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The 2013 Battle of Yorktown

Obama and his intentional infliction of pain upon the American people for political gain has real casualties. Take Glenn Helseth for example, he runs the Carrot Tree Kitchens Restaurant inside historic Cole Diggers House in Yorktown, VA. He has been shutdown because of the battle between Obama and Congress.

 

As this article says, the National Park Service owns and operates the building. However, Helseth operates the restaurant. So when NPS shutdown, it shutdown the restaurant. Yet with the restaurant shutdown, Helseth still has to pay for his security system monitoring, his utilities, insurance, and he still has to pay his rent to the NPS (the government).

So if he is still paying rent on a property that he cannot use, how is this legal? He either is not obligated to pay the rent without fear of losing the lease, or if required to pay the rent, he is entitled to operate the property he has rented. It is one or the other. Yet, as we have all seen with Obama, he wants everything all at once, two things at the same time, and says one thing then the opposite a second later.

How is anyone to know what to believe? How is anyone to know what Obama means when he says something else seconds, minutes, or hours later? He said a red line on Syria in Aug 2012 then he stood in front of the world in 2013 while speaking in front of the UN and said it was the worlds red line and he never had his own red line. BS!

In a world where EVERY THING is recorded these days, how can he not know that he will be caught when he contradicts himself like that? That when he lies, blames everyone else and never accepts blame for anything. That everything that happens is always someone else’s fault, that he (Obama) is infallible, that he never makes mistakes, never is to blame. Obama must be inhuman because we humans make mistakes. It is human nature; humans make mistakes, unless you happen to be Obama.

Obama loves his Chicken Little routine. He must have played Chicken Little in his school plays. He has the part down pat. The last time no one listened when he said the sky was falling. Remember when he tried scaring us all with the sequester cuts? We all did not scare did we? So this time, he upped the ante by blockading the monuments and national parks. As the NPS officer was quoted saying, to cause as much pain as possible to the general public.

Now Obama is threatening Social Security recipients. The man has no shame! All that Obama has in his game plan is SCARE TACTICS! During Bush W. the Dems insisted that Republicans done nothing but scare the public with terrorist warnings. Yet, we did not suffer any major hits did we after 9/11. We learned, and we adapted. Obama has yet to bring in those responsible for Benghazi but just weeks after the Kenya Mall attack he has launched special forces.

Obama’s homeland and his fellow country folk are more important that dead Americans and a fallen American Ambassador in Benghazi. Obama had to act when Kenya suffered loses, but Americans do not matter to him. Obama says we all must embrace the Muslim way and the Quran, be more accepting and restful of Muslim. I say to Obama GO POUND SAND UP YOUR ASS!

Obama’s second term is very clear on what his priorities are. Certainly not America, not our way of life. Not our Constitution which he is doing all that he (Obama) can to destroy. Obama is doing all within his power to undermine our economy with his ObamaCare. For it has turned our economy into a Part Time work force when we used to be full time workers with regular benefits. Our workers used to have pride in going to work.

Now people, because of Obama and his free hand-outs, prefer to stay home, sit on the couch, do nothing, and collect food stamps which are  up by record numbers since he has taken office, the number of people on disability are up in record numbers, again since he has been in office. There is a pattern here people. Ignore it if you like. The proof is clear to see. Obama has created a country of dead beats.

As far as I am concerned, the more Obama tries to scare people with his default talk, no social security checks for seniors, barring of monuments, and so forth, it shows his desperation. I do not want to say winning and losing because this is not a winning and losing topic. We are ALL losing in these kinds of topics and arguments. All because Obama has such an ego that he has to be king, dictator, tyrant… that he cannot be a leader and do what it takes to lead a country and bring both sides together. To give a little, to lose a little to gain more.

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Who are you , prove it!

Are You or Not?

If you are approached by security personnel, politely ask them to prove they are Americans.  If not go find an American police officer or Sheriff Deputy to make them prove it.  We are not going to be pushed around by foreign authorities regardless of who gave them permission to be here.  This is our country and Obama has got to be taught he is not who he thinks he is.  People, you have rights that this idiot president cannot take away, that is unless you cower like a whipped dog and let him.  For goodness sake people stand up and resist this treason.  What are you going to do after the few perish because you were to damn scared to stand on your own two feet and do your part! Elevengun

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SIN AND PUNISHMENT

I've PROCLAIMED GOD's call for HIS People to Repent, and return to HIM, for over twenty years! Just as Rev.Franklin Graham said earlier this year on CBN: 'GOD,s People have turned away from GOD!'
SIN and PUNISHMENT
The LORD told me to say to HIS People, “When someone falls down, doesn't he get back up? If someone misses the road, doesn't he turn back? Why then, MY People, do you turn away from ME without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me. I HAVE LISTENED CAREFULLY, but you did not speak the truth. Not one of you has been sorry for your wickedness; not one of you has even asked, 'What have I done wrong?” “Each one of you, keep on going your way, like a war-horse rushing into battle. Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, MY People, you do not know the law by which I RULE you. How can you say that you are wise and that you know MY LAWS? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes. Your wise men are put to shame; they have become confused and now they are trapped. They have Rejected MY WORDS; what wisdom do they have now? So I WILL GIVE their fields and lands to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even MY Prophet's and Priest cheat the people. They act as if MY People's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they continue to say, when all is not well. MY People, were you ashamed because you did these disgusting things? No, you were not ashamed at all; you don't even know how to blush! And so you will fall as others have fallen; WHEN I PUNISH you, THAT WILL BE THE END of you. I AM, the LORD, HAVE SPOKEN.” People have turned away from GOD' [Jeremiah 8:4-12] {Today's English Version} ~ So many refused to repent! ~ ALL IN WITH JESUS CHRIST ~ Rev. Jerry L. Robertson~ the DIRECTOR of THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST GROUP

Unfortunately, this is where too many are RIGHT NOW! In this Republic of the United States of America. May GOD's PERFECT WILL BE DONE! May GOD BLESS AMERICA!

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When

To National Director Dee, and Director Melony B Deford are we not one party if so how about doing something in a peaceful way as one party beside just writing. Lets do something to show our support by doing it together and lets have one great big peaceful march with in out on city ,town, state. Lets march to every Government office every Congressman and senator local office. Lets do something beside hoping that someone else would do something.

I hope I make sent ,do to being disable it is hard for me to put word in a true way like I would like to.

 

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Herr Obama Has Spoken.

  Of course only das fuehrer knows what's right for this country again. Opening his tirade against Republicans "Obummer" repeated accusations of them, they, Republicans were totally at fault for the government shutdown. While stating that its Congress' job to come up with a budget. Why then when they do, Mr. do-nothing, you have your lackeys refuse to implement such  budgets.

