing about rights, except as a cause to hate.

I know I am coming on pretty strong here, but the rest of the media is not going to say anything about it. I know I am coming across as harsh, but it is the DUTY of a free press to stand as the fourth estate over government, to be the people's eyes and ears and express the people's outrage at corruption and injustices perpetrated by a government who's professed role is to govern the people by the WILL of the people.

So agree with me or disagree with me, it really doesn't matter. So long as you look at what I offer up with a reasoning mind and come to your own conclusions. Don't allow them to dictate to you what they are doing is right. Look at it and see the truth, determine the reality, avoid the SPIN. Stop being sheep. Anyway, this is just me, one man among several hundred million, Thinking Out Loud.

have a great day.

Charles