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Syria to nix weapons plan if US threats continue
 
Syria now full member of anti-chemical arms pact: U.N. envoy
 
I note that this development is not unexpected and is in line with my prior assessment of this situation.    
That prior assessment is as follows.
 
Prior Assessment
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It appears that Russia is pressuring the United States to drop the Strike Option and has withdrawn its request for Emergency Meeting of the Security Council pending the United States Clarification of its position with regards to a strike.

By doing this Russia pressures the United States to make a decision with regards to a strike.  In effect it tells the United States by it UN action, we will take the option removal of chemical weapons and destruction of chemical weapons capability off the table it you go ahead with a strike.

This puts the United States back in the position of either being an aggressor and out of touch with the rest of the world if it keeps the strike on the table or capitulating and bending to Russian will.

Syria and Russia are now playing the United States off against the world and backed us into a corner by conditioning the removal of chemical weapons and destruction of chemical weapons capability off the table if the United States continues to keep the strike option on the table.
 
This latest move set the stage for escalated retaliation against the United States if we go ahead by Syria and its allies.  These allies will paint us as out of control killers who only want to kill Muslims and not negotiate.  Such events could negatively affect the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program which involve both Russia and China and need them and their support to rein in. 
 
In doing so the Russian's want the United States and its leadership to lose face before the world and be humbled.  Such a loss of prestige on the part of the United States could backfire however and result in the election of a more aggressive United States leadership in the next election cycle.
We shall have to see what the President says during his speech tonight.
 
It will indicate the path he will take us down.  The Russian's are playing a game of hardball and its our turn to respond tonight.
 
One thing is certain is that the propaganda machines of Russia, its allies and in the Middle east will and are now churning out reams of material saying the United States is a war monger, is unwilling to engage in negotiations and is weak. 

We are all ready beginning to pay a price for the position Russia has forced us into.

With the American people split with most opposed to boots on the ground, the President has some thinking to do about his speech coming up and what he is going to say.
 
I did a quick check of the news coming out of the groups allied with Syria, as well as Russia and the themes are, in simple terms as follows:

1.  The Russian's are leading the way on a peaceful solution
2.  That the United States is the main aggressor and obstacle to a diplomatic solution.
3.  That a strike by the United States will result in retaliation against the United States from a variety of groups and nation states.
4.  That polling of the American people shows they are against a strike and the leadership of the United States is out of sync with its people.
5.  That Syria is willing to comply with the Russian proposal.
These themes have started to dominate the media feeds in Lebanon, Syria and Iran as well as Russia and China.  These themes have been playing non-stop for roughly the last twenty four hours.  This media blitz is attempting to steer the regional population's view on the issue against the United States and in support of the position of Syria and its allies.  Over time this will have an effect on the populations and make it more difficult for us to conduct a strike without having to face a significant threat of retaliation. 
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A trip across our nation...

Fellow Americans,

Allow me to express my opinion as to what I witnessed this past three weeks. First off, I was able to take a journey from Southern California to Milwaukee to celebrate Harley Davidsons 110th Anniversary (a true american legend of a company) and what I witnessed along the way both appalled and amazed me. The vast nature of our country lends itself to diversity beyond belief however I have found there is a common thread that runs through city to city , state to state......we all want to just live and be happy and prosperous!!!!  Our resources are abundant yet Our leaders are Narrow minded, the heart of our nation is green and alive with abundance yet the District of Columbia is dark and stagnant with no pulse on the nation.., If "We the People" Stand together and demand OUR nation be properly taken care of ...... Simply by ceasing the GIVING AWAY of our homegrown resources(ie. corn , soybeans and wheat destined for international aid) we could feed and EMPLOY the bulk of the lazy humans we have right here at home... Don't get me wrong, I am not supporting any kind of a welfare state ideal but if we are going to give away what we grow at least give it away here at home!!!

Enough out of me I have to get back to work so I can feed myself and take care of my own family without having to live off the governments teet.

