The Patriot's Flag

Today I am flying the Sons of Liberty 9 Strip Vertical flag. I fly this flag when Liberty is overcome by Tyranny. Today the Democrats, on a PARTY LINE vote increase the debt limit AGAIN (the last hike was in December 1 month ago!). Debt is at an “unprecedented” level (using Obama’s favorite word) this creates an “unprecedented” risk to Liberty and Freedom in the USA

The Democrats by PARTY LINE vote increased the Debt Limit to $14.3 Trillion!

By FITSNews || A day after President Barack Obama spoke of “freezing” federal spending, Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a vastly different message to the American people – voting along party lines to raise the nation’s debt limit to an unprecedented $14.3 trillion.

That’s a $1.9 trillion increase – the largest ever – and it comes less than a year after Congress raised the federal debt limit by nearly $800 billion as a little-known component of Obama’s so-called “stimulus.” Another smaller increase in the debt ceiling was approved just last month. Also, this increase is meant only to fulfill current spending obligations through the November elections.

Jim DeMint: “We are mortgaging our children and grandchildren’s future on a failed far-left agenda that is growing government while killing jobs across America,” Sen. Jim DeMint said in voting against the hike. “Instead of more wasteful stimulus spending and higher taxes, we should cut spending and enact broad-based tax cuts for all Americans to spur investment and job creation. If we continue to recklessly borrow money from China and the Middle East, it will lead to inflation, higher interest rates and higher taxes that will cripple our economy in the future.”

Boston Hearld: Reprot: Bank Bailout Bad Deal for US: Many of America’s largest banks are now “legitimately insolvent” and the U.S. Treasury’s policies may only be harming taxpayers at this point, according to a new report by Harvard and Princeton finance professors.

Obama’s administration has defended the current bailout program, saying it needs to spend billions of dollars to buy or insure mortgage assets to restore liquidity in the credit system. The administration says the prices of the toxic assets now on banks’ books are artificially low because of the credit crunch.

AP/Yahoo: WASHINGTON – A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama’s first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to discuss an “urgent need to accelerate job growth.”

An Associated Press analysis of stimulus spending found that it didn’t matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, the analysis showed.

How many more “headlines, reports and proofs” do we need? Democrat fiscal policy is a failure?

The Republican Party, the party of “NO” is quickly becoming The Party of “KNOW”

Here’s Obama’s Solution:

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The Bottom Line

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Democrats are not fiscally responsible … my (former) Democrat friends told me this is why they were voting Democrat at the last election. THEY WERE WRONG … and a little STUPID to have believed the rhetoric! Sorry for the short post but there is nothing else to say on this subject. The Headlines show the failed results.

Hows that Hope and Change working now … “friends?”

The”actions” they take and the results we see simply speak for themselves …no “blogging” needed here today, these people have NO IDEA what they are doing!

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Sons of Liberty Flag - Liberty LOST!

Today I am flying the Fort Moultrie Patriot Flag … I fly this flag when there is “Liberty-Risky Discussion” happening. And certainly President Obama’s State of the Union Speech tonight will qualify for that.  Since we are in the midst of it, perhaps it is time to begin to better understand the Progressive Movement. The information in this post is a list of references so you can study the subject.

• Note: I will continue to add to this post as more articles and resources are discovered. If you find another excellent resource, please contact me at ThePatriotsFlag@jdlinn.com or add it to the comments.  Thank you.

The Progressive Movement: A movement for reform that occurred roughly between 1900 and 1920. Progressives typically held that irresponsible actions by the rich were corrupting both public and private life. They called for measures such as trust busting, the regulation of railroads, provisions for the people to vote on laws themselves through referendum, the election of the Senate by the people and not by state legislatures, and a graduated income tax (one in which higher tax rates are applied to higher incomes). The Progressives were able to get much of their program passed into law. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were associated with the movement.

Historical Trivia Question

Question: What Political Party did Theodore Roosevelt belong to?

Answer: Republican. however In 1912 he bolted the party and ran as a “Progressive” or “Bull Moose” candidate, but had reverted to the Republican Party by 1916.

The SEARCH AREA information below is designed to help you search for key words to more quickly get you to the information you may need.  I put historical, pro and con information into the search area so you can make up your own mind.  Some of the articles you can browse quickly, and some below are real books which would take a great deal more time.  Mousing over the link will give you information of what is contained in the link.  My views on Progressivism you can find below at The Bottom Line. More information will be added periodically. The information below is only a few of thousands that will give you the most information in the least amount of reading time.

