It's that time of year once more: bells, tinsel, carols, stories about the suppression of Christmas

Seniors decry ban on Christmas tree in their complex in Newhall

"Residents in a Newhall senior apartment complex are protesting an order from management to remove their beloved Christmas tree from the community room because, they were told, it's a religious symbol. "
...."We could put out Easter baskets, have turkey for Thanksgiving but no tree for Christmas because it has Christ's name in the beginning of Christmas," Johnson said.

"Frances Schaeffer, who is Jewish, said she doesn't understand the property management company's stance.
"This tree is a symbol of reverence that we can all enjoy regardless of our religious beliefs," she said.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree "“Governor Chafee, his famous line, which he says about everything, is that ‘times are changing.’ He said times are changing and he wants to be politically correct. Well, with me political correctness doesn’t really work,” Costa told CNSNews.com.

"This is the second year that Chafee has called the Christmas tree in the Rhode Island State House a “holiday tree.” In 2011, protesters sang “O Christmas Tree" there during the ceremonial tree lighting."

Calif. Teachers Union Releases Cartoon Video Featuring ‘The Rich’ Urinating on the Poor

Heritage referred us to this post from The Blaze
"A new animated video released by the California Federation of Teachers shows the rich “1 percent” urinating on and stealing money from the less fortunate and middle class. The purpose of the video is to explain “economic inequality” and the need for wealthy people to pay their “fair share of taxes.”
"The video argues that the rich got richer by evading taxes and using loopholes to hold onto their money. The union claims this is why Congress needs to repeal Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
''Narrated by actor Ed Asner, the full video is currently featured on the official California Federal Teachers website." (Video at this link)

"CFT Communications Director Fred Glass, who wrote and directed the video, told TheBlaze the cartoon is not intended for children.
"“I love animation and I believe it is an effective way of communicating ideas that is a little different,” he said, adding that there are no plans to show the video in California classrooms."

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection made this statement that I cannot disagree with: When Soviet-style propaganda comes to America, it will be published by the California Federation of Teachers and narrated by Ed Asner
"The video is reminiscent of Soviet anti-capitalist propaganda cartoons, with gross caricatures of voracious rich people feeding off the poor:"

Prof Jacobson concludes with this ominous prediction:

As we sort through where and how this country lost its way, at least one of the roads leads to the California Federation of Teachers, and another road to Hollywood.

Founding Father Advice

Hat tip to OregonTeaParty

America Nears El Tipping Pointo

Ann Coulter  "With blacks, Asians and Hispanics voting 93 percent, 73 percent and 71 percent for Obama, Republicans have to do more than just win the white vote. They have to run the table.
"Romney got a larger percentage of the white vote than Reagan did in 1980. That's just not enough anymore.

"Ironically, Romney was the first Republican presidential candidate in a long time not conspiring with the elites to make America a dumping ground for the world's welfare cases. Conservatives who denounced Romney as a "RINO" were the ones doing the bidding of the real establishment: business, which wants cheap labor and couldn't care less if America ceases to be the land of opportunity that everyone wanted to immigrate to in the first place."

Tucson Citizen cartoon (right)

Syrian Islamist Rebels Vows to Conquer Israel And Europe After The Assad Regime Falls…

Weasel Zippers  "Following are excerpts from a clip featuring rebel fighters in Aleppo, Syria, which was posted on the Internet on October 21, 2012:"

Syrian mujahid: We will move on. When, Allah willing, we cleanse Syria, we won’t stop there. We will continue to the Shebaa Farms and Kafr Shuba, and we will pass through the Golan Heights all the way to Jerusalem. And then…
Other Syrian mujahid: All the way to Persia.
Syrian mujahid: Then we will make an about-turn, cleanse Iraq, where there is still some filth. After we are done with Iraq, we will move on to Constantinople, and then Cordoba and Andalusia. That’s it. Now that we have weapons, we don’t intend to ever lay them down.

The West, Bashar, and America should be happy. This is what you get for supporting the Bashar regime. We told you that we wanted freedom. If you had removed him, you’d never have heard from us again. You have brought this upon yourselves. We have become Islamists. We have become terrorists. You forced this situation upon us. You could have called him up and said: “Bashar, get out.” He would have left. But instead, you supported and financed him. Why? Because he serves as [Israel’s] border guard. Not a bullet has been fired there in the past 48 years.

An astute commenter with knowledge of the Old Testament quotes in response to the above threats from the prophet Isaiah:

“Remember this, keep it in mind, take it to heart, you rebels. Remember the former things, those of long ago, I am God, and there is no other,

I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ From the east I summon a bird of prey, from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about, what I have planned, that I will do. Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are now far from my righteousness. I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away, and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel." Isa 46:8-13

Obama and his MSNBC friends meet to make plans together

Isn't it awful that Fox News is so biased?  "President Obama met with some of the talking heads at MSNBC yesterday to discuss...tax rates? More likely, how best to follow the White House talking points on tax rates."
....
"The Obama propaganda machine is gearing up for the fiscal cliff fight. MSNBC has apparently received their marching orders and we can now expect completely balanced and unbiased reporting from them, right?"

Washington Post, MSNBC Hosts, Daily Kos Join Obama in West Wing to Discuss Fiscal Cliff

"That wasn’t all. According to other sources, the Daily Kos and Huffington Post did show up, along with supposedly more objective media like the Washington Post. How did the Washington Post end up in the same company as Daily Kos, Huffington Post, and MSNBC? Apparently, if you run enough profiles of Mitt Romney cutting kids’ hair a century ago, you get a ticket to the party."

