tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6018741055987845902024-03-14T01:20:05.363-04:00Smart Girl PoliticsStacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840211114576187128noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601874105598784590.post-853251543041559742009-08-28T10:15:00.009-04:002009-09-08T15:12:36.846-04:00A Mind is Terrible Thing to WasteBy: Theosebes
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<br />The first institution in America was founded in 1636 by a Puritan named John Harvard. He left his library of 400 books to found a "seminary" with this understanding, <i>"The maine end of [a student's] life and studies is to know God and Jesus</i><i> Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3, and ther</i><i>efore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all found knowledge and learning." </i>(Samuel, Eliot Morison, <i>The Founding of Harvard College</i>). Today the mission statement for Harvard is vastly different. <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/siteguide/faqs/faq110.php">"In brief: Harvard strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities."</a> Harvard no longer espouses that the study of God and Jesus Christ is the foundation of all found knowledge and learning, but rather there is a denial of God and the belief that humans can create knowledge. Education has devolved from its superior beginnings in America when the Progressive agenda took root, walking away from the classical preparation that made the true pursuit of knowledge and truth foundational and moving toward an education of experience, resulting in an incremental “dumbing down” of Americans dating back to the early twentieth century.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal">Parents today may send their children off to prestigious learning institution, feeling secure in the campus security, the dorm life, and the extra-curricular activities these schools may offer, but because parent's have also been indoctrinated into a Progressive mentality, it doesn't occur to them to be wary of the propaganda taught at most universities. Glenn Beck points out in Common Sense that the educational system has "fallen prey to political patronage and the Progressive agenda." Beck also quoted Woodrow Wilson, once president of Princeton University, (another one of America's first colleges founded to meet the needs of training ministers) who said, "Our problem is not merely to help the students to adjust themselves to world life....[but]to make them as unlike their fathers as we can." <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/">Beck, Glenn</a> Common Sense, Pg 91.
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<br />When did the fathers of our country become unworthy of study and emulation? Who should we fashioning our lives after, if it is not the great men and women in history, our American history? Who should children view as worthwhile role models if it is not their fathers?<span style=""> </span>When did the colleges and universities become enemies of the parent instead of a support system to help the child to succeed in becoming an adult?</p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">According to Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner, in their book <u><a href="http://www.neverbeforeinhistory.com/">Never Before in History</a>, </u>the standard for graduation in the 1700s from Harvard was as follows:<span style="">
<br /></span></p><span style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:7;" ></span></span><!--[endif]--><ul><li>Every student who, on trial, shall be able to translate from the original Latin text, and logically to explain the Holy Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, and shall also be thoroughly acquainted with the principles of natural and moral philosophy, and shall be blameless in life and character, and approved at public examination by the President and the Fellows of the College, may receive the first degree.</li></ul>
<br />The Masters Degree required the following:
<br /><ul><li>Every scholar who has maintained a good standing, and exhibited a written synopsis of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic and astronomy, and shall be prepared to defend a proposition or thesis; shall also be versed in the original languages, as aforesaid; and who carries with him a reputation for upright character and diligence in study, and shall pass successfully a public examination, shall be admitted to the second, or Master’s degree.</li></ul><div> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>
<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Today according to the <a href="http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2009-10/programs/undergrad/requirements/grad.jsp">Harvard website</a>, graduation requirements to earn the bachelor’s degree, a student must complete 128 credits and maintain good academic standing (2.0 GPA). At least 64 credits must be completed at Harvard University.<span style=""> </span>A student must fulfill all of his or her requirements and be in good academic and financial standing with Harvard University, with no disciplinary or administrative procedures pending, to graduate and participate in May Commencement.<span style=""> </span>Each school of study of course has differing requirements for its emphasis,
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SpfqQ5uG9PI/AAAAAAAAAI4/HXu_uhuM_6c/s1600-h/view+of+harvard+college.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SpfqQ5uG9PI/AAAAAAAAAI4/HXu_uhuM_6c/s320/view+of+harvard+college.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375022256382997746" border="0" /></a> but it is interesting to note the very different tone that one finds today at one of America’s most renowned universities and the requirements of two hundred years ago.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Most interesting is the requirement that the student must be upright and blameless in life and character and having a thorough knowledge of the Bible in the <u>1700’s Laws and Statutes for Students of Harvard College</u>.<span style=""> </span>One would be hard pressed to find such a high standard for graduation from any school today, let alone America’s oldest institution of higher learning: Harvard University.<span style=""> </span>
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Academic standards are set without regard for the character of the individual and no where is the Bible seen as an indispensable factor for a well rounded scholar.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1028" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:233.25pt;height:189.75pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image004.gif" title="new england primer page"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]-->
<br /><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Our lower institutions of learning have an even tougher climb to reach the excellence of early American schools.<span style=""> </span>The New England Primer was the text book that emphasized both Christian charact<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SpfnmXsV68I/AAAAAAAAAIo/_szgOWwUBzI/s1600-h/new+england+primer+page.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SpfnmXsV68I/AAAAAAAAAIo/_szgOWwUBzI/s400/new+england+primer+page.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375019326671023042" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">er and literacy and classical education was a standard for many colonial Americans, along with apprenticeships to provide skilled training.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Today’s classrooms would not be allowed to have a New E</p><p class="MsoNormal">ngland Primer, as it would offend those who believe in the separation of church and state.<span style=""> </span>The Primer utilized Bible stories to help teach the alphabet and the Westminster Catechism was also part of the text.<span style=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison">Samuel Eliot Morison</a> said, “American revolutionary leaders, both North and South, Madison, Wythe, and Jefferson, the Rutledges and Pinckneys, as well as Hamilton, Jay, and the Adamses, and Trumbulls, could never have rendered their distinguished services to the young republic without that classical leaning which is denied to most Americans today. (Samuel Eliot Morison,<i style=""> Three Centuries of Harvard</i> (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936), 136.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">How do we expect our children to excel in grade school, middle school and high school when the standards of education are at an all time low?<span style=""> </span>When Progressivism has a choke hold on real education, when indoctrination is the ring of the school bell, and the diploma of good citizenship is given to a student who can spew out the correct responses on a test that measures the ability to think green, distrust the government and treat people equally.<span style=""> </span>We are not raising an army of brilliant thinkers as the founding fathers were, but rather a generation whose work ethic, morality and character are easy to mold by those who believe they know what is best.<span style=""> </span>Yet this “knowing” leadership also attended the schools of Progressive instruction and they too are not in the same league as the excellent scholars, thinkers and statesmen that the Founders were.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">How can we as parents pursue an education for our children, that reflects excellence and strives for a standard that few achieve, a standard that early Americans set and achieved?<span style=""> </span>We as parents do know what is best for our children, even in regard to education, though the local school district and the Obama Administration would say the contrary.<span style=""> </span>American schools are failing our children not because students are not learning to read, write and do basic math, but because the standard of excellence, the standard of “blameless in life and character” is not the key element in a child’s life.<span style=""> </span>When we take away the foundation of Biblical scholarship and morality and replace it with an ever changing ideology of humanism, then the goal becomes only to clone robots who espouse the philosophy of the powers that be.<span style=""> </span>When high moral character and biblical ethics are separated from the education of a child, only the outer shell will appear polished.<span style=""> </span>Test scores may reflect understanding and in academics that child may find success, but the inner person will struggle for meaning that was never addressed in this pursuit of knowledge.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A wholly educated person is educated in mind, body and spirit and is a danger to the Progressive agenda, because that person has the ability to reason, to consider ethical ramifications and to speak against the wrongs that the government is foisting on the “tired and huddled masses”.<span style=""> </span>This is why education is the most crucial weapon that we have as parents and that the Progressive desire to hold in complete control.<span style=""> </span>There is recognition that if the masses can be educated just enough to know how to follow their “teachers”, then an army of “yes men” can be established.<span style=""> </span>This is why parents must do their due diligence to be connected with their child through every part of schooling, even the choosing of the university.<span style=""> </span>This too should becomes a family affair as the family releases the life, mind, and spirit of their child to an institution that will either reinforce the values of the family unit and build it into a stronger entity, or will do the work of a cancer and slowly destroy the value system of that individual, creating in that student an individual who questions the loving authority that nurtured it and instilling a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_education">group think mentality focused on experience and skills needed for a future society.</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_education">
