tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10060423459875374192024-03-12T21:09:45.097-05:00Marbie's BlogSay it with me, "NOT ON MY WATCH!!!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-73594545219530164832009-08-26T10:10:00.006-05:002009-08-26T12:14:27.249-05:00<p><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LhqLh_c0NL4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LhqLh_c0NL4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br />While releasing terrorists and investigating the CIA for their treatment of terrorists, Obama is also trying to erase our "harsh" memories of September 11, 2001. This administration has signed into law, a new view of September 11th. It is now a National Day of Service. Their motivation is to "take September 11th away from Republicans," because in Obama's view, it's a Republican day. The plan is to push activism, the environment, ethanol, service in the sense of ACORN activity and forgetting all about those "detainees" and the devastation they inflicted upon New York, Pennsylvania and the whole country.<br /><br />Who's behind this? <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911">http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911</a><br /><br />"The administration's plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group's senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.<br /><br />Yearwood, who uses the honorific "Reverend" before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested. After Democrats took back Congress, the rowdy activist was handcuffed outside a congressional hearing in September 2007 when Gen. David Petraeus was to testify. Yearwood told the "<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2007/9/13/democracy_while_black_rev_lennox_yearwood" target="_blank">Democracy Now</a>" radio program that he wanted to attend the hearing to hear Petraeus give his report. "I knew that when officers lie, soldiers die," he said. "<br /><br />A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Color of Change is the extremist racial grievance group that isn't happy that TV's Glenn Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, the self-described "communist" and "rowdy black nationalist" who became the president's green jobs czar after jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon. </span><span style="color:#3366ff;">The White House may be behind a push to destroy Beck by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show.</span> <span style="color:#006600;">Jones was also on the board of the </span></strong><a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/2009/07/31/communist-linked-apollo-alliance-dictates-to-congress/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Apollo Alliance</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#006600;">,</span> a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. <span style="color:#009900;">The group has acknowledged that it <em><span style="font-family:verdana;">dictated parts of the February stimulus bill to Congress.<br /></span></em></span></strong><br />With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media -- which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation's first black president -- <strong><span style="color:#006600;">to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens. "</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;"></span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Please read the entire article for more disturbing details. </span><br /><br />Did you hear about this on television? Was there any debate about this? Did anyone ask "We the People" if we wanted to change it's meaning?<br /><br />Start planning your own observance of September 11 and boycott everything Obama and his Communist organizations do. Boycott the television stations and networks that cover the Obamanation of September 11th. Don't let the true memory of that terrible day be painted over with Obama's agenda. This day belongs to all of us. We will continue to call them terrorists, not detainees, and continue to observe September 11th as the day that radical Islamic terrorists killed over 3,000 people on American soil. We will not call them freedom fighters or detainees. We will not refer to the war on terror as an "overseas contingency plan". Of course, it now looks as if that accurately sums up Obama's orchestration of the war on terror.<br /><br />Put flags on your houses, your cars and everything that you can place a flag on. Wear flag pins on red, white and blue clothing. Put black ribbons on your yard trees and front doors. Hang them from your porch lights. Set up candles and crosses in your yards, offices and churches. Hold church services in remembrance. Hold prayer services for the families and pray for America. Refuse to be led by Obama down a path of neutralizing September 11th and turning it into a Democrat's dream of left-wing activism, environmentalism and enrolling citizens in Obama's civil army. No one asked you if you wanted to "fundamentally change" the way we observe September 11th. </p><p><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Don't let them get away with it. </span></strong></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-89750389638195855382009-08-26T00:54:00.006-05:002009-08-26T02:01:27.617-05:00Obama Promised to Fundamentally Change America<strong>fun·da·men·tal :<br /></strong>Of or <strong>relating to the foundation</strong> or base; elementary: the fundamental laws of the universe.<br />Forming or serving as <strong>an essential component of a system</strong> or structure; central:<br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_cqN4NIEtOY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_cqN4NIEtOY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><strong>Five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America! Look at all those happy people behind Obama as <em><span style="color:#cc0000;">he tells them that he is going to change the very foundation of America,</span></em> the bastion of freedom in the world, the country that stands up to bullies and dictators around the world, the center of economic growth, the most generous and charitable nation in the world, a place where everyone's dreams can come true, a mix of every nationality and religion, yet not plagued with hatred and terrorism. What are they smiling about? Why do they want to change the basic foundation of America?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>What is it that those smiling people are happy to change? Is it the Constitution? The Bill of Rights? Freedom? Individual liberty? Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers? Amendments protecting citizens from "big brother"? Amendments prohibiting unreasonable search and seizure of citizens and their homes? Free elections? Self-government? Debate of the issues open to the public and broadcast on C-Span? </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>A two-term President rather than a life-time dictator or royal monarch? Freedom of speech? Everyone taking care of themselves and their families without government interferance? The right to own property, homes and one's own wealth? The right to travel the world? The right to worship our God as we see fit?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>July 4th celebrations of the birth of our nation, our founding fathers, patriotic parades? Religious services on Sunday or Saturday, depending on your faith? Freedom to put your children in private, religious or public school or home-educate them? The right to spend your money any way you want, to invest it or save it? The right to drive whatever you want? The right to privacy?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Someone tell us which fundamental component of our country's foundation are they happy to change? Which basic element in the foundation of our country do they want Obama to change? I wonder if they will still be happy after the fundamental changes are made. I know I won't. I love the basic foundation of this country. Someone once said, </strong><br /><strong></strong><br />"No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.<br /><br />This is no time for ceremony. <strong>The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery;</strong> and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. <strong>Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, </strong>and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.<br /><br /><strong>Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.</strong> We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? <strong>Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?<br /></strong><br /><strong>For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth -- to know the worst and to provide for it.</strong> I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?<br /><br /><strong>Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. </strong>Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation -- the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?<br /><br />No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing.<br /><br /><strong>We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable;</strong> but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.<br /><br />Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.<br /><br /><strong>Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.<br /></strong><br /><strong>If we wish to be free</strong> -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, <strong>we must fight!</strong> I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!<br /><br />They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? <strong>Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the <span style="color:#cc0000;">delusive phantom of hope,</span> until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?<br /></strong><br /><strong>Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.<br /></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.</span></strong> Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!<br /><br />It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! <strong>Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! <span style="color:#cc0000;">I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"</span></strong><br /><br />Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-35422295179178272412009-08-25T12:41:00.004-05:002009-08-25T12:47:32.418-05:00CALLING A FEW GOOD MARINES TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY! Pt. 2<p><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_rRE5UK6NQU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_rRE5UK6NQU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br />Marine , Disabled Veteran, David Hendrick speaks to Congressman Brian Baird at a town hall meeting in Clark County, Washington on August 18, 2009.<br /></p><p>He was then invited to the Sean Hannity show for an interview.</p><p></p><p><br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LfDibgiWyd0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LfDibgiWyd0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">I hope this Marine runs for office in his dsitrict. I will encourage him to do so.<br /></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Calling a few MORE good Marines to save our country – again!</span></strong></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-22612776636894097342009-08-24T12:45:00.006-05:002009-08-25T12:26:30.317-05:00CALLING A FEW GOOD MARINES TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY!<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOlqrM8DjjCNAX0oxbzhBew8N1BURdrizHkvkGhZ9IEk9CWVCcmPbypwBNtdV0PIFVGOyL65nv_Tc_OtxxP2lk3H51-zBCgHaxCpNMHXxiERjBcP1qi0btdO2RPD0DINM6ettaUEj_Vg/s1600-h/Kelly+for+Congress.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373588432270676930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 297px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 244px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOlqrM8DjjCNAX0oxbzhBew8N1BURdrizHkvkGhZ9IEk9CWVCcmPbypwBNtdV0PIFVGOyL65nv_Tc_OtxxP2lk3H51-zBCgHaxCpNMHXxiERjBcP1qi0btdO2RPD0DINM6ettaUEj_Vg/s400/Kelly+for+Congress.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>Does this look like a RINO to you?</strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">“I (state your name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>and domestic</strong></span>; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">So help me God.”</span></strong> The Marine Corp enlistment creed.<br /></div><div align="left">Now what’s a Marine to do when he’s sworn to defend the Constitution AND obey the President who is currently trashing the Constitution? What’s a Marine to do when he’s sworn to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">and <em>domestic</em></span></strong> when the <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">domestic</span></em></strong> is the President of the United States, the Democrat Congressmen/women and the Democrat Senators?<br /></div><div align="left">This is a dilemma for all enlisted service personnel. It seems that while they are enlisted, all they can do is exercise their right to vote and try to unseat the domestic enemies. But once they are discharged, they can run for office in their home towns and home states, and perhaps <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">a few good Marines can save this nation from the current onslaught of bankrupting the country, socializing everything and stealing our freedom and liberty.<br /></span></strong></div><div align="left">Marines have great training and strong discipline. They are the best and the brightest. They are actually capable of reading a bill proposed in Congress. They can tell the difference between right and wrong, pay for play, quid pro quo, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch your back, and plain old corruption. Marines don’t mince words or speak in circles with Yale, Harvard, Columbia double-talk. They don’t engage in “used car salesman” tactics; “This little car is in mint condition, owned by a little old lady who seldom ever drove it” (backslap).<br /></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">But most importantly, Marines love their country. They love freedom and individual liberty. They’ve fought, and many have died, for it.</span><span style="color:#3366ff;"> Give me a Marine any day over a Columbia University professor harboring old wounds, wacky ideas, socialist or worse, Marxist, ideas, and “control the world agendas”!</span></strong> Give me a good ol’ American homegrown boy or gal who’s become a strong man or woman with American values and love of country! Give me a Soldier or Sailor from the Army, the Air Force, the Navy or the Marines <span style="color:#3366ff;">who easily sees who the enemy is and calls a terrorist A TERRORIST!<strong> </strong></span><strong>Give me a Marine who will shoot at terrorists not at citizens exercising their First Amendment right to free speech which was initially written to protect political speech against the government.<br /></strong></div><div align="left">Let’s start with one Marine, Jesse Kelly, in Arizona, who says, “Send a warrior to Congress. Does this look like a RINO? They’re spending us off the cliff! They’re destroying this nation and while Im still breathing, I will not let it happen. It’s time to be ‘in your face.’<br /></div><div align="left">"I’m tired of President Obama and the liberals who control Congress insulting us, calling us racist, and calling us a mob. I’m tired of their double-talk. I’m tired of their bait-and-switch shell games. I’m tired of being avoided by my public servants. They have forgotten that they work for us.<br /></div><div align="left">Ronald Reagan once famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” We are that generation! Either we stand now and fight for our country, or the great United States of America may be but a fading memory.”<br /></div><div align="left">Goals are "to bring fiscal sanity back to Washington, D.C., stop the out-of-control spending and get back to the founding principles of free-market capitalism."