Pull the Linchpin!

How in the world did this happen?

How did homosexual perverts (two percent of the population at the most) gain legal sanction and the appearance of social acceptance for their vile behavior? How did a tiny socialist minority get away with destroying American health care and the private practice of medicine? How can it be that the religious beliefs and philosophical concepts that have served as the very foundation of society and the nation itself are being systematically destroyed before our eyes with virtually no opposition?

These are the questions that millions of outraged Americans are asking themselves and each other in the wake of the Supreme Court's decisions on "gay" marriage and Obamacare last week. Thanks to a relatively obscure National Geographic Network television show ("The Brain Game") and a powerful YouTube video, we now have an answer to these questions. I urge you to turn up the sound and watch the first six minutes of this video. The answer to these questions will become all too clear to you! However, the video provides only a partial explanation for the establishment's historic invincibility on the political battle field. Here's the rest of it.

A linchpin is something that holds the elements of a complicated structure together. In this case, the "complicated structure" is a control matrix comprised entirely of lies. However, the linchpin lie, is very different from the lies to which the public is routinely subjected on a daily basis. The linchpin lie is a lie of omission. Because establishment media outlets hide the existence and extent of opposition to establishment actions, opponents are made to feel isolated and defeated. The silently-conveyed message is this: "Everyone else approves of what we are doing. If you oppose us, your are alone."

For more than 20 years, my simple daily prayer has been: "Lord, grant me the wisdom, strength and courage to know and do your will." I don't believe this video came into our hands yesterday by accident. Knowledge really is power. What does this mean? It means that the American people haven't been losing the culture war because the other side has better arguments, better organization, or more money. It means that the establishment's apparent power is entirely an illusion that depends upon secrecy and lies. It means we have been defeating ourselves with our fear-driven silence and failure to trust our own consciences. It means that each and everyone of us must overcome our weaknesses, spread the word, and refuse to stand when the bell rings. Finally, it means that with God's help, good will ultimately prevail!

For the record (just in case the YouTube video should somehow disappear), the video is from "The Brain Game" Season 5, Episode 8 ("Peer Pressure").

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FJB

This site is not affiliated with any political party. Its goals are to advocate for individual liberty, traditional morality, and domestic peace and to resist all forms of tyranny and statism. It reflects the point of view of a life-long conservative constitutionalist and recovering Republican. If you are among the millions trying to understand what has happened to the GOP, please visit "Who Killed the Republican Party?" Thank you for your interest.    

Constitutional Perversion: The Unheld Debate

History will record that in the week of June 21st, 2015 the Supreme Court of the United States used the vehicle of "gay marriage" to launch an overt and deliberate assault on traditional morality, social and political cohesion, and the basic building block of human civilization, the family. In the process, what little remained of the Federal Government's claim to constitutional legitimacy and moral authority has been destroyed.

The status of marriage, by the way, is not a federal matter and the Supreme Court of the United States had absolutely no business involving itself in this debate. I should also state at the outset that this post isn't driven by "hatred" or bigotry or even religious conviction. It is based upon readily accessible and entirely secular facts. Anyone in possession of those facts, including even the most committed atheist, would be horrified upon truly understanding the implications of what SCOTUS has done. The problem is that these facts have been deliberately hidden from the public.

 

One would think that society would want to understand the nature of a controversial behavior, the practice of which routinely results in the spread of incurable disease and death, before granting it social sanction. That step was skipped. The "cause" of homosexual conduct has never been scientifically determined by disinterested investigators. Instead, mass advertising techniques were used to sell large segments of the population on the belief that the homosexual impulse is no different than the attraction between men and women and that opposition stems from an ignorant bigotry akin to racism. This erroneous belief took hold because the tiny minority of the population that identifies itself as "homosexual" (approximately 2%) is concentrated in the mass media and the arts, a positioning that fostered development of a carefully-designed propaganda campaign. The public's growing identification with and sympathy for the so-called "gay rights" movement stems directly from that campaign which has gone essentially unchallenged for more than four decades.

 

The campaign's architects successfully deflected the public's attention away from the reality of homosexual behavior and created a totally false image of minority persecution using the black civil rights movement as a template. Psychologically-loaded new words were inserted into the debate ("homophobia") while old words were successfully "hijacked" and assigned new meanings ("gay", "love", "partner", etc.). Consider, for example, the propaganda value of the made-up word, "homophobia". A genuine phobia is an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance. Drumming the made-up word "homophobia" into the public consciousness enabled the homosexual lobby to paint its opponents as ignorant out-of-step bigots. In reality, the reaction provoked among normal people who understand what homosexuals actually do to satisfy the compulsions of their disorder isn't fear but disgust and concern for the very real and potentially lethal threat that homosexual behavior poses to public health.

