The devastated grandparents were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they dropped their opposition.
The couple, who cannot be named, wanted to give the five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister a loving home themselves. But they were ruled to be too old - at 46 and 59.
For two years they fought for their rights to care for the children, whose 26-year- old mother is a recovering heroin addict.
They agreed to an adoption only after they faced being financially crippled by legal bills.
The final blow came when they were told the children were going to a gay household, even though several heterosexual couples wanted them.
When the grandfather protested, he was told: ‘You can either accept it, and there’s a chance you’ll see the children twice a year, or you can take that stance and never see them again.’
So the social workers take two grandchildren away from their grandparents because they say the grandparents are too old to raise them. The couple in question are 46 and 59 I believe. It is not like they are 95 and on the verge of death.
After two years of legal battle the grandparents, now broke, give up the fight. They just want to make sure that the kids will go to a loving family at this point. That is when they are told that the family is two gay men! The gays were chosen even though several qualified normal families where available.
Social activism, being played out with children, and it is despicable. England has gone completely, batshit, crazy. God save us from the Eurosocialists.
If something like this happened here, there is a good chance that the grandfather might show up to the foster home, armed, to save his grandbabies. Then the family, having to be on the run from the government, could survive hopefully. In jolly ‘ol England, unarmed peasants have no such options, to fight totalitarian leftism run amok, and must bow down, and ask for another helping.
This is why we must fight to the death if necessary, to keep from becoming unarmed peasants ourselves.
The city’s plan is to get food manufacturers in the United States to agree to gradually start reducing salt content until it reaches a 50 percent cut in 10 years.
“Salt, when its high in the diet, increases the blood pressure and high blood pressure is a major factor for heart disease and stroke,” said Dr. Sonia Angell of NYC’s Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program.
This is just Mayor Bloomberg’s latest health initiative, following on the heels of a smoking ban, a ban on trans fats and forcing restaurants to post the calorie contents.
Now we have the war on salt. That’s right, freaking salt. While his city is in a horrible financial crisis, Mayor Bloomberg and his nanny state cabal of do gooders, have nothing to worry about, more than salt in people’s food.
Here is the money quote.
Thomas Frieden, the city’s health commissioner, said he wants manufacturers and restaurants to join the war on salt voluntarily. If they don’t, the city could pass legislation making it the law.
There it is. We will make you do it if you don’t do so voluntarily. We can use the power of the state to beat you about the head of yet another issue we have no business being involved in.
Welcome to English socialism people. New York City is becoming the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, this illiberal democratic nightmare of governmental interference, is a simply a microcosm of what the Democrat controlled federal thugs have in store for us, if we let them do as they will.
Free men must realize that every bit of liberty we relinquish act as a pebble in the dam that is being constructed to separate us from our river of freedom. Slowly but surely, these people will dam up our river one pebble at a time, all in the name of protecting us from ourselves.
I, for one, don’t want their protection. They can keep it, and shove it were the sun doesn’t shine.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the panel, pressed Jackson on whether she would back measures to start regulating carbon dioxide, such as a finding that CO2 emissions endanger public health and welfare and a waiver allowing California and other states to impose their own regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. Boxer’s staff even prepared a “Report on the Tools Available Under the Clean Air Act to Immediately Reduce Global Warming Pollution” outlining how Jackson could do so.
The scary part of this paragraph are these words “a finding that CO2 emissions endanger public health and welfare”.
They are talking about labeling carbon dioxide as a pollutant. This is the end game for the global warming lunatics. Our government could actually label what we exhale in every breathe as a poisonous pollutant that must be controlled. This would put it up there with things like chlorofluorocarbons and mercury.
Such a finding would give the EPA free reign to regulate everything in our economy without congressional approval. Not that congressional approval is all that important, in the Democrat controlled legislature now-a-days. If they do this, this recession will look like a tea party, and the Kyoto protocol will seem like a wishful dream.
This does not come easy. I have been trying to construct this post for weeks now, and finally it must be done today. It is more a stream of consciousness than anything, so please read it as that. We are in for Dark Days ahead folks. For all true freedom loving Americans, today will be remembered as not a day of hope and change, but a day that represents the beginning of more governmental tyranny, and less freedom. The day we took a step back from the boldness of self determination, and real personal responsibility.