<br /></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107417" jquery1251135053925="4">http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107417</a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><p><br /><object height="360" width="580"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kUini08olkQ&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kUini08olkQ&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />If you want to throw out all the old cronies who have corrupt money-making deals padding their bank accounts while socializing this county…<br /><br />If you want people like Jesse Kelly in office to turn this Titantic around…<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Then you must help him and every other “Jesse Kelly” running for office by forwarding their message and sending them contributions. They are up against a vast machine – ACORN, SEIU, OBAMA TEAMS, THE DNC AND THE MAIN STREAM NEWS MEDIA. They don’t have George Soros’ money to support their campaigns.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Jesse Kelly is doing all he can to save your America for you and your posterity. Help him as much as you can. You will be helping yourself when you do. One office at a time, we can turn this around.<br /></span></strong><br />Imagine sending this Marine to deal with the illegal aliens, the Mexican drug cartels, the murders, and kidnappings going on in that state. Imagine sending Marines to every border state! We might actually get the job done! </p><p><strong>On 10 November 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved to create two battalions of Continental Marines for the War of Independence from Britain. In 1798, President John Adams signed the Act establishing the United States Marine Corps.<br /></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">It is the soldier,<em> not the reporter,</em> Who has given us freedom of the press.<br /></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">It is the soldier, <em>not the poet,</em> Who has given us freedom of speech.<br />It is the soldier, <em>not the campus [or community] organizer,</em> Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.<br />It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag.</span></strong></p><p>– Father Dennis Edward O’Brian, USMC</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-62067724244738325122009-08-22T08:39:00.004-05:002009-08-22T08:56:43.206-05:00NOW IT'S A $9 TRILLION DEFICIT?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEBkrXdXG82j_CAZgkRMQ4qJxrfXEbrrboohMcmnwkHTFOs8gUEZNY35p7LE0-xb-PTGyIsBkbDdNOQVWPX-lzZN1H1jgzA3ml6qGBmuJGSaWAXmNkcpGag6TBCZ3nMv7kV0StwNIoGM/s1600-h/tax+man.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372786732102669682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 102px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 116px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEBkrXdXG82j_CAZgkRMQ4qJxrfXEbrrboohMcmnwkHTFOs8gUEZNY35p7LE0-xb-PTGyIsBkbDdNOQVWPX-lzZN1H1jgzA3ml6qGBmuJGSaWAXmNkcpGag6TBCZ3nMv7kV0StwNIoGM/s400/tax+man.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>So it’s Friday afternoon and everyone’s anxious to get on with their weekend plans, especially the Obamas who are taking off for a vacation in “the tony Martha’s Vineyard”, as some reporters put it. <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">They’ve rented a <span style="color:#cc0000;">$20 million</span> dollar farm</span> </strong>from a wealthy Republican, which begs the question, “why did Michelle tell college students at their commencement ceremony to forego a corporate career and chose a life of service, essentially steering them away from making hefty salaries. It seems like a case of “do as I say, not as I do”, which is a typical Obama pattern.<br /><br />What you might have missed in all the vacation talk, or your own scurry home for the weekend, is the little bit of news released by the White House amidst <span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>the Friday afternoon “no one is paying any attention right now” time slot.</strong> <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Obama’s administration has raised its 10-year deficit projection to approximately</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">$9 trillion.</span></strong></span> They tried to stick with the former projection of $7.1 trillion (oh what’s a trillion or two?), but finally had to agree with the Office of Management and Budget Office on the higher figure.<br /><br />This <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">doesn’t include the universal health care bill</span></strong> that the Congressional Budget Office pegs at a cost of<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"> $1.6 trillion</span></strong> or the<strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"> cap and trade bill</span></strong> that will wind up costing <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">$2 trillion</span></strong> over eight years <strong>instead of Obama’s initial projection of $646 billion.</strong> As usual, the government underestimated the costs. <strong><em>Don’t be surprised if they raise the projection for the cost of the health care bill, too.</em></strong> http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/03/18/will-can-andtrade-cost-2-trillion.html<br /><br />So why do you think Obama’s people released the <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">new $2 trillion higher</span></strong> figure on Friday afternoon as the President is capturing the news media’s attention with his vacation plans? <strong>Why do they always tend to release bad information on Friday afternoon during the “no one’s paying any attention right now” time slot?<br /></strong><br />With <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">the Communist Chinese buying our debt instruments,</span></strong> at least for now, <strong>we could find ourselves in a peck of trouble someday. </strong>Where will the government get the money to pay these astronomical debt amounts if and when the Chinese call it in? <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">They’ve got two places to grab a buck or a trillion bucks: print it or take it from our paychecks by <span style="color:#cc0000;">hiking taxes to astronomically high rates.</span> </span>If they print it, the dollars in our bank accounts will be diluted to minimal value. A dollar that once bought a loaf of bread, now only buys one-fourth of a loaf. So it could take four diluted dollars to buy the same loaf. (</strong>Of course, I’m not trying to be accurate, just over-simplifying.) Either way, or a combination of the two, would be devastating to families, young people trying to get started in life and retirees on a fixed income.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">It certainly seems that Obama is hell-bent on taking Americans to that unholy place of “flat-broke” at home and in Washington, D.C.</span></strong> Do you think the White House, the Congress and the Senate will give up their jets, cushy hotels, world travel, expensive restaurants and other perks to save money? Rather doubt it, don’t you? They never have!<br /><br />We’re going to have to stand up and fight these bills and expenditures without growing weary. We can’t let up. Our future is at stake. Our chidren and grandchildren’s futures are at stake. America is a republic, and it should never be a banana republic. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-48800242603905641622009-08-20T13:35:00.001-05:002009-08-20T13:37:26.032-05:00The Day the Health Care Died/Sung by Paul Shanklin<object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V9HS8n8Y4qo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V9HS8n8Y4qo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-36507350013273460792009-08-19T10:49:00.002-05:002009-08-19T11:09:19.898-05:00Gathering Storm<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxIBLCK44Blaq89-Nte2JnOk_KMiFhiQxhdqI8HRVo0oaOEhiegIewDJ2FW7nDtZSqL-AD-DhWPSlm5-P5YOD5evwabHcJRyGtanw4FXw8ms7gnS_c2T7hsXQ_t8WuiFv4_9l9QyV31E/s1600-h/TheGatheringStorm.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371707473529277826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 271px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxIBLCK44Blaq89-Nte2JnOk_KMiFhiQxhdqI8HRVo0oaOEhiegIewDJ2FW7nDtZSqL-AD-DhWPSlm5-P5YOD5evwabHcJRyGtanw4FXw8ms7gnS_c2T7hsXQ_t8WuiFv4_9l9QyV31E/s400/TheGatheringStorm.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>A picture is worth a thousand words.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-62818462663255410942009-08-17T13:34:00.003-05:002009-08-17T13:39:47.404-05:00ALERT! - SWINE FLU VACCINE LINKED TO DEADLY NERVE DISEASE!<strong><span style="font-size:180%;">ALERT!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">READ THIS ARTICLE AND MAKE YOUR DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO TAKE THE SWINE FLU VACCINE OR RISK GETTING THE SWINE FLU. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong></span><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html</a><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">WHICH IS RISKIER?</span></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-85804079482936352242009-08-17T11:26:00.009-05:002009-08-17T11:45:52.582-05:00Universal Health Care - Obama Intends to Get It Done<p><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fpAyan1fXCE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fpAyan1fXCE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W7SY-grBtnk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W7SY-grBtnk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#cc0000;">Obama intends to get it done, no matter what he has to do, no matter what he has to say. </span>He intends to get it done. <span style="color:#cc0000;">Universal health care - socialized health care.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong>Here’s the tactics he uses to sway the people.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">He speaks in generalities so that the public projects whatever they desire onto what he said.</span></strong> They interpret what he means through their own desires. He speaks in generalities so that no one can take issue with him and he can say that he didn’t say “that”.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">He says what he really means to his left wing, liberal and progressive special interest groups to secure their vote and enlist their help and support. </span></strong><strong>He’s at home with them and speaks the truth among friends.</strong> <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">When speaking to the general population on the same issue, he waters down his ideas and makes them acceptable to everyone, but keeps his agenda. He brings the general public along gradually, or so he thinks.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">He blames everything on the previous adminsitration and paints himself as just arriving and hands clean,</span></strong> all the while working furiously to strong arm everyone into compliance with his agenda. Mr. Clean does his dirty work behind closed doors.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">When speaking to the American public, he drops his Ivy League speech patterns and gets down to the level of the common man.</span></strong> Many people fall for that one. They believe he’s one of them and they trust him. He is not your average Joe (No pun intended. Apologies to Joe the Plumber.) He lives among the rich, like the rich because he is rich. Read Michelle Malkin’s new book, Cultur of Corruption. One chapter explains all the ways Michelle Obama made hundreds of thousands of dollars every year after her husband was elected to the Illinois Senate and then more so after he became U.S. Senator from Illinois.<br /><br />To ensure that his listeners trust him, <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">he evokes their sympathy by telling a heart-wrenching story about his mother or grandmother dying.</span></strong> People are supposed to melt and agree with him. Once he’s back at the White House, it’s business as usual - hard line progressive, socialist or whatever category it falls into. But it’s not what the freedom-loving Americans want.<br />When asked about his previous controversial statements, he claims he is being taken “out of context.” However, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.<br /><br />A particularly disgusting tactic <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Obama uses routinely is to attack, mock and denigrate anyone and everyone who disagrees with or opposes him.</span></strong> But, when the shoe is on the other foot and he’s being mocked, Obama is indignant. How dare they?<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">A tactic that is particularly deceptive, but not exclusively Obamas’ is that of not calling a spade “a spade.”</span></strong> The killing of a living human baby in its mother’s womb is not called murder, it’s called “abortion” because that is less repugnant. The “death panels” in the health care plan are not called “death panels” because that is highly objectionable. They are there, but they are given paragraphs of soothing descriptions rather than a name that sums up what they will do. There will be lots of government appointed agencies that decide how to spend the allocated funds for health care. They will have mandates and restrictions. When money is tight, they will figure out that it is better, in their minds, to spend the money on younger, more productive people than on older retirees, the infirmed and the end of life’ers. People will decide to allow some folks to die rather than spend a lot of money on their treatment. As Obama said to a woman asking about care for the elderly, it might be better to give her mother a pain pill rather than surgery. That decision should be left to each individual, not a government appointed stranger in another state. <strong><span style="color:#990000;">This cannot be called “freedom” by anyone’s definition.<br /></span></strong><br />Lastly, <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Obama says one thing and does the opposite.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">He may have been forced to back off for now, but don’t let your guard down. He intends to get it done. He may tack parts of universal health care on the backs of other bills that have nothing to do with health care. It may be passed in the middle of the night with little media coverage.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Don’t stop attending town hall meetings.</span></strong> If Obama himself comes to your town, try to go and ask him about his statements in the video presented here. Don’t accept the answer that he was taken out of context. He was not. He’s said it too often in different places. Ask him where HIS health care plan is. (He doesn’t have one.) Ask him when his discussion panel was ever on C-SPAN for the American people to watch. Ask him when any of his bills, cap and trade, bail-outs, buying General Motors, and now health care, was ever open and transparent. Ask him to list all the things that are MANDATORY in Congress’s health care plan and what the penalties are.<br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>This man has lied to get elected, lies to get his agenda passed and lies when he’s asked about anything controversial. There is no reason to trust him now. He is saying whatever he has to say to get his agenda passed. Know this – he intends to get it done, despite the American public.</strong><br /></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-58795006726450165082009-08-14T13:49:00.005-05:002009-08-15T10:25:24.332-05:00Time Magazine's Dr. Death Spin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJK48LwObIU-wJ2-H-_Jnv1AWktgjaKwourEiSVH0qNL7Z2vp71YD9byEM3j55GC3V2ic6fuebj3tfQn0n8fPaiAw8Yb8fQE8qMquHvJIHoKDKyDWstCGLw0cruGSqFy7roTZcHZIIptg/s1600-h/DEMOCRATCONNECTIONS.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQJWyxjHkIK0GpSUhCiFMt_5KONJIupgmgpIlqQ38uV9k8y0ah7NAHr_2lb6Eq-qqgsYd-OsBgS_A05LDU8FzrAya1OU2zLk-blY_WNcoLk9J6UaNn11nvRo5IdhidFjmc-dJQa_vvww/s1600-h/EMANUEL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369893684317632530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 149px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQJWyxjHkIK0GpSUhCiFMt_5KONJIupgmgpIlqQ38uV9k8y0ah7NAHr_2lb6Eq-qqgsYd-OsBgS_A05LDU8FzrAya1OU2zLk-blY_WNcoLk9J6UaNn11nvRo5IdhidFjmc-dJQa_vvww/s320/EMANUEL.