Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Are the people moving more conservative, or do they find the culture becoming more liberal and they are being left behind?
And the RINOs make the mistake of moving with the culture portrayed in the main stream media and wonder why identification with the Republican party is dwindling.
I used to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat. During the Clinton era I registered Republican. I am now Unaffiliated. My view is that both parties left me in their slump to the left, victimhood mentality, nanny-statism, unfunded mandate control of state/local policies and destruction of the family and of the sense of individual responsibility. And what has been done to the educational system is beyond criminal.
There will be a reaction…if we are not all bought off with our children’s futures. If inflation due to billions of debt becoming trillions of debt materializes, the wake-up call will be heard. Beware California Dreaming.
Lex
Please do us all a favor and keep that graph of the projected debt up permanently somewhere on the blog board. By the most conservative estimates we’re only 4 plus trillion in the hole by the 2012 opportunity to send the idiot packing. Let’s see if “conservative” translates into any demanding of fiscal responsibility.
Wow – that’s a real palate cleanser this early in the morning.
They might be repossessing Joe’s paddles
http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/conservative-satire/new-biden-czar-has-hands-full/
I would be interesting to see how the answer to this question changes over time. I suspect that people are always getting more conservative because they are always getting older. If so, the question is whether they are getting conservative faster or slower than they have in the past.