BUT IT’S THE LAW OF THE LAND……


 

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            I’ve heard lame baseless arguments to support things but this ascends high on the list of the most ridiculous one could offer – “But it’s the law of the land….”   That is the argument of the left regarding the Affordable Health Care Act aka Obamacare.  They shout that as though it should mean that all opposition is immediately silenced and everyone simply complies!  Do you really want to go there?  Are you sure you want to make that argument?  Okay I gave you the opportunity to think so let’s follow that logic and argument through history.

             If we are to surmise that because a bill has been passed by Congress, signed into law by the President, and the Supreme Court has ruled on its Constitutionality we are to passively and obediently comply what do we do about some interesting events in history? 

             That logic would mean that people like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anyone involved in the Civil Rights Movement were ‘criminals’ because they did not comply with the ‘Separate But Equal’ – LAW OF THE LAND prior to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 which overturned it.  That had been the LAW OF THE LAND for 58 years!  It was something that many felt could not and should not be allowed to stand, was discriminatory and should be opposed but if we follow the Democrat logic they were engaging in ‘unlawful’ or ‘criminal’ activity and instead of being applauded for their stance and fight they should be branded as criminals. That would mean that Bull Connor and those who took his stance should be lauded as patriots because they were upholding THE LAW OF THE LAND.  So again, I ask “Do you really want to take that path?”

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            If you will examine history you will find that it was once the LAW OF THE LAND that women had ‘no vote’.  It was not until the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 that the demand for the enfranchisement of women rose to the heights to propel it into reality.  In fact, after the Civil War, women led by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others over the disparity of enfranchising black men but still not giving women the right to vote.  It was not until the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that women gained the right to vote.  Does that mean that those women and men who demonstrated and roused public sentiment against THE LAW OF THE LAND should be regarded as ‘criminals’ because they did not obediently comply with a bad law?  Were they ‘hostage takers’, ‘terrorist’, and ‘evil’? 

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           How about slavery, it was also THE LAW OF THE LAND.  In the Dred Scott decision in 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue or bring suit in a federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.  Thus, the Supreme Court declared that slavery was THE LAW OF THE LAND and legal.  So, anyone on the side of the North in the Civil War was breaking the LAW OF THE LAND and those in the South were only enforcing the Law of the Land!   (I must insert that it is my view that the Civil War was about more than slavery and very high on the reason was States Rights.  My view, you do not have to agree.)  But, do we want to say that those who were opposed to slavery were breaking the law because, after all it was the LAW OF THE LAND, and those that supported it were simply enforcing the LAW OF THE LAND?   Do you really want to take that path?  Slavery was written by Democrats and approved by the Supreme Court.  So really!

            We could talk about “Prohibition” which led to more violence, corruption, and criminal activity than almost anything in our modern history.  It was a bad law and thousands if not millions of lives were ruined as a result of this law but it was THE LAW OF THE LAND.  The “Poll Tax” was the Law of the Land but was opposed.  Segregation was the Law of the Land but opposed.  So now when Obamacare is opposed by a majority of Americans and by members of Congress they are called ‘bigots’, ‘racist’, ‘terrorists,’ ‘extortionist’, and many other names because they are resisting THE LAW OF THE LAND.   We could have solved the healthcare problem or at least addressed it more reasonably without Obamacare but that would not give Barack Obama his ‘signature’ piece of legislation for his legacy.  What will that legacy be?  It depends on who is writing the history books.  Medicare/Medicaid could have been expanded, the payroll tax expanded and many other approaches but instead we have FORCED CONSCRIPTION into Health Insurance mandated by the government that is going to be of lesser quality and more expensive than what we had.  One of the reasons they are taking this pathway is because they do not want State Governments controlling any of the mix and want to move us to ‘Single Payer Government Run Healthcare’ and CONTROL.  

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            So before you argue ‘It is the Law of the Land’ you might want to study history and realize that you are painting yourself in a corner.  But, since when did this president or the Democrat members of Congress become concerned with the Constitution or the Law?  They skirt it, bypass it, ignore it, and avoid it so frequently that one would wonder where they came up with that argument.  I guess it was from the same source that caused Hillary and Pelosi to utter, “What difference does it make?” on separate occasions and issues.

             America, bad laws are to be opposed and through peaceful and legal means changed, rescinded, and revoked.  Just because something is THE LAW OF THE LAND does not make it good or right.  

             God bless you and God bless America!

PUNITIVE LIBERALISM’S RISE…..


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            On October 10, 2013 George Will’s column entitled “JFK and the Dawn of Punitive Liberalism” set me to thinking about what drives the liberal establishment and political elite in America.  Mr. Will’s article is interesting and thought provoking.  Is it correct?  I would say, largely yes!  He references a book written by James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute in 2007 entitled “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution:  How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism.”  Mr. Will states, “Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would now become a scowling indictment:  Kennedy was killed by America’s social climate, whose sickness required ‘punitive liberalism.”  That being a liberalism that would PUNISH America for her sins, injustices, and ills going all the way back to our founding.  It was a belief that would be advanced in a more pronounced way that ‘punitive liberalism’ would be required to purge this nation of those who were other than liberal.

