Chicken Soup for the Patriot's Soul: The Power of Youth

I'm talking to you, Young Conservatives, those under 40 and especially those under 30.

Some people have been Conservatives their whole lives, many without even realizing it. Some start off as Liberals and become disillusioned with the sheer lunacy of the Left and convert to Conservatism. Libs love to sink their claws into the young and indoctrinate them, but most of them come around by the time they grow up, take on responsibilities like a mortgage and car payments and raising kids. Many, however, never take on any responsibilities, and expect the government to raise their kids while they keep breeding more welfare recipients and voting for corrupt Democrats who keep them in poverty.

The Republican Party as we know it is a dying dinosaur and going extinct. Establishment Republicans have lost sight of true Conservatism and are selling out to the Left. I'm talking about the John McCain and Mitch McConnell and Dick Lugar and Lyndsey Graham types. The so-called Old Guard. Yes, there are a good number of solid Conservatives who are older than I am, like my fellow blogger John Coffey, a Navy veteran and a wonderfully funny story teller and a guy I respectfully look up to. But if we're gonna take our country back, I think it's the younger Tea Party types who need to take the lead, and the younger Conservatives out there really need to step up to the plate and become the new face of the Right and save this nation from the Leftist Scourge.

Looking at some of the New Breed Conservatives that I stand with and who I think are going to shift the paradigm of the Right they're all pretty close in age to me. Here in South Carolina, Representative Jeff Duncan is 47 and fiery Representative Trey Gowdy is 49. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina is 48. Two of the most vociferous and outspoken Conservatives on the scene right now are Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, or "elder statesman" of sorts at 50, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz , two years younger than me at 42.

The time for action is NOW, young America. You're already tens of thousands of dollars in debt due to the 17 TRILLION dollar federal defecit and the Left is looking to take more from you, not just in money but in freedoms.

Don't think you can make a difference? You think you're too young? You think no one will follow you?

Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated soldier in American history, was 19 when he earned his Medal of Honor.

How about our founding fathers? How old were they when we declared our independence on July 4th, 1776?

Additionally, naval hero John Paul Jones was 2 days shy of his 29th birthday. Ethan Allen was 38. John Hancock was 39. Patrick Henry, who said "Give me liberty or give me death!"  had recently turned 40. While Arthur Middleton was 34, his fellow delegate to the Continental Congress from South Carolina, Charles Pinckney, was a mere 18 when independence was declared. John Jay was 31. The man who regretted he had but one life to give for his country, Nathan Hale, was 21. James Monroe was 18. Polish Colonel Tadeusz Kosciuszko was 30. Thomas Paine was 39.

Neil Armstrong was 38 when he stepped onto the surface of the moon.

Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic at the age of 25.

And I'm pretty sure we've all seen the movie Braveheart. The real William Wallace was 26 when he started his war to gain Scotland's independence from England. He was just 33 when he was executed.




So, Young Conservatives...still think you're too young to lead, to make a difference? Like the old saying goes: LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE|WAY.

I repeat, the time for action is now, friends. 

You're only a racist if you're white...

(This is not the original article I wrote. Due to a glitch in saving the draft I had written, I lost 98% of what was written and I had to hastily try to remember what was done to that point. Sorry ‘bout that, gang)

Seemingly, there's no such thing anymore as Reverse Racism or Reverse Discrimination, because racism only applies if you're white. By default, if you’re white and disagree with Obama and the Left, you’re just automatically a racist. Black America can say or do whatever it wants with no fear of recrimination or penalty because the race card gets played, White Oppression and White Guilt gets tossed into it, and then the media will just gloss it over & giggle about it, if they even bother to say anything at all about it. In the case of Jamie Foxx, they just call it comedy and say we’re all taking it too seriously.

Jamie Foxx has many talents. He’s funny. He sings. He acts. And now he can add race-baiter to his resume it would seem.

A few weeks back the Soul Train Awards were broadcast on BET. Black Entertainment Television isn’t racist, mind you, but if there was White Entertainment Television there’d be hell to pay until the FCC forced them into the grave. At these awards, Jamie Foxx proclaimed, “"It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama", stopping just shy of adding “Blessed Be His Name” after invoking the name of the Obamessiah. Of course, as expected, this was met with thunderous applause.

