Wake Up America!

The Boot of Government Now on the Throat of Rural America

2011-08-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

While America was focusing on Weinergate and the side shows surrounding it, Obama issued and signed and Executive Order 13575, Establishment of the White House Rural Council.

Here is the actual copy of the EO:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/DCPD-201100431/pdf/DCPD-201100431.pdf

It's only a few pages and I highly recommend you go in and read it for yourself.

Paragraph 2 of Section 1 states:

"To enhance the Federal Government's efforts to address the needs of rural America, this order establishes a council to better coordinate Federal programs and maximize the impact of Federal investment to promote economic prosperity and quality of life in our rural communities."

What this means is the Federal Government will determine if you are using your property to achieve their specification of "economic prosperity" and they will set the standard of what your "quality of life" is.

And who will be designing these specifications? Well this Rural Council will, of course.

Tom Vilsack, the current Secretary of Agriculture, will chair the group, but let us review the list of members appointed to serve on this new council – according to the order, the heads of the following groups have been appointed:

(1) the Department of the Treasury; Timothy Geithner
(2) the Department of Defense; Robert Gates
(3) the Department of Justice; Eric Holder
(4) the Department of the Interior; Ken Salazar
(5) the Department of Commerce; Gary Locke
(6) the Department of Labor; Hilda Solis
(7) the Department of Health and Human Services; Kathleen Sebelius
(8) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Shaun Donovan
(9) the Department of Transportation; Ray LaHood
(10) the Department of Energy; Dr. Steven Chu
(11) the Department of Education; Arne Duncan
(12) the Department of Veterans Affairs; Eric Shinseki
(13) the Department of Homeland Security; Janet Napolitano
(14) the Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa Jackson
(15) the Federal Communications Commission; Michael Copps
(16) the Office of Management and Budget; Peter Orszag
(17) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; John Holdren
(18) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; R. Gil Kerlikowske
(19) the Council of Economic Advisers; Austan Goolsbee
(20) the Domestic Policy Council; Melody Barnes (former VP at Center for American Progress)
(21) the National Economic Council; Gene B. Sperling
(22) the Small Business Administration; Karen Mills
(23) the Council on Environmental Quality; Nancy Sutley
(24) the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs; Valerie Jarrett
(25) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and such other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the President or Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, designate. Chris Lu (or virtually anyone to be designated by the 24 people named above)

It appears that not a single department in the federal government was excluded from the new White House Rural Council, and the wild card option in number 25 gives the president and the agriculture secretary the option to designate anyone to serve on this powerful council.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juUVKKBw-k

In yesterday's news:

8/22/2011

"WASHINGTON -- After much delay, the White House has finally released a proposed rule that would update child labor regulations in agricultural work.A group of more than 25 public health officials and advocates signed a letter last week to the White House's Office of Management and Budget official and regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, who oversees rule review at the agency, urging him to move the child labor rule along."

The Rule: http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201010&RIN=1235-AA06

We also have the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) proposing to regulate agricultural vehicles as Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs).

http://youtu.be/UiFnnR_gpvg

The Rule: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/rulemakings/notices/Agriculture-Regulatory-Guidance.pdf

"What the FMCSA is trying to do will end family farms in our country whose children contribute to planting and harvesting their crops; their children would not be able to operate agricultural vehicles if classified as CMVs. Although the FMCSA is backing off due to pressure from the public and from Senators, they’ll try again when they think we’re not paying attention. [Watch the other hand]"

Senators standing up: http://fleetowner.com/equipment/news/farm-truck-senate-group-0804/

Also, we must not forget that when the government decided to blow up the Birds Point levee and flood people out of their houses and farms, Obama’s Federal government offered to buy their land… and George Soros was buying up the flooded farms too.

Why all the intense Federal Government interest in Rural America?

"Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase “sustainable rural communities” came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America."

I'm going to do a separate post on the George Soros sponsored Agenda 21 plan, this is the Mother Plan that this is all tied into.

Do some homework, Google: Agenda 21 and ICLEI.

My people perish from a lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6

THE FACTS : Senator Obama’s Socialist Past

2011-07-22T12:21:00.000-07:00

From: http://americastandup.wordpress.com/

“A Man is Known by the Company He Keeps.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Diagram uses credible & verifable sources. All claims can instantly be verified within a couple minutes.

Here they are for you in plain view: View Extensive Sources Here.

A Blessed Mother's Day - May 8, 2011

2011-05-08T09:29:00.000-07:00

Who's Tapping Into Missouri's Youth?

2011-03-15T17:39:00.001-07:00

Just recently a friend's teenage daughter showed her a letter and survey that was sent to directly to her. After seeing who sent out this survey the parents were shocked, to say the least. After reading the questions on the survey they were absolutely livid. To begin with the survey was sent directly to the child even though it implies that it was sent to the parent and requested it be passed on to the child.

Instead of going into lengthy opinions about what I think of all this, I'm going to post the letter, envelope and survey which will speak for itself. The progressives are getting away with these tactics right here in at home.

Just a few obvious questions:

Where are they getting the mailing lists of the adolescent, 14-19 year olds?

What exactly do they intend to do with this information that includes a child's name and address attached to it?

How would you feel if you found out ANYone was asking your children these questions?

(If you click on each image you will see it in full size. If you right click & Open Link in New Tab the image will open in a new window so you won't leave this page.)

October 6th - Last Day To Register

2010-09-29T19:57:00.000-07:00

This is one of the most vital elections in American history. Please do all you can to get your friends and family involved!

September 11, 2001

2010-09-11T15:21:00.000-07:00

Arizona: The Truth

2010-05-08T14:14:00.001-07:00

by Trevor Loudon

New Zeal

May 8, 2010

National security should be every government's very first priority.
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen explains Arizona's tougher line on illegal immigration and why the state had to act, when the federal government wouldn't.
It's hard to argue with her logic.

I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 which I voted for and was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer.

Rancher Rob Krantz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence, here is just some of the highlights from those who testified.

The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property . One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles.

Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains.

One man told of two illegals who came upon his property one shot in the back and the other in the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.

The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them, if they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the border.

Federal prisons have over 35% illegals and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals. In the last few years 80% of our law enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been by an illegal.

The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people coming they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.

The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the border states . We have been over run and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education cost have been over a billion dollars. The health care cost billions of dollars. Our State is broke, $3.5 billion deficit and we have many serious decisions to make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here legally. It has to stop.

The border can be secured. We have the technology we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming and they must come in an organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity of our country and the government which we live under.

I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem, we dare not do this until the Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive them because thousands will come behind them and we will be over run to the point that there will no longer be the United States of America but a North American Union of open borders. I ask you what form of government will we live under? How long will it be before we will be just like Mexico , Canada or any of the other Central American or South American countries? We have already lost our language, everything must be printed in Spanish also. We have already lost our history it is no longer taught in our schools. And we have lost our borders.

The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi Germany . Are you kidding. The ACLU and the leftist courts will do everything to protect those who are here illegally, but it was an effort to try and stop illegals from setting up businesses, and employment, and receiving state services and give the ability to local law enforcement when there is probable cause like a traffic stop to determine if they are here legally. Federal law is very clear if you are here on a visa you must have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. In Arizona all you need to show you are a legal citizen is a driver license, MVD identification card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to vote, get a hunting license, etc.. So nothing new has been added to this law. No one is going to be stopped walking down the street etc... The Socialist who are in power in DC are angry because we dare try and do something and that something the Socialist wants us to do is just let them come. They want the "Transformation" to continue.

Maybe it is too late to save America . Maybe we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But as an elected official I must try to do what I can to protect our Constitutional Republic . Living in America is not a right just because you can walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility and it comes by respecting and upholding the Constitution the law of our land which says what you must do to be a citizen of this country. Freedom is not free.

In all of his arrogance, Obama is cracking jokes about Arizona, but America is not laughing.

Gun Rights Workshop - 1/11/10

2010-01-04T09:59:00.000-08:00

Gun Rights Workshop

Monday, January 11, 2010

6:30 p.m.

Los Jimadores Restaurant

Macon, MO

This meeting is open to the public.

Dutch treat meal will be served at 6:30 p.m. prior to the program.

Guest Speaker: Mr. Greg Liles

Member of Oath Keepers

Greg served with 1st/75th Ranger (ABN),

Instructor Reconnaissance/Commando

(RECONDO) School - 101st Airborne Division, Operations Sergeant.

After serving Greg and his wife relocated to Alaska, approximately

70 miles by aircraft west of Fairbanks where they owned and operated a lodge and guided hunting, fishing

and river trips. Their floatplane was their primary transportation in Alaska.

Greg is an NRA Certified instructor in Pistol, Rifle and Shotgun, instructing Concealed Carry in Missouri.

He will be instructing our CCW course

Saturday, 1/16/10, in Atlanta, MO

The purpose of this workshop is to promote understanding of gun laws and the Constitutional protections for our right to keep and bear arms.