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             Punitive liberalism would transform or undergo a metamorphosis into the doctrine of grievance groups who believed they are owed redress for cumulative inherited injuries inflicted by the nation’s flawed history, poisonous present and ruinous future. It would become, in its view, the sole legitimate conscience of the nation because those on the right and less committed liberals had allowed the culture and society of this nation to descend into a state so toxic that it could murder a beloved president.  From that time forward to be a good liberal would require one to be one whose task and mission would be to scold and cajole anyone in opposition.  Those they deemed guilty would of necessity be punished and made to pay for their errors.

             With that analogy in mind when one views the likes of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi it is easier to understand what is going on with them and why this president would want to MAKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FEEL THE PAIN so he could blame the Republicans for our economic woes.  But, I am convinced that this is simply a tool that Obama and his handlers use allowing them to draw into their alliance those who follow liberalism and more directly punitive liberalism.  It allows them to deceive and dupe countless groups and cement them as solid voting blocks for the left and the Democrat party.  Those who believe they are ‘entitled’ to redress, reparation, and should be able to ‘punish’ all of a particular race or group who do not agree.  Forget the fact that the Democrat Party has long had a history of being other than supportive of ‘civil rights’ and interested in the ‘middle class’. 

 

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            Yet, the core of liberalism certainly has been much more determined to revise history, force the nation to pay for the perceived sins they believe should be paid for, and propel them into a more solid position of power.  The core of ‘punitive liberalism’ seeks to ‘fundamentally transform America’ into something other than a Constitutional Republic and are willing to sacrifice virtually anyone or anything to achieve their objective.  I will acknowledge that from the time of the Kennedy assassination to the present liberalism has been much more aggressive in his pursuit and we have witnessed the transformation of the left politically into ‘style’ rather than ‘programmatic’.  Liberalism has consistently become more and more concerned with lifestyle rather than material well-being.

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            However, it is my contention that the modern ‘punitive liberalism’ that we are witnessing goes much further back than the Kennedy assassination and has been in the works for over 100 years and finds its roots in Fabian Socialism to name one group that it has evolved from.  It is not truly interested in America because it views America as a flawed and evil nation.  It is not interested in individual liberties because it believes that an All Powerful Federal Government is the answer to the problems of the nation.  It is not interested in the Constitution because it considers the Constitution a hindrance rather than a guide or rule by which we operate.

             The Democrat Party, for the most part, certainly the National Party has so completely adopted the view of ‘punitive liberalism’ that it has become the enemy of a free nation.  I am not saying every person that calls or identifies themselves as a Democrat follows that philosophy, but many do.  Likewise I am not saying that anyone who calls themselves a Republican is good, moral, Constitutional, or desirous of an advancing Free Republic.  There are bad eggs in both parties.  The Republican establishment has become so like the Democrat establishment that it is in dire need of transformation.  In fact, what it needs in the absence of a formidable alternative is to be ‘reclaimed’ by the rank and file as it was under Ronald Reagan.  You can blast the ‘Tea Party’ and trash those like ‘Ted Cruz’ but if you truly follow what they promote you will find that their interest is America and returning to a Constitutional Republic.  You either support that or you do not, there really is not gray area in which to stand at this time. 

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            I support a return to a Constitutional Republic that is governed and guided by the Constitution of these United States of America and will continue to recognize God’s hand in the formation and development of our nation.  I will give myself to the cause of any candidate that truly demonstrates that as a foundational principle in their political philosophy and belief.  We do not have to agree 100% of the time but we most assuredly must agree on the core critical points of that pursuit.

             May God bless you and may God bless America again!

 

JUST BECAUSE YOU HEAR IT, SEE IT, OR READ IT – – Does Not Make If Factual….


            I had to say that to a ‘low information’ person in a very public place a few days ago and as a result thought I was going to be assaulted by about 10 ‘low information’ incredibly racially motivated individuals.  They immediately began resorting to the tactics they have observed by the man in the White House, the individual leading the Democrats in the Senate, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, Van Jones, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Attorney General and a host of others in politics and in the media.  Substance was absent but the incessant name calling and threats of physical violence persisted to the point that the manager of the business asked them all to leave threatening to call the police and profusely apologized to me saying, “I observed the entire situation and you were calm, cool, and collected, offering substance in the conversation and they responded in rage and I feared for your safety.”

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            I was carrying on a conversation with an acquaintance about the situation in Washington and how it disturbed me that the Republicans appeared to be caving as well as how little defense they were offering but how vicious the Democrats were including the President toward them.  As we discussed the matter, we thought privately, off to one side this individual charged in screaming saying, “It is on the news how the Republican Tea Baggers are holding the government hostage, wanting to destroy the government, take away all our food stamps, health care, want us to breath dirty water, eat bad food, and not be able to have jobs.”  That is when my aforementioned response came and the ensuing attack that I received.

             Folks, it does not matter if a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Constitutionalist, Socialist, Communist, Atheist, Muslim, or Christian says something THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT.  Just because it is on the internet, in the newspaper, on the television, in the movies or comes from the Oval Office, the floor of either, Houses of Congress or the Supreme Court THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT FACTUAL.  It simply means that it is being reported and I follow the prescription, as best I can, of finding out for myself if it is true or not.  I don’t automatically swallow what the GOP, Fox News, the Blaze, Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, or any other personality says – – I WANT TO KNOW THE FACTS!   I have made mistakes and believed that something was factual without fully examining the facts and have had to back track.  I didn’t enjoy that, not solely because I was wrong but because I likely misled someone else. 