Last week Foxx hosted Saturday Night Live and in his opening monologue explained that in his new film “Django Unchained”, he gets to kill all the white people. How quaint. Foxx further went on with a monologue all about Blackness and Obama. An excerpt:

“But I'm going to tell you right now, speaking of blackness, my President, President Obama is back up in the White House four more years. How black is that? And not only that, he’s so black, he was playing basketball during the Election Day. How black is that? But he was also late for his acceptance speech. Okay, all the white people, this is your turn - how black is that? But he going to be extra black this next four years. He going to get everything black, and white people, don't get nervous about that because he is mixed. Now the first four years was the white side of him, because I don't know if you saw him on Ellen when he was dancing and everything. I don't know what this is. That wasn't President Obama, that was President Barry Gibb Obama. But the next four years he's even changing his name from to President Barack Dikembe Mutombo Tupac Mandela Hussein Obama X. How black is that?”

Can you imagine the firestorm if a white actor joked about killing all the black people in a new film he was starring in? That would be the end of his career, unless he released some sort of contrite statement about saying he was in a bad place mentally and was seeking rehab. By contrast, for Foxx, this will probably win him another Oscar. Oh, yeah, before I forget, Foxx also was heard recently to be complaining about the level of violence in movies these days and how it can affect kids, yet no one saw him hand back his multi-million dollar paycheck to Quentin Tarantino for making a tremendously violent flick. Hypocrite.

Again, it’s only racist if you’re white. Or, really, if you just disagree with Obama and the Democrat Party’s policies.

But what about black Conservatives? Or women? As far as the Left’s agenda is concerned, black Conservatives are portrayed as Uncle Tom lackeys doing the bidding of Da White Debbil, and Conservative women are portrayed as too scared and brainwashed to be liberated free women.

I’d like to note the irony of the fact that in the Democrat-controlled US Senate, there is but one black Senator. Not only is he a Republican, but he’s from a state the Left always decries as a racist backwater, appointed to the Senate by a female Republican Governor whose parents emigrated to America from India. Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, is my Senator, and I couldn’t be prouder.

Yours truly with Tim Scott. I'm such a racist.

 However, the NAACP isn’t exactly proud of him. Instead of embracing Tim Scott, it portrays him as a token who knows nothing about civil rights because, well, he's a Republican — unlike, say, Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act. They make their claim on Scott receiving an "F" on an NAACP scorecard of issues, many of which appear to have nothing to do with racial matters or civil rights. Item No. 3, for instance, concerns banning the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

Tim is the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction and the first black GOP senator since 1979, when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts retired. Indeed, Scott is only the seventh black Senator ever to serve in the chamber, and rather than hold Tim up as an example of success, we have the sad spectacle of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People slandering a black man who has advanced to the United States Senate. We are asked to believe that Scott, a black man who was raised by an indigent single mother in the deep South, knows nothing about the struggles for civil rights or racial equality.

The NAACP was also making noise here in the greater Charleston area this past week after the Mayor of the city of North Charleston said he was freeing up funding to ensure that the could hire more police officers in order to have a cop at every elementary school in the city in light of the tragedy in Connecticut. The move has sparked fierce debate, especially in the black community.

A community meeting/media circus was quickly thrown together, organized by Citizens United for Public Schools, whose leaders include Charleston NAACP President Dot Scott (no relation to Tim) Speakers said they were worried that more police officers in schools would lead to more children, especially black students, being arrested instead of properly disciplined. Of course it would, because the automatic implication is that the cops will only target black kids, because all cops are racist.

We are indirectly taking steps that criminalize childhood,” said Susan Dunn, general counsel for the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “Don’t expect the police to come in and rescue us.” (Take that with a grain of salt. It’s the Snivel Liberties Union Comedy Sideshow)


Ms. Scott says that if schools want zero tolerance for guns, that tolerance should transfer to the police as well. "If you're going to bring the officers in with guns, zero tolerance is zero tolerance. It's the belief of the people here that more guns may not be the answer," she said.

Let that sink in a sec. The idea is for an armed officer to be present as a deterrent to some whackadoodle meandering into a local school and causing grevious bodily harm to the most vulnerable of our population, defenseless little kids, and you want to disarm the person safeguarding the kids because of the no gun policies…. ARE YOU INSANE? The policy is there to keep KIDS from bringing guns to school.

She continued with, “An increased police presence may aggravate the situation in some schools and make our schools look and operate more like detention facilities than like places of learning.”

Lady, if the school is so effed-up that a cop out front will aggravate the situation, then maybe it SHOULD operate like a detention facility because the inmates have taken over the asylum.

And of course, those evil racist cops are to blame, as they took issue with the North Charleston police, citing a history of racial profiling and a past of “violent and abusive behavior.” And saying that there could be problems with the police and parents who have had run-ins with them.

“The chance of parents being ‘profiled’ simply for going to their children’s schools is frighteningly possible,” Scott said.

