Serious Considerations:

03/09/10  Kerchner v Obama & Congress, a brief filed 19 Jan 2010 with the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia PA.  Perhaps worth keeping an eye on.  JES http://www.scribd.com/doc/25461132/Kerchner-v-Obama-Appeal-Appellant-s-Opening-Brief-FILED-2010-01-19 

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03/09/10  Dan Rather on Chris Matthews’s “Hard Ball” this past Sunday speaking about Obama, the Magnificent: “Listen he's a nice person, he's very articulate" this is what's been used against him, "but he couldn't sell watermelons if it (sic), you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."  Now what suppose do you believe the reaction of the MSM would be had Rush Limbaugh said something of this sort?  JES
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03/04/10  I very recently turned 70 years old, and as I look around at the country, and the world about me, I am very pessimistic about the future.  I’m ok, only a few years left in this vale of tears.  However, people under, say 40, I believe face some challenges not even generally being much recognized, much less discussed.

As for the United States, I no longer recognize or understand it.  The country has lost its way, never to recover.  From my perspective, there is no way, a year after the installation of a Baraka Hussein Obama with essentially half the population still worshiping at his feet or the ideas he represents, that this country can survive. That he even should have been seriously considered as a presidential candidate in the first place is a litmus test of the unfolding disaster that is accumulating.  But then I would say the same thing about the election of Billyboy Clinton in 1992.  One hundred years from now, I believe looking back, historians (if any exist who can think, read and write) will recognize that Clinton was the canary in the coal mine of that point in our history from which our mistakes of the past will prove to have become irredeemable. The Progressive movement has, at least, a 300 year history.  However, it’s my belief that 1992 was the final tipping point.  Others could credibly argue for an earlier date.

Our education system has gone to hell.  The State has subverted the family.  Collectivism and victimization have become the order of the day, with individual freedom and personal responsibility the new endangered species.  Any sense of objective reality, and truth, in the singular sense, has been lost.  From a base of ego ascendant, truth has become personal, any sense of transcendently guided morality absent, and the State has become god.

This website has always been premised on the idea that these issues of which I have spoken were redeemable.  A sort of denial on my part arising from a personally ingrained constitutional worship, if you will, of the wisdom of our national founding.  American Exceptionalism, premised on the guidance of a Judeo Christian God.  It is my unshakable belief that thus it was, and it is my belief today that through Progressive perversion, that America is irrecoverably in its final death throws.  My Judeo Christian God has been made to be an absolute nuisance, sometimes even within the Church itself.  The problem going forward for the country, and the world, is that He is, in fact, real, and for myself a matter beyond Faith.  However, now I will shut up, because no one is listening, and I truly fear His judgment on us all.  JES
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03/04/10  And yes, Senator Jim Bunning was right while his GOP colleagues hid under the bushes.  It’s all over; too much damage has been done.   JES

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03/03/10  Going back, for a moment, to the recent Senate election in Massachusetts, I would remind you of what I said back on 01/19/10 regarding the election of Republican Scott Brown: “some sobriety on our side is called for.  Scott Brown is not a Conservative, but appears rather out of the old northeastern Republican mold on many issues.  However, if he is determined to help pull the plug on ObamaCare, we will take him on a utilitarian basis, and be grateful for the long overdue snub of the Teddy gang “.   

