Saturday, July 5, 2014
Wasn’t Yesterday Really “In-Dependence Day?”
Now that the official Fourth of July holiday is finally over, The Blower can return to its customary eight-days-per-week schedule. Yesterday, when political insiders were sitting around the pool celebrating Independence Day at Charles Foster Kane’s estate, most members of the Conservative Agenda were asking if the other 364 days this year are still being called “Government Dependence Days” for all those Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span, Free-Stuff Grabbing, Low-Information Obama Supporters Who Put Obama In The White House—Twice, since Dependence on the Government is at an all-time high during another summer of our discontent, especially after Whistleblower Pollster Ron Rasmussen said only 58% think the Fourth of July is one of the nation’s most important holidays, only 78% actually know why we celebrate Independence Day, and only 24% believe the Economy will be stronger next year.
This year, the phrase “We the people” takes on even more significance with some of the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings. The power now rests with the people in the 2014 Election in only 122 more days. Our votes in the upcoming Congressional elections could not be more important.
Hurley the Historian says President Reagan’s Independence Day message holds as true today as it did on July 4, 1986, when our Quote for the Day Committee says The Gipper quoted President Eisenhower: “‘There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.'”
Yesterday, Drew McKissick said as Americans gathered to celebrate Independence Day, it was a good time to take a moment and reflect on the importance of what that independence bought us – that being the freedom to create a government structure that separates power. No matter what your side of the political divide, the fact is that the fortunes of politics will ebb and flow, but in the end it is in everyone’s best interests that political power be divided. More to the point, the very reason that our Constitution separates power is to prevent its arbitrary use. Specifically, executive power, since it resides in one individual.
It’s a pretty important thing. We fought a war over it. [READ MORE HERE]
- The Blower says with everything that’s transpired during the past five-and-a-half years of America’s Dark Ages under the Obama Administration, maybe it’s now time to access the damage he’s has done to America’s future and that of our children and grandchildren. With all of Obama’s incompetence, failures, and scandals, disregard for The Constitution, and America being made a laughingstock around the world, maybe we should now update the 1776 Declaration of Independence and change all those references to King George III to Obama.
Maybe it would start out with Thomas Jefferson’s “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to change the political rules, direction and leadership of their Nation to preserve the station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to change their Government’s leadership.”
- Then we could just change a few references:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to terminate the leader’s tenure and to Install a new leader who will institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to change the leader of the United States, who arrogantly thinks of, and conducts, himself as a king, rather than as a constitutionally-limited chief executive … His is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Then we could add a few zingers:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and acknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation.
That’s some really scholarly stuff, wouldn’t you say? If only we hadn’t given Whistleblowers’ 2014 Summer Interns: Olivia, Damon, Wyatt, Tristan the day off so they could celebrate Independence Day, The Blower could’ve updated its 2014 Declaration of Independence in no time.
Yesterday, Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane spent the morning marching in the Fourth of July Parade along the PFC James Miller IV Memorial Highway in Anderson then cooking for the special guests at The Blower’s Independence Day celebration.
Plus an encore performance of The Whistleblower’s Classic Fourth of July Video
Whistleblower Fourth of July Link of the Day
Sometimes Words Aren’t Really Necessary
(Sent in by Whistleblower Faux Facebook Friend Bill Boggess, who says, “I can’t add anything that would make this any more meaningful than it already is. Independence Day to All!”
Note: We guarantee Blackberry subscribers who don’t go home and see links and pictures on their computers are not going to appreciate all of this good stuff today.
“Free Stuff on the Fourth” By James Jay Schifrin
Yesterday in Patronage County, everybody was getting ready to eat BBQ and watch the fireworks to celebrate Independence Day, but our Consternated County Commissioners were asking themselves: are we truly free and independent?
“Of course we are,” said Commissioner Filch. “Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The signers of the historical document declared themselves a sovereign and independent nation free from tyrannical British rule.”
“You’re wrong, Filch,” Commissioner Pilfer interrupted. “The sad part is that Americans are more dependent on the government than ever before.”
Then Commissioner Swindle explained: “Since our current recession began in December 2007, government programs have grown at an alarming rate. 128 million Americans or more than 41% of the population now receive benefits from one or more federal assistance program. Between 1988 and 2011, people receiving government assistance grew by 62%.”
“Do you mean like people on welfare,” asked Commissioner Filch.
“It’s not just welfare,” said Commissioner Swindle. You have to include food stamps, subsidized housing, “free” medical care, “free” child care, and home energy assistance.”
“According to the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government has spent $3.7 trillion on about 80 different poverty and welfare programs over the past five years,” Commissioner Pilfer added.
“And the thing we really have to worry about,” philosophized Commissioner Swindle, “is when it’s time for us to get ourselves reelected every four years, is making sure all the voters in Patronage County believe all that free stuff is coming from us.”
This op-ed column never appeared at any time in the feisty Mt. Washington Press personally edited by eminently renowned publisher Dennis Nichols
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