Saturday, July 30, 2011

Las Vegas Police Tazer Veteran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48iLJ8NCEF8&feature=related
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soule:  this is f*****g unbelievable.  And these cops are still drawing their pay?  Start from the top:  1.  fire the TSA agent who pulled this veteran out of the airport checkout line and 2.  remove these psycho thugs (cops) from their jobs immediately.  the fact they are still drawing their pay is indication that this may well be just another police coverup.  Isn't a cop's motto to SERVE and PROTECT?  to attack this man in such a manner warrants a thorough investigation.  what the hell is happening to this country?  it seems that people are plain going nuts.

Friday, July 29, 2011

1st Lt. Michael Behennas Conviction Upheld

Exclusive: ATF Intimidates Gun Owners with Home Visits

This Administration Ain't Got No Soul

rapid transformation--this is what's happening.  from the old to the new.  i never thought i would see this happen, so fast, in my lifetime.   are we going from bad to worse?  from good to bad?  every day i'm reading articles showing what desperate straits we're in.  how many people, poor, middle-class, even the rich are getting hammered by ideologues who have no compassion for people.  they use us like their very own credit card except this one has no spending limit.  They do care alot about money and power though.  and a maniacal thirst for more and more and more.  just how much more can they extract from us?  as i see this country being disseminated, power houses like China are ramping up.  American jobs continue to move overseas and with them the security, happiness and well-being of American citizens.  our foundation is crumbling.  no one can foresee, foretell, just how we're going to come out of all of this.  but i'm wary.  i don't have a crystal ball yet when one can clearly see the damage being done by a clueless Congress, and administrations that have grabbed the reins of a chugging giant and weakened her ability to function over the years, i shudder.  by weakening i'll give examples:  fair trade (fair for whom?  it seems like everyday we're always giving something away but not demanding anything in return); emboldening and encouraging the U.N. to take over more and more of our lives by signing into law bills that take away our rights as parents and individuals; more taxes to supply government with an endless supply of our money to blow; we can't drill here to offset our high fuel costs yet Cuba and China can.  i have to commend the Congressional Black Caucus for trying in vain to get the President to acknowledge that the black community is going down the toilet because of no jobs, no jobs, no jobs.  and yet, the Black Congressional Caucus is but one of a gazillion special interest groups.  we don't need no more special interest groups.  that's one of the things dividing us, as a nation, as a people.  we need one special interest group and that would be US..you and me.  this situation we're in kinda reminds me of the movie, Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson.  the scene that poignantly portrays what i am trying to share here is the one where he's lying in a hospital bed, his face all grayish, (this would be the U.S.) from radiation poisoning.  he's done his job.  he's served his community.  he's paid his taxes.  he's faced his challenges.  he fought for good and routed evil.  and we see that he was even used by his own.  yet, what did it get him?  he can't enjoy his pension after all his sacrifice and hard work.  he's lost his house, his job.  hell, he can't even enjoy his only daughter, as the bad guys blew her to kingdom come as she was walking out his front door.  she, BTW, was taken out because she blew the whistle on the company she worked for because they be doin somethin illegal.   so what did all this sacrifice get him?  all i can see is a bed in a hospital.  is this where we are now?  is this where we're headed?  i'm talking to each of you.  we need to get our acts together and come together.  we, collectively, need to get a grip on our situation because none of us is gonna come out of this alive, if we don't.  our way of life, our jobs, our economy, is up for grabs.  what can we do?  we need to start demanding recalls, we need to start showing up on the Capital steps as one unit.  We better get it through our heads that we live here.  would you rather live somplace else?  well, then who the heck is stoppin ya?  but i prefer to live here because i don't see any other place to go where we still enjoy the freedoms we do here.  Black, White, Asian, Hindu, Muslin, Buddhist, whatever. we all be in the same boat because we all be here, in the good ole U.S. of A.    and we is all gonna get knocked down and if'n we don't stand up soon, it'll be permanent.  one of my heroes was (and still is) Martin Luther King.  i personally believe he was taken out because he had so much persuasion over Americans by his peaceful means of trying to change things, for the better, that he was an out and out threat.  we need to be emulating him.  so where are our preachers?  so where are our teachers?  so where the hell are our leaders?  i am looking for one good man or woman who knows what's goin on and can grab the reins and bring this hostile takeover to a grinding halt.  it sure ain't Obama as he and his comrades be the ones doin all the destruction.  i'm lookin for one good man or woman who can bind us all together, not continue to split us up.  for we don't have much time left if we want to save what's left of a great nation.  this nation was founded under God, with liberty and justice for ALL OF US. we need to grab hold of this undeniable truth and realize that if we don't start protectin these precepts they will be just hollow words...you know, the kind the President spews out.    

Dismantling a Nation

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Mr. President, "You Know What I Think of Peas Don't You"?


THIS IS WHAT I THINK:  "PEAS ON YOU, SO THERE"

Muslim Soldier Arrested

 M. Zuhdi Jasser, MD
American Islamic Forum for Democracy

'I wouldn't be admitted into heaven': Muslim U.S. soldier arrested over 'plot to bomb Fort Hood' refused Afghan service
--Soldier was 'AWOL' awaiting trial over child porn charges
--FBI: 'bomb making material found in motel room'
--Muslim soldier refused to deploy to Afghanistan
By Daily Mail Reporter July 28, 2011

Police have arrested an AWOL Muslim soldier plotting another attack on Fort Hood, it was reported today.




Arrested; According to reports, Nasser Abdo has been arrested and found with explosives near Fort Hood
Killeen Police Department have arrested Pvt. Nasser Jason Abdo, 21, near Ft. Hood.
Ft. Hood spokesman Bob Jenkins said Abdo was already being investigated for child pornography before he went AWOL on July 4.
After being detained for acting suspiciously near the base, police say they recovered possible bomb making materials from his hotel room.
FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said today that firearms and 'items that could be identified as bomb-making components, including gunpowder' were removed from Abdo's Killeen motel room.
Mr Vasys says the FBI will charge Abdo with possessing bomb-making components.
Abdo - who was due to be deployed in Afghanistan - had applied for conscientious objector status in August which was initially denied.
But a military review board this spring recommended approval of his request, but Abdo could not be discharged until resolution of the 2010 child pornography case.
A June Article 32 hearing, similar to a grand jury, led to the court-martial recommendation.