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>The article in Time Online, “Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama’s ‘Deadly Doctor’, Strikes Back,” by Michael Scherer, August 12, 2009, seems like a spin control piece by an Obama supporter. If Mr. Scherer would read Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s book, The End of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity, he would know that Dr. Emanuel has very radical views not aligned with main stream America.<br /></div><div>Emanuel’s statements and writings have not been taken out of context. That’s the standard defense of anyone who’s been caught by the truth. Case in point, the YouTube video of Obama in 2007 stating that he favors a single-payer health care system in America. He has no defense. He’s caught. He can’t say that he didn’t say it, so he shifts to, “I was taken out of context.” That’s the usual defense when caught.<br /></div><div>America should ask the question, <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">“Why does anyone have to decide what kind of care and how much care any other human being is allowed to have?” </span>There’s no need. Keep the government out of our most personal decisions. <span style="color:#3366ff;">We’ll make them for ourselves.</span></strong> Then it won’t matter how radical Emanuel is or isn’t.<br /></div><div>And as for those awards that are supposed to validate Emanuel’s statements, well, just remember that Yassar Arafat, father of modern day terrorism, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! Awards mean very little now days.<br /></div><div>BTW, Americans should know that <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Chicago politics has moved to the White House. </span>“No one has leveled with the public about these dangerous views. <span style="color:#cc0000;">Nor have most people heard about the<span style="color:#3366ff;"> arm-twisting, Chicago-style tactics being used to force support.</span> In a Nov. 16, 2008, Health Care Watch column, Emanuel explained how business should be done: <span style="color:#006600;">“Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda. If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration’s health-reform effort.”</span><br /></span></strong></div><div>Do we want a “reform” that empowers people like this to decide for us? Betsy McCaughey, New York Post, http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm?page=2 Betsy McCaughey is founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former New York lieutenant governor.<br /><br /></div><div>BE SURE YOU SEE THIS: <a href="http://romanticpoet.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/democracy-alliance.jpg" jquery1250275669842="4">http://romanticpoet.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/democracy-alliance.jpg</a></div><br /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369894505461680994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 137px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 126px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1-kBlWznsIV4r1sE__KNuK4LbaxCMQu0yUMGat32luEcEMz2PGo7lViAix26LlFFf8KPfTgHtXTrR28DkJ_eM7-JGu_OCAti3fXSou7V_Poa6CPl2J4rriOHxjV0ufdH4zPUm_i564Q/s400/DEMOCRATCONNECTIONS.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-13955005969748030892009-08-13T14:40:00.012-05:002009-08-14T00:45:05.817-05:00Obama's Health Care Advisor: Dr. Death<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZZdN103nO2_vXuyN7p7C2WyTIyKRGToUtxFjts7MXJOfe011XbZFJr10Gz9vXjSDN3Hc4BqJ831PjN-DpD1e8wKNYgQ11LpszlX28ZMXTHZLop1MMC-Y9yQ_WFzaKhA1yXl6wbS_qiY/s1600-h/untitled.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369540980021869266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 231px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZZdN103nO2_vXuyN7p7C2WyTIyKRGToUtxFjts7MXJOfe011XbZFJr10Gz9vXjSDN3Hc4BqJ831PjN-DpD1e8wKNYgQ11LpszlX28ZMXTHZLop1MMC-Y9yQ_WFzaKhA1yXl6wbS_qiY/s400/untitled.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Just a thought. Many of these agencies and offices <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>will be staffed by political appointees.</em></span> What if ACORN, radicals, SEIU, and Chicago politicos (read that “thugs”) are appointed to run these powerful agencies? What if these positions are held by members of Jeremiah Wright’s America-hating, white-hating church? What if these positions are held by radical professors like Bill Ayers or Henry Louis Gates, both close friends of Obama?<br /></div></span></strong><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Would you be comfortable if a powerful health care office was held by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emmanuel – Obama’s Chief of Staff, who has used strong tactics to force others to fall in line with Obama’s objectives? Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has written the following: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY2h6uIXkJE84dOKCpsHYKI274bR3MQg6MZiD7cU388rlF7Au89NVVdtetzUIiVHv5YmiSEwJEa87RhS2N3YZDntfjyzRHlFspqpfiZ8aPJSFTRgoopWv84Tw4_sFa9JVXwbjVp4wcO4/s1600-h/Ezekiel+Emeanuel.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369541344824017330" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY2h6uIXkJE84dOKCpsHYKI274bR3MQg6MZiD7cU388rlF7Au89NVVdtetzUIiVHv5YmiSEwJEa87RhS2N3YZDntfjyzRHlFspqpfiZ8aPJSFTRgoopWv84Tw4_sFa9JVXwbjVp4wcO4/s200/Ezekiel+Emeanuel.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#000000;">“Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel (Lancet, Jan. 31).<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Think it could never happen? Think it’s not likely? Think again!<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel</span> <span style="color:#3366ff;">has already been appointed</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">by this administration</span> <span style="color:#3366ff;">to two KEY POSITIONS:</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">Health Policy advisor at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)</span> and a <span style="color:#cc0000;">member of the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong>The <span style="color:#cc0000;">“comparative effectiveness research”</span> position has me worried. Is he researching how the government would decide whose treatment is cost effective and whose is not? Is he researching which treatments get the best bang for the buck? <span style="color:#009900;">Will his research determine whether or not a citizen can have new cutting-edge treatments or drugs before they are backed up with years of success, but hold promise for those with few options?<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div>“Emanuel bluntly admits that the cuts will not be pain-free. “Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change,” he wrote last year (Health Affairs Feb. 27, 2008).<br /></div><br /><br /><div>Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).<br /></div><br /><br /><div>Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ‘96).” <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm" jquery1250192327066="4">http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm</a> Read the full article above for more details about Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.<br /></div><br /><br /><div>What if these kind of people have the power to decide who gets what kind of health care and who doesn’t? IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY, IF NOT CERTAIN, THAT THEY WILL!<br /></div><br /><br /><div>Do some internet research on the radical, dangerous doctor of death, Ezekiel Emanuel. He and Dr. Kovorkian could be BFF’s.<br /></div><br /><br /><div></div><div>Visit <a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ezekiel-Emanuel/103185.muckety" jquery1250192327066="6">http://www.muckety.com/Ezekiel-Emanuel/103185.muckety</a> to see his relationships with people and organizations and universities. He was a member of the Clinton Health Care Task Force that was killed in the 90’s. Nothing new here, like Obama promised.<br /></div><br /><div>To learn more about the possible effects of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s influence on the proposed health care reform laws read his won writings in his book, The End of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity, Printed in the United States of America Second printing, 1994 First Harvard University Press. I found his book on Amazon.com and Google Books, where I took some excerpts that we all should be aware of. They follow.<br /></div><br /><div><strong><em>The End of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity, by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel</em></strong>, Excerpts -<br />(on Amazon.com <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ends-Human-Life-Medical-Liberal/dp/0674253264#reader">http://www.amazon.com/Ends-Human-Life-Medical-Liberal/dp/0674253264#reader</a>)<br /></div><br /><br /><div>Page 8<br /></div><br /><br /><div>In Chapter 6 I will sketch a model showing how the liberal communitarian vision might be practically implemented in the area of medical care. This model proposes thousands of <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>community health programs (CHPs).</strong></span> <strong>Each individual would be given a voucher and permitted to join a CHP. </strong>Through democratic deliberations of its members, the CHP would have to <strong>define its own conception of the good life and the resultant particular health care policies. </strong>For example, a CHP would have to delineate which medical services it would pay for and which services would be left to individual payment. By considering historical precedents and accepted traditions, <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">I will show that this model is both politically practical and justifiable.<br /></span></em></strong></div><br /><br /><div>Page 212<br /></div><br /><br /><div>In Chapters 3 and 4 I suggested that by appealing to specific conceptions of the good life, it would be possible to create a framework for addressing these medical ethical issues. And within the liberal communitarian vision, <strong>CHPs are granted the financial resources and <span style="color:#cc0000;">political authority to</span> deliberate on and <span style="color:#cc0000;">formulate policies</span></strong> over the whole range of medical ethical issues <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">by appeal to particular conceptions of the good life.</span></strong> For instance, we might imagine a CHP with members committed to the relational conception of the good life. <strong>This CHP would then consider what type of specific policies to have <span style="color:#cc0000;">for terminating medical care </span>and allocating resources by appeal to this conception. <span style="color:#cc0000;">The members might agree to have a strict age limit, say 72, for the provision of medical services. Those under this age would receive all medically necessary treatments,</span><span style="color:#3366ff;"> but those 72 or over would not receive hospital admissions and the provision of all acute medical services,</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">except inexpensive ones such as antibiotics.</span></strong> Conversely, there would be extensive home nursing and social services and devices to assist in daily living for those over 72. <span style="color:#006600;"><strong><em>All patients in a persistent vegetative state would be denied all forms of medical treatments;</em></strong></span> primitive and receptive patients (see Table 3.1) might receive nursing care, while interactive patients would be eligible for acute medical services. The CHP might also contribute to a fund for research into new devices to assist the handicapped and might offer to test such devices for companies.<br /></div><br /><br /><div>Reading excerpts from this book on Google books at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=jfSlJWNeuK4C&dq=Ezekiel++Emanuel+%2B+the+Ends+of+Human+Life&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=IK3YL2sqRS&sig=jkEKTUu3qEVjCZW2MYC1xUhZq68&hl=en&ei=FUOEStSZLc-Stgeb_PWuCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false" jquery1250192327066="8">http://books.google.com/books?id=jfSlJWNeuK4C&dq=Ezekiel++Emanuel+%2B+the+Ends+of+Human+Life&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=IK3YL2sqRS&sig=jkEKTUu3qEVjCZW2MYC1xUhZq68&hl=en&ei=FUOEStSZLc-Stgeb_PWuCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false</a><br /></div><br /><br /><div>Page 102<br /></div><br /><br /><div>While many people have no insurance and are not receiving needed medical care, many others are receiving extremely “high technology” interventions which, in the opinion of many, have questionable benefits. Consider some interventions: <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Recently attempts to save very small infants, those weighing less than 750 grams (less than 1 pound 10 oz.), with neonatal intensive care interventions have resulted in the fact that “60 to 80 percent of infants died during the initial hospitalization, and the developmental outcome reflects a handicap rate approaching one third of all survivors.” Yet for infants between 500 and 999 grams, the cost per surviving child was in excess of $100,000 in 1978 dollars.” </span>A similar phenomenon is occurring with <span style="color:#006600;">AIDS patients for whom there is no cure, or prospects for a cure, only palliative treatments of secondary infections and tumors. On average, AIDS patients will consume approximately $50,000 in medical care services from the time of diagnosis to death. The Public Health Service estimates that in 1991 medical care for AIDS patients will cost between $10 billion and $25 billion, accounting for</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">1.2 to 2.4 percent of the total U.S. health care budget, for fewer than 0.1 percent of the population.”<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong>And the future appears worse. Costs continue to rise, nearly 10 percent per year. Many complain that health care costs are an important factor in compromising American industrial competitiveness….<br /></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><em><span style="color:#6633ff;">His writings discuss policy making and he’s been appointed “Health Policy Advisor” at the OMB. His writings deal with cost effectiveness of treatment to the elderly, newborn infants of different birth weights, AIDS patients, etc. and he’s been appointed to the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. Obama chose this doctor whose opinions seem to be putting a price tag on people and deciding if they are worth saving.<br /></span></em></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Help spread the word before Obama and the Democrats ram this through in September. Do your own research so that you can speak intelligently on this subject.</span></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-12475665676789847502009-08-12T15:08:00.006-05:002009-08-12T15:54:10.186-05:00How to Lower Health Care Costs Without Government<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDttsoi2EnQHd7EwMMo2c8PSvimre3whidGAyFAAAJ33Ks6BolhlZvnUSkzuVh5Veib6U4VdfbrSfjEt5JNsAyVAZe1EMwkxja5_O-UMMGg9SLdXmQL4MnbCLE8NJ-AoeLPRO-yN6PBy0/s1600-h/health-care-plan-organizational-chart.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369174225196179554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDttsoi2EnQHd7EwMMo2c8PSvimre3whidGAyFAAAJ33Ks6BolhlZvnUSkzuVh5Veib6U4VdfbrSfjEt5JNsAyVAZe1EMwkxja5_O-UMMGg9SLdXmQL4MnbCLE8NJ-AoeLPRO-yN6PBy0/s400/health-care-plan-organizational-chart.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Suggestion #1:<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">All of these offices and agencies will cost massive amounts of money to operate and generate salaries for the staff.</span></strong> Many of the staff and directors will be appointed by politicians and the President (you know, like their kids, their wives and their brother-in-laws?)<br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong></strong></span></div><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>How much cheaper would health care be if all of the government beauracracies were eliminated and health care was strictly between the citizen and their doctor?