Stephen Martino

“I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
– George Carlin

George Carlin’s quote recently had me thinking while reading the news about the government shutdown. First of all not many people understand the facts about why the government shut down or really what it means. When I looked at different news channels this morning,  all I saw was how the Republicans want to be obstructionists or how they have shut down government. Well, it’s not true. First of all it’s more of government slimdown. Essential services and the military are still up and running without any interference. Those services deemed non-essential like the parks have shut down. The news makes it seem as it we will be living in anarchy and the world will collapse with this shutdown. That’s not true. The only collapse will be with those people who think we cannot live without total governmental rule.

Secondly, the Republicans don’t want to shut down government. They just want to fund everything but the Affordable Care Act. It’s the Democrats who won’t sign a budget unless this totalitarian law is funded. Plus, the House has every right not to fund this law. It is the basis for the checks and balance system. If the executive branch becomes out of control, like with Obama, it can defund all those laws which are deemed not worthy of taxpayer money.

If the media actually told the truth, people would understand why we are in the predicament we are in.

Unfortunately, this explains a little too much. Now I understand where he gets his foreign and domestic policy inspiration from.

Happy Constitution Day! 220 years ago the brave pioneers who founded our country signed the Constitution–a document that would forever change the world. A document that set a checks and balance system, letting no branch of government become too powerful or tyrannical. A document that freed us from a monarchal rule. A document that has been emulated throughout the world. A document that that stands for freedom and the upholds the right of the individual.

Now in the 21st century this heartfelt view of this great document is under attack. No longer in schools do they teach the wisdom and bravery of our founding fathers. No longer is the picture of President George Washington on the wall. (I’ve been to almost 20 back to school nights for my kids and have yet to see his picture hung with reverence in a single classroom) Now that document is under attack and viewed as fluent by the liberals. No longer are the men who signed it revered and held sacred. No longer is the American heritage taught with admiration.

History has been changed. The love of our country has been taken out of schools and the media. And now they want to take God out of the Pledge. The above picture is just the latest example of how liberals want to change history and our Constitution. Read Amendment Number 2. Now remember what it supposed to say:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

This travesty to the truth can be found in United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination.

As absurd as it may appear, the liberals are changing the Constitution one Amendment at a time. As Americans we must not only preserve our history but we must also cherish it. The day we forego our national heritage is the day our country ceases to by the USA. I fear that day may be closer than we all think.

Let me ask a question. Has any of the Green Energy Programs Obama gave our tax dollars to become successful?  The answer is an unfortunate no. I wish they were. The only way we can win the war in the Middle East is by cutting off their oil money. Once we gain energy independence, we have effectively put a nail in the war on terror’s coffin.

However, Obama and his administration continue to naïvely give away our money to green energy firms without much potential for economic success––creating even more debt. And this is why socialist policies don’t work. If the president really wanted to make a positive investment in green energy, he would have let the free market take over.

By giving tax breaks to businesses, it would incentivize them to invest and compete against each other to produce the best green energy products. With more government incentives, more businesses would be interested, more jobs would be created and better and more ideas would materialize. That’s how things are done successfully and that’s how things are done properly in a capitalistic society. Have we not all not learned this simple fact?

Below is the latest example of Obama’s green energy failure:

Washington Times:
The Energy Department conceded Friday that the federal government will lose $42 million on a loan to a shuttered Michigan van manufacturer — part of the same program that provided a $529 million loan to an electric car maker that also has gone under. Vehicle Production Group (VPG), which made vans for the disabled, ceased operations in February and laid off 100 workers, two years after receiving a $50 million federal loan under the same clean-energy program that provided a $529 million loan to electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc., according to the Associated Press.

VPG pad back 5 million of the $50 million federal loan this spring, and the remainder of its debt was sold at auction this week to Humvee manufacturer AM General,which paid $3 million to buy the loan. In an email to AP, an Energy Department spokesman said sale of the VPG loan was the “best possible recovery for the taxpayer.”

