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After getting some very fine takeout Chinese food in Tinley Park, Illinois, I began looking for desert in the depths of my infamous “smiley face” bag. I found several fortune cookies waiting to be opened. It always seems to me that each fortune cookie has a little town-crier in it. When the overlapping edges of cookie are peeled away, this little guy pops out and belches some profound wisdom, charming complement or impaling insult. Today my fortune said the following:

“A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.”

At first, this message is rather cutsie on words and almost entices a tickle to the point of humor. However, it is deeply fascinating. The imagery such a phrase gives brings to mind a double-edge sword. In a battle we will all use our sword to make progress in the fight. Yet, a mistake or slip can cause us great harm and even destroy us.

This is our government today, a double-edged sword. Our government claims to be a weapon in the fight for progress, but will cause us great harm and even destroy us if we make a mistake. But, who is deciding what a mistake is? Those who make the sword – or government would be the decision makers in this case. Rule makers are the rulers. Government will give us the sword and we in turn will kill our liberty and freedom with it.

This is what “…sacrificing for the greater good…” means. We surrender and the state survives.

Put another way, one side of the sword is “doing wrong” and the other is “doing well.” Either way, something is getting destroyed and even killed. Such is the nature of our modern government, who seeks everyday to find a way to tax and fine us to the point of our own destruction and eventual dependence. There is no better way to ignite a Patriot than to inflict destruction and dependence.

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“Barack Obama, who has chosen to live his adult life in university precincts, sees … Americans generally as victims who need his help, people who would be better off dependent on government than on their own. Most American voters don’t want to see themselves that way and resent this condescension.” –political analyst Michael Barone

Obama’s World Citizenship was going to save us all from International peril. According to Farrakhan, he would be a savior of the world. His echo-laden speeches were going to echo through the hearts of the angy and draw us to a world described by John Lennon in his song, “Imagine.” But, just like little children growing into adulthood, Liberals have to face the reality of Obama’s world value.

• Iran keeps increasing its threats of nuclear activity.
• North Korea has continued to shoot large firecrackers into the sky.
• Pirates still hijack ships off the coast of Indonesia.
• Taliban around the world have not layed down their guns.
• Terrorists still threaten America.
• When he visits other countries, many protest him like they did for George W. Bush. Must be that blasted birth certificate.

The latest example is his upcoming visit to Indonesia where he has been declared an enemy to Islam. For a President who claimed America is not a “Christian” nation, this makes no sense. He has roots in Indonesia, and folks are still protesting him. World Citizenship just doesn’t get you anywhere these days.

The biased reporting of the protests indicate it is “rare” for Obama to have the Bush experience in Indonesia. That seems very unlikely because of who is protesting. Obama’s beloved college students and young idealists are the primary voice in the protests. This tells me that if young idealists do not find his bellowing words comforting. Such experiences happen when you claim to be a man of the world, but articulate a new brand of American arrogance from the liberal agenda. Liberalism just makes everyone angry.

We are with you, Indonesia. America don’t want that junk, either.

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“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We’ve done so much for so long with so little, we’re now qualified to do anything with nothing”

–Current Democrat Leadership in the Congress and White House

“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” –James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1792

–Awesome quote sent by the Patriot Post today.