</strong></span> No one else. <strong><em><span style="color:#3366ff;">Quite a bit cheaper.<br /></div></span></em></strong><br /><div>Suggestion #2.<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies have to pay high premiums for insurance against excessive judgments in lawsuits.</span></strong> This is a cost of doing business and <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>is added to the rates they charge patients.</strong></span><br /></div><br /><div><strong><em>Our health care system is not broken. The cost is too high.</em></strong> We can thank patients and their lawyers who sue for much more money than the cases justify. If Congress won’t pass TORT reform, then perhaps doctors and hospitals could adopt a policy that corrects the problem.<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">They could refuse to treat people who won’t sign a waiver which limits the amount of any lawsuit to a reasonable sum.</span></strong> It won’t prevent patients from suing and it reduces the insurance coverage required for protection against lawsuits. <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">This allows doctors and hospitals to lower their costs to patients because their operating costs are lower.<br /></span></strong></div><br /><div>Any doctors or hospitals who don’t want to enact this policy can continue to purchase the expensive insurance and pass that cost along to their patients. <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">We, the citizens, will have the choice,</span></em></strong> then, to pay higher doctor and hospital costs to retain the right to sue for exorbitant amounts or we can choose doctors and hospitals with lower costs, knowing that we can sue for malpractice and receive a lower more reasonable settlement.<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Pharmaceutical companies can print the waiver on their drug packages warning that purchase of their drug constitutes an agreement by the purchaser that they can not sue for more than the amounts on a chart at the company web site.</span></strong> The charts can also be available for the asking at the pharmacy selling the drugs. Consumers can ask to see the charts before they make a purchase. Pharmaceuticals who don’t wish to participate, can continue marketing expensive drugs and carrying expensive insurance protection. <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Again, the consumers have choices.<br /></span></strong></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>These suggestions should be successful because most consumers do not sue for unreasonable amounts. Furthermore, competition for consumers will bring about lower costs.</strong></span> This is just a first attempt to solve some of the problems we face with health care. We have to start somewhere.<br /></div><br /><div>If you like these ideas, please leave your feedback here.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-29105420293646103622009-08-08T09:44:00.004-05:002009-08-08T09:50:38.495-05:00YOU Will Take Socialized Medicine and Like It!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuP2I2dtXoPcrn5cF6XlX6iMgWbH9Iq29MzLueKN7_cWO3xb1nTgmJ3TAAmVQL5R-h6Aeh-7HtAxmtxLc-jrD2-jInTtrmin0s9SvLlFNG3UuE-kyyDgXKBh5CBCoguiXfedENPrS1sU/s1600-h/Obama+Pointing+Finger.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367604603980395922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 112px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuP2I2dtXoPcrn5cF6XlX6iMgWbH9Iq29MzLueKN7_cWO3xb1nTgmJ3TAAmVQL5R-h6Aeh-7HtAxmtxLc-jrD2-jInTtrmin0s9SvLlFNG3UuE-kyyDgXKBh5CBCoguiXfedENPrS1sU/s200/Obama+Pointing+Finger.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jifjRVLVjzA&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jifjRVLVjzA&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br />First, Obama has to convince everyone in America that the greatest health care in the world is a “mess.” It is NOT.<br /><br /><br />Then he has to convince everyone in America that someone else, namely his opponents, made that mess. There is NO mess to be responsible for.<br /><br /><br />Then he has to scare enough Americans into begging the government to take care of them, as only HE can do it.<br /><br /><br />The problem Obama is encountering is that most Americans are taking care of themselves and do NOT want the government to get in their personal business.<br /><br /><br />Obama wants his opponents to get out of his way and shut up.<br /><br /><br />Americans want the government to get out of our way and Obama to shut up.<br /><br /><br />This president has shown in six agonizing months that he has little regard for the First Amendment/FREE SPEECH, including political speech, the Second Amendment/Gun Ownership Rights, The Fourth Amendment/Search and Seizure Protections, has side-stepped the oversight of Congress on Cabinet appointees by hiring czars who report only to him, and has tried to bypass the people’s will by forcing their elected officials to vote on bills they haven’t read, in such a short time as to prohibit our representatives from learning what is contained in the bills they vote on. All-in-all, a flagrant disregard of the United States Constitution.<br /><br /><br />This can not be out of ignorance, as the president has boasted many times that he taught Constitutional law at Columbia University. He simply prefers a dictatorship, or so it seems. This whole “We the People” thing is getting in his way, making it harder to construct his version of Otopia in America.<br /><br /><br />We the People will not stand for it. We will stand for our system of self-government and self-reliance, keeping our freedom which we hold more dear than any “topias”.<br /><br /><br />Any person who does not care to abide by the Constitution of the United States is living in the wrong country, for this document will stand as long as Americans have breath in their bodies. <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Obama is nothing more than a blip in American history.</strong></span> The day will come when he is gone from the scene and we will all have to live with the messes he created. The smartest action to take is to nip it in the bud right now. Limit the amount of damage this one man can do in four years. Stand and fight just as tenaciously as any military soldier would in a field of fierce battle. <span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>This is our plight. This is our fight.<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>Be vigilant. Be wise. Be strong. Be free.<br /></strong></span><br /><br />(The only new American Revolution will be Americans revolting against this administration’s efforts to force socialism or worse on us.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-11447568285892263202009-08-07T13:58:00.007-05:002009-08-07T14:36:41.601-05:00Obama's Tech Policies<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZft-fIZLbFRCHYt_9QyOqQ1SstaKd0yr0EA1wygIBzC2qW79zYjSZus1u1aCkZ1StPpZoy27vQ7elmK1xyfujpMuEvfdrMRaEC74IjhT_qlef0wYteNAFgo6HRaumfQIWJ9DUDagK1YQ/s1600-h/Lessig.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367307146981169042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 182px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZft-fIZLbFRCHYt_9QyOqQ1SstaKd0yr0EA1wygIBzC2qW79zYjSZus1u1aCkZ1StPpZoy27vQ7elmK1xyfujpMuEvfdrMRaEC74IjhT_qlef0wYteNAFgo6HRaumfQIWJ9DUDagK1YQ/s200/Lessig.jpg" border="0" /></a> Larry Lessig - Obama's Tech Advisor<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Follow up to the posts, “Fourth Amendment/Cash for Clunkers Program” and” Cash for Clunkers – A Gov’t Worm Hole”: Why we should be suspicious of the government disclaimer that any computer logged on to the Cash for Clunkers Program web site becomes the property of the Federal Government and they take all rights to anything on the citizens’/car dealers’ computers.<br /><br />On April 27, 2008, Marbie’s Blog wrote about <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Larry Lessig, an Obama friend, colleague</span> and Obama’s technology expert/advisor</strong></span> during his presidential campaign. See the original post below.<br /><br />Today, the referrenced web sites have been cleansed of everything controversial, but I personally saw what I wrote about on April 27, 2008. Larry Lessig would not be a Christian’s choice, and Obama claims to be a Christian, and <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>the film maker, Javier Prato, was a self-proclaimed Marxist with Che Guevera faces all over his web site.</strong></span> All gone today. His current web site describes Prato as a digital guerilla.<br /><br />Bottom line for today’s post is that there is reason to be suspicious of the Obama administration’s intentions and possible actions when citizens log on to government computers for any reason, especially in light of the disclaimer posted on the Cash for Clunkers program.<br /><br />Glenn Beck, after reporting about the government disclaimer last week, has checked today and the disclaimer has changed to a much less threatening blurb, probably as a direct result of flack from citizen’s who heard Beck’s program. But does this action ensure our Fourth Amendment Rights will be protected now? It’s not clear, <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>since Obama is over-riding previous bans on government computers using tracking cookies to store information about citizens and companies.<br /></strong></span><br /><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136001/Use_of_tracking_cookies_on_government_sites_sparks_privacy_concern" jquery1249671390691="4">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136001/Use_of_tracking_cookies_on_government_sites_sparks_privacy_concern</a><br /><br />“Computerworld – Privacy advocates are raising questions about a proposal to revamp the use of tracking cookies on federal government Web sites.<br /><br />Under the proposal, U.S. government agencies would be allowed to use single-session and multi-session cookies, including persistent cookies, to track users — as long as security and privacy standards governing the collection and use of tracking information are met. The agencies would have to post clear notice of data collection and allow users to opt-out.”<br /><br />“If the plan is adopted, it would mark a departure from a policy first put in place in 2000 and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda_m03-22/" target="new" jquery1249671390691="6">updated in 2003</a>that prohibits government sites from using persistent cookies “or any other means” such as Web beacons to track visitor activity, unless agency heads authorize their use. When tracking cookies are used, agencies must conspicuously post the reasons for collecting information, spell out the sort of data collected and detail privacy safeguards.<br /><br />Privacy advocates have for some time maintained that such restrictions protect site visitors from being tracked and profiled. They have argued that users should reasonably expect privacy when visiting a government site and that any attempt to dilute the protections is ill-advised. Those concerns have grown in recent months, with many worried that the Obama Administration’s espousal of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking tools will affect long-held privacy protections.<br /><br />Soon after Obama took office, for instance, privacy advocates <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9126954/Cookie_use_in_YouTube_videos_on_WhiteHouse.gov_prompts_privacy_concerns?taxonomyName=development" jquery1249671390691="8">were up in arms over a White House policy change </a>that permitted the use of tracking cookies in <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9134323/YouTube_changes_cookie_use_policy_on_Whitehouse.gov" jquery1249671390691="10">YouTube videos</a>embedded on the WhiteHouse.gov Web site.”<br /><br />Now if you’re deciding whether or not to trust that the Obama administration will not collect, store or use information on your computer, remember the people Obama surrounds himself with. Remember Larry Lessig and the film he uses routinely in teaching seminars, produced by a Marxist film maker, who calls himself a digital guerilla.<br /><br />ORIGINAL POST – APRIL 27, 2008<br /><br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9xbRE_H5hoU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9xbRE_H5hoU&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube=http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbRE_H5hoU" jquery1249671390691="12">http://www.youtube=http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbRE_H5hoU</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>This video is over 61 minutes long. You don’t need to watch all of it. Skip the first 12 minutes and begin precisely at 12 minutes and 14 seconds.<br /><br />I WARN YOU. IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, YOU WILL BE OFFENDED.<br /></strong></span><br />Who is the narrator lecturing to Google company employees?<br /><br />LAWRENCE (LARRY) LESSIG - Who is Larry Lessig? (April 27, 2008)<br /><br />FORMER FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE AND ADVISER/AIDE OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN<br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Obama’s campaign website calls Lessig one of the industry experts supporting his technology plan.</strong></span> Larry Lessig has worked actively on behalf of Obama, explaining to journalists, Obama’s plan to appoint a technology czar to serve in the White House under the title of chief technology officer. Lessig’s website endorses Obama.<br /><br />“In August 2006, <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>several people in the audience walked out when Lessig showed the “Jesus Will Survive” video in his keynote address to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.” </strong></span><a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62484" jquery1249671390691="14">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62484</a>by Jerome R. Corsi<br /><br />In the Google lecture, <span style="color:#006600;"><strong>you hear them laughing at the video.</strong></span> Prefacing the video, <span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong><em>Lessig warns the viewer that it is sensitive, and says, “I don’t know why”.<br /></em></strong></span><br /><em><strong>I KNOW AND I BET YOU KNOW!<br /></strong></em><br />Obama has said many, many times that he is NOT a Muslim and that he IS A CHRISTIAN. That being the case, how can he add someone as his campaign aide who has this anti-Christian sentiment and who uses a video depicting Jesus in this horrible way? I would expect Obama to be just as offended as I am, if he is truly a Christian. An aide’s religious beliefs don’t have to be in sync with a candidate, but when the candidate is a Christian and the aide is using (multiple times) such an offensive video, that does make a difference.<br /><br />For the record, Lessig says he didnt’ make the film, he just chooses to use it in his lectures. There are hundreds of others he could have chosen, but he didn’t. He chose this one.<br /><br />The film was made by Javier Prato. His web site is http://www.javierprato.com/. When you visit his site you will immediately notice that he has chosen Che Guevera’s picture to represent himself instead of his own and has used that picture repeatedly for his background. If you’re wondering where you’ve heard Che Guevera recently, it was the controversy over the Cuban Flag and the Che Guevera flag hanging in the Houston, Texas campaign office for Barack Hussein Obama.<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>Che Guevera was an Argentine <span style="color:#cc0000;">Marxist revolutionary terrorist</span> who was involved in efforts to overthrow governments in Guatemala and Cuba.</strong></span> He left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions in Congo-Kinshasa, then Bolivia, where he was captured and executed.<br /><br />Isn’t it odd how the same themes keep popping up in Obama’s camp?