<br /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The future of America is in the children that we raise.<span style=""> </span>Mediocre is not an option.<span style=""> </span>Parents must become more deeply engaged in the philosophy of the educational process, as well as breaking the chains that have imprisoned our minds as well.<span style=""> </span>We must re-educate ourselves, recognizing that we all have had a dose of Progressive indoctrination, and we must return to the educational pattern that helped establish this nation.<span style=""> </span>Those who rule on high in Washington are products of this century old heist of the American mind.<span style=""> </span>Like the old proverb, they too have been the frog, slowing dying in an ever warming pot of water.<span style=""> </span>But the fire can be extinguished and the death of brilliant minds stopped.<span style=""> </span>It is not too late to stop the march of this Statist ideology but it must become personal and we must return to the pursuit of truth that Harvard was built on at its inception: <i>"The maine end of [a student's] life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2017:3&version=NIV;">John 17:3</a>, and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all found knowledge and learning.”<span style=""> </span></i><span style="">Without this foundation, we may truly say, the mind is a terrible thing to waste.</span></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Theosebeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09433301086026957282noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601874105598784590.post-13021153375824505102009-08-22T08:00:00.000-04:002009-08-22T08:00:02.133-04:00California Appeals Court Stands for English Only<p>By <a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/california-appeals-court-stands-for-english-only/">Theosebes</a></p><br /><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/english-language.gif" mce_href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/english-language.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-264" title="english language" alt="english language" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/english-language.gif" width="340" height="382" mce_src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/english-language.gif" /></a><br /></p><br /><p>In 1914, <a title="Theodore Roosevelt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt">President Theodore Roosevelt</a> stated, "We have room for but one language in this country, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house."</p><br /><p>Last week, the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected arguments that English-only exams violate a federal requirement that limited-English-speaking students "shall be assessed in a valid and reliable manner." Nearly 1.6 million students in California have limited command of the language, according to a <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=627674" mce_href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=627674">OneNewsNow</a> article. The court of appeals, in a three-to-zero ruling, upheld a San Francisco judge’s decision that ruled against the bilingual-education group in his 2007 decision.</p><br /><p>The lawyer for the school district, Marc Coleman stated that they are considering an appeal to the state Supreme Court. But Aloysius Hogan, a spokesman for <a title="English First" href="http://englishfirst.org/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://englishfirst.org/">English First</a>, thinks that due to the solid three-to-zero ruling this would be a tough challenge.</p><br /><p>Last week, I had the privilege of introducing a ten year old <a href="http://growingfamilyof5.blogspot.com/2009/07/visit-to-vbs.html" mce_href="http://growingfamilyof5.blogspot.com/2009/07/visit-to-vbs.html">Ukrainian</a> boy to a group of school children. This young man was adopted by a couple last December and knew absolutely no English when he arrived aside from “hello, yes, no, and mommy and papa.” The day of the assembly, he spoke in very good English to a group of children his age and fielded the questions that these children had for him about the orphanage he had lived in and about Ukraine. His native tongue is Russian and he had been learning to read Russian. Here in his new home, he had to learn a new alphabet and is now reading very well for only being here for eight months.</p><br /><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/justin-passport.jpg" mce_href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/justin-passport.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-265" title="justin passport" alt="justin passport" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/justin-passport.jpg" width="320" height="240" mce_src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/justin-passport.jpg" /></a><br /></p><br /><p>Credit goes to his parents, I am sure, for their dedication in helping him learn the language so quickly. But this young man has had a much more difficult life than most children ever experience in the United States and is already putting the majority of bi-lingual children and adults to shame.</p><br /><p>If an orphan child can come to a new land, learn a new alphabet, learn to read and speak in English, in eight months, then why can’t a high school or any elementary school child do the same? I would suggest that there is laziness and a lack of care. The examples these children have at home demonstrate arrogance for not adopting the language that defines America and its heritage. There is no reason other than laziness and pride that keeps individuals back from learning the language of the land. With effort, the lives of the adults and children who do not have a command of the language would improve by making it easier to live in a country with a single language, making it easier to be neighborly and do day to day tasks in the community.</p><br /><p>I agree with the Court's decision and believe that pressure needs to be applied to the homes of non-English speakers, holding them responsible for getting their children ready for the world. It is not the government’s job, but rather the individual who chooses to live in the United States of America.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Theosebeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09433301086026957282noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601874105598784590.post-53505477568206604902009-08-21T08:00:00.000-04:002009-08-21T08:00:01.621-04:00Freedom of speech and Expression is not just for the left!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvzxYxqh5kI1nmARvp4dlIHN8GQ_W4lGyJ8NAVkFkQUdOa5zbDJth2htitTSl8zq27FlbgZMqcmHS5u5bw1bo3iUSzueqNH3q-LxhstIR1Ak2B-SXZFh3O_g-d1DWV7aoqHah9Y0Mb5oJ/s1600-h/6415_251638095614_621495614_8245136_1144916_s.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 110px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 80px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369946832516459090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvzxYxqh5kI1nmARvp4dlIHN8GQ_W4lGyJ8NAVkFkQUdOa5zbDJth2htitTSl8zq27FlbgZMqcmHS5u5bw1bo3iUSzueqNH3q-LxhstIR1Ak2B-SXZFh3O_g-d1DWV7aoqHah9Y0Mb5oJ/s200/6415_251638095614_621495614_8245136_1144916_s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />By Lenice Moynihan<br /><br /><br /><br />Listen, I love the joker poster of Obama. I read that police are investigating who put them up and who created them. My first question is why and my second thought is I am outraged! There is a man at one of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">rallies</span> holding a sign that says "Obama die" and I believe he is now a man of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">suspicion</span>. Although I personally would not choose to voice my opinion in that way, we do still live in a free society. We are a country of free speech! The poster of the joker is called free expression and the sign held by that man is called free speech. They have every right to say how they feel!<br /><br />The left called George Bush <em>Hitler</em> for most of his term and no one said a word. I think of the art displays, if you can call them that, over the years. One in particular was the Cross in urine. Yes, it was beloved by the left as up and coming art. It was called free expression and no one cared how many of us were heartbroken by such a vile display! That artist was hailed not investigated! Those of us who found it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">blasphemous</span> were considered stupid. A couple of months ago Obama was nailed to the cross looking just like Christ. This was done by some liberal artist. The image was going to be unveiled and touted as amazing. I found it to be vile and heresy. We heard no mention of investigations just awe of another genius. The more the art stomps on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">someone's</span> beliefs or morals the left likes it that much more. You are a square if you can't see how secularism is cool!<br /><br />The disgusting things the left has come up with under the guise of free speech and free expression has ruined this country. They are the ones who corrupted our image and they continue to do it. Hey, they came up with teaching kids how to put a condom on a banana in school. Of course, our tax dollars should pay for that, right? Who can argue with that kind of higher education and we were worried that we were becoming dumbed down! Remember though no Bible allowed, only bananas and "my two moms."<br /><br />Free speech is free speech, period! I can't stand, I mean <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">CAN'T</span> STAND, the double standard of these vile hateful people. They love to dish it out but oh boy how they can't take it. This President has the thinnest, not the blackest, skin I have ever seen. He is a cry baby as is much of his staff. We agree mostly we don't want to be shrill like the left but if there are a few out there that do, have at it. Your Constitution defends you. Dear leader, I say that with contempt, that is the end of the story. Some might say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Yea, maybe many of us see carrying the "Obama die" sign as crass but haven't we stood silent long enough. Remember the bananas?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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This law prevents same sex couples from securing spousal benefits from Social Security, filing joint tax returns and gaining benefit from other federal rights reserved for traditional marriage. DOMA gives the states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. According to the <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=646972">Associated Press,</a> the Justice Department lawyers have argued that the act is constitutional and they contend that awarding the federal marriage benefits to homosexuals would infringe on the rights of taxpayers in the 30 states that specifically prohibit same-sex marriages.</p><p>The Obama administration filed court papers this Monday, August 17, 2009, claiming that they too believe that DOMA discriminates against homosexuals. According to the filing by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/17/obama-administration-doma_n_260969.html">Assistant Attorney General Tony West</a>, “DOMA reflects a cautiously limited response to society’s still-evolving understanding of the institution of marriage.”</p><p>But would not the converse be true, if the law was reversed, wouldn’t the millions of people who live in traditional marriages, who support traditional marriages then be discriminated against? And at what point does the institution of marriage stop evolving? Who gets the final say as to what an “Evolved Marriage” looks like?</p><p align="right"></p><p align="right"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Also noted in the Associated Press was that the administration does not agree with the arguments that DOMA protects children by defining marriage as between a man and woman?</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/supreme-court5.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 340px; HEIGHT: 252px" class="alignright size-full wp-image-272" title="Supreme-Court(5)" alt="Supreme-Court(5)" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/supreme-court5.jpg?w=389&h=288" /></a><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/17/obama-administration-doma_n_260969.html"></p></a><blockquote>“The United States does not believe that DOMA is rationally related to any legitimate government interests in procreation and child-rearing and is therefore not relying upon any such interests to defend DOMA’s constitutionality,” lawyers argued in the filing.</blockquote><p></p><p>Ironically, this is the same administration that believes the government (also known as “The Village”) knows how to raise our children better than we and that it would like to send “trained babysitters” to our homes to see that we are parenting right via a little paragraph in the proposed healthcare bill. This administration also thinks that the United Nation has the right tools to take care of all the world’s children, individually caring for them, through the efforts of U.N. Treaty on Children. This Administration is not rational about procreation and child-rearing!</p><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/welcome-to-mass.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-273" title="welcome to Mass" alt="welcome to Mass" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/welcome-to-mass.jpg?w=141&h=145" width="141" height="145" /></a>If Mr. Smelt and Mr. Hammer want a state that accepts them and recognizes them for who they are, then I say, move to Massachusetts! Give the people of the states the right to vote their conscience and trust that their voice will be not only heard but also remain law. Let those whose cause has been lost, to either be a good sport about it, or move to a place where they can have the rights they believe they deserve. An interest group, such as the homosexual lobby, should not be able to over turn the voices of millions of Americans and trample states rights. The Obama administration has much bigger issues than to get in bed with this particular “special interest group.”</p><div class="post-info"></div><div class="post-footer"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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<br /><p>Google “Chuck Norris” and the first site that comes up is the website <a href="http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/">Chuck Norris Facts. </a>He has become a phenomenon on the Internet because of his tough guy image and the jokes pertaining to all things “Chuck Norris.”</p><p><a href="http://www.mustsharejokes.com/page/Chuck+Norris+Jokes">Chuck</a><a href="http://www.mustsharejokes.com/page/Chuck+Norris+Jokes"> </a><a href="http://www.mustsharejokes.com/page/Chuck+Norris+Jokes">Norris doesn’t read books,he just stares them down until he gets the information he wants out of the</a><a href="http://www.mustsharejokes.com/page/Chuck+Norris+Jokes">m</a>.
