The photographs in this video are beautiful and the music by Doug Smith is great to go along with them.
It is nice to share something nice once in a while amidst the political havoc of the day.
We who live in America are indeed blessed with some gorgeous scenery.
I am ever grateful for those who get out into the wild to photograph it for us.

Enjoy!
It is stunning to watch in full screen by clicking the little 4 arrow box at the bottom right.
To get back to normal screen simply hit the ESC key on your keyboard upper left.

Another stunning video called The Beauty of Pollination

Is Ron Paul actually unconventional?
Apparently that is determined by who is perceiving unconventional.

Clearly his belief system is unconventional to a majority in our UNTHINKING government officials. How unconventional is it to the “average thinking citizen” on the street?

I suppose that also depends on whether that average thinking citizen listened to the skewed hypocritical media or what Paul has to say himself.

On one of the forums I attend every time Ron Paul is mentioned a virtual word skirmish erupts. Paul is a lightning rod that can split a cohesive conservative group into a warring faction in a nano second.

WHY?

My curiosity suddenly got the best of me.
Like many of those ignorant on Ron Paul I paid attention to the negative sound bites spewed by Fox, MSNBC, CNN etc.

Silly me … I know better or at least thought I did.

In my opinion the best we can do is hit youtube and listen to the man himself.

How amazing it is that we can finally get to the bottom of what someone is saying and meaning (providing you have a quasi ethical interviewer).

I still do not know if Ron Paul is MY GUY.
It is still to soon in the game to decide.

That being said he is NO WORSE than any of those who have thrown their hat in the ring so far.

He is clearly more closely aligned to the average citizen on the street than many of those in the lead.

It is therefore no surprise his common sense mindset is closing the gap with the public who is drop dead tired of the “Same Old Shit”.

The rumbling on the “internet street” is fairly simple.
Wake up American Political Establishment … a 3rd party is likely to kick your butts into 2016 or NEVER AGAIN!

Ignore the voting public at your own peril.

The “tea party” is a “MINDSET” NOT A PARTY!

That MINDSET = MIDDLE CLASS PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CITIZENS!

I opened this blog back on November 18, 2008.
It was clear back then how serious the problem was here in the USA. I am not the only one who recognized the problem. There were many of us scattered around the states.

I decided to do what I could perhaps to simply vent my own frustrations.

My background working fields are primarily behavior, psychology which worked into political activism around 1995. With the internet I had learned (quite by accident) what a valuable educational weapon it could be.

It took me about 8 years slugging around in the muck and mire of liberal/progressive politics (I was a Republican) to realize how truly dense and corrupt a good majority of these individuals are. As long as your goal was the same as theirs they were your avid supporter. When you deviated from their want or need like pit vipers they strike to kill.

Many of them could not think their way out of a paper bag and could not solve a problem without someone laying out step by step details. They were indeed the epitome of what the Russians called “useful idiots”. As long as they had someone thinking for them they could in “mob force” follow instructions and get the task done.

Those years made me understand exactly what makes the liberal/progressive tick today.

So the antics we see from that side of our society is no surprise.

The Saul Alinsky method was something I innately understood from moving my own group of people to get a job done (before I ever knew about him).

With the election of Barack Obama I decided to wade back into the “political sewage” and make a stand. I knew there were others just like me who understood we could not do it alone.

But at least we could collect with the same thoughts with hope of protecting our country.

Then in the early part of 2009 along came Glenn Beck who started his “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” campaign. That began to unite the UNIQUE middle ground ECLECTIC THINKERS and the TEA PARTY started to spring up.

Here is the the beginning of that first blog post.

We the people have allowed our country to be taken over by a “good ole boy” system.
The majority of “we the people” are middle of the road individuals.
We are not republicans, democrats or even independents.
We ARE eclectic!
We take a little bit from here and a little bit from there and we become UNIQUE.
We are lumped into a few groups because there are not that many choices.
When we speak we speak with our vote.
Much of the time we do not speak at all.
We sit silent (the true silent majority) and simply allow the powers that be to run things amok.
We feel helpless to do anything about it.