For more information:

http://www.maconcountypatriots.com

http://www.facebook.com/maconcountypatriots

Contact: Sally Weber

sallyweber.mo@gmail.com

DECEMBER 26, 1776

2009-12-26T07:14:00.000-08:00

LEADERSHIP

Listen, listen closely:

LEADERSHIP

Our Savior's Born!!! Luke 2:1-20

2009-12-24T14:50:00.000-08:00

♪♫♪ Joy to the world! the Lord has come

Let Earth receive her King. ♪♫♪

♪♫♪ Let every heart prepare Him room, ♪♫♪

And heav'n and nature sing,

and heav'n and nature sing,

and heav'n and heav'n and nature sing. ♪♫♪

♪♫♪ Joy to the world! the Savior reigns ♪♫♪

Let men their songs employ.

♪♫♪ While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains ♪♫♪

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat, repeat the sounding joy. ♪♫♪

♪♫♪ HE RULES THE WORLD ♪♫♪

♪♫♪ with truth and grace, ♪♫♪

And makes the nations prove

♪♫♪ The glories of His righteousness

And wonders of His love,

and wonders of His love,

And wonders, wonders of His love. ♪♫♪

From our Home to all of yours, we wish you peace & joy

as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas!

Jace and Sally Weber

We The People Speak Out

2009-12-22T14:04:00.000-08:00

Government's First Duty...

2009-12-17T23:06:00.000-08:00

... is to protect the people, not run their lives.

~ Ronald Reagan

The Patriot Post

Mark Alexander

December 17, 2009

Today, Democrat Party Leftists deride the notion of individual rights. Instead, they advocate the supplanting of individual liberty with statism.

They promote the notion of a living constitution rather than the authentic Constitution our Founders established.

They despise free enterprise and advocate socialist redistribution of wealth, the ultimate goal of which is to render all people equally poor and dependent upon the state.

They loathe our military and our national sovereignty, and they propose to replace it with treaties that establish supranational governmental legal and policing authorities.

They detest traditional American values, and they support all manner of behavior resulting in social entropy.

Would it surprise you to know that, while Democrat impositions on lending practices are largely responsible for the fact that millions of Americans are now out of work, the number of government "workers" making over $100,000 per year has increased 30 percent since the beginning of the current recession? There are more than 10,000 bureaucrats earning more than $150,000 annually, and the average federal salary is $71,206, not including generous government benefits, while the average private sector salary is $40,331.

Obama and his Democrat Congress have endowed future generations, unless soon reversed, not with liberty but with historically unprecedented levels of debt, which will enslave them to hyperinflation.

Today, more and more Americans are returning to the core principles upon which our nation was founded, which made it the freest and most productive in history. There is a renewed commitment to support and defend Essential Liberty.

I believe that a supermajority of us are fully capable of understanding the truth, if given the right information and opportunity.

Ronald Reagan delivered an enduring challenge to conservatives entitled "A Time for Choosing": "You and I are told we must choose between a left or right," Reagan said, "but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism."

Patriots, the time has come to choose.

Ronald Reagan outlined a plan for "The New Republican Party," stating, "The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not just one generation or a dozen, but in all the combined experience of mankind. When we conservatives say that we know something about political affairs, and that we know can be stated as principles, we are saying that the principles we hold dear are those that have been found, through experience, to be ultimately beneficial for individuals, for families, for communities and for nations -- found through the often bitter testing of pain, or sacrifice and sorrow."

If Republicans want to regain majority status, the RNC must purge those who have forsaken the first principles of conservatism for power. In their stead they must lift up those who are devoted to the Rule of Law and Essential Liberty, those who incorporate Reagan's charge, and that of generations of Patriots before him. They must back real conservatives instead of arrogant pretenders (see Toomey v. Specter). Short of bold new leadership, what remains of the Republican Party will end up on the trash heap of political irrelevance.

Patriots take heart: Do not wither during these difficult times. For as George Washington advised, "We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."

Indeed, the next several years will be a vital test for Patriots and our countrymen. Let us choose to persevere, to make our cause that of all men, to make no peace with oppression.

Also from Ronald Reagan's, "The New Republican Party" : "We also believe that Americans, often acting through voluntary organizations, should have the opportunity to solve many of the social problems of their communities. This spirit of freely helping others is uniquely American and should be encouraged in every way by government.

Families must continue to be the foundation of our nation.

Families -- not government programs -- are the best way to make sure our children are properly nurtured, our elderly are cared for, our cultural and spiritual heritages are perpetuated, our laws are observed and our values are preserved."

"Patriots, we have great opportunity before us, and once again the time has come to fight for it."

~Mark Alexander

2nd Amendment Kicks off 2010

2009-12-17T12:13:00.001-08:00

Mark those new 2010 calenders now for 2 big events in January.

January 11th, 2010, we have a 2nd Amendment event scheduled. Time, location, speaker and details to be announced soon!

January 16, 2010, Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) course being held at 9:00 in Atlanta, MO

It's an 8 hour course and the cost for registration is $75.

More details of this event will be posted soon.

We have a huge election year ahead of us, possibly our last chance to fight for our Republic. Our goals are equally as big. Education and information to prepare Americans to actively be a part of holding our government accountable (throwin' the bums out that refuse to be), getting Constitution loyal candidates elected and securing the conservative (legal American citizen majority) gain back in all levels of government.

We live in exciting times in history and look forward to joining with you and others in Macon & surrounding counties who are tired of feeling helpless and are looking for something active and influential in NE MO to be a part of.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

~Ronald Reagan

The Cloward-Previn Strategy at Work in America

2009-11-29T14:11:00.000-08:00

It's probably no surprise to anyone anymore that the strategy and techniques used by the President and this administration come from the Saul Alinsky book "Rules for Radicals" but few understand the goals that they're trying to achieve. Hopefully this will shed some light and understanding on what the President meant after several months in office when he said, "Things are going as planned" even tho in reality job loss rate was skyrocketing, the economy was nose diving and everything appeared very bleak and unstable.

With the exception of Welfare and government positioning.

We all remember the quote by Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." That chain of thought is right out of the Rules for Radicals handbook. But the rest of the story is the fact that all of the chaos and crisis going on in America right now are created crises.

While the rest of the country was struggling to hold on to their jobs and take care of their debts and responsibilities, right out the gate the President gave the welfare recipients a raise. More money, more food stamps. To understand the reasoning behind that you have to understand the Cloward-Previn Strategy.

From Discoverthenetworks.org:

Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.

In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.

The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level."

In October the President offered thousands of dollars to only 3,500 the poor in Detroit. You remember that, right? Obama money? Comes from Obama's stash?

To quote a friend, "Why would BHO single out Detroit for a free handout to people to help pay their utility bills? They will be screaming they need help for next month's bills. If they hand out cash or credit cards, I am willing to bet very few utility bills will be paid with that money. More than a few of those there to get money said they voted for BHO because he said he would take care of them. This is the kind of society he is creating. All take and no give. It will be like the $2,000 handouts after Katrina. People were buying designer purses, etc. You can't make people responsible by giving them everything free. Many of those people have no idea where that money came from. They don't pay taxes and are thumbing their noses at those of us that do." And she had never heard of the Cloward-Previn Strategy, yet she defined the very goals/results of it in that comment.

An article by a young man, Anthony D. Dolpies, about this handout. Again, Cloward-Previn Strategy at work:

Detroit, MI October 8, 2009

The Welfare State,

Obama's Real Vision of Change

The Demoralized victims of more than fifty years of central planning and empty promises came together last week in Michigan. In a scene reminiscent of Soviet style bread lines, more than 65000 people filled out applications, hoping for a share of 15.2 million dollars appropriated by the Obama stimulus pkg to help low income families pay bills, stave off eviction or find temporary housing. Only 3500 people will actually receive aid from the program. This latest incarnation of the Obama recovery act only adds to the evidence that the stimulus was never about job creation, Instead it was merely a tool for the expansion of political power through the welfare state.

The long slow moving lines and ill-prepared city welfare workers agitated the desperate citizens who began to trample and fight one another for a shot at the limited number of applications. This is the end result of Obama’s redistributionist economic policy. Sold under the guise of compassion, social justice, economic justice, egalitarianism, the individual is reduced to a budget item, viewing his fellow man as a threat, competition for his slice of an ever shrinking communal pie.

Redistributionist or socialist policy, call it what you will, can never produce the economic or social equality that those who champion it promise. In fact such a political and economic system only advances the creation of an inescapable binary class system they claim to oppose, the very rich and the very poor. It advocates the notion that the bureaucrat is more equal than equal. The bureaucrat in the welfare state is given the arbitrary authority over the validity of what he views as the needs of the citizen in relation to the immediate needs of the state. In the end redistributionist policy only advances the ultimate immorality, slavery, first by enslaving the producer to the non-producer, then through dependence of the non-producer to the state.

And that's exactly what it is. Slavery. This isn't a black issue, this is an American citizen issue. People are being bought for their vote. People are being enslaved to the welfare system and they don't understand or care about the consequences. They believe that government is going to support them. It doesn't matter where the money comes from, it doesn't matter that they have no desire or instinct to take care of themselves. What has lead to this mentality in a society that has been built on self reliance, pride in accomplishments, and determination to be the one to be responsible for one's own family? At what point did the welfare system become culturally correct? When did the welfare system change from a "safety net" to the entitlement programs of welfare checks, Section 8(a)housing, WIC, AFDC and looked at as being a good thing?