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<br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SoRe_uAyMII/AAAAAAAAAIQ/-BdUzTMwjd4/s1600-h/chuck+norris+reading.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 89px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 124px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369521104508563586" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SoRe_uAyMII/AAAAAAAAAIQ/-BdUzTMwjd4/s400/chuck+norris+reading.jpg" /></a></p><p>Yet unlike Al Franken: an actor playing the part of a politician; Chuck Norris has read the Health Care bill and knows what he is talking about.</p><blockquote><p><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare">“While watching these political hot August nights, I decided to research the reasons so many are opposed to Obamacare to separate the facts from the fantasy. What I discovered is that there are indeed dirty little secrets buried deep within the 1,000-plus page health care bill.”</a></p></blockquote><p>According to <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare">Townhall.com</a>, Mr. Norris did read the bill and found this interesting fact:
<br /></p><p>“It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading “home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.” The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.</p><p>The bill says that the government agents, “well-trained and competent staff,” would “provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains … modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,” and “skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.”</p><p align="center"></p><p>It appears that Hillary Clinton’s village to raise America’s children again is sneaking in through the backdoors of our homes via the Obamacare bill. I for one don’t like Clinton's and Obama’s version of a village and don’t intend to live there or let them raise my children. Their parenting skills are supremely lacking when it comes to running an efficient White House- hold, laying on the backs of our children ninety nine trillion dollars of debt. I don’t want them teaching my children math skills, as they appear to have none themselves. I don’t want them teaching my children how to read, as neither appears to have read the Stimulas Bill nor the Health Care Bill. I don’t want them telling my children who God is, as neither seems to understand the Bible. And I would thoroughly disapprove of the babysitters they want to send into my home according to this bill to coach me on how to raise my most treasured possession.</p><p>We already see burned out social workers who have no love for the children they purport to “help.” We see teachers who once had a love for kids stumble in and out of the classroom doing the job, without the motivating love behind it. These are the type of babysitter who will be trained to assess whether or not we as American parents are doing it correctly, by their playbook.</p><p>Obama and Hillary both ascribe to the “It takes a village mentality”, but their village is more global than American <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CCHARGE%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">and the U.N. Treaty on Children is the means to the end</span>. According to an article at <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/obama-administration-seek_n_219511.html">Huffington Post</a>, “democrats, from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to California Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of a Senate subcommittee on human rights, have advocated pushing for Senate ratification of the treaty, which requires two-thirds approval in the 100-seat chamber.” The Obama administration is looking to ratify this treaty.</p><p>As pointed out by Warren Mass in his article <a href="http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/4822">Obama May Revive Anti-family UN Child Treaty</a> “like all UN conventions — is not based on the premise stated in our Declaration of Independence that rights are God-given and, therefore, unalienable (inherent and not subject to government restriction). As with the UN Charter itself, and the constitutions of many other nations, the convention presumes to grant rights. Any governmental entity that does this also presumes the converse power to restrict or suspend those same rights.” This administration does not see our children as belonging to American families, but as to the world. They desire to push their ethics onto the lives of all Americans, no matter what vehicle it takes, a Healthcare Bill or a U.N. Treaty, and they will not cease or desist until their agenda has permanently changed the landscape of our Nation and individually, our private homes.</p><p>My God-given rights as a parent, by virtue of the children God gave me, are not for the government to take away. I can not stand by and allow what I know is best for my children on a day to day basis, to be stripped away by a government that seems to only desire a nation that won’t back talk and will consent to every agenda. Washington D.C., Obama and the Democrats believe they can create a “Changed Nation” by getting to the hearts and minds of our kids. And they are right, they can. By taking away the rights of parents to love and choose what is best for their families, the government becomes the facilitator of cloned American children, all raised under one standard. This standard is not “One Nation Under God”, but rather “We are the world, we are the children.” The standard that has thrown God, the Bible and prayer out of so many crucial places in America will be the one in place when the babysitters come to check on our parenting skills. And if I, as a parent, get in the way of the babysitter, I will be deemed an unfit mother and placed in timeout, indefinitely.
<br /></p><p>As Chuck Norris pointed out, “Government needs less of a role in running our children’s lives and more of a role in supporting parents’ decisions for their children. Children belong to their parents, not the government. And the parents ought to have the right — and government support — to parent them without the fed’s mandates, education or intervention in our homes.”</p>
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<br /><p>Another claim on children, by another government, was Hitler’s Youth. According to <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hitler_youth.htm">History Learning Site</a>, movements for youngsters were part of German culture. The Hitler Youth was a logical extension of <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Adolf_Hitler.htm">Hitler’s</a> belief that the future of <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazi%20Germany.htm">Nazi Germany</a> was its children. The Hitler Youth was seen as being as important to a child as <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazis_Education.htm">school</a> was. Another dictator also saw the benefit in capturing the minds of children. As stated also in the Norris article, Josef Stalin once declared, “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” These men were smart and so are the Progressives who rule our country today. They know that they can create permanent Change by leaving an indelible mark on our nation’s children, through education and re-education of the American parents.</p><p>Perhaps this is why the fight against this bill is so impassioned, as deep down, we recognize a take over of things we holder dearer to us than just Health Care reform. The take over is our freedom to be Americans, to raise our families in God-fearing homes if we so choose and to teach our children what “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” means historically, not progressively. The fight is far from over, but if we have women and men, like Chuck Norris, ready and willing to take a stand, at all costs for our children and the country they will inherit, we can win and return it to our foundational roots.</p>
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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Lennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584526571152552697noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601874105598784590.post-28063906162791144972009-08-12T16:00:00.000-04:002009-08-12T16:00:00.303-04:00Thou Shalt Have No Other gods Before the ACLU<div class="post-info">By <a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/thou-shalt-have-no-other-gods-before-the-aclu">Theosebes </a><br /></div><br /><blockquote><br /><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jamestown_scene_viii_patrickhenry.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247" title="Jamestown_Scene_VIII_PatrickHenry" alt="Jamestown_Scene_VIII_PatrickHenry" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jamestown_scene_viii_patrickhenry.jpg?w=509&h=439" width="509" height="439" /></a></p><br /><p><a href="http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090721/opinion04/907210309">“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”</a> Patrick Henry, Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution</p></blockquote><br /><p>Last August 2008, the <a href="http://www.aclu.org/religion/schools/39550prs20090508.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a> and the ACLU of Florida filed suit against the Santa Rosa County School District on behalf of two Pace High School students who alleged that school officials regularly promoted religion and led prayers at school events. Instead of fighting the lawsuit, the School District “<a href="http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=840">consented to the entry of an order that prohibited, among other things, all prayer at school-sponsored events. The School District then consented to a much broader order fashioned by the ACLU, which essentially bans all employees from engaging in prayer or religious activities, whether before, during, or after school hours.</a>” The federal district court of Pensacola, Florida entered the Consent Order without legal argument. According to the Liberty Counsel, which filed a motion to intervene, the order is unconstitutional and far over reaching as it infringes on the rights of the students, administration and teachers.</p><br /><p>The Principal, Frank Lay, and Athletic Director, Robert Freeman, of Pace High School are scheduled to go on trial next month on criminal contempt charges. As reported on <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=638708">Onenewsnow.com</a>, Principal Frank Lay asked Robert Freeman to have a prayer for the meal at an honorary luncheon in celebration of some of the athletic achievements. At another event, the principal asked the husband of a clerical worker to offer a blessing over a meal. The husband was not employed by the school. It is because of these two events that these two men are facing criminal contempt charges. If they are convicted, they both could face fines and imprisonment.</p><br /><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mattstaver-libertycounsel.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244" title="MattStaver-LibertyCounsel" alt="MattStaver-LibertyCounsel" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mattstaver-libertycounsel.jpg?w=91&h=117" width="91" height="117" /></a>Mathew D. Staver, <a href="http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=840">Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, </a>commented: “It is a sad day in America when school officials are criminally prosecuted for a prayer over a meal. The Founders believed that religion and morality are the twin pillars of the Republic. Judeo-Christianity was taught in public schools, because such teaching was the foundation of liberty. George Washington said that whoever undermines the twin pillars of religion and morality cannot be called a ‘Patriot.’ It is outrageous and an offense to the First Amendment to punish a school official for a simple prayer.”</p><br /><p>The ACLU, not unlike the Church of England of hundreds of years ago, flaunts its own version of religious tolerance and then criminally persecuting those who disagree with them and who take a stand against them. Just as the Separatists came to these American shores to escape the ACLU-type persecution, today’s Christians have no new land to which they may escape and must take this fight for their constitutionally protected rights to the courts. </p><br /><p>As long as Americans cave to the bullying tactics of the ACLU, all First Amendment rights will be in jeopardy. The ACLU worships a god, the god of secular humanism and their Bible is their personal agenda to silence those who don’t worship this god of theirs. Perhaps it is time to send the ACLU on their own pilgrimage, on their own Mayflower, to find a country that will tolerate their anti-constitutional ways, their religious persecution, and their intolerance.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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Obama is the one who manufactured statistics and facts since day one. His election was never a mandate yet we have been led to believe over and over again that it was. Right now, the Left has a bogus advertisement stating just that. The FACT is he did not win by a mandate but rather a minor margin. He lives in a world of fantasy where logic, facts and reality play no part. What is a larger concern is our media and people that refuse to see or report the FACTS.