 

What homosexual men actually do to one another as they act out their disorder stands in sharp contrast with the media-created image of a persecuted minority engaging in harmless and perfectly "normal" private behavior. I have not further described those actions in this post because they are so vile that many will be offended by the words required to depict them. However, I have included links to web dictionary pages with definitions of the practices listed just below. Readers are strongly cautioned that the content of those dictionary pages is explicit.

Sodomy: This is not "love".

Rimming: This is also not "love".

Fisting: This not "gay".

These behaviors, in all of their unsanitary destructive ugliness, are the reality of homosexuality.

In 1973, against the advice of experts in the treatment of homosexuals, the American Psychological Association (APA) board sent a letter to its members asking them to vote to remove homosexuality from the catalogue of disorders. The letter, written and funded by a lobbying group called the National Gay Task Force, was not based on any new medical or scientific information. The vote was a political act directed against "bourgeois morality" instigated by a thoroughly radicalized APA board under the control of Marxists.

 

The APA ignored its own definitions and diagnostic criteria in voting to “normalize” homosexuality. Before 1973, mental health professionals treated homosexuality as a paraphilia, a deviant sexual behavior. A paraphilia is defined by the APA as “Any of a group of psychosexual disorders characterized by sexual fantasies, feelings, or activities involving a nonhuman object, a non-consenting partner such as a child, or pain or humiliation of oneself or one's partner.” Sexual addiction is defined as “A condition in which some form of sexual behavior is employed in a pattern that is characterized by two key features: 1) recurrent failure to control the sexual behavior, and 2) continuation of the sexual behavior despite significant harmful consequences.” Homosexuality meets all criteria provided by these definitions as do other paraphilia including pedophilia (sex with children), necrophilia (sex with dead bodies) and bestiality (sex with animals). Thanks to the success of the homosexual lobby, it won't be long before campaigns to normalize other paraphilia become more visible. The "North American Man/Boy Love Association" web site suggests that pedophilia will be at the top of the list.

 

The Gods of Political Correctness, aided and abetted by the cowardice and ignorance of religious and political "leaders", are smiling on the homosexual lobby. Employers, including city and state governments, are now required to grant full employee spousal benefits to "domestic partners", including health insurance. Alas, actuarial tables have a way of being unforgiving. No amount of propaganda can change the fact that the average life expectancy of homosexual males is about 45 years. That is largely because, according to published data in refereed journals, between one-quarter and one-third of active male homosexuals report sexual encounters with 200 or more anonymous "partners" per year. This “recurrent failure to control sexual behavior” often leads to death from AIDS (surely a “significant harmful consequence”) and an incredibly high rate of other STDs. Even those homosexuals who claim to be in so-called “committed relationships” are not necessarily in monogamous relationships. Many of them simply have a “favorite” primary partner.

Had news organizations only reported facts instead of propaganda designed to mislead, an informed public debate might have developed on this topic. As it is, in only a few short years the health care cost of this mindless pandering is going to be very high for insurers, other employees, and taxpayers. If there is any justice, there will be a political price as well for the politicians and corporate leaders who have taken us down this road.

 

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FJB

This site is not affiliated with any political party. Its goals are to advocate for individual liberty, traditional morality, and domestic peace and to resist all forms of tyranny and statism. It reflects the point of view of a life-long conservative constitutionalist and recovering Republican. If you are among the millions trying to understand what has happened to the GOP, please visit "Who Killed the Republican Party?" Thank you for your interest.    

Silence of the Lambs

Headline: “More Health-Care Insurers Seek Big Premium Increases”

According to the Wall Street Journal article (see above link), “Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois is looking to raise rates by averages of 29% or more. In Pennsylvania, Highmark Health Insurance Co. is asking for 30%, according to proposals submitted by insurers for the year ahead.” 

As yesterday’s CNN/ Money article disclosed, “Many [insurers] are proposing double-digit premium increases for individual policies, with some companies looking to boost rates more than 60%...”

Really?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted and implemented without being read by the Congress.  It was deliberately misrepresented to deceive the American people (see MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber). The President of the United States personally, repeatedly, and falsely assured the American people that (1) they would be able to keep their hospitals; (2) they would be able to keep their doctors; and (3) their insurance costs would go down. The hideously misnamed Affordable Care Act has been a giant fraudulent and destructive Lie from the very beginning.