More Later

TomKatt

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Gentlemen and Ladies,

I have an issue with the "news" I witness on my local Fox channel..... (Fox 29/1029, San Antonio, Texas).
Mind you, I do not have an issue with the News I witness on Fox National - but the vast majority of Americans do not watch Fox National News - they watch their own local channel of Fox.
How can Americans form an opinion of what is REALLY going on in our Nation if they never see what is going on?
Yesterday, September 11th, 2013 was the anniversary of "9/11" where almost 3,000 people were murdered in cold blood by radical islamic (muslim) terrorists.... 
You would think that something like an organization who called themselves "The million muslim march on Washington DC on 9/11" (later called themselves "million american march against fear") would find itself on local Fox news - as this is a slap in the face to every American Citizen....  and you would think that more than a million motorcycle riders forming a "march" in protest of the "million muslim march" on 9/11, a march not only as a response to the muslim march but a tribute to 9/11 and the murders in Benghazi would make news.... Yet Americans heard absolutely NOTHING!
Yesterday History was made - yet nothing to be heard on a local Fox channel..... (or any other channel for that matter)
What kind of "reporting" is that?
I say again: How can Americans form a viewpoint or understand just how badly they are being played by main-stream-media and our government.... when the only network news (Fox) that is actually reporting on a National scale - doesn't require their local channels to report the REAL news.... and people believe what they (do not) see. 
If the Network (Fox) cannot require integrity in reporting the news from their local channels - what point is there to watching ANY network news at all?
Perhaps as a Tea Party Command Center member I should suggest - as a group - we start a boycott of all television news channels for lack of integrity....
Respectfully,
SFC (retired) Aubrey Mason
San Antonio, Texas
cc; Social Media
Tea Party Command Center
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CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY PETITION

The following email was sent to me by CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY.  To sign the petition go to: http://www.chooseliberty.org/welcome_drones.aspx?roi=echo3-16885747174-14685794-b1e19bcaa9cfe86604203e6e49cdd7c9&pid=ws4

As Ben Franklin stated, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 

                    Sadly, the statists in Washington, D.C. keep choosing to take away more and more of our liberties for some bureaucrat's vision of so-called "safety." 

                    In today's world, "security" really means handing over the last bits of freedom to Big Government's prying eyes. 

                    Not long ago, the Senate Armed Services Committee called for drones returning from Afghanistan to be used "freely and routinely" in U.S. airspace. 



                    Government agencies are training drones by tracking civilian cars over American cities. 

                    Law enforcement agencies are buying them up by the dozen – happy to let the spying begin. 

                    The Congressional Research Service states domestic drones could be equipped "with facial recognition or soft biometric recognition, which can recognize and track individuals based on attributes such as height, age, gender, and skin color." 

If you and I don’t stand up to this nonsense, more than 30,000 are expected to be flying across the United States in the near future.

So please sign our Citizens Stand for Individual Liberty petition to let Congress know you oppose their theft of your rights.

                    This isn't something out of George Orwell's 1984. It's America in 2013. 

                    And it's all designed so politicians can line the pockets of their crony capitalist pals – while you and I pay the price with our tax dollars and our freedom.  

                    I'm not telling you all this to dishearten you – although I understand it may be discouraging to look the facts straight in the face. 

                    I'm telling you this because these are the battles you and I can't ignore if we are going to maintain our last vestiges of freedom as Americans – and regain what we've lost. 

                    After all, in recent years, we've witnessed the passage of the so-called "Patriot" Act, which allows the government to wiretap and spy on American citizens. 

                    We've seen the passage of the NDAA - allowing the government to lock up and detain American citizens indefinitely without so much as a warrant. 

                    And we see the TSA routinely groping elderly women and children at airports. 

Ten years after its creation, a congressional report was issued saying the TSA was "bloated and ineffective." 

                    More than 25,000 security breaches have occurred under its watch. 

                    And just when you thought flying couldn’t possibly get worse, TSA employees are now unionized under the American Federation of Government Employees union, and affiliate of the AFL-CIO. 

