I hear a great deal of upset because we are being underestimated and dismissed. Pelosi, who flies on our dime in her new jet says these tea parties were put together by elitists. CNN attempt to create an incident in Chicago. PMSNBC literally calls us profane names....does this really sound like we had no effect?

Let them underestimate us! We will take them by storm! They think this is about political parties not political injustice on both sides of the isle. They think this was a tax protest, not a revolution... Let them think small...they will get hammered big!!!

It is clear that we have their attention. The media somehow believed this was some kind of tax protest that was supposed to emulate the Boston Tea Party not that, as the Boston Tea Party, this is the beginning of the revolution!

One of the things that you can use to let your big government loving friends know what trouble this government has put them in is to simply explain the trickle down economic rule....If you tax the job creators their costs will trickle down to them in higher prices for goods, reduction in employment and elimination in investment i.e. a place for them to live.

Government lives on trickle down economics too. Everyone gives Baby Bush credit for overhauling the death tax. In actuality all he did was to widen the base that will pay taxes on the death tax. More people paid taxes on inheritances of investments than at tany other time in history and more people lost those investments to the government because they could not pay those taxes.

Obama is playing the same game. He has given the sheeple a "tax cut" on the backs of the rich while raising the taxes that do not relate to income tax. If your sheepple friends understood that they are getting back $500 per year in charity is like Novocaine so that he can cut you for $3000 in taxes in the cap and trade tax, sin taxes and collecting their tax money through those that create the jobs.

Perhaps if we can learn to be better educators we can wake more sheeple up

Obama did what he does best, let others make the difficult decisions. He did it with the bail out, with the stimulus, with the budget and now with the hostage situation. This time it was the right thing to do. Notice though that he made no comment about what he told the Navy to do until he knew it had gone well, no proof, it just seems strange.

Now as any good politician he will take care of consuming all of the credit. In this he is no different than any other politician so no argument but we know who the heroes are.

These pirates have a very sophisticated network following these ships and relaying from port to port when they leave...these ships are not taken at random as many would have you think, this is highly organized crime. With that I am fascinated by the fact that Obama had no more than arrived home from the Great Apology Tour and Two American ships were taken, Captain Phillips and the Ocean Going Tug. I have no proof that this is it but my gut says....

One very strange thing to me is that human beings were killed through military actions and now it is the liberals that are saying ... see he can attack, see he is a good leader ... see he is wonderful.

As I remember when Bush chased Sadam out of Kuwait he was an evil brute. When Baby Bush took 6 months to announce action against those that took down the trade towers he was to slow. When Bush killed Sadam, a monster that had killed literally millions of people and tortured tens of thousands, Bush was made to be the monster. Now the cheer for a kill because it is their guy... wonder how they feel about at least one of the pirates being only 16 years old?

There is no joy in having to kill, but as I told a new friend on one of these posts....Liberals decry war while millions suffer and die for the lack of it and then call themselves compassionate....conservatives help only those that serve the countries financial interests while ignoring poor, weak, starving countries and call themselves responsible.

My belief....Either we are going to take care of business and do it right or we are going to get the hell out and let the rest of the world governments burn themselves to the ground.

Either way this half way crap is costing us the young lives of our precious soldiers without playing to win the game and I am tired of it. We have the assets to end much of it now and for our politicians sakes soldiers die.

Libs don't tell me you are compassionate while you watch millions die when you can do something about it, that is a sick mindset...kind of like the subway personnel watching as a young lady gets raped and doing nothing about it.

Conservatives don't tell me responsible when you can ignore disastrous human conditions created many times by our own dabbling for our own political gain.

I love my country, I hate our parties and what they have done to us and I hate our lying politicians....strong word hate but I know no other way to tell you how intense the feelings in the pit of my stomach when I think of what they have done to my country.

Everyone please...pay attention to what is happening around us that is important. Quit with the petty antics of guys like "Showmedan" he is living proof that we are an ADD nation! He is proof that we are so worried about being RIGHT that we have given this country away to the LEFT...Please stop and think if he and guys like him are even worth you breath.

There are some liberals out there that actually want to discuss ideas, I know I met one here and he is bright and thoughtful without the name calling garbage.

God Bless Captain Phillips and his Family, God Bless each and every one of you, God Bless our military heroes and God Bless the USA.

WOW, well thought out man!

Allow me to preface this with the very first and highest priority here is to bring Captain Phillips home safely and there can be no question about that.

Ciceroni, while it is true we are all arm chair attitude. Do you really think that an attack on any sovereign American vessel is to be handled without recourse or swift and deliberate actions?

You stated well your view and it appears that you posses some knowledge of the situation or one like it so allow me my ignorance and to ask,

Since we already have special forces in place, those special forces possess a solid plan to take the pirates, their villages and their shipping out completely, why are we not moving now?

These pirates listen to the news and they have the same information I have, it came directly from the news reporters interviewing military personnel that know.

If these are businessmen and it is organized crime then I am certain they can do a risk / cost analysis. They lose everything, business, homes, shipping, fellow pirates and whatever else or they continue to hold the Captain. Basic Math, even despots can figure it out.

