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It's 09/09/09, Whew! So much to say about politics. It's getting hotter and hotter. Can't wait to see and hear what Glen Beck is going to disclose this week. Breitbart has connected the dots of what we all knew: Obama and his cronies are anti-American, globalist, anti-Christian, racist black nationalist, radical communist sympathizers out to destroy our freedoms, our economy, our American way of life. The proof is now out there. Van Jones, Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, Valerie Jerrit, Michelle Obama, Mark Lloyd, Bill Ayers, Rahm Emmanuel, Eric Holder ... Can't wait to see what the MSM will not do about it.

Thought this was cute and worth sharing. It comes from Kevin Jackson of St. Louis and blogger at blacksphere.blogspot.com:

Blood Money

Unhinged!

Our U.S. Secretary of State was often described as the "Smartest Woman in America" which caused me to scratch my head more than once. What had I missed? She failed at her attempt to revamp health care in her husband's (presidential) administration; she lost her law firm's billing records when they were subpoenaed; as the subject of numerous probes, take your pick - Whitewater, Travelgate, whatever - she would only answer that she "could not recall"; and then, her greatest claim to fame was simply being unaware of her husband's numerous infidelities right under her nose.

Remember her assertion that tales of Slick Willy's escapades was all a vast right-wing conspiracy? Well, to refresh your memory:


Then we had Hillary on the campaign trail behaving in ways that seemed, well, a bit unstable:


Now, you got to admit this one was a bit creepy:


And here she seems to disagree with Nancy Pelosi on the issue of whether citizen dissent is patriotic or not:


What was even better was seeing her on TV this week in a Q&A session with students in the Congo. This numero uno diplomat representing the United States in her official capacity had this to say:



But maybe Hillary Clinton will be best remembered on the Internet, and definitely not network news, or polite society for that matter, for this (in)famous moment:

Clunker Carnahan

Poor Russ Carnahan. He is such a Clunker!! He's not even my Congressman but I find his antics truly entertaining.

Here's more from St. Louis:




Russ's latest claim to fame was calling out the union thugs for his townhall meeting on August 6th. There, Kenneth Gladney, a mild-mannered Conservative handing out Gadsden flag buttons was beaten by 4 union purple shirts. In an August 7th interview with Laura Ingraham on the O'Reilly Factor, Ken stated that he was called a racial epithet by one of the union heavies, pushed to the ground, and kicked in the head and other parts of his body. This was witnessed by a number of persons, including a personal friend who is a lawyer now representing Ken. Mr. Gladney was taken to a hospital where he was treated and held and six persons, including one local reporter, were arrested.

Carnahan also denied entry to over 1,000 protestors who attended this meeting forcing them to assemble outside the meeting location. Carnahan allocated at least half of the room to his union "security" force and they were ushered in to the meeting place by a separate entrance. Now, who had organized and "bussed in" a mob for this event?


Fellow Missourians in St. Louis - keep at it till all the vermin are gone. Ya gotta love this guy, he makes our job so much easier.

AstroTurf Mobster

I grew up with a very ethnic surname - you know the kind of name always used for the Mafia hit man in the movies. So I am used to being suspected of being a relative of some "godfather." But now the U.S. Government has declared that I am a member of a MOB! And I have AstroTurf growing under my feet! And my clothes are from Brooks Brothers!

Lord Almighty, is this what the American voters wanted when they voted for Hope and Change? An outright assault on the citizenry? The same citizenry that goes to work every day (well not so much anymore), starts the small businesses that employ other Americans, and provides the revenue to fuel the economy? The people who bought houses that they could afford and paid their mortgages. The people who attend church on Sunday and contribute to charities. People who believe that compassion is to be nurtured but personal responsibility is to be revered.

I attended Tea Parties this year, on April 15th and July 4th, and I saw the wonder of a real grass roots movement of everyday Americans: elderly folks, families with kids, college kids, middle age couples, all who carried flags and home made signs of protest for a government out of control and spending money that does not exist, taking over private corporations and destroying free markets, ignoring the will of the People. A government that now wants to determine who gets medical care and who does not, and which will mandate counseling the elderly about how to die prematurely just to save Uncle Sam a few bucks. Never mind what they and their family want.