                    In other words, that creepy TSA agent that almost seemed to enjoy feeling up you and your child will now be virtually impossible to fire for inappropriate behavior.  

                    From now on, security and passenger rights will play a secondary role to the union bosses' demands for "screener's rights."

Our liberties are being stolen from us daily – and for NOTHING.

That’s why it’s important you sign our Citizens Stand for Individual Liberty petition.

                    So what's next? What else will the security statists demand of us in order to finally make us "safe and secure" in their eyes? 

                    "Black boxes" in every car? 

                    Cameras on every street corner? In every house? 

                    So government bureaucrats can ensure we don't smoke the wrong thing? 

                    To ensure our sodas aren't too big or our cheeseburgers too greasy? 

                    How much liberty will politicians steal before the American people wake up and say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!"? 

                    I believe you and I are at a tipping point. 

                    More and more Americans ARE getting fed up. 

                    And Campaign for Liberty is fighting back.

                    But more attacks on our Fourth Amendment rights are coming at the American people full-speed ahead. 

So it's up to you and me to turn up the pressure higher than ever before.

So please sign our Citizens Stand for Individual Liberty petition.

                    And after you sign, please chip in a generous contribution to help Campaign for Liberty defend the American people against government intrusion.

                    You and I must be prepared to take on the statists and defend our freedoms. 

                    That's exactly what Campaign for Liberty has been doing - and will continue to do - in the coming weeks and months. 

                    Our goal is to reawaken men and women from coast to coast and rally them to defend liberty before it's too late. 

                    Because it's not too late. 

                    Not yet. 

                    The free soul of America still exists. 

                    But it's up to you and me to create a grassroots fire that no politician in his or her right mind would dare ignore. 

                    In Liberty,

                    John Tate
                    President

                    P.S. The Big Government statists are wasting no time further eroding our Fourth Amendment rights. 

TO SIGN THE PETITION GO TO: http://www.chooseliberty.org/welcome_drones.aspx?roi=echo3-16885747174-14685794-b1e19bcaa9cfe86604203e6e49cdd7c9&pid=ws4

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Ode to the Clandestine Soldier

From bunkers buried under the Earth

To the back alleyways of Perth

We fought our war in the shadows

Where dark and dangerous plots are hatched and grow

Never knowing who was friend or foe

Did we in harm’s way willingly go

At the peril of our very souls we supped from Satan’s bowl

Whose tools in trade were lies, deceit and betrayal

Then did we face the minions of the Beast

Rising from the dusty streets of the Middle East

Armed with silenced weapons, knives and poison on Satan’s tasks did they go

For all mankind we fought them till hell’s dry sands did with crimson flow

Often times in blackness of that everlasting night

Did we long for a glimpse of the light

In the end when our war was done

We found final refuge in the house of God’s only son

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FT Hood Troops deploying to Syria

by Dan Bubalo 

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I have been able to verify something extremely troubling in the past 12 hours.  A close and verifiable source contacted me to lament the deployment of a friend from Ft. Hood to Egypt, where this particular soldier will be for the next nine months.  We have no military base in Egypt, so we’re all trying to understand the assignment and wonder if he and the other 400 soldiers are living in a tent in the desert, and if they are, how do they receive supplies, from everything to food, water, ammunition, and fuel to conduct whatever mission they are to fulfill, for I cannot imagine a C-140 being allowed to land at Cairo International.

The following information has been sourced thoroughly.  This particular soldier said that while he was not really thrilled about the assignment to Egypt, it was better than the soldiers that remained at the military base BECAUSE THEY HAD JUST RECEIVED THEIR DEPLOYMENT ORDERS TO GO TO SYRIA.  That certainly contradicts the posturing and false reassurances and table-pounding of Obama and Kerry, does it not?

Of course, credibility should never enter the discussion when talking about this president.  If frogs get nourishment from eating flies, this pathologically dysfunctional misfit gets his lifeblood from telling lies.  It is the manner in which he is genetically coded and been brainwashed to operate.