Sweet God. You’re claiming that a parent coming to a school on legitimate school and parental business is going to be racially profiled and harassed. Your unspoken implication is that the city is a Gestapo-run police state and that residents scurry about in fear from building to building in fear of being caught without travel papers or their yellow Star of David.

I would find this farce comical if not for the fact that people out there will actually believe this lunacy.


Wanna read more of my words of wisdom about racism? Go here.

The racism of Al Sharpton here and here, with Messy Jesse Jackson as they hate on Joe Wilson.

And here is my giant compendium of racism by The Left that gets blamed on The Right.

Enjoy, you evil racist.

Last Week's Patriot Rally in Charleston, SC

This past Thursday I got a chance to take a break from the chaos & upheaval in my life to attend the Patriot Rally put on by the Charleston Tea Party. Considering how stressed out I have been as of late with work, this was a sorely needed break.

I don’t get to attend very many events like this, mostly because I live an hour away from Charleston and I generally work exceedingly stupid hours. In fact, the only other real function I’ve attended was a protest against Nancy Pelosi when she visited Charleston on a fundraising trip. There was only about 30 of us there that day and it was a very mellow, subdued affair.

This time, however, it was to be a full-blown event with guest speakers and a bigger expected turnout. I arrived early, hoping to mingle and make some new contacts. A quick look at the gathering crowd showed I was among My Kind Of People, evidenced by the booth selling all manners of bright yellow Gadsden Flag items; in fact I received a free Gadsden bumper sticker as I came through the gates. I chatted awhile with Stu Morris and Kelly Golden from WSC 94.3 radio and was introduced to Joseph Kurt, who does the weekly podcast for the Charleston Tea Party and was recording citizens’ messages to Congress at their Soundoff Booth. Within minutes we were quick friends.

Me and Kelly Golden from WSC 94.3FM

The sky was getting pretty dark & menacing so we received word that the festivities would be moving onto the USS Yorktown, up on the hangar deck. The race was now on to pack up all their gear and move it 250 yards up onto the ship, and we caught the first drops of rain about 50 yards out. It soon became a deluge the likes of which words like “monsoon” apply. However, folks were not to be deterred. A good 500 people filed on into the aft hangar deck area, and then the real fun began.

If there was a theme to the rally, it was “It’s not about taxes anymore”. Instead, the rally was all about Fiscal Responsibility, Limited Government, Rule of Law, Personal Responsibility, National Sovereignty and State Sovereignty; ie: taking back this country one conservative value at a time. In true patriotic form, we sang the National Anthem, we recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and we even ran through Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”. 

The guest speakers were all excellent. It was great to hear proud Americans who could fire me up. First District Congressman Tim Scott came down off the dais and spoke from the floor. Retired Marine Corps Major General James E. Livingston, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, was inspirational. Another retired General, South Carolina’s State superintendent of Education Mick Zais, gave a great speech. We were also treated to New Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, who said of America’s current foreign policy, “We need one…”. 

Me and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich

Me and MG James E. Livingston, USCMC (Retired). Yeah, that's a Medal of Honor.

Me and Congressman Tim Scott (R-SC)

All too soon it was over. The only thing I didn’t get to do was give my own prepared statement for the sound-off booth. I was too busy absorbing everything to do it before we wrapped it up. I’ll include my notes, however, so ya’ll can see what I’d written:

I turn 42 next month, so I grew up in the 70s and 80s. While I spent my childhood waiting in gas lines on Odd & Even days during the Carter Years I was was really too young to understand just how inept ole’ Jimmy Earl was. I spent my carefree teen years under Reagan and life was good; I just never realized till much later in life how good we had it. I kinda took for granted things like low unemployment, a strong military, a thriving economy, international respect, and a belief in American exceptionalism.

I joined the Army fresh out of high school, and witnessed the fall of Communism first-hand with a ringside seat in Germany. We prevailed and The Red Boogeyman was vanquished. I went to college and dropped out after two years of spending my hard-earned money to learn almost nothing while surrounded by former hippies and foreign students on free scholarships taking their engineering degrees back to their own countries to compete against us.And somewhere along the way as my 20s became my 30s, the wheels fell off and the train derailed. Someone please tell me, where the hell is the country I grew up in?

We’re so broke that we now put the POOR in Standard & Poore and Uncle Sam’s credit rating is to the point now where he needs the Chinese to co-sign a loan from Gubmint Motors for a subsidized Chevy Volt. What used to be a Shining Light from the City on the Hill is now a Curly Fry Light Bulb full of mercury that will allegedly save the planet, unless it breaks and kills us all.