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SEARCH AREA (Warning: Some of this material could make you sick!)

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• 19th Century Progressivism
• Wikipedia’s Coverage of Progressivism
• Glenn Beck Video – Cancer in America
• Wikipedia Progressivism in the US
• Progressive Education in the US
• Progressive Education In the School
• Progressive Era
• Progressive Philosophy of Notable People
• McClure’s Magazine – The Progressive Era (Outline)
• Progressive Era Reform (Regent’s)
• Progressive Era (G W Browne Yorktown Univ)
• Org of American Historians
• Handbook of Texas – Progressive Era
• Web Sources for Progressive Era
• Rutgers Egov Archive The Progressive Movement
• PBS.org The Progressive Era
• American History 102
• The Progressive Movement  A Non-Partisan Discussion (DeWitt 1915)
• The Progressive Movement Principals and Programs (Duncan 1914}
• Institute of American History (Good Conservation Links)
• Marginal Revolution: What is Progressivism
• What Progressives Believe
• National Progress Party and Infrastructure (pdf)

Recent (in the news) Posts

• Heritage Foundation: (Jan 2007) Progressives &Transformation of Amer. Politics
• Huffington Post: (Jan 2010) A New Progressive Era (Excellent Read)
• The Seminal: Jan 2010- Why the Progressive Movement needs to reclaim its “Far Left Radicals”
• Progressive.org The Progressive “Web Magazine”

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The Bottom Line

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Progressives: Rush calls them “liberals,” and Mark (Levin) calls them “Statists” …but the rest of the world calls them “Progressives.”  Whatever name you give them, if you read through the above materials, and if you are a Conservative, you will find them simply name them “dangerous” to the Founding Fathers concept of the United States of America.  You will find the downplay of God, you will find BIG BUSINESS is the enemy and you will find “conservation” … the beginnings of the foundation for the hoax of Global Warming. Throughout the materials above, you will discover the language being used today is the language they used “way back then” during the last attempt at progressivism. None of this is “new” … Hope and Change is only a resurrection of a dangerously failed ideology of the past. Unfortunately … people “fell for it” again.

The Progressive Process:

• It begins with the worthy cause. A need is identified by people sensitive enough recognize its existence. The need will touch on reality, will be based on a fear of what might/could happen if the need is not fixed, and people will step forward to embrace the crisis and work to solve the problem. Environmentalism,  poverty, the military and big business are the progressives’ usual targets … see any similarities today? (Same  old song, different era).

• It is identified as an opportunity. Because of the potential “universal nature” of the need, the Progressives infiltrate the ranks of well-meaning people who are proposing good and usurp the cause to their own end,. That end is invariably bigger and more centralized government or increased personal power.  The “perceived need” becomes a “glittering generality” logically … taking on the cloak of fiction posing as fact.

• Increasing the momentum of the cause.  The cause becomes “populist” … it becomes the darling of the masses and at the same time an even greater darling for the progressives. In our era, the main stream media becomes the megaphone and Hollywood the midway Barker. At this point progressive money, talent and effort added causing the need to be marketed to more people, thus increasing its strength. Truth and fact need not be validated, the “need” and “fear of failure” overcome the need for facts and validity is forgotten and left  far behind in the original history of the process. The original need becomes a dire, must-solve problem, ever spinning greater … a crisis is created. The Machiavellian tiger at the gate begins to roar.

• The Cause is Hijacked.  The original cause for good is hijacked by the progressives who will take control of the process. The progressive machinery within the process begins to prove itself and some begin to take notice. The “new and improved” direction of the cause no longer resembles the “original direction,.” The altered direction moves power to the progressives, sucking it from the good intentions of the original cause and need.

• It Grows or spins out of Control. Progressively, momentum is added to the cause, and like the proverbial snowball, picks up more strength, people and support. The Machiavellian “tiger at the gate” looms ever larger as the process continues.  But the tiger is paper,  and like the fear, was manufactured.  At some point, the altered purpose of the process is exposed and the process self-destructs.  The well-intended people whoo were duped by the process become angry and turn against it, recognizing it for what it is, originally a good idea that was hijacked for personal gain and power.

