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Why is it that no one talks about responsibility when we talk about healthcare?

2009-10-27T22:59:00.003-05:00

These two videos were posted online and I just could not let them pass by without posting them to show the depths to which those who are trying to fundamentally transform America will sink to try to enlist support for a health care overhaul that has nothing to do with actually making health care better or more affordable for the working people of this country. I am also amazed that we hear about these 47 million, no 30 million, no 16 million people who do not have health care, but yet no one mentions that any of these destitute people can go to an emergency room and be treated. For????? Nothing! Because of federal laws that require a hospital emergency room to treat a person who presents themselves at that emergency room.

So when politicians say X number of people don't have health insurance. But why is it they don't have health insurance? Some do not have health insurance because they choose not to have it, but you don't ever hear politicians talk about these people. All we hear about is how insurance is too expensive and the poor can't afford health insurance. But, look around, do they smoke? Drink? What kind of car do they drive? What kind of TV do they have and do they have cable tv or satellite? What kind of cellphone do they carry? No one wants to ask these questions because they are afraid the culture police will come after them.

But you know what, the sad fact is, nearly every person that falls onto this list the government has for the uninsured has a flat screen, drives a late model car, has a cellphone, and has either cable tv or satellite tv. There are those that will say you can't tell them they can't have those things! And those people would be correct, I cannot tell them they cannot have those things. However, what I can tell them is that I am not going to pay for their health care insurance, while they continue to enjoy the vices of the culture. I pay for my health insurance through my employer and I pay my bills for my car, tv, and cellphone. So if I pay for mine, why should I have to help pay for someone else's? I mean if they can afford to drive a nice car, have a cellphone, flat screen tv, and cable or satellite tv, why can't they pay for their health care?

The answer is simply this, because for nearly 60 years the federal government has convinced a large segment of the American population that they will take care of their every need. Well after so long of making promises the government hasn't been able to pay for. It is now time for the piper to be paid. We cannot afford to pay for everyone's health care. We can't, nor should we. It is time that personal responsibility return to our shores and maybe just maybe, there is still time for us to save ourselves from the leviathan that is our federal government.

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Where Did Global Warming Go?

2009-10-12T19:03:00.002-05:00

This is a picture of the temperatures from October 12th of can you guess what year? I'll give you a hint. It is from today, October 12th, 2009.

How can Everything Be Broken?

2009-09-18T09:37:00.003-05:00

Is it just me or for the last 12-18 months has everything in the United States been described as "broken"? A year ago under then President George Bush, the TARP plan was passed to save the financial sector that was the victim of it's own misconduct and the American People rejected the TARP bailouts, but our House of Representatives and Senators passed it anyway, because all of those businesses were too "big" to fail. No one and no business is too big to fail! Failure is a part of the learning and growing process and must be realized if we are to continue to be a leader in innovation for the world.
And since then everything has been described as broken or in need of transformation. President Barack Obama stated five days before the election that "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Personally I don't think America needs to be transformed. Do we have problems yes! Are we perfect? No we are not, however, we are still the greatest, brightest beacon of freedom and hope in the world today.
Our Federal Government does not have the Constitutional power to "fix" everything that the Obama Administration and the Statists in Washington say is "broken".
The American People have spoken out peacefully with and estimated 1.7 million people that showed up in Washington, D. C. last Saturday, September 12th, to protest not President Obama's race, but the socialistic policies that have been simmering under the surface in our government for many decades, of both Republican and Democrat Administrations.

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - List of Obama's Czars

2009-09-09T22:26:00.001-05:00

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - List of Obama's Czars

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Breitbart.tv Beck Forecasts: Revelations By Weeks End " People Will Go to Jail"

2009-09-09T11:42:00.004-05:00

Breitbart.tv Ã‚Â» Beck Forecasts: Revelations By WeekÃ¢Â€Â™s End Ã¢Â€Â“ People Will Go to Jail

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Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - The New Republic: America's Future Recap

2009-08-28T20:51:00.001-05:00

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - The New Republic: America's Future Recap

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Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - How you can get involved in community organizing

2009-08-21T21:09:00.001-05:00

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - How you can get involved in community organizing

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Meeting AmericaÃ¢Â€Â™s Challenges: With Faith, Hope and Common Sense

2009-08-21T21:06:00.002-05:00

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Meeting America's Challenges: With Faith, Hope and Common Sense

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - America: Past, Present and Future...Part II

2009-08-21T21:01:00.001-05:00

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - America: Past, Present and Future...Part II

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Where America stands today

2009-08-21T21:00:00.001-05:00

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Where America stands today

A House Divided….

2009-06-13T15:41:00.000-05:00

With Henry Ross’s announcement Thursday that he will seek the Republican nomination and attempt to oust Congressman Travis Childers in November of 2010, the First District GOP is once again setting itself up for a possible let down. Senator Alan Nunnelee and Senator Merle Flowers are rumored to be running as well. Nunnelee has been making his rounds on a listening tour across the district but has yet to formally announce. Three people all attempting to convince the citizens of the First District that they are the right man to take on Travis Childers. A three way split among the GOP faithful. Didn’t we go through this last year? And it was a complete and total disaster! As the Republican Party is looking for its identity so too are the Republican’s of the First District searching for someone who will represent them and be a viable candidate against Travis Childers.
What is needed from the GOP is a united front, solidarity and loyalty to one candidate, period end of story. We all saw what happened in 2008 when a three way race happened in the primary. So what happens now, three more men trying to out conservative the others. Three men asking for money to take on each other with and no doubt someone will get his feelings hurt and that person’s supporters will not support the person who ultimately wins the nomination. So after these three bloody one another up in the primary, the national Democrat Party will dive in and steamroll the Republican candidate. Because let’s face it Travis Childers wouldn’t stand much of a chance without the backing of his progressive buddies in Washington.
It is so very true that a house divided cannot stand and that is exactly what is happening to the Republicans in the First District. And until someone musters the courage to speak to the GOP in the First District and say “follow me, I will show you the way,” divided we will be.