</div><br /><div>Obama's surprise at the grass roots movement is astounding. Mostly because we have been told since day one this man is a genius. Not only is this man not a genius, but he can not stand firm on his quick sand rhetoric. This government is becoming creepy. I can think of no other word that would describe the turn of events during town hall meetings. Pelosi stated as a fact that the "angry mob" were seen carrying swastikas and the White House is telling the Democrats to go out and "punch back twice as hard." This is how our government is talking about it's citizens? Sounds like fascism to me. The White House is encouraging our elected officials to fight back instead of listening to their constituents. The state run media happily obeys and reports town hall meetings as manufactured mobs. This is an outrage! </div><br /><div>We can no longer dismiss the fascist regime that seems to be emerging. They want a single party state. They want to cram their ideology down our throats; case in point-Obamacare. They have no interest in WE THE PEOPLE, only an interest in We the Government. He does not want to lead a Republic he wants to empower government. He is not concerned about the rights vested in us by the Constitution. He already trampled on that with bail-outs, taking over the private sector, and paying off the unions.<br /><br />We are in a grave situation here in the United States. It is mostly perpetrated by our government. Those we voted in to protect our laws and our citizens are attacking us! We will not be silenced. Anyone who is still more concerned about touting the party line than supporting his country really needs to do a fact check. There are no facts in this administration only fabricated words and numbers. Obama helped no one and his actions and the real FACTS show this to be true. I have learned to expect the opposite of whatever this man says. He is the consummate liar and by that judgement I stand. This system is broken and corrupt. Is it beyond repair? We can not let them quiet the drum that is beating ever loudly. This country is what we will fight for, not a party and not a President.<br /><br />Mr. President this is MY country and you will not silence me!</div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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The continuation of this program is the latest evidence of the Obama Administration’s promised “transparency.”<br /><br />Once again, we find our leaders getting ready to vote and spend more money on something that hasn’t been competently reported on. Harry Reid is confident that they will vote on this “cash-for-clunkers” program before they break for their August recess even though the Obama Administration has not yet given the proper reports to show whether the program is or can be successful.<br /><br />The White House has refused to release documents containing information on the program and the Transportation Department has said it will release its findings, but it may be after the Senate votes to sink another $2 billion into the program.<br /><br />This has been the course of the Obama Administration for the last eight months. Apparently in the dictionary that Obama and his staffers refer to, the definition for transparency and ambiguity has been conveniently reversed. It is mind boggling to me how a man can campaign nationally on his dedication to transparency and honesty as well as his promise to the American people of having 5 days to review bills before they are signed and then clearly not do it. The list of campaign promises broken and inconsistencies in his statements is growing longer by the day.<br /><br />Shouldn’t we have some transparency on why the Obama Justice Department dropped all charges against the New Black Panther Party and the three members that were <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU">intimidating voters in Philadelphia on Election Day</a>? Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the number three man in the Obama Justice Department, approved a decision in May to drop the charges even though the lawyers in the department’s Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division recommended that the Justice Department seek sanctions against the organization and the three individuals. The government had already won a default judgment in federal court against the three men. But, it is okay for Obama to have Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano monitor "right-wing extremists" who are those concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion, as well as returning war veterans. Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia is not letting this go and has asked for an explanation on why the Justice Department dropped all charges against the New Black Panthers.<br /><br />How about some transparency on health care reform? After all, Barack Obama said this during his Presidential campaign, "People say, 'Well, you have this great health care plan, but how are you going to pass it? You know, it failed in '93’, and what I've said is, I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."<br /><br />Did I miss this negotiation on C-SPAN? There is now video that shows <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk&feature=player_embedded">Obama in 2003 and 2007</a> talking about his intention to have a single-payer government run health system and how many years he thinks it will take to phase out employer-provided health insurance. Yet he is actively campaigning and insisting that the American people not believe the claims that his health care push is a “Trojan horse” for a single-payer system.<br /><br />If this is the transparency and honesty that we can expect from President Obama and his administration in leading this country, it is no wonder that the term “Chicago politics” has been used to describe their methods.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Lennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584526571152552697noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601874105598784590.post-79837733732619242972009-08-08T08:00:00.001-04:002009-08-08T08:00:04.698-04:00Harvey Milk a Hero?<div class="post-info">By <a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/harvey-milk-a-hero/">Theosebes</a><br /><a title="Comment on Harvey Milk a Hero?" href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/harvey-milk-a-hero/#comments"><br /></a>What does Harvey Milk have in common with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.? Absolutely nothing! Yet his supporters in California desire to elevate him to the same position that these great men hold in history by honoring him with his own “special” day. What did Harvey Milk ever do that places him on equal footing with Presidents, Veterans and Independence Day? Absolutely nothing! He was a vocal, flamboyant politician with an agenda, able to use his charisma and connection to make legislation happen. How is that much different from any of the politicians today? Perhaps, instead of a Harvey Milk Day in the Public Schools of California, we should make it “fair” for all politicians and call it “Politicians Who Push Their Agenda Day.” If Harvey Milk had not been murdered by a fellow politician, he wouldn’t be getting a day, but because of his death, he has been raised to iconic status for being an effective community leader. What I ask should be the criteria of such an honor? What gives an individual “hero” status deserving of singular attention by a school board, state or nation?</div><div class="snap_preview"><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/noah_webster_dictionary_1828.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-229" title="noah_webster_dictionary_1828" height="243" alt="noah_webster_dictionary_1828" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/noah_webster_dictionary_1828.jpg?w=314&h=243" width="314" /></a><strong><a href="http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,hero">HE’RO</a></strong>, n. [L. heros; Gr. a demigod.]</p><p>1. A man of distinguished valor, intrepidity or enterprise in danger; as a hero in arms.</p><p>2. A great, illustrious or extraordinary person; as a hero in learning. [Little used.]</p><p>3. In a poem, or romance, the principal personage, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the <em>Iliad</em>, Ulysses in the <em>Odyssey</em>, and Aeneas in the <em>Aeneid</em>.</p><p>4. In pagan mythology, a hero was an illustrious person, mortal indeed, but supposed by the populace to partake of immortality, and after his death to be placed among the gods.</p><p>America has lowered the bar for what defines a hero and because of this mis-definition, anyone can claim the title without doing anything for his or her fellow man. Harvey Milk is not a hero, he is not a man distinguished by valor, intrepidity or enterprise in danger. He may have served in the armed forces and we thank him for that service, but this does not deem him hero status and worthy of a day named in his honor. He lived a lifestyle that he chose to promote through the political process, rising up through the ranks and fighting for his homosexual community. But that doesn’t elevate him to hero status either, as most politicians fight for what he or she believes in, passionately and persistently. This is the just part of the job and Harvey Milk did his job. Give him a shiny gold star for his star chart and an “Atta boy”, but don’t give him a day of honor!</p><p>To place Harvey Milk on the level with great Americans who in fact hold hero status because of their lives, their personal integrity, and character, is to negate the very actions that made these individuals great and worthy of honor. We place hero status on athletes, actors, musicians and politicians, for what? What have most of these people done that can be deemed worthy of honorable mention? Most have gained popularity at best and infamy at worst, without a hint of serving their fellow man. Yet even in following the golden rule, one should never seek recognition, as this should be part of a civil society, not a heroic deed!</p><p>The firemen who saved people from the Twin Towers melting frame are heroes, because though it was their job, they continued to work around the clock for the love of their fellow man. Where is their calendar day? Why doesn’t the California School Board have a day for heroic 911 volunteers?<br /><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jason.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-230" title="jason" height="222" alt="jason" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jason.jpg?w=168&h=222" width="168" /></a></p><p>What about the men and women who paid the most extravagant price, serving our country and giving up their lives to protect our rights to even have this conversation? What about <a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/2009/0309_moh/presentation.html">Cpl. Jason L. Dunham of Scio, New York</a>, who posthumously received America’s highest military decoration two years and nine months after succumbing to a mortal brain injury while fighting in Iraq? What about the soldiers who gave it all and their families who sacrificed their loved ones for America. Perhaps they could have a day named in their honor for the California Public School system.</p><p>The mothers and fathers who care for their cancer-ridden child, living in and out of hospitals and fighting for every second of their beloved child’s life are worthy of hero status. Where is their day California?<br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/lauren-cancer.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-231 alignleft" title="lauren cancer" height="147" alt="lauren cancer" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/lauren-cancer.jpg?w=329&h=147" width="329" /></a></p><p>What about the heroism of the child who undergoes chemotherapy and radiation, fighting to live, longing to play again? Do not these real life heroes deserve more recognition than Harvey Milk?</p><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/schwarzeneggersigning.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-232" title="SchwarzeneggerSigning" height="199" alt="SchwarzeneggerSigning" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/schwarzeneggersigning.jpg?w=220&h=199" width="220" /></a></p><p>The Harvey Milk Day SB 572 is now lying on the desk of Governor Schwarzenegger. He has vetoed similar legislation, but is under much pressure to sign it into law this time. If signed, according to an email that is circulating, SB 572 would pressure every California public school to have an official Harvey Milk Day promoting the homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual agenda to children as young as kindergarten. The bill is written so broadly, that SB 572 would allow schools to determine what it considers suitable commemorative exercises.</p><p>State Senator Mark Leno reintroduced the bill and had Sean Penn, the actor who played Harvey Milk, at his side. Leno said that Penn’s Oscar demonstrates to Schwarzenegger that Harvey Milk now has “provincial interest” and therefore the Governor should sign it into law.</p><p><a href="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/harvey-milk.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-233 alignleft" title="harvey milk" height="199" alt="harvey milk" src="http://theflipsideofthecoin.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/harvey-milk.jpg?w=500&h=199" width="500" /></a></p><p align="right"></p><p></p><blockquote><em>I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.</em> <cite><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3972/">Keller, Helen</a></cite></blockquote><cite><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3972/"></a></cite><p></p><p>Let our voices be the tiny pushes of honest Americans speaking loudly to Sacramento and to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger letting him know that Harvey Milk should not have hero status or a day on the calendar. Call Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at 916-445-2841 and let your opinion be known.