I just finished reading The Big Black Lie How I Learned the Truth about the Democrat Party by Kevin Jackson. What an eye opener to the answers to those questions from someone who lived thru that era of change. He writes:

Growing up, I knew of only one person I can recall who was on welfare, one of our neighbor's oldest daughters. She was a single mother of two children.

When my family spoke of Sandra living on welfare, they would almost whisper that she was 'getting help' It was considered uncouth to speak of government assistance any other way. I remember watching Sandra getting off the bus, carrying sacks of groceries. I later found out that she was too embarrassed to use food stamps at the grocery store in our neighborhood, she would take the bus across town to buy her groceries.

He also writes about his upbringing by his grandparents (who raised Kevin and his brother when their mother died at a very young age) and his community:

My own grandparents taught me about personal and financial responsibility, about respect and humility. They taught me the value of hard work, of providing for yourself and your family. To be a welfare recipient was an embarrassment in our community, and those who got it felt ashamed of themselves for needing it.

Kevin Jackson is a 45 year old man. The Cloward-Previn Strategy was published in The Nation Magazine, May 2, 1966 issue.

I'd like to encourage you to read the article about the Cloward-Previn Strategy in it's entirety at DiscoverTheNetworks.org, A Guide to the Political Left, to really understand the goals and intentions of the political left and why the comment, "Things are going as planned" makes perfect sense in a world of politics that appears to have just gone insane.

James Simpson, from The American Thinker wrote:

Newsmax rounds out the picture:
Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.

Capitalizing on the racial unrest of the 1960s, Cloward and Piven saw the welfare system as their first target. They enlisted radical black activist George Wiley, who created the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) to implement the strategy. Wiley hired militant foot soldiers to storm welfare offices around the country, violently demanding their "rights." According to a City Journal article by Sol Stern, welfare rolls increased from 4.3 million to 10.8 million by the mid-1970s as a result, and in New York City, where the strategy had been particularly successful, "one person was on the welfare rolls... for every two working in the city's private economy."

According to another City Journal article titled "Compassion Gone Mad":
The movement's impact on New York City was jolting: welfare caseloads, already climbing 12 percent a year in the early sixties, rose by 50 percent during Lindsay's first two years; spending doubled... The city had 150,000 welfare cases in 1960; a decade later it had 1.5 million.

The vast expansion of welfare in New York City that came of the NWRO's Cloward-Piven tactics sent the city into bankruptcy in 1975. Rudy Giuliani cited Cloward and Piven by name as being responsible for "an effort at economic sabotage." He also credited Cloward-Piven with changing the cultural attitude toward welfare from that of a temporary expedient to a lifetime entitlement, an attitude which in-and-of-itself has caused perhaps the greatest damage of all.

The next time you drive through one of the many blighted neighborhoods in our cities, or read of the astronomical crime, drug addiction, and out-of-wedlock birth rates, or consider the failed schools, strapped police and fire resources of every major city, remember Cloward and Piven's thrill that "...the drain on local resources persists indefinitely."

This is another article worth reading in it's entirety at The American Thinker

From Red State:

We knew that Barack Obama was turning DC into a mecca for sucking at the public teat, but it perhaps was not as obvious until recently as to what extent this is occurring. [This] illustrates the depth to which Obama is influenced on “governmentalization” of the private sector. The graphic tells it all:

Unsurprisingly, the low points come during the Democrat(ic) Kennedy, Carter, Clinton and Obama administrations. But the dearth of private sector experience in the Obama cabinet is almost breathtaking. As Nick Schulz notes, “over 90 percent of its prior experience was in the public sector”. Wow.

It shouldn’t be a “wow” moment, though. [This] administration is promoting exactly what we have suspected it would - elimination of private sector industry in favor of government control. From banking to automotive to health care to “net neutrality” - the government takeover is already well under way.

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

From the Freedom Post:

Americans: We are great without and in spite of the federal government. We are great because we've had the freedom to be great, and the government has interfered less than other governments in the world.

We were great before Barack Obama, and we are now great in spite of him. Don't allow the devious, deceitful promises of security, no matter how well spoken, to be a substitute for the freedoms generations of our predecessors fought and died for.

"A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT"

We have a lot of work to do.

I am SO ready for 2010!

The Manhattan Declaration

2009-11-28T16:42:00.000-08:00

Quote: Focus on the Family

The unveiling came during a news conference at the National Press Club here in the nation’s capital, but this was a lot more than a photo op. It was a demonstration of solidarity among more than 125 Christians of all denominational stripes that we will not only continue to speak out in the public square, we will continue to stand firm for biblical principles in that public square.

Here is the Declaration: http://www.lifenews.com/nat5693b.html

Here is where you can sign the Declaration: http://manhattandeclaration.org/

And all I can add to this is IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

Between Oath Keepers and now The Manhattan Declaration I am encouraged as we move into 2010 and get busy rebuilding our party and getting our country safely back under the Constitution.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Obama Controls TV - October 19 - 25

2009-10-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

A well laid out plan to infiltrate every single home in the World.
Have your eyes wide open and use wisdom for your family.

From John Nolte:
"On September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this “unprecedented block of TV programming is the first wave of a multi-year ‘I Participate’ campaign.”

http://tinyurl.com/yfbjjep
^^ Please Read ^^

From Stage Right:
"My ten-year-old daughter loves “So You Think You Can Dance.” I suspect most eight to eighteen-year-old girls do. So, my question to the producers of this hit show is: “Why are you pointing my daughter to a web page asking her to work at Planned Parenthood?”"

http://tinyurl.com/ykah8lr
^^ Please Read More^^

Patrick Courrielche writes:

"National service and volunteerism is a top priority of both the President and the First Lady. A broad effort has been launched to promote this priority. We’ve seen this in the May 12th White House briefing, the August 10th and 27th art community conference calls, and now in a new effort by the Entertainment Industry Foundation...All of these efforts are driving would-be volunteers to Serve.gov. The question is, for what purpose?"

http://tinyurl.com/ygl33o4
^^ Yes, There's more ^^

Michelle Obama has even created a video expressing the importance of national service:
http://tinyurl.com/yzr4jzh

"For the entire week, these and other networks will use our favorite TV shows to shine a spotlight on the power of service. Fifty prime-time shows have already agreed to participate and this number is growing.

Imagine: for seven days straight, whether viewers tune-in to shows like ABCs Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NBCs 30 Rock, CBSs CSI: Miami or Foxs So You Think You Can Dance they will watch programs infused with inspirational volunteer messages."

Yes.... Just imagine....

List of "Organically" Created iParticipate Television Programs:

From the leaked network memo:

President Obama has called for a new era of responsibility. … We can turn up the volume for service and volunteerism, engage more people and make it part of who we are and what we do to bring the country together. …

Campaign Elements: …
“To ‘organically’ create and produce as many shows as possible about service and volunteerism[.] …

Ideally storylines will touch on one or more of the key issues that have outlined as the country’s top priorities for services:

Education and children
Health and well being
Environmental conservation and reduced energy consumption
Economic development and financial security
support for military families

From the iParticipate website:

Check Out All The Participating Shows! Find Out How Your Favorites Are Taking Part.

By iParticipate on Tue, Oct 13 2009, 18:11:41

Below are some of the shows taking part in EIF’s iParticipate campaign, and what they plan to do. (A “tag” means an in show announcement or promotion.)

Show……………………………………..Participation
ABC
America’s Funniest Home Videos…………Segment
Brothers and Sisters…………………………Script, tag
Castle……………………………………………Tag
Cougar Town…………………………………..Tag
Dancing With the Stars……………………..Segment, tag
Desperate Housewives………………………Script, tag
Eastwick………………………………………..Tag
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition………..Story line, tag
Grey’s Anatomy……………………………….Script, tag
Hank……………………………………………..Tag
Modern Family…………………………………Tag
Private Practice………………………………..Script, tag
Scrubs……………………………………………Tag
The Forgotten…………………………………..Script, tag
Ugly Betty……………………………………….Script, tag
All My Children………………………………….Script, tag
General Hospital………………………………..Script, tag
One Life to Live…………………………………Script, tag
The View………………………………………….Segment, tag
Jimmy Kimmel Live!…………………………..Segment, tag

NBC
30 Rock…………………………………………..Script, tag
Access Hollywood………………………………Segment, tag
Community………………………………………Script, tag
Heroes…………………………………………….Script, tag
Parks and Recreation………………………….Script, tag
The Biggest Loser………………………………Segment, tag
The Jay Leno Show……………………………Segment, tag
The Office………………………………………..Script, tag
Today……………………………………………..Segment, tag

CBS
Accidentally on Purpose………………………Tag
Cold Case………………………………………..Script, tag
Criminal Minds…………………………………..Script, tag
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation…………….Script, tag
CSI: Miami……………………………………….Script, tag
CSI: NY…………………………………………..Script, tag
Gary Unmarried…………………………………Script, tag
Ghost Whisperer………………………………..Script, tag
How I Met Your Mother……………………….Script, tag
NCIS………………………………………………Script, tag
NCIS: Los Angeles…………………………….Tag
The New Adventures of Old Christine……..Tag
Numb3rs…………………………………………Script, tag
Rules of Engagement…………………………Script, tag
The Big Bang Theory………………………….Tag
The Mentalist……………………………………Tag
Two and a Half Men……………………………Tag
Late Show With David Letterman…………..Segment, tag

