No. 14 – July 4, 2009

TAKE MY NAME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST

Recently, I have gotten a number of these very curt requests – sometimes from friends that I have known for a number years. There was no courteous greeting, no “long time no see” salutation – just the above phrase. Nothing else.

For a few weeks this puzzled me.  Then recently, while I was having a few beers with a couple of friends, one guy opined, “You know what pisses me off about you, Klepinger.  You think you are so smart.  You always act like you are some predictor of the future.  You think you know it all.”

I sat back and studied my friend for a few seconds trying to figure out where he was coming from.

But before  I could say anything he continued, “You and your damn predictions.  You said last year that GM was going to go bankrupt.  Then you told everybody that Obama was just an empty suit – and when the chips were down he’d fold like a house of cards.  Then he backs out on Iran.  And your garbage about Goldman Sachs and Obama’s ties with radicals.  You make me sick.”

Then he laughed and bought me another beer.

I have known Paul for about three years, nice kid, but as liberal as they come – until recently.  He got laid off – and he was a city worker.  Now facing the prospect of looking for another job, he is getting more and more demoralized as the days go by.

Before Obama got elected, he was a staunch supporter of the man.  He would not even consider that maybe the guy was just another politician.  ”He is going to change America for the better,” Paul would tell me.

When Obama was finally elected president, I paid him the 100 bucks that I bet him and he rubbed it in with unmerciful delight.  He is not laughing anymore.

Yet, he and I are still friends.  Maybe he has learned his lesson.  But a lot of liberal readers of The American Telegraph apparently have not.

I told Paul about my sudden decline in readership (about 12 so far this month) and he just laughed. “People get tired of having you be right all the time,” he told me.  ”If I didn’t like you so much, I’d quit reading your damn newsletter, too.”

“So what is with so many liberals quitting The American Telegraph?” I asked.

He looked at me and grinned somewhat sheepishly.  ”Liberals don’t like to be proven wrong – especially by a conservative like you.”

“What do you mean ‘like me?’” I wanted to know.

“Come on, Larry.  You know what I mean.”

“No, I don’t.”

“Well, you always come up with all sorts of crazy things, make all kinds of off-the-wall of predictions that usually come true – and it pisses everybody off.”

“So, why aren’t you mad, too?”

“Well, if you were wrong then I would be ticked.  You see, that is the difference between a sensible liberal, like me, and fake liberals that don’t know their ass from a hot rock.”

“I still don’t get it.”

“OK,” said Paul, straightening up in his chair.  ”Here is how it works.  If a real, true liberal is proven wrong, he will accept it with grace and move on.  But these neo-liberals are just as nutty as the neo-conservative, evangelical bunch of freakos.”

I had to admit, he had a point.  In fact, he had hit on something that I hadn’t realized until he mentioned it. The far left and the far right were really the problem with both of our parties.  I guess that is why we are still friends.  We are not really all THAT far apart.

“The ultra-left and the ultra-right are what is tearing this country apart,” said Paul.  ”But I think it is starting to wear thin.”

“How so?” I wanted to know.

“You were right when you said Obama blew it in Iran.  I disagreed with you, but you were right just the same. Now everybody is saying so on TV – both liberals and conservatives.  So I made a mistake on that one. No big deal to me.  But to the nutty left and the blitzo right, being proven wrong is too much for them to handle. They are just jealous that you called it correctly – and you keep on doing it.  It just irks them to be so wrong – especially when they were so convinced that they were right.”

I tipped my beer mug, then added, “Good for you.”

Paul had, in five minutes, pointed out what had been bothering me for about a week.

Stupid jealousy, that dysfunctional malaise that always screws up the paranoid human mind was at work on some of the readers of The American Telegraph.

I had met a few people who fit his description in the GOP during my campaign, but didn’t pay it much mind.  Now it was surfacing from the so-called “liberal” readers of The American Telegraph as well.

And Paul was right.  And that is the point of this conversation.

What America is starting to wake up to is the need for a NEW party.

Notice, I said a NEW party – not a THIRD party.  There are many good liberals and many good conservatives that are not at all happy with what is going on in America.

I don’t need to go into the massive amounts of money being spent – and misspent – on political pork-barrel jobs that mean absolute nothing to rebuilding the infrastructure of America.

It is simply, Politics as Usual.  Nothing has changed – and that is what is really making the “liberals” mad.  And they are getting more and more frustrated by the day.

So here is another prediction – and I will stick my neck way out on this one.

I predict that the CAP and TRADE BILL will go down to defeat in the Senate.

I know that is a big one to swallow, but I am getting a feeling that we are witnessing a national “wake-up” call coming on.

If I am wrong, then I am wrong.  But I don’t think so.

Ironically, when I told Paul that I was going to make this prediction in my next newsletter he just grinned and nodded his head.

Maybe we both will be right on this one.

“And what about a NEW Political Party?”  I asked Paul.

“I think it’s your turn to buy the next round,” came the sardonic reply.

 

WHAT THE . . . .

Is anybody aware that We the People of the Untied States of America are supporting the International Monetary Fund with our tax dollars?

President Obama just authorized the payment of $108 BILLION to be sent to that international organization, under the guise of an “Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill.”

But that is not all.  He also included, in the same bill, $1 BILLION to help reinforce global finances outside of America.

Then there is $310 million to Egypt, $660 million to Gaza, $550 million to Israel, $300 million to Jordan and over $400 million to Mexico.

Did you readers just hear what I said?

And this is all taking place in what many are calling the worse recession since the Great Depression.

Why are we not taking care of our own people here at home – FIRST?

What the . . . .

 

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE – AND NONE OF IT IS MINE – SENATE BILL 787

Many thanks to a very good friend, and conciencious reader of The American Telegraph, for sending me the following information.

But first, I must apologize again.  I predicted this to a number of farmers that I spoke to during my campaign – who thought I was, “Off my rocker if you think that would ever happen in America.”

Well, it is happening.

As I write, our “representatives” are conspiring to usurp our private riparian rights, both on ground and underground, in a little known bill that will steal all legal rights that ANYONE has to water in/on/under their property.

According to my friend it is now in “committee.”

Senate Bill 787 in essence gives all riparian rights to the US Government.

The Bill intends to strike the phrase, “navigable waters of the United States,” each place it appears and inserting, “waters of the United States.”

To do this, Senate Bill 787 will redefine water as follows:

“Waters of the United States means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.”

The KEY phrase here is: “Or activities affecting these waters.”

Quite frankly, this scares the living daylights out of me.  There is an old saying that,”He who controls the water, controls the LAND.”

The first site is by my friend, Lisa Collins, a very active real estate agent in Redding who has been involved in exposing this illegal exercise of eminent domain, and is extremely knowledgeable on the topic.

The second site is a video pertaining to the same subject.

If you are as mad about this as I am then I suggest you cut and paste the following links, see what they are talking about, then write all your Congressional Representatives and Senators whose names were on the list of the Special Edition that you received yesterday.

Let them know that you will not stand for the United States Government arbitrarily stealing your private water rights in anyway whatsoever.

http://reddingriverqueen.com/2009/06/18/clean-water-restoration-act-or-federal-land-grab/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqHaUadsapc

As usual, it is up to We the People.

Here is wishing all of you a very Happy Fourth of July.

Fly your flag proudly – and remember, we are still at war.  More American soldiers will die today in the defense of freedom.  Please don’t let them die in vain.

Exercise your right to Free Speech.

 

Best wishes,

Lawrence Klepinger