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Ft Hood headed to Syria

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In Memory of 9-11

Ballad of Homeland Security

When the lofty shinning towers fell

Death’s cold hand did silence Wall Street’s bell

Covered in ashes they rushed to fight that hell lit flame

Firemen, police, medics, lawyers, doctors all heard freedom’s call and came

In that choking blackness of that hallowed day

Came a new beginning some would say

Out with the old and in the with the new

Bureaucracies in the midst of turmoil did fail and stew

Many voices clamored in that awful din

While arguments over rights and security soon set in

In the people’s house leaders did rise and fall

But in the end justice and reason did answer freedom’s call

From the sun-baked border and small offices on the Potomac’s shore

Would go the call for America’s best to repair the fabric the terrorists tore

Hard fought fights to shape and organization soon set in

Most did not comprehend the nature of the battle they were about to begin

Personal sacrifice and lonely duty far from home would victory entail

But in the end freedom’s children over hell’s minions did prevail

Never again would ashes rain from the sky

Causing the blameless innocent to weep and cry

So for this did we pledge our lives, so freedom will never die

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Anthony Weiner, a True Class Act

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Ed Driscoll's blog on PJ Media gave us an outline I've saved for future rereads (translation: laughs). Last night, from a Queens pizzeria, Anthony Weiner conceded defeat in the race for New York City mayor. It's sad that he was even allowed to run again in the first place. He obviously cared more about his sordid personal life than he ever cared about his position in public service.

Let this be a (humorous) lesson to us. Anthony Weiner: a track record so bad, even New York voters couldn't ignore it.

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First Amendment myths

There is a lot of controversy surrounding the First Amendment, especially the "Religious" clause. Some seek to silence religion and use the fictitious claim of "Separation of Church and State clause". There is no such thing. America has had this shoved down our throats for so long the majority actually believes this now. The First Amendment clearly states, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.. as in no State sanctioned church, or one over the other; and shall not prohibit the free exercise thereof. The free exercise of any religion, on any corner, at any time, at any place. Government cannot tell you where or how to express your religion or religious views. The Constitution provides protection for those who do not practice religion or religious beliefs as much as it provides protection for those who do practice their religious beliefs. The Constitution does not infringe on either side but protects the rights of both. It does not give either one the right to silence the other. Therefore the freedom of speech was protected as well in that same Amendment. There is no such animal as "Separation of Church and State", that was taken totally out of context from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in response to the concerns of the Danbury Baptist Convention. They were concerned that the religious clause was even in the Constitution giving the Government the power to give that right, the Government could also take it away. Jefferson just simply said this was a restriction to keep Government from infringing that right. Thereby erecting a wall between Church and State.  

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My letter to / about Obama on Facebook

Obama is a ...... He needs to forgo his strike and realize we are not the world's police or we are dictators ourselves.  He needs to work with Russia's President and peace can be achieved.  What part of WE CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER WAR does he not understand?  He loved saying he's commander and chief.  He is so full of himself.  We had our own revolutionary war and we won.  Yes that was over 200 years... ago, but who helped us??!!!! We did!!!! If you don't like it overthrow it.  You can do anything you put your mind and heart to.  Loss is expected, but it will be a loss worth fighting for just like we did when we established this country. Our Civil War was fought by us.  Syrians didn't come to fight for the North.  If they as citizens rise and keep rising, they will prevail.  If we bail everyone out, we will not be able to help our own people or wait we can't help our people now.  We have so much crap wrong it's not even funny.  Social Security, Welfare, Child Abuse, Homeless Vets, Poverty, Unemployment, Healthcare, Stupid Politicians, and that's just to name a few.  Mr. Obama, when you can save your own country or wait I mean the U.S.A. then feel free to police the world; until then use your foreign policy experience to keep Illinois and Wisconsin from going to war over cheese or the Bears vs. Packers because that is the extent of your foreign policy experience. 
 