Where is the outrage?  How much will finally be enough? Is the health care field’s appetite for deceit really infinite?

• Where are the professional and trade associations that helped design this fiasco?
• Where are the Washington politicians of both political parties who enacted The Affordable Care Act without having any idea of its impact on the people or the economy?
• Where are the mega health care systems that endorsed it?
• Where are the private practice physicians who are allowing their profession to be destroyed before their eyes?
• Where are the hospitals that are acquiecing to, and participating in, their own demise?
• Where are the American people whose efforts and generosity built the hospitals that are now disappearing after decades of giving care (and life) to the community?         
• Where are the religious orders that appear to have assented to the destruction of their institutions and their very missions?

What will happen when the public finally realizes that the ACA’s mandated “pay for performance” or “value-based purchasing” has herded them into very expensive and dysfunctional HMOs at the point of a federal gun? No worries. It is only an intermediate stop on the way to the “single-payer” (government-run) system, the central planner’s goal from the start. 

The silence is deafening. Perhaps it is time to sit back, relax, and re-read The Emperor’s New Clothes.

FJB

This site is not affiliated with any political party. Its goals are to advocate for individual liberty, traditional morality, and domestic peace and to resist all forms of tyranny and statism. It reflects the point of view of a life-long conservative constitutionalist and recovering Republican. If you are among the millions trying to understand what has happened to the GOP, please visit "Who Killed the Republican Party?" Thank you for your interest.    

The Betrayal of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act!

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URGENT: Stop Amnesty and Obama Care NOW!

If you oppose amnesty and ObamaCare, please act immediately!

Senators Mitch McConnell (R) and Harry Reid (D) and Speaker John Boehner (R) are hours away from passing a $1.014 trillion "Omnibus spending bill" that provides stealth funding for Obama's unconstitutional amnesty program, includes more than $1 billion to "resettle" illegal immigrants, and builds a virtual funding firewall around ObamaCare.

Forward this page to everyone in your address book. Urge them to call their U.S. Senators and Member of Congress (telephone numbers here) and:

1. Demand that they vote against the pending Omnibus spending bill.
2. Demand a straight up and down roll call vote on any appropriations bill to fund amnesty OR The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

It can be done. If your either of your Senators or your member of the House are Republicans, remind them that past treachery on amnesty cost Eric Cantor, former House Majority Leader, his job! 

FJB

This site is not affiliated with any political party. Its goals are to advocate for individual liberty, traditional morality, and domestic peace and to resist all forms of tyranny and statism. It reflects the point of view of a life-long conservative constitutionalist and recovering Republican. If you are among the millions trying to understand what has happened to the GOP, please visit "Who Killed the Republican Party?" and read what is posted there. It may help explain things. Please bookmark this link, forward it to others, and return often. Thank you for your interest.    

We Must Stop the RINO Betrayal Before Thursday!

The good news is that the American people, furious over ObamaCare and amnesty, handed Obama's Congressional socialists a midterm election spanking last November. Unfortunately, the Obama agenda is the establishment agenda and the Republican Party's national leadership fully intends to assure that all of it is fully funded and implemented, including amnesty for illegal aliens and ObamaCare.

This duplicity shouldn't be a real surprise given the political establishment's "dirty little secret". As was once routinely taught in civics classes, the Constitution requires that all money bills must originate in the House of Representatives.

Although the GOP's RINO leadership desperately hopes you don't realize it Congressional Republicans have had the power to shut down ObamaCare, amnesty for illegal aliens, and any other item on the Obama agenda by simply voting not to fund it since they gained control of the House in 2010, four years ago. If the House of Representatives does not appropriate money to support a Federal program, it cannot be implemented!

"Omnibus spending bills" and "Continuing Resolutions" are among the favorite legislative tools of establishment politicians and a primary cause of the explosive growth of Federal Spending. These legislative devices lump appropriations for many federal programs into a single bill and spare politicians from ever having to explain to their constituents why they voted to fund unpopular legislation. The stock excuse is that failure to vote for these bills would result in "a government shutdown" and "Republicans would get the blame".

Senator Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner intend to accomplish their betrayal by enacting a $1.014 trillion "Omnibus spending bill" which combines eleven separate appropriation bills to lock in funding levels for all federal agencies through September 15, 2015. The pending "Omnibus spending bill" will provide complete funding for ObamaCare implementation and Obama's unconstitutional amnesty program. If enacted before December 11, it's a "win-win" for "Democrats" and "Republicans". It would virtually foreclose any real opportunity to use defunding as a way to defang amnesty and ObamaCare. The only losers are the American people.

