Welcome to my weblog. This is not a news publication and does not try to be one. It is merely my way of offering my personal opinion on various subjects, exercising my First Amendment right of free speech while we still have that right (in part, at least).
In case you are not familiar with the First Amendment to our Constitution, here it is:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or\r\nprohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of\r\nspeech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to\r\nassemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Notice that the right of all Americans to freedom of speech comes before the right of a free press; I point that out to illustrate that free speech is the right of every American, not just the right of the established corporate owned news media as some devious types in politics erroneously believe.
My political views are a bit uncommon in today’s world. I am not a Republican, a Democrat, nor a Libertarian; I have no current affiliation with any party, although I was once a “working man’s Republican” of the old Eisenhower type. I am an Independent, with a very strong belief in the European heritage and culture that founded our country. Yup, a White Anglo Saxon Protestant, and damn proud of it. If that offends you, then you are at the wrong website; take your sorry butt elsewhere.
This same heritage sustained our country from the American revolution through World War Two and the Eisenhower era. While still strong, that heritage has been under almost constant attack by politically radical forces since the middle sixties and the onslaught of the hippies, draft resistors, anti-Christian bigots and the totally misnamed civil rights movement.
I absolutely abhor political hype– politically correct words and phrases, if you will–as well as the phonies who practice it. Politically correct terms are designed solely for the purpose of deceiving. For example, “diversity” once meant differences of opinion or religion; now it is used to suggest that it is somehow a good thing to bring in enough immigrants with a non-European culture to completely eradicate the main voting block in America– the middle class– and to establish a non-unified, chaotic culture that can be more easily manipulated by the weasels currently in power.
If we had a president like Franklin Roosevelt in office now, I could be a Democrat….or if we had a President like Dwight D. Eisenhower, I could be a Republican…. These men were far from perfect, but I believe they were basically decent and honest, and for the most part they had the interests of our country at heart. That cannot be said for most of our current crop of politicos– especially the so-called neo-conservatives or the ultra-liberals.
But since the end of Ike’s term our “leaders” have either encouraged or did little to prevent the moral decay of the country. Since we have been limited to the wealthy, elitest-orchestrated “choices” that we have had to vote for, from LBJ to the present time, I see no party worth belonging to.
As for our sorry Senate and House of misRepresentatives, I have never before seen such a poor and ineffective example of self interest, egoism and corporate lackyism in decades. It\’s my sincere opinion that political pukes the likes of Kennedy, Harry Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Murtha, Barney Frank and Specter must be voted out of office before our country can even begin to heal and return to better times.
Will Rogers once said about politicians, “You have to be loaded just to get beat“. It is nearly impossible for a working class man or woman to be elected to any high political office, no matter what their level of intelligence, honesty or competence may be.
I want to make it clear that I do not have any political preferences other than for the ethical and moral integrity of the individuals in office. I suppose that a belief in moral integrity is a bad thing in the eyes of some current political and media miscreants, and it is certainly a politically incorrect thing. So be it. As far as I am concerned, “political correctness” is a four-letter word that rhymes with excrement.
We need honet, up-front and plain talk in these times from our elected officials– not terms and cliches that are designed only to be deceptive hype.
Unfortunately, it is my sincere opinion that we have elected a slick, obviously narcissistic character to the presidency who is an absolute master of political hype, doubletalk and misdirection.
The actions and words of the current mis-Administration and un-representative Congress have left me with a growing concern over what is now happening to both my heritage and my country.
~ Bill Payne
January, 2009
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do…… Will Rogers
