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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Columbus Dispatch Headline article- GED 11-12-2012


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Jonathan Quilter | DISPATCH
Starting next week, Franklin County residents will be able to take the computerized GED test at Columbus State.
By  Bill Bush
The Columbus Dispatch Monday November 12, 2012 6:34 AM
 
Angela Surles can barely afford to buy diapers and clothes for her 1-year-old daughter.
The 22-year-old single mom from the Short North quit her job at Sears to enter a six-week course to help her get her high-school equivalency certificate, with the hope of landing a higher-paying job. Her goal is to study business at Columbus State Community College, but she is surviving on food stamps and help from her family.
“With the economy right now, everybody is struggling,” Surles said.
Surles is among the roughly 25,000 people in Ohio who will take a high-school equivalency test in the next year. But the fee to take it will triple to $120 when a new computer version replaces the paper version of the General Educational Development, or GED, test. That switch will be complete by January 2014. Test takers have until mid-August to sign up to take the cheaper paper test, one advocate said.
Surles said she and others she knows can’t afford the new price.
The nonprofit American Council on Education, which owns the GED, has partnered with for-profit Pearson Vue Testing and will abandon its $40 paper test, according to the Ohio Department of Education. The state had no say in the matter.
“They’re a private corporation,” said Sharon Bowman, state GED administrator for the Department of Education. “They set the cost.”
A spokesman for the council couldn’t be reached.
The only alternative for states is to develop their own equivalency tests to get around the current monopoly, but that would take time and money.
“The issues with developing your own test is that colleges may not recognize it as a legitimate test,” Department of Education spokesman John Charlton said in an email. “Right now, the GED brand is accepted at most colleges. It would take time for colleges to accept another test option.”
On top of the price increase, the switch will mean that the number of locations licensed to administer the test in Ohio will drop from 99 to about 40 when the paper test is completely phased out in December 2013, Bowman said.
Until budget cuts in 2010, Ohio paid the entire fee for most test-takers if they could pass a practice test. So in essence, the cost has gone from zero to $120. Meanwhile, many people without high-school diplomas work at lower-paying jobs that make the higher fee a hardship.
Collectively, test-takers will pay about $2 million more annually.
“I do think the cost might prove to be a prohibitive factor for some test-takers,” said Kat Yamaguchi, assistant director of adult education for the Godman Guild Association in Columbus. That organization tutors people to take the GED test under a grant administered by the Ohio Board of Regents, and is trying to get the word out to its clients to take the paper test now — particularly if they’ve already passed at least one of the five parts.
After the paper test is replaced, those parts of it that a person had passed won’t count, Yamaguchi said. “Your test scores are basically out the window.”
The Department of Education approved the first five computer test centers in the state last month and will roll out the first Franklin County center, at Columbus State, next week, Bowman said. The goal is to have 40 sites in the state by December 2014, but several will be at prisons, she said.
Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro is concerned the price increase could limit the number of students pursuing higher education, said Petro spokeswoman Kim Norris.
“His whole goal is helping students to complete a post-secondary education, so it concerns him,” Norris said.
Yamaguchi predicts that many Ohioans will simply not get a high-school equivalency certificate because of the price increase. Some Godman clients couldn’t even pay the $40, and one woman Yamaguchi tutored had to choose between buying her father’s medications and getting an equivalency certificate. The center takes donations to pay for the tests of clients who successfully pass the practice course, but now that money will go one-third as far.
The Godman Guild will pay for Surles — the single mom — to take her test if she successfully completes the course. Surles said she’s glad she doesn’t have to find a way to come up with $120.
“I’m already struggling,” she said.
bbush@dispatch.com

Forum columns from today's Dispatch 11-12-2012

 Op-ed Columns from today's Dispatch are shown below:

I ignore writers like Secular progressive liberals, such as Robyn Blummer and Jack Torry.  Read them only if you must by your own volition.
I prefer Dr. Charles Krauthammer and George F. Will's articles.  The Tea Party is not dead as Robyn wishes and Republicans are to the right but not too far as Torry states.  Dr. Krauthammer has it pretty dead-on as always in suggesting only a little tweaking for the repubs and George Will  contends that the Conservatives day will come.  Both the latter are excellent articles I have read and enjoyed and which I heartily recommend!
 