  Being an "Extreme part of the Party" member I am incensed that a Liar and Traitor to the American People would continue to be even opening his big mouth.

  Please step down you faker and let the people of this great country have the White House back.

  Using the Nazi methods of repeating lies until they are perceived to be truth does not make your LIES the Truth. Congress has done its duty by reigning in a wicked and perverse administration by asking for real measures needed to right the wrongs YOU have done to all Americans.

  Stop using the threats of Checks being cut off and looming default that ONLY YOU can cause to scare the people of this great land.

  If you have a Trust issue, take it up with me, or better yet the one true God.

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With everything else on our plate in the US, at some point we, as a nation will need to be pro-active against Muslims.

Despite their insistence that they are a peaceful religion, their track record is quite the opposite. They are getting a bigger and bigger strong hold here. Your president and 8 member of his cabinet are Muslims. While their foot is in the door, we need to stomp on it! Or, we can be passive and allow them to kill everyone that is not a Muslim. Do not make the mistake other countries have made by allowing them to flourish. Once their numbers are great enough here, we will turn into Egypt.

Freedom of all religions except Islam.

Oh, Happy Muslim Appreciation Month in October. This is real and Obama implemented it.

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BELIEVE IT

          BELIEVE IT OR NOT, OBAMA IS BRING US TOGETHER AS A PEOPLE, A COMMUNITY, AND A COUNTRY.  WE ARE SEEING AND WATCHING A COUNTRY COME TOGETHER, NOT APART.  HE MAY THINK HE'S DIVIDING US WITH ALL THIS CHAOS AND DIVERSIONS THAT HE HAS SET IN PLAY, BUT REALLY HE'S MAKING US SEE HOW WEAK WE'VE BECOME.  THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE

           I THINK BECAUSE WHAT HE IS CAUSING RIGHT NOW IS WHY HE HAS BOUGHT THOSE GUNS AND AMMUNITIONS FOR THE I.R.S., BECAUSE HE THINKS WE WILL RIOT.  THIS IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH.  WE WILL DEMONSTRATE, BUT WE WILL NOT RAISE A GUN EXCEPT IN SELF-DEFENSE OF OUR LIVES.

           WE SEE HIM TRYING TO DISSOLVE OUR COUNTRY AS WE KNOW IT, RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES.  WHAT WE HAVE HERE, IS A CHICAGO GANGSTER MENTALITY.  WE NEED TO RISE UP LIKE MARTIN LUTHOR KING DID ( WAS MARTIN LUTHOR KING A ANARCHIST?? ) AND DEMONSTRATE ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY AGAINST THIS ADMINISTRATION AND IT'S LEADERS.  IT'S TIME FOR A REAL CHANGE-------BELIEVE IT.    

            I HOPE I'AM NOT SOUNDING REVOLUTIONIST, I JUST WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK THE WAY OUR FOUNDING FATHER'S WANTED IT TO BE. 

            PLEASE EXCUSE MY GRAMMER, IT'S JUST MY THOUGHTS, I'AM TRYING TO PROJECT.  

                                                                             

 

                                                               THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS

                                                                   A CONCERNED VETERAN

                                                                      BOB(ROBERT) VOZEY

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Part II review of “10 Commandments For Interacting With Kids On The Autism Spectrum And Related Commandments,” will be done soon. Since I consider the book Gold Standard I want others to get all of the first part. Please!

Mari Nosol writes from the heart to parents and those that need to know what to do. My Gold Gold Standard centers on Wanda Draper and her book “ Your Child is Smarter Than You Think!” Imagine a professional thinking this or parents know a thing or two.

Another person that has written a book getting my Gold Standard approval is “A Matter of Panache: A Career in Public Education, a Traumatic Brain Injury, a Memoir of Surviving Both.” Debra Sanders talks about Video Modeling before there is a real term for it.

For me those on my Gold Standard a common thread is teaching. Time in the classroom as a heartfelt teacher is worth hours of studying. Also, all have a heart the size of the Marina Islands is in beauty!

http://reframingresources.com/2013/10/03/half-of-part-i-ten-commandments-for-interacting-with-kids-on-the-autism-spectrum-and-related-commandments-only-sharing-fist-part-if-want-more-go-check-outbuy-book-thats-right-price-2/

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THOU SHALL NOT YELL WHEN SPEAKING TO ME.
My disability does not impair my hearing and I am extremely bright.

Perhaps even brighter than you are.

THOU SHALL NOT IGNORE ME TALK NEGATIVELY
ABOUT ME, SPEAK UNNATURALLY SLOW, OR ASK

QUESTIONS TO OTHERS IN THE ROOM THAT

PERTAIN TO ME.

THOU SHALL BELIEVE IN ME AND HELP ME
BELIEVE IN MY SKILLS AND SELF WORTH. NOTE

THE GOOD IN ME AND DO NOT MERELY POINT

OUT MY NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS.

Believe in me and I will believe in myself.

THOU SHALL NOT PERCEIVE ME AS DUMB.
I am extremely intelligent. I do not learn in the same way as you, and

maybe not as quickly as you expect me to. Have patience with me.

Once I recall information, I never forget.

THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE MY BEHAVIOR
I can get overstimulated in certain environments. I maybe hypersensitive

to sound and loud noises may hurt my ears. Fluorescent lights are

distracting for me. Thea have a humming noise and can pulsate. All the

noises in a room can blur together. Please make accommodations to

help me.

******All of the above come from the book(pages 12 and 13) Ten Commandments Of interacting with Kids On The Autism Spectrum And Related Commandments by Mari Nosal.

Now it is time to inventory my parental behavior after seventeen years.

Commandments

Of course I have yelled. I am human. I try not and will try even harder. Like the Ten Commandments, it is hard for anyone to be perfect. The point I am taking away from this is if you are doing it all the time and never make an effort there needs to be huge changes. I try very hard and still have to watch very hard. It is not an easy task. I hope this book does for you what I wish I had known. Maybe then my learned behavior wouldn’t be like kicking smoking.
Guilty. Still do this some. Yet, did a lot when he was a child. I think most parents do this out of concern and love instead of malice. Again, younger parents and teachers take the advice and wisdom.
I always believed in my son. Careful though with all those extra therapies. My son Tanner asked, “Mom how stupid do you think I am?” He thought I pictured him as dumb and needed to fix him. I told him that I had problems when I was younger and I didn’t get help. I told him I was trying to give him something I didn’t get to help me with the stress and strain. Perceptions and Deceptions a slight tongue imbalance but oh how the emotions roll off so different!.
See 3 tis the same to me.
Guilty again. I defer a little here. I say these kids need to be held to a same high standard. One has to get to know these kids well while working with to figure out when they are playing you and not. I know I have seen my son play reading on 4th grade level and finally nailed him this summer on 11th grade using a MicroSoft 2010 Grade Reading Readability Calculator. He still tried to wiggle out but now I have him in a regular History Class. The school provided a one on one aide without me throwing a fit. The schools have always been great when it comes to my son. Maybe a couple of minor things but the schools rule for me.
OVER ALL IT IS TIME TO BUY THIS BOOK...ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNGER MOMS. SHORT STORY TIME TOO.