FOX
America’s Most Wanted………………………Segment, tag
Bones……………………………………………..Tag
Brothers………………………………………….Script, tag
COPS……………………………………………..Segment, tag
Lie to Me………………………………………….Script, tag
Major League Baseball………………………..Script,tag
So You Think You Can Dance?……………..Segment, tag
’Til Death…………………………………………Script, tag
The Wanda Sykes Show……………………..Future segment, tag

The CW
I Pledge…………………………………………..Committed

Nickelodeon
TeenNick HALO Awards………………………Segment, tag

WeTV
The Locator……………………………………..Tag
My Fair Wedding……………………………….Tag

Lifetime
Army Wives……………………………………..Future story line
Project Runway…………………………………Tag
Rita Rocks……………………………………….Tag
Sherri……………………………………………..Tag

BET
The Mo’Nique Show…………………………..Tag

Disney Channel
Wizards of Waverly Place……………………Script
Sonny With a Chance…………………………Script
Hannah Montana……………………………….Script
The Suite Life on Deck………………………..Script

CNN
American Morning……………………………..Segment
Showbiz Tonight: HLN………………………..Segment

CMT
CMT Top 20 Countdown………………………Segment
CMT Insider………………………………………Segment

Syndicated Shows
The Dr. Oz Show……………………………….Tag
Dr. Phil……………………………………………Segment(s), public service announcement
Entertainment Tonight / The Insider……….Segment, tag
Extra: The Entertainment Magazine……….Tag
Jerry Springer…………………………………..Tag
Judge Jeanine Pirro……………………………Tag
Judge Mathis…………………………………….Tag
Maury……………………………………………..Tag

Is There A Doctor In The House??

2009-10-01T22:23:00.000-07:00

The doctors are speaking out. Is anyone listening? I've asked several of my friends around the country and family members if they know how their doctor feels about government run health care and virtually every single one of them has said that their doctors are opposed to it and most are actively fighting it. I'm sorry to say my own doctor is one of the few who thinks government controlling America's health care would be great. I hear random shot statistics for doctors for and against it and I'm beginning to think some are just pulling a figure out of the air banking that nobody will ask where they got it from. Liberal sources say 77% of doctors are for government run health care. Conservative sources say only 45%. I wish I could hear the doctors who are for it explain why, without it being all Huffington Post talking points. I'd listen, I'd like to understand. There is no doubt that we need health care reform in this country. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way and understand the importance. I know there are excellent proposals out there coming from doctors -- but is anybody listening? There is no rational reason for the entire health care system to be thrown out and taken over by government.

The liberals rant that the Republicans have their hands deep in the insurance company pockets. But the Democrats have theirs equally as deep in the pharmaceutical & trial lawyer pockets. How the Democrats can look American in the eye and say this has been a bipartisan effort on their part just floors me. To my knowledge not one Republican amendment has made it through. Not one. I know Senator Olympia Snowe (R) ME is their poster child for their gracious bipartisan spirit, but she's one of our finest RINO's who has one foot almost crossed over into Democrat devotion. Arlan Spector comes to mind. Anyway, we know the politicians aren't going to put down their games and my concern is who is going to listen to our doctors?

During the 9/12 March on Washington there were hundreds of doctors who took part. There wasn't any news coverage, of course, but I'd like to point them out here.

From Docs4PatientCare:

Practicing US physicians uniting to represent the interests and concerns of both patients and doctors in the healthcare reform debate. D4PC endorses the concept of needed healthcare reform, but we recognize it can only be accomplished by proceeding in a cautious and responsible manner. Our recommendations will enable us to reach this goal without requiring the nationalization of the entire American healthcare system.

Docs4PatientCare Proposed Alternatives for Effective Healthcare Reform:

There is no logical reason to hastily pass this legislation by a predetermined deadline. We have one chance to get this right.

Bring "all" stakeholders together to help assure a meaningful and sustainable reform by considering many recommendations and proposals.

Adopt a patient-centered approach to healthcare reform that empowers patients and promotes freedom of choice.

Use the power of government to assist the uninsured obtain health coverage through modification of the tax code, such as tax credits and vouchers.

Reduce high insurance premiums by opening up patient risk pools across the entire nation, thereby diffusing risk.

Allow the individual/family to be the "owner" of the policy making their health care coverage portable and available if they lose their job or move to a new place of employment. This will eliminate exclusion from the new employer's plan for a “pre-existing” health issue and also eliminate a waiting period to qualify for enrollment.

Encourage and expand Health Savings Accounts. Tax-Free savings vehicle for planned and/or unexpected medical expenses.

Tort Reform. The costs to our healthcare system secondary to the practice of defensive medicine are over $100 billion annually, or $2,000 per family.

Insurance Reform. Guarantee insurability due to pre-existing illness. Eliminate Insurance company antitrust exemption.

They had their own Doctors Against Obamacare Rally in Washington.
The report from Looking at the Left by El Marco:
September 10, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Today doctors, nurses and other medical professionals came to Washington, D.C. from across the country to show their opposition to Obamacare. This rally exploded the government-created myth that there is unanimity amongst health care professionals for Democrat plans to take over health care. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons came to D.C. to present a petition from doctors to lawmakers. The AAPS has been a voice for private physicians since 1943. Their motto is Omani pro aegroto, “all for the patient”. The doctors met with the representatives from their respective states and argued for a platform that avoids unnecessary bureaucratic intervention in health care.

Dr. Shannon Norris, a radiologist from Atlanta, holds a People's Cube poster describing Obamacare as offering “the efficiency of the Postal Service, the sustainability of Social Security and all the compassion of the IRS”.

Dr. Steven Ellison, a cardiologist from Georgia, displays graphically how doctors feel about being targeted by a party and president that slander and demonize them. On the podium, speaker after speaker talked about the slurs President Obama has made about doctors performing unnecessary amputations and tonsillectomies out of greed. Not only is it untrue that doctors profit from these procedures, but the premise that they would do such harm to their patients is an insult to doctors.

Dr. Hal Scherz, a pediatric urologist from Atlanta, founded Docs for Patient Care to voice doctors’ opposition to the “big rush” for a big government solution to health care reform. The organization of doctors suggests practical proposals such as tort reform, insurance reform, and opening up insurance pools between states.

Their petition to Congress can be found at TakeBackMedicine.com:

Physicians can no longer allow medical care in this country to be controlled by government and insurance companies   

Current reform options purport to be “cure-alls” for every American. But we know that every patient is different, and just like patients, there is no single big-government solution to change health care in this country.   

Instead, we need more diversity in solutions.   Therefore, I support changes that address the following issues:

Petition point: 1. INDEPENDENCE: Doctors are professionals. They answer to their patients, not the government or an insurance company or any other third party. Treatments should be decided by doctor and patient exclusively.

“We are not the enemy,” said Dr. Joyce Lovitt, a pediatrician from Georgia.

Petition point: 2. VALUE OUR SERVICES: Physicians have a right to be paid a market-based fee for their services, and to be paid at the time of service or within a reasonable period.

Dr. Lovitt: “Patients, we will cover your backs if you do not tie our hands behind our backs.”

Petition point 3. DOCTORS ARE NOT INSURANCE BILLING CLERKS: Physicians should not be forced to act as billing or collection agents for third-parties, whether private insurance or the government.  

Petition point 4. REGULATIONS GET BETWEEN PHYSICIANS & PATIENTS: Excessive regulatory burden on physicians is interfering with patient care. We must decrease regulations, not pass more.

Petition point 5. LIABILITY COSTS MUST BE REDUCED: Costly defensive treatment and tests, and predatory litigation result in excessive liability costs for physicians and patients alike.

Dr. Scott Barbour, an orthopedic surgeon from Atlanta addresses the rally.

Petition point 6. AUTONOMY: Neither physicians nor patients should be forced to participate in government nor private health care plans or programs.

Petition point 7. RIGHT TO CONTRACT: Neither physicians nor patients should be prohibited from entering into mutually agreeable private contracts for services and payments.

Petition point 8. PRIVACY: Physicians must not be forced to disclose patient records without the express consent of patients.

Dr. Phil Gingery, U.S. Congressman from Georgia addresses the Rally.

Dr. Michael Schlitt, a neurosurgeon from Seattle. He spoke about a woman in England who had an aneurism and was told by the National Health Service that there was nothing they could do for her. They told her to enjoy her last few days. She came to the U.S. and was treated by Dr. Schlitt and is fine today. “Show me a place where patients can get MRI’s the same day.” and the crowd responded with a rousing “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” ”Who’s got the best medical care in the world?” “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

Howard Long, from Pleasanton, California is “a country doctor.”

The basic question comes down to who do you want making your health care decisions. Do you want them made in a doctor’s office with men like these? Or do you want them made by bureaucrats and congressional ”staffers.”

Hello? Is anybody listening??

Please don't stop writing, calling, faxing, tweeting Congress.
The battle is still going on..

You can hear all of the speeches from the rally here:
http://event.playonsports.com/widget.html?eventId=6843

Reflections of 9/12

2009-09-30T23:22:00.001-07:00

On 9/12 of this year there was a March on Washington by American citizens from every corner of the country. There were the Tea Party people, the 9/12 Project people, the Fair Tax people, and every other pro-America, pro-US Constitution group in the country. But most were people who didn't belong to any particular group other than a hard working family who has gotten up off the couch and made the decision to be a part of speaking out for their convictions.