Illegal aliens qualify for in-state tution. 99 months of Unemployment checks are seen as a way to boost the economy and the unemployed are being handed superhero capes. Freeze Tag and Kick Ball are soon to be outlawed. The Left wants background checks on all gun sales and but doesn’t want anyone to verify voter IDs. They think we’ll never be out of money so long as the printing presses still have ink and even then all we have to do is forcibly take it from the rich.

Teacher Unions are backing convicted cop killer Mummia Abu Jimal and Liberals have nothing better to do than attack a one year old with Down Syndrome because they dislike his mother. While being bankrolled by George Soros, our so-called leader has a brother who lives in a hut and an aunt who’s an illegal alien living on welfare , but keeps his birth records and college transcripts locked up tighter than nuclear launch codes.

Dude…where’s my country?

(NOTE: Golly gee, a birth certificate finally surfaced...how convenient)

Making Some Political Endorsements for the Run-Off

So far, it’s not been a pretty political season in South Carolina.

I guess it started when Governor Mark Sanford coined the phrase “hiking the Appalachian Trail” as a euphamism for committing adultery in South America. It has since degenerated into :

· Two lackeys associated with the sitting Lieutenant Governor, Andre Bauer, claiming to have had relations with front-runner candidate Nikki Haley. Last-place Bauer, who was getting the crap kicked out him, challened Haley to take a lie detector test in a playground move one step removed from Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.

· Unemployed, drummed out of the Army, facing a felony sex crime charge, and not very good with forming coherent sentences, Alvin Greene still won the Democratic primary for the honor of losing to Jim DeMint in November.

· State Senator Jake Knotts calls both the President and gubernatorial candidate Haley “ragheads” and publicly embraces being called a redneck.

· Various rounds of mudslinging and accusations about who did or didn’t create jobs, who did or didn’t raise taxes/lower taxes, who’s qualified and who’s not, ad infinitum.

For the most part, much of the dirt didn’t reallt start to fly until a couple days ago. Most of it is easily overlooked but….to tell you the truth I’m about sick to death of two particular phrases in this campaign. Much in the way that the Hope & Change crap mantra was thrown about to “elect” The Annointed Holy One Barack Hussein Obama (Blessed Be His Name) Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm, the conservatives are now throwinbg about the key words Tea Party. Damn near every single Republican running out there is bending over 8 ways to Sunday to identify themselves as The Tea Party Candidate and get the annointed blessing of every local Tea Party organization in South Carolina, from Charleston Tea Party to Columbia Tea Party to Greenhville Tea Party to the Dogpatch (population 25) Tea Party. The term “Tea Party Candidate” has been thrown around so much that it really has almost lost any sort of legitimacy, the same as Hope & Change was bullshit long before the election in 2008.

The other annoying phrase running around is “Family Man”. Case in point, now that Tim Scott has received an endorsement from Sarah Palin among other notables and his opponent in the First Congressional District, Paul Thurmond, is lagging in the straw polls, I keep hearing Thurmond ads proclaiming that he’s a family man, like that’s a criteria item for being a good Congressional Representative. Earlier Thurmond ads featured him & his wife parading around the kids (Thad & little Fletch). Dude, I don’t care if you have kids, nor do I really care what their names are. The unspoken part of your ads are “Tim Scott is a bachelor and therefore something must be wrong with him.”

Oddly enough though, pretty much all the major political sex scandals that I can think of involved married guys, self-professed Christian Family Men……go figure. Bill Clinton, Mark Souder, Mike Duvall, David Paterson, John Edwards, Jim McGreevey, Elliot Spitzer, etcetera ad nauseum.

Anyways, tomorrow is the runoff election here in South Carolina. And for what it’s worth. I have my own endorsements to ladle out.

For Governor, I’m still endorsing Gresham Barrett. It’s not that I have anything against Nikki Haley and should she win tomorrow I would throw my full support towards her. However, I really like Barrett’s conservative voting record against Obama in Congress and truth be told, I’m worried that some of the good ole’ boys of South By God Carolina might not be willing to vote for a female Governor.

For Lieutenant Governor, I’m still supporting Bill Connor.

For Attorney General, I’m still with Alan Wilson. His opponent Leighton Lord tried to smear Wilson by revealing that Wilson had once failed the bar exam. So what? Kennedy got a D in college and became President. You, sir, have never been a prosecutor and don’t think that prosecutorial experience isn’t needed to be the head prosecutorial figure in the state. Sorry, your Lordship, but I do.

For Treasurer I’m staying with incumbent Converse Chellis. I just had a bad taste in my mouth after all of Curtis Loftis’ negative ads.

Although I am not in District One, I support Tim Scott.

I am, however, in District Six, and I support Nancy Harrelson to be the one to knock Jim Clyburn into unemployment.

Don’t just sit on the sidelines, people…get out and VOTE.