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            I am a follow of God, the God of the Christian Bible and in His book He directs us to seek TRUTH.  We are told in Scripture to ‘hear the conclusion of the whole matter’ before rendering a judgment.  Paul commended the Berean Christians in Acts 17 saying that they were ‘more noble’ than those in Thessalonica for the simple reason that they received the message gladly and then examined the Scriptures daily to check out what the apostle was saying.  Paul had no fear of his words being examined and neither should we.  Truth will bear up under the light and every postulation should be held to the light to see if it is valid.

             The name calling and fear mongering that has been and is taking place in Washington, the intentional inflicting of pain economically and emotionally being demanded and inflicted by this Administration, and the refusal to sit down and talk rationally, sensibly, above partisanship is DISGUSTING.  I’ve seen more polls than I care to remember over the past few months and it seems that the polls that are not skewed toward a particular ideology, all indicate that a vast majority of the voting public is FED UP WITH GOVERNMENT as it now exists, and that touches the Republicans, Democrats, and the sitting President.  I know that reflects my personal views!  The Republicans have let me down!  The Democrats have assaulted that which I hold dear, the Constitution, Freedom, and America!  The President appears to have an agenda that if it were fully exposed would send shock waves of horror through every patriotic American!  Yet, they play games with words, and politics and WE THE PEOPLE are the ones who suffer.  For Mr. Obama and the Democrats to turn a blind eye to the fiscal problems of this government is criminal.  For the Republicans to participate in the perpetuation of this fraud is criminal.  There are so few politicians today, in Washington, who even remotely appears to be interested in the Constitution, and the people.  I almost feel like Diogenes of Sinope also known as Diogenes the Cynic walking about with a lantern supposedly looking for ‘an honest man’ I am looking for ‘an honest politician.’  I fear that as Diogenes reportedly failed I most assuredly will in my named pursuit. 

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            But, I will not give up hope.  I will not throw in the towel.  I will not surrender. I will, as long as I draw breath and have the ability to write, defend America, Freedom, and Free Enterprise.  If America was worth the cost to establish in 1776 it is worth fighting for to preserve in the 2000’s.  God help us if we do not stand for something!

             May God watch over you, guard and guide you and may God bless America!

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MEET THE PETTY PETULANT AMERICAN PRESIDENT – Barack Obama!!!!


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            Of the many synonyms for ‘petulant’ we find peevish, bad-tempered, querulous, pettish, fretful, cross, irritable, sulky, snappish, crotchety, touchy, tetchy, testy, fractious, grumpy, disgruntled, crabby, insolent, impatient, pouting, bratty, ungracious, fault-finding.  One sentence example was – “He is easily irritated or annoyed; an incorrigibly fractious person; not the least nettlesome of his countrymen.”  All those synonyms and the sentence fit this President to the ‘T’.  He is one of, if not the most petty I have ever observed. 

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            He resorts to ‘name calling’, throwing ‘temper tantrums’, huffing out of the room and bullying to get his way.  He reminds me of a ‘spoiled child’ much in need of the board of education applied behind the barn in the aft portion of the body.  It would seem that his life has been one of being catered to and having such an ‘entitlement mentality’ that he truly believes that his is a ‘rock star’ or some ‘god’ and everyone should be in awe of him when he walks into the room.  To question him or disagree with him is beyond his ability to accept or deal with.  I can only imagine working for or with him because one would have to walk on egg shells all the time for fear that he would blow a gasket over the smallest of things. 

             He has, from all appearance, an incredible lack of ability to be forthcoming and honest.  It seems that, to him, the truth is whatever he desires it to be without concern for the facts.  Even when he publicly makes a statement or promise and it comes to light that it is erroneous he then declares that he did not say that as with his Syrian Red Line he claimed the world drew the line not Barack Obama.  He often appears incapable of comprehending that as a human being (I am loosely attributing that status to him) he is capable of being wrong as most of us learned early on in life.  However, no one in his entourage, cabinet, party, or even most Republicans has the courage to ‘call it like it is’. 

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            Sadly, the Republicans in Congress of the McCain, Boehner, Peter King, Lisa Murkowski, Chuck Grassley ilk, and others all want to ‘kiss the king’s ring’ and bow at his alter rather than standing for the Constitution, and the principles this nation was founded on.  It is past time that we CLEAN HOUSE in the HOUSE and SENATE and send every RINO home that we can.  It is time that we identify them and call them out.  It is time that we diligently work to find people to ‘primary’ them with and seek to defeat them so we can have constitutional, conservative, America loving candidates in the general elections across this nation.  That means that each of us in our local precincts must work to support that type of candidate.  We need to become involved in the process on a county-wide and state-wide basis.  We need to volunteer, campaign for, and contribute as we can to the cause of Constitutional, Conservative, and America loving candidates.

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             If we fail to stand up to the BULLIES in the White House, the Democrat, and Republican Parties we are sealing the doom of this Republic that we have loved and hold dear.  We will have failed to do what Benjamin Franklin said, “We have a Republic if we can keep it.”  It is ours.  The government is supposed to be ‘of the people, for the people, and by the people.’  It is not to be of the Aristocratic Political Elite in Washington or the State Houses, it is to be the Joe the Plumber, and Morris the Electricians of this nation.  It is to be the average citizen who works, pays taxes, and follows the rules.  I want my country back and am committed to doing all in my power to see that become a reality. 

             So as you focus on the upcoming elections I plead with you to invest your time, energy, and finances to RECLAIMING AMERICA the America the colonist fought for and the Framers provided for us.  If it is worth having it is worth fighting for!