More than anything I wanted to be in DC for this, but it wasn't in the cards for me... this time. BUT, there was a Tea Party rally held in Quincy, IL and the St. Louis Tea Party joined in with them and so did I. It was an incredible day. The energy of the crowd was encouraging and a lot of FUN! It's an awe-inspiring experience to stand with patriots from all walks of life with the common love for this country.

First I'd like to share my day with you and then I'd like to give you a look into the day in DC.

Awe-inspiring!

Across this nation, people joined together to voice their concerns, to listen to speakers looking for direction about what to do to have their voices heard, to stand UNITED with other Americans who are concerned about the direction this administration is attempting to take our country. Most are saying "we are silent no more" and it's being heard. The main stream media refuses to report it, but it's a definite roar being heard across the country. And it's waking people up. It's encouraging citizens to get informed and get active. It's truly an exciting time in America.

There must be tens of thousands of pictures going around the internet of the March on Washington. I've pulled out a few to make a couple of points.

First of all, the media has done it's best to down-play the size of the crowds. I think the liberal blog, Huffington Post, has it down to maybe at most a few thousand people. Bless their hearts. The best estimate coming out of Washington has been 1.5. And the estimates including all of the rallies held across the nation is at 3+ million. But who wants to bicker about numbers? Let's just enjoy some photographs of Americans at their best!

Most of these are from Red Cube & Looking At The Left

Sorry, I just had to throw ol' Baghdad Bob in there for grins.

Looks like a few thousand people for sure. Notice anything peculiar about any of those pictures? Anyone see any swastikas? Hitlers? I'm sure there's one or two, maybe even 6 in there somewhere. The Huffington Post, Pelosi and MSM plucked out a few choice pix then posted and railed on and on about how horrible and hateful the crowds are. But you know what? You can see the temperament and message of this crowd with your own eyes, when you're shown the truth. And when you think for yourself based on facts, not Saul Alinski fiction. Nancy Pelosi and the media are starting this scary funneling of emotion about the fear of the violent nature of these things. What's so backasswards about this Hitler/swastika/Nazi thing is that this president surrounds himself with self proclaimed communists, marxists and terrorists and nobody bats an eye.

The facts are that since the beginning of first tea parties back in February, there has been zero violence, zero damage, zero litter, unlike the devastation they left Washington in after the inauguration:

Mmm mmm mmm

And zero arrests of any of the Tea Party or town hall participants. The only arrests have that have been made are those of SEIU, ACORN members & Russ Carnahan employee's. The only violence was the beating a black man (Tea Party participant) took from an SEIU thug at a town hall meeting in St. Louis. (ACLU looked the other way) And the guy that got his finger bit off by a SEIU thug in California. And we won't even mention the 80+ arrests and over $50,000. damage at the radical left protests at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh last week.

These groups at these rallies are wonderful, peaceful people. It's like a huge gathering of people you've known forever. We're the good guys!!

And about those Hitler posters. If you see any of these people with this message:

They have infiltrated themselves into the Tea Party movement and they do not, nor does their message, represent any part of the Tea Party, Fair Tax, 9/12 Project rallies. They are a bizarre group of people, The LaRouche Movement, who have invited themselves to the party. And here's the kicker, the guy's a democrat.

LaRouche himself has been a candidate for U.S. president eight times, standing in every presidential election from 1976 to 2004. The first was with his own party, the U.S. Labor Party. In the next seven campaigns he campaigned for the Democratic Party nomination.

There's a load of information on this creepy organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement I'm done giving them anymore recognition.

One more negative report the MSM & Huffington Post grand stands on is the accusation that these rallies are motivated by hateful racists. (Are you as sick of that word as I am?) To help snuff out that liberal rant I'd like to share the March on Washington thru the eyes of a young man, Oleg Atbashian. He's a writer & graphic artist from Ukraine and the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com. He writes about his experience in Washington in a two part article for Pajamas Media (Part 1 and Part 2) I highly recommend that you take a few minutes and read his reflections on this experience as seen through the eyes of an ex-Soviet immigrant.

In his blog he writes, "From what I have seen, this tea party consisted of people of many races, accents, and origins, who varied in their religious beliefs, immigration status, and political affiliations. I spoke with people who were Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Native Americans, and African Americans. I spoke with those who were atheists and those who were gay. I met a group of Spanish-speaking Cuban women, who carried a large anti-Obama poster.

I later shared my water bottle with a Serbian woman dressed in colonial costume with an American flag over her skirt. She carried several Ron Paul signs, including one that said, "Gun control means using both hands." She spoke English with a strong accent but knew enough Russian to have a meaningful conversation.

What brought all these different folks together was their love of freedom. They recognized the danger posed by encroaching big government tyranny and acknowledged a need for action. But that's where the similarities ended. These people weren't used to speaking in unison. There were no predictable pious clichés or standardized hypocritical speech codes typical of leftist protests. Underneath all the masquerade, the accents, and other superficial attributes, the essential qualities of the million-plus tea partiers were what the term "diversity" used to mean originally, before the collectivist left pulled a racist bait-and-switch scheme and repackaged the term to denote a purely biological and tribal belonging with no regard to our individual minds, liberties, and ambitions."

A few more of his photographs:

And a couple more from other bloggers:

Someone called in the Cowboys!!

Here are more incredible shots of DC from Stealth Fusion

In the words of Oleg Atbashian:

The “mainstream” media will never admit it in a smug tone reserved for leftist malcontents, but I know it and you know it.

That day we made history.

Pledge of Allegiance

2009-09-25T18:00:00.001-07:00

Another video surfaces of young school children singing Obama's praises during school.

From Tammy Bruce:
"Titled “Kids Obama Song,” this is the second video of children being taught to sign the praises of [Obama in school.] Being excited about the election of someone is one thing. Children can learn about that and celebrate it with their parents. Having children sing and dance about about a politician and then using those children in a political video posted for the public is outrageous."

A note from yesterday's video of the children from the B. Bernice Young Elementary School. "The Fox News report notes a line from the Obama lyrics (”He said red, yellow, black or white / All are equal in his sight / Barack Hussein Obama!”) is more-or-less plagiarized from "Jesus Loves the Little Children" ("Black and yellow, red and white / They’re all precious in His sight / Jesus…”). Except we don’t allow public school kids to sing about Jesus. That’s against the rules.

They're even banning Christmas songs in public schools. A portion of the song is lyrics put to the music of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." What do you think the odds are of these same children knowing the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic?" This is just all so wrong.

In researching information I ran across this absolute treasure. For you younger adults, let me introduce you to Red Skelton. And let me take you back to a place in time when any indoctrination in the schools of this country was in loyalty TO THIS COUNTRY and respect for the freedom that was blood bought for American citizens. On January 14, 1969 Red Skelton offered his television audience his reminiscence of an incident from his schoolboy days in Indiana:

I: meaning me, an individual, a committee of one.
Pledge: dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self pity.
Allegiance: my love and my devotion.
To the Flag: our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there is respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody’s job.
Of the United: that means that we have all come together.
States: individual communities that have united into 48 great states. 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common cause, and that’s love of country.
And to the Republic: a republic, a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it’s from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
For which it stands!
One nation [Under God]: meaning, so blessed by God.
Indivisible: incapable of being divided.
With Liberty: which is freedom and the right of power to live one’s life without threats or fear or any sort of retaliation.
And justice: The principle and quality of dealing fairly with others.
For all.: which means, boys and girls, it’s as much your country as it is mine.”

Amen!

Back to School

2009-09-25T01:06:00.000-07:00

Well, after the president's speech to the public schools there seemed to be a lot of gasping and upset expressed by those who didn't get what was going on & those who didn't get away with the original plan. So it's time to go back to the school issue to clarify some of the faux confusion. President Obama's speech turned out to be very benign and a simple little chat with the kids. The issue in question were the worksheets that were sent out before the speech. If you read the original blog posts from September 2nd and September 3rd you'll see that the work sheets had an agenda, which was revised after parents questioned the motive and legality of what was going on. If the original intent of the speech was so innocent why wasn't the complete text of just the speech publicized before the worksheets, as opposed to putting it up on the Whitehouse website 24 hours before it was to air in the schools?

There was an insulting editorial published in a St. Louis newspaper calling the parents concerned about this whole event "gutless" and "scary." In response one parent wrote a reply.
In part it reads,

"I have emailed a copy of the 'Lesson Plan' that was attached to President Obama's address, which clearly 'plants the seed' that future generations are to consider themselves servants to the President, by encouraging students to 'think about what they can do for the President,' and 'how can I help the President, and 'Will I be able to do what the President asks of me?' This type of 'pre-conditioning' will lead to a generation of people thinking they are supposed to 'serve' rather than to think of the President for what he TRULY is...an elected official, i.e. a public servant.