The 9.12 Project.....

2009-03-14T00:53:00.001-05:00

For far too long we have been asleep at the wheel, and as we voted, we were all hopeful for a better America and all we have really gotten is more empty promises. Our fate is up to us. Our destiny is yet unwritten. WE THE PEOPLE control our destiny! We and we alone determine the direction that our country will go and it is time that we all decide if we are all in or if we will continue to live with our heads in the sand. Freedom you see is not free at all, and if we do not stand up and fight for Freedom, well, as we have known her, she may be lost for good.

Tonight Glenn Beck of the Fox News Channel unveiled The 9.12 Project. A very simple and straightforward idea actually, most of the brilliant ideas usually are simple. 9 Principles and 12 Values. And we remember the people we were on 9-12-2001, the day after the world changed for the USA. We stood in line to give blood, we held hands with people we didn't even know, we prayed for souls we would never meet. We became the best we could be, because politics on that day and in the weeks that followed, didn't matter, because we weren't Republicans or Democrats, we were Americans.

So let us return to that time and be those people of 9.12 again....

WE SURROUND THEM!!!!!!

2009-02-12T23:32:00.003-06:00

Some of you know me well; others of you who will receive this may not even know me at all. I want to let you know I am first and foremost an American. I believe in the greatness of the American People and this Country. I believe that our politicians continue to divide us intentionally along party lines, because they know that if they can only keep us divided, then we will never unite on the principles that connect us. I want to begin to help change that. We are Americans! White, Black, Red, Yellow, it doesn’t matter what the color of our skin is, as Dr. Martin Luther King said it should be the content of one’s character. I believe in our character. I refuse to accept that the greatest, most innovative, most prosperous country on the face of the Earth is on the edge of meltdown.

I know you feel it. I know you feel that our politicians (Republican, Democrat, and Independents) no longer listen to WE THE PEOPLE. And you know what? To a large degree you are correct. And that is exactly what they want from us. They don’t want us to pay attention to what they are doing, what kinds of laws they pass, how much, and what kind of things OUR money purchases and supports. We are simply to fall in line because they know better than we do how to spend OUR money.

They need us, oh yes they need us, every two or four years when they need campaign contributions and volunteers to get the vote out so they can go back to city hall, the state capital, the nation’s capital, and “do the work of the people”.

Well I have news for you, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!! There are more and more people everyday who are waking up to the reality that our government no longer answers to us! The government actually does work for us. That is the way the constitution set it up. WE THE PEOPLE may have been ignored or forgotten in Washington, but We have not forgotten to whom they answer.

Below are 9 principles. Read them and if you agree with 7 of them, follow the link at the bottom of the list. Read the website and then, if you read it and feel that you can do what it talks about.
But above all if you agree email this to all your family members and friends. We are not alone and as the website says soon we will find out just how un-alone we really are.

The Nine Principles

1. America is good.

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/

You Asked For It and You Got It.....Change Has Come to America!

2008-11-05T00:07:00.002-06:00

Tonight Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. The Coronation of this man as the next president has been 21 months in the making and from time to time it appeared that there were holes in his armor, but alas, America has decided that change is needed. But as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. So sleep well tonight my fellow Americans, and get ready for an America unlike any you have known before. Because change is coming more rapidly than you think.

Has Liberty Died?

2008-10-10T22:19:00.003-05:00

What has happened to this country? Has our greed overtaken our understanding of sanity? Have we lost all touch with our true capitalistic system? Has the era of "fairness" taken over completely? Bailouts. Covering Commercial Paper. AIG. Fannie and Freddy. Bear Sterns. Merrill Lynch. Examples seem to be endless and now late on this afternoon during the evening commute, Tsar Paulson, decides it is the responsibility of the Treasury for the United States Government to buy stock in financial institutions, to stabilize the financial markets. Uh, wasn't that what the $700 billion bailout package was supposed to do? And the $900 billion for commercial paper? What of that Mr. Paulson?

We have allowed Pandora's Box to be opened! Yes we have because "We the People" elected these idiots! And now we have no one who will stand up to them! Where are the "Real Americans"? The ones who believe in this country and believe that it is worth fighting for, even dieing for! There are out there you know, just waiting, biding their time to step to the forefront and be the leaders we long for. I know this to be true, with every ounce of my being.

Have faith my friends. Let not your heart be troubled. We will survive and we will be stronger, because "Real Americans" are about to remove the weasels from office, by beating them in the realm of ideas. The American people know what real leadership sounds like, what it feels like and soon, very soon, those men and women will rise, and the bells of Liberty will once more ring throughout this great land.....And all will be right in the world once more.

When Politics Matter More Than Solutions.....

2008-09-30T01:16:00.004-05:00

I am shocked that no one has thought of this scenario yet! What if Pelosi giving this speech on the floor prior to the vote was all part of a scheme hatched by the Democrat Leadership? 95 Democrats voted against this bill and then Barney Frank comes out and says "the Republicans killed this." However let us call into question that had the 95 Democrats voted for this measure, it would have passed! But I don't believe the Democrat leaders wanted this bill passed and that is why Nancy Pelosi gave that partisan speech before the vote. So now the Democrats can try to blame the Republicans and unfortunately none of the Republicans in Congress will come out and say what I stated above. If 95 Democrats vote for this bill it passes so don't try to hang this on the Republicans!

The Great Communicator......

2008-09-17T00:01:00.004-05:00

The Liberal Arguments are the same now as they were in 1964, the enemies of liberty are different, but the arguments of the ignorant endure time.....

