Harry Belafonte discussed Obama's election this week on MSNBC.  After spouting typical left wing propaganda about Obama's "mandate", he proposes that Obama should now imprision the opposition.

This is how leftists think.  This is the normal pattern of this ideology, practiced so well by Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Chavez, Mussolini, and Hitler.  Over and over, this is what totalitarians do.  "Re-educate" those who do not favor your utopian visions, and execute or "disappear" those who refuse to be "re-educated".

This is why they hate the Second Amendment so.  This is the clear and present danger.

Bill Cochrane

I recorded this video a couple of weeks ago. It is my message to America. In it, I attempt to explain the global implications of the upcoming US elections.

This election is the most crucial in modern American history. It is not primarily about jobs and economics, it is about national security and, to be blunt, national survival.

America, and indeed the entire Western World, faces destruction if communist sympathizer Barack Obama is returned to office.

This video is being distributed all over the United States. Please watch it, and if you agree with the basic ideas expressed, send it out through your networks, to as many people as you can, conservative, liberal, undecided, it doesn’t matter.

Sometimes it takes an outside view to clarify important matters. I hope this message will serve that purpose.

From a very grateful New Zealander.



Trevor Loudon

I, not "we".  Individuals, not some "collective".

Mr. Obama, get yourself and your government out of my life!  Get out of our way, and let America be America again!

Each of us built our life and our own fortunes.  Redistribute, hell!  That's just where you can take your redistributionist tripe -- and the horse you rode in on!!!!!


Bill Cochrane

You would never know it from their current website, but after reading the article below, you can then clearly spot the giveaways on their current pages.  The evidence -- no, the proof -- keeps mounting on the communist and extremist Islamic connections of members of this Administration.  Those who continue to deny are either complicit or blind by personal choice.

You'll want to forward these historic pictures to your friends and colleagues of the camp where Obama nominee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner sent her children for the summer.


Read:  Raising Reds:  Historic Pictures of Camp Kinderland



Bill Cochrane

A great deal of information is now coming out about young Barry Soetoro's close relationship with Frank Marshall Davis in Hawaii beginning in the early 70's when young Soetoro was eleven.  Barry's mother Ann Dunham had, by that time, abandoned young Barry to her parents while she ran off again to Indonesia to pursue her communist activities there.

Meanwhile she left instructions, or requests, with her parents to make certain Barry visited with her ex-consort, Frank Marshall Davis "regularly".  So "gramps" Stanley Dunham did so, taking the young boy to visit the elderly Davis and having coffee or lunch.  Davis would rant on about the evils of the U.S., capitalism, corporations, banks, the rich and about the wonders and benefits of communism, Stalin, unions, "workers", and revolution.

I'm not going to go into the ways this influenced the young adolescent's developing ideology or how it came to help define the Obama policies.  There is a wealth of writing and commentary already on these subjects, including a new book, "The Communist", which is soon to be a No.1 best seller.

No, my only comment is this:  It is absolutely amazing to me that a three-time loser like Frank Marshall Davis and a virtually abandoned orphan of a completely dysfunctional family (both immediate and extended), all members of which never amounted to anything, could talk over coffee in the early 70's in obscure hovels and coffee shops of Hawaii.  Yet this old, failed, crazy communist and this young budding druggie and anti-colonial communist would, nearly 40 years later, transform the country.  These two individuals talked about failed ideologies -- which one of the pair would later be able to force upon the most prosperous nation, the leading world superpower.

Oh, as Obama, himself, likes to say -- he didn't, he couldn't do it by himself.  Oh he had lots of help from the Soros network and the corrupted Democrat Party.  A loser like Obama really couldn't do it all by himself.  Which is why he believes that nobody can do it by himself.

But isn't it so interesting -- absolutely amazing, in fact -- that two individuals could have such incredible impact and influence over a free nation of 350 million souls.  Yet, these same individuals insist that individuals do not matter.  That individuals cannot succeed without the collective.  That the "greater good" of the collective is all that matters.  That the state must be all powerful and must control individuals' lives because they just cannot do it for themselves.  Yet, behold what these two individuals have accomplished!

Don't their own life stories dispel this very notion?  If the individual is so irrelevant, please tell me how a three-time loser aging communist and a young black adolescent with no prospects of any success have transformed an entire nation?  The tale of Obama proves their own ideology wrong, it seems to me.....