In a few hours President Obama will be a reality. He will bring his big government sycophants back into power in the executive branch in our government, and they will proceed to regulate us into oblivion, all the time promising it is for our own good.
I have been struggling with something over the last month or so, and it has to be shared now. Currently my reading time is taken up with the voluminous Atlas Shrugged. The book is a novel that illustrates the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Her ideas are collectively known as objectivism. While there is much I agree with her on, there is a whole lot that I don’t.
Rand believed that altruism was evil. She thought that no man had a responsibility to help another, nor should he wish to. For her, producing something worthwhile was the most important thing a man could do, so she idolized successful entrepreneurs. A man’s worth, should be judged by his financial worth. Ayn believed that no man should be subjected to the whims of another man or any God. The free market, and money where her symbols to worship.
As a Christian I have struggled reconciling these thing with my beliefs. Jesus said we are our brother’s keeper, as Obama repeated countless times on the campaign trail. He urges us all to serve each other, and no doubt plans to force us to do so. Many people apparently buy into his ideas, and are actually taking some kind of weird cult-like oath to serve him.
This is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen. Here is some background.
So how does this tie into Rand’s ideas, my own ideals, and the future of our country?
First, I disagree with Rand completely as to self sacrifice being evil. Wishing to help your fellow man is not evil. There is great reward to be realized for being of service to other human beings. Self sacrifice to help another is truly a wonderful thing, that all of us should partake in, if we are inclined to do so. My God tells me this is so, as does my mind and heart. We should not be overly calloused individuals purely out for our own self interests. Giving someone a hand up is a worthy and noble thing. This is one of my ideals, and is part of my morality.
Ayn was correct however, with regard to government (or otherwise) forced altruism. No man should be forced to give away what he has created himself by another man. That is simply tyrannical theft. It, does not jive with my morality, and my idea of what freedom and liberty mean. The government DOES become evil when it forces a man to sacrifice himself for another, when he is not involved in the choice to do so. It is a cynical self defeating cancer, which does nothing more than hurt everyone involved ultimately.
When Obama calls on us to sacrifice and be of service to others, he is talking about forced sacrifice. We are to sacrifice ourselves for people we don’t even know of, and for policies that we are against. We are to sacrifice ourselves to grow the already overly intrusive government into an irreversible, all knowing, nanny state. We will be told how to act, and what we can and cannot do, and many of us will do so smiling in self deluded egalitarian glee the whole way.
I heard a professor on the radio this morning claim that Obama will lead us into the vision of the country’s founders, and the framers of our Constitutional Republic. Nothing could be further from the truth. The man had the nerve to say that we will become more democratic, and this is what the founders would want.
Obviously the man is either not as well educated as he believes himself to be, or he is intentionally misconstruing the principles on which this country was founded. We do not live in a mob democracy. Our freedoms are not to be fooled with by the whims of the majority. Our financial well-being will never be best served by fascist ownership of industry, nor will markets bloom under the thumb of unqualified beaurocrats.
This topic is too big to tackle in one post, and I don’t have time to flesh out my thoughts well. As I said this is a stream of my consciousness. Someday soon, I want to discuss all of this in a more constructed manner, until then this must be sufficient.
I will not bow down to any man, nor sacrifice myself, without my own will being involved. While I believe in helping others, it is wrong to force me to do so.
My freedom is dear to me, and I WILL fight to preserve it for myself and my children.
The Republic must survive, and be protected from the clutches of those that would destroy it from within, if real free men are to exist on the planet.
So, as you watch the coronation of our new President today, pray that he is not made into our benevolent king sometime in the not so far away future.
They have already banned 100W light bulbs. This is the kind of lunacy we have to look forward to most likely in the new administration. The English are already reaching out to Obama to institute some of their other asinine policies here.
Just try taking away American’s beloved televisions and see what happens.
The holiday season is now over, and with its passing a new year has begun. My two week vacation is coming to an end, and work is waiting for me in the morning. This new year brings with it many uncertainties that have been consciously ignored for the last couple of months. The economy is in the dumper, employment is not guaranteed, and we have a likely foe to freedom preparing to take over the governing of our country.