<br /><br />If you decide that this isn’t important, you should know what Wikipedia says about Lessig online at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig" jquery1249671390691="16">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig</a><br /><br />“He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on <a title="Copyright" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/Copyright" jquery1249671390691="18">copyright</a>, <a title="Trademark" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/Trademark" jquery1249671390691="20">trademark</a>, and <a title="Radio frequency" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/Radio_frequency" jquery1249671390691="22">radio frequency spectrum</a>, particularly in technology applications.”<br /><br />“Lessig has known president <a title="Barack Obama" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/Barack_Obama" jquery1249671390691="24">Barack Obama</a> since their days teaching law at the University of Chicago, and <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>has been mentioned as a candidate to head the </strong></span><a title="Federal Communications Commission" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" jquery1249671390691="26"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Federal Communications Commission</strong></span></a><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">, which regulates the telecommunications industry.“<br /><br /></span><em>What a horrible thought!</em></strong><br /><br />According to this Wikipedia article, Lessig, a political activist, decided to focus on political corruption through his wiki, “Lessig Wiki” and has encouraged the public to use it to document cases of corruption. This sounds a lot like Obama’s call for citizens to rat out their friends and neighbors by emailing the government’s new site flag.gov.<br /><br />How long before <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">O</span></strong>bama’s <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>O</strong></span>pponents will be forced to wear arm bands bearing the tell-tale “<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">OO</span></strong>” mark???<br /><br />Of course, that is far-fetched, but his actions and those of his administration, are scary at best. We need to regain this country’s freedoms.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Be vigilant. Be wise. Be free.<br /></span></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-43770402700614352752009-08-06T16:04:00.006-05:002009-08-06T16:21:51.272-05:00"Obama Will Be Tested," Biden Said<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7HN8h7pZghIIPyE4pMFE7Kz9l1kpFDmFRhnkDnRRDKyEbeNVb0SyGJ6nz9Q3DNOrsHMvTUD07B7IPMfBAAV9iVHRtWdnwjBahgrcL6IsPB40DN_kAFkcjc1742re4f7aqi2TVPSExvc/s1600-h/Sub.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366959874768612994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 75px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7HN8h7pZghIIPyE4pMFE7Kz9l1kpFDmFRhnkDnRRDKyEbeNVb0SyGJ6nz9Q3DNOrsHMvTUD07B7IPMfBAAV9iVHRtWdnwjBahgrcL6IsPB40DN_kAFkcjc1742re4f7aqi2TVPSExvc/s320/Sub.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Remember when Vice-P Joe Biden said that Obama would be tested in the first six months of his administration? Well, it’s been six months. Where’s the test? Could it be the two Russian submarines cruising just 200 miles off America’s Eastern Shores?<br /></div><div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This follows Russian Navy exercises off the coast of Venezuela last summer and a visit by two of their destroyers to Cuba in November of 2008, just about election time in the States. It’s such a rare event that Defense Department officials “expressed wariness over the Kremlin’s motivation for ordering such an unusual mission.” <a title="More Articles by Mark Mazzetti" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/mark_mazzetti/index.html?inline=nyt-per" jquery1249592606829="4">MARK MAZZETTI</a> and <a title="More Articles by Thom Shanker" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/thom_shanker/index.html?inline=nyt-per" jquery1249592606829="6">THOM SHANKER</a> Published: August 4, 2009 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/05patrol.html?_r=1" jquery1249592606829="8">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/05patrol.html?_r=1</a><br /></div><div> </div><div>The New York Times online further reported that:<br /></div><div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>“Any time the Russian Navy does something so out of the ordinary it is cause for worry,” said a senior Defense Dept. official.<br /></div><div> </div><div>“I don’t think they’ve put two first-line nuclear subs off the U.S. coast in about 15 years,” said Norman Polmar, a naval historian and submarine warfare expert.<br /></div><div></div><div> </div><div>According to Defense Department officials, one of the submarines remained in international waters on Tuesday about 200 miles off the coast of the United States. The location of the second remained unclear. (oh great!) Parenthesized expressions are my own.<br /></div><div> </div><div>One official said it headed south toward Cuba while another said it headed north. Let’s hope somebody knows where it actually is.<br /></div><div></div><div>The funny thing is that Russian Pres. Medvedev called Obama Tuesday to wish him a happy birthday. (And by the way, Mr. Obama, we sent you two of our best subs for your birthday.)<br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Not to worry, though, because these Akula II subs are quieter than the older variant and shouldn’t disturb aquatic life or the delicate ecology of the sea. The Russians were careful to send their newest, most advanced sub which <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">is capable of carrying torpedoes for attacking other submarines and surface vessels (whose, I wonder? ) and missiles for striking targets on land and at sea.<br /></span></strong></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Even though the New York Times reported that one Defense Dept. official said <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">one sub went south, while another official said it went north,</span></strong> the Times also reported in the same article that,<br /></div><div><strong><em></em></strong> </div><div><strong><em>“We’ve known where they were, and</em></strong> <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">we’re not concerned about our ability to track the subs,”</span></strong> the official added. <span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><strong>“We’re concerned just because they are there.”<br /></div></strong></span><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span></strong> </div><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Huh? Now where exactly is that second sub?<br /></div></span></strong><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>I hope no one loses any sleep over this because Obama is sure to pass the test with flying colors (no pun intended) just like he’s passed every other test in his brief six months in the White House.<br /></div></strong><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>Notes: The Akula II class vessels are considered the quietest and deadliest of Russian nuclear-powered attack subs, built to engage surface taks forces and coastal facilities. </strong><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/971.htm" jquery1249592606829="10"><strong>http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/971.htm</strong></a><strong><br /></div></strong><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>Although technically able to successfully deploy their long-range </strong><a title="Submarine-launched ballistic missile" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/Submarine-launched_ballistic_missile" jquery1249592606829="12"><strong>nuclear missiles</strong></a><strong> while moored at their docks,</strong><a href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#cite_note-fas_typhoon-6" jquery1249592606829="14"><strong>[7]</strong></a><strong> Soviet doctrine for these vessels was to have them attack North America while submerged under the arctic circle, avoiding the traversal of the </strong><a title="GIUK gap" href="http://marbiesblog.wordpress.com/wiki/GIUK_gap" jquery1249592606829="16"><strong>GIUK gap</strong></a><strong> to remain safe from enemy attack submarines and anti-submarine forces. </strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine" jquery1249592606829="18"><strong>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine</strong></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-69799744635174789412009-08-06T13:12:00.006-05:002009-08-06T13:32:28.027-05:009/12 MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C. - 2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVyZ3n6WUnn05RmCiB07oUZYj8dWB1T0KPlw0niqAbAkBfi_4c-Vicyjs27tqA64MVJW3ajP7RFzI8lOnwGazvZIpY6egxbWB7wsmEjWZ8yKf1LlkQtQgUx6bPXpevHRASZG1MmjQCLc/s1600-h/march.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366917228298819298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 136px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVyZ3n6WUnn05RmCiB07oUZYj8dWB1T0KPlw0niqAbAkBfi_4c-Vicyjs27tqA64MVJW3ajP7RFzI8lOnwGazvZIpY6egxbWB7wsmEjWZ8yKf1LlkQtQgUx6bPXpevHRASZG1MmjQCLc/s320/march.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The time has come! ACORN has met it’s match. Americans for freedom, individual liberty, small uninstrusive government, lower taxes, individual responsibility and a free market are marching on Washington, D.C. September 12, 2009 to make their voices heard.<br /></div><br /><div>Visit: <a href="http://912dc.org/" jquery1249582349619="4">http://912dc.org/</a> for more information. </div><div></div><div><strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></em></strong></div><div><strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;">Go if you possibly can!<br /></div></span></em></strong><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>No doubt the main stream news media will not cover this event adequately, leaving the impression that nothing of any consequence happened. Go if you are able. Take a video camera and document the entire protest. Post that video on YouTube for everyone to see. Bypass the main stream media.<br /></strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong><em>Call and write the main stream media and demand that they cover the protests against the current government activities that are un-Constitutional, illegal, instrusive, freedom-stealing and downright suffocating.<br /></em></strong></span></div><br /><div>We’ve been calling the government officials on the carpet, but we’ve forgotten to do the same with the main stream media who are aiding and abetting the Obama administration’s efforts to change America into a third-world country with debt-burdened, unemployed and enslaved citizens, like Cuba.<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Every day, let’s all contact the same news media and pressure them to cover Obama’s opposition to the same extent that they covered Pres. Bush’s opposition.</span></strong> Let’s demand that they cover us as much as they covered Michael Moore’s diatribes.<br /></div><br /><div>Today’s news media in the cross-hairs is:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">ABC</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">500 S. Buena Vista St.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Burbank, California 91521-4551</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">818-460-7477</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">abc.g0.com</span></strong></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Tell them you want to see most, if not all, of the Tea Party protests, the 9/12 March on Washington, D.C. and the town meetings. Insist they give accurate attendance numbers and honestly report on the protests without spinning them as insignificant, violent or nut-cases.<br /></span></strong></div><br /><div>Tomorrow, we’ll contact another news media.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-85752280722818452022009-08-05T15:19:00.002-05:002009-08-05T15:33:43.554-05:00Fourth Amendment Rights/Cash for Clunkers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_MJMvguD6c_6W8Hq41FKgRJcGY03-8ArLkqyYAprEc_QUb6FYaIAJ8wB-ApB7xjefjmvESzXMHXurwGf1qulbWBGe2jt43PTa4dE1KgWZNIoNuPM_QdKbXVjhF3TO961rEIudDaC0ro/s1600-h/keyhole.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366580084555252082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 98px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_MJMvguD6c_6W8Hq41FKgRJcGY03-8ArLkqyYAprEc_QUb6FYaIAJ8wB-ApB7xjefjmvESzXMHXurwGf1qulbWBGe2jt43PTa4dE1KgWZNIoNuPM_QdKbXVjhF3TO961rEIudDaC0ro/s320/keyhole.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>A reader commented on the previous post about the Cash for Clunkers a Gov’t Worm Hole. The point was worth researching and discussing, so here it is.<br /><br />The comment stated that Beck was off base with his conclusions about the agreement that must be provided before a “Cash for Clunkers” participant could continue with the transaction online at the cars.gov web site.<br /><br />Comment:<br /><br />“These disclaimers on gov’t computers are necessary due to the Wiretapping Act. It is illegal to monitor the activities of a user without their consent. To do the necessary monitoring (if your site is defaced you want to try to figure out who did it, y’know?) you must allow everyone an opportunity to leave without entering. That’s all. We’ve had a similar disclaimer here for 15 years.”<br /><br />Everyone can agree that any computer must be protected from hostile activity and employ a program to identify the perpetrator. Disclaimers must make consumers aware and give them the opportunity to leave the web site without giving up their Fourth Amendment Rights. No problem here.<br /><br />The cars.gov web site goes far beyond what is necessary in the following paragraph, which consumers are obliged to agree to if they participate in the Cash for Clunkers program:<br /><br />“This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">your computer</span> <span style="color:#3366ff;">is considered a Federal computer system and </span><span style="color:#cc0000;">is the property of the U.S. Government.</span></strong> Any or all uses of this system and <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign. ”</span><br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>This agreement usurps your Fourth Amendment Right and waives your rights under the Wiretap Act, Privacy Act, etc.<br /></strong></span><br />See<br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;"><a href="http://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Privacy:_Statutory_Protections">http://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Privacy:_Statutory_Protections</a></span> </div><br /><div><br /><br />(portions)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Privacy: Statutory Protections</span><br />From Internet Law Treatise<br /><br /></strong>With the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act and other laws focused on national security, Congress has been active in changing the legal landscape for access to real-time and stored communications. Despite these amendments, detailed below, the legal regime for obtaining wiretaps and stored communications remains ambiguous.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Privacy: Searching and Seizing Computers</span></strong><br /><strong>From Internet Law Treatise</strong><br /><br />Reasonable Expectation of Privacy<br /><br />Accessing information stored in a computer ordinarily will implicate the owner’s reasonable expectation of privacy in the information. See United States v. Barth, 26 F. Supp. 2d 929, 936-37 (W.D. Tex. 1998) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in files stored on hard drive of personal computer); United States v. Reyes, 922 F. Supp. 818, 832-33 (S.D.N.Y. 1996) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in data stored in a pager); United States v. Lynch, 908 F. Supp. 284, 287 (D.V.I. 1995) (same); United States v. Chan, 830 F. Supp. 531, 535 (N.D. Cal. 1993) (same); United States v. Blas, 1990 WL 265179, at *21 (E.D. Wis. Dec. 4, 1990) <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">(”[A]n individual has the same expectation of privacy in a pager, computer, or other electronic data storage and retrieval device as in a closed container.”).