            May God bless you and may God bless America again!

THE COMPASSIONATE AND INFORMED DEMOCRATS…..


 

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            On October 2, 2013 Representative Henry Waxman (D. California) was asked if he had read all 10,535 pages of the final regulations of Obamacare that have been published thus far by the Federal Resister he replied, “Is it important that I read it?”  Duh!  Congressman you are part of Legislature that passed the Affordable Health Care Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as well as the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA).  We have had 110 final regulations published, to date, by the Federal Register on how Obamacare will be implemented, so – YES IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ IT!   This thing is so massive that NO ONE truly knows what is in it and as one writer pointed out it is eight times the number of pages than there are in the Gutenberg Bible which has 642 two-sided pages or 1,286 pages. 

            Harry Reid stated that Democrats won’t ‘pick and choose’ what parts of the government to fund while speaking at a press conference on October 2ndCNN reporter Dana Bash asked about helping out a hypothetical ‘one child with cancer’ and Reid responded, “Why would we do that?”  How is that for the loving, compassionate, caring Democrats? 

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            The President on the other hand demonstrated his incredible concern for the situation in Washington by showing off his skills – on the golf course!  He reportedly set a new personal best during the round.  Now that is incredibly important!  We certainly need the President to improve his golf game while the country goes to hell in a hand basket, so to speak.  In fact that round was the 35th round of the year meaning he has played more golf this year than any previous year with 19 last year (a down year), 34 in 2011, and 30 in 2010.  I wish I could have played half that many personally but I was too busy trying to insure that my family was taken care of, but then I’m not a King so we lowly must work while the aristocrats play.

            Prior to 1995 in the face of a government ‘shut down’ the terms used for people or services that would be affected was ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.  That was tweaked because it was not deemed politically correct terminology so now we are calling it ‘excepted’ and ‘non-excepted.’  However, many are still using the old terms but only when they are trying to reflect badly on the Republicans.

             The military continues to operate, the embassies stay open around the world, the mail continues to run, air traffic controllers stay on the job, all emergency medical services, border patrol, federal prisons, most law enforcement, emergency disaster assistance, overseeing the banking system, operating the power grid, and guarding federal property continues without interruption.  That is unless Mr. Obama decides to violate the law and the Constitution and do something differently and as he has said repeatedly, “I’m in charge I’ll do what I want.”  I was unaware that the election of 2008 or 2012 was to install a Dictator or Emperor in the United States but I guess I missed that memo.

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            Since over 70% of Americans are opposed to the Affordable Health Care Act aka Obamacare it would seem logical that the latest compromise that the Repuplicrats offered to DELAY Obamacare would be acceptable since Mr. Obama has already arbitrarily delayed the Employer Mandate without Constitutional authority, I might add.  It would seem that the delay of the Individual Mandate would be no big deal but since the objective is to MAKE AMERICA HURT in order to punish the Republicans in an effort to regain control of the House in 2014 we have the adamant unflinching authoritarian demand that NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH REPUBLICANS….   Thus we have the shutdown!  Who will blink first?  Probably the Republicans for they fully believe that their position is so tedious and they are filled with such trepidation that will, as in the past cave. Of course Mr. Obama, in the media, is declaring that he has ‘bent over backward’ to work with the Republicans and would gladly negotiate with them on Obamacare IF they give him ‘everything he wants’ on the budget and spending.  Pardon me, but if I give the person I’m trying to negotiate with EVERYTHING THEY WANT what do I have left to negotiate with?  But, I keep forgetting that Mr. Obama and the Democrats consider is ‘ignorant’ beyond measure and the voters keep proving them right! 

             What will that mean in 2014?  It will probably mean that the Democrats gain seats and the Republicans become the villains they are being painted in the minds of millions of voters.  The scare tactics used by the Democrats and the failure to articulate, package, and sell their platform by the Republicans will likely mean disastrous results in 2014 and possibly 2016.  We so need a Ronald Reagan who is both conservative and articulate to rise up in the name of Constitutionality and Conservatism.  America needs a Moses to lead us out of this wilderness of debt, deficit, and tyranny.

             I plead with one and all to become involved like never before, stay informed, and if you pray please become an intercessor for this nation.  Our present and our future as a Free People depend on what we do in the next few years!

             God bless you and God bless America again!

IF THE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE IS SO AFFORDABLE…..


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            Why do we have so many seeking exemptions and that includes Congress and their staff being subsidized?  WHY?  Because Affordable Healthcare or “OBAMACARE” is neither affordable, efficient, or better that what now exists.  It will not cover EVERYONE.  We will still have millions UNINSURED.  Dr. Ben Carson had a much better approach as have some of the Republican plans and even many Democrats recognize this disaster and the damage it is doing and will do to ‘health insurance’ and ‘health care’ in America.  It, like so many things out of Washington, is misnamed and the name misrepresents what it is all about.  It is not about ‘health insurance’ or ‘health care’ it is ultimately about CONTROL.  This monster, even when read, is terribly difficult to completely understand all the ramifications.  But, when it is studied in detail putting line upon line and precept upon precept it is a NIGHTMARE!