The most recent outrage instituted by the Obama administration is the call to snitch on fellow Americans. From the White House website:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there,
spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors
often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual
conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House,
we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web
about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Bloggers are promoting a mass effort called Operation Go Flag Yourself encouraging readers and other bloggers to turn themselves in to the White House. What fun, let's all do it!

The Politico (August 5, 2009) quotes Democrat strategist and former Clintonista, Lanny Davis as saying:

Let’s have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those
responsible for approving, even organizing these techni[q]ues. And let’s find an
investigative journalist - are there many left - to prove these so-called
grassroots shouters are, or are not, being paid.

So now we have an outright governmental assault on the grass roots movement of individuals who found each other and formed alliances thanks to the Internet and alternate media. But more important, we found each other because we are like-minded and we love our country and our freedoms and we want them back.

This assault on tea party and health plan protestors, stating that we are paid pawns of the Republicans or the insurance industry, is absurd. I would love to be paid for my efforts protesting this tyranny because self-employment is no longer providing a living. So if you folks in the government know who is paying tea party protestors please let me know cuz I need a paying job. And I never bought clothes from Brooks Brothers, right now Wal-Mart is all I can afford - that is until your labor union friends and their allies in Congress destroy it too. Then all those folks who would not otherwise be able to get a real job and folks who shop Wal-Mart because it is an affordable option for goods and services will have nowhere to go. But that is what you want isn't it Mr. Obama? Total dependence of "the masses" on government, the basis for a "benign dictatorship" of the (so-called) intelligentsia.

Rush Limbaugh sent a message on his August 5th show to the head honcho, formerly known as the community organizer:
A Community Organizer Can't Bitch When Communities Organize

A government that has forgotten that it is of the people, by the people, for the people will perish from this earth.

This is an example of the typical astroturf mobster

The Most Trusted Man in America

Walter Cronkite died July 17th at the age of 92. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, north of Kansas City, and lived in Kansas City till age 10 when his family moved to Texas. He was a son of Missouri. He also was a Boy Scout, Episcopalian, and DeMolay member. He graduated high school but not college, dropping out of the University of Texas in junior year. He started his career in broadcasting as a radio announcer in Oklahoma City then back to his hometown of Kansas City. Perhaps that makes him a colleague of sorts of other great radio broadcasters who also are college drop outs: Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Or perhaps that is where the similarity ends.

Walter Cronkite was called the most trusted man in America. How did he acquire that appellation?

Cronkite covered World War II including battles in North Africa and Europe, bombing raids over Germany, the Battle of the Bulge, even the Nuremberg trials. He was a UP reporter in Moscow for two years. In the early days of 1950s television, Cronkite, recruited by Edward R. Murrow, joined CBS News and was one of the first reporters to be termed an "anchor" which referred to his role covering the 1952 Republican and Democrat conventions. His accomplishments are discussed extensively in many reference sources.

In 1962 he took over as the anchor of CBS Evening News. I remember Walter Cronkite but I do not remember watching him regularly as he reported the news. We watched the Huntley-Brinkley Report in our house; Good night, David, Good night, Chet. There was something soothing about those two guys that left a young kid feeling good about the news in those days of 1960s turmoil and nightly war reports from Southeast Asia, like a daily soap opera to which we eventually grew numb.

When Chet Huntley retired in 1970, Cronkite assisted by the substantial investment of CBS in its news programming, surpassed NBC and dominated the nightly news until his retirement.

Cronkite announced his retirement on February 14, 1980. This is his farewell statement from March 1981:

“This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of The CBS Evening News; for me, it's a moment for which I long have planned, but which, nevertheless, comes with some sadness. For almost two decades, after all, we've been meeting like this in the evenings, and I'll miss that. But those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid have made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton. A great broadcaster and gentleman, Doug Edwards, preceded me in this job, and another, Dan Rather, will follow. And anyway, the person who sits here is but the most conspicuous member of a superb team of journalists; writers, reporters, editors, producers, and none of that will change. Furthermore, I'm not even going away! I'll be back from time to time with special news reports and documentaries, and, beginning in June, every week, with our science program, Universe. Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is: Friday, March 6, 1981. I'll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night."