My son used to scream loud and piercing in the car. I would pull over and check on him. One automatic act was to turn off the radio. When he got older and put two words together he said, “Music Off!” By Ollamok

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20131001_194925_resizedTHOU SHALL NOT BE SO QUICK TO SCOLD ME.

Do not tell me that “I know what I did.” I do not. Tell me what my infraction was in

simple, concise manner. I want to please you, but I have difficulties inferring

meaning within a vague statement. For instance, do not say please clean up your

bedroom.Tell me Exactly what you want, such as “Please make your bed and pick up

your toys.”

THOU SHALL NOT COMPARE ME TO OTHERS.

Please remind me and note the talents I possess. This increases my confidence

and positive self worth. Learning disabled or not, we ALL have talents to contribute

within society. I need you to help me realize what mine is. Believe in me and I will

believe in myself.

THOU SHALL NOT EXCLUDE ME FROM ACTIVITIES.

Please do not mimic me, ignore me or bully me. Please invite me to play with you. It

hurts when I am excluded. I like to run and jump in the playground, and be invited to

birthday parties too. Grownups can help me make friends by encouraging other

children to play with me. I can be a loyal friend if you get to know me.

THOU SHALL GIVE ME CHOICES

I do not like being ordered about any more than the other children. Give me choices

so I know you value my capabilities and opinions. Make them simple and concise.

Present two options or so. I get confused when too many questions or directions are

given at one time due to my processing speed. For instance, ask me if I would like

to wear my blue sweater or green one, rather than asking which sweater I would like

to wear.

THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE ME BY MY DIAGNOSIS, BUT MY CHARACTER.

I am an individual, just like other children. As my son used to say, “Mom my name

is John (name changed for anonymity) not Aspergers.” A profound statement

would say. :-0)

As a mom that really tries. My therapist says, “I way over compensate for my son!”

(I will share his name but you must see or find it in my post “My get away if” @http://ollamok.com/2013/09/15/my-get-away-if-written-7-26-13-by-ollamok-2/)

Here are my personal ties to these thoughtful Commands of Mari Nosal’s.

I am guilty of this quite a lot. But then again my son has hidden his talents quite well.

Recently I discovered I was right about his reading level or understanding being

much higher. Yet, was until recent a provider put things in to a term or used concrete

adjectives that brought clarity to me. This provider said his anxiety will make him

function at ( I know many do not like these words but they exist and carry a meaning

that is clear. To be clear I hate the words myself because I see that those on the

spectrum are treated this way when they are often smarter than a person assessing

them. I have often been treated this way. I either get real mad or think they are

ignorant and go on. That is harder to do when it deals with a passion of helping

those in society that are the most vulnerable. If not for my son, I would go crawl into

a think tank organization and forget this stuff) M. R level. Because I know my son

and this has been proven again and again, I fail on this in many ways. I struggle with

this where my husband is much better. It is frustrating for my son I know. Why?

Because I have to stop people and slow them down. However, when I do slow

people down and they get I care; they tended to come back to me and forever or a

long time. I could say much more but this is all I will except be patient with these

blessings from God. It is hard mom’s and dad’s I know. I will have to be mindful of

this till the day I die.

I do this and then I don’t. When my son says my parents didn’t are he shouldn’t do something; I do lots of reminding. I tell him I don’t care what he wants to do. I only want to make sure he has a job doing something he likes that he can make enough money at it. I tell him I could spend time doing something else besides a lot of time in him. I told him I don’t because I love him. Parents that care and take parenting serious do this. I tell him God does this for all those he loves and parents do the same. He will say he can’t are those that have special needs more or less shouldn’t have to do this. I quote and make an example of his favorite person on Earth at this moment. His Grandma Mallo! By gracious! She is 85 with one leg shorter than the other and a Club Foot. Special Needs this and that programs? Where were they then? Well for one there was the Shriner’s Hospital’s! Besides that she had to do most things on her own with the grace and help of God. She worked her whole life. She sacrificed for her four children. This shuts up a child that wants to get by using his disability as a crutch. I am the hard one in the parent chain. My husband is the softy. Being on the same page or closer might be better. I try harder and pray about this often. I am thankful to a case manager of sorts Dr. Samuel Oliphant. Before my wreck I had little time to find things like the Oklahoma Autism Network and other. That is why I want to write and inform others. We are missing a complete audience of people still going it alone.

I would say I never excluded Tanner from an activity. If anything I drug him to too

many. Accepting that he isn’t as extroverted as me; by a person I will be grateful to

forever and still seek her guidance from OKAY pointed this out to me. I do not see

this in myself; I mean being outgoing. I can see that my husband is much closer to

Tanner in the social quietness section termed introvert by this person I owe so much.

I have to do more of letting Tanner be Tanner. He doesn’t have to do everything to

be more social. I know he needs to be but he doesn’t enjoy it so stepping back a

bit might be wise.

9. I try to do this with Tanner. But, as a parent, I have to see that I expose and push

him out of the nest. Giving him choices I do. I forget sometimes that he is a teen,

seventeen. He is capable of all that I say but I keep pushing on and on treating him

as if he a child. Then again, my mother still introduces me as her baby. Therefore,

it could be the natural order of things. Should I get down on myself too much or

continue to try to do better?

I wouldn’t say I judge people by their diagnosis at all. If anything I might over

explain them by their diagnosis. Guilty of doing this with my son. My son may

have perceived this or my spouse but I have never been ashamed of my son. I

have felt blessed by him. Tried by patience with him maybe more so because of a

diagnosis but not about him. I only looked for a diagnosis as a launching pad to

look for things to help and do for him or understanding to get ideas for helping.

Perfect I am not but I try. I hope this has been helpful. I love this book because it hits at the heart of help and core of parenthood. Honesty at the core.

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  As an Honorably Discharged Veteran of the U.S. Army(1974) and the U.S. Navy(1979) I fully support ALL of our Servicemen all over the globe. The embarrassment of having to serve under an Anti-American like Barry Obummer must be disheartening. My Prayers go out for all of you. Impeach Obama, NOW! 

