The Federal Observer

Beginning in late March of 2011, on my daily internet broadcast, Life, Liberty & All That Jazz, I was privileged to introduce to my audience, a friend of 16 years, who has a unique knowledge – one which needed to be shared with a wide-ranging audience.

It has taken 8 months to lay the proper groundwork for the launch of the most powerful book which you will ever have the privilege to read.

What began as a simple seed being planted into the garden of your brain, is about to reap the most bountiful harvest you will ever place on your “table.” We are proud to have been the farmer that cranked up the plow. What follows, is the beginning of the harvest…

Serf’s up, it’s time to set Sayle – rough seas ahead. (JB)

“Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.” – Psalm 100:4-5

Thanksgiving, as introduced by European explorers and settlers in the “New World,” was a time set aside specifically for the purpose of giving thanks to our Creator for His manifold blessings.

The earliest record of a thanksgiving in America is 1541 by Spanish explorer Coronado at Palo Duro Canyon in what is now Texas. French Protestant colonists at Charlesfort (now Parris Island, South Carolina) held a thanksgiving service in 1564. In 1607, the Jamestown settlers held thanksgiving at Cape Henry, Virginia, and there are many other records of such hallowed observances.

The first call for an annual Thanksgiving was at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia, in 1619, when Captain John Woodlief and 38 settlers aboard the ship Margaret, proclaimed, “Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place assigned for plantacion in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.”

Smokin’ Joe smokes no mo…

I remember well those days of the boxing matches that were fun to watch. Before Ali was Ali – when he was still Cassius Clay – and he was the big news and they would post his measurements all the time – my husband matched them almost exactly. I used to call my husband the White Cassius Clay at the time because there was a resemblance in measurements and facial features as well. We watched every fight Clay/Ali – was in. The fight with Frazier was a hard one to accept but it was to be. – Granny

In this March 8, 1971, file photo, Muhammad Ali. right, takes a left from Joe Frazier during the 15th round of their heavyweight title boxing bout in New York. Frazier won a unanimous decision. Frazier, the former heavyweight champion who handed Ali his first defeat, died Monday after a brief fight with liver cancer. He was 67. / AP

I watched this in its entirety last night (November 5, 2011), and as I suspected, it was a mutual admiration society.

However – having said that – I believe that far more was accomplished in this venue than the usual dog and pony show. Doesn’t matter what we think of each of the individuals – but a tremendous amount of thought-provoking info came out of this. Cain got the biggest response last night at the close when each one was allowed to ask the other, one final question.

Cain asked Newtie, “If you were to be selected as the Vice President….” Gingrich really got laid away with that, as did the audience. It shows that Cain really has a great sense of humor.

Finally, everything about this 90 minutes is exactly what I suspected it would be – a chance for these two guys to show how they would work together, given the opportunity. It’s too bad that it was buried on C-Span. (Ed.)

Soon after entering the protest perimeter at Zuccotti Park a piece of communist propaganda was thrust into my hand. The flier starts: “It’s not just Wall Street… capitalism must be destroyed.”

As I continued reading, other lines jumped off the page: “Only communism can live up to the aspirations the Occupy Wall Street movement has tapped into.” Then the tag line calls readers to “join the revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party.”

I kept walking, tiptoeing around a maze of sleeping bags and clutter.

The next sight that caught my attention was a large, dirty flag stamped with the figure of communist terrorist Che Guevara held by a disheveled protester. I approached and saw “Smash the State” printed on it. “I don’t think this is going to remain peaceful,” said the fellow holding the communist Che flag. Meanwhile, a group of agitated anarchists dressed in dark, dirty clothes yelled, “What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like.”

Beside the Che flag was a gray-bearded man hawking buttons. “I’m an anarchist,” he offered. Pointing to his buttons, he explained: “These are anti-war, these are racial, these are gender [pro-homosexual], and these are anti-authoritarian.” Other crude signs were displayed amid the eclectic conglomeration of hundreds of disgruntled protesters. “Eat the rich,” said one. Others promoted socialism or environmental “rights.”

Then I stumbled into a discussion circle dedicated to “breaking the gender binary,” which is another way of saying they want to dismantle the differences between male and female. The very idea of manhood and womanhood was offensive to them.

How interesting. Seemingly separate movements all converged for a common revolt. Protesters shared a common contempt for authority, our military, morality, law, order, private property and inequality in general. By chance, I looked up and saw a man holding a megaphone emblazoned with the word “revolt.” Churchill put it well. “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Ten reasons to reject socialism.

I continue strolling around.

The odor was aggressive, very unpleasant. Almost every conversation I overheard was heavily laden with profanity. I was even cursed out by a woman who did not like my video camera.

The protesters fancy that they represent 99% of America. But do they? Do people waving communist flags stamped with an image of Che Guevara, peddling anarchy and socialism really represent 99% of America? No. Not even 1%.

During this past week while President Obama was out campaigning for re-election… (er… I mean “selling his jobs bill”) the most indictable evidence of his failure was made evident to all.

The current number of 14 million unemployed wasn’t the issue. Though it’s a scandal in and of itself.

It is the newly published number in U.S. News and World Report that puts the underemployed at 26 million.

Ladies, Gents and Transgenders! I give you the world’s greatest magic act, Baraka Hussein, the Wizard of O! Please welcome the Wizard!

(Audience goes wild. Bamster walks out in his tux and a giant red Johnny Carson turban, smiling like a Cheshire Cat. Women and gays faint from watching his pants crease.).

Act I. The Arab Spring.
Announcer: “For O’Wizard’s first trick he will destabilize the Middle East! (More applause). Starting with a spontaneous out-of-nowhere united mass uprising called The Arab Spring!

“Maestro, a little Arabian Nights music, please!”

“Now watch. There’s nothing up his sleeve — but a spontaneous Million Moo March explodes in Tahrir Square!”

AN INSIDER’S SIX-STEP PLAN TO FIX CONGRESS

ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to “take back” their country. Just as they had done in 2008. And 2006. And repeatedly for decades, whether it was Republicans or Democrats from whom they were taking the country back. No matter who was put in charge, things didn’t get better. They won’t this time, either; spending levels may go down, taxes may go up, budgets will change, but American government will go on the way it has, not as a collective enterprise but as a battle between warring tribes.

If we are truly a democracy—if voters get to size up candidates for a public office and choose the one they want—why don’t the elections seem to change anything? Because we elect our leaders, and they then govern, in a system that makes cooperation almost impossible and incivility nearly inevitable, a system in which the campaign season never ends and the struggle for party advantage trumps all other considerations. When Democrat Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House, the leader of the lawmaking branch of government, she said her priority was to … elect more Democrats. After Republican victories in 2010, the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said his goal was to … prevent the Democratic president’s reelection. With the country at war and the economy in recession, our government leaders’ first thoughts have been of party advantage.