</span></em></strong> See also United States v. Long, 64 M.J. 57 (CAAF 2006) (finding REOP in emails defendant sent from her office computer and in emails stored on government server); Quon v. Arch Wireless, 445 F.Supp.2d 1116 (C.D. Cal. 2006) (gov’t employee had REOP in text messages sent through his city-owned pagers).<br /><br />The Tenth Circuit has cautioned that “[b]ecause computers can hold so much information touching on many different areas of a person’s life, there is greater potential for the ‘intermingling’ of documents and a consequent invasion of privacy when police execute a search for evidence on a computer.” United States v. Walser, 275 F.3d 981, 986 (10th Cir. 2001). But see United States v. Gorshkov, 2001 WL 1024026, at *2 (W.D. Wash. May 23, 2001) (holding that defendant did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in use of a private computer network when undercover federal agents looked over his shoulder, when he did not own the computer he used, and when he knew that the system administrator could monitor his activities).<br /><br />In the offline world, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized legitimate privacy interest in confidential letters. United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109, 114, 104 S.Ct. 1652, 1657 (1984) (“Letters and other sealed packages are in the general class of effects in which the public at large has a legitimate expectation of privacy.”). See also Ortega v. O’Connor, 146 F.3d 1149, 1163 (9th Cir. 1998) (under circumstances, employee had legitimate expectation of privacy from employer).<br /><br />Federal Constitution<br /><br />The contents of telephone communications are fully protected by the Fourth Amendment. Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 353-354 (1967). The Government must satisfy stringent procedural requirements, discussed below, before it can acquire the contents of communications. Berger v. New York, 388 U.S. 41, 63-64 (1967) <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">(“[I]t is not asking too much that officers be required to comply with the basic command of the Fourth Amendment before the innermost secrets of one’s home or office are invaded. </span></em></strong>Few threats to liberty exist which are greater than that posed by the use of eavesdropping devices.”).<br /><br />The Privacy Act<br /><br />The Privacy Act regulates the “‘collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of information’” about individuals by federal agencies. Doe v. Chao, 540 U.S. 614, 618 (2004) (quoting Privacy Act of 1974 § 2(a)(5), 88 Stat. 1896). It “authorizes civil suits by individuals . . . whose Privacy Act rights are infringed,” Sussman v. U.S. Marshals Serv., 494 F.3d 1106, 1123 (D.C. Cir. 2007), and provides for criminal penalties against federal officials who willfully disclose a record in violation of the Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(i)(1).<br /><br />State Statutes<br /><br />Title III does not preempt state statutes that are more protective of privacy. “Congress intended that the states be allowed to enact more restrictive laws designed to protect the right of privacy.” People v. Conklin. 12 Cal.3d 259, 271 (1974); see also Roberts v. Americable Intern. Inc., 883 F.Supp. 499, 503, fn. 6 (E.D.Cal. 1995); United States v. Curreri, 388 F.Supp. 607, 613 (D.Md. 1974); Bishop v. State, 526 S.E.2d 917, 920 (Ga.Ct.App. 1999) ; People v. Pascarella, 415 N.E.2d 1285, 1287 (Ill.App.Ct. 1981).<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>The Wiretap Act, the U.S. Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, were all dealing with wiretapping and eavesdropping needed to combat terrorism and to facilitate criminal investigations. They required reasonable suspicion and warrants from judges.<br /><br />Trading a clunker in for a new car hardly designates citizens as criminals or terrorists and <span style="color:#cc0000;">does not generate reasonable suspicion of crime or terrorism.</span> Our Fourth Amendment Rights should not be compromised or stolen.<br /></strong><br /></span>I don’t believe Beck was off-base in his assumptions. Citizens should refuse to accept this disclaimer and realize that buying a car on the taxpayers’ dime isn’t worth forfeiting Fourth Amendment Rights. <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Our founding fathers fought to gain our freedoms and we should never throw them away, especially for a car that will only last a few years. Freedoms last forever, unless you throw them out with the clunkers.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong>The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the Bill of Rights<br /><br />Search and Seizure<br /><br />The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,<br />and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be<br />violated; and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.<br /></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt4.html">http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt4.html</a></strong> </div><br /><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-74413710189597197262009-08-05T09:37:00.003-05:002009-08-05T09:43:20.239-05:00Cash for Clunkers - A Gov't Worm Hole<object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KZxaWDqUmho&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KZxaWDqUmho&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br />This computer worm hole is not a virus created by a teenager to do mischief. This one is created by our government in such a way that the car dealers sign an agreement making it legal. If they don’t agree, they can’t participate in the cash for clunkers program.<br /><br />Just thought you’d like to be informed. Here’s another opportunity for you all to let your elected officials know that we don’t like KGB tactics in America. Maybe they can force this administration to change it. We can dream, can’t we? Obama does.<br /><br />(What would be the value of a giant data base, categorized by district, which included information about people who applied for a “cash for clunker” purchase? What possible use would this be for a politician with big plans?)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-11165230554115179362009-08-04T14:09:00.004-05:002009-08-04T14:12:53.306-05:009/12 MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbfoRfvs2FamlSnc9K0QRRblmPb1UnX0LdRSiWBS4vGylvR-INAGlZEhUwwLO1NHJ3PbdQmmMjWpXplLVkOYLJXhZBA10h0zWI5cYaPFgvijFG7rsOq33wgI6h2B7hOZH4OVuQd57CsM/s1600-h/We.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366188671428362418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 137px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 82px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbfoRfvs2FamlSnc9K0QRRblmPb1UnX0LdRSiWBS4vGylvR-INAGlZEhUwwLO1NHJ3PbdQmmMjWpXplLVkOYLJXhZBA10h0zWI5cYaPFgvijFG7rsOq33wgI6h2B7hOZH4OVuQd57CsM/s320/We.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The time has come! ACORN has met it’s match. Americans for freedom, individual liberty, small uninstrusive government, lower taxes, individual responsibility and a free market are marching on Washington, D.C. September 12, 2009 to make their voices heard.<br /></div><br /><div>Visit: <a href="http://912dc.org/" jquery1249412852434="4">http://912dc.org/</a> for more information. Go if you possibly can!<br /></div><br /><div>No doubt the main stream news media will not cover this event adequately, leaving the impression that nothing of any consequence happened. Go if you are able. Take a video camera and document the entire protest. Post that video on YouTube for everyone to see. Bypass the main stream media.<br /></div><br /><div>Call and write the main stream media and demand that they cover the protests against the current government activities that are un-Constitutional, illegal, instrusive, freedom-stealing and downright suffocating.<br /></div><br /><div>We’ve been calling the government officials on the carpet, but we’ve forgotten to do the same with the main stream media who are aiding and abetting the Obama administration’s efforts to change America into a third-world country with debt-burdened, unemployed and enslaved citizens, like Cuba.<br /></div><br /><div>Every day, let’s all contact the same news media and pressure them to cover Obama’s opposition to the same extent that they covered Pres. Bush’s opposition. Let’s demand that they cover us as much as they covered Michael Moore’s diatribes.<br /></div><br /><div>Today’s news media in the cross-hairs is:<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">NBC<br />30 Rockefeller Plaza<br />New York, New York 10017<br />212-450-2000<br />nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us/<br /><br />MSNBC<br />30 Rockefeller Plaza<br />New York, New York 10112<br />212-664-4444<br />msnbc.com<br /></span></strong><a href="mailto:viewerservices@msnbc.com"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">viewerservices@msnbc.com</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"><br /></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">CNBC<br />900 Sylvan Avenue<br />Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632<br />201-735-2622<br />877-251-5685 (Viewer Services)<br />cnbc.com<br /></span></strong></div><br /><div>Tell them you want to see most, if not all, of the Tea Party protests, the 9/12 March on Washington, D.C. and the town meetings. Insist they give accurate attendance numbers and honestly report on the protests without spinning them as insignificant, violent or nut-cases.<br /></div><br /><div>Tomorrow, we’ll contact another news media.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-45417045811151215142009-08-04T12:07:00.002-05:002009-08-04T12:10:39.174-05:00Scary Health Care Instrusion Bill<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGWVirhuoRiRzMTC7va3h8wdvjt81RmtHfHOrmUWJf4AON3OHSNZcpc2KW27ForCg-EMBfueiVcAF9ipeCirAwgX9Blnba15dUsCkSrUk8zsGlcloX3IGrxYrtJpO4midWF25FwKQWadU/s1600-h/image001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366156920700168050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 306px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGWVirhuoRiRzMTC7va3h8wdvjt81RmtHfHOrmUWJf4AON3OHSNZcpc2KW27ForCg-EMBfueiVcAF9ipeCirAwgX9Blnba15dUsCkSrUk8zsGlcloX3IGrxYrtJpO4midWF25FwKQWadU/s320/image001.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Notice the two snakes in the medical symbol. They are the legislative and executive branch of the current U.S. Government.<br /></div><br /><div>Here’s the work of another person who read the bill:<br /></div><br /><div>Call or email your congressman and let him know your opinion. This is House Bill 3200—look up <a href="http://www.house.gov/" target="_blank" jquery1249405474746="4">http://www.house.gov/</a> under Thomas system by bill number. You can read it yourself. Another excellent critique was the article in Fortune magazine recently.<br /></div><br /><div>Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!<br />• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!<br />• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)<br />• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.<br />• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.<br />• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard (this is strange since our Texas House Representative from Waco, Jim Dunam, was able to defeat a Voter ID card because elderly folks couldn’t get out and get a card! If they can’t get a voter’s ID surely it would be a kiss of death if they can’t get a proper National ID Healthcard!)<br />• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.<br />• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)<br />• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.<br />• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)<br />• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens<br />• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.<br />• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.<br />• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the governmentmonopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.<br />• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.<br />• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.<br />• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.<br />• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll<br />• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll<br />• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.<br />• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).<br />• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.<br />• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”<br />• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)<br />• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.<br />• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcareindustries.<br />• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.<br />• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!<br />• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.<br />• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.<br />• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!<br />• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.<br />• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.<br />• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.<br />• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.<br />• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.<br />• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).<br />• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?<br />• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.<br />• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.<br />• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.<br />• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.<br />• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.<br />• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.<br />• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.<br />• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.<br />• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.<br /></div><br /><div>Call or email your congressman and let him know your opinion. This is House Bill 3200—look up <a href="http://www.house.gov/" target="_blank" jquery1249405474746="6">http://www.house.gov/</a> under Thomas system by bill number. <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">You can read it yourself. Another excellent critique was the article in Fortune magazine recently.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Remember to look at the bill yourself. That way, you don’t have to decide which voices to listen to.<br /></span></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-25011429905295617372009-07-31T13:55:00.005-05:002009-07-31T14:28:46.726-05:00Government is Broken<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xBjdKq8_erRdmwwEWZib58eNunkXZ3yOK51kcu9nZ1BNoylaf3oFNwgUzGV4gh2FKf1UFY1kn6LA0WxHQMwrgSyxk9XwyMEqWIoyg_axIvDetqzyYHycSABJH4zaDIMQJduLL7Qyplc/s1600-h/HC+Bill.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364702903991011954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 96px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 131px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xBjdKq8_erRdmwwEWZib58eNunkXZ3yOK51kcu9nZ1BNoylaf3oFNwgUzGV4gh2FKf1UFY1kn6LA0WxHQMwrgSyxk9XwyMEqWIoyg_axIvDetqzyYHycSABJH4zaDIMQJduLL7Qyplc/s400/HC+Bill.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>With all the talk of what’s broken in America, it’s time to get to the root of the problem. <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Our government is broken. Our health care system is NOT broken.</span></strong> It’s just so expensive that many can’t afford it,especially if faced with something of catastrophic magnitude. We need to deal with the cost of health care and keep the best system and care in the world.<br /></div><br /><div>There are many reasons why people may not be able to afford parts of their care. Some have no jobs. Some have low-paying jobs. Some experience catastrophic illness or accident. Some change jobs and their insurance doesn’t cover them in the interim. Hospitals charge exorbitant prices for everything used during a stay. Prescription drugs cost way too much.