Time to Be Amazing

Great post by Doctor Zero at Hot Air.  He covers briefly how we got here from FDR to present.  He discusses the possibility that this march towards socialism cannot be stopped, but points out that it will be stopped, by Adam Smith's unseen hand (though he doesn't mention that specifically), eventually, and then points out that we Americans can rectify things if we stay properly motivated, and get off our asses.  Read the whole thing.

His summary paragraphs are more motivational, like the Bluto and Henry V links:

There’s no reason a country with vast natural resources, tended by a bold and innovative people, should suffer double-digit unemployment and capital flight. A compassionate nation, whose daily industry has done more for the downtrodden than every utopian scheme combined, has no reason to lower its head in shame, and tolerate the extraction of “charity” at gunpoint. The veterans of bloody wars against lawless tyranny should not accept a system that makes fools of the industrious. A great people, who live in reverence of equality, require no lists of class and racial enemies from opportunistic politicians.
This is the hour for passion and reason, not anger and disgust. The strength to restore our prosperity lies in the muscle and imagination of citizens who have been programmed to think of themselves as sheep, by those who seek power as their shepherds. The time for averting a painful disaster is short… but the most amazing chapters of American history were written in the last seconds before midnight.
It’s time for us to be amazing again. I hope you find that as invigorating as I do.

I bolded the section that liberals just cannot understand.

So, we keep this up, we keep proselytizing, we go to the Tea Parties, and hopefully, get enough people to see sense, before changing things throught the legal process becomes impossible.  I think it can be done.

Obama Ramps Up the Fishing

Evidently not content with the his minions' tattling production in his 'Rat on your Neighbor' program, President Hope 'n' Change orders another project to collect data on his subjects; and this time he has those dirty rightwing Fascists (oxymoronic phrase, I know), those people who make lefties shake with rage, the ACLU up in arms! Reversing a policy in place the last 9 years (you know, during evil Chimpy McHaliburton's reign), the Obama administration issued a directive to

reverse current federal policy and allow the use of web tracking technologies, like cookies, on federal government websites

That is, gather data on those who visit Federal websites. So, don't think about getting those federal transcripts unless you want Big Brother Barry tracking you! I know we here at RTP are always visiting wacko right wing conspiracy websites to get our crazy ideas, and the ACLU is no different. Here's more from those crazies ranting against the administration of Hope & Change:

“This is a sea change in government privacy policy,” said Michael Macleod-Ball, Acting Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “Without explaining this reversal of policy, the OMB is seeking to allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website. Until the OMB answers the multitude of questions surrounding this policy shift, we will continue to raise our strenuous objections.”

Gosh those crazy guys. As deluded as RTP regarding the Obama administration's 1984-style efforts to monitor its citizens.