Arrest: The three soldiers have been arrested in an alleged plot to attack Fort Hood
There were also mixed reports today two other soldiers were arrested after authorities recovered weapons and explosives.
It is not known if they raised the alarm on the plot.
In September Abdo announced his conscientious objector status, saying his faith and the military didn't mix.
He said: 'As a Muslim, we stand against injustice, we stand against discrimination, and I feel it's my duty as an individual to do this.
'I knew that if I went to Afghanistan and, God forbid, something were to happen, that my faith was so weak that I wouldn't be admitted into heaven.'
Previous: Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 and injured 29 in a gun rampage at a US Army base, Fort Hood, Texas 2009
Abdo's alleged plot follows the November 5, 2009 attack by Major Nidal Hasan.
Hasan, an American Army officer, carried out a shooting on the base in Texas that killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.
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Responding to Abdo's objections to serving in Afghanistan, the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) said: 'Muslims serve with distinction throughout the United States Military and AIFD sees Abdo's traitorous public assertions as a slap in the face to all American Muslims especially those Muslims who fight in our armed forces for the liberty and freedom guaranteed by the American Constitution.' 



Geoffrey West: The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations

Russia Battles Wildfires in New Heat Wave

Hay Crisis Reaches North Texas, Ranchers Stunned At Shortage

You Want the Ugly Truth...Well, Here It Is

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Senator Rand Paul, KY, Speaks His Mind (and I believe he's speaking for alot more of us....)

Meanings

Without Freedom, There Is No Truth
Without Truth, There is No Freedom
C.H. 

Obama Following in Hitler's Footsteps

Obama Following In Hitler’s Footsteps
Posted By Robert Ringer On July 26, 2011
Conservative Politics,Government,Personal Liberty Articles

Watching the nonstop commentaries on television about the debt ceiling debate only reinforces the reality that most people — including many perceived conservatives — still don’t get it. If they did, they would not allow themselves to be diverted by a political circus.
It amazes me how the vast majority of conservatives — both inside and outside of the media — still take Barack Obama seriously and believe he is desperately trying to save the United States from economic disaster. Don’t get me wrong. Obama wants to do what is right for America, but his vision of “right” is wealth redistribution on a massive scale carried out by an all-powerful Federal government.
As Obama continues to toy with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling, he is well aware that the continuation of his policies will destroy the U.S. economy beyond repair. I believe his strategy from the outset has been to follow the Saul Alinsky model: Win the Presidency through a semi-legitimate election, then tighten your grip over everything and everybody, move swiftly to create economic chaos, and use the chaos you’ve created to establish a dictatorship.
Now don’t go giving Obama too much credit for originality. He’s really just a slick and clever copycat. Getting elected and then using your powers to eliminate all competition is an old trick used by power-hungry thugs throughout history.
Of all the dictators over the past hundred years, I believe Obama’s rise to power mirrors that of Adolf Hitler’s more than anyone else. I know, I know… I can practically hear readers chuckling. Enslaved people throughout history have a propensity for chuckling — until they wake up one morning and find themselves in chains. So, by all means, feel free to chuckle — but do hear me out.
Though most people don’t realize it, Hitler was legitimately chosen to be chancellor of Germany in 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg. At his swearing-in ceremony, Hitler faithfully repeated the oath of office: “I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone.”
Nice words… similar to those uttered by Obama when being sworn into office. Hitler was a charming, eloquent speaker who carried on incessantly about change. (Sound familiar?) Then, once elected, he moved quickly to establish a dictatorship, accomplishing that seemingly impossible feat in 52 days. Obama moved swiftly as well, but opposing forces in America made it impractical to establish a quick dictatorship.
The upstart Nazi Party (which was the commonly used name for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party… repeat, Socialist) staged a slobbering love affair between Hitler and the German people. (Sound familiar?) When Hitler spoke for the first time as chancellor, it was said that he “was greeted with an outpouring of worshipful adulation unlike anything ever seen before in Germany.” (Sound familiar?)
In The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek explained the way countries travel the road from democracy to dictatorship:
It is important to remember that, for some time before 1933, Germany had reached a stage in which it had, in effect, had to be governed dictatorially… Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy and at the critical moment obtained the support of many to whom, though they detested Hitler, he yet seemed the only man strong enough to get things done.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government of America was very weak — which was a good thing. It was true then, and it’s true now: You can have a strong government and a weak people, or a strong people and a weak government — but you cannot have both. Today, we have a draconian, out-of-control government and a very weak people.
Arguably, democracy in this country started to break down in 1787 when the Constitution created a strong Federal government. It got worse — much worse — under the fascist policies of Woodrow Wilson’s reign from 1912 to 1920. Then, beginning in 1932, FDR’s failed socialist policies took away even more individual freedom from American citizens. And the final disintegration of true democracy in the U.S. was catalyzed by the left-wing revolutionaries of the 1960s.
So if you’re wondering how Obama and his Marxist cronies have been able to violate the Constitution as though it didn’t exist, the answer is that they are merely taking advantage of the decay of democracy in the U.S. that was already present when they came to power. While Americans have been busy focusing on sports, reality TV, eating out three nights a week and trying to pay their mortgages, the fascistic socialists in Washington have been quietly working to establish a dictatorship based on the ruins of our democracy (which actually began as a republic).
Get it? I hope so. Because if a vast majority of everyday folks don’t get it soon, it will be too late. As I have repeatedly said, the debt ceiling debate is nothing more than a distraction from the real, underlying problem we all face: We are losing our freedom.
Our focus should be on stopping Barack Obama and his Marxist allies in Washington from establishing a communist dictatorship — politely referred to by conservative media commentators as an “imperial presidency.” But regardless of what one calls it, the important thing to understand is that under a dictatorship, everything else becomes irrelevant — including the debt ceiling “crisis” that political junkies are spending so much time fretting about.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
–Robert Ringer

The Obama Apocalypse

it just irks me no end to see the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House whacking balls around on a golf course.  It is almost surreal.   what are they talking about?  the nation's road to fiscal ruin?  what they had for dinner last night?  how the family is doin?  this ain't no time to be talkin nonsense this be a time for talking some common sense. 

if i may speak my mind, this guy who holds the title of President is a cunning character.  he shows up for press conferences speaking putrid spittle, while his henchmen, Harry Reid, et. al. continue to whittle this country down. 

forget the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Obama be a one-man show. 

