Eight Decades of Free Thinking

Here it is September already, and my favorite time of the year, fall season is around the corner. A smorgasbord of things going on.

Prince William came this week, decked out in his baseball uniform, lugging a bag containing a ball, bat, helmet and glove, announcing he wanted me to go in the back yard and practice hitting balls with him. I was half asleep, but like a dream, found myself in the backyard pitching baseball.

He was here a couple of hours, left to go home for homeschooling and piano lessons and returned around 6 pm for another couple of hours. This time he was lugging another package, some kind of stand, used to hold a baseball, while the batter practices hitting the ball. Wanted me to assemble the contraction. Now my mental adroitness and dexterity in assembling such things are next to zero. But Prince William is insistent and persistent, telling me I can do it. And sure enough his unwavering confidence in me paid off and I was able to assemble. Returning to my back yard for another baseball practice. Two baseball practices in one day. Never dreamed my retirement years would include baseball practice.

In between baseball practices, he got out the hoe and shovel and began planting his fall garden. He only planted a few flowers, because today I purchased bags of soil to improve the ground for planting and went to Lowes for more seeds. Keeps me busy, trying to stay abreast of all his projects. Today when he comes, the first thing he will ask is, “Do you have any surprises for me?” He will be delighted to have the soil to spread and seeds to plant. I have some herbs, spinach seeds and a few other surprises.

He always walks in asking if I have a surprise for him. I’m a little slow on the uptake, because the real question is, what’s the surprise he has in store for me? A case of an Octogenarian matching wits with a five year old. Not an ordinary five year old, but one with total recall, more curiosity than Einstein, and more projects on his agenda than a newly elected politician. And can definitely filibuster with the best of them.

Just winding down his summer, swimming, driving a boat on Lake Lanier, ending his basketball season, he has not slowed down, entering school, after prekindergarten, doing great with his reading and piano lessons. His Dad sent a picture of him at the baby grand, playing a tune with only a towel around his bottom. He is almost too busy to get dressed, jumping from one project to another.

It seems all his golf lessons he began at age two are history, inasmuch as it is difficult to squeeze in his busy schedule. And the bottom line is, he keeps me busier than a one-armed paper hanger, when he arrives. But the greatest joy of my life as I observe his bright little brain develop and go from one thing to another, with such intense interest in so many things.

Time spent with him never violates my eleventh commandment, which is: “Don’t bore me.” In this connection, as I write, I’m not complaining, but explaining, just how interesting life is relative to time spent with a five year old.

In between his visits, I’ve been trying to work on my FaceBook site, and must say I have definitely met some very interesting and enlightening other writers. To my many readers, covering 80 countries, hope you check it out and leave a comment. Let’s Talk!!!

Have a Blessed day.

Let FREEDOM RING

Just ME, AC

E-mail: annecleveland@bellsouth.net

PART THREE

SOVIETS KNEW ABOUT OBAMA LONG BEFORE WE DID

Yesterday, I decided to do a bit of research about Muslim religion, inasmuch as I know so little about it. I Googled and discovered there is a tremendous amount of information on the net. I have rarely ever had headaches, however shortly into reading about it I got a sick headache and read no further. I will discuss what I did read, a bit later.

Currently, like so many others I’m more interested in discovering more about Barack Obama, and just who he is, to understand his implementation of all the socialist programs and his aims for where he is taking this once great Republic.

I, like so many other Americans in this country, have a deep love of Freedom and the Principles upon which this nation was founded. In this connection, it seems to be the normal thing to feel pride in the accomplishments of this country, and the general desire to help others in distress, here and around the globe. To be so disenchanted with the government and those involved in it with powers to do many things that we so vehemently object to, seems so diametrically in conflict with this love of Freedom and country. However we cannot have our heads in the sand, ignoring what is happening which threatens Freedom and our way of life in this country, and has already transformed America.

In this connection, criticizing the President, his regime and agenda, is not my favorite thing to do. Inasmuch as I have spent a lifetime standing up for the Principles I believe in, I can’t stop now, when the outlook for the future of this country looks very bleak. Believing that Freedom is self-responsibility and self-control, each one of us must assume that responsibility, to steer ourselves away from bondage.