We have settled into our new role as parents, and that has changed the reality of my priorities as the head of my household. I have a wife and baby to support beyond just supporting myself. Thankfully, the wife and I have good jobs at the moment. Our companies look to be stable, and hopefully nothing will change on that front. Preparations need to be made for a change in this department in the uncertain times however. My family must be protected in the event of prolonged unemployment.
We are fortunate to be able to survive on either of our incomes. Things would be tight, but doable. Up until this point I looked at my 401k as a backup plan. It still is, only its backup potential has been lessened significantly with the market downturn. We could have survived solely on it for a year or more before, and as of now we are looking at six months or so.
While many have been forecasting a depression like the one the country experienced during the 30s or worse, I don’t see it happening. My feelings are that we are in the midst of a deep recession and will come out of it in the second half of this year. Not being an economic guru makes my elementary forecasts nearly worthless. Therefore my plan for this year is to live frugally, and stock away as much cash as possible.
We don’t have any car payments, or massive amounts of debt, so socking away money won’t be to difficult. At least it shouldn’t be. Our biggest problem is frivolous spending. Between going out to eat, and randomly buying crap, we easily could put away $500 a month if not more.
One aspect of becoming more secure financially involves smart shopping for groceries. We have used the grocery game off and on for a few years now. This has multiple advantages really. First, you get groceries as cheaply as possible. Second, you end up stockpiling quite a bit of food. You can easily eat off of it for weeks or longer if need be.
We have enough guns for now, and if anything is banned, we have what we need for the future. There are of course dozens of firearms that would be great additions to my collection, but none will likely be added this year. A few more “assault rifles” would be very welcome, but they will likely have to wait. If there is a ban, our current lineup will be sufficient. Finishing out my extra AR will be the only probable gun purchase this year.
Ammo is another story. Part of my preparations for familial survival will include finally setting up my reloading bench, and creating loads of cheap ammo for us to practice with. There is enough ammo for each gun now to make it useful in a TEOTWAWKI event, but we all need to practice and become proficient with all of our family arms.
One expense we have decided to add this year will be getting our concealed carry licenses. With the withering economy crime is on the rise. There has been an uptick in carjackings and muggings, and several women have been followed home and robbed in our area. Security is another huge priority that will be addressed in this new year.
Our home has iron grates on the operable windows in the house. The front door has an iron security door. The gates to the backyard are locked as well. We need to add an alarm system, and some strategically placed security lighting.
If possible, I would like to find some affordable cameras that can be monitored remotely. This would be useful for monitoring the front door and maybe a couple of other key locations. It would be nice to be able to see who was at the door before opening it.
All of these security ideas have been thought of in the past, but there has always been a different priority at the time.
I am responsible for protecting my wife and my child, and with a world that is becoming less safe every day, my vigilance in this area must be upgraded. My wife must be able to defend herself and our child while they are out on their own, and so the concealed carry licenses will be our first security priority.
Please, watch this video. It is from a former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, and was recorded back in the ’80s. He is warning us about how the Marxist-Leninists (the Soviets at the time), planned to infiltrate and takeover our country.
Fortunately for our country, Ronald Reagan and others helped defeat the Soviets and they failed to take over while they were still in power. Unfortunately, their useful idiots were left intact. These are the Hollywood morons, the professors in our schools, government bureaucrats, much of our media, and others.
The Marxist-Leninist plan has finally succeeded in getting one of themselves, Barack Obama, into the highest office in the land. They used the idiots in our society, the lazy sheep looking for government handouts and those that pay no attention to anything, to elect him.
The Soviets worked on these things for decades. Senator McCarthy, while being branded as a kook, turned out to be correct. Our Department of State was chock full of Marxists. This was sixty years ago! Since the 60s these people have gained power across our country and have taken over our institutions.
We have seen the writing on the wall. We are headed for socialism-lite in this country at a rapid pace. The three-headed mongrel dog of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, is chomping at the bit to get moving on their fundamental change. They plan to lead us into western European socialism as fast as they can.
Meanwhile the real dangerous communists are up to their old tricks. They have succeeded in their old plot to consolidate power in America around the soft American left. They have Obama to deal with. He is a weak leader, and has already proven to be soft on Russian aggression. There is more to Obama than this however, as we will look at shortly.