             When the government gets involved in anything it seeks to ‘control’ that in which it is involved.  It wants to make the rules, regulations, issue mandates, and edicts that require a certain performance or pathway to be allowed to do or have what you seek.  In health care when a bureaucrat or board of bureaucrats begin to make decisions based solely on the ‘monetary’ through the lens of a ‘statistical table’ exclude the recommendation of the doctor or the desire of the patient it is of great concern.  No two people are the same in any situation including the contracting of a particular disease or ailment.  Age cannot be an exclusive factor in the decision making.  The reason we purchase ‘health insurance’ is so that we can be covered, at least partially, in the event of a health need.  We purchase insurance and some virtually never use it until the waning years of their lives and then need it to be able to live out their days with a reasonable quality of life.  For the government to decide that a person, say 70 years of age, is no longer a qualified candidate to receive cancer treatment, joint replacement, or by-pass surgery for heart conditions is nothing more than ‘legalized euthanasia’ and, to me, is comparable to that of the Nazi’s in WWII regarding the Jews, or Stalin in Russia, or Chairman Mao in China, or any other despot throughout history devaluing human life to the point that they can willingly and with emotional detachment see the lives of citizens snuffed out in the name of whatever they are pushing.

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            The government has proven it is inefficient and inept in the ability to maintain our privacy via electronic data gathering such as the new mandate regarding medical records.  These records go so far beyond what is needed to evaluate our medical conditions and are shared across agencies that have no business seeing them or need for them unless they are to be used for some other more sinister plan.  I do not mean to throw in a conspiracy theory here but why do they need to share these, and why do they need all the information they are seeking?  It is beyond the need to determine the medical condition and propose a treatment plan.  That is a quote from two of my doctors.  Sadly, most of my doctors are feverishly making plans to get out of the medical field due to what they anticipate being the full impact of ‘The Affordable Health Care Act’ aka OBAMACARE.  They detest what is happening and feel that their oath of service as a provider of medical care is being infringed and they will no longer be practitioners of medicine but simply pill dispensers as per the dictate of the federal government’s panel which Sarah Palin aptly named, “Death Panels.”

             You may be uninsured, and have pre-existing conditions that make it difficult for you to receive ‘health insurance’ and my heart hurts for you, but is that reason to totally destroy the health care industry?  There are better ways to handle this situation.  The need is for a much more diligent and extensive means of evaluating people’s situation.  Is a person without health insurance because they choose not to pay the high price they would have to pay?  Is a person without health care because of pre-existing conditions?  Why are they without insurance?  I do not have time to list all the possible ways of handling this situation but we need to completely transform them Medicaid System, Welfare System, Disability Program, and even work on the Social Security System while maintaining the integrity and continuity of what the seniors now on Social Security are receiving and those soon to be on the program.  Medicare is also is serious need of work to make it efficient.  Then we come to the VA and many other programs of government but in HEALTH CARE alone we can do some things other than provide Barack Obama with some disastrous piece of legislation that he can try to hang his hat on as a landmark and signature piece of legislation that he got passed for his ‘so-called’ legacy.

             America has had one of the best health care systems in the modern world but that is rapidly changing and we are already seeing delays in care as well as denial of care based on what this law mandates and what is anticipated it is going to require.  As a Christian I have confidence in God to care for His children.  We are moving to a time when health care will once again be relegated to home remedies and the life span of people will decrease outside of God providing the miracle of healing for them.  Even those who are uninsured today can go to the Emergency Room and the law mandates that they be seen.  It is costing us billions if not trillions and the idea of a ‘Health Savings Account’ from birth is an idea that I would like to see much more study on.  A   Health Savings Account that is bequeathable!  

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            I make no claim to having all the answers, I only know that the “Affordable Health Care Act’ aka OBAMACARE is not it.  I know that if it were all it was purported to be there would be ZERO exemptions rather than the hundreds if not thousands that are already issued.  Congress would not be running away from it for themselves and their staff.  It is escalating cost for individuals, costing jobs, hours, and the well-being of millions while failing to achieve what was promised.  That, in my view, makes it a very bad law and one that should be repealed but will not be with the current administration and congress of today.

            May God bless you and may God bless America!

AMERICA – The Melting Pot Nation….


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            I may be wrong but I believe that the first use of describing America as a “Melting Pot” was in the writings of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in his “Letters from an American Farmer” in 1782.  It has been used by politicians, historians, and critics of the American culture and our view of and response to immigrants coming to this nation almost from the beginning of the United States of America as a nation.  If America is a “Melting Pot” then much of current multi-cultural and politically correct politics are in grave error, and I believe that to be the case.  But, is America truly a “Melting Pot”?

            A “Melting Pot” implies and demands that varied products or even similar products be placed in the pot and melted down forming a totally new product.  That new product is a singular product not a hyphenated one.  It is unique and transforms the product derived from its former identity into the identity of the new product.  It is not a ‘cooking pot’ for that would leave room for the hyphenation such as ‘beef-stew, chicken-gumbo’ or something else to be used.  It would be more akin to taking ore whether that is identified as Italian ore, German ore, French ore, British ore, African ore, or any ore and forming STEEL.  It is not Italian-steel, German-steel; French-steel it is STEEL.  In the case of America we are supposed to be a nation in which people of various nationalities or ethnicities come and are placed into the MELTING POT and become AMERICANS.  They are not Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Greek-Americans, or African-Americans they are AMERICANS.  I would suggest that the only group that has a legitimate justification to be identified using descriptors would be those who were here before the rest of our ancestors arrived and that would be the American Indian or Native Americans. 