 
Monday, November 12, 2012 03:14 AM
In five of the past six elections, the Republican presidential candidate has failed to win more votes than the Democratic nominee. Here is the way to describe that: a trend.  Jack Torry

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OK...time to start spending where it counts...BLUE ESTABLISHMENTS!
AFS
 
Goodbye COSTCO - Hello Wal-Mart

AMERICANS CAN NOW DETERMINE WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY
Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics
Shopping
Price Club/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to Democrats
Rite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats
Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats
Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% went to Democrats
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, 99% went to Democrats
Estee Lauder donated $448K, 95% went to Democrats
Guess, Inc. Donated $145K, 98% went to Democrats
Calvin Klein donated $78K, 100% went to Democrats
Liz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K, 97% went to Democrats
Levi Straus donated $26K, 97% went to Democrats
Olan Mills donated $175K, 99% went to Democrats
WalMart donated $467K, 97% went to Republicans
K-Mart donated $524K, 86% went to Republicans
Home Depot donated $298K, 89% went to Republicans
Target donated $226K, 70% went to Republicans
Circuit City Stores donated $261K, 95% went to Republicans
3M Co. Donated $281K, 87% went to Republicans
Hallmark Cards donated $319K, 92% went to Republicans
Amway donated $391K, 100% Republicans
Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, 100% Republicans
B.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K, 97% went to Republicans
Proctor & Gamble donated $243K, 79% went to Republicans
Spirits
Southern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, 73% went to Democrats
Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went to Democrats
Gallo Winery donated $337K, 95% went to Democrats
Coors & Budweiser donated $174K, 92% went to Republicans
Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K -- 80% went to Republicans
Hungry?
Sonic Corporation donated $83K, 98% went to Democrats
Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K, 96% went to Democrats
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, 100% went to Republicans
Outback Steakhouse donated $641K, 95% went to Republicans
Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, 87% went to Republicans
Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, 83% went to Republicans
Waffle House donated $279K, 100% went to Republicans
McDonald's Corp. Donated $197K, 86% went to Republicans
Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans
Heinz Republicans $64,000 Democrats $21,300! John Kerry's wife's company!!!
Traveling and/or dining
Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which 80% went to Democrats
Marriott International $323K, 81% went to Republicans
Holiday Inns donated $38K, 71% went to Republicans









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OK...time to start spending where it counts...BLUE ESTABLISHMENTS!
 
AFS
 
Goodbye COSTCO - Hello Wal-Mart
 

AMERICANS CAN NOW DETERMINE WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY
 
Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics
 
Shopping
Price Club/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to Democrats
Rite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats
Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats
Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% went to Democrats
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, 99% went to Democrats
Estee Lauder donated $448K, 95% went to Democrats
Guess, Inc. Donated $145K, 98% went to Democrats
Calvin Klein donated $78K, 100% went to Democrats
Liz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K, 97% went to Democrats
Levi Straus donated $26K, 97% went to Democrats
Olan Mills donated $175K, 99% went to Democrats
WalMart donated $467K, 97% went to Republicans
K-Mart donated $524K, 86% went to Republicans
Home Depot donated $298K, 89% went to Republicans
Target donated $226K, 70% went to Republicans
Circuit City Stores donated $261K, 95% went to Republicans
3M Co. Donated $281K, 87% went to Republicans
Hallmark Cards donated $319K, 92% went to Republicans
Amway donated $391K, 100% Republicans
Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, 100% Republicans
B.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K, 97% went to Republicans
Proctor & Gamble donated $243K, 79% went to Republicans
 
Spirits
Southern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, 73% went to Democrats
Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went to Democrats
Gallo Winery donated $337K, 95% went to Democrats
Coors & Budweiser donated $174K, 92% went to Republicans
Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K -- 80% went to Republicans
 
Hungry?
Sonic Corporation donated $83K, 98% went to Democrats
Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K, 96% went to Democrats
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, 100% went to Republicans
Outback Steakhouse donated $641K, 95% went to Republicans
Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, 87% went to Republicans
Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, 83% went to Republicans
Waffle House donated $279K, 100% went to Republicans
McDonald's Corp. Donated $197K, 86% went to Republicans
Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans
Heinz Republicans $64,000 Democrats $21,300! John Kerry's wife's company!!!
 
Traveling and/or dining
Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which 80% went to Democrats
Marriott International $323K, 81% went to Republicans
Holiday Inns donated $38K, 71% went to Republicans





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 Second Term
American Thinker
Nov. 7, 2012

The first term was dedicated to revving up the socialist engine with ObamaCare passage. President Obama has given us many indications of where he wants to go with a second term, although he has not discussed these in his campaign. Some of these are listed here.

1. Implementation of Obama care, turning over the care of our bodies to mindless bureaucrats, with exorbitant taxes and death panels.

2. Demand that religious institutions and hospitals to conform to his atheistic Obamacare regulations promoting abortion and sexual promiscuity.

