Iowa Defense Alliance

An alliance of Iowans determined to defend traditional Iowa values.

National Insecurity

On September 11, 2001 our nation received a wakeup call like no other. We were attacked not by a nation, but by a militant organization whose stated goal is to bring their brand of Islam to the rest of the world. In the wake of that attack America went on the offensive taking the fight to the terrorist’s homelands. Our military forces drove them from their safe havens in Afghanistan and chased them from Iraq. It was clear that America was winning the war on terror.

On Christmas Day 2009 Uma Farouk Abdul Mutallab shattered the still fragile sense of security that Americans were once again beginning to enjoy. When he attempted to detonate an explosive device aboard a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit, MI he once again brought the war on terror to our shores. The fact that he was able to smuggle aboard an airplane enough explosives to rip the plane to shreds lays bare the shortcomings in our security procedures. Now once again the issue of national security is forefront in the minds of many Americans. With this attack our nation must once again address the issue of national security and make the necessary decisions to secure our nation from future terrorist attacks.

Our nation must commit to making security reforms that actually accomplish something. One such reform is to our nation’s borders. We must secure our nation’s borders, both north and south. Right now our porous borders allow more than just illegal immigrant’s access to the interior of our country. They allow a determined terrorist almost unlimited access to our nation for them to commit their heinous acts of hatred. First and foremost we must erect a border fence along the lines of those advanced by former Congressman Duncan Hunter. We must put in place checkpoints where qualified border patrol agents can operate effectively to catch those border crossers that somehow slip through the cracks.

We must reform our screening procedures at our nation’s ports. We must look at the demographics of terror to screen those that are most likely to commit terrorist acts against our nation and our allies. We must ignore the desire to avoid racial profiling when doing so could potentially harm our nation and our fellow citizens. After all, when was the last time you saw a little old lady blow up an airplane. We must face the fact that the majority of those that would harm our nation at this point in time are Muslims of Middle Eastern decent, not the grandmother in the seat next to you.

We must utilize a secure facility to incarcerate prisoners of war and terrorists. We must face the fact that utilizing the prison facility in Thomson, IL; while attractive; is not the most logical of places to imprison these soldiers of hate. By the same token, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is substandard as well. Perhaps it is time that the US reopens the prison at Alcatraz as a military facility for the incarceration of these prisoners. Basically we need to have a facility that is based on an island far away from civilized society where there is only one way in and one way out.

Unfortunately I don’t see any of these events ever taking place. Far too many of our politicians are unwilling to make the hard decisions necessary for this to happen. Instead they will continue to endanger the citizens of American all for the sake of political pandering.

December 30, 2009 Posted by Al Bregar | Abregar, Politics | , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Nightmare Before Christmas

When I went to bed last evening, I did so praying for a Christmas miracle this morning. I was hoping that enough US Senators would see the error of their ways. I was hoping that they would see the light of truth in regards to the health reform bill that they were set to vote on this morning. I awoke this morning to find that this was not the case. I awoke to find that the Democrat majority in the US Senate felt the need to unleash a nightmare on the citizens of the United States. This morning 59 Democrats and 1 Independent chose to present to us; the American population; a nightmare before Christmas.

As Iowa Defense Alliance has already pointed out our very own Democratic Senator Tom Harkin viewed the Health Reform legislation as a Christmas Present for the American people. I suppose that in his sick and twisted world view everyone that receives a Christmas gift must pay for it because we will have to pay for this health reform plan. And according to many critics on both the left and the right we will have to pay more for less coverage. Some Christmas gift Senator Harkin.

Then there is the case of Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. Either this man is a master at extortion or he had a heartfelt change of heart. For weeks he had proclaimed that he would not vote for the health plan being discussed in the Senate. But Senator Nelson changed his mind. You see, Harry Reid included language into the health reform bill that effectively worked as a bribe. The State of Nebraska is set to receive millions of dollars in aid to help cover the increased costs of Medicare and Medicaid that the state will incur as a result of the Health Reform legislation.

If you would like some more proof that this bill was unworthy of passage just look to the media. Over the last several days the talk has not been about the merits of the bill, assuming there were any at all. Instead the media has been talking about the backroom deals that the Democrats have had to take part in to get the bill through the Senate. This bill wasn’t passed because it was a good decent bill worthy of passage. This bill was passed because corrupt career politicians got paid off. So now because of the political opportunism of a these narcissists the frustrated American public is one step closer to tyranny. For on Christmas Eve 59 Democrats and 1 Independent voted yes on the Nightmare before Christmas.