My point here being that his priority of accomplishing “bipartisanship” in his recent vote, by joining Democrats, to support an alleged “jobs” bill, is totally consistent with the dysfunctional behavior of coastal “Republicans”.  The Tea Party crowd has no reason to be surprised.  Conservatives, cross your fingers about Brown’s campaign “commitment” to vote against ObamaCare, or a watered down version of it.  All these folks are in serious need of remedial economics education.  JES 
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03/03/10  Texas Governor Rick Perry, in his GOP nomination to run again for Governor, sends a clear message to Washington DC; “Don’t mess with Texas”.  Governor Perry; carry on.  JES
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02/16/10  The euro continues to slip against the dollar in the continuing Laurel & Hardy act that has characterized the back and forth between these two currencies for many years.  The trajectory of both has been on a glide path down for a long time.  Until just recently, the received wisdom among the money gods was that the dollar was in near free fall.  However, in the nick of time, for the moment, the euro appears to come to the rescue of the dollar with even worse performance (think Greece).  Folks, this Alice-in-Wonderland comedy of the currencies cannot go on forever; both currencies are corrupt and failing.  With Obama and the Left in charge in Washington, and the bureaucrats in charge in Brussels, and a Judeo-Christian God chased out of the Commons, we are left with no hope but to grow our own spinach; reality is at hand.  JES
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02/16/10  The other day, my wife observed that were a fence post sentient, it would clearly understand its purpose and surroundings.  For some reason, I reflected immediately upon Joe Biden, and by comparison, Joe does not come off well. Why would such an analogy come to mind?  JES
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02/14/10  Once again, former Vice President Dick Cheney goes on the attack; last man standing, to lay it on straight and the most qualified to do so.  Some ask why he does it.  It's because he is a patriot and the most knowledgeable man alive on issues of American national security at this time, willing, and in a position, to say what has to be said. However a man like Cheney is more than willing. He knows the truth and the difference between right and wrong, and he gushes with love for his country and the sense of responsibility that goes with a man in his position of insight and knowledge.  Straightforward, tough and not about to stand by and watch his country or himself overrun by a pack of craven, lying, delusional, narcissistic psychopaths.  Once again, the Mountain Observer salutes Dick Cheney.  JES 
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02/13/10  A major French Bank, Societe Generale, predicts the eventual “inevitable break-up” of the Euro currency, and the entire “eurozone”.  No surprise here; the Mountain Observer wrote on these pages some time ago about the entire farce of the European Union, unelected, un-republican, statist and fascist in design, and counter to the fundamentals of basic conservative analysis.   The bureaucrats have harbored impressive and tough sounding criteria for the membership of new nations to the east, and on the fringes, but now there is Greece.  Greece is busted; too many decades playing with socialism, and now the nation’s wallet is empty, and the beggars have turned to Brussels for a bailout.  So it turns out that Greece is the canary in the coal mine. 

However, most all European countries share the flaws of cradle to grave nanny statism that typify the welfare state, which has been eating away at the soft underbelly of the entire region particularly since World War II.  The formation of the European Union was never more than a blind band-aid on the problem, and now, finally, the collapse in Greece can’t be ducked.  The rest of Europe, except possibly Great Britain, is at sea with a concrete block tied about its leg.  And this is the model to which our own Democrats and Baraka Hussein Obama, the Magnificent, aspire.  Keep your eye on reports about the situation in Greece.  JES
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02/09/10  Today, Washington DC is buried, at near record levels, in snow.  Perhaps the Lord’s way of putting the brakes on the government at an opportune time.  Real Americans loudly applaud.  JES
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02/09/10   Last week the Ford Motor company announced an annual profit for 2009 of $2.7 billion.  Great news guys; keep it up.  Of the three American automakers, Ford was the only one with the good sense not to get in bed with Obama, Victim-in-Chief, and this is one result.  The Mountain Observer wishes Ford Motor well.  JES
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02/09/10  Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN, don’t go away.  You have a future on the right side of things.  JES
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02/05/10  Obama's "State of the Union" address was, in fact, an address on the "State of Baraka Hussein Obama, Narcissist in Chief".  Among other points, Obama, Victim-in-Chief and Class Baiter, gives a lawyerly lecture to the Supreme Court about a recent decision which restored the First Amendment in its originally intended sense.   So bad that Justice Clarence Thomas found it advised to respond to Obama’s subtle racism with a lecture of his own.  As for you who hate corporations, I would point out that corporations employ thousands of people, and produce thousands of products and services that have fueled a free market economy as no socialist experiment ever could.  That you rant and rave about so much manufacturing going off shore, I would suggest you consider both the regulatory and tax policies that cause this to happen.  However, I am off subject.  The point here is the pathetic state today of American law schools that so massively produce such intellectual garbage and ignorance.  Now they’ve got one occupying the highest office in the land. JES
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02/05/10  Finally Scott Brown is now the Senator from Massachusetts; not Conservatively perfect, but we’ll take him.  Reading various Democrat explanations of this remarkable development, the question yet again arises as to what clinical defect is actually present in the brains of Left-wingers.  Surely there must be some medical explanation. To just pass it all off as “denial” somehow seems to fall short.  No, a government grant to seek the answer won’t work.  Do piranhas eat each other?  I don’t know, however sensible people surely get my point. Lost in all of this is the ability to think rationally and objectively, and to recognize the singularity of Truth.   JES
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02/02/10  RNC Chairman Michael Steele seems to think that voter frustration with Democrats is an automatic one for one gain for the GOP.  He, and other Republicans like him, just don’t get it.  (The “Where else can they go” argument.)   Well, Michael, follow the energy and the money; which is going to the Tea Party crowd, including millions of Conservative registered Republicans who are fed up with a GOP elite that is cowardly, disingenuous and long part of the problems we all now face under a far Leftwing regime.  Your claim, for yourself and the Party, that you are all now sudden converts to small government fiscally responsible policies, for starters, is reprehensible on its face; you have zero credibility.  Folks like me will not “partner” with you and your ilk; you just need to go.  Be gone.  Disappear.  Actual Conservatives need to take over the Party.  Then we can say to you wishy washy kiss ass coastal types “Where else can they go”.  Along with the Democrats, you guys lost in Massachusetts, and the evidence of the truth of which I write is that it is necessary to explain this to you.  You are as politically tone deaf as the Democrat Congressional “leadership”.  Go join a sewing club.  I wish you well.  Marco Rubio, we need you.  JES
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01/26/10  Coming soon: The tax man, for $12,245,872,000,000  JES
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01/05/10  Contrary to Left Wing fantasies, Conservatives have a practical stake in the continued physical safety of Baraka Hussein Obama, the Magnificent.  Were harm to come to him, or even be attempted, he would instantly be portrayed by his mouth pieces in the media as a martyr, or a survivor’s equivalent.  Politically, that would not be in the interests of Conservatives.  Arguably even worse, were the worst to happen, Joe Biden would become President.  JES
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01/02/10  Launching off into this new year, the United States government is a scene of fiscal disaster.  All three branches of government, over many years, own some responsibility, however, constitutionally, the House of Representatives owns the leadership of this disaster.