            Although I am a quarter Cherokee I do not choose to be identified by that descriptor.  I am not ashamed of it because it is who I am.  The major national heritage from which I descend would be Scottish-Irish but I do not choose to be identified with those hyphenations I am an AMERICAN and that requires no hyphenation.  My ancestors came to this country, entered the MELTING POT and came out AMERICANS.  They assimilated into the culture which was vastly different from theirs and did not choose to be identified by hyphenations they have, so far as I can discover, always been proud to be identified as AMERICANS. 

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            The problem today with our multiculturalism and politically correct society is that we suggest that we should move this nation away from being a ‘melting pot’ into being more of a ‘salad bowl’ where each ethnicity or nationality maintains its unique labeling and culture without assimilating into the new product and become AMERICAN.  If that is the case, then why come to America?  If there was not a willingness to be transformed into something new and become a fully assimilated and functioning unit of what was established in 1776 and subsequently, why come?  If America is not to be unique as are other countries including those from which the immigrants come, why have a national identity?  I believe that is what the progressives and liberals are seeking, world citizenship not national citizenship.  They want a world without borders, national identities, or national sovereignty.  They want a world that is under a solitary ruler with a governing body that destroys all national sovereignty and subjects the world to the rules and laws of the select elite body of rulers that determine our fate.  I do not support that! 

            Only in the Kingdom of God can I accept ‘one rule’ and that being GOD ALMIGHTY Himself.  Only under the dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ can I lose my national identity or ethnicity.  But with regard to human governments and nations, I would never ask nor desire that France, England, Spain, Germany, Mexico, or any other nation give up its borders or culture.  I do not ask that those immigrating to America lose contact with their heritage or culture and have no problem with them celebrating it, but ask that they become AMERICANS not hyphenated Americans. 

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            America can only be strong when the peoples of this nation are ONE.  We do not have to agree on everything.  We can be vastly different in our political, social, or religious beliefs, but with regard to national identity we must become one and that is AMERICAN!  I realize that some will not agree with this and find it objectionable and possibly offensive and that is not my purpose.  My purpose is to call for everyone now citizens of this nation and those desiring to become citizens to also commit to being AMERICAN.  If you cannot take pride in being called an AMERICAN then why be one?  If you are more concerned about your hyphenation identifier than being an AMERICAN then why use American at all?

             This nation was founded and our independence secured through the valiant efforts of men and women who were willing to put it all on the line to provide a nation that would be FREE and allow people to come from all nations of the world and with LIBERTY, pursue their faith, fortune or as is in our founding document ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.’  Be proud of your ancestral heritage and learn about that culture but if you are a citizen or want to be of the United States of America then be an AMERICAN!  I acknowledge that we have work to do on many fronts.  I acknowledge that we have made errors in the past and will in the future.  However, AMERICA was supposed to be a “Melting Pot” and if she is that she can remain strong and free, if she becomes nothing more than a ‘Salad Bowl’ she will eventually become non-existent.

             If you love AMERICA then please pray for this nation, labor for the restoration of our Constitutional Freedoms and Liberties, and become responsible owners and overseers of our government.  It is to be a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”  The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights still focuses on WE THE PEOPLE so let us return to being THE PEOPLE who determine our future!  The challenge is monumental and will not be achieved in a year, a decade, or possibly a century but it is achievable if we become a people COMMITTED, ASSIMILATED, and DETERMINED.

             God bless you and God bless America!

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DESCRIBING POLITICS AND POLITICIANS USING COLLOQUIALISMS AND WITTICISMS….


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            I have been thinking and wondering if you could describe Washington, DC using “colloquialisms and witticisms” and have decided to venture into that endeavor with both feet.  Will Rogers once said, “I don’t make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts.”  The truth of that image is so painful it is inescapable and the humor this endeavor affords, where it not for the painfulness, is almost endless.  In fact, humorist, have been making a living of doing just that for years and it is an incredibly successful practice.

             The old rancher that I talked to some time back said about most of the politicians in Washington that “if brains were electricity, they wouldn’t have enough power to light a firefly.”  He then said, most of them were so dumb or acted so dumbly that “they could not find their behinds with both hands and a road map.”  He said that they have an IQ lower than their shoe size.  While I doubt that some of the things they do if you were to grade them on the ignorance scale you I am convinced you would have to use negative numbers.  He said of the President and some of his recent actions that “he’d screw up a two-car funeral procession.”  He said that the way those in Washington have been acting for a long time caused him to think that if you were to put their brains on the edge of a razor blade it would be like putting a pea on a six lane highway.  Needless to say, He was not impressed with Washington politics or politicians.

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            Napoleon once said, “In politics stupidity is not a handicap” and I believe he is painfully correct for it seems that the more ignorance is exhibited by politicians the more electable they become for many.     P.J. O’Rourke said, “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”  That is not just a witticism it is absolute truth!

            Henry Cate VII said, “The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”  Aesop said, “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”    Plato declared, “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who were dumber.”  Even the Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev understood and said, “Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.”  Clarence Darrow brought it even closer to home when he said, “When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.”  John Quinton described politicians and politics accurately saying, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnels.”  Charles de Gaulle, the French leader said, “I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”  Doug Larsen breathed some reality saying, “Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it’s better to change the locks.”

