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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC
So what have we learned, It would appear not a damn thing!
Going to shake things up a little bit in the Old Hippie Domain in an effort to make the site faster, easier, more flexible, more useful, and increase membership.
First -- in the past I've excluded the posts from the Political Forum and the Chapel from the Index -- I now include them in the main index. If you don't like Political and/or Christian posts -- it is real easy to avoid them.
Second -- the biggest participation has always been in the political forum. While I wouldn't want to do anything to have that participation to decrease -- I want do what I can to increase participation in the other forums. As such, I've moved the group with the political forum from the top to the bottom, to feature some of the other forums. Some people hate politicas so much -- that when they see the Political forums up at the top -- they go away before seeing that this site is about more than that. Again, I want no fewer political posts -- I just want more of the other posts to go along with them. I'll adjust the sorting order from time to time to see what works best. The bottom line is that you might have to scroll up or down a little to find your favorite forum.
Major Software upgrades -- Over this weekend, I will upgrade the forum, portal, free classified ads, and photo albums -- and all of the addons and hacks. That means from time to time the forum might be down for ten to twenty minutes at a time.
The benefits of the upgrades are:
1. Speed
2. Fixing the cookie sharing problem causing login/logout issues between [url]www.conservativeoldhippie.com[/url] and [url]www.oldhippie.com[/url] - Stay tuned to the board support forums for updates after I tweak around to make it work -- or if you have problems.
3. More Features
4. More Security / less hackers and spam
In an effort to attract more people who are not political animals -- the Default viewing skin will also become less political (although you will have the option to select the old one) -- and you should soon be able to reach the site using either of the domain names (see #2 above)
I will soon offer premium members the opportunity to have a cool email address of yourhandle@oldhippie.com (IE: OldHippie@oldhippie.com in my case) and for the NSS racers to have the email address of their car# at nssracing.com (IE: For me 7601@nssracing.com, for Doug Duell 7777@nssracing.com) and for those new email addresses to forward to the email address of your choice. In that way -- email is only redirected to your current email address and never stored on the server. This feature serves two purposes -- one is to give you a kool email address and for it to also promote those sites from the curiosity of seeing your kool email address and checking the site out.
Other features down the road will be a .mobi address -- giving a more compact site for use on Blackberry, Palm, and iPhone devices. This may seem like a gimmick now -- but that's the way the world is heading with these hand-held productivity Swiss Army Knives.
Those moderators wishing to still moderate -- will need to have the email address of HELPME@oldhippie.com to forward to their addresses so that they can help with the helping of those having problems. This program works real well at MoparStyle. I'll be getting with the moderators shortly to see if they will be willing to take a little of the Help load off my hands.
So that's the Changes you can expect -- starting this weekend. If you find the site down -- check back a little later. 30 minutes tops should be the longest time the site will ever be down. If you have log in problems -- check the help forum for solutions -- and use the helpme@oldhippie.com (after I get it set up) IF you can't find the solution in the Help Forum.
I've watched this movie dozens of time (as with Hang em High, High Plains Drifter, Fist Full of Dollars, .... and this is the best movie theme song ever.
I have noted that many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, called upon America to unite behind Obama. Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I AM NOT uniting behind Obama!
I will always respect the Office which he holds, and I will acknowledge his developing abilities as an orator and wordsmith, BUT that is it.
I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure that he is a one-term President!
Why am I doing this?"
It is because I do not share Obama's vision for America;
I do not share his Abortion beliefs;
I do not share his radical Marxist's concept of re-distributing wealth;
I do not share his stated views on raising taxes on those who make $150,000+ (the ceiling has been changed three times since August....I think it started at $250,000);
I do not share his view that the military should be reduced by 25%;
I do not share his views on homosexuality and his definition of marriage;
I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made public);
I do not share his beliefs on how to re-work the healthcare system in America;
I do not share his Strategic views of the Middle East, and certainly do not share his plan to sit down with terrorist regimes such as Iran.
Bottom line, my America is vastly different from Obama's, and I have a higher obligation to my Country and my God to do what is Right!
For eight (8) years, the Liberals in our Society, led by numerous entertainers who would have no platform and no real credibility but for their celebrity status, have attacked President Bush, his family, and his spiritual beliefs!