The Second American Revolution

2008-09-15T23:40:00.002-05:00

Dear Mr. Obama.....

2008-09-15T23:34:00.002-05:00

Dateline New York: Sunday, September 14, 2008: Financial Burdens Continue

2008-09-14T22:21:00.002-05:00

When you wake up on Monday morning and turn on the news, the big story will be how two American Financial institutions that have been household names will cease to exist. The top story on Drudge tonight.....Lehman Brothers will file bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch will be bought by Bank of America for $44 Billion!

How did this happen you may ask? And the answer is very simple...mismanagement and greed! These companies deserve to fall flat on their faces. Just last week the Federal Government acquired Fannie Mac and Freddie Mae, or rather we did. The mismanagement of these quasi-government owned banks, and the ineptness of their CEOs caused their problems, and now the American people are on the hook, for what some say in the long run will be $1.2 Trillion dollars. Now a few years ago, a couple of other companies did exactly the same thing that Fannie and Freddie did and their CEOs are in prison. Enron and Worldcom ring a bell? The CEOs of Fannie and Freddie and Lehman and Merrill should be held accountable just as past CEOs have been held accountable.

Meanwhile the house of cards that is the American Economy, has more and more pressure placed on it. Sooner or later the Big Bad Federal government won't be able to save it and neither will our friends at Bank of America.

Reread your history folks, go back and look at the 1920s, we are their again. The warning signs were there then and they are here now. My advice? Pray and start stocking up on medicine, food, and clothing.

And if the economy doesn't collapse, you can call me the mayor of Crazytown. And believe me, I'd be quite alright with that........

IM--PALIN

2008-09-04T18:50:00.003-05:00

After five days of media raking her over the coals and targeting her 17-year old Daughter, Bristol, Sarah Palin dazzled at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. Hitting hard on issues and taking the Democrats and Liberal Media on directly through comedy, while never losing her composure or her million dollar smiling.

It has been a long time since conservatives have had something to be this excited about, but Sara Palin is the real deal, and though she is the Republican VP pick right now, it is my belief that this small town mayor and Governor of Alaska will be the first female President of the United States one day.

Now that is Change you can believe in........

Obama's e-mail about WGN-AM

2008-09-03T22:18:00.000-05:00

The following is an email sent out by an Obama grassroots organization to attempt to censor Stanley Kurtz. This should concern all Americans, regardless of Party affiliations. The Truth about Senator Obama is out there, you need only look beyond the hype and bias of the main stream media.

Text of the e-mail the Obama campaign sent to supporters:

August 28, 2008 In the next few hours, we have a crucial opportunity to fight one of the most cynical and offensive smears ever launched against Barack.Tonight, WGN radio is giving right-
wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears.

He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers.Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse.Call into the "Extension 720" show with Milt Rosenberg at (312) 591-7200(Show airs from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. tonight)
Then report back on your call at http://my.barackobama.com/WGNstandardsKurtz has been using his absurd TV appearances in an awkward and dishonest attempt to play the terrorism card.

His current ploy is to embellish the relationship between Barack and Ayers.Just last night on Fox News, Kurtz drastically exaggerated Barack's connection with Ayers by claiming Ayers had recruited Barack to the board of the Annenberg Challenge. That is completely false and has been disproved in numerous press accounts.It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves. At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies.Kurtz is scheduled to appear from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. in the Chicago market.

Calling will only take a minute, and it will make a huge difference if we nip this smear in the bud. Confront Kurtz tonight before this goes any further:http://my.barackobama.com/WGNstandards

Please forward this email to everyone you know who can make a call tonight.Keep fighting the good fight,Obama Action Wire

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The Facts on Barack and William Ayers:William Ayers was involved with the Weather Underground when Barack Obama was eight years old, and Barack has roundly condemned their actions.

Last night on Fox News, Kurtz tried to radicalize an education reform program in Chicago called the Annenberg Challenge. The Challenge was funded by Republican Walter Annenberg, introduced by Mayor Daley and Republican Governor Jim Edgar, and one of its initiatives was even praised by John McCain.

Kurtz claimed on Fox News that William Ayers recruited Obama to the Annenberg Challenge -- a flat out lie. Ayers did not serve on the board of the Challenge, and he had nothing to do with Barack's recruitment. Some more background on Stanley Kurtz:

Stanley Kurtz Is Tied To Bill Kristol's Conservative Think Tank. Kurtz is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The Policy Advisory Board includes: William Kristol. [Bio, policy advisory board, EPPC website, accessed 8/27/08]

Stanley Kurtz Was A Research Fellow At The Hoover Institution. In 2004, Stanley Kurtz was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. [Boston Globe, 3/10/04]

Stanley Kurtz Claimed That Same Sex Marriage In Denmark Led To A Decline In Marriage Resulting In 60 Percent Of Children Being Born Out Of Wedlock. Stanley Kurtz stated: "Data from European demographers and statistical bureaus show that a majority of children in Sweden and Norway are now born out of wedlock, as are 60 percent of first-born children in Denmark. In socially liberal districts of Norway, where the idea of same-sex registered partnerships is widely accepted, marriage itself has almost entirely disappeared. [Boston Globe, 3/10/04]

Analysis Of Statistics On Marriage In Scandinavia Was Debunked. "Kurtz's argument -- which O'Reilly embraces -- is that when legal rights are accorded to gays, through some unspecified process heterosexual couples begin bearing children out of wedlock and refuse to marry when they otherwise would. There are many government policies that alter the incentives to get and stay married, and thus have direct and unsurprising effects on marriage; for instance, the availability of no-fault divorce leads to more divorces, and laws providing the same rights for cohabitating heterosexual couples as married couples lead to fewer marriages, as couples make private commitments to each other without seeking the imprimatur of the state. But neither Kurtz nor O'Reilly has provided a plausible justification for their belief that extending rights to gay couples harms heterosexual marriage." [Media Matters For America, 6/3/05]