Modern Day Examples:

• Global Warming … the glaciers will melt, the sea will rise, we all will die. The entire world goes into a frenzy to “save the planet” not realizing that the people who took over the cause and are the greatest preachers of it have become the financial beneficiaries of it.  Al Gore is the perfect example.  And in the end, ClimateGate exposed the hoax, something built and sustained on lies for the good of people exchanging “carbon credits.”
• Hope and Change … The news media decried that George Bush was a financial and war-mongering disaster. And so Obama emerged as the Messiah to save the USA from destruction.  A man with no history or experience … which, as the legend grew, did not matter. So the frenzy grew without fact or truth and was fueled by “hope” and the “need for change”.  Blindly the USA put a Progressive into office … and our financial liability has tripled, the spending is totally out of control and government control is at the edge of becoming totalitarian. (It has taken over banks, GM, Chrysler and wants to control our Health Care!). But the people woke up, and Massachusetts broke the cycle … the progressives were exposed, and now will fail because of the peoples’ anger.
• Federal Income Tax … came from the 2nd Progressive Era.  This moved the money to the federal level where it could be controlled by less than 500 people (and not controlled by the states and local government). With the power of that money, those few people can use the money to bribe and intimidate moving toward even more government centralization.  Examples are the “Louisiana Purchase” (Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote on Health Care, and the “Nebraska Purchase” Senator Ben Nelson’s vote on Health Care. The Progress Process at some point becomes viable to the masses and when it is finally obvious, a revolt begins. In  the present example, the reversal in Massachusetts resulted.  (As a valid revolt to the misuse of the federal income tax,  the FairTax may not be far behind).
• Affordable Housing … starts off as a good-intended thought to help poor people. Then the Progressives decided the banks MUST loan dollars for housing to people who cannot afford to repay the loans. Eventually, the housing market crashes and the government must come in to “help” bail them out. and takes over control of many large banks. Scapegoats outside the system are blamed and more sub-prime loans are continually made … leading to the need for more government control of banks and the banking system. (Why didn’t Canada’s banks need a bailout?  Because they were not government-mandated to give out sub-prime loans!).
• Poison in the Tea? Watch the Tea Party Process carefully.  This is a fertile ground for the progressives. It is a good cause, and has momentum of its own. But it can be (and maybe already is being) infiltrated to divert its original intention.  See “Poison in the Tea?“.  The Tea Party people (like me) must be vigilant.

Summary: We do not have a Democrat President in the White House, we have a Progressive President.  Know this and understand the difference.  Democrats will begin to realize this is not the “party of their grandfathers” … it has been hijacked and has become something they no longer recognize. And as this happens, the poll ratings for this Progressive President and Congress will fall, people will become angry at being duped (Hope and Change?) and will revolt. The realization has started and Massachusetts was the first indication.The 2010 elections will be the end of this 3rd Progressive Era.  The more the “progressivism” of this President and Congress “shows” … the lower go the polls.  The latest from Rasmussen today (01.28.10) is to the right.

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Recent Posts after this Post

1. Wikipedia: Congressional Progressive Caucus
2. FreeRepublic (JustPiper) Discussion on Progressive Caucus
3. WordPressBlog Uncommon Sense: What is a Prog? and why they should scare you Part I
4. FreeRepublic (JustPiper) Communist Goals … look at how these follow “Progressive” goals
5. Capital Research: Matthew Vadem, Sr Editor: Left puts Blueprint Online THE PDF File HERE

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Ft Moultrie Flag - Liberty Risky Discussion

Today I am flying the South Carolina Flag, a patriot flag I fly when politics are relatively quiet.  Today is the 100th post for The Patriot’s Flag.

The Patriot’s Flag blog was started in September of 2009.  The first weekend of the blog found my son and I at the 9/12 March on Washington DC, (pics here).  It is amazing to go back through the blog posts and watch how new history was created and old history was sometimes re-written.

My thanks to those who follow The Patriot’s Flag.  For me it has been a fine learning experience.  “Mining” the internet for truth can be and exciting as well as somewhat frustrating task.  However along the way, fellow bloggers have offered ideas and a helping hand.  The Free Republic is my “sanity check” for many of the blog posts and I thank the people there for their comments and suggestions.  Also a special thanks to my son Dan who has done all the graphics and layout for the site and my Twitter site.

My hope is that visitors to The Patriot’s Flag have all learned something just by visiting.  I have learned a great deal just through researching it and producing it.  May we both, you and I, continue to enjoy the effort. I wonder at the content of the next 100 posts.