They have not moved toward the center in their beliefs or their philosophies, and they never came together nor compromised their personal beliefs for the betterment of our Country!
They have portrayed my America as a land where everything is tolerated except being intolerant!
They have been a vocal and irreverent minority for years; they have mocked and attacked the very core values so important to the founding and growth of our Country!
They have made every effort to remove the name of God or Jesus Christ from our Society!
They have challenged capital punishment, the right to bear firearms, and the most basic principles of our criminal code; they have attacked one of the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right of free speech!
Unite behind Obama?
Not today.
I am sure many of you who read this think that I am going overboard, but I refuse to retreat one more inch in favor of those whom I believe are sheep being led to slaughter, or at least to the Kool-Aid fountain!
PRESIDENT BUSH made many mistakes during his Presidency and I am not sure how history will judge him.
However, I believe that he weighed his decisions in light of the long established Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers!!!
Majority rules in America , and I will honor the concept; however, I will fight to be a voice in opposition to Obama and "his goals for America ."
I am going to be a thorn in the side of those who, if left unchecked, will destroy our Country!! Any more compromise is more defeat!
I pray that the results of this election will wake up many who have sat on the sidelines and allowed the Socialist-Marxist, anti-God crowd to slowly change so much of what has been good in America !
"Error of Opinion may be tolerated where Reason is left free to combat it." (Thomas Jefferson)
Move over D-Day, Flag Day and Father’s Day – Obama gives June to LBGT
ByRev. Michael Bresciani Wednesday, June 10, 2009
June 6 is D-Day, June 14 is Flag Day and this year we will celebrate Fathers Day on June 21. These observances have long been a deep and revered part of American culture. Lookout, here comes change.
June has traditionally been a month of honoring fathers, soldiers and patriots. Now thanks to the social engineering of Barack Obama we have a whole month to celebrate lesbians, bi-sexuals, gays and transgenders. In America there will be about 290 million people who will likely not be rushing out to observe this month-long celebration.
Barack Obama proclaimed June as LBGT month saying he has partnered with the gay community to “Advance a wide range of initiatives.” He plans to enhance hate crimes, repeal “don’t ask – don’t tell” in the military and advance the right for gays to adopt.
We can’t say we didn’t see it coming but choosing the month of June is almost a slap in the face to millions of Americans who choose to remember the fathers’ warriors and patriots who have given so much to make the country what it is. Nothing could seem more like a futile attempt to mix oil and water. This is indeed social engineering, but it is not very sociable.
The proclamation comes in the same week Evan Thomas of Newsweek made the amazing observation about Barack Obama following his speech in Cairo. On Friday June 5, 2009 Thomas said on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
It has become increasingly difficult for the mainstream media to deny their extreme bias for Barack Obama and almost all his policies but now they have capitulated to the place where they are bordering on his deification.
Although it doesn’t get as much coverage in the media, those who have studied eschatology or the second coming of Christ see him as just the opposite. Some are wondering if he is the dreaded antichrist or the false prophet spoken of in the book of Revelation. It may be far too soon to tell but now one belief does not seem all that extravagant compared to the other.
Perception for some can be greater than reality. Every St. Patrick’s Day throughout the world the beloved song Danny Boy is requested in gatherings of those who celebrate the Irish. In fact the song was written by Englishman, Fred E. Weatherly. Don’t try to tell that to the revelers on the day of ‘wearing the green.’ Just sing the song.
We dare not tell those who hung on the President’s speech in Cairo last week that America is not really one of the world’s great Muslim countries. Just sing the song!
Will someone eventually explain to the President that there are yet millions of Americans who think the gay lifestyle is a perfect perversion of both the laws of God and of nature? They don’t mind the freedom that gays have under the first and the fourteenth amendment to have their own lifestyle, its America, but they are not even close to helping them celebrate it, again, just sing the song.
The best minds even among the Dems and a few liberals have begun to see something about our President that could not be known until now. Entering the second hundred days into his administration it is slowly becoming apparent that Barack Obama isn’t playing the liberal card or the conservative card. He also is not favoring democratic agenda or the views of the beleaguered GOP. It’s not for the Christians or for the Muslims Mr. Obama speaks and shapes his policies. It is for himself.