A founding and fundamental premise of the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 was that the new Fed, a hybrid creature of private sector banking and the government, would at once be insulated from political interference by Congress so as to focus technically on the defense of, and the stability of, the currency.  Which is to say that the Feds function was to oversee monetary issues, as Congress was to continue oversight of fiscal issues.  Thin constitutional ropes tied the Fed to the government; the arrangement being an upfront admission of Congressional political inability to responsibly oversee Treasury Department operations.  With the adoption of the income tax the same year, responsible fiscal control of government spending was immediately a dead issue, and the unrestrained culture of thievery of the Treasury and political bribery was at hand.  These linked processes were not immediately apparent to most, and took decades to unfold and mature.   Today we are faced with the end-of-road consequences of the nightmare.

Years ago, the Mountain Observer, in these letters, complained that the Fed, in recognizing Congressional fiscal irresponsibility, made hopeless attempts to “band-aid” the problem through the use of certain monetary initiatives; mainly manipulation of interest rates in a way that had more to do with imagined Keynesian “stimulus” efforts than sticking with the Fed responsibility of defending the currency.   The bankers should have known better; however they knuckled under, under political pressure from which they had theoretically been insulated.  So it is that today the politicians are digging away at the Fed, an institution of questionable constitutional legitimacy, originally created by Congress itself in a self admission of originalist constitutional irresponsibility.

Early on upon adoption of the Constitution, was it Thomas Jefferson?, who observed that a Republic had been created, however, could we keep it?  This morning, the question is very much up in the air.  JES

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01/01/10  I, myself, have on occasion been guilty of excusing the excesses of the ‘60s generation by recruiting the woes of their elder depression & WWII era parents.  Such explanations, alone, are superficial at best.   The Progressives of our day follow a lineage at least as far back as the French Revolution of the late 1700’s (in reality, it was a strung out affair).  The Mountain Observer knows this, and has written here of it often, directly and in various contexts.  I think it useful to make this point now as we move into an election year, frequently to be expected full of campaign rhetoric, on all sides, sometimes short of clear substance.  That is the nature of political campaigns.  The priority for Conservatives in 2010 will be to expose the Progressive agenda for the intellectual travesty that it is, and offer to a more receptive audience the more positive and constructive imperatives of objective reality in words and language that can connect.  JES

01/01/10  I am not about to indulge in the absurdity of wishing anyone a "Happy New Year" as anyone who expects it to be, must be a cousin to an amoeba living under a rock.  Western Civilization crash landed in 2009 following a 220 year glide path into hell.  So, Conservatives, we start from there.  We are Americans, so let’s get to work.  JES

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