tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62151479356112012772024-03-12T21:58:39.010-07:00My Tea Party ChronicleCheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-32254084628237273152015-06-09T18:28:00.000-07:002015-06-09T18:31:09.668-07:00ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The following is an editorial I have submitted to our local newspaper. The catalyst for this editorial is a situation where our County Commissioners passed a child adoption perk for full-time County employees without public awareness of it. This perk was passed in 2013, evidently, but didn't come to public light until our County Commissioner Chairman decided to apply for the perk for his own family. He and his family are desiring to adopt three children from the Ukraine. He was on the board when this perk was passed and voted for it. Our Commissioners are considered part-time County employees, but for some unknown reason, even that didn't stop the County Chairman from applying for this perk. So, now the newspaper and the public are aware of what has happened. So much wrong here, my little editorial just barely scratches the surface. Here you are:<br /><br />ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lifting up the down-trodden is a noble gesture, but is it
the role of the taxpayers? All of
us who have children, have raised children and who have worked hard to support
our families, have a soft spot in our hearts for orphans. There is no doubt. But there is a difference between
charity and confiscating taxes to make some people feel good or assuage some
societal guilt. Doing good for
others through charity is supposed to be a personal choice, not paid for
through force. And there lies the
conundrum of this County proposed adoption subsidy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who pay taxes are already subsidizing fatherless
families through welfare, food stamps, housing credits, healthcare, and
more. The decision to do this was
forced upon the taxpayers through Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society
programs, sold as the way to wipe out poverty in the entire nation. Well, now we can see how successful
that has been. The national poverty
rate has not decreased one iota, so taking from the haves to give to the
have-nots has not produced the promised outcome of reducing poverty rates at
all. As Thomas Sowell has pointed
out countless times, the ‘Welfare State’ has exacerbated the irresponsible
behavior of many men who donate sperm and walk away, leaving the taxpayers to
foot the bill. The Great Society,
to a great degree, has turned responsible parenting into a non-sequitur.<br /><br />
So now we have elected County Commissioners, portraying themselves as
compassionate Christian men, proposing to confiscate, through force of
government, tax money to subsidize adoptions of orphaned children, taking money
from some to offset the cost of ‘doing good.’</span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> There are principles of personal responsibility here that
are turned upside down. Not to
mention that this policy is far from the Christian tenets of charity.<br /><br />
I read that one justification of getting government to do this is that some
private corporations offer an adoption subsidy to their employees.</span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> In case no one catches the fine point
of that, the private corporations who do this are getting tax deductions for
this action, remaining taxpayers are already compensating for the
deductions. I guess our County
Commissioners don’t think that’s enough and they want more from the
taxpayers. Another fine point is
that there is already a substantial federal tax credit program through the IRS
for individuals who adopt children.<br />
Next thing you know, the taxpayers will be paying people to not have
children. Oh, wait, we are already
in the heat of that battle thanks to Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood.<br /><br />
Once upon a time in America, taking tax money from others for your own personal
use was generally considered a shameful thing. It meant you were dependent on others
and either could not or would not make your own way.</span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> It also meant socialism, a tyrannical government system that
America fought a war with great sacrifice to defeat in Europe. Americans, for
the most part, understood the implications of socialist tyranny. The backbone
of America was forged with independence and individual liberties. The heart of the American public was
charitable without government intervention. </span></div>
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By the way, I know some parents who have adopted children who didn’t have
subsidies, using their own hard earned labor and resources to do so. These
people are taxpayers, too. What
are you saying to them if you now decide to use their taxes to subsidize
someone else’s decision to adopt?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now we have a committee to study the idea of taxpayer
subsidies to county employees for adoption? Why? The
principle is flawed from the start.
If you oppose this, are you designated as a cold-hearted bastard who
doesn’t care for orphaned children?
There should be no committee.
There should be no further discussion. It’s a bad idea. It’s a socialist idea. It is using
government force, no matter how you try to sugar coat it and paint yourselves
as compassionate Christians. This
is not the role of government in America.
Or, should I say, it is not <i>supposed</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
to be the role of government in America.
Yes, I know. That ship has
sailed and I am whistling in the wind.
I miss the America where no one in their right mind would suggest such
things as this. Charity comes from
individual choice. Not from government force. Once upon a time…… <br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607.html">http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.americanadoptions.com/adopt/adoption_tax_credit">http://www.americanadoptions.com/adopt/adoption_tax_credit</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some adoption costs can be offset by utilizing the Federal
Adoption Tax Credit, which is non-refundable, for all qualifying adoption
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adoptive parents who work for companies with an adoption
assistance program also receive a tax break. Parents can receive up to $12,970
in reimbursement from their employer for adoption expenses without paying taxes
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.gastongazette.com/spotlight/county-leader-sticking-with-pursuit-of-adoption-reimbursement-1.">Gaston Gazette Article</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/12/charity_by_force_jesus_vs_marx.html">http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/12/charity_by_force_jesus_vs_marx.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jesus Christ teaches His followers to give to the poor. But liberals see in this a call for
forced redistribution of wealth -- by government. Christians must support a socialist government, which takes
money from Person A by force and gives that money to Person B. Every mention of the poor they portray
as demanding government control of a nation's economy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And let us be clear: we're talking violence. We're talking SWAT teams from time to
time storm tax protestors barricaded in their homes. Violence, even death by police, backs up tax collection for
the welfare state. So does Jesus
Christ endorse violence so that the government can take from Person A to give
to Person B?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Conservatives notice what liberals somehow cannot see: that
Jesus is addressing the voluntary choices of individuals. Christianity rests upon free will. Capitalism rests upon free will. God Himself does not force anyone to
obey Him, follow Him, love Him, or serve Him. When one town rejected Jesus in Luke 9, His followers wanted
to punish the disobedient people by "calling down fire" -- that is,
praying for a repeat of Elijah's spectacular miracle. Jesus sharply rebuked them.</span></div>
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Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-22254542121042184412015-04-26T12:01:00.000-07:002015-04-26T12:03:35.797-07:00WHAT GOD TOLD US ...AND GEORGE ORWELL<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you
would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that
claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not
merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external
reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy.” — George Orwell,
Nineteen Eighty-Four<br /><br />Just to read my blog requires an understanding of words. Otherwise you might as well try reading an alien language from Mars, if there were one. Telling requires language. God gave Adam language from the very beginning of Adam's existence. And after all, the Bible is referred to as "The Word." God spoke to Adam, and Adam understood God's words, as did Eve. Adam was given the privilege of naming the animals and Eve spoke to Satan in the Garden of Eden. Language has been with us ever since. Anthropologists will tell you languages existed before Biblical understanding of Creation. But no matter how you look at the history of human life, communication through a common language of understanding has existed. <br /><br />So flash forward to 2015 and what do we see happening to language? God gave man free will, and man is using the 'free will' tool of language to subvert common understanding. God may have stalled a rebellion by taking down the tower of Babel, but God did not alter the basic understanding of concepts. Flat is flat. Round is round. Up is up. Etc. Orwell was so right about how this abomination of language would happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />One of the simplest basic precepts of human life is male and female. You can't get more basic than that. Yet, here we are, suffering through the dystopian gyrations of gender definitions only an intellectual midget would accept. (A point that would refer to the tragic dumbing down of children, but that's a story for another day.) If you can't accept the basic premise of male and female, then of course the next twist of definition has to be the definition of marriage. Going a step further, those who wish to redefine gender, also demonize those who refuse the "new" definitions. So it isn't just some innocent misunderstanding of nature, the situation involves criminalizing the understanding of nature. Again, Orwell predicted and warned of this criminalization.<br /><br />Speaking of nature and criminalizing truth, the same is happening to other scientific knowledge. It used to be a common understanding of fact that photosynthesis involved CO2 as food for plants and that was not only a good thing, but a basic tenet of life on earth. Now, we have some seriously demented people telling the public that CO2 is bad for the earth. I'm not talking about photosynthesis as a "flat earth" theory. Photosynthesis is a biological fact. If you want to encourage plant growth, you encourage CO2, which is a trace gas, albeit extremely important to life. Adding more CO2 has not been proven to destroy the earth's eco system at all. Nor has CO2 been proven to increase the temperature of the earth by one iota. The earth has been warming since the Little Ice Age and all that is seen since then is thriving plant and human growth. (We may be looking at global cooling now, given the last 17 yrs of temperature data and the occurrence of sun spots, but oh well....don't look now if you want the facts.) If someone's intention were to decrease plant and human life, they might suggest some ridiculous anti-life theory such as, "We'd better get rid of that horrible CO2!" Humans exhale CO2. Do they even teach that in school any more? Is this a test to see just how successful the dumbing down of our population has been?<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Language is being manipulated by people who wish to control other people. There is financial dystopia where debt becomes investment, where assets become liabilities, where property ownership is a bad thing unless it is the power elite who own the property, either for themselves or as a pretense for the "common good." Crimes of theft become understandable mistakes by people who can't get ahead. Beheadings are simply acts by people who are misunderstood by the international community and certainly don't reflect the theology espoused by those beheaders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I could go on with many more anecdotes on how many basic facts are getting thrown into the dumpster by people who dislike truth, but you get the point. "Freedom" becomes "Freedom of Choice," but whose choices are you given? "Equal Justice" becomes "Social Justice," but whose social structure are they promoting? If you are not part of the dumbed-down, you can see right through the slogans and the lies. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here's the hope: Lying undermines credibility, but lying cannot undermine truth. The truth doesn't just disappear because some people lie. And here is where maybe I divert from Orwell just a bit. While the world goes spiraling downward into some abysmal system of ignorance, what evil powers can't do is undo truth. They can provide ignorance, but they can't change chromosomes, or scientific facts, or the sanctity of God's perfect Creation. <br /><br />I refer to Ecclesiastes on this good Sunday.....</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span class="reftext" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/1-9.htm">9</a></span><span class="highl" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That
which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is
that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span class="hdg" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/2.htm">The Wise and the Foolish</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span class="reftext" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/2-12.htm">12</a></span><span class="highl" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So
I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man
do who will come after the king except what has already been done?</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/2-13.htm">13</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.…</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/1-9.htm">Source of Bible verses</a></span></span>Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-2964860870789225082015-04-02T13:17:00.002-07:002015-04-02T14:35:23.616-07:00ARTICLE V CONVENTION LIES, CONTINUED.......<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone who has followed my blog probably knows by now that I don't tolerate liars. So when I see the public getting snookered by lies, it makes me angry. This particular subject, the Article V Convention, being promoted now in our state legislatures, is such a smoke screen of disinformation (read lies) by various groups who are attempting to remake the U.S. Constitution.<br /><br />I was certain that after my last post here that there would be questions. What lies? Who are the liars? Why would they lie? Before I begin listing some of the answers to those questions, understand this convention attempt has been well organized in recent years and there are many involved. Also understand the length and breadth of the lies and the disinformation campaign is large and I can't cover all of it in this post. I think the idea of a Constitutional Convention was taken less seriously in past decades and the powers wanting a convention were possibly not as effective for several reasons. Past efforts were also more oriented to the left, socialist side of the political spectrum. Today, the right (conservative + libertarian) powers have grabbed onto the idea using the Convention of States branding, joining in with the left who has been clammoring for this opportunity for so long. Once seeing the angst appear through the tea party groups across the nation, power brokers (i.e. people with money to spend on political issues) saw that angst as an opportunity to manipulate the situation to their benefit. I am sure there are some few altruistic conservatives who have been drawn into the fervor over a convention for all kinds of reasons. In some respects, I feel badly for them, but not so much that my sympathy allows them to destroy our founding document.