December 24, 2009 Posted by Al Bregar | Abregar, Politics | , , , | 21 Comments

Senator Harkin Dismisses the “Small Stuff”

This morning I awoke to find that Iowa Senator Tom Harkin has once again demonstrated the elitism that he has cultivated during his career in the US Senate. In an interview on CBS this morning Senator Harkin defended the intensely unpopular health reform legislation moving through the US Congress. Even more disgusting was his defense of the use of taxpayer money to bribe skeptical Senators into supporting bad legislation. If there was ever a demonstration of the problems plaguing our government this was it. If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch the interview please take the time to do so now.

It was just days ago that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson capitulated in what has become widely known as the Cornhusker Kickback. This was a deal that provided the state of Nebraska with millions in taxpayer funded earmarks in exchange for his support of the Senate version of the health reform bill. With this acquiescence Senator Nelson became the latest in a long list of sell outs that put their political well being ahead of the nations well being.

I did a little poking around to find out what is included in this bill. In my search I found an unlikely ally in my desire to kill this bill, the liberals at the Huffington Post. And in actuality I can agree with some of their complaints about the bill. For instance if this bill were to make it into law Americans may have to pay up to 8% of their income on insurance, even if they do not want to. If an American refuses to purchase insurance they could be fined up to 2% of their annual income. The plan would be funded by taxes on middle class insurance plans effectively causing more hardships than they would save. Or how about the fact that if the bill passes the taxes would start now, but the plan itself wouldn’t start until 2014.

And despite the widespread discontent with this impending disaster, the elitists like Harkin continue their pathetic attempts to peddle the bill as a “Christmas present” for the country. The attitudes of Harkin and his career politician cohorts are emblematic of the problems infesting Washington DC. We must do everything within our power to kill this bill if we are to preserve some semblance of the free nation we once were.

December 22, 2009 Posted by Al Bregar | Abregar, Politics | , , , , , | 8 Comments

Some Christmas present from Congress we’re going to be paying for it.

Congress is going to give us a Christmas present this year in the Obamacare health care. Sounds good doesn’t it but theres always the kicker and here it is WE’RE paying for it all. The arrogance of Tom Harkin he said  “Health Care is the best ”Christmas Present” to the Nation. Really?? “You’re giving me a present I don’t want, and making me pay for my own “Gift”? And the bad part is were going to be paying for the gift for 4 years before it we even get it .  I thought when you was given a present you wasn’t handed a bill for it as well.  Boy how generous congress is with our money. And we’re supposed to be thankful were paying for this ? And how unconstitutional is this bill to force us all to take this insurance?

I have already seen health care rationing lately it takes week or 2 to get into the little clinic i go to in a town of 500 people this is amazing to me that i need to wait a couple weeks to get in. Meanwhile if i travel to bigger towns i can get in right away which is what I do. But im always seeing a new doctor because i take who ever can get me in to see me. So i got doctor records strung all over the county down here. If this bill makes doctors all  government employees you will see alot of them just simply quit they won’t want to be told your gonna work loads of hours and only get paid what Obama thinks you should make.

If thousands of doctors quit your waiting time to get in to see one increases and so do the amount of time it takes to see specialist and actually get into surgery. It will be just like in Canada where it could take up to 56 weeks from time you seen your regular doctor to specialist to surgery and don’t forget how much more time before you can get into physical therapy to get that body part strengthened up or just get back to normal. Thanks for the present I think i want to pass on this one but the sad part is its going to hit Americans harder than we think.

Will they put scales in restraunts measure your height and weight. And  if your overweight for your height they will turn you away?  If that happens to be the case unemployment will go up even more as i don’t think there is enough skinny people in this country to keep all restraunts going if such a provision is in the bill. I don’t know whats in the bill at the moment but last i heard its over 2000 pages. This is one case where i want to know what’s in the box before i open it. This is a scary version of Lets Make a Deal where you trade away what you had for whats behind the curtain or whats in the box.

December 21, 2009 Posted by iowanforabetteriowa | Iowanforabetteriowa, Politics | , , , | 9 Comments

Iowa Did Not Redefine Marriage for Everybody Else

It seems that Bob Vander Plaats latest endorsement by David Barton of WallBuilders is bringing front and center once again the April 3rd move of the Iowa Supreme Court.  For those of you who need the School House Rock version of what went wrong on this day I will briefly explain it to you again.  The court was not out-of-bounds when it declared Iowa’s Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.  To give opinions on the laws is the constitutional role of the courts.  Where the court over stepped is when it took on the roles of the legislative and executive branches by saying same-sex couples could now be legally married and ordered that marriage certificates be given out beginning on April 27,2009.  What should have happened is that the law got thrown back to the legislature to change in order to allow gay marriages or the constitution should have been amended to uphold traditional marriage.

