Madison and Lincoln: Lessons from the past.

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One of my favorite founding fathers has to be James Madison. If George Washington was the heart, Thomas Jefferson was the soul, and Ben Franklin was the conscience of the American revolution. Then James Madison was the brains of the Founding Fathers. He was the author of the U.S. Constitution. He wrote over 1/3 of the Federalist Papers.

Is there anywhere in politics for moderates?

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I was a member of the 9.12 project. I quit. It wasn’t what I was looking for. I was a member of RedState. I quit. It wasn’t what I was looking for. I would never join MoveOn.org. Any group that would take out a full page ad playing games with Gen. Petreus as Gen. “Betray-us” is repulsive to me (which they’ve since taken down from their website). I’m like Moses wandering in the desert looking for the Promise Land. The problem with politics on the internet is it’s just group think. The Right Wing site say,” Blah,Blah,Blah Democrats are bad!” The Liberal site say’s,”Blah,Blah,blah, Republicans are bad!”

Meanwhile their audience just nods there head and logs on looking to have their views spoon-fed to them that what you feel is OK. Everyone here feels the same way.  Where is the political discourse? Where is the time honored American tradition of compromise? It’s no where! No where on the most influential medium of our time. The internet.

I’m sure that members of the conservative/right will have no problem with their newsletters and forums convincing 100% of Republican voters to vote Republican. I’m also sure that 100% percent of liberal/progressive newsletters and forums will convince 100% of Democratic voters to vote Democratic. Unfortunately elections are won and lost by independents. These groups vote with their brains. The others vote with their hearts.

This is a comment I received from a group I belong to-

“even when I read a post from a moderate I have to blink and shake my head. It is like that song, “You have to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything”. Even Charlie Brown was teased because he could not make a sound decision on anything.”

There are SO many things wrong with that comment. Number 1. You can’t take advice from song lyrics.  That’s like me saying whenever I read a post from a liberal/conservative it’s like that song, “She’s buying a Stairway to Heaven”. And to take advice or see any symbolism amongst Charlie Brown cartoons is unreal. I mean Snoopy dressed up as the Red Baron..does that mean he supported the Germans in World War 1?

It’s bizarre. I can’t get political information from the news. All the channels are just corporate mouthpieces. Pushing their views so that they can get bigger ratings and sell higher priced commercial time. That’s not a free media. People like to rip Fox News but in an Alice in Wonderland type world they do somewhat give liberals at least a chance to appear and get shouted down on their shows. The craziest thing I ever seen on TV was when a guest on Sean Hannity said that,’ Sarah Palin is a “more articulate” speaker than Barack Obama.” Juan Williams head almost exploded right on the set. (Video at the 2:30 mark and on)

The other night MSNBC had an interview of Harry Reid’s opponent in Nevada Sharon Angle. The interview (with video) consisted of a man sitting 2 feet away from Ms.Angle and yelling at her. Then we saw the one reporter chase Sharon Angle down a parking lot yelling at her trying to get answers. Where were these reporters when Barack Obama was running for President?  When a GOP strategist starts a group called “Republicans for Reid” what does that tell you? Harry Reid has been linked with Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama’s dangerous “liberal, marxist , communistic philosophies”, and now Republicans in Nevada are going to support him? HIM!

This is another sign of how Jesse Ventura former governor of Minnesota once said, “that it’s all fake”. The rivalry of the Republicans and Democrats are just as real as the rivalry of professional wrestlers. If you read any Socialist or Marxist material you would know that they don’t believe that Obama is a “socialist or Marxist“. Obviously with all the money that Obama raised from Wall Street and the oil companies they didn’t think he was a dangerous Marxist.

Where were all the “patriots” screaming against the violation of the Constitution when George Bush passed the Patriot Act? Where is the ACLU screaming bloody murder as Obama and Lieberman move closer and closer to government control of the internet?

“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley on State of the Union Sunday.