<br /><br />Michael Farris (a lawyer) and Mark Meckler (another lawyer) grabbed the Tea Party movement, in my opinion to enrich themselves and gain political power. But they didn't just one day decide to go after a Constitutional Convention. I've explained in an earlier post that there is a billionaire named Leo Linbeck III, the son of Leo Linbeck II who was one of the instigators of the Fair Tax. "Self Governance" is a favorite phrase of Leo III. He hired Mark Meckler to head up a PAC called "Citizens for Self Governance." Meckler was the Director of Tea Party Patriots prior to this ....or simultaneously, I'm not positive of the timing on that. Meckler stepped down from Tea Party Patriots, I think to take the job for Linbeck's baby, "Citizens for Self Governance" which became the parent organization for Convention of States. If you ask everyday tea party members, they never heard of the Linbecks, would have no idea who they are. But they know Meckler, whose previous claim to fame before Tea Party Patriots was in the pyramid company called Herbalife. Meckler is a salesman. And he knows where to find rich people for fund raising. <br /><br />In the same time frame, along came Mark Levin (a lawyer) with his book called "The Liberty Amendments." Levin pushes emotional buttons with his radio show, screams nasty epithets at people, calls people stupid, and generally purports himself as an arrogant know-it-all. But his book sold and the tea party bought it, some of them hook, line, and sinker. As for money behind Levin, I don't know all of that detail certainly, but I do know the advertisers on his show include Convention of States. (Coincidentally, Convention of States began to show up as the advertisers on Glenn Beck's pages, on Hannity's pages, and many conservative blogs and news sites. It takes a lot of money to advertise that widely. I don't happen to believe that money came from the grassroots. And that's the thing....this Convention of States idea didn't come from the grassroots. It has been led all along from the top, from big money, from people getting rich on it, from billionaires such as Linbeck who believe they can gain from it. <br /><br />Enter the Koch brothers. For all the good things they have done, and I'm sure there are some, this isn't one of them. Their money is hooked up with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC - lots of lawyers) to write applications for the states to use to further the COS push. The Convention of States cooked up an "assembly" (Assembly at Mt. Vernon) in DC to coincide with an ALEC conference. State legislators were invited, but just certain legislators, not all of course. The Koch's were involved. ALEC was involved. <br /><br />Along the way, Mark Meckler joined with the left in conference on this. The conference was called "Living Room Conversations." Van Jones was participating along with many more on the left. Meckler's purpose was to find common ground with the left in order to further the Convention of States. <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/02/article-v-con-con-groups-coalition-holding-hands/">See Michelle Horstman on that.</a> Michael Farris has been wooing tea party groups with his presentations and explaining "we" could not possibly do this without the left participating to give the whole thing legitimacy. Hmmm.....and out of the other side of his mouth he insists that "this is our chance to rein in the federal government." I don't know about you, but I can't honestly remember much about the left reining in the federal government. Michael Farris insists also that this convention is ONLY to propose amendments. And then out of the other side of his mouth, he talks about restructuring the Supreme Court, changing the appointment process for federal judges, rewriting the Commerce Clause, and more. So, is he just going to propose amendments? Or is he opening up the Constitution for a rewrite? If he is going to rewrite the Commerce Clause, what else is he open to rewriting? If he truly is just about amendments or repealing amendments, there is no reason for a convention. You cannot have it both ways on these things. He's lying....that's all you can conclude. He is also saying he believes he is the person to head up the Convention, if and when it happens. Wow....that would most certainly be a head-slamming, boomerang, whiplash of a convention with a Chairman who talks out of both sides of his mouth.<br /><br />I have a theory that the billionaires are getting tired of bribing elected officials and think, due to the tea party angst, this is the time to change the game to suit their pursuits. Possibly they think the lawyers can fix things for them. Lobbyists and lawyers have been at it a long time. But that's just an aside...an interjection....a wonderment. Because I too, wonder why all the subterfuge and lies. If a Constitutional Convention is such a great idea, especially now, why are the money players hiding behind the operatives. Yeah, I know. That IS what they do anyway. But I digress.<br /><br />There are many other conundrums. For instance, the Convention of States pushers keep saying this is such a safe idea that the people have nothing to fear. Given the fact that an Article V Convention hasn't taken place EVER, I wonder how they think they can make that promise. Of course, they can't. "Trust the lawyers," they say. But if you research this at all, you'll find that many people of good credentials are warning just the opposite. Farris says he is not afraid of the left (of Soros, etc.), but he acknowledges he is including the Soros paid operatives into the process. I don't know a whole lot of tea party folks who are keen on slugging it out with Soros operatives over the fine points of our Constitution. Farris says (and his people say) that this Convention can be restricted to only amendments? (See above) And they have devised a method of fines and punishments for delegates who might stray from the mission at hand. Really? Who will enforce that? (Lawyers, I would assume, at this point. Can't wait for those court cases ....more fun than a barrel of monkeys!)<br /><br />Now look just at 4 of the amendments. The Balanced Budget Amendment does nothing of the kind. The Parental Rights Amendment hands over parental rights to the federal government. The Term Limits Amendment doesn't fix corruption. The Campaign Finance Amendment causes public financing of all candidates. Others may have better attributes than this, but those are 4 of the most discussed. Reining in the federal government? Doesn't appear so to me. So even the amendments are lies or at least unconstitutional on their face. <br /><br />I could go on and on, and have, but if this isn't enough to give you pause, to make you think or rethink the Article V Convention, then I don't know how to warn you further than this. Please read the links in my previous posts on this subject. I know that people of good will really want to get this nation on track, but this, friends, is not the answer. O.k, now you ask, what is the answer. Simple; Find seriously ethical and moral people who know the Constitution and want to serve our nation, put them in office and return to the enumerated powers. That's it. That's all we need to do. (Sorry, I know that's a big job.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Article V Convention is a contrivance of less than honest brokers. And these few articles I've written are just the tip of the iceberg. <br /><br /><br /><br />See more notes and links below:</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18332-working-together-to-rewrite-the-constitution">Left Right Collusion</a><br />Call a Convention devotes its efforts to getting groups on both the
Right and Left to work together in order to convince state legislatures
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<span style="font-size: large;">Point one of Call a Convention’s strategy calls for the creation of a
“non-partisan collaboration with other Article V and Amendments
groups.” Under the “About” menu item on the Call a Convention website,
there is an “Article V Advocates” webpage with the headline “The Article
V Movement — Right and Left Working Together for Real Reform” (see
graphic on this page). Under the headline we are told: “We are
organizations and individuals from both the right and the left who
recognize that Washington is broken and will not reform itself.... [We]
must call a Convention, and move forward on our common ground for the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Below this explanation is a list of various conservative “Article V
Movement” groups, such as Mark Meckler and Michael Farris’ Convention of
States (COS), Article V Caucus (of state legislators), American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Balanced Budget Amendment Task
Force, and Compact for America. Listed along with these conservative
groups are progressive liberal organizations, such as Convention USA,
Amend America, ArticleV.org (“the Inter-Occupy Article V Work Group”),
Call a Convention, and Wolf-PAC. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Before establishing Citizens for Self-Governance in 2012, Mark Meckler
was the co-founder and national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots. In
2011, both Meckler and Lessig attended the Conference on the
Constitutional Convention (ConConCon), held at Harvard University
September 24-25, 2011. Meckler cohosted the event with Lessig, which,
like Call a Convention, intended to bring both the Right and Left
together to work toward a new constitutional convention. Also in
attendance at the Harvard ConConCon was Nick Dranias of CFA.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18460-left-right-activists-push-con-con-at-mt-vernon-assembly-s-indiana-confab">More on the Mt. Vernon Assembly</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-10643797054503589202015-03-30T14:44:00.001-07:002015-03-30T14:47:55.511-07:00MARK LEVIN AND OTHER PROMOTERS OF AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION.......<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">.....are flat out liars. This is the only determination one can conclude when looking at their advertisements and marketing schemes and presentations....the only reasonable deduction you can make when listening to Michael Farris,' Mark Levin's, Mark Meckler's, and other promoters' presentations on the Convention of States Project. I know of no other way to put this. There is no chance whatsoever that these attorneys, supposedly trained in Constitutional law, are telling their audiences the truth. I would say the same of those who have been brought into market Article V as sales experts. The very best thing you can feebly attempt to say is they are half-truth tellers. It's the second half that is full of lies. <br /><br />I have a copy of the Constitution here with me where it is read frequently. You might want to criticize my lack of legal degree, but I know a liar when I hear one. And I can understand it when someone is using false premises and using illogical conclusions. The holes in the Convention of States' propositions (amendments), and others,' are so large you could drive a semi-truck with a piggy-back trailer through them, that is IF you know what is in the Constitution. Of the many, you can find two of these holes <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Publius/huldah119.htm">here</a> <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3509">And here</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In previous articles I have described just some of the money behind this attempt to hijack the Constitution. <a href="http://myteapartychronicle.blogspot.com/2014/02/grasping-at-poison-straws-part-one.html">Here</a> <a href="http://myteapartychronicle.blogspot.com/2014/02/grasping-at-poison-straws-part-two.html">Here</a> and <a href="http://myteapartychronicle.blogspot.com/2014/10/follow-money-to-article-v-convention.html">Here</a> <br /><br /> There are more links below to help you see more of that, if you wish to pursue the scurrilous trail on this.<br /><br />I am adding to the Convention of States the rest of the Article V Convention proponents, because I (and you) might as well lump them in with the rest of the liars who are desperately trying to convince the American public that our Constitution isn't just quite good enough or to their liking, or is too antiquated, or is just not pertinent to our current circumstance, or is not anything enough, or wasn't legal in the first go 'round, or .....on and on. I know this is a disheartening piece of news to some people who wanted badly to believe that the Convention of States was the magic bullet. But sadly, COS is just as corrupt as the others wanting their hands on the Constitution since the 1960's. <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/03/constitutional-convention-call-redux-rexford-g-tugwell-the-newstates-constitution/">Ford Foundation - Tugwell's New States Constitution."</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Liars always want something from you. This falls into many categories. They might want your money, your admiration, power over you, or just to get away with something. In this case, however, these liars are playing a high stakes game with your life in an arena that they want to convince you is "their playground." Your role, they suggest, is to promote them and then stand back while they work their "magic." They tell you often how educated and experienced they are. They tell you, "If only you'll buy my book," or "If only you'll proselytize on my behalf," or "If only you'll tell the legislatures to do what I ask," or "If only you'll donate some money," etc. <br /><br />At this point there are so many of these Article V pushers, it's hard to count them all. I'm guessing they smell blood in the water from our corrupted and weakened system at this time and are frothing at the mouth to bite into our one great defense; the Constitution. In picking out Mark Levin and the Convention of States bunch, I am only picking out the most obvious among the tea party grassroots today. Heaven knows I do not want to leave out Nick Drainias of the Goldwater Institute or Cenk Uygur of WolfPAC. Here's a handy link with a few more of them: <a href="http://foavc.org/file.php/1/Articles/Links.htm">Pro-Article V orgs.</a><br /><br />Liars will bargain with you to get you on board with their game. They will tell you anything you want to hear. Sometimes they will offer to trade you something for your support. They will demonstrate to you why your need is SO great and that they are the ONLY option you have. They will play to your emotions. They will play to your desires. They are very very good at this, especially in the legal profession where arguing all sides of something / anything in court is a learned skill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />This time, your guaranteed rights, freedoms, and liberties are at stake. Now that's a pretty high stakes game if you ask me. I'm not too keen on allowing liars to get hold of the basis of my rights, freedoms, and liberties. I can't help but wonder what on earth has possessed people to allow themselves to be so deceived. Obviously the sales promotions are appealing to some people for some reasons. There is a lot of hate and disgust involved, mostly for the unconstitutional regulations and laws that have beset this nation. No one would argue being disgusted over that. But you don't use that against me or the Constitution. I didn't do it. The Constitution didn't do it. Most of the deceived grassroots didn't do it. Our elected officials did it. Congress did it. The three branches of executive government did it. State legislators collaborated with them to do it. So, now, in come the clown lawyers who say they will fix what they have stood by and allowed? The lobbyists are in on the take as well. There are billionaires funding all of this? Globalists as well. And I'm supposed to hand over my Constitution to them? I don't think so.<br /><br />If you are not willing to study the reasoning about why a Constitutional Convention is a wickedly bad thing for this nation, don't come to me later and say, "Gee, you were right." Study now and prevent this disaster from happening. Tell all of your legislators you DO NOT approve of Convention of States or any other Article V Convention being proposed.<br /><br />To be continued........<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest274.htm">Michelle Horstman</a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/author/michellehorstman/">Several more Michelle Horstman Articles here</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/17583-convention-of-states-and-article-v-tearing-up-the-talking-points">Excellent piece by Joe Wolverton here, PLUS links to more Con Con players</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-47702703591501203512014-10-26T11:05:00.000-07:002014-10-26T11:22:10.088-07:00"LEEDING" AMERICA DOWN THE GARDEN PATH<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Below is an op-ed submitted to our local newspaper regarding our local Conference Center. I wrote this in response to an article they published in today's paper, where city staff members and leaders are lamenting that the building they mortgaged our fire houses to build, didn't receive a higher "LEED" rating. The Conference Center project has been in the red since it opened, since conception actually. Now the thing on their minds is raising the "LEED" certification for this boondoggle? Oh my....we have some seriously delusional people in government. Anyway....read on....</span> <style><!--
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Gastonia Conference Center could be the poster child for
using taxpayer money to chase rainbows.
