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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!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Tuesday, October 15, 2013

79 year old with cancer writes Congress ... Thx T.J. R and Jackie B!

It will be well worth the two minutes it requires to read this. It is quite impressive.

You can be Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, Independent or Libertarian and I bet this will hit a nerve. Our country is in real trouble.

This gentleman is obviously quite smarter than the two senators he sent it to. All I can say is amen to everything he said. A very articulate letter sent to the two U.S. Senators from Washington State.
___________________________________

April 3, 2013

Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Washington, DC , 20510

Dear Senator:

I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a
Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses
shortly after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those
virtues he felt important - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the
laws of God and of our various governments. I have served my country,
paid my taxes, worked hard, volunteered and donated my fair share of
money, time and artifacts.

Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look
at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few
things abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I
have calculated that all the money I have paid in income taxes my
entire life cannot even keep the Senate barbershop open for one year!
Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped actuarial types know what the
Senate dining room costs the taxpayers. So please, enjoy your haircuts
and meals on us.

Last year, the president spent an estimated 1.4 $billion on himself
and his family. The vice president spends $millions on hotels. They
have had 8 vacations so far this year! And our House of
Representatives and Senate have become America's answer to the Saudi
royal family. You have become the "perfumed princes and princesses" of
our country.

In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable Health Care
Act, a.k.a. "Obama Care," a bill which no more than a handful of
senators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed
it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it
substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care
insurance.

You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "one
percenters," consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while
making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up
nothing while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to
sacrifice due to sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to
blame the Republicans, anyway).

You understand very well the only two rules you need to know - (1) How
to get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with
the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated
with a certain economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the
greedy, the ill-informed and under-educated citizens (and
non-citizens, too, many of whom do vote ) who are looking for a
handout rather than a job. Your so-called "safety net" has become a
hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 or 50 million on
food stamps - pretty much all Democrat voters - and the program is
absolutely rife with fraud with absolutely no congressional oversight?

I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed you is
the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed
yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress which requires
you to subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done until you
have achieved a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it
appears that the second oldest profession (politics), bears a
remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest.

As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834 -
1902), English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately stated,
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great
men are almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this applies to
the female sex as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in
this country than Congress?

While we middle class people continue to struggle, our government
becomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and
ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us
(just to mention a very few) what kind of light bulbs we must
purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can
drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countless
thousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the
consumer more and more every day.

As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my
government tell me "You'll just have to take a pill," while you,
Senator, your colleagues, the president, and other exulted government
officials and their families will get the best possible health care on
our tax dollars until you are called home by your Creator while also
enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, which of course, you
voted for yourselves and we pay for.

The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your
staff will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter
response might be generated by them with an auto signature applied,
hoping we will believe that you, our senator or representative, has
heard us and actually cares. This letter will, however, go on line
where many others will have the chance to read one person's opinion,
rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its
senators and representatives.

I only hope that occasionally you might quietly thank the taxpayer for
all the generous entitlements which you have voted yourselves, for
which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes on the $17
trillion national debt for which your children and ours, and your
grandchildren and ours,ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up
the tab.

My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost
his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and
continue to destroy this country I deeply love and put it so far in
debt that we will never pay it off while your lot improves by the
minute, because of your power. For you, Senator, will never stand up
to the rascals in your House who constantly deceive the American
people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you and
the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up this cesspool is term
limits. This, of course, will kill the goose that lays your golden
eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up.

Sincerely,

Bill Schoonover
3096 Angela Lane
Oak Harbor, WA 98277
 
 http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoonover.asp

obama, the shutdown and rules for civility ... Thx Judi C!

Obama, the Shutdown and 'Rules for Radicals' By Rick Jensen


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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "Republicans are terrorists!" "Arsonists!"

When President Obama chastised Americans to show restraint in political discourse, he obviously wasn't talking to his own party ... or himself.

And why should he? While conservatives are reading Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke and William F. Buckley, liberals read Saul Alinsky.

Saul Alinsky, whom Buckley noted may be the greatest organizational mind in history, was a legendary community organizer and socialist inspiration to leftists. Hillary Clinton wrote her college thesis on Alinsky's writings. L. David Alinsky, Saul's son, applauded Barack Obama, saying "Obama has learned his lesson well" from his father.

Recently, we've witnessed Obama and other Democrats exhibiting the lesson taught as "Rule number 12" in Alinsky's seminal work, Rules for Radicals, which is:

"Destroy the Individual"

"RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)"


 

So, while President Obama negotiates with terrorists, he refuses to negotiate with fellow Americans. Republicans are the enemy and each one who represents his or her constituents by fighting for smaller, more efficient government must be demonized.

And so goes the demonetization:

Democratic Representative and party leader Nancy Pelosi calls fiscally responsible Republicans "Legislative Arsonists."

Senior Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer actually described duly elected Representatives fighting for responsible spending as having "bombs strapped to their chests."

Yes, that's the White House calling Republicans "Terrorists" because they won't raise taxes and increase spending thoughtlessly.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans "have lost their minds."

Harry Reid is the Democrat who advises President Obama not to negotiate with Republicans. Yes, that sort of tactic would go over very well in the national media if a Republican behaved that way, wouldn't it?

DNC Leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz calls Republicans "unhinged."

You could easily make the case Shultz has shaken loose the screws of her own hinges many times in public, but that's not the point.

The point is that our President sets the agenda and the tone. So, what is he telling his party's leadership behind closed doors after he stands before America and calls for "civility?"

Since he's used the phrase, "kick ass," in public that's likely the message behind closed doors.

In public, he calls for "negotiation" and "talks" about the budget impasse.

In private meetings, his "negotiation" sounds more like, "Y'all give up yet?"

White House Press Secretary and all-around spokesweasel Jay Carney demonstrated that he got the real message, calling budget-wielding Republicans "extortionists."

Yes, I just called Carney a "spokesweasel." I will often correctly identify political players with an accurate title. And, unlike our President, I haven't called for "civility."

I'm just noticing how the Democrats are playing this while it seems many people have missed the radical rules they employ.

As subtle as an Obama drone strike, Democrats have also demonized Republicans as Nazis.

Last year at about this time South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Hartpootlian equated Governor Nikki Haley with Eva Braun and California Democratic Party Chair compared Paul Ryan with Joseph Goebbels.

In wartime, propagandists often demonize their enemies as less-than-human, with epithets such as "Japs," "Gooks," "Krauts" and "Zipperheads."

This is what Democrats consider to be "civil" today.

In addition to their Republican enemies, Democrats are proving every day that they are at war with Americans who believe that, sometimes, government isn't the solution, it's the problem.

Democrats are tripling the cost of individual and small-group health insurance, failing to establish something as common as a competent web site for Obamacare and forcing poor people who have no internet account to create an email account to manage their Obamacare policies with financial penalties.

Barack Obama marketed himself as the "transformative" candidate.

America has been transformed.

"Terrorist" and "Nazi" Republicans need not apply.

Does the Democratic Party have anyone who'll actually negotiate?

Yes. Joe Biden.

As reported by Politico, Harry Reid put an end to that, telling Mr. Obama to forbid Joe Biden from negotiating with Republicans because he has a bad habit of getting bipartisan deals done. 

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