</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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There was nothing simple stated during the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/The-Presidents-Press-Conference-Full-Video/?e=8&ref=image">Presidential Press Conference</a> regarding health care reform.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Nothing to help the American people lean back and say, “This is simple and it makes dollars and sense.” </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The average American, when faced with a problem that seems insurmountable, tackles each issue one step at a time.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>If the house is falling apart, the owner with common sense looks at what absolutely needs fixing so that he may continue to live in his house as he works to correct that particular problem.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>If the plumbing fails, one calls the plumber, not the bank to do a complete home makeover.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Our servants in Washington, the Congress and the President, should learn from those they serve and make one fix at a time.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>According to an analysis by Republican staff of the House Ways and Means panel, the deficit from the health care reform bill would be $760 billion by 2024, the end of the first 10 years of full benefits coverage. It would be $1.6 trillion by the end of the 2020s. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SmoOe5Iz9JI/AAAAAAAAAIA/sk1GI3Pl144/s1600-h/deficitgraph_gop_healthcare.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362114230234641554" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SmoOe5Iz9JI/AAAAAAAAAIA/sk1GI3Pl144/s400/deficitgraph_gop_healthcare.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/years-health-care-coverage-costs-turn-unfunded-mandate/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-DECORATION: none"><v:imagedata title="" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.png"><br /><br /></span></a></v:imagedata><v:imagedata title="" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.png">This is not how a well run American household handles expenses.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>They look at the absolute need before them, and spend the appropriate money to fix the immediate problem before tackling the lesser of the needs.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Health care needs a fix, but not reform.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Obama’s very language, “Health Care Reform” demonstrates that he is waiting with the wrecking ball, to demo the already standing structure that has many durable and worthwhile features in order to redecorate according to his ideological tastes and beliefs. There is no thoughtful blueprint laid out to see what is worth saving, what needs a little new paint, and what represents the leaking faucet that must be replaced.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>There is no prioritizing as to what is absolute necessary, but only, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/health/policy/15obama.text.html?pagewanted=1">“When it comes to the cost of our health care, then, the status quo is unsustainable. Reform is not a luxury, but a necessity. I know there has been much discussion about what reform would cost, and rightly so.”</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><br />Obama’s dream home is not a home in which America can afford to live.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>But like many who were caught up in the Real Estate boom, pulling equity from their over inflated homes, pouring it into a dream home reform project that they couldn’t afford and then losing it in foreclosure, so also is this Administration and Congress doing to our Country.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>They have no vested interest in the people, but are like the lenders in years past who at all costs, disregarded ethics and morals, sold mortgages to individuals they knew on paper couldn’t afford the ink they were signing with, all for the sake of power and prestige.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The irony is that the President, responding to a question from the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/The-Presidents-Press-Conference-Full-Video/?e=8&ref=image">Press Corp</a> said, “I have the best health care in the world, I want to see that every American has good health care.”<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>We the people may sit on his porch and have what he terms as “good” while those living in the White House and the Congressional Houses in Washington D.C., get the “best” insurance.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>If We the People are their employers, if they work for us, then how is it, that we get stuck with the crumbs off the king’s table?<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>How is it that we, the rightful owners of the White House and the Houses of Congress are not even invited to the meal to participate in the discussion?<span style="font-size:0;"> </span></p><p>The Biblical parable about the wise and foolish man can speak to this very issue.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>In <em>Matthew 7</em>, Jesus talks about building a house, and though He was speaking about spiritual issues, it applies to the kind of decisions that men make and the effects those decisions have on the lives that they influence.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>The President, by virtue of his position affects Americans through his decisions.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Judge for yourself, are the leaders of this country building a house on a rock or the sand?<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Do their decisions represent wisdom or is there great foolishness in their positions that will cause America to crumble in years to come?<span style="font-size:0;"> </span></p><p><sup><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=<br /><br />Matthew%207&version=9%3B"><br /><br />24<span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><br />Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: </span>25<span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. </span>26<span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: </span>27<span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. </span>28<span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: </span>29<span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.</span></a></sup><u><span style="color:blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><v:imagedata title="sandcastle" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image005.jpg"><br /><br />Health Care Reform is just one of the houses being built on the sand.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>It will cause a huge c<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SmoOuDs0pmI/AAAAAAAAAII/l5cPBGDHB3w/s1600-h/sandcastle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362114490768074338" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 299px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/SmoOuDs0pmI/AAAAAAAAAII/l5cPBGDHB3w/s400/sandcastle.jpg" border="0" /></a>ollapse and the fall will be great. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Wise up America!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /></v:imagedata></v:imagedata></v:imagedata></o:lock></v:path></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas></v:stroke><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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After all, we Americans love to play the blame game. Of course, the trillions of dollars we will owe in debt is Obama's fault but we have to admit George W's second term lacked fiscal responsibility. Having said that, this spiral did not happen over night. We could not be at this place in time had the system and it's people not been broken a long time ago.<br /><br />We have become a country of little substance and Obama is happy to be our town crier. He has crammed thoughtless and unread bills through the House and has high hopes of doing the same through the Senate. How did we get to this juncture in the first place? I believe one of the biggest movements to get us in this quandary is the New Age movement. I have studied Spiritual Metaphysics for over 10 years. The true understanding of the Metaphysical world and how it applies to matter is a life time education and requires diligence to practice. People have simplified the concepts of New Age and used them to create a world view. This world view is invested in a collective consciousness. The biggest problem with this world view is that it must be forced. True Nirvana could never be forced; thus, a perfect world on earth is unattainable.<br /><br />Furthermore, true Metaphysical, New Age understanding does not require forced or demanded false morality. It is an evolution by the individual. For example, we have vegetarians putting more stock in the life of an animal than they do people. Most of these fanatics are pro-choice and see no issue with killing millions of babies. They do take issue with killing a cow though. This is an upside down thought system. In my opinion, this was the beginning of this upside down world we are living in now. We are the head of the food chain and a human life is more precious than that of an animal. Of course, I support organic farming. I have for years. I believe the food is better for you and the animals are treated with respect. This is a personal choice not a moral high ground. Many vegetarians demand that we all adopt their agenda for food choices but have no intention of changing their minds on abortion. They are much like religious fanatics that only allow one type of thought. Now Obama is using the New Age paradigm for health care and Cap and Trade. It is his idea of Nirvana and somehow these bills have more meaning than just a politician selling his wares. They are not a uniting factor if they are forced on the American people. The true premise of New Age is all actions create an action and that the Universe has a principled order to it. When you are bullying and hog-tying your people into life styles or lack of choice, you have misunderstood the idea of being united.<br /><br />Our generation hooked on to the New Age agenda with authors like Mary Anne Williamson and Deepak Chopra. They both have had some good things to say; however, the problem lies within the interpretation that we must all come to the same resolve. According to Obama and his sycophants, that resolve is an Obama world. Dr. Deepak Chopra made huge sums of money in this great country of ours through book deals and TV appearances. He had no problem accepting the wealth a capitalist society offers. Yet the other day he wrote an article titled "Can we stop being a super power please?" This makes no sense since this country and it's freedoms and wealth buttered his bread. I guess it is OK for him to reap the riches of our country and enjoy its freedoms but now he has decided we must become more like a 3rd world nation.<br /><br />Bono, another celebrity, is known for his activism for Africa. Although a noble cause, he did not do it alone. President Bush worked with him on his Aids project and helped quite a bit. Yet, I read in an article the other day how he dodged a hug with President Bush. He seemed to be bragging about this act of shunning. So, the moral high road is to help Africa but shun the President of the United States who helped you claim that goal.<br /><br />Both Bono and Chopra tout themselves as above the fray. They see themselves as men of substance yet they are jokers just feeding their own personal agendas. (This is hard for me to say because I am a huge U2 fan!) They cow-tow to their audience and there is nothing original about them. The substance is only for what they see as important not for the good of the whole. Obama works in this same vein. He has a personal agenda and it is not for the betterment of our country. It is for his glory and aspirations of what he thinks our country should be. He lacks substance and has no understanding of a constitution that represents its people. He is a spoiled affront to our forefathers. If you read the biography of John Adams, you will see what a true hero looks like. He understood that in shaping America and serving her best, man had to remove his ego from the process. The above men mentioned are not fit to eat at our founders' table.<br /><br />Our substance is only in the words not in deeds or actions. We like the idea of creating our experiences but when you study the nuts and bolts of Metaphysics it becomes a very different animal. Freedom is what creates a better man and more evolved spirit. Dictatorship breaks man and devastates spirit. We let ourselves go a long time ago and now we are reaping what we have sown. Yes, Obama is responsible for the chaos and careless acts he is making but we are responsible for giving away our freedoms so easily. Although we all did not vote for Obama, a lot of us did. This is because we seek outside ourselves for provision. Hopefully this awakened call is all we need to get back to self. If not, we surely will perish.