If common sense were more common, we would not have city leaders and
staff looking for “LEED” pots of gold at the end of rainbows. In order to satisfy some idiocy of
global warming, which is also a scam played on the public, a group of
self-appointed, unelected, false experts set themselves up to “LEED” an entire
nation to economic ruin using mumbo-jumbo and tax dollars. <br /><br />
The US Green Building Council (USGBC), a private non-profit dreamed up “LEED,”
a third party rating system for buildings, and eventually became part of the
World Green Building Council.</span>
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Ambition not lacking, USGBC and the World Green Building Council began
to lobby the building industry, building trade organizations, architects, and
governments simultaneously to adopt “LEED” certification for all new
development and remodeling development.
At the same time, our government(s) began pushing the now trite and
highly suspect word, “Sustainability.” What does this mean to you? Hundreds of millions of tax dollars going straight into
other people’s pockets for chasing rainbows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of pots of gold, USGBC states: “The <b>USGBC
advocates government incentives</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> for green
building practices. It states, “One of the most effective strategies to
encourage green building is through financial or structural incentives.
Rewarding developers or homeowners who adopt green building techniques spurs
innovation and demand for green building technologies.” It also states,
“Financial incentives, including tax credits/ abatements and revolving loan
funds, are a highly successful means of encouraging developers to follow green
building practices.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The U.S. Green Building Council is a private organization
that is, “committed to supporting <b>federal, state and local governments</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in their pursuit and development of green building
programs and initiatives.” <br />
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</span><b>Does it work?</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> “Bank of America's
Toxic Tower New York's "greenest" skyscaper is actually its biggest
energy hog.” “And it wasn’t only the Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) Platinum certification—the first ever for a skyscraper—and the
$947,583 in incentives from the New York State Energy Research and Development
Authority.” “According to data released by New York City last fall, the Bank of
America Tower produces more greenhouse gases and uses more energy per square
foot than any comparably sized office building in Manhattan. It uses more than
twice as much energy per square foot as the 80-year-old Empire State Building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Is this really good for you?</b>
Just like the government mandate taking lead from paint now results in
mold all over the exterior of your house, the so-called green / sustainability
building practices are resulting in bad health effects for humans in the built
environment. HVAC systems are now
more expensive while tasked with replacing dead air in buildings built too
tight to allow a reasonable transfer of fresh air, a situation that older
buildings never had. <br />
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According to another “sustainability” expert who is looking to cash in on
another aspect of this insanity, ”
We’re building projects that are progressively more energy efficient, and we’re
building tighter and tighter boxes. If we fill them up with materials that are
toxic,<b> we’re creating the perfect gas chamber.” </b><br />
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Well, that sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?
Can’t wait to own, live and work in that gas chamber! That hotel you stayed in last week that
says they only wash the sheets and towels every other day? You know, the one that has such
horrible CFL light bulbs filled with mercury, so dim that you can’t see what’s
in your suitcase? They get “LEED”
points for doing that. “LEED”
points lead to tax credits. They
pay less in taxes, while your taxes then go up to pay for “LEED” certified
government buildings, costing you a bloody fortune and solving nothing, but
making some very clever scammers a whole lot of your money.<br />
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Pots of gold at the ends of rainbows are for leprechauns. Our city leadership and staff members
need to get back into the real common sense world of reality. In a perfect world, this type of scam
would be prosecuted under RICO (racketeering) statutes. But today, selling lies to the public
for personal profit seems to be the order of the day. Too many people are getting rich doing it.</span></span><style> <!--
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sources:<br />
(http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=6247 “Financing and Encouraging
Green Building in Your Community”)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.architectmagazine.com/sustainability/qa-five-questions-with-skanskas-chief-sustainability-officer-beth-heider_o.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=jump&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANW_102414&day=2014-10-24&he=4d9abe91f1058fc7fc974c87be354f">http://www.architectmagazine.com/sustainability/qa-five-questions-with-skanskas-chief-sustainability-officer-beth-heider_o.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=jump&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANW_102414&day=2014-10-24&he=4d9abe91f1058fc7fc974c87be354fba9857bca6</a></span>
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Henry Gifford, author of “A better way to rate green buildings,” sums up the
criticism of LEED: “Going to so much trouble and expense to end up with
buildings that use more energy than comparable buildings is not only a tragedy,
it is also a fraud perpetuated on US
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<span style="font-size: large;">In testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight, Dr. John H. Scofield of Oberlin College stated that “There then
appears to be no scientific basis for institutions such as colleges,
universities, or the Federal Government to require LEED certification as a GHG
or energy reduction strategy for its buildings.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.....seems like the apt phrase for this.<br />The Convention of States / Aritcle V Consitutional Convention / Con Con is appealing to people through deception. That is a fact. And that is the tragedy of it.<br /><br />Digging deeper into the Convention of States, I find that there is a Texas billionaire named Leo Linbeck III, who is the champion of the misnamed Fair Tax. Actually, his father who passed away recently, began that scheme, but his son, Linbeck III, is still in the Fair Tax game, only this time through the COS / Article V proposition.<br /><br />In the midst of upper economic echelons and now in the midst of middle class, disgruntled taxpayers, Mr. Linbeck has found he can manipulate politicians, and policies with his fortune. Sadly, I find some of my conservative tea party friends being sucked into the whirling toilet bowl he is stirring up. I've been told by some of them that the Fair Tax is why they want the Convention of States / Constitutional Convention. I wondered why the Con Con was going to be bringing in the Fair Tax, so I went looking for answers. Mr. Leo Linbeck III is that answer.<br /><br />Mr. Linbeck describes himself as a "conservative communitarian." (see below) Don't you love double speak! In the Orwellian method of twisting words and combining opposite philosophies in the same phrase, Mr. Linbeck describes himself as two opposite points of view. (I describe myself as a “conservative communitarian.”) He has hired and convinced some lawyers to do the propaganda tour to convince the grassroots that a Constitutional Convention is the answer to all that ails our nation. <br /><br />Mr. Linbeck is not the lone wealthy person behind COS, but is a major player. In 2012, Mark Meckler left the Tea Party Patriots to join Linbeck in a PAC called Campaign for Primary Accountability, the purpose of which was to unseat incumbent politicians. There was money from Campaign for Primary Accountability (CPA) spent with Karl Rove who was active in our state of NC, as my friends well know. (Mike Huckabee was involved with one of the candidates during the primary. Connection to Huckabee below.) Mr. Meckler also set up another non-profit called "Citizens for Self Governance." "Self Governance" is a favorite phrase of Leo Linbeck III. Now Mr. Meckler, formerly with Tea Party Patriots, is on the sales tour for Convention of States. <br /><br />According to Mr. Linbeck regarding descriptions of his actions and orgs. "Well, we've been described as conservative, liberal, anarchists, nihilists, right-wingers, and – my personal favorite – both pro-Obama and anti-Obama."<br /><br /><b>Having it both ways:</b><br /><br />So, in North Carolina, perhaps that is why we hear from Thom Tillis (NC Senate Candidate) that Obamacare just needs tweaking...is mostly just fine? And Mr. Tillis is on board with North Carolina P3 toll roads, a "Third Way" financing of our roads. Is this why we are hearing mixed messages from our Lt. Gov. who says he is against Common Core on the one hand, but then says 95% of it is just great? Perhaps this explains why our Lt. Gov. said something similar to me regarding "sustainability," i.e. "most of it is just great." This evening, our Lt. Governor is at a promotional presentation with Michael Farris, the National Director of Convention of Sates. ("Farris and both Mark and Patty Meckler, founders of the increasingly influential <a href="http://conventionofstates.com/" target="_blank">Convention Of States</a>, a division of <a href="http://selfgovern.com/" target="_blank">Citizens for Self Governance</a>. ") <br /><br />Mike Huckabee tried to have it both ways on Common Core as well...and is all in for the Fair Tax. Now Huckabee is out there promoting the movie, "UnFair," which is nothing more than a propaganda film for the Fair Tax ....which IS the Linbeck scheme. From what I've seen of Mike Huckabee, he would call himself a "progressive conservative," so being attached to Linbeck's Fair Tax scheme and promoting Common Core would fit like a glove.<br /><br />Do you wonder who is driving this mind-bending duplicity campaign to the grassroots? It's positively schizophrenic. <br /><br />Again, from 2012, a press release: (Mark Meckler) The Tea Party leader is joining a CPA leadership team that includes the libertarian O’Keefe, the <u>“conservative communitarian”</u> Leo Linbeck..." <br /><br />Between the misnamed, so-called "Fair Tax," the Convention of States / Article V / Constitutional Convention, and now finding a Communitarian with large sums of money behind them, I am seriously concerned that our State legislators are once again being bought and led down a garden path....the wrong way and over a cliff with no return tickets. The Constitutional Convention, these people call a "Convention of States to propose amendments" has no return (to the Constitution) tickets.<br /><br />Today, I want to hammer home the definition of "communitarianism," so my friends will understand the game afoot. Communitarianism is defined below. I would ask people read and realize who is shoving this Article V Convention at the grassroots tea partiers. And then ask, how does this fit with your beliefs and hopes for our Constitution.<br /><br /><b>Definition of Communitarianism:</b><br /><br />Like Collectivism, which stresses human interdependence and the importance of a collective, Communitarianism focuses on community and society, and seeks to give priority to group goals over individual goals. However, for the most part, communitarians emphasize the use of non-governmental organizations in furthering their goals, and so differ from authoritarian or Communist sympathizers. Its exact premises and policy consequences are difficult to pin down, and most criticism of Communitarianism has come from individualist thinkers concerned that it just provides cover for collectivists.<br /><br />Although a 20th Century philosophy, the term "communitarian" was coined in the 1840s by the British utopian Socialist Goodwyn Barmby (1820 - 1881) to refer to advocates of a communalist society (which refers to communal living and/or communal property, essentially a forerunner to modern Communism).<br /><br />Ideological Communitarianism can be seen as a radical centrist ideology (a third way philosophy which includes the belief that, in affirming the core principles involved on both sides of a political argument, the disagreement can be resolved or rendered moot). It is sometimes marked by leftism on economic issues and conservatism on social issues. Communitarians seek to bolster social capital (the value to democracy of social networks and groups) and the institutions of civil society. It also affirms positive rights such as state subsidized education, state subsidized housing, a safe and clean environment, universal health care, extensive public works programs, and often even the right to a job, and laws limiting pollution, gun ownership, etc.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_communitarianism.html">Communitarianism from Philosophy Basics</a><br /><br />Sources:<br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/12/09/the-big-political-story-of-2016-will-not-be-about-who-replaces-obama/"> Forbes</a><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/us/politics/06economy.html?pagewanted=all">New York Times - Huckabee + Fair Tax</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://tellthetruthonthem.com/?page_id=231">Fair Tax - Tell the Truth on Them</a><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6215147935611201277" span=""></a></span></span>=<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20120406-point-person-our-qa-with-leo-linbeck-iii-of-the-campaign-for-primary-accountability.ece">I describe myself....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Civilization has devolved. I'm trying to think of any other time in history, other than recent history, where grown men used children as tools and shields in war. I am aware of sexual exploitation of children in failed civilizations of the past. And sacrificing children in ancient pagan rituals. But somehow this seems a bit different ....wholesale. The scale is different. Not to mention the Orwellian joke of the entire thing based on "compassion." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />"In a clearly-defined contrast in morality, Israel released a <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182814#.U8FCKJRX-uY" target="_blank">video</a>
showing a planned airstrike that was called off when the pilot realized
that children may have been within range of his target. Hamas, however,
continues to openly <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182729#.U8FDBZRX-uY" target="_blank">boast</a> about how they have encouraged Gazan civilians to sacrifice themselves as human shields."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-crisis-on-the-border-1405029753">Peggy Noonan on the border crisis</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The little children in great danger, holding
hands, staring blankly ahead, are pawns in a larger game. That game is
run by adults. How cold do you have to be to use children in this way?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.erikrush.com/understanding-border-crisis-is-to-understand-obama/">Erik Rush on Understanding the Border Crisis</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is evident that the Obama administration orchestrated this crisis in the mode of the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2009/07/102735/">Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.</a>
It is a matter of public record that as early as January of this year,
the administration was soliciting for private contractors to aid in the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.redstate.com/diary/checkmate2012/2014/06/21/white-house-planned-prepared-advance-illegal-border-surge/"> Redstate - White House Planned in Advance for Illegal Border Surge</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, an event the president can’t claim he was surprised about or
heard about in the news! Yes, for the first time ever, his
administration actually planned well in advance, for the massive swell
of illegals coming across the border. Specifically they planned for
65,000 illegals, mostly children under the age of 17, to come across the
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, it is what it is. How cunning is it to use the compassionate against the sovereignty of their own nation? The Palestinians have nothing on Obama. He is cut of the same cloth; cold and calculating against the civilized, against anyone who would block his ultimate goals of power and control. Men who would use children for their own power are mentally sick, psychotic. They have devolved into barbarism that those on the left proclaim they have "evolved" past. God saved Abraham's son from sacrifice. How godlike are these men who demand children die and suffer, are used as pawns for political power? Even God backed off on that one. "We," (Christians) Americans don't do things this way.<br /> </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">God bless America as we used to know it. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(caveat: The part about Abraham is my understanding of the compassionate God who doesn't demand sacrificial innocents for His own sake. )</span></span><br />
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-84987917573810872882014-06-17T10:15:00.003-07:002014-06-17T10:18:22.643-07:00THE GLOOMY MUSE<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I was thinking this morning that this current generation is going
through what we went through regards to war. (Fewer dead, thousands maimed, vividly painful just the same.) Liberating Southeast Asia
from communism, liberating the Middle East from terrorism. Yet
communism (under whatever ideological tag ~ fascism, socialism, communitarianism, etc.) and terrorism are both thriving, merrily rampant, here and
abroad. The globalists are laughing all the way to the bank. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We freed
Europe from Nazism-Socialism (WWII).....what do you see there? Socialism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But, wait....it is so much worse than that. Now
our military is told their mission is to fight Global Warming? Really?