That is the position we find ourselves in today.
Helpless?
ARE WE REALLY!

The rest of the post here …

These are short videos from around the country.

This is a sample of the “UNIQUE ECLECTIC THINKER” who has a “TEA PARTY MINDSET“.
he or she may not be a member of the “tea party”.

They are however THE MAJORITY RULING PARTY!

They are MIDDLE CLASS PATRIOTIC AMERICANS!

I have heard the dense left forever maligning the TEA PARTY.

The ignorant clueless Maxine Waters just yesterday.
Note the woman who wants to flip the script to “What country can do for me and the people in this room.”
(I will spare you my rant over that comment at this time.)

These individuals fall into the category that I call “to stupid to recognize stupid“.

What they fail to comprehend is the TEA PARTY … is simply a “mindset“.
The TEA PARTY is made up of all colors and all political parties.

That terrifies to the core EVERY INTELLIGENT liberal/progressive.

THESE ARE THE UNIQUE individual voters who are saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

They have common sense and can more than likely balance a checkbook. They can recognize a lie when they hear it and are tired of both parties (Republicans & Democrats).

So every time we see one of these “gnat brained media fools” trying to malign the TEA PARTY … they are stupidly maligning the entire MIDDLE CLASS MAJORITY.

Take heart Americans when you hear the left going into a foolish tirade KNOW THEY ARE ON THE ROPES.

We can no longer trust ANY OF THE MAJOR NETWORKS to tell us who is winning anything.

They do not have boots on the ground and if they did they would not listen anyway.

China sold off about 18% of its US financial instruments, specifically their short term one year or less T-Bills. China still owns almost a trillion in US debt but it is clear that China is divesting in its holding of the dollar.

Combined with the highly leveraged and financially precarious position of the Federal Reserve we can expect that the economy to continue to deflate.

Why only short term debt? Easy to roll out of and get rid of.

I imagine by May of 2012 the Keynesian’s will understand that the fake growth is over. Maybe then they will have noticed the guy in the White House has spent 48% of his time away from the office partying it up with the rich and famous while the empire crumbled.

The following appear in CNSNEWS.Com

China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills

(CNSNews.com) – China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury.

Treasury bills are securities that mature in one year or less that are sold by the U.S. Treasury Department to fund the nation’s debt.

President Obama spends 48%of his days on vacation and flies around first class, President Hu of China flies commercial. Which one do you think takes his job seriously?

Until October, the Chinese were generally making up for their decreasing holdings in Treasury bills by increasing their holdings of longer-term U.S. Treasury securities. Thus, until October, China’s overall holdings of U.S. debt continued to increase.

Since October, however, China has also started to divest from longer-term U.S. Treasury securities. Thus, as reported by the Treasury Department, China’s ownership of the U.S. national debt has decreased in each of the last five months on record, including November, December, January, February and March.

Rest of blog here.

Personally I am appalled at the coverup by the media of the black support for the “tea party”. It is high time this conspiracy to keep blacks downtrodden be stopped. I am even more appalled at the black leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who perpetuate this condition.

What most Americans both black and white do not know is FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE USA … BLACKS have been REAL PATRIOTS, SCHOLORS & FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

Why is this not widely known by EVERY man, woman, and child educated in the USA?

“CNN traveled with us on Tea Party Express, to approximately 40 rallies nationwide. I, a black conservative, opened each rally singing my “American Tea Party Anthem”. And yet, not I nor any of the other blacks on our team were seen in the CNN documentary; thus, causing viewers to conclude the Tea Party Movement is a “white thing”.

For the most part, the liberal media ignores black conservatives. And when they do interview one of us, it is from a, “Can you believe this stupid Uncle Tom,” point of view.”

Read the rest of the story …

More words by Lloyde Marcus
The official Lloyd Marcus website
1 MILLION People to Defeat Barack Obama

This is a terrible tragedy.
Japan has come to the aid of America in the past now they need our help.