This is just more fear mongering by the chief war monger of the Senate Joe Lieberman. A man who lost his parties nomination because of his pro-war stance and was able to circumvent democracy by running as an independent. Yeah Joe we should be more like China. Let’s start by cutting off the 4 billion dollars in foreign aid that we send to Israel. I’m sure China doesn’t send them 4 billion. I agree we need to be more like China.

I can go on and on about the double standards and hypocrisy in this country. A government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. A government of war mongers and speakers of fear. And it doesn’t matter who gets elected. Democrats, Republicans. It doesn’t matter. We sink everyday deeper in debt. More Americans keep dying fighting the Taliban. Not Al-Qaeda. The Taliban. And everyone who cares. Just keeps sprouting off the party line. I guess that is politics 2010. It’s a disgrace. My question to you is there any room in America for moderates? What about on the internet?

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U.S., Israel, and Allies prepare for strike on Iran!

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The internet is a buzz with rumors and news articles of a massive armada of aircraft carriers and ships heading for the Persian Gulf. On June 19 Infowars.com posted an article that an aircraft carrier and other American and Israeli ships passed through the Suez Canal on there way to the Persian Gulf.

“According to eyewitnesses, the U.S. battleships were the largest to have crossed the Canal in many years,” reported the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday.

The biggest news maybe that Israeli war planes have been spotted on a Saudi Arabian air base according to Israel National News.com Also United States troops are rumored to be on the northwest border of Iran stationed in the country of Azerbaijan.

If this is true which it mostly likely appears Iran is maybe weeks away from a world of hurt. The strategy would most likely entail a “Pearl Harbor“-style attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. But to neutralize the Iranian military, targets could include air bases and military facilities including the Iranians special forces.

American media have not verified or spoke about any of these movements by the military. And if your wondering if it’s too strange to have Israeli war planes on Saudi Arabian bases. It’s not. The Saudi’s are deathly afraid of the Iranians developing nuclear weapons. Many people will wonder if America is too weak to open another front on the War on Terror. Maybe that is what America is counting. Feigning weakness when they are strong. Will Americans set foot on Iranian soil in a full scale invasion? I highly doubt that. They must have troops near to the battlefield to re-act to any Iranian counter attack or to rescue any pilots shot down during the attack.No matter how you slice it. The Iranians like Saddam Hussein are playing games with people who don’t mess around. The message from the Iraq war is clear to everyone. Co-operate with America and do as we say or we will come to your country, kill your children (Uday and Qusay), then we will put you in a noose. It may be too late now for Ahmadinejad to get himself out of this predicament.

The war games have been played. The strategy has been refined. Now the troops are being aligned. The countdown to the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran has begun.

Video George Carlin “We like War” – Not safe for work

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BP unveils new slogans!

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I hope everybody enjoyed their weekend. I know I did. 56 Rebels made the front page of WordPress.com and I have to admit our ego’s are now more inflated than Heidi Montag‘s chin. I also want to welcome all the new subscribers. So let the games begin with headlines from around the web!

As my headline promised these are “unofficial” slogans that were thrown around in a BP brainstorming session. Which is obviously an oxymoron. That’s a sentence I never thought I would write. BP brainstorming session. That’s like typing Hitler is good with kids.

Anyhow here we go.

Number 1- “BP. Building pipelines without pipes since 2010″.

Number 2- “BP. No need for self-service. We bring the oil to YOU!”

Number 3-”BP oil. Now with seafood flavoring!”

Irony or hypocrisy?

The Gaza blockade continues. On the forbidden list are items such as weapons (which makes sense) and concrete (which can be used to make bunkers and those pesky houses). If that’s the case then Israel should also add Mentos and Coca-Cola which obviously can also be used to make rockets.

JoranVan Der Sloot was arrested in Peru for another case of a murdered young woman.  Did you know that Joran Van Der Sloot in Dutch means “match.com“?

Van Der Sloot and his two victims.

Personally I have never rooted so hard for Peruvian prisoners as I have this past week.  Hopefully they turn his anal cavity into a “hollow-way”.