America was the last place on earth...falling fast, taken over by
inches .....over decades of dumbing down, culture rot, and centralized
power. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are sitting there thinking this (globalism - "we
are the world" rubbish) is for your own good, or this government has the
answers for peace and prosperity, you haven't been watching. I guess
you will just tell your children you sat this out, played golf, went to
the mall, didn't get involved. It was too much trouble to stand up or do
the hard work of looking under the slick, shiny, marketing schemes to
see what is really being stolen from (us) them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now we have
a foreign invasion on the southern border with our own government
orchestrating it. Today U.S. Embassies worldwide are flying the gay Rainbow flag to celebrate homosexuality. While Common Core indoctrinates our school children with that same flag. Hip hip ....isn't that great?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yep...sovereignty is dead. Long live the globalists!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The worst is yet to come.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/5-year-olds-taught-to-celebrate-queer-pride/">5 year olds taught queer pride at school!"</a><br />
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<a ex-border-agents-immigrant-flood-orchestrated="" href="http://www.americanthin%3c/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=" http:="" uncategorized="" www.rightwingnews.com=""> Orchestrated Invasion on the southern border</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6215147935611201277"><br /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/09/postponing_world_war_iii.html">3 Maps explaining the New Caliphate</a></div>
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-28903346092277841012014-04-10T15:10:00.000-07:002014-04-10T15:28:26.997-07:00THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD....EXCEPT WHEN YOU NEED A GUN<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Today is the first and only day in my life (so far) that I decided I'd like to be a 35 year old man with the kajones to go after our government. I'm talking physical muscle. Wishing I had it...lots of it, right now. I've always been perfectly happy being female. What's that old song, "I Enjoy Being A Girl?" That's me. (I also liked the song, "It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House.") But today, as I watched the news reports coming from Nevada about the Bundy family's cattle ranch, my blood pressure kept rising and I felt my Irish getting up, I swallowed hard a bunch of times....and let me tell you, this makes my blood boil. I've seen another recent report about other ranchers being bullied, harrassed, and forced out by the Bureau of Land Management, so this isn't the first time I've been angry about this sort of thing. I am wondering if this will be the last straw for enough people to smack down this cabal of thugs we call our government. <br /><br />Congress? What Congress. We've watched for years while they funded the unconstitutional agencies and refused to rein them in. The result of which is a perfect example of "give 'em an inch and they take a mile." We've watched for the last 5 or 6 years while Congress talks big about doing something and does nothing to stop this insanity. At this point, they are all criminally negligent. <br /><br />Sometimes you get to the point where the only thing left is to physically overpower thugs, either with numbers of people or with higher fire power. I'm watching the situation in Nevada and wishing I could be one of the numbers and wishing I could fight back for the Bundy family, the cattle ranchers whose cattle are being stolen by the Bureau of Land Management. Driving the knife into my heart, and I'm sure their hearts, is that this is calving season and the BLM is orphaning newborn and dogie calves who will starve without their mothers. What sort of people are these? These are not Americans. They are no better than Nazi brownshirts. This can't happen in America. ??? Well, guess what! It is. The BLM hired thugs are nothing more than cattle thieves. We used to know what to do to cattle thieves. Now it's the government as cattle thieves. <br /><br />This is on top of what government has done to the farmers in California. And we wonder why our food prices are escalating. Beef is at an all time high. Stealing thousands of cows and putting cattle ranchers out of business is sure going to help that, right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />This is not just about the Bundy's, although they are the critical situation at the moment. This is about all of us. Every American. What the BLM is doing is Agenda 21, pushing people off their own land, shutting down property rights, controlling the food supply and all resources. It's all of us...no one is coming out of this unscathed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0_SXrs4SkQ">Watch this</a><br /><br /><br />Telling you....this ought to do it....it is time to fight back with something stronger than a pen. But my pen is all this lady has to offer right now. <br /><br />If you can at least pick up your phone:</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=/r2/?url=http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/bureau-of-land-management.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bureau Of Land Management</a> Phone Number: (202) 208-3801</b></h3>
<b>Brian Sandoval Email Contact Form- <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://gov.nv.gov/Contact/Governor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://gov.nv.gov/Contact/Governor/</a></b><br />
<b>Brian Sandoval – Carson City Phone # - <span style="font-size: 14px;">(775) 684-5670</span></b><br />
<b>Brian Sandoval Las Vegas Phone # -<span style="font-size: 14px;">(702) 486-2500</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Senator Dean Heller Contact Form - </span><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form</a></b><br />
<b>Phone #’s For Heller – Reno: <span style="font-size: 14px;">775-686-5770/ Las Vegas: 702-388-6605/ Washington: 202-224-6244</span></b><br />
<b>Sheriff <span style="font-size: 14px;">Douglas Gillespi - (702) 828-3231 or (702) – 828 – 3111</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Email: Sheriff@lvmpd.com</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Steny Hoyer: Phone – (202)- 225-4131</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Steny Hoyer Email Contact Form - </span><a href="https://hoyer.house.gov/email-steny" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hoyer.house.gov/email-steny</a></b><br />
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<li>Brian Sandoval Email Contact Form- <a href="http://gov.nv.gov/Contact/Governor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://gov.nv.gov/Contact/Governor/</a></li>
<li>Brian Sandoval – Carson City Phone # - (775) 684-5670</li>
<li>Brian Sandoval Las Vegas Phone # -(702) 486-2500</li>
<li>Senator Dean Heller <a href="http://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form" target="_blank">Contact Form</a> -</li>
<li>Phone #’s For Heller – Reno: 775-686-5770/ Las Vegas: 702-388-6605/ Washington: 202-224-6244</li>
<li>Sheriff Douglas Gillespi - (702) 828-3231 or (702) – 828 – 3111</li>
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<li><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/bureau-of-land-management.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bureau Of Land Management</a> Phone Number: (202) 208-3801</li>
<li>Brian Sandoval Email Contact Form- <a href="http://gov.nv.gov/Contact/Governor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://gov.nv.gov/Contact/Governor/</a></li>
<li>Brian Sandoval – Carson City Phone # - (775) 684-5670</li>
<li>Brian Sandoval Las Vegas Phone # -(702) 486-2500</li>
<li>Senator Dean Heller <a href="http://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form" target="_blank">Contact Form</a> -</li>
<li>Phone #’s For Heller – Reno: 775-686-5770/ Las Vegas: 702-388-6605/ Washington: 202-224-6244</li>
<li>Sheriff Douglas Gillespi - (702) 828-3231 or (702) – 828 – 3111</li>
<li>Email: Sheriff@lvmpd.com</li>
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Read more at <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/militias-route-bunkerville-nv-will-start-2nd-american-revolution/#hb1oIZwATawZyPPa.99" style="color: #003399;">http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/militias-route-bunkerville-nv-will-start-2nd-american-revolution/#hb1oIZwATawZyPPa.99</a></div>
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-2470691511859546042014-02-18T15:14:00.000-08:002014-02-21T07:43:50.571-08:00GRASPING AT POISON STRAWS - PART TWO - CONVENTION OF STATES<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I've been asked, "Why do (I) think that certain people who seem to be respected in conservative circles (such as Michael Farris) would be involved in the Convention of States if it is as bad as I say it is. I've answered that I don't know the exact motives of each of them, but it seems there are many different motives, none of which have much of anything to do with preserving the U.S. Constitution as it was written. Then I get the "but we have to modernize" argument, again from people who claim to love America and yet don't understand that COS aims to change the very America they claim to love. And further they contend, "But it isn't working now, so we must act."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To answer these questions, I think it is best to look at the organizations involved, the people at the top of them, and the amendments themselves. As you read this, know I am not in the character assassination business. I just think people need to ask these questions before they follow a path that leads in the wrong direction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Convention of States has <a href="http://www.conventionofstates.com/welcome-leadership-team"> a board of directors. </a> Michael Farris is the head of the Convention of States project. Evidently, he is the hero of home-school parents for defending the rights of home-schooling for several years. But there seems to be another side to this man and the amendment he proposes regarding parental rights that happens to grant more power to the federal government, power the federal government does not have in the original Constitution. He denies this. Michael Farris is also President of "Parental Rights.org." in which Grover Norquist is the Director. Grover Norquist is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Norquist is married to a Muslim and is a Muslim convert. I find this partnership with Norquist to be curious and troublesome. This isn't just an acquaintanceship. It's a business partnership. Is it wise to put your faith in a man who is that closely associated with someone who is promoting Islam's Sharia law? <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/pamela_geller_cpac_is_enforcing_the_sharia/"> CPAC, Norquist, Sharia Law</a><br /><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/kenneth-r-timmerman/grover-norquists-new-muslim-protege/">Front Page Magazine on Norquist's Islam Connections</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"AT CPAC this year, Grover Norquist told <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/11/143645/norquist-marginalize-islamophobia/">a George Soros publication</a>
that Islam “is completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution and a
free and open society,” a statement that reveals either a profound lack
of understanding of Islamic law, or a conscious effort at deception."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Why would Michael Farris create a partnership with a man such as Grover Norquist, if Farris is as he claims, a devotee of the U.S. Constitution? Does anyone else find this troubling?<br /><br />On <a href="http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B39CD0677-593A-488A-BA43-246001B657E9%7D">this page</a> under "Parental Rights Basics," Mr. Farris's organization links the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. For those of us who have been in the trenches, battling the insidious infiltration of the UN's Agenda 21 Doctrine in our United States, this is very curious. Publius Huldah has also pointed out the model for Mr. Farris is this UN Doctrine. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B50657FB4-8A4A-4389-A3AD-1CFEE3DB5CE0%7D" style="color: darkred;">The Parental Rights Amendment</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BB56D7393-E583-4658-85E6-C1974B1A57F8%7D" style="color: darkred;" target="_new">The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B0B23BC4E-F6BC-4DDC-AE23-EA4F36EE1122%7D" style="color: darkred;">About Us</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I think Constitutional Conservatives in the grassroots might find that fact just a little disconcerting. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Has Mr. Farris revealed to the Tea Parties and grassroots folks, or the legislators, that what he is doing is placing a UN doctrine on parental rights into our Constitution?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So how about the amendment that Mr. Farris wants to place on the table for the Convention of States Convention? There is serious debate on this from both sides. Two people in particular, one of whom used to be a supporter of Farris' efforts regarding home-schooling, have been ridiculed and tossed aside by Mr. Farris in recent years, Phyllis Schafly and Publius Huldah. There are <a href="http://americanpolicy.org/2011/10/23/constitutional-convention-can-not-be-controlled/"> others</a> objecting to his proposal as well. Mr. Farris' amendment, by virtue of enumerating an additional right not included in the bundle of Natural Rights, by the federal government, gives the federal government dominion over that right. The rights of parents, heretofore, have been implicit and inherent in the bundle of Natural Rights given to us by "Nature's God" as described in the Declaration of Independence. The Founders explained that all of these Natural Rights were not to be enumerated, but understood, save the few in the Bill of Rights. As we have seen, at least three of the enumerated rights are under attack constantly lately; freedom of speech, 2nd amendment gun rights, and property rights. If adding another enumerated right for parents is supposed to avert attacks on parental rights, it seems this amendment idea would do the opposite, simply draw more fire and not succeed at the supposed intention.<br /><br /> Mr. Farris would like to place something into the Constitution that would add a Constitutional enforceable amendment, giving the federal government power over it. This same argument is being used by those who wish to redefine what marriage is, another tenet of Natural Law. I will admit it is possible, giving him the benefit of the doubt, that Mr. Farris is trying to reinforce what historically has been known as a Natural Right, "Parental Rights," just as an amendment for traditional marriage on the federal level might do. (DOMA = federal Defense of Marriage Act, is not an amendment.) What happened to DOMA? We have now a government refusing to enforce DOMA without changing the law. Repeating myself, we have 1st and 2nd amendments that are also being ignored by the federal government. (Among a myriad of other insults and attacks against amendments already in the Constitution.) If those conservative friends of mine would see how far the DOMA has gotten us, they might understand that when the federal government gets the power to decide the definitions of rights extraneous to the Constitution, today's policy brokers don't land on the side of traditional Natural Law. There is also the federal judiciary which would be adjudicating the purpose and intent of the amendment, and we have seen clearly today that the federal judiciary is not on the side of conservative causes or necessarily individual rights and liberties. Mr. Farris denies this is a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Mr. Farris explains that amending the Constitution is not an act of the Federal government, but is an action by states. He says that, but that is not the point. The point of the Convention of States is that the amendments require interpretation and enforcement by the federal government and the federal judiciary. He argues otherwise. He asserts on the one hand that the states can ignore the federal government by going through the Convention of States process, but nonetheless, the amendment he proposes is an addition to the federal Constitution. If the states are so independent as to ignore the federal government, why is he concerned with adding an amendment to the Constitution? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One more thing I noticed in one of Mr. Farris' arguments against
Publius Huldah that makes me question the Convention of States. The
Convention of States proponents, i.e. Mr. Farris, continually assert that this has nothing
to do with Congress and that the states can do this on their own...or
at the least, Congress MUST ratify what the states have decided. He says that Article V gives all the power of doing this to the states. Yet, in this <a href="http://www.alipac.us/f19/farris-hslda-reponds-publius-huldah%92s-critique-parental-rights-amendment-283033/"> article,</a> according to Mr. Farris:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">"Constitutional
amendments are created by a two-thirds majority vote of both houses of
Congress which is followed by ratification by three-fourths of the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So
I wish to ask, which is it? He admits here that you MUST go through
Congress in order to create amendments to the Constitution. He says the
states ratify these AFTER Congress has voted to create the amendments.