What is interesting about this April 3rd decision is that one would have thought that a gay marriage “victory” in the heartland would have caused a snowball effect, right?  Riiiiiiiiiiight.  You only have to cast your eyes on what has been happening in the liberal deep blue northeast to see that this “victory” only meant one thing; that the only way traditional marriage was going to lose is if we let a handful of unelected officials have their way with it and a lazy legislature and cowardly governor stand back and allow it.

Since April 3rd we have seen the voters in the state of Maine overturn the new law made by their legislature allowing gay marriage, New York lawmakers voted against it, and in New Jersey the same-sex marriage bill was dropped which means it will basically die because the new Republican governor takes office in January.  I’m sure this isn’t what Tim Gill and company wanted to happen in the wake of Iowa’s traditional marriage fumble. 

Maybe what gay marriage activists ought to try in these states is to hide behind the judges’ robes in order to push their agenda.  That may work until one, just one, elected official stands up to the courts and puts them in their constitutional place.  Until then, all of our freedoms are up for grabs and held in the balance by an unelected few.

December 18, 2009 Posted by Iowans Rock | Iowans Rock, Politics | , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Winter of 2009-2010 Breaking Records Already !

Here it is early in the winter season and isn’t officially Winter til December 21st. Last week here in mid west we seen the 3rd highest  statewide average snowfall since 1950. And meanwhile our neighbors to the north Canada has had their own troubles as well with heavy snow fall . As much as 100 centimeters of snow has fell on Toronto thats right around 3 ft of snow. This follows a November which Toronto got no snow. Guess mother nature is making up for no snow in November with a vengence. We’re only 87 centimetres from reaching the half-way point of our annual average.’—Anton Horvath, Whistler Mountain’s weather forecaster . Whistlers Mountain broke its November snow fall record with 11 days left in the month with 418 centimeters of snow.   And more than 540cm of snow had fallen in November, more than in any month. Austrailia gets snow  two weeks into its summer mother nature threw a curve this weekend down under.

With the increasing of brutal cold temps and more and more snow its hard to convince any smart person there is global warming. If you feel thats the case by all means come here and bring your swim suit and lawn chair your welcome to swim in my snow drifts. So they say this is all caused by global warming so if its -10 below 0 like it was last wednesday morning. Do we really want it to get colder to reverse global warming? Will that reverse the global warming caused massive snow storms? Its not like we haven’t had blizzards in the past or floods and droughts. But everything now we hear is result of global warming if its to hot its global warming.If its to cold its global warming.

That seems to be just cooked up numbers by scientists and people looking to gain billions from  grants and from bills and laws passed. I don’t know about any of you out there do you have loads of extra money to pay for increased costs of food, clothes, and everything we buy at the store that will increase in price.  And do any of you care to pay 2-3 times your current monthly utility bill ? Just how sure are they that by increasing everyones taxes and utilities and everything we buy will make the global warming go away ? For one i have to see some warming first.

I have never been to Alaska or any artic region and doubt i ever will only polar bear i ever saw was in a Zoo and it had it made there. How was the  Grand Canyon created? Most likely from melting glaciers over thousands of years. If you are buying Al Gores crap one only needs to go outside to see the real facts. There is no palm trees growing in my yard until that happens and i can go sit out there under one in January and sweat will i become a believer.

December 14, 2009 Posted by iowanforabetteriowa | Iowanforabetteriowa, Politics | , , , , | 8 Comments

Climate Gate

As Climate gate roars to life with more information coming out about scientists emails and them working ways to cooking the numbers over last 40 years or more  to make it look like the world has gotten warmer. One said it was a shame they couldn’t account for the cooling trend were in right now. Phil Jones the director of the embattled Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom is stepping down. This is turning out to be the most biggest scam of our lifetimes. And now Senator Barbra Boxer wants to look into criminal charges on the hackers who uncovered this information. Please California come to your senses and vote out this nut job of a lame excuse of a Senator.

Well if she does this then I say we should  file charges against the scientists who have scared millions and millions of kids across the planet with their cooked up science isn’t that child abuse ? Not to mention mentally abusing these kids and brain washing them into believeing they would all drown from  the melting ice. How about charging them with terrorism ? They did after all terrorize millions of kids? In my humble opinion they did. Well where im at not much is melting at the moment its below freezing. I see Canada is having record snow fall so far this year and Houston may get its earliest snowfall ever on record there way ahead of the record they tied last year.

I say shame on you Ms. Boxer you supposedly care so much about the children of this country. Its hard to deal with a child who comes home scared telling you we are all going to drown. So you ask why and they say that they are taught this at school and where did that information come from?   I think these scientists seen how much money came pouring in and wanted a even bigger piece of the pie so they got greedy and with the go green movement right now they was seeing lots of green as in millions they was hoping it would turn into billions.