Just this morning, heard Stuart Varney report on stats about economy not looking good, with predictions it will get worse.

I have been trying to find an article I read back in July, and ran across it this morning. It was re-printed on militantlibertarian.org blog site on July 6th. It’s a story about a trip to Moscow, in 1992, by Tom Fife. He was a government contractor, who took notes on trips for Defense Intelligence Agency. This story is about a conversation which took place in a Moscow flat, during a dinner party, with a man and his wife only referred to by initials in 1992.

In the course of conversation the Soviet wife says to Tom Fife: “What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon, and he will be a Communist. Well, you will and he will be a Communist.” The wife continued, saying, “This is not some idle talk, he is already born and he is educated and being groomed to be President right now– you will be surprised to know that he has gone to the best schools of presidents. He is what you call Ivy League. You don’t believe me but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and his father is black from Africa. That’s right, a mixed baby, and he is going to be president.”

The Soviet lady was full of details and continued rattling off a complete litany. “He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. Have no doubt he is one of us, a Soviet. Yes he is African, and will be a blessing for World Communism.” Further stating: “America would have to be connected to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.”

Wow!! this is a profound and staggering account of a conversation which took place back in 1992. If true, then it accounts for what the President says and does. We no longer need to wonder and be blindsided by his flowery speeches and push for all the socialistic legislature programs he has implemented, if in fact this is true. It doesn’t really matter whether or not the socialistic programs are communistic or fascism, both are brands of Socialism.

To fully understand the tactics and strategies of the socialist agenda, all one needs to do is read the book “Witness” by Whitaker Chambers, a dyed-in-the-wool, very smart Communist, who defected and wrote the 800 page book, detailing the tenets of that system of government and it is available through Amazon.com.

I listened to many of Barack Obama’s campaign speeches, always listening for him to express something about Freedom, the essence of what this country was founded upon, but I never heard him mention the word. The second thing that impacted me was his mantra of change, change, change, without ever explaining what it actually meant in his transformation of America. It was the absence of any mention of freedom, and the absence of explanation relative to what he meant by change, that bothered me about him from the outset. Not so much what he said, but what he did not say, was the signal to me, something is not right here.

But at that time, this was a country into the euphoria of contemplating replacing President Bush, and mesmerized by the charismatic speeches of this candidate. Consequently, little concern by the people and main media about vetting to learn who he really is. They turned out to vote for him was in droves.
Now, almost two years later, we seem to have a need to know to explain his programs of transforming America from a country of Freedom to one into the bondage of socialism.

However, what his religious, political, and social issues are, is not the real problem. He could be the holiest of priests, and the epitamy of goodness and decency and if so still be the leader who led this country down the road to serfdom, into servitude and bondage of the system of socialism, the results would be the same and would not matter whether or not he is a Communist, speaking hypothetically.

The truth of the matter is, he is not the messianic leader some claim him to be, and we still don’t know who he really is, because he says one thing and then does something else. He makes statements and claims, simply not true. For example, stating, “I am my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper.”

The Freedom of this country was not acquired by one man, and cannot be destroyed by one man, unless the people allow it. The power of Freedom remains in the hands of We The People and God, not a single individual.

Barack Obama’s friend and mentor, according to news reports, is Bill Ayers, a militant activist in the Weather Underground group, who said, “The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of Socialism is revolutionary war.”

LET FREEDOM RING

JUST ME,
AC
Email: annecleveland@bellsouth.net

PART ONE

There’s an old joke about presidents which goes like this: Roosevelt proved one could be president for life, Truman proved anyone could be president, Eisenhower proved we don’t really need a president and Kennedy proved it’s dangerous to have one.

We are interested in the person who sits in the seat of power as President of the United States, because all our lives are so impacted by who he is, and what he does. It appears to me this president has done more to affect our lives in the shortest period of time than any previous president.

The federal government is divided into three branches, the Congress makes laws, the Supreme Court interprets the laws, and the Executive Branch enforces the laws. At least that’s what I recall from high school civics. However, it seems much has changed, and the executive branch, headed by the president, appears to have a great deal of impact into making and interpreting the laws, and not just executing the laws. The power between the three branches, appears to me to have shifted, into a state of being whereby the executive branch wields greater power relative to the three branches, than originally, several years back.