Hamid Karzai recently held a Jirga in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's version of Independence Hall

There hasn’t been this many Taliban in one location since the Beat Your Wifestock of 1997.

White House Press Corps Senior Member Helen Thomas

Ok, Grandma...I'll put the cookie back. You're scaring me.

recently was captured on video telling the Jews to go back to their home. When asked where their home was she replied,“Poland, and Germany” . I don’t know if she realizes Poland and Germany is not so much their “home”, as it is the scene of the crime.

A recent rash of suicides at a Chinese factory are alarming to consumers. Apple and the Chinese government refer to the deaths as “early retirements”. There is some dispute as to if these were employees of the factory or people who had to deal with iTunes customer service.

When asked to comment on the suicides iPad customers said,"What's a Chinese factory worker?"

Drew Petersen and an accomplice apparently buried his wife in a steel drum on private hunting grounds. 56Rebels was able to confirm the search is underway and that Joran Van der Sloot was not the un-named accomplice.

Rafael Nadal won his 5th French Open title in the sport of tennis. Or as it is known to men with testosterone, as “big-boy ping-pong”.

7 Green Bay packers were questioned by police for alleged sex assaults at a resort. Or as they told police they were only recovering a fumble.

Talk about an offensive line!!!

Bernie Madoff hopes to surpass Satan as most evil entity in hell when he dies.
Madoff makes attempt to bypass 8th level of hell and go directly to the 9th upon his death by insulting bilked clients.

Bernie apparently told Satan,"Do you know who your f**king with?"

And finally 56Rebels Classiest Woman of the Year Award goes to Sandra Bullock who won Entertainer of the Year award as voted by the U.S. Military at the Guys Choice Awards. Which is kind of like Nickelodeon’s Kid Choice Awards but for people who like strippers and “getting slimed” usually refers to a divorce settlement.

“Did I win this for being Entertainer of the Year or did I win this because of the spectacular IED explosion that became my personal life? It’s okay because I would do it over and over and over again if it was to entertain our troops.” – Sandra Bullock

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Bin Laden’s Plan is working.

It wasn’t easy typing the title of my latest post. It was actually painful. It may appear to the layman that Osama bin Laden is hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan and that his plan’s were ruined with the American liberation of Afghanistan. I’m sorry to report though that his plan is not to blow up America. But to bankrupt it.

“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,” bin Laden said in a speeched transcribed by Al-Jazeera in November of 2004.  For Bin Laden’s main goal is to bankrupt America and by bankrupting America he will in essence cut off the main financial backer and supporter of Israel. On average Israel receives about $3billion U.S. every year.

As America runs up huge deficits and continues to add to the National Debt it becomes very apparent that the day will come to pay the piper. When that day does come there will be huge cuts to America’s domestic and foreign budget.  Make no mistake that the spending and failure to secure America’s economic future will be the biggest mistake in the history of the world. How can the richest country ever find itself in such a predictament? Easy. Guns and butter. Throughout history we have seen that countries must choose between “guns” which is the military and “butter” which is the domestic policy. By fighting 2 wars in the past decade and failing to properly fund them with domestic cuts or a tax increases the powers that be have borrowed immense amounts of capital to fight Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Throughout history every empire has seen their decline when the debt they owe starts to eat up immense percentages of their GDP. America is not there yet. But it will be.

America continues to spend money on a much bigger scale on security after 9/11, add in some tax cuts, 2 wars, and possibly a Carbon tax. And then add in universal health care and you can see where America is heading financially. Meanwhile in a cave sits Bin Laden watching and waiting. Waiting for the day when America trims it’s aid to Israel. Then cuts it’s aid to Israel. Then completely stops all massive foreign aid payments to Israel and other countries in need. Eventually all that foreign aid will have to go towards debt payments. Once that occurs then the message will be loud and clear. America cannot support itself let alone foreign allies. The PaxAmericana (American Peace) is over. Then the jackals who have been held at bay will come out of the woodwork. All America’s old friends will be on their own. Especially Israel. And that’s just the way Bin Laden planned it.

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