And every time they show melting ice how do we not know they filmed it in summer? Ice does melt does it not ? The record high for Alaska is 100 degrees set June 27,1915 yes 1915. Folks back when there wasn’t many cars specially in Alaska at that time let alone the rest of the country.  I want to see these scientists  go to these artic places in January or Decemeber and show me melting ice. They keep showing these polar bears swimming. Well they do go out to hunt  for food everyday and can swim quite well.  Polar bears can swim as far as 60 miles without resting and can swim at speeds of up to six miles an hour. They can dive to depths of 15 feet and can stay under water for about two minutes.And over the last 30 years or so the population of polar bears has increased from 5000 to approx 25,000 now they must not be doing as bad off as those scientists say they are.  You know its funny they can fudge the temp  numbers but they are not having any luck making mother nature cooperate and give us some extreme warm. More and more places are setting record low temps. And when you see the numbers of the animals they say are threatened by this increase instead of decreasing which is what they say will happen its more egg on their faces.

And its totally amazing that the big news broadcasters ABC,CBS and NBC is more interesting in keeping us updated on Tiger Woods and the White House party crashers and are not evening mentioning this information coming to light.

I personally want to give Al Gore’s Peace prize to the hackers who got these emails to expose this fraud. They deserve some award for exposing this scam. Its amazing that the global warming scheme is brought down by the internet system Al Gore claimed to have invented to funny someone help me up off the floor im laughing so hard at this climate crater scam artist. I wish someone had the time to actually add up his carbon crater he has created from the time he got the Noble Peace prize to the Oscars to present day today it would be massive i know his house alone uses 440 times more energy than i do in a year. There is 6 of us here and my light bill last month was $71.00 dollars beat that Al !

Notably the average car emits .916 lbs. of CO2/ gallon vs. Al Gore’s 21 lbs. of CO2/gallon in his jet. So for the amount of carbon and gasoline that Al Gore emitted, the average family could travel back and forth from Nashville to San Francisco in a Station Wagon 15 times. All his trips would add up to more than a large chunk of Americans use in a year or several years. I want to thank who ever is responsible for bringing this information to light !

December 4, 2009 Posted by iowanforabetteriowa | Iowanforabetteriowa, Politics | , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Tales from the Astroturf

It has been about two years now that I have been a recovering straight ticket Republican voter.  I used to think all Republicans were the same before I got on or fell of the wagon (however you want to look at it).  Who knew?  I know that this makes some people in the party angry because I and others like myself get bashed daily by people with more ridiculous screen names than mine.  How dare we require our candidates and elected officials to abide by the principles of our party!  Just get ‘em elected, right?  I have one simple question.  When did it become good enough to be just a littler bit better than a Democrat and what does this accomplish?  If someone has an answer please let me now.  The last I checked, if there is no clear agenda there is no progress.

I guess one would label me “grassroots” or “conservative activist,” however I had not been to one GOP function until the Republican Party of Iowa Reagan Dinner.  You know, the event where Terry Branstad proved to everyone in Iowa, C-Span, and the national media that he has not “missed, um, ah, um, a, um, step” since being out of office.  Now I realize that this event was supposed to be a rah rah session for the GOP but I wondered if everyone in the room was just pretending or just plain clueless.  Numerous times the Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia were cited and that the party was coming back.  I just wanted to raise my hand and shed some light on the situation.  The wins in these two states had nothing to do with people coming back to the party but it had everything to do with giving the middle finger to Pres. Obama.  Seriously, do you really think Republicans turned it around in twelve months?  There is still much work to be done  and to get cocky about it would be fatal.

Getting involved in the grassroots level has opened my eyes and sometimes I wish I could go back to being blissfully ignorant about the Republican party and where it is headed if more people like me don’t take a stand.  But from what I have seen, the lengths that people will go to in order to fight for their principles and the candidates who represent them are extraordinary and there are plenty of people out there doing the same thing I am doing.  Do people actually get paid for this type of work?  News to me, however, I would take one member of the grassroots over ten paid campaign staffers any time.  For example, the RPI Reagan Dinner pulled in about five hundred people statewide.  A couple of weeks ago an event was held for Bob Vander Plaats hosted by one of his volunteer county chairs in Ottumwa that had almost 200 attend and the amazing part is that you could fit the number of conservatives in this county in a coat closet.  There are people doing this type of thing all over the state.

The past two years have been an eventful ride.  To underestimate what the Astroturf can accomplish and the strong networks that exist would be a huge mistake.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

December 3, 2009 Posted by Iowans Rock | Iowans Rock, Politics | , , , , , | Leave a Comment