Sincerely,
One Proud American. 
 

P.S. Nothing in this world is worth anything unless you are willing to fight for it.  We need to fight our home battles 1st because America is worth fighting to keep alive.
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Obama's Pending Attack in Light of 9/11

4063375800?profile=originalSeptember 11, 2001, I was annoyed at my wife, Mary. I was about to take a shower, yelling from the bathroom, “Honey, there is no water!” She had forgotten to pay the bill. In the small Florida town where we live, I would have to get dressed and drive two miles to the water company. Then, wait for the leisurely paced workers to get around to turning my water back on. How annoying. What a pain. That was the biggest issue of my day that morning.

As the nightmare of 9/11 unfolded, several of my fellow Americans who simply showed up for work were faced with a horrific decision; whether to be consumed in the inferno or jump to their deaths from the towers. Many became “the jumpers”. Who was responsible for putting my fellow Americans in such an unimaginable horrific position? Al Qaeda.

That same day, American Todd Beamer on board flight UA93 thought to call his wife Lisa, but did not want to worry her. He called GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson to say that their plane had been hijacked. Beamer lead passengers in voting to storm the cockpit and take over the plane. Beamer instructed Jefferson, "If I don't make it, please call my family and let them know how much I love them." Jefferson heard Beamer's voice, "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll!" Flight UA93 crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Who were the hijackers? Al Qaeda.

September 11, 2012, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and embassy security personnel, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were killed during an attack on our consulate in Benghazi while expecting help that never arrived. Who were the attackers. Al Qaeda.

Ironically, as we approach another anniversary of the 9/11 attack, Obama and Secretary Kerry are arguing that the U.S is morally obligated to bomb the Assad regime for allegedly gassing Al Qaeda which is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans.

To put this crazy scenario into perspective, imagine the KKK and the Aryan Nation fighting each other. The KKK gases the Aryan Nation. The NAACP joins the Aryan Nation in attacking the KKK for using an immoral weapon.

Obama and Kerry claim their desire to bomb Syria is about Assad gassing a few hundred children and national security. America must not be perceived as a paper tiger.

Well, why were both these guys vehemently opposed to President Bush attacking Saddam Hussein who on a single day gassed 5,000 of his own people? Over a few decades, Saddam used various gasses to kill 50,000 of his own people. Saddam used poison gas against his own people 50 times more than Assad.

As for Kerry and Obama claiming that we can not risk America being perceived as a paper tiger, I say, “too late”. The 2001 September 11th attack was the result of past wimpy responses to terrorism by a Democrat president. Obama has merely continued the Democrat's weak blame-America-first tradition. Before unpacking his bags upon his arrival in the White House, Obama went on his world apologize-for-America-tour.

What has been our paper tiger president's forceful response to terrorism? Pretend it does not exist.

President Obama's relentless efforts to protect his false narrative that Al Qaeda is on the run continues to have devastating consequences for Americans. The Fort Hood shooting was a Jihadist mass murder; unquestionably proven to be a terrorist attack. Coldly, the Obama Administration stands firm in classifying it as “work place violence” which denies the victims combat benefits. Also, while in prison, Nidal Hasan, the shooter received $270,000 from the U.S. Government while his victims had to pay their own medical bills.

Despite knowing almost immediately that it was Al Qaeda who attacked our consulate in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, for weeks, the Obama Administration promoted the lie that the attackers were a spontaneous mob angry over a youtube view.

Finally, after 11 months the Obama Administration has charged the first suspects in connection with the Benghazi terror attack.

Learning how to build a bomb in an Al Qaeda magazine, Dzhohar Tsarnaev expressed his extremist Islamist beliefs by killing 8 year old Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell and Lu Lingzi; injuring over 260, at least 16 suffered severed limbs. And yet, the Obama Administration rushed to Mirandize Dzhokhar, the surviving Boston bomber.

