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Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Books

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:13:26 +0000

Am reading a particularly frightening book called "The Omnious Parallels" by Leonard Peikoff published in 1982. Peikoff was Ayn Rand's hand-picked successor. He details what was essentially the philosophical bankruptcy of German intellectualism in the 19th and early 20th century and how it primed the German people for the rise of the Nazis. He then compares this to the U.S. and how our country has gone from the product of the Enlightenment we were at our founding, to the Progressive movement that has so fully permeated our society today. THIS is why Glenn has so stressed "The 5000 Year Leap", "Common Sense", and studying the Founding Fathers. We are headed for a huge, HUGE upheaval. And if we do not ground ourselves in the PHILOSPHY of the Founders--reason, values, principles and rights of the INDIVIDUAL vs. the "GROUP", we are doomed. My copy of the book is so inked-up now with current day specifics paralleling that which went on during the Weimar Republic, its terrifying.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent - July 16

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:58:42 +0000

Hmmm . . . how about: "For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant change in its outward structure?"--Adolf Hitler from Mein Kampf explaining how once a ridgid dogma is established, there can be no changes, no discussion. The debate is over. Sounds a lot like Al Gore, doesn't it?

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent - through 5/26

Thu, 14 May 2009 22:40:51 +0000

Ya know, I've been thinking about this. After having read "American Progressivism" and hearing Glenn talk constantly about T.R and Wilson, and seeing the situation where we have Progressives with BOTH Ds and Rs in front of their names, here's where knowing and understanding history has its advantages. Progressivism was (and is) a MOVEMENT. It wasn't until a little while later that it became an actual party, and then only a small, ineffectual one. Instead the Progressive MOVEMENT was absorbed into the two existing parties. That said, maybe we need to start thinking of the 9/12 Project as a MOVEMENT. Find the candidates that stand for the 9 Principles and 12 Values, regardless of party. However, we may wind up in the same situation. Look at Ron Paul, who ran as a Republican. MS party, but still shut out because he didn't tow the party line. Aw, hell! Who is John Galt?

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sun, 10 May 2009 00:54:21 +0000

Dave, I do hope you continue to post these thought-provoking challenges. Several times I attempted to respond to your challenge, but found it exactly that--challenging, which requires thinking, writing, rethinking and rewriting. However, every time I came back to respond, your original post was lost in the chaotic design of this web site. That's been my biggest frustration here--the difficulty in following threads. It is disheartening that your post received so many negative numbers as I viewed your post to be one of the reason why I come here--to learn, share, and strengthen my own arguments. How to best approach the argument against "gay marriage" in such a way that those who might be turned off by the religion-only argument but would otherwise be sympathetic if framed in a different way. It's a valid challenge. I've often felt the same holds true for the Intelligent Design argument (Ben Stein offered a great one with "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed). Or the Abortion debate, for that matter. I'm still pondering an answer to your challenge, and still writing drafts. Hopefully when I come up with something coherent, I'll be able to find your post again.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sat, 9 May 2009 18:04:49 +0000

Excellent points and well taken. However, have the elections and Tea Parties really shown them the way? I'm really not seeing that. I'm seeing instead a frantic scramble to discredit fellow GOP members like Palin and Jindal, or desperately pandering to the Tea Partiers. But then, maybe I've just become too cynical. Ross Perot pulled a heckuva lotta votes away from Bush 41, and as a result we got Clinton. BUT! But . . . within 2 years we got Newt and the Contract with America which drew the reins up sharply on the Clinton/Progressive agenda.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sat, 9 May 2009 15:26:23 +0000

Here is my argument--in 2006, the GOP lost a LOT of seats. Not because their political base suddenly decided Pelosi, Reid etc. had better ideas, but because it wanted to send a message to the GOP members in Congress: "If you're going to act like Democrats, then we'll just vote Democrat." But the GOP didn't get the message. So in 2008 the GOP puts up their most Democrat-like candidates, expecting that will bring back the base. The result? The GOP is slaughtered because those who left in 2006 either voted for the Dems again (again to try and make a point), or didn't vote at all. So now we're seeing the GOP coming right out and saying, "Since we've lost so badly, it must mean our base WANTS us to be Dems!" They have completely missed the point. However, had the dissatisfied base turned instead to say the Libertarian Party, I don't think the GOP could have missed the message.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sat, 9 May 2009 14:45:56 +0000

