(Note: I've significantly updated this entry since the original 7/28/09 posting, so I'm reposting it.) 

So I've been staring at this newly resurrected blog, considering topics to post, I found myself quickly demotivated towards anything that smacked of the "story of the moment" coverage-- and regretfully, partisan infighting to some extent-- which I used to indulge in back in my days as a budding blogger.

 Frankly, there's no time for that. 

I had considered doing a recap of the 2008 elections and the direction things appear to be going towards 2010 and 2012, and what I'd like to see happen... I might touch on those things from time to time, but as a major topic, there's no time for that.

I've hinted at changes of my own perspective and politics in the last few relevant posts, and in my hiatus, those have continued to shift and evolve... I will eventually get into those things, but as a major topic... again, there's no time for that.

Here is the thing which matters most to me now, which has been the impetus to come out of blogging hiatus: There are forces at work in the world now (and have been for some time) which threaten the existance of America as we have known it.

Does that sound like melodrama or hyperbole to you?

When the man currently holding America's highest office states that his agenda is "fundamentally transforming the United States of America," what do you think he means?

If America, which has historically been the most free (and as a result, the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world), if it is to be fundamentally transformed, it means those things which it has been historically known for will be no longer:

Fundamental: a. Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary b. Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central c. Of great significance or entailing major change

Transformation: a. a change or alteration, esp. a radical one; b. a qualitative change; c. an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another;

If America's Founding Fathers designed the structure of goverment to break the seat of power into 3 branches to keep check on any one branch from getting too powerful, what do you think it will mean if that is "fundamentally transformed"?

If the Constitution was designed, not to delineate the rights which goverment will give to man, but the inalienable rights which men possess that cannot be encroached upon by goverment, what do you think it will mean if that is "fundamentally transformed"?

This is an effort that has been patiently at work for at least a hundred years, and is now getting to the critical point where changing the essence of what America is and has stood for, is not only possible but likely.

My chief concern, going forward, will be at combatting that effort in any way that I, as a mere father, citizen and blogger, can do so. To those who previously followed my blog, and to any new readers who come along, I hope you'll bear with me while I try to make myself clear.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, these links should get you started:

The Economic Crisis

What Happened? 

What's Coming 

What Can I Do to Prepare? 

Destruction From Within

Obama TOLD us this was coming... / No One Took Obama at His Word

Change Blindness: Obama is Transforming Us

The Constitutional Crisis

Where America stands today 

Meeting America’s Challenges: With Faith, Hope and Common Sense

What We Can Do

10 Million Watchdogs 

How you can get involved in community organizing 

I know this is a lot of reading, and that it all comes from one source... I have some ideas of my own, which I will get into in this blog as time allows. Whatever you may think of Glenn Beck, he saw the economic crisis coming for more than a year before it hit the fan-- he called it at a time when most of the mainstream "experts" were predicting the opposite. But he called it, he warned about it, and here it is. Many of those same experts are saying the worst of it is behind us now... I wouldn't bet on it.