If you care to offer donations my suggestion would be the Red Cross Relief Effort

Japan earthquake: How airline reward program members can donate to relief effort.
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-japan-relief-20110314,1,7294084.story

I have one question to ask Nancy (San Fran Nan) Pelosi … how does it feel to have your ass royally kicked by AstroTurf? Pelosi has been booted from third in the line of presidential succession.

Now I have to wonder if the rest of the people in DC are going to be so willing to throw themselves on the OBAMA sword because THEY THINK the AstroTurf is to stupid, raciest, bigoted or without teeth?

So it’s step up to the plate boys and girls … who is willing to cross what the majority wants and blatantly ignore, call them names and vote against what they deem fit?

Obama’s next move.
Would any of you be shocked if ALL OF A SUDDEN he (Obama) is courting the bipartisan vote now that most assuredly HIS RAMMING DOWN THE THROATS days are over?

Nice however he was with it enough to notice/admit his party took a shellacking.
Apparently it has come as a shock that his charm has worn thin.

I have said all along when his political end comes it will be at the hands of his own party. Not sure he and his ilk understand the “survival factor” yet.
The Political “survival factor”?
Save YOUR OWN ASS!

The Left’s Voter Fraud Whitewash
By Michelle Malkin October 27, 2010 6:55 AM

Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. It’s the Democrats’ coping mechanism for midterm election voter fraud. Faced with multiple reports of early voting irregularities and election shenanigans across the country, left-wing groups are playing dumb, deaf and blind. Voter fraud? What voter fraud?

More cunningly, these organizations are seeking to marginalize complaints about election integrity by casting citizen watchdog efforts as racist “scare tactics.” Echoing President Obama’s message to the Democratic faithful on the campaign trail, they are accusing political opponents of suppressing the votes of minorities and the poor. On Tuesday, The New York Times quoted a liberal voting rights advocate, Wendy R. Weiser, wringing her hands over individual Americans taking clean elections seriously:

“Private efforts to police the polls create a real risk of vote suppression, regardless of their intent,” said Weiser, director of the Voting Rights and Elections Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “People need to know that any form of discrimination, intimidation or challenge to voters without adequate basis is illegal or improper.”

Weiser also turned up in a very similar story minimizing voter fraud and voter registration fraud that was published Tuesday by government-sponsored National Public Radio. The NPR report asserted that “most election experts” believe that fears of voter fraud are “overblown.” No word on how many “experts” they surveyed (besides Weiser) to report such a conclusion, which flies in the face of dozens of felony voter fraud convictions across the country over the past two election cycles — and that’s just among ACORN-tied cases.

Overblown?

In North Carolina and Nevada, early voters have encountered ballot machine glitches that favor Democrats in hotly contested races.

In Troy, N.Y., and Daytona Beach, Fla., police investigations into suspected absentee ballot fraud by elected government officials are underway.

In Harris County, Texas, the voter registrar admitted that 20 percent of voter registration forms submitted by liberal activist Houston Votes had problems. Election whistleblowers there are now being investigated by the Obama Justice Department and have been slapped with an ethics complaint by the Texas Democratic Party and a left-wing billionaire George Soros-funded group called Texans for Public Justice.

In Yuma County, Ariz., election officials denied any fraud associated with thousands of requests for “permanent early voter list” status submitted en masse by open-borders group Mi Familia Vota (a social justice satellite group of the Service Employees International Union). But election officials admitted that some 6,000 out of 14,000 requests fielded by the Yuma County Recorder’s Office “were reviewed and rejected, under Arizona law, either due to the fact the request was a duplicate or the requestor was not eligible to vote in this election or within the jurisdiction.”

Liberals shrugged their shoulders at reports of illegal alien canvassers trolling for votes in Washington State. Never mind the radical goals spelled out by SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer and Mi Familia Vota founder Eliseo Medina, who views illegal alien amnesty as a powerful Democratic recruitment tool to capture millions of new progressive voters.