Claimed That The National Nursing Shortage Was The "Fault Of Feminism." In 2002, the Los Angeles Times reported, "Back at National Review Online, contributing editor Stanley Kurtz makes the same point! He, too, says women shouldn't be trying to play by men's rules. Of course he has a slightly different take. According to Kurtz, the national nurse shortage is the fault of feminism, for bringing about "the replacement of a traditional ethic of sacrifice by a post-'60s ethos of self-fulfillment." Kurtz stated at the time "Nursing was once built around a spirit of feminine compassion and sacrifice. In the new, feminist world, that is unacceptable." [Los Angeles Times, 7/21/2002]

Stanley Kurtz Stated That The Harvard Faculty No Confidence Vote In Lawrence Summers Would Cause "Lasting Damage To The Cultural Left." On March 19, 2005, Stanley Kurtz stated on the National Review Online website, "I think the vote of no confidence in Lawrence Summers is a wonderful thing. Harvard continues to discredit itself with the American public. The faculty is trapped. If Summers resigns, this extraordinary example of political correctness will come back to haunt Harvard, and the entire academy, for years. But if Summers hangs on, the faculty itself will have been humiliated -- checked by the very fact of public scrutiny. Either way, Harvard is tearing itself apart. So long as the public simply writes of the academy, the mice can play. But the intense public scrutiny in this case puts the captains of political correctness into a no-win situation. Like the closely watched Susan Estrich fiasco, this battle is doing lasting damage to the cultural left. As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant." [National Review Online, 3/19/05]

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2008-09-03T14:32:00.002-05:00

The media's attack on Governor Sarah Palin is beyond anything I have witnessed. It took the mainstream media months to come to grips with, and have not fully vetted Barack Obama's past and now the media turns it's sights on a 17 year old child who got pregnant! I bet if she had aborted the child the left would call her couragous!

WHY NOT US?

2008-08-26T23:42:00.002-05:00

Our Liberty is under attack! It is Here and Now that WE THE PEOPLE must stand up and take our Great Country Back! If not Us then who? If not Now when?

This country is the greatest country on the face of the planet. We are the world's last best hope!!!

So why is it that so many politicians want to tell us what is wrong with this country? Why is it all doom and gloom and no sunshine? I cannot for the life of me understand why with all the greatness that is in this country, we have those that seek to degrade it. We are not perfect, no country is, but we are a whole lot better than England, Russia, or Iran....

To all politicians, don't tell me what is wrong with my country! Tell me what is great about My Country and what solutions you have to help make it even better! That is what I want to hear from you!!!

To Achieve Victory.....Follow this Platform!!!

2008-08-22T16:50:00.001-05:00

My best friend and I have watched the landscape of this great Country change drastically in our lifetimes. We seem more divided than ever before. And that causes us great pain! Look at those we have chosen as leaders, and again your heart should break for some of them do not deserve the office which they hold. We yearn for leaders that do not seek personal gratification of the office they hold, leaders who do not seek glory, but rather those who seek to do that which is right, honest, and honorable. Those who seek to do the will of those who send them. I have been under the impression that those were the kind of people who ran for political office, and some are, though it appears that very few of them actually seek office for these reasons. I fall to my knees and pray that this changes!

And so I have pondered and sought the council of my most trusted friend, we wish to see the best men and women this country has, to run for political office, so that our Country continues to be the greatest Hope of the world. That Shining City on the Hill as Winthrop and Reagan called it. So what follows is a platform or more rightly stated a movement that would, if adopted set the world of politics on it’s ear.
The greatest part of this platform is it transcends party affiliation and truly unites us on principles. I hope you enjoy and if you do, please comment and let me know.

The Four Points for Victory

1. Transparency— Say what you mean and mean what you say. When a vote is cast, construct a website dedicated to the description of the legislation that is being considered, how you voted on the legislation, and why. And NEVER vote “PRESENT”, unless of course there are circumstances beyond your control, and that doesn’t mean a speaking engagement. And send out a monthly or quarterly newsletter (nothing fancy, so that the expense to the taxpayer is at it's absolute minimum) letting your constituency know what you are doing. Hold town hall meetings to obtain feedback from those who elected you. In short be beholden to no one other than those who elected you!

2. Uphold the Constitution—allow this document to guide you and be rooted in this founding document. Never allow the thoughts of men today to cause you to stray from the Founder's guide. ( i. e. gun control, freedom of speech, freedom of religion)

3. Principled Leadership— Be a leader of CONSERVATIVE principles, regardless of which party decides to follow those principles. Know what you believe in and stand up for what you believe. Also meaning you are going to take each issue in a conservative light and not just vote down party lines for the sake of voting party lines. (i.e., a republican sponsoring a bill that expands entitlement programs....). If you change your position because you believe it to be politically expedient then you probably shouldn't be running for political office.

4. Self-imposed term limit—As revolutionary as it sounds, this is the way it was intended. When you announce your candidacy inform your constituents that you will seek office for no more than two terms if you are lucky enough to earn their votes for that long. If at the end of two terms, public opinion is such that your constituents wish you to seek another term then so be it. However at the end of six years you are done. Have your resignation letter written when your first campaign begins, so that people know you are serious. This does not exclude you from seeking another office at some point, or acting as an advisor for someone. And you will also actively support a person who is willing to carry the torch forward on the same platform you began.

What a world we would have if the power hungry politicians operated by guidelines such as these. If only….

Change.....