Bill Cochrane

My wife and I are native North Carolinians.  But we grew up in and always lived in areas with clay and rocky soils.  It wasn't until we retired to the Sandhills that we lived in sand.  Until our retirement here, sand like this meant you were at the beach!

And we've never been very good at gardening or horticulture or landscaping.  After this little tale, you'll understand why I'm turning it all back over to the professionals.

Upon moving here, we loved the longleaf pines.  We did.  But they're everywhere!  And the other trees you see are "all the same" -- dogwoods, redbuds, bradford pears, japanese red maples....  And all those twisted, stunted scrub oaks!

So, on our first trip to the NC mountains after moving here, we were "captured" by the beautiful sight of a large sourwood tree at the inn.  It was springtime, and the tree was in full bloom, covered with lacy white strings of blossoms which contrasted with the lush green leafy foliage.  We just had to have one at home -- if it would grow here.

So, I researched.  The climate region was just right here.  All the temperature ranges, growing season, annual rainfall, etc. were just right.  The literature said sourwood needed "well drained soil" and "preferred a slope", but likes some moisture.  We live on the side of a hill -- alright, it's a big ancient sand dune, but around these parts, it's considered a hill.  So good slope....  And the sand certainly drains well.  Good, right?

So I bought a seven foot sourwood tree and planted it on the hillside next to our home.  The first two years it turned green at the right time and produced a few blossoms, and then it shed its leaves at the right time.  But it really didn't put out new growth, in spite of all the watering and fertilizing spikes and loving attention that we gave it.  I knew something was wrong.

This spring it leafed out, and then the late frost came.  All the new tender leaves turned brown.  And that was it.  The thing just gave up and died.

I should have known better.  The developer of Longleaf and his landscaper were, apparently, equally skilled as we at selecting plantings.  Along Knoll Road they had planted a row of birch trees on either side.  The trees had managed to survive to early maturity, but they were doomed.  The root systems were weak, and disease had set in, causing blight and limb deaths, beginning at the treetop levels.  It was just a matter of time, they told us at last year's neighborhood association meeting.  The trees would slowly die and have to be taken down.  They were not native species and could not survive in this area.  They simply could not tolerate these sandy soils.  They were adapted to a different ecology altogether.

The same is true for our poor sourwood tree.  It was not indigenous to this area, and it could not tolerate sand.

Lesson:  You cannot violate nature's laws.  Some trees simply cannot survive in the Sandhills of NC.  Don't try to transplant them here.

If you do want to try to have such species survive here, at least for a while, here's what you have to do....  Dig out as much of the native soil as possible.  Add in a great deal of rotting dead organic material and a generous portion of manure.  These, mixed with the pure native soil will change the drainage and water retention characteristics of the soil around the newly developing root system, also providing the necessary nutrients.  Also, sandy soil has a high pH -- it is alkaline -- and these trees need acidic soils.  So you have to add an acidic fertilizer or conditioners to raise the pH.

So, if you transform the earth around the root ball of the newly planted sapling, you can ensure that it will take hold and start to grow.  But sooner or later, the roots are going to reach beyond your carefully prepared cocoon, and your prepared mix is going to become depleted.  The tree will die.

You're probably way ahead of me by now....  This reminds me of the state of our nation.   Early in the twentieth century, the socialists and communists tried to transplant themselves in the United States.  Their ideology simply couldn't gain a foothold.  Every sprout would quickly die and disappear.  But progressives realized the problem.  They had to change the soil.  They began to slowly but steadily introduce rot into the culture.  They polluted and perverted and corrupted, basically adding heaps of manure.  And they poured acid into the wounds, eroding the bonds that held the foundations and our people together.  They set about changing the soil.

Founders' principles, Liberty, and a firm conviction in Limited Government had made it impossible for socialism and communism to grow.  But progressivism made it possible for the principles of Marx to take hold and begin to grow.  The evil tree even came to full flower in 2000 and blossomed fragrantly in 2008.  Progressive preparations and political correctness have allowed an alien invasive species to infest America the Beautiful.

Will it survive?  The only thing that keeps me going is a belief that the underlying, undying devotion of America to the principles of Liberty, Individualism, Morality -- and that means God -- and free markets will wither the roots and wilt the leaves of this evil tree.  God willing, it will never bear fruit, and in the coming elections a cold backlash by the voters will prove as devastating as that early spring freeze on my struggliing sourwood tree.


Bill Cochrane