That is backwards and upside down from what his organization, the COS sales people are
telling grassroots conservatives. In effect, in his quote above he is admitting that the
only power the states have in this situation is ask for Congress to convene a Constitutional
Convention to create amendments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are just some reasons to disallow the Convention of States or any other
amendment proposing group from getting their hands on adding power to
the Constitution that is not there originally from the brilliance of the
Founders. Do you think the Founders were negligent by excluding a
Parental Rights Amendment? They also didn't place a Marriage Amendment
into the Constitution. The Founders did not put a right to healthcare
or food into the Constitution either. Some things are wisely left to
the citizens to morally act as best as they can on their own within the
parameters of actual criminal behaviors. Parental rights are one of those
things. Whether or not you believe that Mr. Farris has been a champion
of parents' rights for home-schooling or supporter of the Constitution, I don't believe his COS effort is either a good idea or is what he is telling people it is. I think he is misleading people and that this is a dangerous route he wishes to take you down. Maybe he has all the good intentions in the world, I don't know. But by doing this COS project, he is opening the door to every other group of people who wish to add "rights" to the U.S. Constitution. His followers in this try to tell you otherwise, that they can control what happens in Convention of States...which again, he admits is a Constitutional Convention. Mr. Farris and Mark Levin deliver all sorts of promises that this process can be controlled by them. But the process itself doesn't give them that authority. They are being deceitful, I'm sorry to say. For good intentions? I hope we know that is a method of sales pitch that we reject from the socialist and globalist left. Why would we take that from these guys? </span></div>
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<a class="ecxyiv1289466120" href="https://sendy.securetherepublic.com/l/393/mw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">College Republican National Committee</a> - executive director</div>
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<a class="ecxyiv1289466120" href="https://sendy.securetherepublic.com/l/393/my" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy</a> - co-founder</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a move afoot, brought to the mass of grassroots tea party participants by Mark Levin, whose book, "The Liberty Amendments," is all the latest rage. Glenn Beck, who was NOT on board, has been convinced to take on the job of pushing the idea of a Constitutional Convention, but renamed "Convention of States." I can't imagine why. Don't be fooled by the branding experts, a Constitutional Convention and Convention of States (COS) are one and the same thing, most likely <b>become</b> one and the same thing. Yet, Levin and the other pushers on this idea are insisting you don't "get it" if you think other than what he is selling. Oh, no...."It isn't the same thing!" they adamantly proclaim. "It's Article V!!" "We can do this!" "The framers gave it to us!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sales pitch is incredible. Pie in the sky and all the candy you could ever consume. The sellers of this are preying on tea party conservatives who are literally desperate to do something BIG to rein in the federal government. I get the desperation part....really, I do. They tell you nothing else is working, so you might as well go for the brass ring and grab the Constitution and amend it. They tell you the process has NO chance of being hijacked by the leftists / socialists. (Do they know who was behind the 25th Amendment? Hint: Birch Bayh with Rockefeller money.) They tell you the 10th Amendment using nullification is too cumbersome and doesn't solve the problems we face. They tell you the whole thing is driven by state legislators, those closest to the voters. They tell you this is perfectly legitimate through Article V of the Constitution and that the framers handed this golden opportunity for moments just like the one we face today. They tell you this, knowing that right now our federal government doesn't follow the Constitution as it was written anyway, but they insist that the federal government WILL listen to new amendments that curtail the wrack and ruin being done now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O.K. Here is why I am saying the COS and Constitutional Convention are the same thing. Yes, Article V is the prescription for amending the Constitution....which IS CHANGING the Constitution by amendment(s). (Note the plural.) The argument the COS people are pushing is that at no time has there ever been a Constitutional Convention but the first one that created the Constitution. Otherwise, the COS people will tell you, there can be no such thing as a Constitutional Convention. So why didn't they just ask for one or two amendments ONLY as part of this process? Why didn't they call this effort a Call to Amend? They aren't specific. What they are doing is asking for a Convention of States (state legislators) to propose amendments, but no one knows what those amendments would be. This could be limitless. Several are floating around from left and right and all could be on the docket. Sounds like an open convention to change the Constitution to me. But wait... the Call to Amend under another name already exists....keep reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unknown to many of the tea party people getting pulled into this is another effort to change the Constitution called <a about-us="" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6215147935611201277" https:="" movetoamend.org="">"Move To Amend."</a> COS was not first out of the starting gate to do this. "Move To Amend" has been at this a while. The backers of that one are all the usual suspects from the global communist / socialist left. It looks, from what I can find out, COS and Move To Amend are joining forces, each to accomplish the same goal, changing / amending the Constitution to suit their own aims. (I see that Mark Meckler has been coordinating the effort with the Aspen Institute. Look them up please.) I hear the promotions for "bipartisanship" in both the COS and Move To Amend. This is going to end in a free for all, with state legislators being bought off right and left. (pun intended.) There is no restriction on how many amendments or the subject of these amendments. The amendments can come from anywhere and about anything. I can guarantee you, the Move To Amend people are salivating at the chance to do this. Social Justice is on the agenda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Formed in September 2009, Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of
organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to
<b>social and economic justice</b>, ending corporate rule, and building a
<b>vibrant democracy</b> that is genuinely accountable to the people, not
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all, the Constitution set up a democratic REPUBLIC, not a democracy. Secondly, <b>EQUAL JUSTICE</b> is what we are guaranteed under the Constitution. <b>NOT social justice or economic justice.</b> But oh well...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Levin has said, in an interview I heard (but can't cite right now), that if the left hijacks this, then we know where we stand and that America is over anyway. He says, "that's the risk we take." I'm here to say this is already hijacked by both the left and the right. I will note to my friends that no where in this discussion from COS am I hearing a move to completely restore the Constitution as written. Is there an Article V move to reclaim the Constitution? Not seeing that. Nor am I seeing something that somehow holds elected officials accountable for ignoring the Constitution. (Legally we have that already...again not enforced.) I heard from a friend that what he (the friend) wants to do is remove the 16th amendment and replace it with "The Fair Tax." I have heard the "real" amendment behind this is a "Balanced Budget Amendment." Then, I am hearing the amendment most desired is "Term Limits" for Congress. (which sounds very appealing to those who hate career politicians, but we have the ballot box to remove them already. There is the term limit for the Presidency that was added by amendment, so is that the answer? The power of the Presidency has grown beyond Constitutional limits anyway, so did that help? How'd that work out? ) Move to Amend wants an amendment to restrict campaign contributions, but as you see above they have much more stated in their mission. There is another one about the federal government granting "parental rights." Folks, this is the tip of the iceberg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next question I hear is, "Well, what would you do?" "The situation we are in is DIRE!" "We MUST do something!" These cries of desperation, again I understand completely, are missing the point that the same people conservatives wish to corral are behind the COS and Move To Amend propositions and want to use this opportunity to finally destroy and replace the U.S. Constitution. I believe it is a deceitful distraction to preoccupy the malcontents, while the forces behind the efforts are busy shredding the Constitution, taking down the economic structure of the U.S., running the cultural rot industries, and dumbing down the American public even more! The whole idea is to take more power away from the American people, hand over more power to the federal government, not restore the LIMITED powers of the federal government. Both projects allow or require the government to grant government authority not included in the Constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe this is over the head of some of my friends and most people. I don't know. But it fills me with dismay to see people grasping at straws that will not fulfill their dreams of America that we once had and want returned to us. It saddens me for more personal reasons as well, my heartfelt concern for the futures of my children and grandchildren. <br /><br />I refer you all to this <a href="http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/multi/goldwatr.html">article</a> written by William F. Buckley in 1979. And if you read this, ask yourself what is really going on here? Do you honestly think the financial backers of the COS and / or the Move To Amend are doing this to restore the Constitution or to further erode the freedoms we were originally given? It is pretty easy to see from the proposed amendments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is this the time for amending the Constitution with multiple amendments that, in my view, contradict the limits of the federal government? Given what I have just told you? I could go on with my disapproval and will continue to address this again. Meanwhile, I hope my friends who have bought into this will step back, take a deep breath, and really really dive into the weeds to discover what is lurking here to trap us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Two-thirds of the state legislatures, or 34, must approve an application
for a convention to occur, according to the Constitution’s <a href="http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/article-v.html" target="_blank">article five</a>. State legislatures would then send delegates to the convention, each state getting <i>one </i>vote
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary,
shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the
legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for
proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and
purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of
three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof,
as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;
provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand
eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses
in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its
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<span style="font-size: large;">idea and then run with it? What is the connection here? If you poke around you will find it says it is a "public private partnership" and some advisors were Wall Street traders and also from ALEC. For all the angst among Tea Party folks regarding ALEC and the corporate cronyism in this nation, I wonder if they even know that ALEC is involved in this. The interesting thing that red flagged me right away about this site was the promotion of "single amendment" initiatives, but they have written several amendments ready to go. This site calls the project "Single Issue Amendment Convention." But they have written multiple amendments, linked for you to read. It's obvious the plan is for MANY amendments....not just one. Strangely enough, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/grover_norquists_jihad.html">Grover Norquist</a> (member of the CFR) shows up again and again in this push for a Convention. He and Michael Farris are partners in another organization: Parental Rights.org. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://citizeninitiatives.org/">Citizen Initiatives</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SINGLE ISSUE CONVENTION ENDORSEMENTS: Grover Norquist, President,
Americans for Tax Reform, Al Cardenas, Chair, American Conservative
Union, David Keene, Chair Emeritus, American Conservative Union, Ted
Cruz, Former Solicitor General of Texas, David McIntosh. Co-Founder of
the Federalist Society, Colin Hanna, President Let Freedom Ring Lew
Uhler President, National Tax Limitation Committee, Charlie Black, Chair
of the McCain 2008 Campaign, Michael Farris, President Parental, ALEC
(The American Legislative Exchange Council), Goldwater Institute, Dr.