Oh, I want to keep Gibbs around! He is the most useful member of the Progressive movement from our POV. He's not slick enough to hide how the Progressives really feel about the American people. As a result, we're beginning to see a few of the zombies in the press corps waking up and calling him out--like the reporter from ABC who said about the Biden/Swine flu spin effort (to paraphrase), "Sorry, but that's NOT what the VP said!" To which Gibbs was forced to reveal his Ministry of Truth statement, "I'm telling you what the VP MEANT to say (after we strapped a cage with a hungry rat on his face)". Obama's teleprompter is too slick to make such a slip. Gibbs though just lets it all hang out when he gets cornered, and I LOVE IT!

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sat, 9 May 2009 14:08:48 +0000

Thank you for posting this! Miller's posting on state's rights has to be the clearest, most rational argument I've read yet.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sat, 9 May 2009 13:41:01 +0000

I think with the unions taking over controlling interests in the companies has finally revealed what our modern unions are really all about. Power. To hell with the working man. It's about Power with a capital P. Look at how GM is planning on shifting more of their production to Mexico, China and South Korea as part of their restructuring. Not a huge hue and cry from the UAW over this idea. That's because they don't care how many U.S. workers will lose their jobs. They got what they wanted--Power. Fighting for the worker was only a means to an end.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Sat, 9 May 2009 06:45:26 +0000

I have to agree he doesn't look up to him. It's just part of the P.R. But Lincoln did go a long way towards wadding up the Constitution and tossing it in the chamber pot, so perhaps that's where Bush/Obama feel a kinship with Lincoln. Yes, I've read DiLorenzo's book, and recently finished reading his latest one "Hamilton's Curse" which I highly recommend. It's the first one I've read that tied together everything I've read about the Founding Fathers, with everything I've read about the Progressive Era. Hamilton was Jefferson's arch enemy. And low and behold, Woodrow Wilson liked Hamilton, but dismissed Jefferson as a political hack. DiLorenzo has several other books (including another one about Lincoln) and I have them tucked away on my Amazon Wishlist. So many books. So little time . . .

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Fri, 8 May 2009 22:42:51 +0000

I agree. I think it's far more important at this point to take on the Progressive policies and the overall culture of corruption in Washington (regardless of party) and build a viable alternative to the garbage we're constantly being presented with as public servants. And to a certain extent, I'm far more concerned about the House and Senate. To me their behavior, ideas, and continuous employement is far more frightning.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : News From You

Fri, 8 May 2009 05:50:38 +0000

Silencing Opposing Voices As you may have heard on Glenn's radio show today, Talk Radio is hanging by a thread. But that's not all. Folks, we're having a pincer move put on us. I ran across an article on World Net Daily, (and varified it on Wired.com and The Library of Congress' website) about California Congresswoman Linda Sanchez's proposal of H.R. 1966, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag... The most disturbing part of this plan is the following: (a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. `(b) As used in this section-- `(1) the term `communication' means the electronic transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received; and `(2) the term `electronic means' means any equipment dependent on electrical power to access an information service, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages.'. Yes, this is supposed to be to prevent "bullying" of children online. However, it is just vague enough to be used in conjunction with any internet "Fairness Doctrine" our new FCC chairman wants to enact (with its "angry email cooling off period"), and the "Hate Crimes" Bill that just passed. Combine all this with how the MSM portrayed our Tea Party protests, the recent DHS reports, lexicons, etc., and the Missouri State Law Enforcement memo, we are about to be choked off from all sides.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Thu, 7 May 2009 21:28:05 +0000