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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Within twenty-four hours, she had the document and was flying home for her planned vacation. Out of desperation and necessity, the family spent the extra money to obtain the needed birth certificate; how much more should our Commander In Chief take the necessary steps to obtain his own.<br /><br />Obama on the other hand has not taken the time out of his busy schedule, even months prior to campaigning to get his certified copy of birth in order to fulfill the Constitutional mandate for the President of United States. If Americans must comply with the birth certificate laws in place to travel abroad, it stands to reason, that an American President also should have to comply as he gallivants across the globe promoting world peace.<v:imagedata title="drorlytaitzesq-02" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.png"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/Sl5LiGBxAdI/AAAAAAAAAHo/UT8CAixTxbI/s1600-h/drorlytaitzesq-02.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358803655723123154" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/Sl5LiGBxAdI/AAAAAAAAAHo/UT8CAixTxbI/s400/drorlytaitzesq-02.png" /></a><!--[endif]--></p><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/">Dr.Orly Taitz,</a> the attorney for Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook was interviewed by conservative talk show host <a href="http://www.760kfmb.com/Global/story.asp?S=10314274">Rick Roberts</a>.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>She posted on her blog the legal injunction on behalf of Major Cook who states, "[Then] any order coming out of the presidency or his chain of command is illegal. Should I deploy, I would essentially be following an illegal [order]. If I happened to be captured by the enemy in a foreign land, I would not be privy to the Geneva Convention protections," he said, as reported in <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104009">WorldNetDailyExclusive</a>.<br /></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Rick Roberts allowed Dr. Taitz to explain the circumstances in regard to the case and the legal precedent that has been dangerously set by the Army for revoking the deployment orders.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Now, any military personnel who takes issue with serving under Barack Obama as Commander in Chief may cite this precedent and potentially be excused from deployment.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">It seems that the President should just show his certified, hospital generated birth certificate and clear things up easily, without causing more speculation that perhaps he is not Constitutionally able to serve as Commander in Chief. </p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104021">MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tonight called Cook a "jackass" and Taitz a "conwoman,"</a> as he labeled both of them the "worst persons in the world." He flayed the soldier as "an embarrassment to all those who have served without cowardice."</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">He called Dr. Taitz delusional and Major Cook a non-patriotic, pathetic “draft dodger”.<br /><br /></p><br /><div><iframe height="339" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/31914146#31914146" frameborder="0" width="425" scrolling="no"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-TOP: 5px; WIDTH: 425px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); FONT-SIZE: 11px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(153,153,153) 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(87,153,219) !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">Breaking News</a>, <a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(153,153,153) 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: rgb(87,153,219) !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507">World News</a>, and <a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" msonormal="">border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">News about the Economy</a></p></div><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">A man of Barack Obama’s obvious power should be able to produce the desired document and ease the minds of the men and wo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/Sl5LpNxwtaI/AAAAAAAAAHw/KCWegn9fJXQ/s1600-h/BO_birthcert-thumb.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 236px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358803778062562722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7pV5vFnXtM/Sl5LpNxwtaI/AAAAAAAAAHw/KCWegn9fJXQ/s400/BO_birthcert-thumb.jpg" /></a>men that he is sworn to serve as Leader.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>It seems that if all Americans are required to obtain and use their birth certificate at some point in their lives, the President of the United States should also abide by the same standard.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><v:imagedata title="BO_birthcert-thumb" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image005.jpg">If <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/WhatWillYouCelebrate/disneyland/index?name=CelebrationsDLRFreeOnYourBirthdayPage">Disneyland</a> requires a certified birth certificate to get in for free on one’s birthday, doesn’t it seem logical that the sitting President should also share his document willingly with those he serves in order to free the minds of the American people who are concerned with this matter?<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Perhaps Disneyland should invite Barack Obama to come for free on his birthday, but remind him to bring his birth certificate.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></p><br /></v:imagedata></v:imagedata></v:imagedata></o:lock></v:path></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas></v:stroke><?xml:namespace prefix = v /><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:path connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" extrusionok="f"><o:lock aspectratio="t" ext="edit"><v:imagedata title="highway78billboard" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.jpg"><v:imagedata title="drorlytaitzesq-02" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.png"><v:imagedata title="BO_birthcert-thumb" src="file:///C:\Users\CHARGE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image005.jpg"></v:imagedata></v:imagedata></v:imagedata></o:lock></v:path></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas></v:stroke><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Theosebeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09433301086026957282noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601874105598784590.post-46587918081338936122009-07-16T12:00:00.010-04:002009-07-16T12:00:04.432-04:00Free Healthcare?<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ2IlVVfJyEnuag0JWNfimhGYYduskNdpma9V33BNg2xOhCo6X8Z0XfaSplTmPLvSv7MX2W3SujRFWrKzJala1ZeZW6Zc7vNSZ41tIQYHemHBa862Byhyk5qk3Xst2Huw1TKyhhyphenhyphenmbBIH/s1600-h/ObamaCare.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 244px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358423786418145058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ2IlVVfJyEnuag0JWNfimhGYYduskNdpma9V33BNg2xOhCo6X8Z0XfaSplTmPLvSv7MX2W3SujRFWrKzJala1ZeZW6Zc7vNSZ41tIQYHemHBa862Byhyk5qk3Xst2Huw1TKyhhyphenhyphenmbBIH/s320/ObamaCare.jpg" /></a> By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.candidconservative.com">Jenny Erikson</a><br /><br />There are two types of “free.” Free as in freedom, and free as in beer.<br /><br />Some things are essentially free. Rainbows, wildflowers, hugs and kisses from loved ones, and sometimes, a beer from a friend who says, “Don’t worry about it, I’ve got this one.”<br /><br />As Americans, we are free citizens. It’s right there in the <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm">Declaration of Independence</a>, a document that laid out the reasons why it was important for the colonies to break away from Britain’s “unwarrantable jurisdiction.” The <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html#article">Constitution</a> lays out our freedoms; we are free to chose our own religion, to speak our minds, to assemble and petition, to own firearms, to raise our children as we see fit, to vote for a representative government, and we are even free to drink that free beer.<br /><br />There has been a lot of discussion recently about socialized or “free” healthcare being introduced to the United States. Free healthcare? Where in the world are we going to find enough doctors (who, by the way, are trying to pay off an average of <a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/medical-student-section/advocacy-policy/medical-student-debt.shtml">$140,000 in medical school debt </a>each) willing to work for free in order to make sure that every American (or illegal immigrant pretending to be an American) has healthcare?<br /><br />As a stay-at-home-mom, I work my tail bone off everyday. I’m the maid, the nanny, the chef, the chauffeur, the counselor, the life coach, the activities director, the secretary, the referee, and sometimes if my husband is lucky, I’m other things as well. I do it all for free, without being paid, because of my unbreakable and unending love for my family. But as much as I love my family, it is hard to do it all for free. Really hard. So I have to ask myself, “If it’s hard for me to work for free for my family, whom I love and cherish more than anything on the planet, how hard is it going to be for doctors to work for free for people they don’t even know?”<br /><br />Free healthcare is an impossibility. There is no such thing as free beer. Your friend paid for it. Maybe he did it because it was his turn to buy, or maybe out of generosity or appreciation for your friendship. But he didn’t do it because the bartender said, “Sir, you make twice as much money as this man, so it is only ‘fair’ that you buy his beer for him.”<br /><br />That’s what <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqLNecbH0dcg">our government is trying to do regarding healthcare</a>. It isn’t going to be free, because someone is going to have to pay for it (estimated cost is 1-1.5 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.) Doctors and nurses need to be paid, along with the scientists that develop new drugs, the engineers that build medical equipment, the architects that design hospitals, and even the janitors that keep the toilets clean. Taxes are going to skyrocket. Everything will be taxed, from the CO2 we breath out (double tax if that breath included nicotine), to sodas, and of course, to incomes.<br /><br />It isn’t going to be free either, with “legislation that would require all Americans to have health insurance, prohibit insurers from refusing to cover pre-existing conditions and place other restrictions on the industry.”<br /><br />I’m a grown up. I like my freedom. I like choosing my doctor, and I like that doctors can refuse patients. I like being free to choose my car, my vocation, my religion, my food, and my home. I like that all Americans have those freedoms, even if they choose differently than me. It’s precisely that freedom that makes our nation great. An entrepreneur is free to make or improve something, investors are free to fund it, and consumers are free to purchase it.<br /><br />Our government is sliding down the slippery slope of oppressive power. Obama wants to tell us what to eat, what to drive, how to run our companies, and what medical treatments we may receive. Oh sure, we’ll still have a “choice,” but the taxes will be so crippling that it will “necessarily bankrupt” us. As history has shown us over and over, everybody’s a loser in a tyrannical state. The Cubans aren’t driving 50 year old cars and dying of malnutrition because they like it that way.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NsxXtiYLhalOivo4d8mDMMIswQs2Na2nt1wZKnQC7kr6-KUt8GmHJ_3-FRON_IGSm8Oc9KS8JiRBm4xpawYjqp67Qfvo_4q1p8QTR_xoYHN4USvah1bZkXoPzyL_vg3JLAYig61Eq6lZ/s1600-h/Jenny.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 67px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358815864945218482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NsxXtiYLhalOivo4d8mDMMIswQs2Na2nt1wZKnQC7kr6-KUt8GmHJ_3-FRON_IGSm8Oc9KS8JiRBm4xpawYjqp67Qfvo_4q1p8QTR_xoYHN4USvah1bZkXoPzyL_vg3JLAYig61Eq6lZ/s200/Jenny.