  Also, The base in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba is now a Luxury Resort for the Islamic Terrorist there compared to the conditions We had back in 1977-78. We,the military stationed there then, had No A/C, NO access to Multiple TV stations, and rare calls to home from call centers only.

   I say that the incarcerated Terrorist now there should stop the whining and be subjected to the same or worse conditions that our military was back then. Add in Hard Labor and no further outside communications and they won't want to get involved in terrorist activities quite as much again.

  No more Desert Island Vacations for Terrorist anymore. Gitmo can be a Top Notch Rehab for them now.

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truckers to D.C

Truckers Ride For The Constitution
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Memories Sweet Memories.

     The state of our great country has brought back some fond memories from my past and new insights into the present.
     We had a partying womanizing liar as Commander in Chief caught in an adulterous affair with one Monica Lewdinsky. To take the American peoples mind off his impeachment “Slick Willie” started a WAR against Christians on the other side of the pond.
     Luckily, now, we have a radical left wing anti American doing the same type stuff. In an effort to hide the attacks and deaths of Americans in Lybia, inaction by another Clinton aiding in this fiasco, Obummer has caused a FAKE Fiscal Fiasco, and trying to cause as much harm and Fear in These Great United States as possible by disgracing and disrespecting Real Americans that either Served this country or love it very much.
     By trying to force socialism on us all, this community organizer and Coward (having never served  this country in any real fashion) is trying to break our (real Americans) hearts, minds, souls spirits, and Banks, all to cover up his failure as a leader in any sense of the meaning.
       Whatever did happen in Benghazi and when will this madness ever end?
     Impeach and Defund now. You Guys Know what I mean, I’m sure.
                                                 May God Have Mercy on us all.

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obama hate priorities

Read 'em and DON'T weep...bury Washington in faxes and phone calls

More Notes on the Shutdown

Imagine how bad it must be for a distinguished commentator to accuse Obama of a “bald-faced lie” !

In addition to my own observations, I have also included a list of 21 egregious hate actions ordered by obama…….

First, read Thomas Sowell’s  commentary

Who Shutdown the Government

  • House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going -- except for ObamaCare.
  • All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.
  • The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies
  • we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to   
    • The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for ObamaCare…. Mgi.. their “leader” being dirty harry reid
    • When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie.
    • Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default.
      • Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt
      • unless the Republicans get their side of the story out…… -- the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.

 Now check some Priorities

  • Evicting citizens from their homes and businesses is more important ( critical) than the Amber Alert System for missing children
  • Locking down National Memorials and spiting Veterans is more important (critical) than helping a child with cancer
  • Beefing up Obamacare websites are more important (critical) than keeping our FBI open and working on National Defense
  • Foreign Aid ( to hamas, Libya, egypt, mexico, russia) is more important (critical) than taking care of our Seniors
  • Closing the Oceans is more important than………….Prayer
  • Paying Government Union Officials is more important than…………The Statue of Liberty

If that is not enough………….read on…………….

The lawlessness of this spoiled brat has to be stopped. The only reason for all this is to inflict pain on the American people.

1. Treatments for Children Suffering From Cancer - The GOP have agreed to a compromise by funding part of the government, including the National Institutes of Health, which offers children with cancer last-chance experimental treatment. Obama has threatened to veto this funding.

2. The World War II Memorial - The WWII memorial on the DC Mall is a 24/7 open-air memorial that is not regularly staffed. Although the White House must have known that WWII veterans in their eighties and nineties had already booked flights to visit this memorial, the White House still found the ( critical ???) resources to spitefully barricade the attraction. 

The Republican National Committee has offered to cover any costs required to keep the memorial open. The White House refused. Moreover, like the NIH, the GOP will pass a compromise bill that would fund America's national parks. Obama has threatened to veto that bill.

3. Furloughed Military Chaplains Not Allowed to Work for Free - Furloughed military chaplains willing to celebrate Mass and baptisms for free have been told they will be punished for doing so.

(They should set up a Field Church off base and proceed)

4. Business Stops In Florida Keys - Although the GOP have agreed to compromise in the ongoing budget stalemate and fund the parks, Obama has threatened to veto that funding. As a result, small businesses, hunters, and commercial fisherman can't practice their trade. While the feds have deemed the personnel necessary to keep this area open "non-essential," the "enforcement officers" to ensure no business is done are "essential."

5. Obama Blacks Out Sports, Entertainment Programming to Overseas Troops - The American Forces Network (AFN) that provides American sports and entertainment programming to our troops stationed abroad, has been shut down. For some reason, though, AFN News will still broadcast news, just not any of the popular and fun stuff.

Camp David is essential, but popular programming for heroes overseas is non-essential.

( ANOTHER slap-in-the-face disrespect by obama)

6. Obama Closes D-Day Memorial - The GOP have offered to compromise and fund the National Parks. Obama has said he will veto this compromise legislation. As a result, along with 24 other military cemeteries, the D-Day memorial in Normandy has been barricaded.

7. Obama Tries to Close Privately-Funded Mt. Vernon - Although George Washington's Mt. Vernon estate is privately funded, the feds blocked visitors from entering the parking area because the Park Service maintains the lot. Apparently, the New Media publicity resulted in the feds backing down.

(Having citizens drive thru an empty parking lot is a GRAVE threat to our National Security ????)

8. Obama Closes Over 100 Privately-Managed Parks That Cost No Money to Run -  The U.S. Treasury actually makes money from the rent paid by a private company that "employs about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states." No federal money is used to operate these parks. No federal employees are used to staff these parks. Taxpayers make a profit from these parks. Still, Obama had them closed and as a result 400-500 employees and a private business are taking it in the neck.

(SO, it is NOT about money. It is about SPITE/HATE)

9. Obama Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasnt Supported Since 1980 - "For the first time in 40 years, the National Park Service (NPS) has finally succeeded in closing the Farm down to the public. In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm.

10. Obama Tries to Close State-Run Parks in Wisconsin - "The park service ordered state officials to close the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, Devil's Lake, and Interstate state parks and the state-owned portion of the Horicon Marsh, but state authorities rebuffed the request because the lion's share of the funding came from state, not federal coffers."

( Finally….somebody stands firm…. Will Obama send in the Russian troops?)

11. Obama Closes Vietnam Memorial - The GOP have passed compromise legislation that would fund national memorials and parks, and open them to the public. Obama threatened a veto. Apparently, the "essential" government employees are those erecting barricades, not those who could keep the memorial open.