I must say that 2008 sealed this country's fate as voters lined up, en masse, smiling and salivating, licking their chops, waiting for the opportunity to vote for their favorite opiate....big government.  

it is painfully apparent that any common sense we once had, has been sorely squandered.  for now we have a President whose sole purpose in being elected to office is for one thing and one thing only and that is cruelly  positioning this country's head on the chopping block.  i now know how that Thanksgiving Turkey felt. 

there are some who would call Obama "clueless," Rush Limbaugh being one of them.  There are some who will always cling to Obama and see him doing nothing wrong. 

But there are some who are willing to call Obama as they see him.

He is a sly and clever despoiler, a foreign sojourner in a foreign land, his vacuous shibboleths resonating in an empty echo chamber. 

for Obama, the Destroyer, has nothing meaningful to offer, nothing meaningful to say.  he is but a hollow schill, a hollow man, a hollow representation of something, some one, alien to our way of life, our liberties, our happiness, our well-being.

i love thee Republic and the strength that binds thee.  it is a testament to the Founding Fathers and their Wisdom that this country is able to sustain an attack such as this.

but for how long?  how much more will this nation be able to withstand such abominable plunder?









GE moving X-ray business to China - Boston.com

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Congress Dithers While Livestock Wither

the answer to our economic mess -- more taxes 

congress has drained our bank account dry and now wants even more from us.  

SHAMEFUL

they're like drug addicts on steroids...they want us to believe that solving their spending habit is simple....just roll up our sleeve while they stick that filthy needle into our veins, again, and drain us dry.  

where have all the manufacturing jobs gone?  - overseas
who creates jobs?  - the wealthiest of us 

so what will happen if Congress increases our taxes?  will we have more disposable income?  will the entrepreneurs, the people with vision, the resources, be able to start up small business, thus creating jobs? 

this country now has a huge unemployment problem but i don't see anyone providing any incentives for job creation.  why is this?

and i see another QE III comin up just so the fed can print more worthless money, forestalling the inevitable (a total and complete economic meltdown) by refusing to face our huge debt.  

COWARDS    

today gas is at $4.00/gallon and Americans are spending more on groceries.

this is our sorry state - an economy runnin on empty, no jobs, no homes, no future.

now we have this....

a massive heat wave and severe drought (in some parts of the country) has struck and temperatures  are breaking records.  famers/ranchers (these are just some of this nation's producers) are having to sell off entire herds of cattle because there is no grass, no hay and no water to sustain them.  in many instances the heat is so oppressive that animals are dying in the fields; poultry producers are having to resort to creative measures just to keep their chickens and turkeys alive.  couple this with high fuel prices; high commodities (grain prices) and fertilizer over $500/Ton.  

we think food prices are high now, just wait.

Last year this country was the only one in the world with a record crop of wheat to feed the world.  this year, the cotton is drying up along with soybeans and corn because of the heat and drought.  in some instances the crops are way behind or could not even be planted because of too much rain.  

and yet we have imbeciles in charge of our destinies in Washington where two parties and a President can't even get their heads together to talk intelligently.   

this is almost the perfect storm coming together.    

but is anyone in Congress taking notice?    

As an American consumer start educating yourselves and your children as to all the steps involved and the thousands of dollars it takes, along with the commitment, dedication, hard work and long hours to get that juicy steak to your dinner plate.  this goes for a can of peas, that fried chicken at your corner restaurant, the sweater you just bought, a gallon of milk or a gallon of gas.  these things don't just materialize out of thin air.  there is a process in which people produce the product.   

but if the gov keeps steppin on people, treating them like chattel, stealing what's left of their paychecks, pretty soon we'll be the ones trying to figure out how to milk a cow, butcher a steer or grow a garden.  and all because because the real producers were forced out of business. 

some person, or many, work together to make our products and the food we eat.  they work long hours, give up creature comforts just so you and i can eat, clothe ourselves and get around. 
and, now would be a good time to ponder this.....

what government can't do to us, Mother Nature can.

and she's in high gear, right now.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

TRUTH

i try to focus on uncovering the truth in my posts.  i try not to point the finger, label or do anything that will make someone feel uncomfortable.  although, at times, i'm sure i do.  this blog is intended to seek the truth in all things, no matter how painful that truth may be.  maybe you are dealing with an alcohol problem and it's getting worse.  do you consider yourself an alcoholic or is this something you'd rather not face?  what about abusing a family member..a child perhaps, maybe a grandparent, a wife/husband or possibly a pet?  do you seek help or sweep it under the rug?  what about a government that has gotten too big for its britches?  do you speak up or remain silent?  If you are not willing to seek the truth, know the truth and defend it, then what reason is there to exist?  for without the freedom to speak out against evil, there is no freedom at all.  if i at anytime, come across the wrong way, it is not my intention and i apologize.  i personally believe that we (collectively) as a people, as a nation, are all being controlled, more and more by a government out of control...by this regulation, by that law, by this group or that group.  it's okay to say this, but not to say that.  i think it is time that we start speaking out, on all issues and not be afraid.   for if the PTB have their way, those that dare continue to speak out, will be silenced

FEMA Partners with DHS

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soule:  this has an eerie, hauntingly familiar ring to it.  In theory it sounds good and we need to be keeping track of would-be-terrorists.  But when you consider that the Department of Homeland Security has openly labelled returning Iraq war vets as possible terrorists, gun owners and other law-abiding citizens as being suspect (I'd say this was a clear cut case of profiling) and yet the DHS denies that it is profiling; we continue to witness the ongoing horror of indiscriminate, unconscionable sexual assault of American citizens by the TSA (TitS&Ass); the breakdown with FEMA in helping the people of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina hit; and the federal government turning its back on border security, isn't this partnership just another example of an engorged government turning the screws even tighter on our freedoms, hopefully turning us all into a bunch of snitches?  How can the American people trust their own government to protect them from harm when almost every other day they are witnessing a six or seven year old, a Grandma in diapers, a famous Baseball Coach or a disabled veteran being felt up by a bunch of government goons?  And, getting away with it.  Whom is fooling whom here?  The government tries to make this video sound good but I believe that this initiative will only result in one more nail in the coffin of liberty and justice for all.  