There was something about Walter Cronkite that I did not like or trust. I have no idea what it was or that I understood it then. Now, in retrospect, I think it was my true common-sense, budding conservative self capable of ascertaining truth-tellers from snake charmers - those people who harbor a deep, dark evil secret within their being.

So when Walter left the airwaves I did not shed a tear of sentiment. He was gone, I didn't watch him anyway.

But in later years I learned some truly disturbing facts about Walter Cronkite.

By the time he campaigned in western Missouri for his Democrat "barbie-doll" cousin as she ran for national office - she who nearly devastated the Kansas City economy from her term as mayor, I found myself hissing at the TV screen when he appeared promoting her, full of the realization that he was not just a liberal, but a radical globalist that promoted the dominance of the United Nations and the withering away of the United States. A man who spewed the most vile, treasonous rhetoric to whomever would listen. And they did listen and sop it up.

For example, in a 1999 speech he gave before an audience at the UN when he was awarded the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association, he stated that "the first step toward achieving a one-world government is to strengthen the United Nations." This is said to be his personal dream.

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order," emphasis added.

Cronkite also reportedly stated the following: "American people are going to begin to realize they are going to have to yield some sovereignty to an international body to enforce world law..."

Cronkite is renowned for his negative impact on the Viet Nam conflict when he announced on his news program in February 1968 following a victory for U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and a defeat for the Communist North Vietnamese:

"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate."

Shortly after the famous Cronkite "Report from Viet Nam..." then President, Lyndon Johnson, was heard to say "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Within weeks Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection.

In more recent years, Walter Cronkite steadfastly supported Bill Clinton during the impeachment proceedings; in 2006 he presented the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award to actor and activist George Clooney as the chairman of the Interfaith Alliance (an organization opposed to conservative Christians and which maintained a radio show on leftist Air America); he wrote a column in which he regularly condemned President George W. Bush and the Iraq war; he appeared in the 2004 film "Outfoxed" which bashed Rupert Murdoch and Fox News; and he was a contributing writer to far left blog, The Huffington Post.

This month of July 2009, the local news shows all carried their obligatory, hushed voice, reverential reports of this great American icon and not one mentioned Walter Cronkite's radical anti-America globalist agenda. Was he an icon of Americanism or an icon of radical anti-American sentiment?

To me, this passing is a reminder that we must be ever vigilant in assessing the agenda and the veracity of our once "free press." Fortunately, for those of us on the Right who love and pursue the Truth, we have the new media and the Internet, and no longer are captive to the so-called news from ABC, NBC, and CBS and print media as we were when I was a child.

Dynastic Delusions

Russ Carnahan is the U.S. Representative of Missouri's Third District serving since January 2005. His district includes parts of St. Louis City and St. Louis Counties and all of Jefferson and Ste. Genevieve Counties. Russ and his wife, Debra, are lawyers formerly in private practice together and Debra now is a St. Louis municipal judge. Russ is the son of the late Democrat governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, and non-elected/appointed former U.S. Senator and former First Lady, Jean Carnahan. Russ's grandfather, A.S.J. Carnahan, was a member of Congress from Missouri as well, and Russ's sister, Robin Carnahan is the current Missouri Secretary of State and presumed Democrat candidate for the soon to be vacated U.S. Senate seat of Christopher "Kit" Bond.

Russ distinguished himself lately for meeting on July 20th with his constituents in the St. Louis area pushing Obamacare and well, frankly, making a fool of himself earning national coverage and ridicule.




Russ seems to be just one more liberal lawyer/politician who operates from the underlying assumption that all Americans are created stupid. Unfortunately for Russ, the apparent uninformed brain frozen robot spouting drivel looks to be Russ Carnahan himself.

Political dynasties seem to breed defective issue - just ask the millions afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome. Upon close inspection, the Carnahans offer little in American ingenuity and intellect let alone responsive respect for the people they serve. Isn't it time to end one more American dynasty and let the Carnahans figure out how to be productive members of society rather than empty-headed twits trading on the public persona of their predecessors?

Women In Black

We all have heard of the Men in Black, so how about let’s look at the Women in Black. No, I don’t mean alien invaders who show up after a close encounter of the something kind, or spy types, I mean women lawyers who wear the black robes of a jurist.

Let’s look at the ladies of the Supreme Court.