12. Obama Closes Privately-Owned Hotel, Police Block Parking Lot - "The operator of a 51-room inn located on U.S. government-owned land in North Carolina abandoned his defiant stance on Thursday to keep the property open despite being ordered to close as part of the federal government shutdown."

October is this inn's prime season. The GOP have offered compromise funding opening the parks. Obama said he will veto that compromise.

State troopers blocked customers from entering the inn's parking lot.

(Oh, wow! They could be in a Federal Park, just can’t go into the INN !)

13. Park Service Ranger: 'We've Been Told to Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can' - Its a cheap way to deal with the situation, an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. Weve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. Its disgusting.

( nuff said)

14. Obama Forces Residents Out of Private Homes - "The government shutdown is being felt close to home for some locals. They say they're being forced out of private homes on Lake Mead because they sit on federal land."

The GOP have agreed to fund the parks. Obama has threatened a veto.

15. Acadia Park In Maine Shut Down - '"We’ve been training for two years at CrossFit for this hike — no kidding,” Hart said. She added that the shutdown should be as inconvenient for the Washington politicians who caused it as it is for average citizens.'

The GOP have agreed to fund the parks. Obama said he will veto.

16. Historic Restaurant Open During Last Shutdown Forced to Close - "An iconic Philadelphia restaurant has been forced to close its doors and turn away booked parties because of the government shutdown. …

"Restaurant public relations director Molly Yun said they were notified there was a possibility a closure might happen, but they were allowed to remain open during the last government shutdown 17 years ago."

The restaurant is part of the federal park system, which the GOP have agreed to fund. Obama said he will veto the funding.

17. Obama Shuts Down a Road Tha Goes Through CO Park: "The Forest Service announcement, in turn, led the Pitkin County commissioners to order that Maroon Creek Road be shut down at the height of the colorful leaf-changing season. Ahead of what is to be one of the busiest weekends of the fall, the road is to be closed to vehicles at T-Lazy-7 Ranch, pending a resolution to the government shutdown."

The GOP have agreed to fund the parks. Obama said he will veto that compromise funding.

18. Residents Plan Protest of Cape Hatteras Closing - "Businesses and residents on the Outer Banks have planned a peaceful protest of the closure of Hatteras Island's beaches due to the government shut down.

"The U.S. House Wednesday passed a measure to reopen national parks and monuments. It will now go to the U.S. Senate."

In the unlikely event the Democrat Senate passes the bill, Obama has threatened a veto of any compromise legislation opening the parks.

19. Obama Blocks People From LOOKING at Mt. Rushmore - "Blocking access to trails and programs at South Dakota’s most popular attraction was one thing, but state officials didn’t expect Congress’ budget stalemate to shut down a view of Mount Rushmore.

"The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.

The cones first went up Oct. 1, said Dusty Johnson, Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s chief of staff. The state asked that they be taken down, and federal officials did so with some of them. The state was told the cones were a safety precaution to help channel cars into viewing areas rather than to bar their entrance."

20. Crucial USDA Websites Taken Down - "The U.S. Department of Agriculture has turned off its entire website in response to the government shutdown, leaving farmers, reporters and others with no way to access any of the agency's information online. …

"USDA's total website shutdown goes far beyond the response of other federal agencies, and seems to be part of an effort to make people feel the effects of the shutdown. Thursday morning calls to USDA's press office seeking an explanation were not answered."

This website is down and yet the ObamaCare and White House websites are up.

21. St. Louis Gateway Arch Closed - The GOP have agreed to compromise legislation funding the parks. Obama has threatened a veto

 

 

 

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A Bill of Responsibilities

I have many friends, family, and acquaintances whom I respect very much but simply do not comprehend the decline of the United States from a self-governing representative democracy of citizens into a non-free society of subjects under the rule of a central government.  The process by which we've arrived here has been slow - the trends can be observed over the last century.  Today we can see these trends and their accelerating death spiral.  We the people need to make a course correction soon.  To paraphrase a recent president: we really do have a rendezvous with destiny. We either preserve self government or we sentence our children and the generations that follow to a thousand years of oppression by people who want to rule over us.  We, the remaining vestige of a free society, have a responsibility to act.

The Declaration of Independence asserted the basic premise of self-government: that we all have unalienable rights and we delegate the task of protecting these rights to the government.  The Founding Fathers described the tyrannical rule and oppressive acts of the monarchy under which they were oppressed.  Our first attempt at forming a federated union of states - the Articles of Confederation - lasted about a dozen years before the evidence indicated it was simply too weak to be effective.  They knew they didn't want tyranny - that's what the Revolutionary War was about.  By 1787 they knew they didn't want anarchy - that's what the Articles of Confederation gave them.  The challenge in finding the sweet spot of self-government between tyranny and anarchy was the goal of the Constitutional Convention.
The Founding Fathers understood human nature better than most people today: prosperity and power tend to breed tyrants.  They knew the sweet spot they wanted required people of ethical character to pursue shared goals in an environment of transparency, with checks and balances on authority.   How to avoid the progression from a federation of sovereign states into a central authority controlling those states was the subject of much debate, the arguments of that debate documented in both the Federalist papers and the Anti-Federalist papers.  What resulted was a core organization structure that distributed power both horizontally at each level and vertically throughout the government.  This structure, while effective, was still insufficient for protecting the people against collusion and the progressive consolidation of power toward the central national bodies.  The defined roles and responsibilities within the organization structure and the process for amending the Constitution represented their best effort for keeping the balance of power in check.

The States were keenly aware of the risks and opposition to the new Constitution was strong.  There needed to be clarification and protection of individual rights.   The Bill of Rights represents the shared goals between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists; it asserted individual rights, clarified intended limitations of centralized power, pushed unspecified powers downward, and ultimately enabled ratification of the U.S. Constitution.  It was in this fashion that the fledgling country with its exceptional form of government made a course correction away from anarchy toward that sweet spot of good governance.
The evidence today suggests we may have missed our target.  Ratification of the U.S. Constitution happened 226 years ago, along with the Bill of Rights.  Since then, an additional 17 amendments have been added (well, 15 if you ignore Prohibition #18 and its repeal #21).  However, between the House and the Senate, new amendments have been proposed on average nearly once per week (11,539 through January 2013) for each of those 226 years.  Today, the trend in Washington is nearly three constitutional amendments per week[ref 1].  It appears that rational minds usually prevail and most of those proposed amendments never make it to the evening news. 