3. Implementation of a civilian security force [Brown Shirts!!!!]  just as strong and just as well financed as the Defense Department. That would be over 200,000 storm troopers with a budget of X trillion, -- i.e., the same as DoD. Why would we need 200,000 storm troopers? Is that what he thinks is necessary to put down a middle-class revolution? Sounds a bit like the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet secret police: NKVD. Further, he bought 1.2 billion rounds of hollow point ammo -- enough to drill each of us with 40 rounds apiece. Hollow points are illegal for all the world's armed forces -- outlawed by Geneva convention. They can turn a 45-cal bullet into a 1' Explosive inside your body. Why, Mr. O? Why?

4. Taking over other American industries like he did GM and attempt to make them into a socialist success story, like the British railroads (which Maggie Thatcher returned to private enterprise). Yes, the government knows how to run a business, e.g., the Post Office.

5. Imposing Chicago-style regionalism to destroy suburbs through Building One America (BOA), run by his former Alinsky cronies. BOA to administer all grant funds granted to regional councils. Regional councils to supplant cities and kidnapped suburbs as new and only government authority. Role of state government subservient to the Washington tyrant. The aim of the councils will be to redistribute the wealth of the suburbs to the cities. This is an effort distinct from Agenda 21, which has overlapping objectives in terms of abolishing property rights and constructing Chicago-style projects centered on railroad stations. A major feature of this thrust will be racist, pitting Blacks and Latinos against Caucasians and Asians.

6. Continued implementation of the stealth objective of United Nations Agenda 21, cramming the people into apartment buildings.The enviro-nazis love this agenda because it undercuts the family unit by not allowing living space for raising kids in a traditional American environment. It thus undercuts further the social fabric, discouraging marriage and reproduction, and thus aiding their holiest satanic goal, [WHITE & ASIAN] population reduction.

7. Subscription to the U.N. Convention on the rights of the child, signing a treaty to make this U.N. mandate from hell supersede our constitution and the right of parents to control and raise their children. No spanking!

8. Subscribing to the U.N. treaty on gun control superseding the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

9. Subscribing to the U.N. (Islamic) Anti-Blasphemy Treaty preventing Americans from exercising their First Amendment rights to say whatever they want, on any subject, including religions.

10. Subscribing to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, imposing on freedom of the seas for our Navy and Merchant Marine and on our national sovereignty over coastal lands, and imposing yet another wealth-distribution scheme.

11. Continue implementation of EPA rules for destroying American business and American jobs. He has no concept of how the American economic system works and the fatal blow this will give to the economy; or, maybe, he is not really stupid but cunningly evil, with an objective of exactly that: destroying the economy so that a new utopian gulag can be built from the ashes.

12. Wipe out the coal industry and with it cause major decrease in electric power availability and reliability. A direct effect will be a decline in jobs throughout industry and computer-dependent white-collar jobs, and further no-growth as our industry moves from first class to third-world class with only intermittent low-grade electric power (Ask the flooded and electric powerless people of Staten Island and the New Jersey coastline how they like the desolation of broken-down society and no water or electric power).

13. Introduction of sharia law into the American legal system for the Muslims, and dhimmifying the American public by providing the Muslims with all the trappings of supremacy that their religion tells them they should have. Recall that Obama said that the call to prayer is the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. We can assume that we will be hearing this five times a day on loudspeakers throughout America. (I wonder if he has that on his iPad for praying five times a day?).

14. Continuing to support the climate hoax and using it to stop oil, gas, and coal production, together with the cap and trade plan to administer the coup de grace to our power utilities and to any businesses still standing.

15. Massive increases in taxes on the middle class amounting to wealth confiscation. This will not only be through income tax but also massive sales taxes and ObamaCare taxes on everything.

16. Continued downsizing of the military and weakening of our global power to protect our allies and control or suppress petty tyrants with weapons of mass destruction. Most of all limiting the military capability for defending the nation.
17. Continued do-nothing policy on the illegal alien problem, leading to murderous criminal gang expansion throughout the country on a scale not known since prohibition.

18. Continuing a Middle East policy of blindly attempting to foster democracy in Muslim societies. As their leaders have often proclaimed, democracy is evil and not compatible with Islam. Paraphrasing Einstein, continuing to attempt the same failed solutions again and again and expecting a different result is pure insanity.

19. Continuing to ignore our ally Israel and the need to draw a line in the sand against Iran as Benjamin Netanyahu urged.

20. A continued failure to follow up opportunities of the moment, as when the Iranian people rose up against the Mullah regime. He sided with the mullahs.

21. Continuing to follow Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to lead from behind while our enemies follow Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

22. Now elected to a second term his overriding objective will be to get a 3rd term by whatever hook or crook he can get it, possibly including a new Amendment or a burn-the-Reichstag approach circumventing Congress completely. These are just the highlights of Obama Term 2.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/obamas_second_term.html#.UJpw90FGk-c.email#ixzz2BqHgeFJg

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