Part IV But see, if we'd not played the "hold our noses and vote" game, and thrown our support instead behind third party candidates, I think our message would've come across loud and clear. There's no misinterpreting say, Ron Paul's message or Bob Barr's or Chuck Baldwin's as "gee, I think they just want crispier chicken!" Nope! Yeah, that would've pulled a lot more votes away from McCain. But this would've been the best time to have done it. Simply because regardless of what we did or could have done, the historical rotation was in the Dems' favor. But we could have sent a clear message to the Republicans that they lost not because of their batter recipe, but BECAUSE THEIR CHICKEN STUNK! And you know what? It might have made a few Libertarian Republicans lean over and whisper, "Hey, I might have a battered coating, but guess what? I'm a CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!" Yes, I know Ross Perot probably cost Bush 41 the election. We've heard that time and time again. But I can't help but think because he DID pull in such high numbers for a third party candidate, he contributed to the Contract with America. Newt got the message. Steele and Jeb and Cantor etc., haven't. Instead, they're trying to run out the chicken fried steaks. Remember, the Republican Party started out as a third party. It took time and local level successes to build the movement. Folks, that's what we've got to do here. I know the urgency to change things NOW. I feel it too, so strongly, I can barely sit still. But we've got some seriously rotten chicken stinkin' up the place, and it's going to take some time to get rid of the smell. We're dealing with chicken that's been rotting for 100+ years. It's going to take awhile to clean that mess up. But we have to start with TOSSING OUT THE CHICKEN!

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Thu, 7 May 2009 21:27:31 +0000

Part III Yes, I love the idea of dragging the Republican party back to its original principles at the grass roots level. But I'm afraid that will be next to impossible. We're already seeing this happening. The Republicans are running scared, but look at the direction they're running! They have completely and totally missed the increasingly loud messages their base has been sending them through the 2006 and 2008 elections and the Tea Parties. They're scambling to crisp up that Original Receipe batter, blindly refusing to notice the stench of the rotting chicken, even though we've been telling them "Forget the batter, YOUR CHICKEN STINKS!" So sometimes, you have to throw the chicken out. Period. Send it to the rendering plant, and go investigate that fishy Big Mac. Now maybe some will find the idea of raw fish on their burger enticing. Maybe we can convince McDonald's to dump the sushi topping. But maybe not. Might have to go over to Burger King where the hamburger's fresh, but might not have to deal with that fish thing. See, because of this fear of shaking up the status quo, we screwed up in 2006. We were trying to send the Republicans the message that they weren't acting on our principles and values. Hell, if we voted Democrat, at least we would know what we were getting--rotten chicken. But the Republicans interpreted that to mean we WANTED rotten chicken. NO! We wanted to slap y'all in the face! And here we are again. We tried the same punishment tactic in 2008. Well, some. Some just shrugged our shoulders and didn't bother to vote. But not voting NEVER sends ANY message. So what have we got? Republicans dismissing the Tea Parties and going on "listening tours", but still utterly deaf to the message we're so desperately trying to send them. Continued . . .

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Thu, 7 May 2009 21:26:28 +0000

Part II While I agree third party candidates in the last 20 years have done more harm than good, I think it may have more to do with fear of shaking up the status quo than anything else. Hear me out. How many of us in the last 3, 4, maybe even 5 presidential elections have done the "hold your nose and vote" thing so as not to feel we were "throwing our vote away"? Then we lament when the next election comes around that once again we were down to two options--hold our nose and vote, or increasingly, not vote at all (which is where I found myself almost succumbing in 2008). Don't you think the entrenched politicians know that? Where is their incentive to actually listen? You don't think McCain's people weren't laughing to themselves thinking, "Yeah? Where are they gonna go? It's our guy or nothing!"? There is no viable third party because it is US, the voters, who refuse to stand up for our principles and say, "ENOUGH! I'm going to vote my conscience, my values, and my principles! Period!" Because not enough of us do that election after election, we have found ourselves down to a situation where our only options are candidates for one of the two established parties which are essentially one and the same, or not voting at all because what's left is the fringe. To take Glenn's analogy a little further--when we vote for a Republican by holding our noses, we're merely voting for Original Recipe instead of Extra Crispy. It's still fried chicken! And guess what? Beneath the batter, Original or Extra Crispy, the chicken's gone bad! Now over here, we've got a hamburger. But it's got sushi on it. We might really like the idea of that fresh hamburger, and we're really, really hungry. But that sushi topping is just plain weird. And the idea of eating raw fish on our Big Mac turns our stomachs so much, most of us will chance food poising and go for the rotten chicken with the Original Recipe coating because we have to eat SOMETHING. Continued . . .