However, they don't really have to amend the Constitution if there are other ways to implement laws.  Over the last 75 years or so the number of federal laws and the number of federal regulations have exploded.  Federal Laws, known as United States Code, consume 51 titles spanning on the order of 200,000 pages. It's so big and convoluted that nobody knows how many federal crimes exist (Estimates are in the neighborhood of 4000-5000).  It doesn't stop there, however, because we've alsi introduced all sorts of Federal rules and regulations - permanent administrative laws - aren't even included in U. S. Code.  The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) started in 1936 at 11 pages.  Today it is over 163,000 pages and divided into over 200 books.  U.S. Code and  CFR rulebooks grow monotonically.  Our situation is so convoluted that every so-called free citizen is most likely a criminal in the eyes of our federal government.  Is this really the government by the people and for the people that was envisioned? No, not even close.
What happened?
The fears and concerns of the Anti-Federalists are coming true. The growth of prosperity and power of the United States over the first century enabled the rise over the most recent century to domination by people who call themselves "progressive" but are in fact statists. Statism is a belief system that the State (i.e. the government) should control social and economic policies.  Statism is the opposite of anarchism.   The implementation details result in different labels:  communism, fascism, Naziism, socialism, or a welfare state.  In all cases there is a basic need for government to be granted or to otherwise assume unlimited power. The differences among statist systems are only a matter of time and degree; the principle is the same. Under statism, the government is a legalized criminal that holds the power to use physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally disarmed and defenseless victims.  This is the path we are on today in the United States.
Prosperity and power tend to breed tyrants.  Today we are living in a post-constitutional environment where statists have constructed an all-powerful centralized federal government conducting endless experiments in the pursuit of an undefined socialist utopia that cannot exist without the complete destruction of self-government and individual liberties.  The spin doctors and naive believers in utopia call it compassionate progressivism, but the Framers of the Constitution called it despotism.  The United States is, to be direct, in a death spiral toward a tyranny.  As well-intentioned as some people might be, the unintended consequence is a federal Leviathan that can only produce an increasingly dystopian future.
What can we do?
If the statists have leveraged the gaps in the Constitution, we should consider closing those gaps.  Mark Levin's recent book 'The Liberty Amendments" offers a difficult but reasonable path out of the hole we've been digging.  He observes that Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows a convention to amend the Constitution to be called by two thirds or more of the States themselves.  Those proposed amendments are then ratified in the usual manner via by at least three fourths of the State legislatures.  As Levin points out, the Constitution gives the States significant authority to re-balance the constitutional structure for the purpose of restoring the principles of a limited federal government.  This idea was, by the way, first proposed four days into the 1787 Constitutional Convention by Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia and found its way into Article V after 4 months of discussion.  Both James Madison and Alexander Hamilton described why this provision is important and appropriate in Federalist 43 and Federalist 85, respectively.
I propose renaming Mark Levin's list of eleven proposed amendments The Bill of Responsibilities, as a follow-on  to the Bill of Rights.  I place them here, I believe unaltered, to propagate and advocate Levin's proposed use of Article V to reorient the trajectory of the United States back toward the balanced sweet spot between anarchy and tyranny.

  A Bill of Responsibilities
Mark Levin's Proposed Liberty Amendments
 1 An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Members of Congress

SECTION 1: No person my serve more than twelve years as a member of Congress, whether such service is exclusively in the House or the Senate or combined in both Houses.

SECTION 2: Upon ratification of this Article, any incumbent member of Congress whose term exceeds the twelve-year limit shall complete the current term, but thereafter shall be ineligible for further service as a member of Congress.
 2 An Amendment to Restore the Senate

SECTION 1: The Seventeenth Amendment is hereby repealed.  All Senators shall be chosen by their state legislatures as prescribed by Article I.

SECTION 2: This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

SECTION 3: When vacancies occur in the representation of any State in the Senate for more than ninety days the governor of the State shall appoint an individual to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term.
 3  An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices and Super-Majority Legislative Override

SECTION 1: No person may serve as Chief Justice or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for more than a combined total of twelve years.

SECTION 2: Immediately upon ratification of this Amendment, Congress will organize the justices of the Supreme Court as equally as possible into three classes, with the justices assigned to each class in reverse seniority order, with the most senior justices in the  earliest classes.  the terms of office for the justices in the First Class will expire at the end of the fourth Year following the ratification of this Amendment, the terms for the justices of the Second Class will expire at the end of the eighth Year, and of the Third Class at the end of the twelfth Year, so that one third of the justices may be chosen every fourth Year.

SECTION 3: When a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court, the President shall nominate a new justice who, with the approval of a majority of the Senate, shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term.  Justices who fill a vacancy for longer than half of an unexpired term may not be renominated to a full term.

SECTION 4: Upon three-fifths vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Congress may override a majority opinion rendered by the Supreme Court.

SECTION 5: The Congressional override under Section 4 is not subject to a Presidential veto and shall not be the subject of litigation or review in any Federal or State court.

SECTION 6: Upon three-fifths vote of the several state legislatures, the States may override a majority opinion rendered by the Supreme Court.

SECTION 7: The States' override under Section 6 shall not be the subject of litigation or review in any Federal or State court, or oversight or interference by Congress or the President.

SECTION 8: Congressional or State override authority under Sections 4 or 6 must be executed no later that twenty-four months from the data of the Supreme Court rendering its majority opinion, after which date Congress and the States are prohibited from executing the override.
 4An Amendment to  Limit Federal Spending 

SECTION 1: Congress shall adopt a preliminary fiscal budget no later than the first Monday in May for the following fiscal year, and submit a budget to the President for consideration.

SECTION 2: Shall congress fail to adopt a final fiscal year budget prior to the start of each fiscal year, which shall commence on October 1 of each year, and shall the president fail to sign said budget into law, an automatic, across-the-board, 5 percent reduction in expenditures from the prior year's fiscal budget shall be imposed for the fiscal year in which a budget has not been adopted.

SECTION 3: Total outlays for the federal government for any fiscal year shall not exceed 17.5 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product for the previous calendar year.

SECTION 5: Total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States Government but shall not include those derived from borrowing.  Total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States Government except those for repayment of debt principal.

SECTION 6: Congress may provide for a one-year suspension of one or more of the preceding sections in this Article by a three-fifths vote of both Houses of Congress, provided the vote is conducted by roll call and sets fort the specific excess of outlays over receipts or outlays over 17.5 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product.

SECTION 7: The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased unless three fifths of both Houses shall provide for such an increase by roll call vote.

SECTION 8: This Amendment shall take effect in the fourth fiscal year after its ratification.
 5 An Amendment to Limit Federal Taxation

SECTION 1: Congress shall not collect more than 15 percent of a person's annual income, from whatever source derived.  "Person" shall include natural and legal persons.