"This is the Democrat-Media Complex at work. Literally."

From Twichy: MSNBC’s primetime lineup, other ‘progressive journalists’ summoned to White House love fest

This column at Townhall claims they were getting Obama's talking points for their "newscasts"

Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade Outraged MSNBC Hosts Invited To White House (VIDEO)
"On "Fox & Friends," Doocy and Kilmeade said they were "shocked" the president met with MSNBC hosts. "Look who was invited to the White House for a briefing," an astonished Kilmeade said. "Who was left to run MSNBC?" Doocy wondered.

"Co-host Gretchen Carlson said the meeting did not surprise her. "To invite five talk show hosts in from the same channel?" Kilmeade asked. "That's outrageous."
" "It might be outrageous but I'm not surprised by it at all," Carlson said. "That station's delivering the message of this administration so it makes sense."
" "But that channel—that's all they're going to do anyway," Doocy said."

Economist Thomas Sowell nails it:

Bloviating Zeppelin

Here is just one sample from many:

2. “If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”

And one more:

8. “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”

[The efficacy of new public Leftist schooling clearly at work.]

From Egypt; Anti-Morsi protester's message to Obama

Twitchy   "Earlier today, President Mohamed Morsi fled* the Presidential Palace in Cairo, and anti-Morsi protests are now erupting all across Egypt. While President Obama may be too busy picking out sandals for his three-week Hawaiian vacation to give Egyptians the time of day, one protester (purportedly this man) is more than willing to give Obama a piece of his mind:"

*Actually, one report said Morsi didn't flee, but just left for home at the end of the work day.

"MarcoAurelius", among many others, posts this comment:

They have this backwards. Obama is definitely Morsi's bitch. Obama pays the Egyptian Brotherhood $1.5 Billion a year, apologizes to them when they riot at our embassy, and Morsi does what he wants.

Race Matters, Actually / In D.C., being black and female is a plus — as long as you’re also a Democrat.

Victor Davis Hanson  "Vocal liberal senators tore into Powell’s successor, Condoleezza Rice, during her confirmation hearings; throughout her tenure, she was subjected to venomous criticism over her role in the Iraq War. Was Senator Barbara Boxer, who mercilessly grilled her, a racist? A disinterested observer over the last decade would conclude that the chief critics of black and female secretaries of state have been liberal Democrats — with no countervailing criticism of them from the Black Caucus, the Washington Post, or the Democratic party. Note in that regard that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left the Bush administration under vicious liberal criticism — although not quite as harsh as the vitriol directed at Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Again, their critics were not tarred with allegations of racism or anti-Latino bias."

The picture of social justice, Obama-style

http://terrellaftermath.com/

THE MORON VOTE IN AMERICA; The Manchurian Electorate

From the Freedom Fighter's Journal comes this column by J. D. Longstreet about what he refers to as "America's Brain Washed Voters". He begins with this quote from the UK Telegraph:

"So Europe got the American president it wanted – the one who would present no threat to its own delusions. The United States is now officially one of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic Balkanisation, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite. And it is locked into the same death spiral of high public spending and self-defeating wealth redistribution as we are. Welcome to the future, and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the West." ... Janet Daley, The Telegraph

"I find it ironic that a news organization, Pravda, which was formally the mouthpiece for the Soviet Union's Communist Party government is able to see Obama for what he is when Americans were -- and are -- too dumb and/or too dense to see the Marxist agenda of Mr. Obama. (Frankly, I don't think Americans even understand, anymore, what Communism, Socialism, and Marxism really is/are. I mean, think about it. Americans don't even know we used to have a constitutional representative republic. Most think we had a democracy. Now that we are a socialist state -- they don't know -- and can't tell (can't discern) -- the difference. Such is the ignorance of the average American about his government today.)"

Who was it that said we get the kind of government we deserve? I regret to say there are some cliches that we must now retire, resolving never to use them again. Here are three:

"America is the greatest country in the world"
"America is a center-right country"
"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American voter"

I challenged a leftist, gloating nephew to list every reason why Obama should be president and I would respond by listing every reason the man should not have been allowed near the capital. His response? "There are 50 million reasons why Obama should be president".
Longstreet concludes this chilling column with these words:

The only question remaining, then, is how will those of us who desire freedom extract ourselves from the corpse that America is quickly becoming?

In case you wonder what the "Manchurian Electorate" derives from, I direct you to this synopsis in Wikipedia of the 1962 film, "The Manchurian Candidate":

It is revealed that the Communists have been using Shaw as a sleeper agent, a guiltless assassin subconsciously activated by seeing the “Queen of Diamonds” playing card while playing solitaire. Provoked by the appearance of the card, he obeys orders which he then forgets. Shaw’s KGB handler is his domineering mother Eleanor, a ruthless power broker working with the Communists to execute a "palace coup d’état" to quietly overthrow the U.S. government, with her husband, McCarthy-esque Senator Johnny Iselin, as a puppet dictator.

Forget about the 2004 remake which replaces the Communists with the usual inversion of good and evil where private interprise and corporations become the evil ones. If you think about it, it has been this latter sort of propaganda that has set the stage for the election of  Obama and the current species of Democrats.

Angry Reader #4

Victor Davis Hanson   "But if you are looking for extremists, try these: the Rev. Joseph Lowery gave the benediction at Obama's 2008 inauguration; a week before the election he gave another public address in which he stated that whites belong in Hell — to no comment from the president or his supporters."