Funny. For the past two years, Democratic leaders have had nothing to say about the militant New Black Panther Party goons who took it upon themselves to police a Philadelphia voting booth in 2008 wielding billy clubs and shouting anti-white slurs to suppress votes. Now, they’re treating citizen election monitors as if they are the jack-booted thugs. When I lauded efforts like the Minnesota Majority, which is training volunteers to watch polls and report on voter fraud, liberal critics accused me this week of “fascism.”

Silence dissent. Criminalize watchdogs. Whitewash fraud. Discourage grassroots engagement. Deny, deny, deny. These are the signature tactics of the left in the age of Obama. On November 2, Americans get their chance to say: Enough.

Liberal/Progressives want FREE SPEECH dead?
Oh wait that is just YOUR FREE SPEECH.

National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller has to be as dumb as a stump.

Who pitched the bitch that caused this witless wonder (Shiller) to pull the plug on Juan Williams for expressing his fear feelings about Muslims in full garb on an airplane?

Then to top it off her press comments to an Atlanta crowd was Williams should take his feelings up with “his psychiatrist or his publicist.”

I am ever stunned at the utter stupidity of the liberal/progressives today.
I am honestly beginning to believe Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.”

So what problem does Shiller now face?
Likely her stupidity will cause NPR to lose their government funding. After all why should the taxpayer pay people who want to deny them 1st amendment rights. Either speaking or listening?

George Soros just dumped 1.8 million dollars into the lap of Shiller. Hope he has lots more to fund the whole operation.

Maybe Juan will end up with that 1.8 million in damages should he decide to sue the breeches off NPR for wrongful termination.

Here is a suggestion for you (the public) who have generously funded NPR in the past. Its time for donations this week.
RESIST!

When I opened this blog in late November 2008 it was already evident we had hit a “not happy with our government” mindset. No wonder Barack Obama a man the public knew nothing about sailed into the white-house on what appeared to be a white horse.

His blatant deviation from “the constitution” was the best thing that could have happened to the citizenry of the USA. For this I am eternally grateful.

When he further led his congress into making the economic catastrophe far worse while ignoring the cry’s of the public. Then suggesting the public is simply misguided or stupid were the last nails in the coffin lid of those seeking re-election.

What has happened with this bad behavior?
The “tea party”.
A grassroots group that is pulled together from all walks of life. The totally disgusted middle class who are angered by Barack Obama’s economic policies, fear his deficits and are horrified by his looming tax increases.

In less then 2 short years the Obama agenda has effectively coalesced tens of millions of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, Minorities, Religious and Non Religious into a mass who are driven by one common denominator. Freedom from Government oppression under the guise of being a magnanimous daddy.

Economic and fiscal issues have gripped the hearts and minds of this mass pushing social questions flat out of the ball park. No longer can the Old Republican or Democratic parties stir up a fuss on social crap that simply is not there. The bigotry, racism card ARE NO LONGER WORKING to the dismay of those in power. Divide and conquer is no longer working.
WHY?
Because basic economic survival is more important.
No one has to have a masters in economics to see what is going on here. All you have to have is 2 hands and the ability and logic to put 2 and 2 together and know it comes up 4 to get the frightening message.

The “tea party and its supporters” are a grass roots-dominated movement.
If for one moment you think those on the stump disparaging “the tea party” here in the US does not know this and is scared to death?
Wise up!

What is their only hope of containment? Slander, malign, try to undermine with lies. How typical of the sleaze we now have in our governing offices.

We hired them.
It’s now time they are fired!

Comments in closing.

If the citizens of California are STUPID ENOUGH to re-elect Jerry (the dud) Brown and Barbara (call me Senator) Boxer … we deserve to go bankrupt.
If Delaware thinks Coons a self professed Marxist is better than Christine O’Donnell NO MATTER HOW LITTLE EXPERIENCE she has. They deserve also to go bankrupt.

How are all of these “ivy league educated assholes” working out for ya so far?
Be sure and vote!