Seeing these developments, the communists of the world are acting. They are acting right now. Lets look at a couple of current headlines shall we.
Russian leader Medvedev heading to Cuba, VenezuelaHere we have the Russian President heading to Cuba and Venezuela. These are of course the two strongholds of Marxist-Leninist socialists in our hemisphere currently. The Russians are supplying weapons to Chavez, conducting military games with him, and moving to start oil field work there. The Russians are expanding their oil production capabilities in our hemisphere, while we sit around and worry about global warming. This will leave us defenseless in the event of a crisis, in which our foreign oil supplies are cut off. Game over.
U.S. critical of Russia’s Baltic missile threatsSo Reagan did teach the Soviet’s something about negotiating after all! What a shrewd move on the part of the Russians. Obama is going to fold like a house of cards on this one, and it WILL be only the beginning of the games. The Russians will continue to test him, and take full advantage of him as long as they can. They have judged him well I think. Hopefully they are wrong, and he will step up to defend our country and our allies from this resurgent monster. This would assume that he is in fact, not on their side.
China’s Hu to visit Washington, CubaThis one actually scares me. China and Russia have been enemies for centuries. Even though they were ideological allies for decades, they had generally rocky relations during the time of the Soviet Union. A coming together of these two, along with their western hemisphere comrades, could prove disastrous for us. This is the reason we fought communism for all those years. This is why we helped overthrow people like Allende, and fought the Sandanistas. We knew that communist expansion would be the end for us. That is why we spent so long fighting it. Now we are going to be run by sympathetic morons, just at the time we need to fight the most.
Move To Let Putin Re-Take Power”>Move To Let Putin Re-Take PowerVladimir Putin continues to consolidate his power. He is an old school communist, and former head of the KGB. This is why McCain kept saying that he saw him as such, during the debates. Unfortunately that didn’t mean anything to 52% of us. We were to interested in hope and change. Guess what? Change is coming, with it you may lose all hope.
Worried yet? You probably should be.
This brings us to the very interesting point of our discussion. Where does the American Left and their Messiah Barack Obama stand in all of this. Are they the well-meaning idiots of Jonah Goldberg, or Soviet-style totalitarian communists in disguise.
At this point I do not know the answer. There is also the question of whether or not it really matters. Good intentions don’t make up for losing one’s freedom or life after all. It would be nice to think that 52% of our populace could never be duped into voting for such a regime, but my hope in the American people was severely dashed when the picked Obama at all.
The circumstantial evidence pointing to Obama at least leaning towards authoritarian control is everywhere. His relationships with the Ayers, his membership of a black liberation church (liberation theology is rooted in Marxism), his shady dealings and election tactics in Illinois, and his polished message all point towards bad things for us conservative, patriotic, gun-toting Americans.
The most shocking revelation to me was his plan for a Civilian Defense Force. I have mentioned that here before. Just the thought of such a thing brings of visions of Hitler’s Brown-shirts, or Stalin’s old NKVD thugs. Couple this with Obama’s propensity for gun control, and you have a witch’s brew of bad intentions.
Our good friend Dirtcrsher brought the following video to our attention here. Please go see his post and read the comments if you have not already.
This scares me more than anything else that has been mentioned thus far. They seem to be aiming to turn our children into indoctrinated pawns for the state. What will they do next, have them spy on us, and report any negative comments we make against the anointed one? We will discuss this little plan in more detail here in a separate post later.
The Economist has a good article on China’s new government bailout plan.
As a conservative and a proud American citizen, I never thought I would live to see the day when our government mirrored that of communist China. These bailouts are completely socialistic in nature, and are set to balloon out of control. Read the article, and look at the similarities between the plans, and the kind of things the Democrats are proposing we do with our bailout money. The similarities are shocking. Well, they are only shocking if you don’t see the Democrats as the big government, tyrannical, socialist bastards that they are.
This is evil pure and simple. It is especially angering to me, as my black first grade teacher used to take my lunch money and give it to the black kids. She was a vile evil women, whom I would slap in the face even today if the chance was given to me.
This poor little girl is attacked by this teacher because her father is a McCain supporter and a soldier. It is disgraceful that she thinks it is okay to inject her political opinions into the classroom, and force it upon these kids.