Please forward a link to this page to everyone you know. Then I most urgently suggest that you call your U.S. Senators and Member of Congress (telephone numbers here) and urge them to:

1. Vote against the pending Omnibus spending bill.
2. Demand a straight up and down roll call vote on any appropriations bill to fund amnesty OR The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

The establishment began to tip its hand even before the final midterm election votes were tallied.. Democrat politicians who supported the Obama agenda were drummed out of office. Republican politicians who opposed the Obama agenda won big. So what "spin" was immediately put on these results by the establishment press and politicians? Well, it wasn't that voters decisively rejected "ObamaCare" and amnesty. No, establishment RINOs and their Democrat peers want to change the subject to voter dissatisfaction with "gridlock" and a desire "to get things done".

Changing the Subject: Gridlock

Changing the subject is, of course, a classic propaganda tactic routinely employed by politicians of all stripes to confuse the public. Consider these attempts by the Republican leadership to change the subject from Obama's failed policies to "gridlock" as reported by The New York Times on the day after the election, Wednesday, November 5th.

“We’re going to pass legislation,” Mr. McConnell said at a news conference in Louisville, Ky. “This gridlock and dysfunction can be ended.”  

“I think it really becomes important to appear to want to be a governing party rather than a complaining party,” said Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of the party leadership. 

Latching onto the "gridlock" explanation wasn't confined to the U.S. Senate. Consider this excerpt from a Denver Post article dated November 15, 2014:

The nation’s governors say they are as fed up as voters with the gridlock in Washington. And they say the message from the 2014 election is clear: do something.

“The onus is on Republicans to govern,” said Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican and vice-chairman of the National Governors Association. “There are issues out there that need to be addressed that were kicked down the road for way too long and I think they will do themselves a very significant disservice and make it more difficult for them to win the White House in 2016 if they don’t in fact get some things done. They need to find a way to work together.”

This attempt at diversion is, of course, completely false. The election outcome was a direct result of public dissatisfaction with Obama's agenda. RINOs don't want to acknowledge that because they share that agenda.

Changing the Subject: Amnesty

The RINOs who sit atop the national GOP organization are absolutely committed to amnesty for illegal aliens. They use a different vocabulary than Obama's socialists. They always preface their remarks with pledges to "secure the border first" but quickly segue to the "need to fix our broken immigration system" and the need for "immigration reform that offers a pathway to citizenship."

Here, in his own words, is John Boehner's real position on "immigration reform".

The RINOs promised "immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship" to their corporate supporters who want ongoing access to cheap labor. They also claim to believe that amnesty will somehow secure them Hispanic votes and use the claim that failure to deliver will result in GOP losses in future elections. Their rhetoric is pure baloney. Here's the only immigration reform that is needed.

1. Enforce existing immigration laws fully. Deport any person who enters the country illegally from this point on.
2. Make it a federal crime for any business to knowingly employ an illegal alien.
3. For the millions of illegal aliens who are already here, pass legislation to deny them access to all federally funded programs and benefits, including health care, unemployment, food stamps, etc, Stop subsidizing illegals' living costs and they will go home. No deportations necessary.

Changing the Subject: ObamaCare

More from the Denver Post article of November 15, 2014

It is a delicate topic [editors note: this means it would require actually having to vote straight up and down on funding instead of hiding it in an "Omnibus spending bill"], but top Republicans [editors note: This means Boehner and Mitchell] acknowledge they cannot repeal The Affordable Care Act, particularly with Mr. Obama able to veto any such effort. They will no doubt take some repeal votes, but their initial focus could be on smaller changes.

The RINOs don't mind letting the Obama administration take the heat for the "ObamaCare" disaster, but they still want a Washington-controlled program that forces people to buy hospital insurance because it has promised to deliver this to the nation's largest insurance companies and corporate employers.
 

MIT Professor and ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber has been the target of indignant public fury for telling the world that "Obamacare only passed due to the stupidity of the American voter and a lack of transparency."  Consider the implications of these quotes with Dr. Gruber's comments in mind.

Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY): "We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party." 

George W. Bush on Bill Clinton: "He's my brother from another mother."

It is an undeniable fact that establishment politicians, regardless of "Party" affiliation, share the same agenda, the same assessment of American intelligence, and operate in the same social circles. They are a very close-knit group and they do not represent the American people.