2008-08-21T23:53:00.003-05:00

It has been talked about alot these past two years, but the country artist Taylor Swift talks about change in her song that is featured on the Olympic Soundtrack and I have listened to this sound a number of times and though it was written about her battling to get to the top on a small record label, and the night she won the New Horizon Award, if you read the words it is really about the battle we all wage. It is about those battles, that when self-doubt inches in and we question why we do what we do, we fight on, knowing that there is something inside each of us that drives us ever onward until at last we stand as champions. I am posting the words "Change" if you haven't heard this song, you should....

Change

And it’s a sad picture, the final blow hits you
Somebody else gets what you wanted again and
You know it’s all the same, another time and place
Repeating history and you’re getting sick of it
But I believe in whatever you do
And I’ll do anything to see it through

Chorus
Because these things will change
Do you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
We sing hallelujah, we sing hallelujah

So we’ve been outnumbered
Raided and now cornered
It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair
We’re getting stronger now
Find things they never found
They might be bigger
But we’re faster and never scared
You can walk away, say we don’t need this
But there’s something in your eyes
Says we can beat this

Tonight we stand, get off our knees
Fight for what we’ve worked for all these years
And the battle was long, it’s the fight of our lives
But we’ll stand up champions tonight

Chorus 2
It was the night things changed
Do you see it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down
It’s a revolution, throw your hands up
Cause we never gave in
And we sang hallelujah, we sang hallelujah
Hallelujah

Hypocrisy at its Best or Worst?

2008-08-17T21:42:00.001-05:00

Jerome Corsi has written a book called THE OBAMA NATION, and yes Corsi is well aware of the play on words. But how hypocritical is it of the media and Barack Obama to attempt to discredit Corsi and his book when it has close to 700 references in it? Is it because Corsi is a “Liar” and a “Bigot” as the Obama Campaign calls him? Or is it simply the fact that someone had the stones to step into the ring with the anointed one and question his background, his beliefs, and his associations with radicals? Corsi has been ripped to shreds in the media, and for what? Telling the truth about how radical this man who wants to be president is? Barak Obama wants to be the leader of the Free World and no one in the media has vetted this man! Why is that? Because he himself is a radical!

Here is an analogy that a friend shared with me this weekend. If I had attended a church for the KKK and heard the rhetoric coming from the pulpit I don’t think it would have taken me twenty years to decide that I didn’t subscribe to what was coming out of the mouth of the man behind the pulpit. If I didn’t truly believe what was being said, I wouldn’t have stayed for twenty years, but maybe that is just me….

I am in the middle of reading Corsi’s book right now and it is quite a good book, with full references so you may go and research for yourself and see if Corsi is a lying bigot or if perhaps if he got too close to exposing the man behind the curtain, as he hollers into the microphone, “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain……” We know how that worked out for Dorothy

Letter Sent to Lindsey Graham, regarding the Gang of 10....

2008-08-13T23:05:00.000-05:00

Senator Graham,

I heard today about the Gang of Ten (5 Republicans and 5 Democrats) that have come together to propose an energy bill in the Senate. I beg you sir, to not cave to this bipartisan measure. If you are going to compromise, make the Democrats compromise with you; don't give the Democrats what they want. You are a leader in the Republican Party. You have Republicans in the House who have stayed in Washington, and are fighting to get an up or down vote on the American Energy Act of 2008. I agree that we need to advance alternative energy forms. I understand that there is great pressure to do something. But not at the expense of caving in to ideas that don't increase the supply of oil to a degree that will actually benefit the American People. And quite honestly by increasing the taxes on the oil companies, the price is not going to go down, the price will go up, because those increases will be passed on to the consumers. And then who will the Left blame? The oil companies!
Senator, I am not someone who wishes to come down on our leaders. Yours is a thankless job, and I again, understand the pressure to do something, but I again implore you to look past this cycle and think about the long term solutions that will actually work. Oil does not just impact our transportation industry. Oil impacts everything we touch. Oil is not evil; oil has taken this country to the summit of the mountain in the world. And there is no reason, that we should surrender that place, simply because a small minority of politicians and environmentalists believe we are the problem with the world when it is clear we are the solution to the world's problems. I know that, You Senator, know this to be true. I know that you sir, are a patriot who loves our Country. Please fight for this country, fight for what 65% of the American People want, which is easier access to our own natural resources. We can do anything Senator, and right now, this very moment in time you can take the lead in the Senate. The Republicans in the Senate are waiting for someone to lead them. Step forward and lead them and the American People will rally around you.
Thank you for your service Sir and may God bless and keep you. My personal thank you to you for all that you do for our country.

Letter Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Sunday, August 3, 2008

2008-08-13T23:01:00.002-05:00

One Voice….Two Messages….
Congressman Travis Childers, sent out to the households of the First Congressional District a Special Report on Energy. In this report Congressman Childers claims that he is “working to provide immediate relief from high gas prices and long-term solutions to our energy crisis.” In this flier Childers lays out his Six Point Plan, two immediate Relief bullet points and four Long-term Solutions to our energy crisis.
Congressman Childers’s no doubt gave much time and effort to put together his Six Point Energy Plan and at tax payer expense, have that plan sent to each of our households. However, his voting record doesn’t back up what he claims to be stand for. Nine times there have been votes in the House of Representatives dealing with energy and energy exploration. And 9 times, Congressman Childers has voted against those energy bills. The most recent coming on July 25th when he voted against the American Energy Act of 2008, a bill he claims to have co-sponsored in the mail out his constituents received. Now I am no Congressman, but if I were claiming to those who elected me that I co-sponsored a bill that would help ease their burden at the pump, I think I would make sure I voted in favor of that bill.
I have nothing personal against Congressman Childers, he won by a majority of the votes cast and that makes him the Congressman for every soul in the First Congressional District, but what I do expect and you should expect as well is for our newly elected Congressman to act like the “conservative” he ran as. I expect him to side with the people of the First District not the Democrat Leadership in Washington. Or perhaps he believes that Nancy Pelosi is going to cast enough votes herself to get him re-elected come November?