Political Leaders on the Issues

http://www.ontheissues.org/ron_paul.htm

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

How to Survive Martial Law

http://sidlinger.tripod.com/ml.html

Wynn Casino CEO Speaks His Mind

http://www.businessinsider.com/wynn-ceo-steve-wynn-conference-call-transcript-obama-2011-7

Hillsdale College: Understanding Our Debt Ceiling Crisis

http://youtu.be/uwd4OoXpThM

City Council Outlaws Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly, Including Your Private Residence?

http://www.infowars.com/city-council-attempts-to-oulaw-free-speech-and-freedom-of-assembly/
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soule:  obviously the members of the city council haven't consulted the Constitution:
Bill of Rights, 1st Amendment reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Cudos to Mayor Nash for standing up.

Gun trafficking: Family of U.S. agent slain in Mexico demands to know source of guns - latimes.com

Gun trafficking: Family of U.S. agent slain in Mexico demands to know source of guns - latimes.com

Details of Somalia Terrorist Recruitment in Minneapolis Revealed

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/15/details-somali-terrorist-recruitment-in-minneapolis-revealed-in-new-court/?test=latestnews

Pregnant Woman Gets Her Laptop Back

http://articles.philly.com/2011-07-18/news/29786959_1_pregnant-woman-court-documents-street-fight
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two things hit me right off the bat...why is this thugster still out free, roamin the streets?  after all, he was found to be a career criminal.  and secondly he hits a pregnant woman in the abdomen?  he got no respect for nobaby.   maybe this time, with all the national attention, "da here comes da judge" will lock his sorry ass up for good.  one can only hope and pray.

Quote of the Month

Jay Leno:   "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Miss You, Dad.....

today has been one of those days but not quite.  something was different.  sometimes i'm all fired up and know just what to do but today was different...just uncertain what project to start or finish...it was more like an out of body (OBE) experience.  yes, i've had those too.  felt disconnected, dislocated, distant.  something was pulling me in all directions, distracting me.  couldn't get my act together.  didn't want to get my act together.  started a project and then got lost doing something else.  felt befuddled, bewildered, confused and had an i don't care attitude that isn't me.  the weather is not helping.  i think it's depressing me.  this brutal, relentless heat is making me feel helpless.  the more i water, the more the plants die.  i think because it's so hot that even watering is not helping as the intense heat is just plain drying out, killing the vegetation.  been thinkin of Dad.  He's been gone over 6 years now.  remember when he was making the long commute back and forth between Boston and home (Northeastern University) to get his BA.  it took awhile but he was determined to make a better life for us all.  we would have to shovel the driveway so he was able to drive the ole jalopy up to the house.  the snow was over our head.  if you ain't used to New England winters you don't know what you be missin.  we had on woolen mittens, snow caps, coats, scarves and the old boots with the metal latches up the front.  i sure am agein myself ain't i?  when we did finish, we had chill blains from the cold, and the snott was frozen to our faces.  we would quickly come into the house, lay our mittens on top of the cast iron radiator in the living room, huddle together, to get warm.  Mom would have hot cocoa waiting for us.  Dad did visit me, though, a short while back, while I was standing at the sink, doing dishes.  Have the date down but don't remember it at the moment.  Just as easily as i'm typing this, he was there, standing right by my side.  i couldn't see him but definitely could feel him.  I turned toward him.  My husband was watching me as i stood there speaking to vacant space.  (he's used to this) yet i knew Dad was right there in front of me.  i could sense him but could not see him. he took me by surprise, this visit from him, as his appearance was so quick.  i immediately picked up that he was just passing through and wanted to check in on me. I talked with him for a few minutes and thought for a moment, wondering if he had anything for me...then i felt that he gave me the answer.  i asked him, "would you like me to bring your WWII cap down?"  His answer, a surprising "yes."  So I went upstairs, found it, brushed it off and came down.  I asked him, "Dad, where would you like this?"   After a few moments, I felt certain he wanted me to place it right on top of the windowsill above the sink.  Then, each time i came down every morning, his cap would be right there, greeting me.  I turned and looked at the space he was occupying..."is this okay" I asked?"  i felt him say, "yes."  then, in a few moments he started to leave.  i could feel him go.  "Dad, thank you for coming by to check in on me".  I told him i loved him and missed him.  And then he was gone.

I've had other experiences like this.  if you'd like to know about them, email me. 

Even with life's squared finiteness, I know there are other realms because i've experienced them, many times.

I am convinced that each and every one of us is here, not by accident, but by design.   

We each are assigned our own personal timetable in which to accomplish and learn things, get over bad habits, etc. and learn positive, good things.  try to get rid of the old ways and put on the new.

And each one of us has an obligation (some haven't caught on to this yet) to try and pass what we learn on to others; whether they be a bad to the bone individual or a good one. 

some will listen, comprehend and choose to integrate these lessons into their lives.  some will not. 

but we have to keep trying in order  to make this world a better place for all.

This is Truly Unfathomable To Think They'd Go So Far as to Even Suggest This

http://colonel6.com/2011/07/17/experts-warn-of-al-qaeda-attack-if-debt-ceiling-not-raised/

The 'Black' Code

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/
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soule:  to all of us, whether we call ourselves African-American or Caucasian-American, I'd like to think we consider ourselves Americans first.  this whole thing with Obama ain't no rascist issue, this be a CHARACTER issue

Leaders, Media 'Hiding' What They Know About Obama Eligibility

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=322517

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/-Lamestream--TIME-calls-Constitution--Elastic-.html?soid=1102755758632&aid=2HJ-r2c_t4w

Lamestream--TIME-calls-Constitution--Elastic-.html?soid=1102755758632&aid=2HJ-r2c_t4w

Revelation

http://otherworldyencounters.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/revelation-by-m-r/

Coast Guard, Military Pay May Be in Jeopardy...Again

http://colonel6.com/2011/07/17/coast-guardmilitary-pay-may-be-in-jeopardy%e2%80%a6-again/

What Does Congressman Ron Paul Really Stand For?

http://www.digitalmeetingcenter.com/ron-pauls-shocking-message-to-the-tea-party/851883/

Mike Huckabee - "Learn Our History"

http://learnourhistory.com/?lc=01EF11H12A2B

Saturday, July 16, 2011

We Be F****d

p.s.  after posting the article from Canada Free Press, April 8, 2011, 'THE UNRAVELLING OF BARRY SOETERO, aka BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II,' I had a moment to reflect. 