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In “last to first” order here are the first 100 posts for The Patriot’s Flag:

1. The 100th Post – (This post)
2. Health Care Bill Horror (video)
3. 2010 Census Update
4. McCain-Feingold Revisited
5. Signature of Naivety (Gitmo)
6. Wake up Ohio! (zzzzzzz)
7. Sinking Ships? Thanks Mass!
8. Democrat Electile Dysfunction
9. Political Correctness is Censorship
10. Obama’s Far Left Czars
11. Triggering the Final Executive Order
12. Graham on Climate Change
13. The 3 am Call … Came
14. Beware, Poison in the Tea? (3rd Party dilution)
15. Transparency, Obama-Style!
16. Sensible Sarah Palin on Terrorism
17. Enemy Combatants with Rights?
18. Blank Screen Politics (Obama campaigned that he was a blank screen)
19. 2010 – Let the Taxes Begin!
20. The 2009 Hangover!
21. Unionize the TSA? – NO! (Jim DeMint’s objection)
22. Obama Gives USA to Interpol! (Executive Order)
23. Health Care by Drunks
24. 2009-A Black and Blue Christmas
25. Lindsey Graham’s Wall of Shame
26. NIPCC – Global Warming Hoax (ClimateGate)
27. EPA’s Water Grab Act
28. Hey, What’s that sound?
29. Not the Brightest Bulb on the Tree!
30. S.T.O.P. the EPA (CO2)
31. Get Involved – 2010 is Coming!
32. 2008-Republicans Endanger Seniors
33. COLB – You Be the Detective!
34. Obama’s Uncomitted War
35. AARP: Assn Against Retired People
36. Reagan’s Unity Principal
37. Giving Thanks in 2009
38. ClimateGate’s Blue Dress
39. Democrats Exposed
40. The Cloward-Piven Trigger
41. Taxation without Representation
42. Terrorist Attack at Fort Hood
43. First there were 2 of us …
44. Environmental Religion
45. Report “Our Way” or else …
46. The Cash for Clunkers Clunker
47. 2010 Census FAQs
48. HR Resolution #615
49. Fox vs. the Watchdogs
50. Pay Czar -Slippery Slope?
51. Trust is going, going …
52. Mau Inspired Manufacturing Czar
53. Safe School Czar (Not!)
54. Opacity in Government
55. Surviving a Hard Left!
56. Snow(e) Creates Slippery Slope
57. US Slips to #3 (2009 Financial Development Report)
58. Obama May Ban Fishing
59. Graham Joins Kerry (Cap N Trade)
60. Insurance Claim Denials
61. Freepers Make Lemonade!
62. An Embarrassing Joke
63. Congress Approval Down to 21%
64. Packaging the Docs (Healthcare)
65. Narcissism
66. A Rookie Sales Call (Obamalympics)
67. “Unexpected” Unemployment?
68. Democrat Hypocrisy (Grayson)
69. Health Care by Deceit?
70. Starbucks Gamble (Down by 1)
71. Got State Sovereignty?
72. Voting “Present” on Afghanistan?
73. Internet Infomercial Intercept
74. The Truth About HR 3200
75. Only Patriots Leave CIA Probe
76. Health Care Alert from NRSC
77. Teach the Children <= (Lenin)
78. Democrats Lied, Transparency Died
79. Newspaper Revitalization Act
80. Get to Work, Please?
81. Peace, Love and Insecurity
82. The Sunday Sweeps
83. A Pulitzer Unclaimed – ACORN
84. Nancy’s Fears and Tears
85. Community Reinvestment Act-Rewind
86. Decorum vs Outrage (Joe Wilson)
87. Joe Wilson – Resolution of Disapproval
88. Where’s the Watchdog-Cass Sunstein
89. 9-12 March on Washington, DC
90. The Down-falling of ACORN
91. 9-11 A Day of Remembrance
92. He’s Not Listening! (Obamacare)
93. Health Care is a Clunker -LISTEN!
94. Obama and our Children
95. Chickens came home to roost? (Van Jones)
96. Relatively Quiet (Except for Van Jones)
97. I Pledge my Service (At your school next)
98. Administration Reduces Security (CIA)
99. Stopping the Hijacking of the Republic
100. The Patriots Flag – Purpose/Process/Payoff

S.C. Flag - Relatively Calm

Today I am flying the Fort Moultrie flag.  I fly this flag when there is “liberty-risky” discussion happening.  The Democrats are trying to give CPR to the already declared dead HR 3200.  If there is any doubt in your mind about how destructive this bill can be to Liberty and Freedom, watch the video below and all doubts will be erased.