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Jennie is a conservative Republican chick with a strong opinion and a smart mouth who loves her husband and kids with the ferocity of twenty tigers fighting over a meatball. </em></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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While her anti-nunchuk rant may have infuriated each and every ninja in the Senate, most of her statements have been Wonder Bread-bland. She’s ironically depicting herself as being more inoffensive than an Osmond. <br /><br />Of course, this stands as remarkably sudden turnaround for the nominee: she’s instantly become unerringly sympathetic to those who support gun rights, has remained partly coy on the decidedly straightforward subject of abortion, and abruptly claims that her complexion doesn’t make her wiser. <br /> <br />But she’s flipped into tedious mode for a reason: the candidate is applying for a sweet gig. Sotomayor is undergoing a job interview, and she’s naturally going to be either positive or vague about her qualifications in the hope that the hiring managers won’t notice her rising red flags. She’s attempting nothing more than to gloss over her résumé’s rough patches. The native of the, let me double-check, Bronx is doing everything she can to downplay her infamous alleged richness of experience. <br /><br />After all, Supreme Court Justice is a recession-proof job no matter what else President Obama unleashes on the poor economy. It comes with other benefits, too: the occupation currently pays $208,100 per year, offers a long summer recess, and requires no travel or heavy lifting. And, it’s of course a career for life once you land it. <br /><br />Justice Samuel Chase was impeached but not removed in 1805; he was the first and last person to face an attempted banishment. At this point, a judge would have to get caught selling meth to war orphans on the court’s steps to put his or her employment status in danger. <br /><br />It’s steady work during a time when the phrase “government job” may soon become redundant. Even better for Sotomayor, none of her bizarre decisions can be overturned by the Supreme Court if she’s herself on it; at worst, she’ll only find herself voting in the minority. This post would remove her chance of ever again being embarrassed by reversals. <br /><br />Despite the procedure’s importance, many interviewers have been too busy inking their “HIRED” stamps to ascertain whether the aspirant deserves the post. Most glaringly, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy cut off his New York counterpart Kirsten Gillibrand for sucking up to Sotomayor for too long. The Senate has reached a new low even by its own modest standards when someone like Leahy thinks a colleague is being too fawning toward a perfectly liberal future Court seat-filler. <br /><br />It’s all dreadful to endure. The most exciting moments of the hearings will continue to be when rudely protesting dunces in the crowd interrupt with shrieks regarding their hostility to her nomination. And even those incidents will only be interesting because of the possibility that the loudmouths might deservedly get pepper-sprayed or tasered. <br /><br />The only chance for a truly compelling event would be if Republican senators displayed any willingness to stand up for conservative ideals. Namely, they could call out Sotomayor for her obviously ingrained hostility to judicial restraint. That’s especially true in light of her novel claims that she’s now keen about adhering to the Constitution. <br /><br />Opposition party members could focus on how her recent statements obviously conflict with her record. All they would have to do is highlight Sotomayor’s curious willingness as a member of the judiciary to pass and approve laws; making up policies herself is a type of governmental efficiency we don’t need. Jeff Sessions, Lindsey Graham, and maybe Jon Kyl are at least trying to show that she doesn’t deserve the position despite her salesmanship. But they’re going to end up being a minority of the minority. <br /><br />Instead, most Republican lawmakers on the whole will lamentably acquiesce during the time between now and the vote. They’ve decided that, since they comprise only one-third of the Senate, the best strategy is to concede and be thankful the applicant isn’t even worse; oddly, they’re acting as if yielding will slingshot them back into power. <br /><br />Their turnstile mentality means that Sotomayor will succeed in getting promoted from the Court of Appeals despite her evasiveness during the hiring process. The reluctance on the questioners’ part to provoke controversy makes for immensely uninteresting television. Oh, and it also leads to another activist landing on the Supreme Court. <br /><br /><br /><em>Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and "Red Eye" Conservative in Western New York</em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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Although both black and white communities have picked <a class="zem_slink" title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/" rel="homepage">Obama</a> as a top contender, this last week it seemed to be <a class="zem_slink" title="Michael Jackson" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001391/" rel="imdb">Michael Jackson</a>. I am sorry that I need to point out color but it seems we are still doing that. Of course, we heard that Michael was more black than white and he really represented the black community. I think this was a similar argument with Obama. I recognize there will always be idiots in America and the world at large that are <a class="zem_slink" title="Racism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism" rel="wikipedia">racist</a>; thus, the fallen world we live in. Many of us have encountered some kind of prejudice some worse than others. I can say it was drilled into me by this society that I am not to see color. Was I the only one paying attention? I know I am not the only person that has lived my life this way so why can't the rest of you? To the black community and others that love to use the race card I say it is time to let the color go. We are an inflexible society that grabs onto issues and don't want to let them go.<br /><br />I found out in my 20's that I am the steward of my destiny. This is not a left or right tenet, this is a life Truth. If I had personal problems and excess baggage, I would need to find the answers. If I wanted riches, I would need to work for them. If I wanted to be married with longevity, I would have to work at it. The common thread here is me working at it. I have spent a life time addressing my personal issues so I could be all that I could be. I am convicted in my beliefs and I have no need for a flesh and blood idol. I have filled my own voids because no one else can! It seemed Michael was a broken person although incredibly talented. Obama, to me, is an egomaniac. How can either of these men be an idol to fill my needs? More importantly, why are Americans so desperate for someone else to fix it for them?<br /><br />I say we have lost our sense of self. The black community refuses to set aside color so every single issue must include that conflict. Obama refuses to let go of his agenda so we must watch our country's demise. The left refuses to let go of its hatred and vitriol speech so we must continue to look bad to other <a class="zem_slink" title="Country" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country" rel="wikipedia">countries</a>. The <a class="zem_slink" title="Human rights" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" rel="wikipedia">fundamental right</a> clings to it's judgement; even though, <a class="zem_slink" title="Christ" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ" rel="wikipedia">Christ</a> made it clear thou shall not judge. The white community is so busy being <a class="zem_slink" title="Political correctness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness" rel="wikipedia">politically correct</a> they have forgotten their own thoughts and feelings. In the end, none of this is working except for the government at large, or should I say as it gets larger!<br /><br />We have become an insane nation and if you don't believe me turn on the news. Our government is not representing it's people. The glamour life style of pop stars and <a class="zem_slink" title="Hollywood" href="http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Little-Birdy/dp/B000J10G0Y%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000J10G0Y" rel="amazon">Hollywood</a> don't represent us either. They are all thriving because of our needs for idols and the distraction of <a class="zem_slink" title="White noise" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise" rel="wikipedia">white noise</a>. As a nation, we really need to get it together. We are 233 years old and we have become more immature not mature. The fundamental premise is the pursuit of the individual not BIG OVER GRASPING AND OVER REACHING GOVERNMENT. Instead we look to Presidents and pop stars to create our governance. This pattern is deadly. America take a good look at yourself. 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It wouldn’t be to help them save time when compiling <a class="zem_slink" title="Janet Napolitano" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano" rel="wikipedia">Janet Napolitano</a>’s Personal Enemies List: it’s more of a preemptive move against those who brand us as radicals for thinking the government shouldn’t be buying lots of stuff. If they’re still fretting about the seething rage among righties, we may as well make the case that attendees are as typical as zealots get.<br /><br />We held a standard Tea Party. Specifically, a few hundred of us spent an hour or two listening to enthusiastic limited-government speakers while assembled in front of our majestic Art Deco City Hall. It was basically similar to other events across the nation: we were mostly like everyone else everywhere else.<br /><br />That said, we face particularly onerous burdens based on where we are. Notably, we are subject to income tax for the privilege of living in the Empire State, a risible 8.75 percent sales tax in Erie County, and astoundingly high property tax rates that cost some homeowners more than their mortgages. We have to chant to ourselves, religious mantra-style, the ample benefits of living here just to keep from calling U-Haul.<br /><br />We’re mostly upset because it’s unnecessary to take all that’s taken from us. There are innumerable examples of obviously genuine waste. But even worthwhile organizations should be funded by private citizens choosing to spend their money on them. Philharmonics, art galleries, and pro sports teams are all significant and wonderful assets, which means that people should be willing to spend their own money in support. If we benefit from them, we don’t need a government mandate to fund them.<br /><br />Our party also featured the same extremists who criticize the educational system for its astounding expenditure per mediocre student. On a national level, count us among the disaffected reactionaries who think banks and car companies that run themselves into the ground can either dig themselves out or stay there. <a class="zem_slink" title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/" rel="homepage">Barack Obama</a>’s take on the free market is strangely expensive.<br /><br />Tea fanatics also maintain that the government isn’t obligated to care for our fitness. Lost in the analysis of health care costs is the broader truth that it’s an individual’s duty to maintain his or her self. Simultaneously, we realize that doctors, hospitals, and the rest of us will always step up to help those in need; the true cynics are those who hold that charity only works when forced.<br /><br />We’re also the same lunatics who oppose cap and trade simply because it will destroy the economy and attempt to force us to use limp power sources for the sake of not having any effect on the environment at all. Of course, the bill will only affect people and industries that use energy, so it’s not as if its consequences will be far-reaching.<br /><br />In that regard, our foes don’t know history, or at least not our history. They don’t simply oppose distinctively American concepts like personal reliability and being left the hell alone; they don’t even realize that they’re valid options. They’re unable to get around the answer to the question that, if the government won’t attend to the details, who will?<br /><br />On the other hand, the Tea Party gave us a chance to flaunt our historical knowledge, and not just because we used our First Amendment rights to stand up for our Tenth Amendment ones. For one, judging by the quantity of rattlesnake-clad flags being waved, we clearly know who Revolutionary bad-ass Christopher Gadsden was.<br /><br />Plus, someone in the crowd at Buffalo’s Niagara Square was proudly flying a Green Mountain Boys flag. The green standard with 13 stars in a blue corner field would probably be misconstrued to be Mother Earth’s ensign by our commie hippie friends. It’s a mistake that would be made by the same types who only know of Ethan Allen as a fancy furniture builder.<br /><br />By the same measure, John Hancock and Sam Adams would have been branded militant nuts today, but only by those who recognize the names. They would be hassled by dinosaurs like The New York Times and evening network newscasts along with newer reptilian incarnations on the web. The only thing worse would be that others would sadly find themselves unfamiliar with the heroes. For one, JoJo Biden would be confused as to why a financial guy and brewer, respectively, were being treated as menaces.<br /><br />With that in mind, I’ll hold back and instead make those at DHS keep looking for the pictures of my individualistic comrades and me. They can stumble to <a href="http://www.twitter.com/AnthonyBialy" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/AnthonyBialy</a> if they’re really interested in seeing how we amassed and occasionally cheered as we behaved. Alternately, the feds can search for photos posted by one of the numerous other normal diehards based in a plethora of other cities.<br /><br />It’ll be good for those keeping an eye on us: they can learn what we already know, namely that we just want to keep more of what we make. If we’re the biggest threat to security, consider this nation blessed. That was just another reason to have spent the rest of the Fourth celebrating.<br /><br /><em>Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and "Red Eye" Conservative in Western New York.</em><br /><img alt="" src="file:///Users/Dawn/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" /><img alt="" src="file:///Users/Dawn/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><a href="http://smartgirlnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/anthony-bialy.