SECTION 2: The deadline for filing federal income tax returns shall be the day before the day set for elections to federal office.

SECTION 3: Congress shall not collect tax on a decedent's estate.

SECTION 4: Congress shall not institute a value-added tax or a national sales tax or any other tax in kind or form.

SECTION 5: This Amendment shall take effect in the fourth fiscal year after its ratification.
 6 An Amendment to Limit the Federal Bureaucracy

SECTION 1: All federal departments and agencies shall expire if said departments and agencies are not individually reauthorized in stand-alone reauthorization bills every three years by a majority vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

SECTION 2: All Executive Branch regulations exceeding an economic burden of $100 million, as determined jointly by the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office, shall be submitted to a permanent Joint Committee of Congress, hereafter the Congressional Delegation Oversight Committee, for review and approval prior to their implementation.

SECTION 3: The Committee shall consist of seven members of the House of Representatives, four chosen by the Speaker and three chosen by the Minority Leader; and seven members of the Senate, four chosen by the Majority Leader and three chosen by the Minority Leader.  No member shall serve on the Committee beyond a single three-year term.

SECTION 4: The Committee shall vote no later than six months from the date of the submission of the regulation to the Committee.  The Committee shall make no changes to the regulation, either approving it or disapproving the regulation by majority vote as submitted.

SECTION 5: If the Committee does not act within six months from the date of the submission of the regulation to the Committee, the regulation shall be considered disapproved and must not be implemented by the Executive Branch.
 7 An Amendment to Promote Free Enterprise

SECTION 1: Congress's power to regulate Commerce is not a plenary grant of power to the federal government to regulate and control economic activity but a specific grant of power limited to preventing states from impeding commerce and trade between and among the several States.

SECTION 2: Congress's power to regulate Commerce doe not extend to activity within a state, whether or not it affects interstate commerce; nor does it extend to compelling an individual or entity to participate in commerce or trade.
 8 An Amendment to Protect Private Property

SECTION 1: When any governmental entity acts not to secure a private property right against actions that injure property owners, but to take property for public use from a property owner by actual seizure or through regulation, which taking results in a market value reduction of the property, interference with the use of the property, or a financial; loss to the property owner exceeding $10,000, the government shall compensate fully said property owner for such losses.
 9 An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Directly Amend the Constitution

SECTION 1: The State Legislatures, whenever two-thirds shall deem it necessary, may adopt Amendments to the Constitution.

SECTION 2: Each State Legislature adopting said Amendments must adopt Amendments identical in subject and wording to the other State Legislatures.

SECTION 3: A six-year time limit is placed on the adoption of an Amendment, starting from the date said Amendment is adopted by the first State Legislature.  Each State Legislature adopting said Amendment shall provide an exact copy of the adopted Amendment, along with an affidavit signed and dated by the Speaker of the State Legislature, to the Archivist of the United States within fifteen calendar days of its adoption.

SECTION 4:Upon adoption of the Amendment, a State Legislature may not rescind the Amendment or modify it during its six-year period in which the Amendment is under consideration by the several States' Legislatures.
 10 An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Check Congress

 SECTION 1: There shall be a minimum of thirty days between the engrossing of a bill or resolution, including amendments, and its final passage by both Houses of Congress.  During the engrossment period, the bill or resolution shall be placed o the public record, and there shall be no changes to the final bill or resolution.

SECTION 2: SECTION 1 may be overridden by two-thirds vote of the members of each Hose of Congress.

SECTION 3: Upon three-fifths vote of the state legislatures, the States may override a federal statute.

SECTION 4: Upon three-fifths vote of the state legislatures, the States may override Executive Branch regulations exceeding an economic burden of $100 million after said regulations have been finally approved by the Congressional Delegation Oversight Committee [See #6].

SECTION 5: The States' override shall not be the subject of litigation or review in any Federal or State court, or oversight or interference by Congress or the President.

SECTION 6: The States' override  authority must be exercised no later than twenty-four months from the date the President has signed the statute into law, or the Congressional Delegation Oversight Committee has approved the final regulation, after which the States are prohibited from exercising the override.
 11An Amendment to Protect the Vote

 SECTION 1: Citizens in every state, territory, and the District of Columbia shall produce valid photographic identification documents demonstrating evidence of their citizenship, issued by the state government for the state in which the voter resides, as a prerequisite for registering to vote and voting in any primary or general election for President, Vice President, and members of Congress.

SECTION 2: Provisions shall be made by the State legislatures to provide such citizen-designated photographic identification documents at no cost to individuals unable to afford fees associated with acquiring such documents.

SECTION 3: Early voting in any general election for President, Vice President, and members of Congress shall not be held in excess of thirty calendar days prior to the national day of election except for active duty military personnel, for whom early voting  shall not commence more than forty-five calendar days prior to the national day of election.

SECTION 4: Where registration and/or voting is not in person but by mail, citizens must submit an approved citizen-designated photo identification  and other reliable information to state election officials to register to vote and request ballots for voting, no later than forty-five calendar days before the primary or general elections for President, Vice-President, or members of Congress.  Registration forms and ballots must be returned and signed by the voter and must either be mailed or hand-delivered by the voter to state election officials.  If delivered by a third party, the voter must provide written authorization for the person making the delivery and the third party must sign a statement certifying that he did not unduly influence the voter's decisions.

SECTION 5: Electronic or other technology-based voting system, for purposes of registering and voting in national elections, are proscribed unless a reliable identification and secure voting regimen is established by the state legislature.
The sweet spot of good governance reflects good decision-making.  The sweet spot between tyranny and anarchy is a balancing act focused on making the best possible decisions with incomplete knowledge.  We must balance the needs of the many with the needs of the few; we must balance the needs of today with the needs of the future; we must balance our right to pursue happiness with the responsibility to avoid undue hardship on the rights of others in their pursuits. 
James Madison observed in Federalist 51 that humans are not angels, so the "the great difficulty [in framing a government] lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself".  The Framers of the Constitution rejected tyranny, then tried and subsequently rejected anarchy.  With the U.S. Constitution they aimed for that sweet spot between the two extremes. The result so far has been fantastic, but the task is incomplete. 
Perfect is the enemy of good.  Utopias - whether they are of the collectivist  flavor like Karl Marx's communism or the individualist flavor like Ayn Rand's objectivism cannot exist because they are mutually exclusive of each other.  What appears to be true is that when society tries to push too far toward either vision of idealized society, the law of unintended consequences takes over and the system collapses into the dystopias of tyranny and anarchy.  Whereas neither extreme of utopia can be achieved, both extremes of dystopia can (and do) coexist.   The correct course of action is somewhere in the middle.  The grand challenge of American Exceptionalism is to find that sweet spot and avoid irreversible collapse into dystopia or decline, as every other world power has experienced throughout history.