It is the obvious attempt to consolidate power to and for him alone that makes the statement about Obama being a god made by Newsweek’s Evan Thomas a verbal gushing and sycophantic excess. It would be more honest to say that Mr. Obama is more like a chameleon who changes color to fit the background he is in rather than a god.
Whatever works to consolidate and advance his own agenda, policies or views is the path he chooses. Can’t lose the contingent of gay votes even if it is only a minority, give them tacitly what they want but don’t tread on the huge contingent of voters who are both a majority and those who will not accept anything but marriage between one man and one woman. Reversing these positions would be a guarantee that he would be a one term President. That’s a song Mr. Obama does not want to sing.
It is hard to believe that a nation once firmly guided by laws, principles and morality is now going headlong at supersonic speed toward something known simply as ‘change.’ This song has seen many renditions in the past. It is a song sung by other nations and other systems of governance but it always failed and faded somewhere between the first stanza and the chorus. Let’s see.
Hitler called for change from a parliamentary form of government to a Reich with a quack leading the orchestra, this piece de-tuned after the world almost died listening to its dissonant strains.
In China, Mao thought to sing the song of change from every ancient institution of the noble Chinese and not until almost every semblance of that world was flattened was the music silenced.
The list of great calls for change that ended in disaster, destruction and disillusionment for nations small and great is too large to be addressed here.
It has been said that when religion and culture clash, that it is culture that always comes out on top. The same principle is at work when it comes to something as nebulous, perhaps even frivolous as change.
Change will not win. Eventually America will long for the principles that not only guided her but produced a steadiness and a foundation that sustained the country’s uniqueness and provided an immovable base on which to grow.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense has always stood amazed at the twisted reasoning in the liberal agenda. How liberals come to the conclusions they do is hard enough to understand but even more puzzling is the fact that they can’t seem to see the consequences of their views if carried out. They don’t see or just don’t accept that premise A, will always lead to result B, in time. They seem to lack the ability to project the results of their views into the future. It is that inability that adds definition to the term common sense. Change can be a part of common sense but it can never be a substitute for it in total.
The business of overlaying an entire month of honor for gays and lesbians on June’s three revered special days honoring warriors, patriots and fathers is a perfect picture of change for change’s sake. It reeks of callousness for American institutions and American culture and history. But maybe Mr. Obama really believes this is a Muslim or a gay leaning nation! Isn’t there someone in his cabinet or his family circle that could tell him the facts? Has change now become the substitute for truth?
Since gays are not allowed any place in real Muslim countries and here in Obama’s ‘Biggest Muslim country’ they are favored and coddled hasn’t anyone the nerve to tell him that this really makes us the biggest ‘fake’ Muslim country in the world?
Having mentioned only a few attempts in our world to put change ahead of foundation that miserably failed in the past lets look to one interesting change that will fail in the future. When the Bible speaks of the coming world leader known as the antichrist it describes a few of his personal attributes and character traits in detail. Alas, should we guess what one of them might be, you guessed it…change!
In a discourse about the world’s last leader not only is the length of time he will rule given but it is said that he will overtake the Christian believers and enforce a change of many laws, seasons and cultural observations. Some eschatologist think he may even try to change how we mark or delineate time from BC and AD to something that marks the time of his entrance into power. The bottom line is change, he will call for change and he will get it, but only for a short time. Following antichrist’s changes will be the final change from the rule of men to a blessed Theocratic rule with Christ on the earth, in Jerusalem and ruling with a rod of iron.
The Prophet Daniel says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Daniel 7:25)
He is given three and a half years to work his change but after that the shape of the earth will change forever. Then we will all sing a new song entitled ‘Glory to God in the Highest.’
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. /span>
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
FFirst, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
Also in the news today, Timothy Geitner is in China. He spoke in front of College students today, telling them that China's investment in the United States is secure. The broke out in Hysterical Laughter! The Freaking Commies are laughing at us for repeating their mistakes in spades!
All of this the same day that GM files bankruptcy, and Obama's tells us the they'll come out more competitive with the Government owning 60%. This is the same government that runs Fannnie Mae, Freddie Mac, AMTRACK, and the US Post Office.
The Old Hippie