First, there is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that diminutive creature with the perpetual sneer that poses as a smile, I guess that is what it is supposed to be. In 2006, then 72 year old Justice Ginsburg apparently took her job so seriously that she fell asleep at the bench. According to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank:

"At first, she appeared to be reading something in her lap. But after a while, it became clear: Ginsburg was napping on the bench. By Bloomberg News's reckoning – not denied by a court spokeswoman – Ginsburg's snooze lasted a quarter of an hour.

"It's lucky for Ginsburg that the Supreme Court
has so far refused to allow television in the courtroom, for her visit to the land of nod would have found its way onto late-night shows."

Yeah, not to mention you-tube.

This week in an interview with Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine scheduled to appear on Sunday, July 12th, titled “The Place of Women on the Court” Justice Ginsburg stated the following:

JUSTICE GINSBURG: “Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?pagewanted=4)

She really said that – this Jewish woman! Was it a Freudian slip? A truth telling about the real agenda of the genocide-lovers let slip by a person, a woman, a mother, a jurist who has the power to eradicate classes of human beings by the stroke of her pen? Who comprises those populations that we don't want too many of? Those of us who pay attention know the origins of the abortion and euthanasia agenda, and we know the history of Hitler’s Final Solution and Margaret Sanger’s affinity for eugenics. But we also know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is former general counsel of the ACLU and activist for abortion and knows no compassion for the most innocent and vulnerable of our society. I wonder how she would rule if Josef Mengele stood before her?

Now, we are facing another woman nominated for the highest court of the land – Sonia Sotomayor. A woman and mother, and one more pro-abortion Catholic. Sotomayor served as a governing board member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) from 1980 to 1992. This group published briefs in prominent abortion related court cases. In fact, in 1988, they called upon the Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services to read the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the U.S. Constitution protecting abortion as a fundamental right.

Further, Sotomayor has been overturned in 6 out of 7 cases heard by the Supreme Court, the court to which she aspires: Ricci v. DeStefano, Riverkeeper, Inc. vs. EPA, Knight vs. Commissioner, Dabit vs. Merrill Lynch, Malesko v. Correctional Services Corp., Tasini vs. New York Times, et al. An excellent summary of these overturned cases and the one case which was upheld can be found at: http://oneconservativevoice.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-cases-reviewed-by-supreme.html

She has another case pending review before the high court: Maloney v. Cuomo which has strong implications for our 2nd amendment rights. And then there’s those embarrassing statements about the courts being the place for making policy (what about the legislative branch of government?), and the wise “Latina” possessing wisdom superior to a white man simply because of her life experiences (say what?). She still hasn't told us how this allegedly wise Latina compares to a Latino (male), white female, black male or female, Asian, Pacific Islander, mixed race person, etc. Perhaps Judge Sotomayor, who appears to rule based on race and ethnicity, missed that law school class on the concept that Justice is Blind.

If these female jurists are the best legal minds that the Democrats can produce we surely have all the information we need to oppose the appointment of another embarrassing, moral and mental midget to the Supreme Court, whatever the gender, or ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious or non-religious affiliation, and all the other meaningless traits that obscure the apparent lack of proper judicial temperament and intellect.

For more information on Sotomayor visit http://www.Sotomayor411.com

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Christians Need Not Apply

So many people have asserted that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. The name suggests it. His biological father was Muslim. He was registered in a government school in Indonesia as a Muslim and he has spoken of this time attending the mosque with his Muslim step-father with great sentiment. He delivered speeches in Muslim countries referring to the “holy Quran” while quoting it in Arabic with great ease. Obama bowed deeply to the Saudi king – an act blatantly wrong for the leader of the free world and completely surpasses W’s hand holding as an outrageous act by any U.S. Commander in Chief! He even went so far as to tell the world that the U.S. is not a Christian country and may even be considered a Muslim nation.

These acts and statements of Obama are truly puzzling unless one subscribes to the theory that he is really a closet Muslim and a stalking horse for Islamic terrorists and/or Saudi interests. Compelling, but I submit an alternate theory: Obama hates Christians.