This is the gross horror that stared back at me:  it is blatantly evident, with all the evidence slowly being uncovered, that the man elected President of the United States in 2008 is not who he says he is.  There has been an undeniable and complete coup and coverup, to get this guy elected to the Oval Office. 

You know I've been wonderin about this for some time.  It just did not make sense to me. 

A virtual unknown, with a questionable background, missing holes in his past and no documentation.     Almost sounds like the beginning of a spy novel. 

If what we are beginning to learn is true, that Obama is NOT who he claims to be, how in the hell could he/anyone pull this off?  And more importantly, how could the Pied Piper pipe so many Americans into voting for him?  Was it strictly because he was Black?   I certainly hope not.  Isn't it about substance, not color?  Or are we still stuck in the past, like Sheila Jackson Lee?

Was Obama handpicked for the part?

More importantly, when will someone, anyone call Obama to account?

Don't we have some valuable assets to protect like our economy, our way of life, our liberty and freedom, our children, the elderly, our military, the Constitution?

I do not see anyone speaking out.

When will it start?  By that I mean, the tide turning on this piece of flotsam? 

Will it be in time to save what is left of this country?

What have you done to defend this country?  Are you one of the many free-loaders who knock out kids, don't work because you choose not to, contine to buy your high-priced liquor, your dope, your fancy gold neck chains, your hand-cut steaks, all the while snubbin your noses at the rest of us who are trying to survive under this administration that has all but squandered anything left of the poor and middle class?

It is time someone took a stand.   And I don't see anyone on the horizon.

This is my country.  My parents fought for what you squander.

Is anyone ready to march on the Capital, en masse and demand a recall?

I'm ready and I ain't goin down easy.

God Bless America.

The unraveling of Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama II

The unraveling of Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama II
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this article is dated April 8, 2011 but is well worth reading

Get Engaged...The Time is Short

http://www.westernpac.org/blog/

Funding Mosques Overseas

Government Largesse:
There is alot of discussion going on right now regarding the bleak outlook for this economy.  The administration is considering delaying social security checks.  Medicare is on the chopping block.   Have we heard anything about Medicaid? 

Unemployment is high.  We're still recovering from foreclosure shock.  Yet, we keep sending tons of money overseas.  Does it make sense for Americans, who have paid into social security all these years and for our military, who defend our freedom, to do without while foreigners gobble up America's largesse?

I say no.

Instead of balancing the budget on the backs of this country's citizens, how 'bout the State Department and other government agencies start reining back the free money?

This country has infrastructure problems.  How about directing some of those trillions to fixing our own bridges, sewers, roads and levees?

I bet if the government stopped the free giveaways, we definitely wouldn't have an economic problem here, anymore.




Funding+Mosques+Overseas

Woman Gropes TSA Agent's Breast at Security Checkpoint

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/woman-arrested-for-groping-tsa-agent-07152011_14151365

'Ex-Terrorist' Rakes in Homeland Security Bucks

From Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston CNN Special Investigations Unit
Walid Shoebat had a blunt message for the roughly 300 South Dakota police officers and sheriff's deputies who gathered to hear him warn about the dangers of Islamic radicalism.
Terrorism and Islam are inseparable, he tells them. All U.S. mosques should be under scrutiny.
"All Islamic organizations in America should be the No. 1 enemy. All of them," he says.
It's a message Shoebat is selling based on his own background as a Palestinian-American convert to conservative Christianity. Born in the West Bank, the son of an American mother, he says he was a Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist in his youth who helped firebomb an Israeli bank in Bethlehem and spent time in an Israeli jail....
to read more:  http:/www.wsbtv.com

Friday, July 15, 2011

Rep. Allen West – and the Congressional Black Caucus | The Weekly Standard

Rep. Allen West – and the Congressional Black Caucus The Weekly Standard

Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black - The Hill's Floor Action

Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black - The Hill's Floor Action
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soule:  when the dems don't get their way, they resort to fear tactics or play the race card.   Sheila Jackson Lee is a good example of someone who doesn't need to be representin anyone because of assinine statements like this.   

Obama Warns Of Economic "Armageddon"

Obama Warns Of Economic "Armageddon"
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soule:  with all due respect, isn't that what we have now?  --thanks to you and Bernanke.  and you claim that  80% of Americans want their taxes to go up?  what the (blank) are you smokin?

It's Time to Cut the Crap

http://colonel6.com/2011/04/27/barrack-obama-used-the-ssn-042-68-4425-on-his-selective-service-form-one-problem-that-ssn-was-issued-to-jean-paul-ludwig-is-barrack-obama-guilty-of-social-security-fraud/

Why the U.S. Won't Leave Afghanistan

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/818/972/Why_the_US_wont_leave_Afghanistan.html

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Unexplainable Inexcusable on How We Treat Our Veterans

Unexplainable Inexcusable on How We Treat Our Veterans

Congressman Ron Paul Blasts GOP Establishment in First Campaign Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNIeOB0whI&feature=player_embedded

State Dept. wants to make it harder to get a passport

State Dept. wants to make it harder to get a passport
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soule:  So you, a United States citizen, want to renew your passport, hmmm?  May I provide you with a bit of info?  I recently was contacted by someone I know personally who was going through the process of having their U.S. passport renewed.  They had their old one, which was expired I believe by at least three years.  What should have taken a week or two turned into a nightmare.  It seems that the U.S. State Department has a new questionnaire that you are required to fill out.  And, if you do not provide all the information they want, you may be denied a new passport.  I am not kidding.  On it is information asking you for your immunization records, the grade schools you attended from at least ten years of age; a Certificate of Baptism, your tax records, parents name and date of birth.  This, in addition to a valid birth certificate and i.d. which could be your driver's license.

This individual had filled out all the documentation properly yet, the U.S. Passport Office would not grant them a passport and, more interestingly, would not even tell them the reason(s) why.  So, this individual was forced to contact a U.S. Senator's office who filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to demand the reason(s) why this passport office would not grant them a new one.   

I believe it was a few days later that I received a call that voila! out of the blue, this person had received their passport.  But, still the passport agency refused to give any reason(s) for the delay.