People on average tend to be experience-rich but theory-poor and relatively short-sighted.  From my student perch, the last 226 years of evidence suggests the Framers  of our Constitution on both the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist side were  exceptions to the average.   I believe that Mark Levin may be cut from a similar cloth as were the Framers, and has offered us all a path to renewing constitutional republicanism for another century or two. It is our right, and our duty as self-governed people to have this dialogue and, as deemed necessary, steer this ship of State back toward safer waters.
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4063750308?profile=original  America’s heartland must fight to keep “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance

 

Fifty-nine years ago young children all across America walked into their respective schoolrooms and with pride bursting in their young chests they recited the Pledge of Allegiance. There was a new and deeper meaning reflected in the addition to this pledge because the words “under God” were inserted to read, in full, “one nation under God.”

Since that momentous year millions of elementary school students all across America have recited this pledge – some hoping that their teacher will select them to stand in front of the classroom to proudly lead the recitation. Yet deep within the hardened hearts of some in America – led by infamous atheists like Madalyn Murray O’Hair – a concerted effort began to tear God away from children in public schools.

That effort has been renewed by an atheist couple in Massachusetts. They are attacking the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance’s “under God” phrase. They claim in their Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case that, the words are exclusionary to their atheist children and violate their kids’ rights under the Equal Rights Amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution.

One has to understand the full dimension and scale of this nearly sixty plus year assault upon maintaining God in the Pledge of Allegiance which began with infamous atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s frontal assault in the 1940’s and 1950’s. She waged a successful effort to remove prayer from public schools, and assisted the growing effort of the secularization of America. The goal was to create a socialist nation which undermined and removed the basic biblical principles of character and heartland values the nation’s children.

In 2004, 50 years had passed since the adoption of “under God” in the pledge and O’Hair’s war on God in America, when the U.S. Supreme Court took up a case that challenged the phrase. The court ruled unanimously ruled that the phrase “under God” may remain in the Pledge of Allegiance as recited in public school classrooms. Nine years ago, many felt the nation’s heritage of respecting God in the Pledge of Allegiance was safe. It was not.

 

In 2007, just three years later, the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit defending the constitutionality of the Texas Pledge of Allegiance which includes ‘one state under God’. Attorney General Abbott stated then, “Just as it is perfectly constitutional for Texas schoolchildren to pledge their allegiance to ‘one nation under God,’ it is also constitutional for students to pledge their allegiance to ‘one state, under God.” The Texas Attorney General was successful.

 

One has to ask, to what end and for what purpose does removal of God from the state of Texas public schools or from America’s national Pledge of Allegiance or removing his son Jesus Christ from the public square announcing his birth mean?

 

The clear and convincing purpose of atheists and secularists who denounce God and denounce Christ is to extinguish America’s connection to God in our spirit, in our heart, and most importantly in our soul. The purpose is to eradicate God and Christ and the principles and values that they exemplify as if they never existed.

 

 

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Impeach My ****

All I hear is IMPEACH OBAMA! Do all you folks, good intentions notwithstanding, understand that impeachment is only part one of a two step process. Let's say for the sake of argument that you are able to get the Republican House to impeach (indict). What then? The case moves to the Democratic Senate for trial. Do any of you seriously believe that the Democrats are going to convict Mr Obama of anything? The man could slaughter a month old infant on the WhiteHouse lawn and you couldn't get a conviction in this Senate. He is untouchable by any Constitutional means.

 

I need to do some research as to just what can be done. I for one would love to see 10-15 million real Americans march on Washington DC and physically remove him from his castle under citizens arrest. March his butt to the supreme court for a trial. If the court balks, remind them they can hear the case or stand beside him as traitors. Then if convicted, expedite punishment as called for under the laws for treason. The Constitution gives the people (exclusively) the right to terminate this form of government and to institute "such forms as serve their needs." This right is not vested in the legislative, the judicial or the executive branches, but rather in the people as sovereigns. The federal government is supposed to be the low man on the totem pole, not at the top.

 

Learn how our government is "supposed" to work. Don't guess or look to others to tell you what to do. Study like I have and learn how it is supposed to function. Read the Constitution. Read the Federalist and anti-Federalist Papers. Then, study the ratification speeches and conventions that were the precursor to the birth of the US as a country. LEARN DANMIT!  Read the speeches and letters from such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and Adams. Study the speeches of Patrick Henry and the writings of Sam Adams. We are far past the time where we can afford to have people who don't understand their rights as ordained by GOD and codified by the Constitution and the amendments thereto. Don't trust the media in any form. They are collectively a pack of chronic liars and hypocrits. Use the internet like we do here and learn, learn learn.

 

I am as frustrated as any here. I am appalled at the liberties that others take with my liberty and GOD given rights. Unlike what I suspect are most here, I do have an understanding of how things are supposed to work. Seventy one years of life have enabled me to witness the decline and fall of liberty in America. I understand what happened and why it will continue to happen until the few real patriots stand up and scream "ENOUGH! WE WILL STAND FOR NO MORE!" Have you noticed how few congresspeople and senators have town hall meetings any longer? They are afraid to face the soverign people and be taken to task. Out of sight, out of mind. In Washington they are insulated from the masses they rule ... or so they think. They and the executive will never be afraid or compliant so long as they are safe from confrontation on a very personal level. No, don't advocate the overthrow of the government. Rather, advocate the return of the government to its rightful owners, the people.

 

Please forgive my bitter sounding rhetoric. I am old and depressed. Public apathy has destroyed my faith in my fellow Americans. Is there anyone left to fight the good fight and bleed if necessary to preserve the greatest political experiment in the history of mankind? Is there a leader in deed as well as word who can lead us out of ths mess? I fear not.

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New for those who post on Yahoo Answers.

If you are Conservative and support morals.. your answer is rejected. A Liheral female told all Conservatives you have been removed. Contact AT&T who owns Yahoo and complain we have no freedom of speech on their site in America! Note that Canada kept the old site!!!! Think, Canada has been Liberal for over 30 years and they still have freedom of speech, but Americans freedoms removed from it! I just posted facts about Evolution and what is called cyclic reasoning that does not support science, but gives us Evolution! NASA wasted our money by looking for life! They did finally find water... no life! Our money and faults teachings in our schools! Your childs biology book probably shows the apparatus that made amino acids! It is not the same that was used to do that! The real one shows it could not happen in nature! We allow our children corrupt education to support evil!

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