Secretary Kerry's holier-than-thou concern for Syrians and hostile comment to Rep. Duncan was a bit much to stomach given the Obama Administration’s pattern of putting justice and compassion for suffering Americans last. “We’re talking about people being killed by gas and you want to go talk about Benghazi and Fast and Furious.”

Remarkably, Kerry has even opened the door to possible deployment of U.S. troops to Syria. Can you imagine our air force and troops providing military might for Al Qaeda?

How do you explain that to the families of the 9/11 jumpers, other victims of 9/11, the Ft Hood shooting victims, the Boston Marathon bomb victims and the four Americans killed in Benghazi, all devastated by extremist Islamist terrorists, Al Qaeda?

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Chairman: http://www.conservativecampaign.org/

LloydMarcus.com

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Government of the people, by the people and for the people is perishing from the earth. We have proven to be incapable of restraining the monster we created. We have ignored the Constitution which was the only thing that could have accomplished that restraint and now we are stuck with a Federal Government whose enemies list includes you and me.

Now we see why the President was to be a natural born citizen and what happens when you allow the protections put in place by the founders to be eroded - carried away a bit at a time by jackals and thieves - until today  we find ourselves fighting for the soul of our country.

The symptoms of the problem are legion, turning up as brush fires like those in today's headlines that distract our attention but the cause and the cure are one in the same. None of us will be secure in our lives, freedom or property until we return to the only form of government that has ever produced the prosperity we have enjoyed in this country.

We all know instinctively that there is no free lunch yet many gladly accept handouts from our elected officials without ever asking the cost. The cost is your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  If you think these statements harsh, may I remind you that on 9-11 this year, during the anniversary of an attack perpetrated by Muslim Jihadists that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, the government issued a permit for a Million Muslim March in Washington D.C. while at the same time refusing a permit for a patriotic Million Bikers event. The Bikers plan to go anyway.  We shall see how these two very different groups are treated by our government. My heart goes with the bikers.

Our attention must remain concentrated on the re-establishment of constitutional government. Elected officials who will not honor their oath of office must be exposed and replaced one by one. There is no other answer!

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MYOB

                                                                       MYOB

     It is the wee hours in this small hick town nestled in the heart of Appalachia. The streets are empty, save for the occasional police car making its rounds and a semi trundling by every hour or so. As I sit hear in the quiet of my lonely apartment I found myself thinking of the mess this country is in with all of the incursions on our freedoms of late. I was trying to think of some way the common people could assert their independence in a sane legal manner when I thought of a story written way back in 1951 by a Science Fiction writer named Eric Frank Russell entitled … And Then There Were None. I think I might have given it the title The Gands though nobody asked my opinion then or since.

     This Hall of Fame story concerns the difficulty the people of Earth have in contacting the ‘leaders’ of a planet the had been settled by humans three hundred years before, but out of contact with that species known far and wide as Earthers since that time.
     You see the home planet had come to bring these poor benighted souls all of the advantages of modern Earth society. They were from the government and just wanted to help. Those bureaucrats had only one problem with their efforts in contacting those so called leaders. Whomever they approached to ask to be taken to those leaders received the cryptic response “MYOB” and the locals just went on with whatever they were doing. It didn’t matter who they sent as their envoys – Peacockishly attired military or somewhat less splendiferous ships crew or even nattily attired minor diplomats- each and every one was met with MYOB.

     Finally an exasperated Ambassador sent one of the ships crew, a fellow with a bicycle of all things, as his emissary. This fellow was a bit more curious and friendly sort who wanted to get to know these strange off spring of mother Earth, so he began by just attempting to engage them in conversation. After a lot of confusion caused by some evolutionary language difficulties, he did have some interesting talks. He learned that these people weren’t the least bit intimidated by the huge ship that had plowed a mile long trench upon landing outside their town. You see they had developed what they called the perfect weapon to ward off intrusive outsiders. It had developed out of their love of freedom, but it was an extremely effective weapon none-the-less.
      When the ship’s engineering crewman asked about it he was given a little plaque upon which was inscribed F - I.W. and told that it contained the entire secret of this magnificent weapon. He was even informed that the weapon had been discovered on Earth many centuries before the great diaspora. By a humble man named Gandhi. He also learned that the MYOB they kept hearing was an acronym for Mind Your Own Business. The placard’s meaning? Freedom – I Won’t. You see Gandhi was a man from the then country of India who believed in peaceful civil disobedience. His disobedience took the form of him simply saying “I Won’t” to those intrusive bureaucrats that thought they had the right to infringe on his liberties.
The government says register your guns? I Won’t. The government says you must use their insurance? I won’t. The government says you must permit them to spy on you “for you own good”? I won’t.
     The name they gave their planet? Gand and the people were the Gands.