The video below was posted by OneNationUnder1God3in1 at YouTube. You will find it is an excellent summary of HR 3200 and if you care to follow along, you can download the text of HR 3200 to see the exact sections being discussed. (PDF LINK HERE). The video is about 10 minutes in length, I would suggest you set aside 10 minutes to watch it, but have a couple of aspirin (or something stronger) available for yourself when it is finished.

Disclaimer (sort of): The person who put this fine video together had to do a “translation” to get the information into a form that we could understand.  He is translating from “legalese” to “English”.  English is obviously the legislatures’ “second language.”  So it can be said that  perhaps he didn’t interpret the words correctly here and there … but I would disagree. Why would anyone have to “interpret” a law we will have to live under and in this case, one that affects our children and grandchildren’s financial futures?  If s/he “gets it wrong” then ANYONE … especially another legislator… can “get it wrong” and interpret the bill to his/her need. I feel he’s “got it right” …  (and our thanks for his/her work … a great deal of time spent for OUR good).

WARNING … the following video is approved for conservative audiences and it could make you SICK!

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Socialists have no regard for life: History has proven that socialism, which is the stepping stone to Communism has no regard for human life. This form of government has never worked and has always ended in disaster.  The above video is what Socialism looks like when it gets into the inner workings of a free democratic republic.  For seniors it is a death sentence and a transfer of your retirement funds to  its “rightful owners” … (people who never worked for it like you did and now need it!) You can see the bill is not about “health care” that is the guise for “government control” over the people. For any conservative, the video clearly points out why we must continue our fight to rid this nation of this kind of thinking. It is beyond “conceptual” … these people are ACTUALLY DOING IT.

They must be stopped. Write your congressman, get on the blogs for comments, call the White House … MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD … the alternative, as you could see by the above video, is not a future you or I would care to pass on to the next generation of  [hopefully] FREE Americans. For contact information you can go to the REFERENCES page for this blog and look under “Subject Reference Sites“. (Link)  Please take some action to make sure HR 3200 doesn’t come back to life … your freedom and liberty are in jeopardy.

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Today I am flying the South Carolina State Flag, a flag I fly when politics are relatively quiet.  The 2010 Census is starting and the Better Business Bureau has put out a warning, that I share below;

This is my second post at The Patriot Flag about the 2010 Census. In my first post, I covered the following topics in detail. You can view the first post HERE (2010 Census FAQs). It covers these topics in detail:

• Short Form, its content and purpose
• Refusal to answer information
• Long Form, its content and purpose
• Precautions when working with Census Workers
• Snopes Rumors and discussions
• “White House Controlled” data … (which may be a problem)
• Discussions with Census Workers

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WARNING:

2010 Census Cautions from the Better Business Bureau
by Susan Johnson – August 3, 2009 12:07 pm
Be Cautious About Giving Info to Census Workers

With the U.S. Census process beginning, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, so as not to become a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S.Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country. Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the United States and will gather information about every person living at each address including name, age, gender, race, and other relevant data.

The big question is – how do you tell the difference between a U.S. Census worker and a con artist? BBB offers the following advice:

• If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a hand-held device, a Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality notice.
• Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering their questions. However, you should never invite anyone you don’t know into your home.
• Census workers are now only knocking on doors to verify address information. Do not give your Social Security number, credit card or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they need it for the U.S. Census. While the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information, such as a salary range, the Census Bureau will not ask for Social Security, bank account, or credit card numbers nor will employees solicit donations.

Eventually, Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home. However, the Census Bureau will not contact you by Email, so be on the lookout for Email scams impersonating the Census. Never click on a link or open any attachments in an Email that are supposedly from the U.S. Census Bureau. For more advice on avoiding identity theft and fraud, visit http://www.bbb.org/us/article/10306

NOTE: This above information can be checked at SNOPES

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You can never be too careful about giving personal information to a stranger.  Some basic rules from the BBB include:

• NEVER give personal information on a telephone.
• NEVER click on a link from a census bureau email (they don’t have links)
• NEVER give your Social Security Number
• NEVER give banking information (of any kind) to anyone, including Census Workers

Please look at the first post on this subject “2010 Census FAQs” for a great deal more information.

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