Messages Being Sent.....From Russia with Love,

2008-08-12T23:33:00.002-05:00

Their baaaaaccccckkkkkk!!!!!! Though a shell of their former communist self, the Russians are growing strong and have been for quite some time. So as the Russian military throws it's might around on the independent, democratic state of Georgia, what are they actually trying to do? They are attempting to prove a point and their point is simply this. They believe that the American time is past and that now is the time of Russia, China, Iran and the rest of their allies. They are sending a message to the world that Russia under the watchful eye of Tsar Putin.

There were reports a few days ago that Russian planes have bombed a BP oil pipeline but it turns out that they didn't actually hit the pipeline, they missed. Missed? Really? If they wanted to hit the pipeline they would have. If they wanted to take over Georgia they could. If they wanted to take over all the former Soviet States they could. Because who is going to stop them? The United Nations? No way. The U. S.? Perhaps but I don't believe the politicians have the stomach for it to be quite honest.

This is a very precarious situation and a fine line if about to be walked. Russian controls nearly all of the oil and gas that the western European countries need. And Putin knows it. He can very easily hold Western Europe hostage with oil and natural gas. We, as Americans, should be very concerned about the amount of power Russia believes they have. Putin wants to return to the era of a Cold War, the problem with that for the U. S. we are not in a position to go head to head with Russia in our current political environment.

When September Comes.....

2008-08-04T23:26:00.000-05:00

I write this letter to simply bring attention to an event that will take place in early September when the Congress returns from vacation and you will hear from the majority of media outlets that the Republican party is going to shut down the government, and that it is a political trick to win favor with their base of conservative right wingers. Let me assure you that nothing will be further from the truth.
For some time now there has been a debate in our country. How can we lower gas prices? Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Drill in ANWR? Drill offshore? Invest in alternative energy sources? Renewable energy sources? The answer? All of the above. Right now the entire United States transportation industry is run on oil. Along with basically everything we touch. It didn’t get that way overnight and it will not change overnight. Right now in our country the average price of gas according to AAA is $3.88/gallon. Our country uses 20 million barrels of oil per day. Simple economics tells us as demand increases and supply decreases, price increases. When supply increases and demand remains the same or decreases, price will certainly decrease. So if we had more oil, price would decrease. 65% of the American people are in favor of drilling for more oil. Why aren’t we?
Something that most Americans don’t know and something I didn’t know until recently is that the moratorium on off-shore drilling is renewed every year by Congress. The moratorium will expire on September 30th and the Republicans in the House and Senate are prepared to vote against the Budget Resolution to continue funding the Government, if the Democrats attempt to insert a one-year extension of the moratorium. If the Budget Resolution fails, certain Government agencies will shut down until the resolution is passed. But if the budget is passed without the moratorium, then real solutions are possible. Wonder what that would do to the price of gasoline?

One Voice...Two Messages....

2008-07-31T21:49:00.001-05:00

Our esteemed Congressman, Travis Childers, sent out to the households of the First Congressional District a Special Report on Energy. In this report Congressman Childers espouses that he is “working to provide immediate relief from high gas prices and long-term solutions to our energy crisis.” In this flier Childers lays out his Six Point Plan, two immediate Relief bullet points and four Long-term Solutions to our energy crisis.
The first point Congressman Childers six point plan is to stop speculation and price gouging. Propping up his vote for what has been called the “NOPEC” bill which threatened lawsuits against Middle Eastern Countries and Speculators for price Gouging. Let me take a moment to educate not only the United States Congress as well as any of you that think this was a smart idea. First and foremost, oil is traded on the free market and in free markets, you have cycles and the high price of oil is driven up on the free market simply because demand is high, not just in the United States, but all over the world and supply is low. Standard economics, high demand, low supply, equals higher prices. Period.
And while yes, it would be wonderful if the OPEC nations would increase supply. It would be simpler in both the short term and long term to increase domestic oil supply by drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, and in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), and while we do this, we also as Congressman Childers puts it in point number five of his six point plan, “invest in research and development in alternative fuel sources.” A great idea!
The United States has the brightest most innovative people in the world. Though you would never know it from the tone of most politicians, you would think that the United States is just a bunch of lazy good for nothing, environment hating idiots. But look back at all of the innovations the American people have given to the world. The light bulb, the telephone, electricity, the microwave, the combustible engine, the airplane, penicillin, the ability to go into space, we walked on the moon, the internet (of course, this may have been Al Gore, though he is an American), and countless other innovations. And yet, we are dependent on foreigners to supply our energy. Come on!
Congressman Childers’s no doubt gave much time and effort to put together his Six Point Energy Plan and at tax payer expense have that plan sent to each of us. However, his voting record doesn’t back up what he claims to be stand for. Nine times, that is right; nine times there have been votes in the House of Representatives dealing with energy and energy exploration. And 9 times, our esteemed Congressman has voted against these energy bills. The most recent coming on July 25th when he voted against the American Energy Act of 2008 (HR 6566), a bill he claims to have co-sponsored in the mail out his constituents received. Now I am no Congressman, but I am a thinker, and if I were claiming to those who elected me that I co-sponsored a bill that would, 1. Open the Arctic Coastal Plain and our deep water resources to drill for oil and natural gas, 2. Allow development of our nations shale oil resources, 3. Easing refinery restrictions to increase domestic production, 4. Promote coal-to-liquid technology (a completely environmentally safe option), 5. Permanently extend the tax credit for alternative energy production, and 6. Eliminate barriers to the expansion of emission-free nuclear power production; I think I would make sure I voted in favor of debating that bill.
Now I have nothing personal against Congressman Childers, he won by a majority of the votes cast and that makes him the Congressman for every soul in the First Congressional District, but what I do expect and you should expect as well is for our newly elected Congressman to act like the “conservative” he ran as. I expect him to put his money where his mouth is and vote the way the majority of the First Congressional District would want him to vote. Or perhaps he believes that Nancy Pelosi is going to help keep him in Washington, if he will only vote the way she wants him to vote. Just an idea. After all, Speaker Pelosi has said there will be no debate on energy bills on the floor of the House of Representatives. No debate on drilling, no debate on increasing our refining capacity, because as she has said she wants to save the planet.
Well as for me, I want the Congress to pass an energy bill that will side with 75% of the American people who want to start drilling and drilling now, so we can have lower gas prices! The Earth has been her for millions of years, and honestly, there is not really anything that mankind is going to do or not do that is going to effect the natural cycles of mother nature…….