Robert G. Natelson (Sr. Fellow ALEC and Goldwater Institute), Roman
Buhler (Fdr BBA Task Force) plus many others. Members of Congress and
State Legislators: Rep. John Culberson (R, TX), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D,
TX), Rep. Rob Bishop (R, UT), Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R, WY), Rep. Tom
McClintock (R, CA), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R, TX), Former Rep. Walt Minnick
(D, ID), Del. John Overington (R, WV), Rep. Glen Bradley (R, NC), Sen.
Josh McKoon, (R, GA), Sen. Bruce Tutvedt (R, MT), Rep. Peggy Mast (R,
KS), Sen. Art Wittich (R, MT), Sen. Josh Brecheen (R, OK), plus hundreds
of State Legislators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1390585945651_68008"><span id="ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1390585945651_68007" style="color: #454545;"><a href="https://sendy.securetherepublic.com/l/1mz/vc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="ecxyshortcuts" id="ecxlw_1391016417_14">Michael P. Farris</span></a> is Head of Convention of the States Project, better known as a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con), and President of <a href="https://sendy.securetherepublic.com/l/1mz/vd" target="_blank"><span class="ecxyshortcuts" id="ecxlw_1391016417_15">Parentalrights.org</span></a> in which </span>Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Grover G. Norquist is the Director<span style="color: #454545;">. </span></span>Mr. Farris is also the advisory board member of Christian Freedom International. George Soros is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations with Grover P. Norquist. <span id="ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1390585945651_68013" style="color: #454545;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regarding the 25th Amendment - <a href="http://www.birchbayh.com/id2.html"> Birch Bayh Amendments</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/organizations"> Move to Amend Endorsing Organizations</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/convention-states-scam-war-constitution-states-sold-reserved-powers-feds/"> Excellent article here from Freedom Outpost</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://arkansas.securetherepublic.com/news/caution-questionable-players-in-the-convention-of-states/">Secure the Republic - blog post on the COS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/grover-norquist-pledge-tax-gay-muslim-wife-2012-12?op=1"> Grover Norquist</a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/10/22/glenn-beck-and-the-gops-grover-norquist-problem-revisited/">Michelle Malkin on Grover Norquist</a></span></span>Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-30744099926083929492014-01-30T09:08:00.000-08:002014-01-30T09:10:40.001-08:00STICKS AND STONES......<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">( I haven't written for a while....the holidays, family concerns, many reasons. Nevertheless, I have been still actively involved in supporting the conservative Constitutional movement. We attended the SC Tea Party Convention a couple of weeks ago. Still working with our local Tea Party efforts, and writing an op-ed for our local paper. So...still here and still at it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's difficult to have a conversation with someone(s) who won't discuss facts. What prompted this name-calling outburst was an editorial attempting to get a conversation started about political ideology. I decided it is past time to fix the language problem I have encountered where people refuse to acknowledge our government policies that are communism, socialism, and fascism. Silly me. (The person who called me an "imbecile" insisted that Japan was a communist nation during WWII. So...you have to take these verbal attacks and wonder what on earth has happened to historical knowledge? I guess Hirohito might be wondering what happened to his Imperial Monarchy...not declared as a communist nation. But, oh well.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The local newspaper has a comments section that is attached to facebook. So any comments are publicly published for anyone who accesses facebook. That's fine. I have no problem with that. But what has happened is that comments section has been dominated by local Democrat Party operatives and so-called liberals. The comments from those folks are always hateful, vitriolic, and never result in real conversation. Their comments are full of personal attacks, either toward me or the sources of facts that I might cite in my writing. This has happened every time my writing is published....not to say there are not a few supporters chiming into the fray, but the majority of writing in that comments section, now on facebook, has been taken over by the leftists / so-called progressives. In truth these people are communists and / or socialists. And they hate it when recognized for what they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've come to accept that is what will happen. No amount of facts matter to those folks. They cannot bear to have the truth published in the public realm for other people to read and realize. Still I try. But the reason it struck me to write about this today is that, while I still try, others who are educated, like to learn facts, and who still want to promote America's founding principles, are discouraged to speak out. Who likes to be attacked? No one. Who wants personal attacks thrown at them all over public media such as facebook? No one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The conversation has to change. The fear has to take a backseat. While we are chastising our representatives in DC and in state and local governments for being wimps and wussies for not standing up, many people out here are also not standing up or making their voices heard in the public sphere. I can see why. It's a normal, human, reaction to stay out of the line of fire. But, we expect our representatives to do what the people are afraid to do. Voilá! Stymied. This actually makes representatives think there is no or little support for Tea Party values, so it's a self-defeating, circular conundrum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have hoped that by writing in the public sphere and standing up for conservative Constitutional principles, my example would give more people the courage to speak up. Instead of caving to the sort of people who literally slander and libel Tea Party people in the public forum, the Tea Party movement must get louder and more visible. I see Tea Party people talking to each other, ranting and raving, and generally singing to the choir. That's o.k. I also see some Tea Party people doing the hard work of contacting elected officials, organizing informational meetings, working in primaries, and getting the word out there. BUT right now, the general public, because of the media, is completely blind and deaf to the efforts of the Tea Party, or worse ridiculing the Tea Party as a viable alternative to the unconstitutional, illegal acts of government. As we know, the GOP has an element of people in it who are doing their best to shut out the Tea Party as well. And of course the leftwing media loves to capitalize on that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't know what the answer is exactly, but I do know that silence in the face of tyranny is acceptance. I guess this is my way of saying, "Take it to the streets!" We need more people putting the truth in the public forum. I can't do it alone. If you can't take some verbal attacks, what are you doing to help the cause of freedom? What makes you think you can stand up to the ever encroaching statists? Sharing information with like-minded people is a good thing. But it has to go farther than that. </span></span><br />
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-22978309216396056432013-12-08T18:25:00.001-08:002013-12-08T18:26:30.311-08:00THERE IS SOMETHING REALLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seventy years ago America was in the midst of an unspeakable war of horrors, fighting two enemies on opposite sides of the world. One Japan. The other Germany. The German National Socialists, otherwise known as NAZIs, used terror to control and annihilate citizens into submission. If the American history I was taught has any grain of truth to it, America lost nearly a half a million people in the effort to beat the tar out of enemies in WWII. As has happened in so many places throughout history, oppression is often replaced with just another version of oppression. But in the aftermath of WWII, America rejoiced in the victory over NAZI and Japanese terrorism. America did not replace the governments of enemies with more oppression. America was proud and gave honor to all of the sacrifices made. Supposedly, the narrative goes, America had triumphed over evil oppressors and forever forward would reject the oppression of Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and tyrannical government of all stripes. America was the best of the best and the strongest of the strong. America earned respect and admiration for freeing the slaves in the 1800's and Europe in the 1940's. We did what no other nation has ever done.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fast forward to 2013. Nelson Mandela dies and all of the victories America has earned have been shoved in the dust bin. Now America's twisted and lame leadership is determined to show honor to a terrorist who was known for "necklacing" opposition. The so-called President of the United States has ordered flags flown at half staff for a man who is responsible for thousands of deaths and singing tributes to Communism and killing white people. To throw salt in this wound, the American people are going to be forced to pay for a trip to South Africa for our so-called President and family to attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela. South Africa is not our ally and, I don't believe, has ever been one. Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain was our ally, but our so-called President showed no such interest in her passing and no such respect to Britain when she died. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did America send up tributes to Lenin or Stalin? Or Hitler? Has America sent up tributes to Mugabe, Ghaddafi, Mubarak? What the heck is America doing by gushing kudos and kisses to Nelson Mandela? America has lost its leadership minds! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tributes to a Communist? Just like putting a Mao Tse Tung Christmas ornament on the White House Christmas tree a couple of years ago? Just like flying Islamic flags to honor Muslims during Ramadan? The leadership of America has lost its bearings. My / our nation is no longer standing on the solid and hallowed ground of protecting freedom. The American people are insulted. I am insulted. I am appalled and disgusted. There is something really wrong going on here. I just wonder if the news media, and those kissing up to the Mandela mania market, have a clue what sick insanity this really is. Even Fox news and Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, and others, are sending out messages of tribute and respect for Nelson Mandela, a man who had no respect for America. Today we hear that <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/08/republican-sen-ted-cruz-congressional-democrats-to-commemorate-mandela-in-south-africa/"> Ted Cruz is going to South Africa for the funeral </a> after paying tribute to Mandela on his Facebook page. Really. Such a slap in the face of American families and American history is beyond Orwellian. News flash to the media and those political opportunists who jumped on this bandwagon; Americans may be dumbed down, but we're not THAT stupid. I don't imagine there is any substantial amount of Americans who give a rip about Nelson Mandela's passing from this earth. The up-coming South African photo ops for the O and family? Send them to someone who cares....not here.</span></div>
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-30317622625508968262013-11-25T10:34:00.001-08:002013-11-25T10:36:15.897-08:00THE HEALTHCARE PICKLE<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Why do we find ourselves in this healthcare pickle? How did the federal government get the idea they could insert themselves into our health insurance industry? People forget that government is force. And that it is force at the point of a gun. A model for the Obamacare law can be found in the federal seat belt law, requiring car manufacturers to install seat belts in every car....just as the Obamacare law requires insurance companies to place Obama's requirements into your health insurance policy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When seat belts in cars became mandatory in 1968, there was national debate on whether or not the federal government had the authority to force you to wear a seat belt...or even if the federal government had the authority to force car manufacturers to only sell cars with seat belts installed. The federal government does not force you to wear a seat belt, and is forbidden by law to do so. BUT, the power of the federal government doesn't stop there, even though it should. What the federal government did regarding seat belts is threaten more legislation to force car manufacturers into installing passive restraints /air bags. The idea was that if air bags were installed, seat belts would no longer be necessary, quelling the debate. But the automakers rebelled and said the passive restraints would push the price of cars out of reach for most car purchasers. The automakers, at the behest of the Department of Transportation, then lobbied state governments to pass seat belt laws, forcing drivers and passengers to be fined if caught not wearing a seat belt. Supposedly if the automakers did this, the passive restraints would not become mandatory. But guess what? The Federal government proceeded to make air bags mandatory anyway. And the cost of cars has escalated greatly, just as health insurance is now.</span></div>
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seat-belt laws has been a horrendous financial burden to society, the
greatest cost is really not money. It’s the loss of freedom. Seat-belt
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traffic accidents, there is ample evidence that in other kinds, people
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sound familiar? Now replace the car manufacturers with insurance companies and you can see the federal government through Obamacare has mandated what insurance companies MUST provide, selling health insurance policies because of federal force. As with seat belts, some will benefit, but others will suffer. The Federal government got away with an unconstitutional law in 1968 regarding cars and your driving choices, and since then Congress has had a jolly old time of it regulating and mandating toilets, light bulbs, insulation, dry wall, paint, and nearly every other product you might want to purchase. Now it's health insurance. The unconstitutional precedent was set to using the force of federal law to mandate what product providers must offer to the marketplace. In the case of Obamacare, insurance policies, someone(s) in the Federal government decided what the insurance policies must cover and not cover. But if you have any respect for being American and for the U.S. Constitution, you realize the Federal government has no legitimate role to play in any of these areas of the market. The prosperity of our nation was created by a free market, and whenever the force of government manipulates that, there are winners and losers. Mostly losers. This is what Mussolini did in fascist Italy. It is also what the debt-laden Europeans have done, to create their own economic destitution. I can give you many historical precedents of failed and failing nations whose governments took this kind of power away from their people. But that's a long story and I am told, sadly, that no one wants to hear about it today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One big difference from the seat belt analogy to health insurance is that now, with Obamacare, the federal government has taken one more huge step into your life by mandating that you purchase that product, a product you may or may not want or need, or can afford. (You weren't forced to buy a car, however, if you did, it had to have a seat belt.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just as car manufacturers were vilified if they balked at Federal mandates, insurance companies have been vilified if they dare to fight off Obamacare. So instead, just like the car manufacturers, the insurance companies got on board with the Feds and tried to comply. They had no choice in the matter, not if they wanted to survive. Now Obama is making them the scapegoat for his failing program as Obama moves closer to his stated goal of single-payer socialist healthcare. Someone tell me, what can Obama know about your personal healthcare that you would give him the right to dictate to you what you need or want in health insurance? Same question of DC bureaucrats and politicians. What is your doctor or hospital going to be allowed to do? And what choice will you have? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, there is the pickle. As long as you are willing to give government the power over your personal decisions about your life, what products you buy or offer, the American promise of freedom, economic or otherwise, is shot to hell. This is a pickle I didn't "choose" to be forced to eat. </span></span> <br />