Now, I am sure someone will argue that Obama belonged to the Trinity United Church of Christ of Dr. Jeremiah Wright and was baptized into a Christian faith. Hogwash! This was no conversion. Obama carefully chose his entrée to the world of politics by aligning himself with an organization that is a core institution in the black community – the church. But not just any church, Obama chose one out of the mainstream, one aligned with a belief system not found in the major Christian denominations. Joining the Nation of Islam and embracing Screwy Lewie Farrakhan as his spiritual advisor might have been a choice that would have little appeal but to those so aligned, and would never attract the mainstream black community or those self-loathing, guilt-ridden, political-correctness-paralyzed liberal whites, the brain-numb “I just want to be a nice person” wet noodles, or even the America-hating far left kooks. Jeremiah Wright tells you himself that his Chicago church is based on "black liberation theology" and the writings of James Cone. There is nothing Christian about it other than their central figure is named Jesus Christ, but that is about where the connection ends. It is a racist belief system that preaches white hate and reparation from white Americans. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_mentors_mentor.html

In fact, I don’t even think that Obama believes in that ideology. I think Obama is an empty vessel, an a-theist, a person who exists in the absence of God. One could plumb the depths of his psyche to opine on the motivation for this mixed race man, abandoned by both parents, reared predominantly by white grandparents and in mostly Asian dominated environments. He looked in the mirror and saw a fellow that fit in where?

We don’t need Obama’s words, his actions speak clearly. After 56 years of public participation by Congress and U.S. Presidents in the National Day of Prayer with prayer breakfast meetings, other prayer meetings and related observances, Obama said no thanks and merely issued a proclamation. Obama gave a policy speech at premier Jesuit institution of higher learning, Georgetown University, on April 14th and required that the symbol of Jesus’ name (IHS) be covered up and regrettably, Georgetown denied its true Messiah and capitulated to the false one. Also in April, Mr. Obama appointed LGBT activist Harry Knox to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Shortly before this appointment in March, the same Mr. Knox launched an attack on Pope Benedict XVI which was published on the website of the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual advocacy group. He publicly attacked the Pope and the Catholic Church previously in 2007. And yet with this not just “bias” but very real hate campaign against the Church, and advocacy of an alternate lifestyle that is not promoted by most religions, Knox was elevated by Obama to a national role concerned with faith-based policy matters!

Mr. Obama takes positions out of the norm and inconsistent with Christian teaching and natural law. He supports the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and stated that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act removing all restrictions on abortion including the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007 (Gonzales v. Carhart). We heard the story of Jill Stanek and the shameful practices of a Chicago hospital killing aborted babies that survived the abortion (by leaving them unattended and denied medical care) and Obama’s efforts as an Illinois state senator to thwart the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/08/barack_obama_pr.html

The most recent slight to Christian America was the Pentagon’s refusal, after 42 years of participation, to conduct a fly-over at the Treasure Valley God and Country Festival held July 1st in Idaho. http://godandcountryfestival.com/ While a Christian event it is also a tribute to our military and Constitutional freedoms.

There are innumerable examples of Obama’s blatant disregard for everything Christian and they are chronicled every day. Only a fool would believe this man is a Christian or that he bears any positive regard for Christian America. Perhaps Mr. Obama, who tends to lack a most basic grounding in fundamental academics like history and geography, would do well to read not insignificant founding documents like the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence, the writings of George Washington (http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Inspire/Washington.html) and John Adams (http://www.faithofourfathers.net/johnadams.html), and so many others.

But then why should he? He is the new Messiah and he has declared that we are not a Christian nation.

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Missouri Musings - An Introduction

I am a Florida girl, through and through. OK, I know I was born in Michigan and grew up there and now I live in the Midwest. In fact, I have lived in the Heartland longer than anywhere I ever lived in my life. But isn't home where the heart is? I did live 16 wonderful years in South Florida traversing my teen years to mid-adulthood. The cloud streaked skies, the sounds of rustling palms and lapping ocean waves as they caress the sand, the smell of salt water, and the screech of marine birds overhead - all within reach if I just close my eyes and summon them. So, for me, I am still a Florida girl. But the name of the blog is Missouri Musings so what does that have to do with a Florida girl?

Well, this Florida girl will be musing from her Missouri home, sometimes about Missouri, travel in and around Missouri, politics, local and national, recipes, and who knows what else - isn’t that what musing is all about?

So, this is my new, very personal blog. I hope it will be thoughtful, entertaining, provocative, and just an all around good read.