Federal Gas Tax increased by 200%?????? Are they Serious???

2008-02-07T22:30:00.001-06:00

I was floored when I read this Headline on the Heritage Foundation's website. The National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission released a report on January 30th proposing a .25 cent tax on gasoline and increasing it over the next five years to .40 cents and then adjusting it with inflation after that point.

It may be just me but I like my money. I would like them to cut the federal tax on gasoline by 40 cents over the next five years, while at the same time taking some of that "ear-mark" money and cutting the enviromental regulations and allowing private companies to build more oil refineries and begin to drill in ANWAR and off the coast of Florida.

Don't try to take more our our money, get the monkey off our backs.

Now this report goes on to say that this increased revenue will go to new roads, transit, administrative, and environmental initiatives, including a 700 percent increase in Amtrak subsidies. AMTRAK SUBSIDIES????? If they can't make it on their own, shut down the damn rail lines. What the hell are they talking about?

G. I. WHO??????

2007-10-30T20:28:00.000-05:00

The world of political correctness is strangling our existence beyond belief. Paramount Pictures, on the heels of the wildly popular Transformers movie from the summer of 2007, decided to bring the the big screen another of many 1980s youth favorites, G. I. Joe. Though according to sources from Paramount it will do little to resemble the Elite American Heroes that many, including myself, grew up loving. The former G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero will now be replace as G. I. Joe (to stand for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity).

G. I. Joe is and American Hero, but the company is afraid that the idea of an American Hero won't fly with the "international" audience. No the problem is that Hollywood has gone so far to the left that the United States Military can't do anything right or look good in any way, because America is the land of war-mongers. What a load of crap!

Paramount here is an idea! If you are true to the 1980 cartoons and write your script around that idea and the ideals that the U. S. Military are collectively the most advanced fighting force on the planet, you won't have to worry about the "international audience" or the revenues from around the world, because if done correctly a live action movie featuring G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero here in the good ole U. S. of A. would be the largest box office smash in history. I can promise you that. So do the right thing and put a movie out that is true and loyal to the millions of fans who have been craving this for years. Don't cave.

Taxes.....SCHIP.....and My Country!!!!

2007-10-20T20:42:00.000-05:00

I have been contemplating this post for several days wanting to make sure I presented my thoughts in a clear and concise way as I always do, but I wanted to take extra special care for this topic of Taxes, the SCHIP program and how both are and will affect My Country.

Taxes......the IRS....April 15th.....Those three words/phrases, strike fear into the hearts of every American (legal ones at any rate). Because as we know it, this is how the United States Government throws their weight around and takes more and more of our money and our liberties. But what if taxes went away except when you decided to buy something? What if the IRS and their prying fat fingers were disbanded from their current form? And what if, just what if, April 15th became just the 15th day of the fourth month on the calendar? Well some will say that is a pipe dream, I say it can be reality. If and only if WE THE PEOPLE demand it of our government. What I am talking about is the Fair Tax. The best way to get the full story of the Fair Tax is to read The Fair Tax Book by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder. But the basic premise is really just this simple. You get your gross pay check, minus only the deductions for your benefits that you have elected to receive from your employer. That is it. Imagine no Federal Income Taxes, no Social Security Taxes, no Medicare Taxes. A truly wonderful thought. I know. It can be a reality. Read the book, it is available in paperback, 16 bucks. It is worth it.

The SCHIP program.......the veto....Bush telling 10 million children they cannot have health insurance. What a load of crap! 6 million children are already covered by this entitlement program. However in some areas there are more adults on the program than children. And the 4 million that would put it up to 10 million are children whose parent have a combined income of $83,000 dollars a year. Now let me ask you does that sound like the type of family that needs to have the government and us subsidize their health care insurance? I don't think so. It is a baby step towards complete socialization of our health care system. Which just in case anyone is paying attention is the greatest health care system in the world. Not perfect. But nothing is.

Wake up America, or we are going to loose our country completely to the Left wing socialists.

Hillary Proposes a Government Retirement Plan???

2007-10-09T22:30:00.000-05:00

Here's the deal, it is not the job of the United States Government to fund your retirement. That is your job. Live in a smaller house, buy a less expensive car, go on a vacation where you drive instead of fly, if you want to retire and live at the same level of comfort that you live while you work those are just some suggestions. It is not the right of every American for the Government to take care of them when they retire, by matching dollar for dollar up to a $1,000 tax credit, paid for through higher estate taxes. It is your job to save your money. Put it away and let it earn interest. Let your money work for you, to make you able to live out the golden years of your life without having to rely on the Government for a Social Security Check, which for a lot of us will never come.

This is yet again another example of Hillary Clinton's socialist agenda. This is the redistribution of wealth! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!! Please wake-up. My country is being hijacked by SOCIALISTS.......

The Road You Leave Behind.....