So what's going on here?   Is this a clear case of harrassing U.S. citizens?  

And how can we forget the POTUS who cannot even produce a valid Birth Certificate?

Somethin don't add up.

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Oregon-Sheriff-Stands-Up-To-USFS-With-Class.html?soid=1102755758632&aid=9aLbghWzLd0

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Oregon-Sheriff-Stands-Up-To-USFS-With-Class.html?soid=1102755758632&aid=9aLbghWzLd0

Say What????

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/816/963/White_House_may_send_out_letters_to_military_servicemen_claiming_that_they_may_not_be_paid_after_Aug._2.html

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

This Country Be in Deep Deep Doo Doo

The following questions were set in last year's GED examination. 
These are genuine answers from some of our 16 year olds


Q. Name the four seasons
A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar

Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink
A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large  pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists

Q. How is dew formed
A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire

Q. What causes the tides in the oceans
A. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight

Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on
A. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed

Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections
A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election

Q. What are steroids
A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs   (Shoot yourself now , there is little hope)

Q.. What happens to your body as you age
A. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental

Q. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty
A. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery  (So true)

Q. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
A. Premature death

Q. What is artificial insemination
A. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow

Q. How can you delay milk turning sour
A. Keep it in the cow              (Simple, but brilliant)

Q. How are the main 20 parts of the body categorized (e.g. The abdomen)
A. The body is consisted into 3 parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A, E, I, O, U..  (wth!)                                                 

Q. What is the fibula?
A. A small lie

Q. What does 'varicose' mean?
A. Nearby

Q. What is the most common form of birth control
A. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium  (That would work)

Q. Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarean section'
A. The caesarean section is a district in Rome

Q. What is a seizure?
A. A Roman Emperor.    (Julius Seizure, I came, I saw, I had a fit)

Q. What is a terminal illness
A. When you are sick at the airport.       (Irrefutable)

Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is a characteristic feature?
A. Mushrooms. They always grow in damp places and they look like umbrellas

Q. Use the word 'judicious' in a sentence to show you understand its meaning
A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face.   (OMG) someone needs to explain this to me

Q. What does the word 'benign' mean?
A. Benign is what you will be after you be eight   (brilliant)

Q. What is a turbine?
A. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head
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soule:
and these will become voters.  (Yikes!)   

Till Debt Do Us Part

well i have to give Obama credit for one thing...he ain't afraid of bringin this country to the economic abyss. 

Actually, I think we passed that point a while back.

will the Republicrats crumble, will they fall, like a deck of cards over the debt ceiling?

I say, "To hell with the debt ceiling, let it fall."  There ain't no way out of this mess other than to let the chips fall where they may.  We are too far down the slippery slope.   

But we cannot do this unless we have elected officials with backbone.  This is beginning to seem like wishful thinking.  All I'm seein is the same ole, same ole. 

Obama ain't the problem on this one.  He's doin his job.  That of systematically taking this country apart.   

So where are you, Republicrats?  The American people are looking on in aghast at the trillions being spent and you are now waffling.  I thought you stood for something.

Obama  is digging in his heels now, threatening American citizens with cutting off their social security checks because Obama cain't get his way.

When have you ever seen an American President do such a thing? 

But then, you are not dealing with no ordinary Prez.  He be the man, the Boss, the Dictator, the all powerful, with a ravenous appetite for more and more and more, until there is nothing left.

"So solly".

This whole thing kinda reminds me of the The Three Little Pigs.  The Big Bad Wolf (Obama) is a-huffin and a-puffin tryin to blow your House (of Representatives) down.  Well it did come down and the three little pigs hightailed it over to the last house standing...the one made out of brick.  The one that was solidly built.   

This one the Big Bad Wolf could not blow down.

Is there anyone left in the Republicrat Party even remotely capable of deciphering this message?  And more importantly, act on it? 

Yuse guys better get a grip and remember what happened in 2010.  You do remember 2010 and all the promises you made to the American people?

Question:  Do we have anyone with any balls left in Congress to do the job the American people elected them to do?

I'm so smart as I already has ze answer--"No balls, no balls, no balls", unless of course you want to count all them golf balls that Obama and Boehner and the gov from Ohio were kickin around the green several weeks ago.

It's kinda surreal watchin this whole thing.  I thought we had one party that was supposed to be representing us.  The other party has gone to hell.

We have a Black Marxist Muslim (and to all you who take offense at my characterization of Obama...I don't give a damn what you think) entrenched deep within his White House bunker and launching an all out,  no holds barred, attack on our way of life

This is pure and simple, Marxist Mania.

Well the commies always said they'd defeat us from within.

Hell, this time a bunch of morons back in 2008 (that be voters fer yuse that attended pubic schools)  no, there was no typo there... willingly handed over the keys to this country's bank vault and way of life.   

I for one do not like seein my country being turned inside out by a guy who:

#1 snubs his nose at the U.S. Constitution
#2 can't even produce a valid birth certificate
#3 used someone else's SSN for reasons we are only beginning to understand
#4 doesn't even bother to show up for traditional American holidays

Yuse Republicrats need to re-think the situation you be in.

If you need a consultant just ask any military vet.  They'll give it to you straight. 

SGT.:  YOU BE IN A COMBAT SITUATION AND IN ORDER TO SURVIVE, YOU NEED TO GET YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES TOGETHER AND ACT FROM A POSITION OF STRENGTH, NOT WEAKNESS.  GOT IT?????

They'd also advise you to read Sun Tsu's Art of War, although I personally think you've run out of time on this one.

You could also look at this as a game of poker.... 

You've got the winning hand if you can get your act together.

In case yuse don't know it, "this country's hangin by a thread".   

SOLUTION: 

Put your heads together--you win.   

Turn Tails--you lose and lose big come 2012.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Timeless Message for ALL the Peoples Of Planet Earth

Urantia, July 7, 2011.
Teacher Monjoronson

Subject: “Mercy and Love.”

