3 posts from January 2009

From Rep. John Carter, a Texas Republican.

"Rangel Rule"

All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if a bill introduced today by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) becomes law.

Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.

It took a little tiny itsy bitsy country like Israel to tell the media they were no longer worthy of being taken seriously and then cut them off. They went directly to You Tube with their news releases. Boo hoo newspapers, we hope you die a painful death. No, you don’t deserve our tax dollars to bail out your sad excuse for journalism.

Meanwhile it seems America for the most part still wants to gobble up whatever the news media says.  We only see what the demi-gods of the news media want us to see, which is apparently only innocent Palestinian children that have supposedly been killed by Israeli’s and then, completely intentionally targeted. Have you ever seen a dead or maimed Israeli child paraded around by the news media? Just like editing a movie to heighten emotional reactions, the media chooses to only show depictions  that will contribute to making the Israeli's look like villains.

We are told that the Israeli military action is over-reacting and should be equal in response to what the Palestinians do.  Ok lets.  Let them start indiscriminately firing 6,000+ rockets packet with 80,000 ball bearings each into whatever area of Gaza they feel like INSTEAD of the surgical operations they are carrying out with precision now.  Did you ever hear the media tell you that the first rocket fired was the first day after the Israeli military forced Israeli civilians out of their own homes in Gaza, giving the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians after Israeli's lived there for 38 years?  So goes the saying: “No good deed goes unpunished.”  Ever hear about the 5 million hacked to death and shot one-by-one in the Congo these last few years?  No, you’re only hearing about the respectively few Palestinians killed that somehow shouldn't be responsible for electing terrorists to run things.

No, evil knows that the media is on it’s side and knows that this propaganda tool can be used to the fullest extent. Who would have thought that a free country like America was capable of producing a news media that produces propaganda equal to that of the former Soviet Union’s Pravda?

I’ve personally written off hope for America. Don’t tell me how Republicans have got to regroup and have a chance. Really? What choir do they expect to be preaching to that has enough numbers to make a difference in voting? This next generation is largely subject to at least 4 years of Leftist college brainwashing and  then have all of their news filtered to them by Leftist controlled media. You as a conservative are an evil moron in their eyes and so dangerous that you will need to be subdued by the government.  Don’t make a mistake of thinking your neighbor or co-worker is automatically your friend.

Years ago I worked during the night as a visual effects compositor on The Drew Carrey Green Screen show.  It was located a shoddy side street in Hollywood… not the kind of place you wander around at especially at night. Well, to be truthful, all of the Hollywood area is crappy. At midnight it started raining so hard, that many of the streets in Hollywood were flooding. The sewers couldn’t handle that amount of rain. I had just gotten back in from taking a dinner break. Twenty minutes later a co-worker wanders in and tells the guy next to him, that there’s a car with their lights on in the parking light. He tells the other guy he was going to announce it over the P.A. until he saw that the car had a Bush bumpe rsticker on it.  It was my car.  I kept quiet, got up and shut them off.  Too late. But guess what. The Art Director arrived back in his car, sporting a libertarians bumper sticker and gave me a jump.  The next night I confront the Bush hater, baiting him by first asking if he believes in tolerance and diversity. He replies “of course.”  I point out to him what he did the night before. He genuinely feels bad.  Believe it or not, this is the only time I have EVER gotten a liberal to repent.

But the other part of the blame goes to those of us that are just too comfortable to make a difference. We can react leftists or we can be pro-active. But I doubt this is worth the trouble either, self loathing as most are towards America.

In my own church of 7,000, I hear the senior pastor say how much he’s behind supporting conservatives in Hollywood and has a special heart for helping movie producers get better messages out there. Yet when approached to pro-actively get the congregation involved just like the little tiny church in Georgia that got behind Fireproof and Facing the Giants, the response was “we have no way of doing that.”  Huh?  Talk IS cheap. Put up or shut up America. I’m sick of battling those in my industry while everyone else invites Brian Gumble into their living room and collectively spend millions for movie tickets to glorify failed Communist revolutionaries like Che Guevara. But hey, don’t worry. Easter is around the corner again and they’ll be rolling out another movie designed to show you what a fool you really are for clinging to archaic beliefs of right and wrong, good and evil.