I have lived through a number of different presidential regimes, and grew up in a family where politics, local, state and national news were discussed and argued. I know some families discourage arguing about politics, but it was encouraged in my family of origin. Not only that, we had a current events discussion in history classes, and everything from what was happening in Ethiopia to county candidates were discussed.

Today school children know who lives in the pineapple house in the ocean, but do not know who lives in the White House.

I miss the era when there were great news commentators on the radio, and great analytical writers in the newspapers. One in particular, Jack Anderson, who reported on events in Washington, whose motto was, “I don’t cover the news, I un-cover it.” There are a few still around, one of my favorites is Charles Krauthamer. A journalist who has a great deal of insight into current happenings, politically.

With the current news and interest in all the controversy over the Muslim mosque being built near the spot where the twin towers were bombed in New York by Muslim radicals, killing over 3,000 Americans, and President Obama weighing on the controversy, with his opinion, speaking before a Muslim group at the beginning of Ramadan, at a Muslim dinner in Washington, in support of their “Rights,” like so many others I’m trying to understand who he is, which might account for so many of his decisions being out of step and in opposition to the majority of the American people.

So much of what he does, wielding unusual power in the Executive Branch, seems so contrary to the Constitution, the great moral guides, like the Declaration of Independence, and the Will of the majority of the American people. Having been in office nearly two years, a pattern has been established.

In this connection, I go back to the time he first started making national news as I recall it. He first burst on the scene in 2007 and 2008, making a splash during the Iowa caucus, when he began actively campaigning for the presidency, making flowery speeches along with his wife Michelle, campaigning and speaking. At that time Hillary Clinton was the Democratic rival, campaigning for the nomination.

At that time we knew a great deal about Hillary inasmuch as she had been First Lady, eight years in the White House with Bill Clinton, but we knew very little about Barack Obama. Not much was revealed during the extra-long campaign. He won the nomination and was elected President in the 2008 national election.

The euphoria over his election, becoming the first black president, was at an all-time high, as so many Americans were swept up in all the pomp and circumstance, fueled by all his flowery speeches and charismatic presence. He was swept into office in 2009 amongst a wave of high expectations, from his promises of change, change, change, transparency, and Transformation of America.

Particularly swept up in all of it, were the major news services. Journalists and pundits spent most of their time glorifying this major achievement of electing a black president, and ignored in-depth investigation into his background, to un-cover who this charming new president really was, and just precisely what his agenda for this country was. Unlike prior national presdential elections, where reporters and pundits scrounged records for background facts, this time the establishment news media failed to conduct any in-depth inquiry into the personal and political history of Barack Obama. The campaign coverage by the major news watchdogs, did not investigate and dissect, as they had done in previous national elections.

It was a time of intense preoccupation with Sarah Palin, the running mate of GOP John McCain, and all about her politics, background, family, religion, personal beliefs, education, childhood upbringing and her philosophy about her political plans and future for this country, but very little about Barack Obama.

Bursting on the scene with such energy to drastically change so much so rapidly, it’s as though this country was like a deer caught in headlights, and has taken this country eighteen months to begin waking up to this drastic transformation of America. Like someone coming out of a hangover from all the euphoria generated over Obama, and waking up to a new day in this new and different America, the reaction is one of anger, frustration, disenchantment and disbelief.

Just now waking up from the stunned realization of the Transformation of America, there is a concerted effort to learn more about this new president, pushing through a new and different social agenda, covering the gamut of all that so profoundly effects all of us. Now we want to know who this intriguing politician really is, who has sadly implemented all these drastic changes, destructive to individual Freedom and personal property rights, and the nation’s borders open like floodgates, causing so much grief and heartache for so many. And a realization the detrimental effects of all the agenda now being set in motion, will probably get much worse.

One major news outlet reporting indepth on the reality of events, Fox News and the American people rising up in protest, more being written and exposed on the internet social media. An intense wave of interest in just who Barack Obama really is now sweeping this country.

CONTINUED IN PART TWO

JUST ME AC

EMAIL: annecleveland@bellsouth.net