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<br />Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-15471400572690781702013-11-13T07:56:00.001-08:002013-11-17T07:51:31.554-08:00COMPARE THE LEVIATHAN OBAMACARE TO THE FAIR TAX AND WHAT DO YOU GET?<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I've begun looking at candidates for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina to replace the Obamabot Kay Hagan. We have a crowd stepping up for that seat, 5 running so far. They all seem like nice folks. One woman and four men. One is a doctor and one is a medical nurse practitioner. One a broadcaster personality. Two libertarians. One is the current Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives. One a pastor, representing the Christian conservative side of things. There is rumored subterfuge, some of which has credibility with Karl Rove backing one or two of them. Rove's rumored scheme is to back one of them as a spoiler to knock out the most likely Tea Party contender. Party politics is becoming uglier. I'm sure it always was and I am just seeing more of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So as I've been looking at these candidates I am finding one or two of them are promoting the Fair Tax. Red flags for me, if you have read my former posts about that. All of the candidates are saying they would make the effort to get rid of Obamacare. Green lights all around on that one. But what is a person thinking... that they know Obamacare is bad, but they want to say the Fair Tax is good? Am I crazy or are these folks disconnected from reality?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both Obamacare and the Fair Tax are leviathan programs of taxation. Both programs grab a huge amount of the economy for control by the Federal government. Oh...yeah..those Fair Tax guys say it doesn't control anything, but just taxes new goods and all services. They say you would be in control by deciding to purchase or not. Uh huh. Obamacare taxes medical devices and insurance policies. Obamacare takes over 1/6th of the economy. The Fair Tax would take over most of the economy, all but the 'used goods' part. You don't have to pay the taxes unless you want to get your hair cut or buy a new house or car, or new clothes or dishes, or pay someone to wash your car, or buy Christmas gifts for your family. But that's o.k. You don't have to pay Obamacare taxes unless you buy an insurance policy, or want a knee replacement or a pump for your diabetes medications. No problem. What?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both Obamacare and the Fair Tax require a new IRS scheme of collections. Both require a new technological solution of reporting your activities to the Federal government. Both are expensive, comprehensive, unwieldy, and use an untrustworthy government bureaucracy to implement all of the processes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to say the obvious once again about the Fair Tax. The Revolution that created this nation was begun by fighting off consumption taxes by a controlling government. What has happened since then? Today we have people promoting themselves as patriots who are promoting consumption taxes. What is the difference between Obamacare which taxes your health insurance and the Fair Tax which taxes your purchases of goods and services? Again, both using the Federal government to decide what will be taxed and using technology to track your purchases? At least if the tax is based on your income, the minutiae of your daily life is not tracked by the IRS. Granting that tracking everything by the Federal government is now becoming the norm, there is another disconnect; some of the same people who like the Fair Tax also say they are against Smart Meters and Black Boxes which track every kw hour you use and every mile you drive. This gives me whiplash! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surely we can do better than this. Libertarians, such as the Reason Foundation, are lately promoting 'public private partnerships' for roads using tolls, too. They pretend this is a "free market" solution, when it is nothing but a taxpayer guaranteed profit scheme for some corporate entities who manage infrastructure projects. The Fair Tax is nothing more than a different name for the VAT (value added tax) used in the EU. And as long as you are using VAT type taxation, then just pile on carbon taxes while you are at it. As far as I can see, the Fair Tax is a VAT tax and is all too similar to Obamacare taxes. Instead of, or in addition to, taxing your healthcare, the Fair Tax taxes everything else. I just can't get excited about a candidate who wants to promote that for America. I want the Federal government taken down to its proper size...the one where DC is only in charge of national security and foreign relations. All of this domestic manipulation of citizens' personal lives needs to bite the dust as all other socialist tyrannies eventually do. Let's get rid of it now while we still can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd say I'm confused, but I don't think I am. Something doesn't compute with this kind of thinking. And I'm definitely NOT happy about candidates promoting themselves as conservative constitutionalists, but are then promoting programs that are anything but constitutional solutions to shrinking the out of control Federal bureaucracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not equipped enough to go into the Federal Reserve details with the continual printing of some $85 billion per month that is being pumped into the nation. I just know the problem continues and escalates. But I came across an article this morning that explains something about where the money is going. Consider the price of anything and ask what is in that price...what does the supplier do with the money that you spend to purchase anything? Does the price have any true relationship to the cost of production with added profit for the company producing it? (economics is not my tour de force...just warning you.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because our government has become a corrupt soviet socialist + fascist system of "pay to play," the companies from which we purchase goods and the non-profits to whom citizens donate are paying off politicians for "favorable" legislation. Trust me, there will never be enough money in your pocket to get into this club. And trust me, the supposed "favorable" legislation is not "favorable" to you, but is designed to strip your pockets and grease the skids for government clients. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Birds of a feather flock together. What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common? Lots. Both are huge programs that started out as ideological theories foisted onto the states by way of deception. Governors were placed in the cross hairs to implement both of these monoliths of control over citizens' lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Common Core came into the states with a bribe. "Play our little game of winning grants called Race To The Top and you will win a Federal curriculum to be implemented in every school in your state." The states who took Race To The Top money had to agree to this Federal curriculum called Common Core. Sound familiar?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Obamacare was to waltz into the states with Federal Healthcare Exchanges (bribes) with the attached Federal spending on those. Take the money for the Exchanges and your state can "win" by having more Federal monies for Medicaid. Same methodology of bribes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In both situations, governors of the states had to make a decision. Go for the Federal money? Or stand for state sovereignty and remain independent. (North Carolina did not accept Federal Exchanges for Obamacare. Thankfully.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, back at the ranch, most citizens have been left out of the decision process and in the dark on what exactly Common Core and Obamacare are. As usual, the devil is in the details. And the Federal mob of money pushers don't want citizens to know exactly what is in these two gems being foisted upon them. Americans are finally finding out "what is in it." (as Pelosi would say.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What else to these two giant atrocities have in common? Data collection is at the top of the list. The Federal government wants to know everything about everything about everyone's life. As Mark Steyn said today on Rush Limbaugh's show, they want to know how many bisexual drug addicts you've been having sex with and if you own guns. Can there be a good reason for this? No. But teachers and doctors are now being tasked with collecting data on you, your children, your family life, your sex life, your eating habits, your energy use, your transportation choices, ad infinitum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both, Common Core and Obamacare, are illegal under the Constitution of the United States. The Federal government has NO authority to compel curriculum for public schools. In fact it is forbidden for the Federal government to do so. They make it seem "voluntary" by wrapping it in Federal funding with poison strings. Take the money..and bingo bango...they have you by the you know whatsits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Obamacare, every aspect of it is illegal from the process of passage to the implementation of it. The bogus argument that we are hearing from legislators and the media that "this is the law and we have to follow it," must be beaten down with the light of Constitutional truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other thing I would mention they have in common is reduction in quality and standards. Both, Common Core and Obamacare, are intentionally designed to lower the quality and standards that Americans have been able to access. Both programs have been rolled out without due diligence to the results. Both programs have been designed by globalist factions who are determined to bring Americans down to the level of either European socialism or the third world. Both programs are designed to force people to look to government for all of the answers in life. And the answers both programs provide are illogical, unaffordable, and filled with Marxist ideology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the case of Common Core, state leadership is key. With Common Core, the legal authority is still there, with the states, to comply or not. It is still slightly possible to avoid Common Core by taking your children out of the public school system. However, the testing and materials in curriculum are gearing all toward Common Core. It isn't easy to avoid, but it can still be done somewhat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the case of Obamacare, Washington leadership is critical. In healthcare, we have only one choice and that is to get representation in Washington to call off the dogs. Because Obamacare is designed to kidnap every individual citizen, we are at the mercy of our representation to get rid of it. And you can see where that went with the debt ceiling vote. So far we are up the proverbial creek without a paddle. There is no escape route short of Washington representation. I hope those of my readers are very busy working toward changing that representation to Constitutionalists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The same "progressive," "globalist,"crew of one world government is bringing both Common Core and Obamacare into America, no matter which political party is doing it. These two programs are part of the same package. We WILL get rid of them. Yes, I mean the rid of progressives as well as their horrific programs. If not, America bites the dust. I'm not ready to bite the dust yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">( Note: In case you are wondering what is slowing down my posts again here lately, I am fine. But I am busy. I have been working hard, networking with our state legislators on issues. Two issues in particular lately; Smart Meters and proposed toll roads. I've been attending events for these legislators to continue to develop relationships with them. We are very fortunate to have some locally elected legislators who are on our side and who truly are working hard for us. Also, a Lt. Governor who is admirable in his efforts and his convictions. I attended a 'meet and greet' fundraiser for our Lt. Governor Tuesday with Rick Santorum as guest speaker. I've also been working with our Tea Party, creating resolutions and planning our work on local issues. We have a candidates' forum next month for contenders in the race to gain the Senate seat currently held by Democrat Kay Hagan. Last Thursday evening we had our Tea Party meeting and three of our state legislators came as well as two city councilmen and a candidate for sheriff. I am proud of our Tea Party here. It's tough work, all volunteer, and the people on our board are giving it the best they've / we've got. The Tea Party is hardly dead where I live, thankfully! All of this is hardly what I thought was going to be my job description for this time in my life....but here we are! It never seems enough. Am reporting this for Jim G., my buddy in Venezuela....so he knows we are not giving up! )</span></span>Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-27081387390520597162013-10-07T09:29:00.002-07:002013-10-07T09:32:18.709-07:00UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES? I DON'T THINK SO....<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Our local newspaper today printed and editorial lamenting the so-called "unintended consequences" of ethanol mandates in our gasoline supply. Surely, I thought, they have to be joking. Unintended? You would not have to be a rocket scientist to realize the impact to corn prices and, therefore, food supply chain reactions because of ethanol mandates and subsidies. Unintended my foot! I'm not a rocket scientist and I'm pretty sure that if you deliberately reduce supply of a commodity to support food staples, whether for livestock or humans, the price of food "necessarily sky rockets!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The crazy thing is that I see the phrase "unintended consequences" all over the media lately. I guess the authors of articles for mass public consumption want us to believe the government is made of really smart smart people, but the results of their policies are unintended? Does the media want you to sympathize with the policy makers? Do they want you to think those brilliant geniuses didn't really mean to screw things up for certain people? This is proof positive that media is convinced the public is too stupid to learn the truth, and / or media is deliberately dumbing down the public on purpose, which becomes a self-fulfilling, circular prophesy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is an article headlined, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359861/100-unintended-consequences-obamacare-andrew-johnson">" 100 Unintended Consequences of Obamacare."</a> Who are they kidding? If you think any of the fallout from Obamacare is unintended, I've got a bridge in Arizona to sell you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The image above is from an article written in 2009. (ref. below) So you think the Obama administration and the communists who put this thing in place didn't know what damage this was going to do to the United States' economy? It looks to me that the implementation of Obamacare is going to cost more than Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid put together and strap the cost on younger future generations, our grandchildren and their children. That is assuming the nation even has a chance of surviving this at all, which I believe it cannot. So that debt is "unintended?" Just another unintended consequence of horrific policies...just like the Social Security authors never projected or anticipated the shift in population equations? Oh, poor geniuses. They just can't seem to extrapolate the outcomes of their own creations. OR...if they can, this entire current scene we are witnessing is completely deliberate...not "unintended" at all. I pick both...dumb and evil. Theft is always evil. Putting dumb AND evil people in positions of authority in our nation is suicidal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Poor poor Obama was out there explaining away the online glitches of Obamacare this week, saying the glitches were just some normal occurrence from opening such a large government run marketplace to the public. Obama didn't really mean to triple insurance costs for most people. Nah. That is just an "unintended" consequence. He didn't really mean to force so many out of work and off their current insurance plans. It MUST be unintended. Otherwise the public would realize the O in the White House would be a lying, mean, vindictive S.O.B. we can't have that, now can we? People might get a wee bit angry with the POTUS. (They've got that covered with FEMA and DHS, so not to worry if things get a bit heated. The intention there is to shut down any dissention...with intended and violent force.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friends, nothing you see is "unintended" from the Obama administration. NOTHING. All of it is intended. Obama and the people running this government right now are nothing more than an extortionists / thieves, just like the mob. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the last year we have been watching private sector companies lay off employees, close facilities, stop covering health insurance for employees, and generally struggle to survive, if at all. The announcements are coming faster and more prevalent every day. All of this is due to the devastation caused by government policies, and especially Obamacare. Livelihoods gone. Joe Citizen's or Jane Citizen's private sector livelihood was / is essential to him or her. But the government enforcers don't give a rip about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, today, we finally ....finally...get to watch the same Obama government scream and holler about just being furloughed with pay? Now we find out that 93% of the EPA employees are considered "non-essential." John C. and Jane C. have been struggling to pay their taxes and bills, only to find out today that 93% of that EPA agency isn't even necessary. Wow. Now there is a revelation. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/01/Over-93-of-EPA-Employees-Considered-Non-Essential">93%