2007-10-05T23:28:00.000-05:00

I have over the course of about the last two years been searching for something. I have been completely unable to pinpoint this constant yearning for whatever it has been. It has both perplexed and frustrated me as well as confused the hell out of me. But yesterday I found the answer to what I have been missing, or looking for, pondering over, yearning for. Yeah yearning for is the best description available.
Yesterday I attended the funeral of a close family friend. It was in the rural town of my youth. It is where I was reared. Where I made all the mistakes, all the triumphs, all the glory and honor that have made me the man I am today. The funeral was unlike any other I have ever witnessed. No one took a head count, but it bordered on 600 people. 600 people who all in one way or another had been touch by this wonderful woman whom we lay to rest. This wonderful former elementary teacher whom we lay to rest and whom angels lifted up, who had touched the lives of so many in the crowd as well as those in the crowd whose lives her husband have touched. They have both been special people in my life. And as I walked along the roads I had walked so many times so many years ago, a unique feeling of familiarity engulfed me. As the casket was unloaded and carried into the church and as the family followed their loved one in, a more perfect day I can’t remember seeing.
It was a day like many from my youth. The sun was bright, the air was crisp, with a gentle breeze, and the hymns of the birds floating through the air as Amazing Grace began inside the church and as that hymn was sung, I looked around at the faces of all those that were standing outside and those sitting in the folded chairs outside, because the church would only hold 200 people, and the clarity of the last two years found me in an unexpected place at an unexpected time, and I guess in a way it is fitting that it was in the place where I began that my new beginning would find me. And it has.
What found me was providence. As I looked around at those many people, was that they are what has made this country what it is today. Good, God fearing people, who comprise, WE THE PEOPLE. WE THE PEOPLE, can fix the problems we have and return this Country to where it belongs in the world.
The problem with this is that many people will say oh we can't do that. Well WE can! The citizens of this country can do anything. And if we can Unite on Principle, we can right the wrongs. So let's get together. Lets stand together and UNITE!!!! I fall to my knees and pray for that nightly.

TWO POINTS ABOUT TWO DEMOCRATES RUNNIGN FOR PRESIDENT.....

2007-09-19T21:45:00.000-05:00

There have been a couple of things that have been under my skin for the past oh 48 hours. The first one is Hillary Clintons Health Choices Plane (Universal Health Care) is what it is. But we have a choice we can keep our current health plan if we like it or we have a choice to shop around. But if we choose not to have health insurance, we have to pay a fine. A FINE!!!! Because we choose not to have health insurance. Are you kidding me? Please someone show me in the Constitution where is says that it is the government's responsibility to provide me and my family or anyone with health insurance. I got news for ya folks, it's not in there.

It is personal responsibility of the individual to, if they want insurance, to provide it for themselves. Period. When did we get to the point in this country of innovators, thinkers, inventors, where we have turned to the government to provide for us? Wait a minute don't answer that. When the welfare state began with Mr. Johnson's Great Society, well actually it started with FDR and The New Deal or the Raw Deal as some call it. The Government of the United States is not responsible to provide you with anything other than currency, and security. They don't even have the right under the constitution to tax the bat-snot out of us. But we let them, because we don't' demand more from them because most of America is asleep at the wheel. Oh and Hillary Clinton's Universal Health Care Plan will cost, are you ready for this, only $110,000,000,000.00 per year, that is billion for those of you who don't like to count the commas. That is three times the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security which comes in at just over $34 billion.

Wake-up America!!! Please wake up and take our country back. If we don't do it now, our children and grandchildren will be paying for it long after we are gone.

The second point, because I did say two, is that Obama says our tax system isn't fair. He says the rich don't pay enough in taxes. The rich don't pay their fair share. I actually think he has it backwards, because I think the stat is that 50% of the taxes in this country are paid by the top 15% percent of the wealthiest population. Again where does the government have the authority to take my stuff from me, the money in this case, that I have worked for, and decide to give it to someone else? WHERE? Please dear God in Heaven show me where in our Constitution that is written. Again it is not!!!

It is written that all men are created equal. Created equal doesn't mean we all get equal money, or jobs, acclaim, fame, whatever. We are all created equal and have opportunities to make something out of ourselves. It doesn't mean that we have the right to have the same as the guy down the street, nor should it. Alexander Hamilton wrote, "Inequality would exist as long as liberty existed....It would unavoidably result from that very liberty itself." Again we are all created equal as human beings, but we don't all get the same jobs or incomes, not in a capitalistic society.

So if you want to give up your liberty and your freedom and become a socialist country like France and even Britain. Go ahead and elect one of these two Leftists. Oh I'm sorry Hillary wants to be called a Progressive. Damned if I want to be called that. Because progressive is another word for Socialist. Where the government comes up with all these grand ideas and programs to "help" the people out, when all these programs really do is keep the people down and dependent on the government.

Socialism and Progressives be Damned.....Let Liberty live forever!!!

The First Post of this Blog!!!!!

2007-09-18T16:27:00.000-05:00

This is obviously the first post of this blog and I will do my best to post once-a-day, but alas the road is paved with good intentions. As stated in my profile and what this blog is about, I am a conservative. I do believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I believe the biggest problem in this country is that we have become so polarized that we cannot sit down and have a discussion where we disagree but we don't want to kill each other. And so now in America all conservatives are war/hate/mongors and all liberals can do no wrong. So given that the majority of the media is left-leaning, I will come at this blog from the stand point of all out conservatism. And make no apologies for it.

I will however always welcome those who can and will accept that people will have different opinions but not want to demonize the other side. I have friends who are on fire liberals, I don't agree with anything that comes out of their mouths on politics, but we all have kids who we love and are trying to raise, we all have favorite sports teams we want to win. We are all decent human beings. And in America that should be enough for us to come together on, but for some reason on a larger scale it isn't.......I wonder.......

Why is that?????

Comments welcome if anyone reads this.