President Obama has had personal and professional ties to known terrorists; he's bowed down to a Saudi Arabian King; he's apologized to foreign nations for Americans; he refused to honor a 42 year long tradition of a military 'fly-over' at a God and Country Rally, while later attending a dinner to honor Ramadan--a Muslim holiday; he stated that America was no longer a Christian nation; this man attended a church for 20 years that promoted racism against white people, had that same preacher officiate his wedding and baptize his children, and then denounced him when it became politically correct to do so; and YOU have the AUDACITY to state that, "PARENTS CANNOT BE ALLOWED to micromanage" their child's public education. If there are parents out there with internet access and half a brain, they already know all of this about our President, and you think we should just blindly trust him with our children? You are right...for me, it's no longer about the message, it's about the messenger.

[The teacher that was criticized] clearly just wanted to view it before showing it to our children. You tell US to trust the educators, when it's clear that YOU don't. You can't 'un-ring' a bell Mr. Martin, and since NO-ONE saw the transcript beforehand, it was best to 'err' on the side of the parents."

Very well put!

And I'll end this part of the post with a little side note about the Q & A session Obama held with the students where he was filming at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA. A side of the fact that in his speech he said "I" "me" or "my" 60+ times he made sure during his answers he got in his health care schpeel. Infact, for the grand finale of the Obama Show a very articulate young man just happened to ask the question: "...currently 36 countries have universal health coverage, including Iraq and Afghanistan, which have it paid for by the United States. Why can't the United States have universal health coverage?"
What are the odds, huh?

So have you heard the most recent topic of propaganda being pushed in the public schools? More and more parents are finding out about it because they saw it on Fox News (and the internet) and their kids mention in passing, "Hey, we've seen that movie in school." Are you ready for this? There's a video being played in schools all across America called the "Story of Stuff." A loving anti-capitalist tale that unfortunately has virtually no facts correct. Created and narrated by Greenpeace employee, Annie Leonard. According to the New York Times, "Ms. Leonard is self-educated on where waste goes." The YouTube of the video went around the internet the early part of last year. You couldn't read a conservative blog without finding it mentioned. What we've learned recently is that currently, "More than 7,000 schools, churches and others have ordered a DVD version, and hundreds of teachers have written Ms. Leonard to say they have assigned students to view it on the Web."
Here is the full 20 minute version:

It even comes with it's own "quiz."

"The Story of Stuff" is a blatant anti-capitalism indoctrination. From the New York Times, "The video certainly makes the facts stark and at times very political."
It is produced and sold (capitalism) by the Tides Foundation. If you're not familiar with the Tides Foundation I suggest you do some research, because they are a huge part of who is controlling our country under this administration.

George Soros owns Tides, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), APOLLO (they wrote the stimulus bill), ACORN & SEIU.

If you made it through the entire video, it's only fair that you follow up with a complete debunking in which the commentator investigates the footnotes.

Critique 1 of 4

Critique 2 of 4

Critique 3 of 4

Final Critique

So now if your children have seen this video, you're now armed with truth to counter the attempt to indoctrinate the minds of our youth.

From the New York Times again, "Mark Zuber, a parent of a child at Big Sky High School in Missoula, had a stronger reaction when a teacher showed the video to his daughter last year. “There was not one positive thing about capitalism in the whole thing,” Mr. Zuber said.

Corporations, for example, are portrayed as a bloated person sporting a top hat and with a dollar sign etched on its front.

He described the video as one-sided. “It was very well done, very effective advocacy, but it was just that,” he said.

Mr. Zuber argued before the Missoula County School Board that the way in which “The Story of Stuff” was presented, without an alternative point of view, violated its standards on bias, and the board agreed in a 4-to-3 vote."

And in closing, I thought you'd like to know about one more current public school controversy.
From VDARE.com, B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J. school children were instructed to memorize a paean to Barak Obama. Charisse Carney-Nunes, author of the children's book "I am Barak Obama" and a self-described Harvard Law "schoolmate" of the president's, showed students lined up i the auditorium... chanting in unison.

Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama

He said all should lend a hand to make the country strong again.

Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today, equal work means equal pay.

Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama

He said take a stand, make sure everyone gets a chance.

Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama

He said red, yellow, black and white, all are equal in his sight.

Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama.

Yeah! Barack Hussein Obama.

…Hello, Mr. President, we honor you today

For all your great accomplishments, we all do say hooray.

Hooray, Mr. President, you are No. 1

The first black American to lead this nation.

Acknowledging the historic nature of Obama's presidency is one thing. Deifying him with creepy spiritual references "Red, yellow, black and white, all are equal in his sight" is cribbed from the famous hymn "Jesus Loves the Little Children." Then the remainder of the song is to our "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is quite another.

And to add to the sickness of this whole thing, the superintendent responded today saying that the recording and dissemination of the video was "unauthorized," but acknowledged that the Obama praise session was part of the students' official curriculum. The superintendent was more upset about the video getting out to the public than the issue of indoctrinating the children without parental permission.

This O-cult lesson is exactly the kind of junior campaign lobbying activity that White House officials planned around the president's education speech. Alert parents and administrators called out the Department of Education's activist, Obama-centric education manuals before the event. Federal officials altered the language. Obama delivered an innocuous speech. But on cue, education radicals goaded students to engage in political activism.

It's Constitution Day - September 17, 2009

2009-09-17T10:08:00.001-07:00

The Constitution of the United States
by Basil, IMAO
September 17, 2009

On this day in 1787, in Philadelphia, the greatest document written in the last several centuries was completed. What began as a rewrite of the Articles of Confederation became the Constitution of the United States.

It's a document that guarantees our liberties. It lays out the duties and responsibilities of the three branches of our federal government, and it establishes the relationship between the states. And, as amended, it establishes the rights guaranted to the individuals on which the government may not infringe. I am of the camp that feels that not enough people have read the Constitution - including many who have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, delegate Benjamin Franklin was asked, "What have we got - a Republic or a Monarchy?" To which Franklin replied,

"A Republic, if you can keep it."

Go read the Constitution. then make it your mission to help us keep a republic.

Of all the sites on the internet I found this one to be the most exceptional. Take your time, wander around, enjoy learning about the making of the laws of the greatest nation in the world, and the men who, put it all together.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html

We Will Never Forget

2009-09-11T10:17:00.001-07:00

How many times today will you read that in a subject line?

There are a lot of tributes out today, some beautiful, some heart wrenching, some that are just too graphic for me. I've taken a journey through the internet of as much documentation as I could stand, because every day of my life I remember. The open wound of 9/11 on my country is deep and painful. I'm sharing a few of the tributes, memorials and sentiments that are a part of memorializing not only our day of terror but those following days where we stood together as AMERICANS. Non-partisian, non-denominational, hearts wide open and raw. Bold & Brave.

http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/

Memory in photography.

Survivor Stories

Governor Palin: Remembering 9/11

It has been eight years since the United States suffered the worst attack on our soil since Pearl Harbor. As we look back, we should take stock of what has transpired since then. We have sent our nation's soldiers into battlefields far from home to defend us. These brave men and women live in treacherous conditions, facing improvised roadside bombs, suicide bombers and other attacks. Yet they fight on in their mission to defend the United States and all of us without complaint.

Our all-volunteer service is made up of Americans of all races, creeds, and economic backgrounds. These soldiers are on the front lines of this battle, and there are others in the fight as well. We must continue to give our utmost support to the United States military and those that support their efforts. In light of this, I have added my name to a letter sent to President Obama urging him to remain committed to prosecuting the War on Terror in Afghanistan. Never have so few defended the liberty of so many. We must continue to support their mission because they will continue to fight for us.

President Reagan ended his first inaugural with this story:

Under one such marker lies a young man-Martin Treptow-who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, "My Pledge," he had written these words: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone." The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.

As we look back to that tragic day eight years ago we take pride in the fact that we came together as a nation in the days, months and years that followed. We rose to the challenge that fateful day and we still can. And why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.

I thank all our servicemen and women, in and out of uniform, for keeping us safe over the last eight years in the face of enormous odds.

Please thank a veteran today. They certainly do not look for those thanks, but they have more than earned it.
- Sarah Palin

And believe it or not, there are those who want us to forget 9/11 ever happened:

Honoring September 11th: They Wants Us to Forget

by Mark Tapson @ Big Hollywood

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner

“We will write our own future, and the future will be what we want it to be.”

- Barak Hussein Obama

In a quiet and seemingly innocuous gesture, President Obama has designated 9/11 as “The National Day of Service and Remembrance.” Personally, I liked the ring of “Patriot Day,” and what does “service and remembrance” mean, precisely ? The idea is to get Americans to “engage in meaningful service to create change…in four key areas”: education, health, energy/environment and community renewal. None of these seems to have anything to do with honoring 9/11, but that seems to be the point: in the Huffington Post, Muslim-American playwright Wajahat Ali wrote, “In the US, we are trying to move away from focusing on 9/11 as a day of horror, and instead make it a day to recommit ourselves to national service.” An excellent Spectator article provides a blunter translation: “Nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.” Why? ”They think it needs to be taken back from the right.”

Read the entire article here.

The response that shares my personal sentiments is from IMAO:

By Any Other Name
by Harvey

In December, 2001, President Bush approved Public Law 107-89 declaring 9/11 to be “Patriot Day”.

In April, 2009, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. In that Act, September 11th was officially declared “The National Day of Service and Remembrance .”

Screw you.

We know what day it is.

