I reside in corn and soybean country but prefer timber areas more.
Do what ever you can to encourage people to not pay the media. Do not buy your local newspaper or many countless liberal magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc.). Drop cable television subscriptions and get your television over the air (digital TVs only need an antenna and older TVs need free converter boxes in additional to an antenna). Get DSL if you don't get a discount by canceling your cable television subscription.
Stop supporting the liberals that continue to lambaste common sense in every way.
Some thoughts:
1 conservative = 5 RINOs. You can expect 4 out of 5 RINOs to bolt to the liberal side on any vote.
What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?
The LA Times, as of 10/6/08, was told by Sam Zell it would have to layoff 75 editorial staff members. How can one newspaper have “75 editorial positions” to cut? Dang, how many people do you need to spew liberal cr@p on a page or two, when you buy columns from outside your organization?
Concerning Larry Sinclair: It’s strange when you can be thankful for having a pervert on your side.
Obama is hiring every crook and bumbler he can to assure consistency in his message.
When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.
I love it every time a criminal dies at the hands of a victim.
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Hit tip to Perfect_Rovian_Storm: "The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed."
From "conservatism_is_compassion" on Aug 23, 2009:
Unless that imbalance is reduced, all but a few quality papers will disappear. For its part, Congress needs to move quickly to grant the newspaper industry at least a temporary exemption from antitrust and price-fixing laws so that publishers and proprietors can, in essence, collude for survival.
The problem is precisely that they already do collude. They are members of the Associated Press and other wire services, and that membership is what provides the motive and the cover for them all to agree never to criticize each other on the basis of "objectivity." That is what produces the monochromatic leftist perspective in all of journalism. And that means that, far from representing we-the-people, our "free" press represents itself and those who politically go along and get along with the leftist perspective of journalism.It is only natural that journalists would promote themselves, and only natural that they would take the easy way of doing so - which is to criticize their betters. Anyone who takes responsibility to get things done - businessmen, policemen, the military - is their natural target. And anyone who joins in the criticism and second guessing of the responsible people - unions, other journalists, plaintiff lawyers, and socialist politicians - is the journalist's natural ally.
In claiming to be "the press," journalists effectively claim to be our representatives to the government. But that of course is a bitter joke - they represent themselves first, their natural allies second, and "conservatives" such as you and me not at all. When with Al Gore they pledge to "fight for you," they are pledging to fight against you and me. Their fight is against the only memory which the government is actually supposed to have toward its citizens - the memory of the credit which each of us individually is due which resides in our ownership of things we have worked and saved for. That memory is what the government exists to nurture and protect, and that memory is what the socialist is committed to erasing. Leaving the old without the ability to call in the fruits of his/her savings and investments against the infirmities of age, and leaving the young without any incentive to try to do likewise. And this the government accomplishes by the mere "virtuous" act of giving to others what we ourselves had to work and save for, leaving the young without incentive to serve the old in exchange for the fruits of the savings of the mature.
It is a recipe for the impoverishment of society, and it has worked every place it has been tried.
There is no "gray area" on issues. See things from both sides, but choose the right side.
For future use:
How a large number of FReepers test another’s conservatism (borrowed from a T Minus Four post):
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, “Stop! Don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said.
I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!” He said, “Like what?” I said, “Well, are you religious or atheist?” He said, “Religious.” I said, “Me too!
Are you Christian or Buddhist?” He said, “Christian.” I said, “Me too!
Are you Catholic or Protestant?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, Me too!
Are you Episcopalian or Baptist? He said, “Baptist!” I said, “Wow! Me too!
Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? He said, Baptist Church of God!” I said, “Me too!
Are your Original Baptist Church of God or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?” He said, “Reformed Baptist Church of God!” I said, “Me too!
Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?” He said, “Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915!”
I said, “Die, heretic scum!” and pushed him off.