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Hobby Lobby May Close Because of ObamaCare

  I received this forwarded email today(below picture). How, in any way can we allow ObamaCare to kill American Jobs?
  I read Randall Babish's blog from 9/8 entitled "Does The Constitution Provide For Overt Discrimination Against Christians And Jews and Bias Toward Muslims?" 
  In his blog he suggests  that in the language of ObamaCare, it exempts Muslims from having to participate. If true, that is religious bias. Yet, God lovin' Hobby Lobby may be forced to close because of their beliefs.
 
 
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We must defund ObamaCare no matter the government shut down consequences. It is bad for the country.
 
 
Hobby Lobby May Close.
 
   David Sloan "The wisdom that comes from above is, first, pure, then
peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without
uncertainty  or insincerity." - James 3:17
 
   By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
 
 
   When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working
out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames..
Our first  retail store wasn't much bigger than most people's living rooms,
but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to
God's word.
 
 
   From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the  nation's largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up  into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.
 
   We're Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I've
always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our
business  in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to focus on people more than
money. And that's what we've tried to do. We close early so our employees
can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one
of the week's biggest shopping days, so that  our workers and their families
can enjoy a day of rest.
 
 
   We believe that it is by God's grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and
he has blessed us and our employees. We've not only added jobs in a weak
economy,  we've raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time
employees start at  80% above minimum wage.
 
 
   But now, our government threatens to change all of that.
 
 
   A new government healthcare mandate says that our family business MUST
provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health
insurance.  Being Christians, we don't pay for drugs that might cause
abortions, which means that we don't cover emergency contraception, the
morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a
life after the moment of conception, something that  is contrary to our most
important beliefs.
 
 
   It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this
company since day one.
 
 
   If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government
fines.
 
   Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy.
 
   Our government threatens to fine a company that's raised wages four
years running.
 
 
   Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business
according to its beliefs. It's not right. I know people will say we ought to
follow the  rules; that it's the same for everybody. But that's not true.
 
 
   The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate,
for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won't exempt them for reasons of
religious  belief.
 
 
   So, Hobby Lobby and my family are forced to make a choice. With great
reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for
Religious  Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it
hurts our business. We don't like to go running into court, but we no longer
have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and
that honoring God is more important than  turning a profit.
 
 
   My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our
company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the
government is  going to make  that much more difficult.
 
 
   The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and
following the law. I say that's a choice no American and no American
business should  have to make.
 
 
   The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your
fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies but
will not  except Christian organizations including the Catholic church.
 
 
   Since you will not see this in the liberal media, please pass this on to
all your contacts.
 
 
    Sincerely,
 
   David Green
 
   CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
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New Book on the Tea Party

Check out Ronald Libby's new book on the Tea Party entitled, "Purging the Republican Party: Tea Party Campaigns and Elections" published by Lexington Books and scheduled for release on November 16, 2013. It is the first book to explain the Tea Party's primary strategy of defeating RINOs in Republican primaries.

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New Book on the Tea Party

Check on Ronald Libby's new book on the Tea Party entitled, "Purging the Republican Party: Tea Party Campaigns and Elections" published by Lexington Books and scheduled for release on November 16, 2013. It is the first book to explain the Tea Party's primary strategy of defeating RINOs in Republican primaries.

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