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4161" title="anthony-bialy" alt="anthony-bialy" src="http://smartgirlnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/anthony-bialy-149x150.jpg" width="149" height="150" /></a></span><img alt="" src="file:///Users/Dawn/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" /></p><br /><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; HEIGHT: 15px" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/d3b7f173-62c7-45f5-908e-80ac2fe9fdea/"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=d3b7f173-62c7-45f5-908e-80ac2fe9fdea" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js"></script><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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As consumers are confronted by an ailing economy and a brittle banking system, how much longer will it be before the capitalist system becomes just a faded memory?<br /><br />The following is an excerpt from Senator Jim DeMint’s new release <em>Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide into Socialism</em>:<br /><br />“America’s golden goose is our capitalist economic system. It has made us wealthy beyond anything the world has ever known. Yet our excesses and debt are leading us to demand more and more golden eggs. Our taxes, regulations, and legal liabilities on businesses are now the most onerous in the world. We haven’t yet killed the goose, but we have plucked her clean, and the socialist axe is at her neck…<br /><br />We have seen the federal government’s ‘communal sector’ replace local decision-making in public schools, hamstring private sector health-care services, federalize local banking, socialize farming, nationalize road construction. We now have federal intrusion into almost every business sector. Government must provide a consistent and predictable framework of laws and regulations, but arbitrary intrusion and subjective interpretations of regulations destroys the operation of the free market. Capitalism and socialism will not work together.<br /><br />America cannot have it both ways. We must decide if we want a free market economy or socialism. Mixing the central planning principles of socialism with the decentralized free-market principles of capitalism has not worked, and it is destroying American’s competitive advantage in the world. Using business to collect taxes, provide health care, maintain pension programs, promote affirmative action, support the unemployed, absorb the cost of emissions by cars and utilities, and pay for frivolous lawsuits is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.<br /><br />All of these functions are important and sometimes necessary, but Americans must understand that putting these costs on the backs of businesses does not save money; it obscures costs and creates inefficiencies that reduce competitiveness. Businesses don’t pay for anything; they pass along the cost of taxes, health care, pensions, and all other costs of doing business to their employees and customers. These expenses increase the cost of American workers but reduce their take-home pay. They also increase the cost of products, reduce competitiveness, and hurt profitability.”<br /><br />In 314 pages, Senator DeMint argues against big government and calls for Americans to take back the power rightfully bestowed upon them by our founding fathers. He also calls for Americans to defend their personal freedom and provides action steps citizens can take to stop this slide into socialism.<br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.savingfreedombook.com/" target="_blank">http://www.savingfreedombook.com/</a><br /><br />Connect with Senator Jim DeMint online:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFpS3NI_1zDiXtdtDPdaZpTjInRwob9wZIGdakij97HjHPFI-qEahM6uX2kwqsNC4TgPkkevCS6Rz50BOABiQiBL4L3iRu-Ldm_40LBtLoEJR2ZJzTNbZYNoLKCdcas3fxwA4Emi3lcw6/s1600-h/demint_jim_thumb.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 100px; HEIGHT: 135px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356126128481727250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFpS3NI_1zDiXtdtDPdaZpTjInRwob9wZIGdakij97HjHPFI-qEahM6uX2kwqsNC4TgPkkevCS6Rz50BOABiQiBL4L3iRu-Ldm_40LBtLoEJR2ZJzTNbZYNoLKCdcas3fxwA4Emi3lcw6/s200/demint_jim_thumb.jpg" /></a><br />Twitter: <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.twitter.com/JimDeMint');" href="http://www.twitter.com/JimDeMint" modo="false">@JimDeMint</a><br />Personal Site: <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.JimDeMint.com');" href="http://www.jimdemint.com/" modo="false">JimDeMint.com</a><br />Senate Site: <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/demint.senate.gov/public/');" href="http://demint.senate.gov/public/" modo="false">DeMint.Senate.gov</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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Our Founding Fathers risked everything to fight for a country that they believed in. A free country. A country where "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." When America finally won her Independence from Britain, the U.S. <a class="zem_slink" title="United States Constitution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" rel="wikipedia">Constitution</a> and the Bill of Rights were written with the purpose of limiting government. We fought for Independence and they knew that we needed to preserve it. We needed to create a country where the strong arm of the government could not interfere with our right to live free. Are we still that country? The country that stands for freedom and an individual's right to earn a good life? I am not so sure anymore. There are more and more people out there that think they deserve a good life and that the government should provide it. The current Democratic controlled Congress and <a class="zem_slink" title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/" rel="homepage">President Barack Obama</a> are only too happy to comply with this.<br /><br />Since his inauguration on January 20th, <a class="zem_slink" title="President of the United States" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president_obama/" rel="homepage">President</a> Obama and Congress have been spending tax payer money uncontrollably, have taken over a portion of the auto industry, are setting the stage to control and regulate more of the banking industry and Wall Street, and now they want to take over the health care system and pass a Cap and Trade bill that will raise prices for all Americans on everything from heating your home to things you purchase at the store. If the Cap and Trade bill passes in it's current form, a government agency will be created that will inspect your house before you can sell it and tell you what improvements need to be made to meet government "green" regulations. Just as medical decisions should be made by a doctor and the patient, shouldn't improvements on a home be made between the buyer and the seller based upon an independent home inspection? Not according to the current administration and those running Congress. They know what is best for every American.<br /><br />Our President couldn't even get off the fence to come out with a strong stand on Iran, the election and the protests for freedom. First he said,"We're still waiting to see how it plays itself out...." and that "The difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised. Either way we are going to be dealing with an Iranian regime that has historically been hostile to the United States." I am sure to the people protesting, there was a difference. To many who were protesting, it was not so much that Mousavi himself didn't win, it was the idea that Ahmadinejad could take an election illegally. Obama claims he didn't want to "meddle" in Iran's problems, but by making these comments and belittling what the people there were protesting, he did. If there was no difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi and both regimes would be hostile to the U.S. anyway, then why be so timid and not condemn the actions of the government?<br /><br />It was only after coverage of the protests increased and the tragic shooting of a 26 year old woman by the Iranian Basij Militia while exiting a car, that President Obama decided to speak with stronger criticism on the actions of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Politics of Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Iran" rel="wikipedia">Iranian government</a>, "When a young woman gets shot on the street when she gets out of her car that's a problem." Mr. President, it is more than a problem, it is murder.<br /><br />Now to the complete other end of the spectrum, when the Congress and <a class="zem_slink" title="Supreme Court of the United States" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444&spn=1.0,1.0&q=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444%20%28Supreme%20Court%20of%20the%20United%20States%29&t=h" rel="geolocation">Supreme Court</a> of Honduras had their military remove the leftist leaning President Zelaya, Obama came out quick. He claimed immediately that it was "not legal" and that Zelaya should be reinstated as President. In fact Zelaya was corrupt, had mismanaged finances of the government and was trying to circumvent the Constitution of Honduras by extending his term of office. The Congress agreed with the Honduran Supreme Court's ruling that Zelaya was in violation of the their Constitution and the military complied by removing Zelaya. As Hans Bader stated in his article, <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner~y2009m7d5-Will-Obama-blackmail-Honduras-into-installing-a-bullying-wouldbe-dictator">Will Obama blackmail Honduras into installing a bullying would-be dictator?, </a>"The Honduran military's role in enforcing the court <a class="zem_slink" title="Court order" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_order" rel="wikipedia">order</a> does not make it a "coup" any more than federal troops' role in enforcing the court-ordered integration of the Little Rock public schools in 1957 constituted a military occupation or takeover."<br /><br />What is scary is that Obama stated that the "U.S. will stand on the side of democracy" so to him, Zelaya represented democracy! In taking this stance, President Obama has now found himself agreeing with Hugo Chavez, <a class="zem_slink" title="Fidel Castro" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004242/" rel="imdb">Fidel Castro</a> and every other leftist dictator and leader in Latin America. I applaud Republican Rep. <a class="zem_slink" title="Ileana Ros-Lehtinen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen" rel="wikipedia">Ileana Ros-Lehtinen</a> for taking issue with the Obama administration on it's reaction to Honduras.<br /><br />In a letter to Obama, Ros-Lehtinen stated "the U.S. stance from the onset appears to have been focused on supporting one individual, President <a class="zem_slink" title="Manuel Zelaya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Zelaya" rel="wikipedia">Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales</a>, irrespective of the Honduran constitution, rule of law, and democratic institutions. ... [T]here has been no apparent attempt by the U.S to discern the truth about the status of democratic and constitutional order in this Central American country, before making summary conclusions and issuing condemnations based on incomplete information." She ended the letter by saying she hoped the Obama administration "will not have the U.S. response hinge on unconfirmed reports and accusations by sources with a vested interest in ensuring a particular outcome that may, or may not be in the interest of the United States."<br /><br />The Senate will soon start confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who President Obama has nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States. She has stated, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." I argue that she does not see all people equally. She first sees ethnicity, then gender, and then the law, which she wants to create. In 2001, she said this, "Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage." Anyone who is a judge and makes it clear that they will be bringing their bias to the bench based on their heritage, gender and experiences, should not be anywhere near the Supreme Court.<br /><br />Our country is changing. It is changing because we are being led by a man who lacks the knowledge of what freedom and democracy is, to be President of the <a class="zem_slink" title="United States" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&t=h" rel="geolocation">United States of America</a>. If the United States doesn't stand up to the government of Iran and doesn't give the people of Iran the message that we stand solidly with them in their struggle for freedom; if our leader doesn't see that in Honduras, the wheels of democracy were actually working in the ousting of Zelaya; if our President and Congress force government controlled health care and continue to take over industry after industry; if our government sees fit to impose taxes and create another federal bureaucracy to make the country "green", and if a judge gets confirmed to the Supreme Court who clearly doesn't see all people equally and sees her role as one to create law and not interpret it justly, where is our freedom headed?<br /><br />The American people need to understand that if actions are not taken to stop the current trend of government interference in our lives and it's inability to stand up for the struggles of freedom in the world, we may be longing for the days of celebrating our hard fought-for Independence because we will be mourning our complacent birth of Dependence. Dependence on a government that thrives on power. The power to tell you what is right for you. 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