Monjoronson: “It is just about the right time for you and I to make our acquaintance, child.  I have been waiting a long time 'in the wings', so to speak, to find an entrance into your mind, and a measure of trust and willingness on your part, to hear what I have to say.
“It is so very important that more, and increasingly more people become aware as to who I am, and what I will be about in the near future here on this lovely, but oh-so-backward planet, where some minds have not emerged into the Light and the realization that they, too, are children of God -- His created but evolving beings destined to a grand future, if they learn to extend mercy and love to eachother.
“As long as fear runs rampant, and a segment of your population still lives in cave times -- meaning that they have not come to the realization that there is nothing to defend themselves against -- where enemies are a figment of their imagination.
“It is this tendency to barbarism and war why this benighted planet is stuck in her evolution, and in grave danger of sliding backward.  Her lovely face is marred by the goings on with offensive weaponry, which is getting more devastating as time goes on.
“It is because of this war-like propensity, and you not having learned respect for human life, that the celestial powers are creating wake-up calls to all who can hear this call for mercy towards one another.
“The time is now to start behaving like responsible adults instead of little children in a sandbox throwing sand in each other's eyes.  You have become more war-like in your evolution rather than growing more sensible and loving.
“Where is the balance and harmony in your lives?  Do you ever think about this?  Surely you also must yearn for inner peace and rest in your souls?
“You are on the threshold of a wonderful era of peace, but I do need, as another Son of God, your cooperation to make our plans manifest, and turn this beloved planet into a garden jewel of creation.
“Therefore, I am asking for your help.  Please, all those who will chance to read these words, think of how you can cooperate in becoming more loving and peaceful yourselves.  Surely, there is no need to lord it over others.  People all carry the same responsibility for growing into the divine blueprint the Creator God has bestowed upon each of you at birth.
“Know you not that you all hail from the same root Source and are therefore kin?  Extend mercy and love towards all and learn how to live a God-guided life.
“Thank you.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire—ABC-22

43 weapons in Phoenix traffic stop linked to ATF strategy

43 weapons in Phoenix traffic stop linked to ATF strategy

Administration to propose steps on gun safety - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com

Administration to propose steps on gun safety - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com

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soule:  The ATF's Operation "Fast and Furious," in which the ATF, the Obama administration, and the Department of Justice put together a scheme to enable automatic weapons to fall directly into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels.  This in itself defies any sort of logic.  And, in so doing, were directly responsible for the unwarranted and inexcusable murder of a United States Border Patrol Agent.

At the present time both the DOJ, the ATF and the administration are under investigation.  What's new?

Now we have Obama "calling for sound and effective steps to keep guns out of the hands of criminals" as a result of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords being shot by a crazed lunatic.

I have to ask, who is the real lunatic, here?  The deranged individual who shot Rep. Giffords and six others? Or an American President who openly sanctions a deal in which automatic weapons are blatantly handed over to Mexican drug cartels resulting in the death of one of our agents?   And then Obama asks us to believe that he is for measures to protect us against this very thing happening again?

I personally think this guy needs to be committed, and soon.   Because with all the un-American things Obama is doing, this country is on the brink of mass suicide.

We have a Sociopath in the White House.

Obama...the President who CAN DO NO WRONG, a consummate liar and deceiver.

Blog: Janet Napolitano's former chief-of-staff one of many at center of Fast and Furious scandal

Blog: Janet Napolitano's former chief-of-staff one of many at center of Fast and Furious scandal

Friday, July 8, 2011

AIFD Press Release - American Muslim organization appalled at administration decision to bring foreign terrorist to US soil - Friday, July 8, 2011

American Muslim organization appalled at administration decision to bring foreign terrorist to US soil
Warsame is an enemy combatant and should be held at Guantanamo Bay and tried in military tribunal
PHOENIX (July 8, 2011) - Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following statement regarding the Obama administration's decision to use civilian courts for Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame case. Warsame is believed to be a senior operational commander in the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabbab and has significant contacts within Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was captured in April and held aboard a US warship until he was transferred to New York City for trial this past week:
"The Obama administration's decision to bring Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to New York City to be tried in a civilian court defies logic. Warsame is an enemy combatant. He is not a US citizen or even a resident and his illegal activities were perpetrated overseas and were clearly an act of war against the United States. He should not be afforded the legal rights and privileges of citizenship.
While we applaud the decision to fully interrogate Warsame, the Administration's new cherry picked procedures with captured terrorists abroad is playing a dangerous political game that is unnecessary and belies a total lack of understanding of the war we are in with Islamist radicals. Warsame and all captured terror suspects should be fully interrogated and held for military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.
This administration needs to fully understand that the US is in a state of war with the ideology of militant Islamism. If we have any hope of defeating this insidious and violent ideology we cannot continue to equivocate on how we handle these terrorists. The enemy has no such dilemma on their side. War cannot be conducted with half measures. Warsame needs to be treated in accordance with his actions."
About the American Islamic Forum for Democracy
info@aifdemocracy.org

An Establishment in Panic

An Establishment in Panic

Cemetery of giant creatures found in Central Africa - English pravda.ru

Cemetery of giant creatures found in Central Africa - English pravda.ru

Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Key

Key inserted
Into lock
Familiar sound
Of clock tick tock
Has ceased to be
Is nevermore
Now all can see
The open door
Going forward
Not reverse
It’s like a song  
We’ve all rehearsed
Color vibrant
Now soft and muted
Our egos all have been de-nuded
The winds of transformation slowly
Like the glow worm softly glowing
New day dawns
A new awareness
Try getting used to
Don’t be careless
We’ve attached ourselves to new light beam
No longer slumber in a dream
We’ve  awakened from group therapy
We’ve finally shed  our apathy
And are now con-joined
With all the others
Our stardust kindred
Sisters, brothers

Astronomers Observe Colossal Saturn Storm

Astronomers Observe Colossal Saturn Storm

Brad and Sherry Steiger, "Trying to Piece Together the Cosmic Jigsaw Puzzle"

http://www.bradandsherry.com/
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with a kind thank you to the authors for permission to post their website. 