<br /></div><br /><div>Let’s deal directly with these issues and not nationalize our health care, putting it in the hands of a group of power-hungry elites who only see you as a dollar sign – a taxpayer. <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>These people don’t have the same view of your life plans as you do. They see a dream for one world government with extraordinary people at the top running everything, experimenting with ideas, all the while enjoying the lifestyle of the rich and famous.<br /></strong></span></div><br /><div>Where do you fit in? You work hard and pay the bills that support their crazy ideas. You’re the subject of their experiments in one-world everything, environmentalism, utopia-chasing and personal wealth building (theirs, not yours).<br /></div><br /><div>America has been successful all these years precisely because it championed and protected freedom for every man. It took a while to perfect that concept, but Americans never stopped working towards that goal. And that is the key. Americans truly covet and value freedom for every man. They will never stop working to achieve it.<br /></div><br /><div>Now comes along, and gets elected, a group of morons who are hell-bent on taking our individual freedoms away, one by one, in short order. Obama is moving as quickly as possible, before the sleeping giant awakens and throws him and his thugs out.<br /></div><br /><div>Is the term, “thugs”, fair? Pick any Obama czar or cabinet appointee you choose and research them. You will find that “thugs” is an accurate description. Obama doesn’t seem to know any honest people.<br /></div><br /><div>Have you wondered if the health care reform bill will take away our freedoms? Find out for yourself.<br /></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Visit </strong></span><a href="http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf"><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf</strong></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><br /><div>Don’t be discouraged when you try to read it and give up. Very few have been successful at reading this monstrosity. Even lawyers have trouble with it. Here’s a sample guide that may help. This was emailed around the country and warrants our attention.<br /></div><br /><div>From a letter to Sen. Bayh from a practicing physician, Stephen Fraser, MD. Whether this letter is authentic or not doesn’t matter. If you compare the list, page by page, line by line, to the Health Care Bill posted on the government web site, you can see if they are accurate or not.<br /></div><br /><div>Take the first one in the letter. Page 22: Mandates that the government will audit the books of all employers that self insure. This violates the Constitutional Right to Privacy, individual liberty and freedom and the right to pursue happiness. If you don’t like IRS audits, you won’t like these, either!<br /></div><br /><div>Here’s the letter:<br /></div><br /><div>Subject: An Indianapolis Doctor’s Letter to Sen. Bayh about the Health Care Bill<br />Here is a letter I sent to Senator Bayh. Feel free to copy it and send it around to our other representatives.Stephen FraserJuly 23, 2009Senator Bayh,<br /></div><br /><div>As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcarebill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shockedby the brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in thepatient physician relationship. The very idea that the governmentwill dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly nothelpful in designing a healthcare system that works for all. Everyphysician I work with agrees that we need to fix our healthcaresystem, but the proposed bills currently making their way throughcongress will be a disaster if passed. I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.<br /></div><br /><div>Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure!!Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!Page 42 of HC Bill:The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise<br />Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!<br />Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your banks accounts for elective funds transfer.<br />Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN).<br />Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange.<br />Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!<br />Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example – Translation: illegal aliens.<br />Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.<br />Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members – your Health care WILL be rationed.<br />Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.<br />Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly..<br />Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association – The Govt will tell YOU what you can make! (salary)<br />Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE!<br />Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.<br />Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.<br />Page 150 Lines 9-13: Business’s with payroll btw 251k & 401k who doesn’t provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll.<br />Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.<br />Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)<br />Page 195 HC Bill:Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALLAmericans finances /personal records.<br />Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax” Yes, it says that!<br />Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected.<br />Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same!<br />Page 253 Line 10-18: Govt sets value of Doctor’s time, profession, judgment etc. Literally value of humans.<br />Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.<br />Page 268 Sec 1141:Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.<br />Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS – Cancer patients – welcome to rationing!<br />Page 280 Sec 1151:The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt deems preventable re-admissions.<br /><strong>Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission -Govt will penalize you.<br /></strong>Page 317 L 13-20:PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors what/howmuch they can own!<br />Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand.<br />Page 321 2-13:Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT communityinput is required. Can u say ACORN?!!<br />Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing.<br />Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Page 354 Sec 1177:Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! Unbelievable!<br /></span></strong>Page 379 Sec 1191:Govt creates more bureaucracy – Tele-health Advisory Committee. Can you say HC by phone?<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life patients.<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills,durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!<br /></span>Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide)<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.<br /></span>Page 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced care planning consultant” will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates.<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Page 429 Lines 10-12: “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT!<br /></span>Page 429 Lines 13-25: The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life!<br /></span>Page 469:Community Based Home Medical Services = Nonprofit organizations.Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?<br /></span></strong>Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORIGINATION. 1 monthly payment 2 a community-based organization. Like ACORN?<br />Page 489 Sec 1308:The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means theywill insert Govt into your marriage.<br />Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.<br /></div><br /><div>Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.<br />Furthermore, If you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor/patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.<br />Respectfully,Stephen E Fraser MD<br /></div><br /><div><strong><em><span style="color:#3366ff;">Pay special attention to the last few which deal with “end of life” orders.</span></em></strong> How can we do this to our parents and grandparents?! The greatest generation, who built the America we grew up in, who sacrificed, worked hard, defended freedom so we could live happy and free and be prosperous, will now be told by the government when, where and how they will face the end of their life!<br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>NOT ON MY WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /></strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#009900;"><strong><em>It’s the current government that is broken, not the health care system. We must get back to the form of government that our founding fathers worked out and implemented</em></strong></span> for the good of each of us. <strong>It begins with ‘WE THE PEOPLE” AND GUARANTEES THAT WE GOVERN OURSELVES. We are not to be governed by officials. They are supposed to work for us. Currently, they don’t. They decide how we must obey them and their wacky ideas.<br /></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Say it with me,</span> <span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">“NOT ON MY WATCH!!!!!!”</span></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-27020352123869577122009-07-29T10:46:00.004-05:002009-07-29T11:47:45.037-05:00God vs Guns<object height="360" width="580"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FNmi-bBhWG8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FNmi-bBhWG8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">People who have not read the Bible should not pass judgement on others.</span> </strong>This newswoman questions the auto dealer's inclusion of God in his motto, <strong><span style="color:#009900;">"Guns, God and American Pick-up Trucks".</span></strong> He tries to explain it to her to no avail. She asks <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">"What Would Jesus Do?"</span></strong> I wish the dealer had remembererd that <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Jesus used a whip on the crooks operating in the Temple in Jerusalem. YES, IN THE TEMPLE!<br /></span></strong><br /><strong>St. Matthew 21:11-13<br /><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">"And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.<br />And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.<br />And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."<br /></span></em><br />St. John 2:13-16<br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>"And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,<br />And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:<br />And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;<br />And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise."<br /></em></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">People who try to use God to oppose war have never read the Old Testament passages,</span></strong> of which there are many, where <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">God sent the Israelites to attack, and yes, kill,</span></strong> other cities. God hates evil, wherever it shows up. He is merciful and works to bring evil-doers to their senses and to repentance, but He does say that he will not strive with man forever. <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Genesis 6:3</strong> <strong>"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man..."</strong></span> At that point, it can get quite scary! Let's not forget the flood of Noah's day that wiped all but eight people off the planet in God's move to cleanse the planet of evil and start over.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">We all need to do our homework and search for truth.</span></strong> Don't be swayed by the news media, believing that they know what they're talking about or that they are correct. <strong><span style="color:#009900;">Don't form your moral values by giving in to pressure from the media.</span> </strong>Anti-gun sentiments run rampant in the news media and in Hollywood, but many of them have not done their homework on this subject. It's political correctness that can be harmful to you and your family without a valid basis.<br /><br /><em><strong>Can you imagine how today's news media would have reported on Jesus walking into church in a major city, making a whip of sorts and throwing out the crooks, turning over their tables, dumping out their money and yelling at them to get out? The CNN crowd would burst blood vessels in their necks. They would be incensed at such behavior. But the difference lies in priorities. Jesus did what he had to do to impress on the people the need for holiness, righteousness, morality, honesty and respect for God's institution.<span style="color:#ff6600;"> A corrupt temple was no good to the people, nor to God. His goal was to protect the people from evil.<br /></span></strong></em><br /><strong><span style="color:#009900;">God does not want his people to be sitting ducks for evil-doers just for the sake of "not owning a gun".</span></strong> What virtue is there in not owning a gun? The very people who demand that Americans be virtuously free of guns, use the most foul language and go very nearly nude in public (bikinis, plunging necklines, short-short skirts, see through blouses, etc.). They want to choose which virtues Americans must adhere to, while excluding those virtues that they do NOT want to live with, such as decency.<br /><br />You can't take away their First Amendment Right of free speech, no matter how nasty or hateful they talk, but you should take away everyone's Second Amendment Right to own a gun for self-defense and defense of one's home and family.<br /><br />These people would quickly change their positon if ever assailed by a criminal with a gun pointed in their face! Let's pray it never happens to them.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"><strong>Stand up for the Second Amendment. As the economy goes down, crime goes up. You are becoming more and more vulnerable with each day of the Obamanation.</strong></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-76098586912014752212009-07-28T13:43:00.013-05:002009-07-28T22:55:43.354-05:00JUST SHOW ME THE DANGED LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTctzxi-T2eaD-gsvogix8wZtWbbpvH2PbFC0cpQhj5JoaCsU76YFHdqI_i1jNRU4cIQReOM6J4CuXhzgnGwxWniBFvn4niRdYzzLZSalgIM2mfBzjz5vm4490JOHH3DPh6jLsL453eOA/s1600-h/BC+Anomaly.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363600004474828562" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 129px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 147px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTctzxi-T2eaD-gsvogix8wZtWbbpvH2PbFC0cpQhj5JoaCsU76YFHdqI_i1jNRU4cIQReOM6J4CuXhzgnGwxWniBFvn4niRdYzzLZSalgIM2mfBzjz5vm4490JOHH3DPh6jLsL453eOA/s400/BC+Anomaly.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu1D5YndlOMH51Y87T9_TTOMX72yAQirawzC29_OMy8XNMknaNl29cM2tSPzBNzD1Rois039i6UgTOQicUJFQGdk83tROF137mUzcYUCi5Uj9tKSnH47l5zpNnorcEajmmjKpNNfEqoeU/s1600-h/Barry+Soetoro2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363591942391043474" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 112px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 141px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu1D5YndlOMH51Y87T9_TTOMX72yAQirawzC29_OMy8XNMknaNl29cM2tSPzBNzD1Rois039i6UgTOQicUJFQGdk83tROF137mUzcYUCi5Uj9tKSnH47l5zpNnorcEajmmjKpNNfEqoeU/s400/Barry+Soetoro2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuLP5PK0dyKnXL4fWtxDuE_KmzAw_lG9dfT1rbqMteSwZ45ZPd3kBTUJ1TA5mc8zgAww8CiJUkZmM-IqVuTdOBLRC-9mGJfMjpsY3Hs46opKEEiRfhnNY3WX09DNgFp5gxPrZZrWKjb4/s1600-h/Barry+Soetoro.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363591778554587746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 118px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 76px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuLP5PK0dyKnXL4fWtxDuE_KmzAw_lG9dfT1rbqMteSwZ45ZPd3kBTUJ1TA5mc8zgAww8CiJUkZmM-IqVuTdOBLRC-9mGJfMjpsY3Hs46opKEEiRfhnNY3WX09DNgFp5gxPrZZrWKjb4/s400/Barry+Soetoro.