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            The sad reality is politics, as conducted by politicians, is an exercise that results in bigger government, more restrictiveness at the federal level, hindrance of the free market, loss of liberty by the people and a clear example of classic failure, ineptness, and inefficiency.  If a private company were to run a business the way politicians run the federal government with the ludicrous restrictions and deficit spending they would not last one year.  If they treated their customers the way politicians treat WE THE PEOPLE they would find a boycott of their product and/or services over time.  I know that some companies actually do treat us like the government does and when you are the only game in town you act like it.  The solution, in business, is to stop using their products and/or services and strive to provide a market that will entice someone else to step in and fill the void.  However, in government it is not quite that simple.  We can’t just boycott the federal government though I would like to.  We are stuck with them until WE THE PEOPLE utilize our constitutional right and privilege to CHANGE OUR GOVERNMENT or better RESTORE OUR GOVERNMENT to what it was designed to be and as is described in the Constitution. 

            Sadly it seems that P.J. O’Rourke was correct when he said, “Politicians are interested in people.  Not that this is always a virtue.  Fleas are interested in dogs.”  Herbert Hoover made an incredibly sad commentary saying, “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.”  I think that a quote by George Stephanopoulos while Bill Clinton was President fits the bill, “The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep.”  That was a truth and a revelation that I doubt he really intended to reveal but it is nonetheless true of ALL POLITICIANS including the current occupant of the White House and both Houses of Congress. 

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            We have a situation that, were it not so dire and serious, would be hilarious but I’m not laughing because it is so serious.  It is one thing to joke and another to be one and that is what our political system has become.  The ones that suffer the most from the politics of politicians are WE THE PEOPLE.  I don’t know about you but I’m ready for a change in the lot of them.  I want my country, my constitution, and my liberty back!

             God bless America and God bless you!

DO WE ELECT PRESIDENTS OR KINGS????


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            In my latest reading of the Constitution of these United States of America I was unable to find one mention of “Election or Coronation of Kings” as being the course of action by the American people.  I did find the “Election of a President” but not a “Sovereign, Monarch, Aristocracy, or King”.  So I am a bit perplexed seeing how this current president lives and acts along with the ‘first lady’ and the ‘first family’.  I realize that some people are so ‘privileged’ that they believe they are ‘entitled’ to treatment as a ‘god, sovereign, royalty or a monarch’ but that is not the authorization of the American Constitution.  I find the lack of angst by the media, Congress, or even much of the American public to be inexcusable.  We are in such severe economic times, citizens are losing their homes, jobs, life savings, and living in poverty at such a severe level that one would think that ‘excessive lavish extravagance’ by this President and family would elicit the ire of most including the media, Congress, and public but it doesn’t. 

             I do not know if the aforementioned are ‘afraid’ to challenge this President fearing being called a ‘racist’ or something equally as bad or worse, or if they believe he should live and act as a regal?  Either way it is an incredible indictment on the current American mentality. It has been my observation that when someone is afforded power and has access to lavish funds frequently will abuse both the power and the funds UNTIL and UNLESS they are stopped.  When there is no opposition or only token opposition to his lifestyle and insatiable appetite for spending why would he not continue to act as a Regal Monarch?

 

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            One of the latest incidents reflecting the mindset of someone who either has a ‘god-complex’ believes that they are ‘entitled’, or believes that they have been ‘crowned as a Regals’ was the ridiculous expense of the ‘first dog’ being transported on a separate flight. WHY?  Well the immediate cry of many was that in the Muslim faith dogs are considered ‘unclean’ and travel would of necessity be separate.  Is that the case?  Possibly or is it just that the mindset and attitude of entitlement drives this President and family to do things that will show the world that they CAN and DO live lavishly while the populace, by and large, live in dire economic conditions.  That has been the way of Kings, Tyrants, and Despots throughout history.  They live lavish lives while their subjects live in squalor and struggle to survive.  Nothing is too good or to be withheld from the Regal and that is clearly the Obama mindset. 

             Why does this bother me so much?  Because when you examine the record of the number and lavishness of the vacations that they have taken, the separate vacations that Michelle and the children have taken, the incredible expense of security that he demands, the overboard entourage that accompanies them everywhere you find that it is astronomical in the actual cost to the tax-payer.  The tax-payer who is working to keep his/her head above water.  The tax-payer that is being lampooned as ‘not paying his/her fair share’ by this ‘would be emperor’.  The tax-payer who is seeing his/her America Dream completely vanish.  The tax-payer who is forced to ‘cut back’ and live a more austere lifestyle while watching the ‘first family’ parade around the country and the world in luxury.  This Presidents claims to be the ‘defender of the middle-class’ but who of the middle-class can live that lifestyle.  It is the lifestyle not just of the ‘rich and famous’ but the ‘Regals and Monarchs”. 

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            While I do not mind and desire that the American Presidents are protected, travel in a style commensurate with the top leaders of the world, I do find it insulting and objectionable that, in times of economic hardship, there is such disregard and empathy for the American people.  I find it insulting that he would make campaign speeches lambasting the ‘rich’ when he is doing far worse than the most lavish of the rich in that they pay their own way and he does not – WE PAY!  I find it insulting that he would attempt to operate politically, socially, or privately as a KING.  The Constitution affords no such luxury.  He is an ‘elected’ public servant or supposed to be.  He has not ascended to the Throne of America he was inaugurated into the Office of President not crowned King.  Congress should cease treating him as royalty, take the gloves off, defend the Constitution, and the interests of the American people IMMEIDATELY!  It should not matter what party you are in or identify with his actions, lavish living, and incredible spending should infuriate you.