Why would we not grab the leverage to get the Captain released and at the same time raise the cost of piracy far beyond what it is worth....kind of like our legislators have done with our government

UH, I didn't say the representatives were elected according to the Declaration of Independence I said

They have been duly elected AND according to Our Declaration of Independence we have a duty to throw them out for their violations.

I do believe that Mr. Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence made it clear that when the government thinks it is above the people we as a people have the DUTY to remove that government.

I understand your confusion now if you read the Declaration and the constitution as carefully as you read my post

I would ask that you think this through and not react emotionally. First we have not sent our president to apologize to them for stealing slaves from their country nearly 300 years ago. Second we have not apologized to them for not providing trillions in food and aid to their starving people because we, as a greedy capitalist nation, have more than they do. We have not apologized to them for being a more civil country than they are. We have not had our Pres bow from the waste in deference to their violence and we have not psychoanalyzed them and made appropriate excuses for childhood.

This will all take time and once it is completed we will hold some hearings with Mr. Kerry, call a conference at the UN where we will get permission to send them a politically correct nasty letter explaining that what they are doing will alienate them from the world community. Once that is done more thugs will realize that we are impotent and they too will commit violent crimes against the citizens of the US.

Thanks to the Black Beauty we have Jimmy Crapper's Iran hostage situation going all over again.

The simple answer is the SEALS are ready to move on shore, take the villages where these pirates live and let these idiots on the boat holding Captain Phillips know that we hold their families and will kill them if the Captain is not released immediately. Unfortunately if we do that someone in the world will not like us and RockObama will not be liked as much and after all isn't that the most important thing to a liberal, the touchy feely please like me..please OH PLEASE!!!!.

You can bet our military knows what to do that will stand the best chance of getting the Captain back alive and they are ready to move...but...they can't because our coward in chief will not make a move...Would that Ronny Ray-gun was here...

Think too about how your description might apply to the other great cost in our national mindset and one that more thoroughly indulged by these politicians that seek their beloved re-election. A word used so intensely that we as a society have come to believe this to be a right, that others should give up all that they have worked for so that those that haven't worked shall not be left behind. A word that has destroyed the concept of taking a risk to get ahead and implanted fear in the hearts of a free people. A word that has our polls suggesting that nearly as many people would prefer some sort of socialism to free enterprise. A word that enslaves us all just by the speaking of it. A word that is in complete defiance of anything in the natural world or in any belief of the Christian world. A word that in its four little letters should be forbidden to speak under penalty of law.

As I have told my kids from the time they could understand FAIR is a four letter word and will not be tolerated here.

I would suggest to you that it is our government that has made health insurance so unaffordable. I have pre-existing conditions that make insurance entirely unaffordable and so I have no insurance. So far no one has denied me care when I really needed it, appendix, kidney stones, blood pressure.

Government is the one that passed the laws that do not allow us to create an association in order to get group insurance. Government is the one that has heaped so much nonsensical regulation on our doctors such that it more than doubles their costs of doing business. Lawyers are the ones that force Docs to do unnecessary tests just to cover their own butts. Government is the one driving docs out of the industry through unreasonable litigation laws. Government is the cause of Insurance companies leaving States and refusing to insure Docs. Ask anyone in the insurance industry, see what the idiot Insurance commissioners in CA and WA have done and know that it is happening on a lesser scale throughout the US.

It is illegal to refuse medical service in this country for needed medical attention...the one good law that the government did pass.

How can I answer your question...we are all guaranteed the care required. We are not guaranteed elective surgeries such as quality of life items, i.e. many orthopedic, cosmetic and electives. As a citizen of this country you have the right to better your lot in these areas...or not...it is up to you and I tell you and this includes your health access. I tell you this as someone that has lived it for more than 25 years and is still living it. Health coverage is not a constitutional right.

On the other hand equal justice under the law is a constitutional right and we do not receive anything close to that. Our justice system is fully based on ones ability to pay. If I do not have the money I get some political appointee that doesn't want to be there or who is simply trying to get his internship out of the way or is to inept to be in private practice while the guy with the money gets to hire the best and smartest in the industry. If you don't think so get in an argument with the IRS. They will bury you in attorneys 10 to one and you will lose regardless of how wrong they are simply because you can't pay your attorney anymore. Get in a fight with State disability and they will literally starve you out. Go after an attorney that violates the law, causes tens of thousands of dollars in damages to you and you can't afford to recover because he broke you with attorney's fees. If we are going to socialize anything...and as I said in another post, I don't want to socialize anything...it should be our lawyers....they should be regulated to nearly out of business. They cause the cost of everything to skyrocket and again I tell you this as having lived it and currently living it.

If your health is truly a priority you can and should go out and earn the money to get your coverage. Our country is specifically set up so that you can do that freely if you so choose...until some attorney files a frivolous lawsuit against you and runs you out of business.

I agree! Only problem is the GOP is eyeball deep in the FARCE, they are all thieves, throw them all out