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Whether or not Obama is a U.S. citizen, I'm surprised at the people who don't care to be sure of it. This is a basic Constitutional protection for U.S. citizens. It prevents our enemies from planting someone in the highest office in the land and protects U.S. from those who don't have American beliefs from becoming our ruler. If we allow anyone to usurp the office of the President and don't even care if he is eligible, then it's over. Nothing else will make a difference. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div>I applaud those who were willing to suffer ridicule to make sure that the Constitution is upheld. This is just as important to our liberty as any of the amendments. Whether or not someone is eligible to be our president is just as important as any of the issues we are debating. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can debate it all.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>We all should know by now that "proof" offered by Obama doesn't necessarily close the case. He's not known for being completely truthful when he wants something. Everyone knows how to "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Photoshop</span>" documents and Obama hired a technology czar. His campaign caused a lot of the controversy by giving two different hospitals as his birthplace. His grandmother complicated things by stating that he was born in Kenya and she was there. Then Obama refused to release the long form and put this whole controversy to rest. Why not? It's so simple. He could do it today and everyone would drop it. Blame him for the life of this controversy.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>Those who say that the State of Hawaii has verified that he was born in Hawaii should read their statement again. All it says it that they have it. They don't say anything about his citizenship or place of birth. In fact, they say they can't comment on any of that. They can only give that information to Obama by law. According to Hawaiian law, he could have been born anywhere and his mother, upon her return, could have filed the information and received a document that certifies that he was born alive. That's all if proves. They had to take the mother's word for the specific information. If he was born in Hawaii, then the delivery doctor would sign the long form. He can release that today and stop all of this. Why not?<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>Newspaper birth announcements? Did Stanley Ann <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Dunham</span> or her parents place them there to create a proper situation for a 17-year-old teenager who became pregnant by a 23 -ear-old Kenyan that she barely knew? Who knows? Obama won't clear it up.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>As for McCain's staff looking into this, I regard that as little proof. He also thinks he knows enough about cap and trade to be in favor of it. I wrote him during the election and asked him to really research cap and trade because I was sure he'd be opposed to it, if he knew more about it. Nope. He remained in favor of it. So much for his ability to "look into" something.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>The documents we have seen include a school record of Obama from Indonesia where he is listed as a Muslim son of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Lolo</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Soetoro</span> named Barry <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Soetoro</span>. I find no record of Obama disputing this document.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>I apologize to those who are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">aggravated</span> by the controversy and want it to die. I do understand why they would feel this way. However, I can't say that I "KNOW" Obama is eligible to be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">POTUS</span> and that is a shame. I wrote my Congressman and asked him this question, "Who certifies that a candidate is eligible to hold the office of President?" His reply to my letter avoided that question. So who does certify candidates are eligible? Anyone? Who certified <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Obama's</span> eligibility and on what documents?<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Can anyone say with certainty that Obama is eligible? I can't. And I should know without a doubt according to the Constitution. I want to protect our Constitutional rights. Just show me the long form and I'll be happy.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>P.S. The Daily <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Kos</span> admits that one of their frequent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">commenters</span> forged a BC for Obama as a gag to show how easily it could be done. He was involved in the debate at that time over why Obama refused to release any BC. This forgery had an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">anomaly</span> on the top near the center. It was a black mark. It looks like someone accidentally touched a black ink pen to it or there was a black spot on the scanner used. Immediately, a BC appeared on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Obama's</span> web site bearing the same <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">anomaly</span>. Coincidence? This was discussed and explained on The Daily <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Kos</span> which is a very left wing web site.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-21607484678747699512009-07-27T13:06:00.005-05:002009-07-28T14:52:37.503-05:00BIG FAT GOVERNMENT<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hicKSZbayihy2rm8nw5Ve-yCOh4d1_P_TPQkm0jCcXWZS_fFhTo655tBoKB6piaqK8nWK0teTnjcpe0COVyvB8rZBuqieenmlHj44vpbZWvpjopr_8wC6lBYHMn-4rgDp_Bo1BNOBZM/s1600-h/fat.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363204184279446290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 110px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 84px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hicKSZbayihy2rm8nw5Ve-yCOh4d1_P_TPQkm0jCcXWZS_fFhTo655tBoKB6piaqK8nWK0teTnjcpe0COVyvB8rZBuqieenmlHj44vpbZWvpjopr_8wC6lBYHMn-4rgDp_Bo1BNOBZM/s400/fat.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div>While everyone’s debating the government take-over of America’s health care system, it should be noted that Obama appointed Nancy Ann DeParle as his health care czar. Who is she? Visit <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31566399" jquery1248717859387="4">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31566399</a>. MSNBC is hardly a right wing news org. They’re the home of Chris Matthews who gushed that listening to Obama speak made chills run up his leg! TMI!!!<br /></div><div>DeParle headed up corporations who were under investigation for engaging in illegal billing schemes, alleged kickbacks, serious violations of federal quality standards, including one company that <strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">failed to warn patients of deadly problems with an implanted heart defibrillator.</span></em></strong> She ran Medicare for Bill Clinton’s administration.<br /></div><div>“Since leaving her government job running Medicare for the Clinton administration, DeParle built a lucrative private-sector career. Records show she earned more than $6.6 million since early 2001, <a href="http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/deparle-portfolio/story/details-deparles-industry-connections/" target="_blank" jquery1248717859387="6">according to a tally</a> by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.<br /></div><div>Much of that corporate career was built at companies that have frequently had to defend themselves against federal investigations. After leaving government, DeParle accepted director positions at half a dozen companies suspected of violating the very laws and regulations she had enforced for Medicare. <strong><em><span style="color:#3366ff;">Those companies got into further trouble on her watch as a director.<br /></span></em></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Now she’s back in government as a leading voice in deciding the shape of health care reform. </span></strong></div><br /><div></div><div>Named by Obama in March as director of the White House Office of Health Reform, making $158,000 a year, DeParle is the point person in pushing for the administration’s plans for changing health care and the ways Americans pay for it — changes in which her former companies have a great deal at stake.” Fred Schulte, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University, MSNBC Online<br /></div><div><strong><em><span style="color:#009900;">Does Obama know ANYONE who is honest?</span> </em></strong>Do you see a pattern here? Everyone he appoints to his cabinet or a czar position has a dishonest or shady past, didn’t bother to pay their taxes or is some kind of radical with beliefs that run afoul of American values. Perhaps he identifies with them more than with the rest of us honest, hard-working tax-payers.<br /></div><br /><div>He recently said in a televised press conference that he believes pediatricians choose to remove children’s tonsils when it isn’t really necessary, to make more money. (I don’t believe that.) Pediatricians don’t operate, so they won’t make the money, unless Obama was suggesting that they get kickbacks for every surgery they set up for a surgeon. DeParle would know more about kickbacks than our pediatricians.<br /></div><br /><div>It’s clear that Obama will use the health care overhaul or take-over to punish doctors and put them in their place, as he sees it. He has attacked insurance companies, placing blame on them for our health care problems, but didn’t he bail out AIG with millions? They supported his candidacy and Sen. Chris Dodd, Democrat., wrote the exemption in the bailout bill that allowed the huge bonuses to be paid to AIG executives.<br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Pay attention to all of the “studies” being done on obeisity and how it affects our health care costs. The government will use the Obama plan to affect people’s behavior and place extra tax burdens on those who are obese by his administration’s standards. That means that you will be scrutinized and records will be kept on your weight, what it should be, and what you must do about it. What will become of freedom, individual liberty and the right to privacy?<br /></span></strong></div><br /><div>They will increase taxes on smokers, drinkers, race car drivers, athletes, people with dangerous jobs, people who don’t exercise, etc., etc., etc. They are now talking about unhealthy lifestyles costing our system much more. When they’re looking for ways to cut costs, they will use taxes to modify our behavior.<br /></div><br /><div>What kind of people will Obama appoint to police our lifestyles? I shudder to think. Doctors may be required to report unhealthy lifestyles. It’s the first line of knowledge and Obama health care is all about controlling costs.<br /></div><br /><div>Read this article: <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/study-blames-obesity-for-high-cost-of-health-care.html" jquery1248717859387="8">http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/study-blames-obesity-for-high-cost-of-health-care.html</a>. The key info here is:<br /></div><br /><div>“New research shows that medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone with normal weight, the journal <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/index.dtl" target="_blank" jquery1248717859387="10">Health Affairs</a> reports.<br /></div><br /><div>The study by <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">government scientists</span></strong> and the nonprofit research group RTI International says obesity-related health spending has doubled in the past 10 years to $147 billion, USA TODAY <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-07-27-costofobesity_N.htm" target="_blank" jquery1248717859387="12">reports.</a>“<br /></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>If you love freedom and individual liberty, you’d better fight to keep it, because there is a strong effort to snatch it away by power-hungry people who believe they are smarter than the average citizen. Don’t make the mistake of trusting these people, because they’ve already revealed the fact that they are unscrupulous. Just remember the past transgressions and beliefs of everyone Obama has appointed to office.<br /></strong></span></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">YOU should be controlling THEM. Oh wait! Isn’t that what the Constitution says?</span></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006042345987537419.post-76311946370297239282009-07-23T18:16:00.003-05:002009-07-23T19:08:28.701-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXtJ3QT8dIT8ggRQvzA3T0_zCgrZuvZFpvKTNGng0mz4sFygVla0yVisE2agEVPrlN5TOfrct7IJLaw6ac_oo_u9dWqenfBye0Cr4m3W84-EaBDJpvRCC4C0dwSH_l5ZuCPfyY7-gxFg/s1600-h/flag+and+eagle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361811117935489026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 143px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 107px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXtJ3QT8dIT8ggRQvzA3T0_zCgrZuvZFpvKTNGng0mz4sFygVla0yVisE2agEVPrlN5TOfrct7IJLaw6ac_oo_u9dWqenfBye0Cr4m3W84-EaBDJpvRCC4C0dwSH_l5ZuCPfyY7-gxFg/s400/flag+and+eagle.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>What kind of country is America? Are we a nation of whiners with our hands out looking for something from somebody? We never have been. Are we a nation of losers who can’t take care of ourselves? We never have been. Are we a nation of “cradle-to-grave” dependants? We never have been.<br /><br />This is a nation of greatness because Americans are a unique blend of people from all over the world who live here because we treasure freedom and individual liberty. <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Not just the “right” to do it ourselves, but the responsibility to do it ourselves – not beholden to anyone. We do it ourselves.<br /></span></strong><br />Yes, we help each other, even complete strangers, but it’s still <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">“WE THE PEOPLE”, NOT THE “BIG GOVERNMENT”.</span></strong> Americans don’t walk around with their hand out - asking for something from the government. They walk around with their hand out – giving to those in need. We take care of our own and we pull together. America is the most generous nation on the planet.<br /><br />The picture being painted of America today is of a bunch of people who can’t take care of themselves and are demanding that the government take care of us. <strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">I don’t believe it.</span></em></strong> This is a false concoction of power-hungry politicians creating a need for their services. Once they get the citizenry on the public dole, they have job security and we can’t get lose.<br /><br />We will no longer have freedom or individual liberty once we are enslaved by government programs. Our personal lives and health records will be filed in offices in Washington, D.C. So much for the Constitutional Right to Privacy. Then comes the behavior modification. The government powers will decide what we should be doing and what is politically incorrect. They will modify our behavior by withholding something we’ve become reliant upon and/or levying taxes on undesired behavior. These behaviors can be as benign as eating fast foods or drinking sugar-laden soft drinks. (Don’t worry. They will never touch alcohol – just sodas.)<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Just say “NO” to government entanglements, I mean, entitlements. Show the current gaggle of politicians what a true American is!</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EfaO2dm8774&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EfaO2dm8774&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Have you joined your local Tea Party Society yet? If not, may I suggest that you do it today.</span></strong></em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1