Monday, July 4, 2011

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

     When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
     We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.  But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.  The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.  To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
     He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
     He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
     He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
     He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
     He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
     He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
     He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States, for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
     He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
     He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
     He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
     He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
     He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
     For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
     For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
     For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
     For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
     For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
     For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
     For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
     For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
     For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
     He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
     He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.
     He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
     He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
     He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an indistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
     In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:  Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.  A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
     Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.  We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.  We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.  We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these ursupations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.  They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.  We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
     We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.  And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Button Gwinnett                   
Lyman Hall                          
George Walton                    
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes                                                 
John Penn                                                   
Edward Rutledge                                          
Thomas Heyward, Jr.                                     
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
John     Hancock                                                                                                                                     
Samuel Chase                                                    
William Paca                                                   
Thomas  Stone                                                                                                                                                   
Charles Carroll
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee                               
Thomas Jefferson                                          
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
William Floyd
Phillip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Josiah Bartlett
WilliamWhipple
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
Matthew Thornton
               

Ever Wonder What Happened to the Fifty-Six Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,
and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or
hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants,
Nine were farmers and large plantation owners;
men of means, well educated,
but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if
they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and
trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the
British Navy. He sold his home and properties to
pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British
that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family
was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him,
and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that
the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson
home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General
George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed,
and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill
were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests
and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.

Remember: freedom is never free!



Sunday, July 3, 2011

Can You Feel It?

do countries have souls?  do countries have morals?  why is it that so many humans appear not to?  before there were even human beings and countries, did some spiritual being assign to that country certain tasks to complete as their evolution unfolded on Planet Earth?  are the inhabitants of some of those countries more intuitive, more intelligent, more aware, more kind, more compassionate and more sensitive to their environment, others, and events going on around them and throughout the world?  if so, why?  is the reason for so many different cultures on this Planet because a Supreme Being created each one with something special to offer?  why is it that we have so many who only know how to do evil?  is it in their genes?  why is it so difficult for those who speak the Truth to get the message out?  why do so many choose to ignore the message?  why do we have rascism?  why is there hate?  why do we legally murder our own species, without giving it a second thought, and blithely label it abortion?  why do we call ourselves civilized when clearly we are not?  why do we cheat on tests, on our wives, on our husbands?  why do we abuse others?  why do we lie?  why do we pick our noses?

we have been taught that we were given free choice in earthly matters.  we can do what's right or we can do what's wrong...it's our decision.  do you think that if a majority of bad decisions are made that they will slow down, alter, humanity's ascension?  do you even feel that humanity is ascending?  could you care less?  contrary to this, if a number of good decisions are made, do you believe this would help to promote humanity's ascension? 

are you in the slightest way, even interested in all of this?

Question:  where exactly are we going, anway? 

are things heating up on this Planet?  do you feel that bad is outweighing the good?  why is it that we are  all witnessing an increase in natural disasters and insane behaviour?

why is it that I get a feeling that some kind of malaise, spell, or world-wide drug overdose has infected us? 
we haven't gotten the message yet that this planet is just that...a planet.  That we are a miniscule part of a much larger picture.  That we are life-long members of a universe family and are only one of many, many other inhabitants.  This planet we inhabit has finite attributes....a molten core, magnetic poles, volcanoes and oceans, mountains and meadows and does produce violent weather (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, droughts) that jolt our senses and test our resolve and resources.   Yet I believe that this Planet, placed just the right distance from a sun, with all the requirements to sustain life, was done by design and not by accident.   That these acts of nature are natural and cyclical.  Yet the intensity with which they have been occurring and the numbers leave one wondering whether this is some sort of wake up call for humanity....

I keep getting the feeling that something is going to happen.  Maybe because of all the unprecedented natural disasters happening.  Could these be a precursor?

"What is this 'something' you are referring to", you ask?

Answer:  I cannot tell you but I feel it getting closer.

It's like all that we knew or have known and depended upon is sifting, shifting and blowing away, like the grains of sand during a sandstorm.  Through the fury of the storm they are whipped up and carried over long distances, repositioning themselves into new dunes some distance away.  We cover our faces and squint through our eyes as the bits of sand grains sting our face.  We try very hard to keep our bearing and strain to see through all the dust and darkness, but we cannot.  It is only after the sandstorm subsides, that we may  remove our masks and look out upon a brand new landscape.  The old has passed away and a new vista now lies before us.                

are you an organized person?  do you stow your belongings right where they need to be, immediately, and with clockwork precision, hanging up your coat and putting your shoes in the closet shoe rack every time you come home? or are you used to functioning in a cluttered environment, you know....bills all over the dining room table, your jacket flung in the nearest chair, a refrigerator that needs to be re-possessed (because it is, possessed) and you still haven't found the time to change your bed sheets in months?  Your excuse and you are right...is because you have no time.  will you ever make the time?  will you take hold of your situation as you realize that you are running out of time and make a last ditch effort to change?  or, will you wait till the last minute?   will you be too late?  do you feel content knowing that things will never change, will always be the way you have always known them?  but what if things do change and change dramatically?  you have no control over this as it is something that is out of your control.  how will you react?  will you panic, run and hide?  will you grab a firearm?  check on your neighbor?  call your Rabbi, Priest or Pastor?  will you drop to your knees and pray?  will you tremble?  will you go into shock?  will you weep?  or will you crawl into that foxhole you've been eyeing for some time and pull the grass and dirt over your head?  

no one knows how they will respond or react in a crisis.  for each one of us, when that time comes, it will be a very personal experience.

are you prepared?  do you have a supply of water, MREs, an emergency radio, flashlights, canned goods?

do you live in a high rise or in a rural community?

what will you do if there is no power?  do you have a backup emergency generator?

will you know how to get in touch with your kids, your loved ones and will you have an emergency plan of escape, just in case you need to leave your home?

there is something coming and I wish I was able to see all the way down to the bottom of the Rabbit Hole, but I cannot.

last night I had a dream in which I was standing next to a beautiful, tall and magnificent bird.  It was an owl.    He was brown with light tan streaks.  He purposely looked down at me and I remember thinking..."I know that look, I've seen it before".  it reminds me of someone I know but I cannot recall at this point who that person is.  Maybe it will come back to me.  

I remember trying very hard to study his face but it seemed like he didn't want me to do this.  He kept turning away from me as I was straining to see him.

I was standing right next to him and he was standing flat with talons outstretched and flattened out, not perched on anything (which I thought was odd) on what appeared to be a wide plank of weathered wood, a light gray in color.  As I stood there, pivoting the upper half of my body, trying to get a closer look at his face, he took off and in so doing, dug one set of talons into my arm.  I remember cradling my arm and looking to see how badly I'd been gouged.  But, there did not appear to be any marks and I did not feel any pain. 

To sum it up.....do you believe in God?

i believe, at this point in time, that this should be the most important question of all.