FJB

This site is not affiliated with any political party. Its goals are to advocate for individual liberty, traditional morality, and domestic peace and to resist all forms of tyranny and statism. It reflects the point of view of a life-long conservative constitutionalist and recovering Republican. If you are among the millions trying to understand what has happened to the GOP, please visit "Who Killed the Republican Party?" and read what is posted there. It may help explain things. Please bookmark this link, forward it to others, and return often. Thank you for your interest.    

The ObamaCare Ambush!

America's community hospitals, local physician-directed medical care, and the economies of thousands of cities and small towns are being systematically destroyed. It is being done in plain sight and almost no one knows about it.

The Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") is an elaborate scam, the most outrageous betrayal of public trust in history. It is a last ditch attempt to postpone the imminent collapse of Medicare, Medicaid, and the entire Third Party Payment system. It is designed to benefit insurance companies, the federal government, large corporate employers, cooperative professional and trade associations, and a bi-partisan gang of establishment politicians at the expense of everyone else.

The Affordable Care Act's disastrous web site rollout received significant media attention. There have been a few news stories about narrow networks and premium costs. However, there has been virtually no coverage of its devastating impact on the private practice of medicine or upon the resulting catastrophe that threatens to engulf thousands of hospitals and the communities they serve.

According to the American Hospital Association, there were 4,999 community hospitals in the U.S. as of January 2, 2014 of which 1,980 are small and rural. To learn how U.S. hospitals have fared financially since passage of The Affordable Care Act, we reviewed financial data for the 3,449 acute care and critical access community hospitals that had so far filed Medicare cost reports for the years 2011 through 2013. 

ObamaCare kills hospitals by restricting patient admissions (and hence revenue) as it simultaneously increases mandated regulatory expense. This graph shows the large and rapidly increasing gap between net patient revenue and operating expense for U.S. community hospitals. 

Although the overwhelming majority of America's hospitals are non-profit organizations, they cannot survive if expenses are greater than income. America's community hospitals have experienced aggregate cumulative losses from operations of $10 billion dollars since ObamaCare was enacted! Those losses, by the way, were not confined to small rural hospitals. The next graph shows what has happened since 2010 to the bottom line of America's community hospitals.

America's hospitals are not the only casualties. For many small towns, the local hospital is the largest employer and for them the crisis is existential. The hospital provides most of the community's jobs, including the highest paying ones. Its payroll supports the community's grocery stores, retail shops, gas stations and other businesses. Those businesses, in turn, provide the tax base that sustains local government. In summary, the hospital's payroll is the engine that drives the local economy. If it dies, the community's economy dies with it!

In the wake of the midterm election outcomes, it is tempting to believe that ObamaCare’s days are numbered, especially since all of the new Republican Senators promised to repeal The Affordable Care Act during their campaigns. Unfortunately, the GOP leadership remains as committed to ramming some form of ObamaCare down our throats as it is to granting amnesty. That's why RINOs are all over the media bleating about the need to "repeal and replace" ObamaCare. With respect to amnesty, the RINO mantra is that "America's immigration system is broken" and that we need "immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship". Here's what they should be saying instead:

• ObamaCare does need to be repealed but it does not need to be replaced. The federal government needs to get out of the health care insurance business, regardless of the promises that RINOs have made to insurance companies and other large corporate donors. 

• Our "broken immigration system" doesn't need to be "repaired" as much as it needs to be employed. Simply enforce existing immigration laws, aggressively prosecute employers who knowingly hire illegals, and deny illegals access to any federally-funded programs. Washington's decades-long politically correct approach not only encourages illegal immigration, it subsidizes it.

The most destructive components of The Affordable Care Act (the employer mandate, etc.) won't be implemented until next year and beyond and so their disastrous effects have yet to be felt. If you want to preserve small hospitals, local medical care, and the small town communities of rural America, I urge you to forward a link to this post to your Senators, to your member of Congress, and to any hospital board members and/or administrative staff you know. Urge them to repeal The Affordable Care Act's individual and employer mandates as well as all subsidies. If that is accomplished, ObamaCare will collapse of its own rotten weight and the free market will create a vastly superior replacement..

FJB

This site is not affiliated with any political party. Its goals are to advocate for individual liberty, traditional morality, and domestic peace and to resist all forms of tyranny and statism. It reflects the point of view of a life-long conservative constitutionalist and recovering Republican. If you are among the millions trying to understand what has happened to the GOP, please visit "Who Killed the Republican Party?" and read what is posted there. It may help explain things. Please bookmark this link, forward it to others, and return often. Thank you for your interest.