Fisker had received $192 million before federal officials froze the loan in 2011. The company has since laid off 75 percent of its workers, though the government has recovered only about $28 million of the money.

The losses come after federal government’s failed risked on solar panel maker Solyndra, which went under in 2011 despite receiving more than $500 million from the Energy Department.

Is it me or are we looking more ludicrous by the day? First, obama insists, despite all contradictory information, that America should start a new war in Syria. Yet, we don’t have the support of the UN, the British or most other democratic countries in the free world. The scenario is leaving us alone, without support from our allies, and appearing like a bunch of war mongers without true provocation for attack. Plus, the irony is that the treaty we signed in the UN clearly states that one sovereign country cannot attack another sovereign country without UN consent unless their welfare is imminently in jeopardy. Does anybody know how Syria is currently posing an imminent threat to America? Does anybody understand why we willfully want to be in contempt of the treaty we signed in the the UN? It seems absurd!

Secondly, Putin created a viable disarmament plan for Syria’s chemical weapons (which ironically came from Russia) that helped forge a reasonable out for our president. Now, Putin seems to to come out on top as he looks like the peace keeper while we seem like the bully on the block.

Third, Putin then went on to disparaged our country in an op-ed article in The New York Times urging President Obama to back off the threat of strikes and telling Americans they are not “exceptional”. In the end, we Americans looked liked a bunch of wayward kids being admonished by an authoritarian father.

What makes it worse is now Kerry is stating that Putin’s plan did not go far enough and Assad should begin submitting data on this disarmament immediately. Kerry then went on to caution that a U.S. military strike could happen if Assad doesn’t agree to dismantle his chemical arsenal properly. But truthfully, what does “properly” mean? Are we making up the rules as we go?

Is Kerry serious with this statement? Is he just making up excuses to attack Syria? Are we all missing some hidden agenda in the obama White House? I don’t know but it seriously makes one wonder.

Lastly, now Assad is admonishing America in his recent interview to Russian TV, stating that he will comply to the chemical weapons disarmament only if the US stops bullying him–creating sympathy for both himself and his country.

We are in a no win situation. Our national image and pride have been damaged if we do or don’t attack. The only thing that would make us look stupider or totally not in touch with reality is if we continued pursuing the situation with ardent tenacity–and wait…that’s exactly what we are doing!

As the name of the post asks, “Who’s Covering the Tea Party’s March on Washington”? First of all, did anyone know there was a march on Washington DC today. Does anybody know what the march was about? The answer most likely is no. And that is sad. And what is sadder is that I could find absolutely no pictures or articles about the event today. It was like there was a total media blackout on the story- a story that threatens to destroy America. The sarin gas supposedly used by Assad will not do it but Obama will.

If you want the answer, here it is. Taxpayers and Tea Party Patriots flooded the streets around our Nation’s Capitol today with the purpose to pressure the U.S. Congress to De-Fund ObamaCare- scheduled to begin January 1, 2014.

As Obama gives one smokescreen after another, Obamacare slowly gets implemented, taking away our individual freedoms by the day. Syria, Miley Cyrus, Zimmerman, Gun Control and other stories obscure what is really happening now in America. While Obamacare threatens to eat away at the heart of America, we are inundated with another inane speech,filled with overused rhetoric and devoid of any true meaning or substance, tonight by Obama . As we listen to this socialist drone on, reading from his teleprompter, his overall goal to take over America’s entire economy is coming to fruition. And the sad part about it is nothing is stopping him. Not his foreign policy failures, domestic policy debacles, numerous scandals which he remains unaccountable for and disastrous economic policy seem to stop the Obama cancer that has invaded our country.

While we all might feel secure that another war may have been averted, we all forget the war that obama and his cronies currently wage on America and her great Constitution. We must not forget what he is doing to our country nor must we forget the road that he has taken our country down. The road is filled with scandal, bankruptcy, moral decay, lawlessness and economic ruin.