I search myself constantly for how I can serve my country right here on my homeland. When I go to a town hall meeting, when my husband and I make a stand together at an opportunity to face our elected officials, when I share a responsibility in print to help keep We The People informed, when I can make any small contribution to support those who are willing to go to the front lines to fight and represent the viewpoints I believe in, I am fighting for my country with the best of my God given ability.

But its when I join the Patriots of the Tea Parties, forming one body, one voice, is when I feel the pride of being an American. Putting the memories of today, 9/11, in perspective with where I'll be tomorrow helps me bare the memory of the day the terrorists tried to take down America's spirit only to find out that when you hurt us, you bring out the very best of AMERICA.

Jim Durbin from 24th State said it best this morning in regard to the Tea Parties:

Every person you read about is risking their jobs, their careers, and their families to give back to this great nation. Each one of them has been attacked by the press, by left wing rabble, and even by crazed people who write, call, and even show up to physically intimidate and sometimes attack us for simply speaking our minds. These people I call friends, they are patriots and heroes, and every person who has come out to the Tea Party can claim that same title. This country is not run by politicians. It is run by us, and after decades of slumber, the public is finally awake.

I'll be going to Quincy tomorrow, for the 9/12 rally. It is not the same as serving overseas, and it's not the same as the work that Dana and Bill and Gina and all the rest have put into these events. But it's my part. If you are going, I want to meet you. Pull me aside and introduce yourself. If you can't go, read the accounts on the blogs and look at the pictures and video and leave comments and tell your friends and make a vow that you will get involved. The Tea Party is not an organization - it's a movement. It's not anti-Obama, or anti-Democrat, or even anti-politician. It's not anti-tax or anti-healthcare. It's pro-America. We are not fighting for our freedoms - we are exercising them. Exercise yours. Get involved. Democrat or Republican or Independent or other - if you're not involved, you won't be prepared when you're needed.

The Pentagon 9/11/01

September 11, 2006

2009-09-09T23:14:00.000-07:00

Something beautiful happened in America on September 11, 2006. We received a gift from Russia. A monument "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism." An incredible creation by a man named Zurab Tsereteli. Presented to America by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation.

This man, Zurub Tsereteli, was at his home in Moscow the morning of September 11, 2001 getting ready for work with his television on. He watched the attack on America and was moved to tears by the horror he witnessed against the American people.

Shortly after, Zurub came to America and saw the devastation. He wanted to create something for the victims and after researching the area found waterfront land in New Jersey. The peninsula at Bayonne. With the Statue of Liberty in line and the New York skyline as the backdrop Zurub found the place for his Tear Drop Memorial.

The ground breaking ceremony was held September 16, 2005. The keynote speaker was President Vladimir Putin. With the Statue of Liberty behind him, President Putin said in his speech, “...Four years ago, the criminals thought they would plunge American and all civilized humanity into chaos. They were wrong. On the contrary, we became more united than ever and we created an actively functioning anti-terrorist coalition. I fully agree with you, Mr. Mayor - Just as we vanquished fascism, so shall we defeat terrorism together."

On September 11, 2006, the monument "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" was dedicated to America. The monolithic block of vertical, earth-colored stone is over 100 feet high. It appears rent in the center from top to bottom and in the gap is a 40 foot, four ton nickel-plated tear drop. The base of the monument is a multi-faceted onyx pedestal inscribed with the names of all of those that perished on 9-11-01, from Flight 93 in Pennsylvania to the Pentagon to the twin Trade Towers. (American Thinker)

Please go to the site and read the whole story about this beautiful gesture of love for humanity.
http://www.911monument.com/

This all took place 3-4 years ago. I just heard about it a couple of days ago. If you also never heard of it I bet you're like me and wondering why such a magnificent gift was never given the appropriate press coverage. Instead of me coming up with the words to describe/explain how the ball got dropped and by whom (MSM), I'm going to lead you over to American Thinker to read the piece by Troy Nelson. He wrote it up perfect and used all the words and descriptions I would have used.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/a_beau_geste_the_911_tear_drop.html

A few years late but
Thank You Russia!

Heed These Words

2009-09-06T08:49:00.000-07:00

Revolution is Duty of the People

Two Books Your Children May Have To Read...

2009-09-06T08:06:00.000-07:00

...before his highness speaks on September 8th, 2009.

From P.U.M.A:

The first book is aptly titled: Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

"One sun-drenched day, as his wife Michelle stood by, Barack smiled
on a sea of faces from Wichita to Waikiki. He saw whites and blacks, rich
and poor, Christians and Muslims and Jews; he saw the ghosts of his parents, of Gramps and Toot, of Martin Luther King, Jr. and JFK. And on that special day Barack was the bridge that held them all together. “I want to be your president,” he said. “Can we make America better? Can we work together, as one?” With a single voice the crowd called out, “Yes! We can!”

Simply titled “Barack”:

"He arrived here during a dark time in American history. All across
America, people were losing their jobs, losing their houses, losing their
sense of hope. Many people were tired of a war that had gone on too long.
They were tired of fighting with their neighbors over politics. They were
just tired."

I've seen both of these books in Toys R' Us & Target and have resisted the urge to pick them up and read the contents. P.U.M.A. includes more excerpts from these books that I found to be quite disturbing. The authors are writing history before it's over. They're painting a beautiful, flowery, puppies and kitties picture of a savior.

Why do I find the contents of these books disturbing? Not only because they are aimed for our kids, but because these books tell a story about a soon-to-be-president who built his campaign on unity. A man who is suposed to be a "bridge" uniting blacks & whites, democrats & republicans, cats & dogs, a man who preaches tolerance and tells us to be openminded.

What??

As of today, America is more divided than ever. The crap just keeps spewing from the far-left and it's like they're daring eachother to see who can be the most outrageous, pulling the blinders down over America's eyes before she cries uncle.

The Proposed Anti-Health Care Plan

2009-07-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

House Democrats Introduce Health Care Maze
July 15th, 2009 · by Bob McCarty

Democrats Health Care Maze
Click to view pdf file

Yesterday, House Democrats introduced a costly, burdensome and bureaucracy-laden plan for health care reform outlined in the graphic at right. It stands in stark contrast to the health care reform alternative introduced by House Republicans last month.

The GOP health care reform plan would:

* Make quality health care coverage affordable and accessible for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions;

* Protect Americans from being forced into a new government-run health care plan that would eliminate the health care coverage that more than 100 million Americans currently receive through their job;

* Let Americans who like their health care coverage keep it, and give all Americans the freedom to choose the health plan that best meets their needs;

* Ensure that medical decisions are made by patients and their doctors, not government bureaucrats; and

* Improve Americans’ lives through effective prevention, wellness, and disease management programs, while developing new treatments and cures for life-threatening diseases.

If you don’t want a government-run health care system ACT NOW! CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS in Washington, D.C., and demand they oppose this dangerous and costly legislation.

http://jec.senate.gov/republicans/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.Health

"My people perish because of lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:1-6)

2009-06-25T09:54:00.000-07:00

The Obama administration is force feeding the take over of Americans at warp speed.
GET informed, STAY informed, TAKE ACTION by writing, calling, faxing your representatives.

American Freedom depends on it.

http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/

Knowledge is Power

2009-05-21T06:50:00.000-07:00

This article by Karen Townsend, from Mother of All Conservatives is too excellent to just quote various sentences out of so I'm quoting the entire thing. In it is reference to an informative website to learn about and understand how our government works:

Civics and our branches of government

and I'm adding:

Understanding the U.S. Electorial College

Bring Back Civics Class
by Karen Townsend

Did you have a Civics class when you were in school? I did but my son did not. Yes, there is U.S. History and Government class but it is not the same.

The good news is that an online civics course is being developed by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the College of Teacher Educaction and Leadership at Arizona State University. The former Supreme Court Justice has a passion for promoting the program and that is good for students around our country.

It is appalling the level of ignorance running rampant among the general public as far as basic knowledge of our government and its workings. According to the website of Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, “more American teenagers could name three of the Three Stooges than the three branches of government. More knew the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and which city has the zip code “90210″ than the city in which the U.S. Constitution was written. Nine of 10 could name the star of “Titanic’, compared to the seven in 10 who knew the name of the vice president of the United States.”

We’ve all seen the man on the street interviews on cable tv during election seasons. Who’s the vice president? Who is the Speaker of the House? All met with blank stares.

Some blame the emphasis of math and science classes or the demand of English composition. All are crucial. But, so is knowing how your government works, how to be involved in the process, and how important it is to be an informed voter.

Justice O’Connor’s program will concentrate on our court system. The major elements are being placed on www.ourcourts.org and it deals with activist judges. Georgetown University Law Center is a part of the project, too.

Good luck to her. This is important. Knowledge is power.

S.386 Transparency of TARP Money

2009-04-22T18:40:00.000-07:00

Keep an ear out for this one and get ready to be a part of supporting getting it passed.

Inhofe Amendment to Require Transparency of TARP Money

Planned Parenthood and ACORN are major recipients of TARP money.

H.R. 1913 Another Hate Crime Enforcement Law

2009-04-22T18:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1913/show
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1913

Excellent Article:

Camouflaged Hate Crimes Bill to Pass in House Committee

This is one of Barney Frank's pet projects. That in itself says it's extremely dangerous.