             Where are the lovers of Freedom, the defenders of the Constitution, and the Patriots?  Where are those who are struggling to make ends meet?  Where are those who want a Restored Constitutional Democratic Republic?  Where are the representatives of the people?  WHERE?  Sadly, it seems that those of us willing to be vocal are in the minority but we dare not allow ourselves to become complacent.  We must attempt to turn up the heat, intensify the cry for liberty, and become involved both in prayer and work like never before.  AMERICA IS AT RISK!

             May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America!

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THE STANDARD OF NO STANDARD FOR MR. OBAMA…..


 

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            For several years now I have wondered how it is that if a Conservative, Constitutionalist, or Republican makes a faux pas in speaking or saying something that is factually, historically, geographically, incorrect he never hears the end of it and is branded as ‘dumb’ or some other equally demeaning characterization, but if Mr. Obama does it is because he is so ‘brilliant’ that his mind cannot entertain things so mundane and unimportant as how many states there are in the Union. 

             Recently, and most of you have already moved on from this, Mr. Obama was on Jay Leno’s show campaigning and trying to be likeable by the public and made so many gaffes that had that been George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or any other Republican President or politician we would still be hearing it in the main stream or lame stream media.  It would be in every newspaper, on every national television and radio network, and the laughing or the ridicule would be endless, but not so with Mr. Obama.  There is deafening silence from those venues.  It is the ‘standard of no standard’ when it comes to him and his administration.  It is hypocrisy and so blatantly partisan that one would have to wonder how any rational voter could possibly not see through it and become disgusted with the double-standard.  But, I forget that many are ‘willingly blind’ and therefore the ‘standard of no standard’ is not only acceptable but desirable.

             Candidate Obama spoke in a church in Selma, Alabama on the anniversary of the ‘Bloody Sunday March’ where he told his audience that the Kennedy’s did an airlift that would bring young Africans to America so they could be educated and his grandfather heard that call and sent his father, Barack Obama, Sr. to America.  That would be great but there is a small or not so small problem.  In following the timeline of Barack’s life we find that he was born in August 1961 so he would have been conceived in November 1960 (or there about).  He suggested that it was through those endeavors that his mother and father got together and produced him.  That is a bit problematic and would suggest that the shout his grandfather heard would have had to have been that of Dwight David Eisenhower not Jack or Bobby Kennedy.  Jack Kennedy did not assume office until January 1961 so it would have been impossible for him to have been instrumental in a program that brought Barack, Sr. to Hawaii in 1959.  He declared that what happened in 1965 in Selma gave his mother a white woman from Kansas and his father a black man from Kenya the courage to get married and have a child.  The wee problem here is that since he was born on August 4, 1961 and the first of the three marches did not occur until March 7, 1965 or at least five years after Barack’s parents met.  But who is checking facts it is only a political speech right?

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            Of course when candidate Obama declared that he had campaigned in all 57 States the correlation with the 57 Islamic states was immediately dismissed and labeled as Islamophobic and racist so most Republicans backed completely away from it.  When he declared in September 2011 in Cincinnati that America is the country that built the ‘Intercontinental Railroad’ no one batted an eye.  When did we and where is that railroad that spans continents?  Oh I guess it is in one of the 57 States that I haven’t visited yet.  Also in November 2011 he said while speaking in Hawaii, “When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking – – whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia….”   When did Hawaii become a part of Asia?  Oh I guess my geography needs to be refreshed with the revisionist geography of Mr. Obama and the left.  Then the classic, “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?  It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”  That was his argument for Obamacare.  WHAT?  Mr. Obama you just destroyed your argument and identified why we should have ‘less’ not ‘more’ government involvement.

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            Then the Leno show where there were a number of gaffes but nothing sticks to him and he is held to ‘no standard’ again.  Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled ‘potato’ and how long that continued and to this day he is labeled and characterized as being lacking in the mental department.  Mr. Obama downplayed the threat of terrorism and we all know that Al Qaeda is not on the run, decimated, nor has their core been depleted.  They are possibly better organized today and as committed to terrorism as ever.  He wrongly claimed that Vladimir Putin once ran the KGB but the fact is Mr. Putin was a Lt. Colonel in the KGB not the head.  His geography is abysmal and we now have the “Gulf Coast’ and the “Gulf of Mexico” being somewhere near Savannah, Charleston, and Jacksonville.  He mixed up the summer and winter Olympics in his statements but no problem his intelligence is so astounding that small details like that should be expected from the “Big Brained People” such as Mr. Obama.

            He said one more thing that bothered me and I would have hoped for more inquiry to find out what he meant.  He said with regard to the question about Benghazi, “The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately.”  So it would be better if the odds of dying in a terrorist attack were higher than dying in a car accident?  You mean you want and lament that there are not more and more effective terror attacks?  PLEASE EXPLAIN MR. OBAMA!  I am waiting for your explanation but I know that it won’t be forthcoming.  If that was a Freudian slip it would suggest that as he declared in his book, “If the political winds ever turn sour I will side with the Muslims” is much more problematic than anyone thought or has suggested.

            I, for one, am tired of the standard of no standard with regard to this president or any politician.  I’m longing for and will work for a restored America, that honors and obeys the Constitution, and for a media that is, at least, a little honest who reports the news not one that slants and shapes it for their political agenda.

            God bless America and God bless you!