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Thu, 7 May 2009 21:25:24 +0000

AN ARGUMENT FOR A THIRD PARTY IN MANY PARTS (these character limits drive me nuts!) Part I There is a legitimate argument against forming and or/supporting a third party, and that being the third party candidate, with no serious chance of success in our current system, does more harm than good by siphoning off votes better given to a candidate of an existing party--Democratic or Republican. An example being Ross Perot pulling votes away from George H.W. Bush. Ralph Nader's run as an Independent in 2000/2004 was also blamed for doing the same thing to the Democratic party. However, I believe there is just as strong an argument FOR a third party, and the likelihood of such a candidate--now more than ever--does not necessarily mean defeat. Please remember, the Republican Party itself came into existence as a third party, with Abraham Lincoln being the first Republican president. The Republican Party did not materialize out of thin are with Lincoln's candidacy. It came out of localized movements of Whigs dissatisfied with their own party--not unlike conservative Republicans today. Disenchanted Whigs ran for local offices as "Republicans" long before Lincoln emerged. As more and more people left the Whig party in favor of the Republican party, the Whigs basically collapsed, thus setting the stage for a "third party" candidate to take the national office. Continued . . .

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Thu, 7 May 2009 20:52:47 +0000

Yes, I would accept that Obama was legally elected. As I said in another post some weeks back, I've been on the fence about this issue. I'm not completely convinced it's not a conspiracy theory thing. But on the other hand, there are things about it that bother me, specifically why is he spending so much money and so much legal effort to keep these records hidden? I mean, if I lose my driver's license and have to get a replacement, the NM MVD requires my birth certificate. Okay, no problem. I don't submit something else instead, hire attorneys, go after the MVD for requesting it and sanction them, then direct them to a couple of non-official websites who've taken my word against a legal document that I'm who I say I am. I grumble, I go home and dig through storage boxes. If worse comes to worse, I write to the NM Dept of Records and Vital Statistics, pay the fee, and get another one. But I return to the MVD with a State of New Mexico Birth Certificate. Pain the butt, but there it is. So the more hoops he jumps through and the longer it drags on . . . ya know, I gotta wonder. But the thing that bothers me the most is what all this mess has revealed about our elected officials. When Congressmen seem to think it's okay to respond with, "Well, the people voted for him, so that's all the legal proof needed", then yeah, I've got a real problem. And I know Mr. Beck has not wanted to get into the whole birth certificate thing, and probably rightly so, considering how what he says is taken out of context. But I'd wished he'd at least addressed THAT part of Constitutional ignorance of the people we vote in to uphold that Constitution.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Wed, 6 May 2009 19:52:13 +0000

Congratulations to the Oklahoma State Legislature for standing up for States' Rights! Okay, so it may be nothing more than symbolic, but it gives me hope that there ARE public servants out there who recognize the evil of the last 100 years called Progressivism and are taking steps to fight it. Now I know I can head for OK or TX when my home state of NM goes swirling down the toilet bowl--oh, wait! Bad analogy, since the Californians who've invaded and occupied us aren't really into that "flushing" thing (wastes water, ya know).

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Vent through May 13th

Tue, 5 May 2009 22:27:53 +0000

I saw this on The Factor and it didn't surprise me at all, as this has been my view of the feminist movement for some time. Look at how they treated Sara Palin. The most vicious attacks against her were from the so-called "feminists". I was raised by a devout feminist to believe the movement was supposed to be about fighting for equal rights (not special rights) EVERYWHERE, and celebrating and supporting strong women regardless of their ideological bent. But see, the "feminist" movement is all about carrying the Leftist agenda, period.

Glenn Beck - The 912 Project : Books

Tue, 5 May 2009 21:22:55 +0000

Thomas Reeves "A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy" is very good, contrasting the "Camalot" image against the real man.