Write your representatives and ask them to oppose this bill.

HR 1207 Federal Reserve Transparency Act

2009-04-22T18:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1207/show
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1207

A letter written to a representative explains in plain language:

Recently, it has come to light that there is little to no accountability to the people on the part of the Federal Reserve. While the citizens of this country are required by law to give an accounting of every penny they come in contact with, the Federal Reserve has never been held to the same standard. During this time of extreme economic crisis, the people deserve an accounting of where our money is going.

Currently there are 55 co-sponsors for this legislation, and it is enjoying bi-partisan support. Your efforts in supporting this important legislation would go a long way in proving to your constituents that you not only hold the Federal Reserve to the same standard as you do your constituents, but it would also show that you believe in transparency. Anything less than support for this resolution suggests that you are in favor of secrecy and a lack of accountability to the people who pay the bills. We pay the tab; we have a right to know where our money is going.

Unlike recent bills that you voted in favor of that had hundreds of pages and just a few hours to read, this bill can be read in under 5 minutes. I encourage you to take the time to read it, and then move to support it.

Thank you in advance for your attention on this important legislation. I have every expectation that you will do right by your constituents and support this measure.

Write your representatives today and get them on board with their support.

Where to Look Up Bills & Resolutions

2009-04-14T22:05:00.000-07:00

This administration and congress are pushing bills through at warp speed. They're banking on Americans to stay asleep and indifferent to what they're doing. It doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat, Independent, left, right, liberal, conservative, this is YOUR country and staying informed is going to be the key to not losing your freedom and rights protected under the Constitution of the United States. It is so important to pay attention to going on, take action, voice your opinions, contact the representatives that work for US.

Where every politician stands on every issue, National & State

http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

Here are resources for looking up bills and resolutions:
http://www.govtrack.us/
http://thomas.loc.gov/
http://www.opencongress.org/

http://www.congress.org

MISSOURI:

Missouri House of Representatives:

http://house.mo.gov/

Missouri Senate:

http://www.senate.mo.gov/

Read them for yourself and understand what is going on in the government that has taken an oath.
"The Constitution contains an oath of office only for the president. For other officials, including members of Congress, that document specifies only that they "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution." In 1789, the First Congress reworked this requirement into a simple fourteen-word oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States."

Find Your Representatives

2009-04-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

The internet has made it extremely easy to find and contact any or all of your representatives.

http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

House of Representatives:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

OpenCongress:
Representatives:
http://www.opencongress.org/person/representatives
Senators:
http://www.opencongress.org/person/senators

GovTrack:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd

U. S. Senators:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Twitter:
http://tweetcongress.org/listhttp://www.topconservativesontwitter.org

Tweet The House Floor:

http://twitter.com/housefloor

S244 - Wake Up Missouri

2009-04-13T08:05:00.000-07:00

Misleading name:

Education Begins at Home Act

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s244/show

A bill to expand programs of early childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, including potential mental health concerns, and for other purposes.

Any time you see they want a program to let them into your home - big red flag.

American Form of Government

2009-04-13T07:21:00.000-07:00

If you don't understand all the different labels for government being thrown around today, this is one of the greatest lessons posted to help you understand in simple terms.

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/

Valuable history lesson for the day.

Rightwing Extremists, You're on THE LIST

2009-04-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

Recently here in Missouri it was discovered that... well for the sake of shortness start here:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/missouri_police_given_chilling.html

The actual MIAC Report:
http://www.firearmscoalition.org/images/news/miac-militia-2009.pdf

Well, all hell broke loose in Missouri over this leak. The Lt. Governor, Peter Kinder, issued a statement:

http://teamkinder.com/?q=node/213

Action was taken:
Missouri House of Representatives Report:
Intelligence Agency Boss Replaced Amid Controversy

Missouri State Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. James Keathley on April 6 replaced the director of the Missouri Information Analysis Center in the wake of a controversial intelligence report the center issued that said members of ultra right-wing, anti-government militia groups tend to support fringe political parties and candidates. The report has upset some conservatives, including Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder.

Keathley removed Van Godsey, a civilian patrol employee who had run MIAC since Republican former Gov. Matt Blunt created it. The new MIAC director is Lt. David Hall, a 16-year patrol veteran.

When the controversy erupted last month, Kinder called for the suspension of Department of Public Safety Director John Britt, whom Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon appointed shortly after taking office in January -- months after work on the report began. However, Britt, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, neither approved nor reviewed the report, which was signed off on by Godsey. New procedures have since been put in place to require the public safety director and the patrol superintendent to approve MIAC reports before they are released to law enforcement agencies.

Rush Limbaugh even reported about it:

Story #10: Missouri Highway Patrol Rescinds Militia Report

RUSH: Remember we told you not long ago that the state of Missouri had told the highway patrol that if you see a bumper sticker for a third-party political movement it's obviously a militia group and you gotta be worried, like anybody for Ron Paul or anybody for pro-life, or anybody NRA, and it caused an uproar, so "The Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies. The Highway Patrol also will open an investigation into the origin of the report, which linked conservative groups with domestic terrorism and named former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin," as dangerous reactionaries. "The Highway Patrol’s announcement followed a news conference in which Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, suggested putting the director of public safety on administrative leave and investigating how the report was produced." So the fur flew out there over this, and they've rescinded it.

Okay, it appears that that got resolved and other than incidents of Ron Paul people getting detained at the airport and a couple of bumper sticker situations, it was all going to go away. Yeah, right. I think everyone was still pretty suspicious because Jay Nixon was determined that he wasn't going to let it go ( http://tinyurl.com/ctczbj ) and simply backed down on his public stance.

It's time to Wake Up America!! It just got uglier than we imagined it was. Posted today:
http://patriotskyline.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-new-report-dept-of-homeland-security.html

ADR:
http://tinyurl.com/co6q4t

Here ya go, see for yourself: http://tinyurl.com/dzyllf

If you've never written your representatives before, now would be a real good time to start. Ask your representatives & senators to be your voice and oppose the things that are ripping our Constitution to shreds.

SB 1200 - Here Goes the Ammo

2009-04-12T21:15:00.000-07:00

http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

http://www.senate.mo.gov/08info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=148094

The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Missouri) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacturer from a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.

Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more!

If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your guns. And if they can track who buys ammunition and what kind, they don't necessarily need gun registration.

This legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

S.1173 /H.R.1964 Abortion Holocaust - FOCA

2009-04-12T20:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1173

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:S1173:

An explanation:

http://hennessysview.com/2009/03/07/dont-cooperate-with-evil/?owa_from=feed&owa_sid=

CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/conscience.rollback/index.html

State Sovereignty Movement

2009-04-12T20:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/02/06/state-sovereignty-movement-growing/

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/02/09/state-sovereignty-movement-quietly-growing/

S2433 - GLOBAL POVERTY ACT

2009-04-12T20:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2433/show
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2433

This was a bill introduced by Senator Obama. This would explain his performance in Europe last week. He's got a goal.

The information I found on it:

This bill, sponsored Sen. Barack Obama, with the backing of Joe Biden on the Foreign Relations Committee, and democrats in Congress, is nothing short of a massive giveaway of American wealth around the world, and a betrayal of the public trust, because, if passed, this bill would give over many aspects of our sovereignty to the United Nations.
The noble sounding name of this bill, 'The Global Poverty Act' is actually a Global Tax, payable to the United Nations, that will be required of all American taxpayers. If passed in the Senate, the House has already passed it, this bill would require the U.S. to increase our foreign aid by $65 BILLION per year, or $845 BILLION over the next 13 years! That's on top of the billions of dollars in foreign aid we already pay out!
In addition to the economic burdens this potential law would place on our precarious economy, the bill, if passed in the Senate, would also endanger our constitutionally protected rights and freedoms by obligating us to meet certain United Nations mandates.
-The creation of a U.N. International Criminal Court having the power to try and convict American citizens and soldiers without any protection from the U.S. Constitution.
-A standing United Nations Army forcing U.S. soldiers to serve under U.N. command.
-A Gun Ban on all small arms and light weapons --which would repeal our Second Amendment right to bear arms.
-The ratification of the ' Kyoto ' global warming treaty and numerous other anti-American measures.
Recently, the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations (where Sen. Joe Biden sits) approved this plan by a voice vote without any discussion! Why all the secrecy? If Senators Obama and Biden are so proud of this legislation, then why don't they bring it out into the light of day and let the American people have a look at it instead of hiding it behind closed doors and sneaking it through Congress for late night votes.
It may be only a matter of time before this dangerous legislation reaches a floor vote in the full body of the Senate.

He's well on his way to see his dream come true:

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/06/commentary/op-eds/doc49d9b9e9826c9440084179.txt
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g19Ud_lbAggIp4FGT5xE2es_juMAD97AFRVG1
http://tinyurl.com/djgtk8
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSL638638620090406
http://www.fsforum.org/press/pr_090402b.pdf

We WILL get our country back!

H.J. RES. 5 - End Presidential Term Limits

2009-04-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.J.RES.5:

This is the 7th time this Rep has tried to put this thru. We have a different kind of president now, we really need to keep an eye on this resolution
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5

Who is going to pay?

2009-04-02T09:45:00.001-07:00