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to Obama, the private sector is non-essential. The only reason in his mind for the private sector to exist, if at all, is to prop up a larger and larger government sector, so for five years he has been sucking all of the life out of the private sector. As he deliberately puts the private sector out of business, his prop can't possibly prop up his grand scheme of all government all of the time. You would think that any living breathing human being in the middle kingdom with a brain could see where this leads, but no. We have seriously demented idiots in this nation who have no clue, sadly. Some of them still admit they don't care. My hope is they will be made to care when they suffer the sorry fate of Obama's policies. Meanwhile, the scales are over their eyes and they are blind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let the hew and cry come forth from the government employees who are suddenly facing ....what? Paid vacations? There is no justice in this. Paid vacations? Let's make these vacations permanent with no pay, shall we? That would be justice. The only other suggestion I have is to permanently rid ourselves of the current family that occupies the White House, along with all of the Congress members who have supported the unconstitutional government in place right now. Permanently. Meaning... not a lay-off or a furlough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To paraphrase a rather crude phrase, "Opinions are like (blankety blank blank), everyone has one." But when the public is denied access to the facts, opinions are a worthless use of air and print. People have nothing upon which to base their opinions other than the rantings of mainstream media hacks. There are people in this nation who have realized the supposed "facts" in the mainstream media are unfounded rubbish and went looking for truth and facts elsewhere. The deceptions in the mainstream media are so prevalent now that it has become cliché. A large part of the public is either misinformed or not informed at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How do you converse with someone or respect their opinions when their opinions are based on what you know to be lies? Impossible. The trigger used on such people is emotional response to fiction. Well, we all have emotional responses, but you would hope you are responding to something attached to reality. (That is, unless you buy into Freddie Kruger movies and LOVE to entertain yourself with horror stories.) Reading the newspapers or listening to the news can trigger all kinds of emotional responses. But what if what you are reading and hearing is pure fiction, deliberately intended to yank your emotions into high gear? This is where Madison Avenue and the government meet the press room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A drug company wants to sell more of its product. The drug company advertises in the newspaper, magazine, or on the TV network. The next thing you know, there is some news story that says your physical well-being depends on taking that drug or one like it. The news reporter will tell the public that some affliction is SO predominant in the human race that everyone should be tested for whatever that drug will cure. Uh huh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An energy sector company wants to sell wind turbines to the public. The wind turbine manufacturer advertises the benefits of their new system on the news station. The next thing you know, there is a news story on how we are running out of fossil fuels and the nation MUST switch to alternative power sources. Uh huh. And you never see a news story that shows the detrimental effects of that wind turbine farm on the channels who sold the advertising to the wind turbine manufacturer. Never. Sadly, your neighbors and friends saw the news stories about peak fossil fuels and swallowed the whole fiction. They didn't connect the dots between the advertising and the news reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The government is an advertiser, too. How many public service announcements from the government do you hear and see? Every one of those is a tax deduction for the news provider. The radio station or TV station sets a rate per second or per minute for air time. The government then grants them a tax break based on those rates for every public service announcement aired. The broadcaster doesn't want to jeopardize that tax break, now does it? Next thing you know there is a news story on the benefits of X, Y, or Z government program. But you never hear anything to the contrary. Ah....the benefits of depending on the government. "Big Gov will take care of me," is the message that gets through to those emotional wrecks who want the government to ....take care of them. Or, "Look at what great things the government is doing with my tax dollars!!" "What a great thing!!" The poor consumer of that message never connects the dots...that their tax dollars were just used to convince them, subsidizing the broadcaster at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mainstream media is making up stories and choosing stories to hit triggers of emotional response. That may sound naive. Editors have always chosen the stories to feed to the public. They need consumers. They also need advertisers to pay the bills. But advertising used to be separate from the news. I'm good with advertising, branding, and Madison Avenue. I am NOT good with Madison Avenue buying out the truth and having the mainstream media print and broadcast lies to the public. And I am NOT good with the government using my tax dollars to advertise itself and dupe the public. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Years ago, when I was in high school, I thought I would pursue a career in journalism. I was fairly proficient in English and writing. Between my Junior and Senior years I was offered a summer program for two weeks at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. One of the classes I recall was a class on journalistic ethics. Seems like a hundred years ago now, but there was such a thing as journalistic ethics taught at a State university in this country. The major lesson of that particular class was to never let anything get between your writing and the facts. Do research to verify what you are saying. Check your sources. At the least, do all you can in those efforts. If you fail at that, print retractions and caveats that correct the mistakes. Don't fail the public's need for truth. This is the responsibility of journalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ted Cruz and a few other Republicans did yesterday what journalists have failed to do. He spent 20+ hours on the floor of the Senate telling the truth about the so-called "Affordable Care Act." The mainstream media and sycophantic pundits have mocked him for his efforts. If we had ethics in journalism, or ethics in government, we would not be suffering through the worst presidency of our lifetimes or the consequences of it. Our nation is suffering from a lack of truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kudos to my blogger friends and facebook friends who are exposing the deceptions. You are doing what my journalism class instructed. We are all citizen journalists now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was paying attention to a few news stories on <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324492604579082352323346902.html">Starbucks</a> over the last few days and all that crossed my mind is .....Yuppies must have "the Yips." I come from a golfing family and "the Yips" is the condition of confidence crisis that grabs you over your next shot and you duff it or you mishit the ball. The Yips...a crisis of confidence. Combine the Yuppies with the Hippies...and what you get are Yippies with the Yips! I hope the Millennials are not taking notes on how to run a country. < href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=millennial">Millennials</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From what I can tell, we have two types of mass shooters in the last 5 years. We have the Islamic terrorist. And we have the deranged, mentally ill. In both of those categories, the government has neglected to protect the public from such persons. In all instances the shooters have picked a place where guns are forbidden to be carried by law abiding citizens. The movie theater. The schools. The military bases. But what does the liberal want to do about this? Disarm the entire public even more and deny innocent, law abiding citizens, the opportunity to defend themselves. (It suddenly just occurred to me that the same people who claim their property rights for a "gun free zone," are also the same people who deny property rights to people who don't want Smart Meters or squirrelly light bulbs or 1.5 gallon toilets. Hmmmm....) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are living in a society where a lot of people have lost confidence in their abilities to do much of anything real. Real, like working to create something real. I know people like this. They dismiss any possibility that they could run a business or make a product that people would buy, or work for a company that does. They dismiss their ability to stand up to anyone who is doing something wrong. They don't change the oil in their cars anymore or know how to change a tire. They don't know how to bang a hammer into a nail to fix something. Occasionally they will grab a hammer for a couple of hours at a Habitat project and pat themselves on the back. They take their own bags to the grocery to save the planet, while at the same time buying tomatoes grown and shipped from Mexico or Central America. They are terrified of using up their carbon footprint, so they fool themselves by buying hybrid vehicles...or they are fooling everyone else and purchase the car so they can get the $7500 Federal tax deduction. It looks good to their friends, I guess. If they do any manual work at all, they boast about how martyred they are for doing it. They are usually the first ones in line to reduce their property taxes when revaluations come through. They are seldom grateful for the labors of someone else, but talk about anything they have done as if they created the Holy Grail. Too many people are pushing papers, collecting data on other people, shoving their noses into other people's business, and generally creating nothing but a chaotic mess. Let something bad happen and bingo...you have the Yips!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ask them about carrying a gun to defend themselves or someone else against a thug.....WHOA....no, no, no. Ask them if you should walk into Starbucks to buy a latte with a concealed carry on your person.....OH MY HEAVENS, DON'T EVEN SUGGEST IT! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The normal human reaction to violence is to defend one's self and one's family. The reasonable action in case of an attack is to try to stop the attacker, be it a snake, a wolf, or a predatory human. Hence we have laws on the books that allow a self-defense plea .....you are reasonably allowed to defend yourself and your family. (Or you used to be allowed.) If society and / or government renders you defenseless, who is to blame when the deranged, the terrorist, and the criminal take you and several others out? Well, the way things are going I don't expect those self-defense laws will continue to hold up, given the culture of moral relativism and the idiocy being taught in law schools over the last years. The Yippies want us to show understanding and sympathy to the attackers. (Meanwhile, you aren't allowed to shoot a bear or other animal predator on your own property....poor predators.) This way, the Yippies don't have to take any responsibility upon themselves for disarming an entire nation that has a 2nd Amendment right to defend themselves. And they also get to feign shock and dismay when a mass tragedy occurs against defenseless people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">UPDATE ON MY ABSENCE - Over the last several weeks I have had some crazy health issues. First of all, a neighbor's dog bit me in the face on August 7th. Fortunately, this dog had its rabies vaccinations, but unfortunately, has a habit of doing this to people. I was healing nicely from that when I came down with a very high fever. I discovered several insect bites on my legs, swollen ankles and feet, and spent a week of misery with those symptoms, plus more. I couldn't eat by this time and had horrendous leg cramps that would not allow me to sleep. I went to our Doctor who shot me full of antibiotics and said he thought maybe I had a sinus infection??? Say what? Still sick a week later they sent me for a battery of blood tests and a sonar-gram. The outcome of that was it must be a virus, and oh by the way, I have a gall stone. The gall bladder was not infected or inflamed, but they sent me to the surgeon who said he'd be happy to take out my gall bladder anyway, but he didn't think that was the cause of all of these symptoms. I went home to contemplate this. The high temperatures by this time were going down. Then I was sent to an infectious disease Dr. who said he thought I had some mysterious unnamed virus and it would go away in a few weeks. Suffering three more days, I decided that if the gall bladder was causing the eating problem, I'd better get that fixed...so back to the surgeon. And he is a good one at that. Two days later...voilá...the gall bladder was out and I could eat again. Now, I am a week beyond that. The swelling and cramps in my legs are gone, things are slowly getting back to normal. BUT, I am as weak as a kitten and going to take a few more weeks to regain my strength. So that's the story on me...just letting you know what happened. I must have looked like a delicious target to something(s) evil. Do you suppose it was a communist plot? LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gee, do you think the House of Representatives has control of the purse strings? Not if you listen to some of the GOP who swear they cannot defund Obamacare. But...but...wait....Obama knows how to get Congress to stay with the program! Exempt them all, their families, and their staff personnel! That way they can't deny the funding because they won't care anymore!! Great idea....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since when is Charleston, South Carolina on the Gulf coast? Since the Emperor with no clothes says so on late night entertainment? But the audience applauded. Who is dumber? The Emperor? Or the audience? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's keep cheap available energy away from the third world nations so they can continue to live the poverty life. Yep, great idea. We wouldn't want the third world to be too comfortable, now would we? They might actually be able to produce something of value for themselves and rest of the world if they had available energy. We can't have that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And while we're at it, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/30/enviro-lawsuit-forces-five-indiana-coal-plants-to-shut-down/">let's put the American coal industry out of work for good.</a> What have they done for us, anyway? Really. Just keeping us in productive comfort for years and years...that can't be a good thing, now can it? Yeah. Shut 'em down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, how about putting low income housing into every neighborhood in America? <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/08/09/hud-proposes-plan-to-racially-economically-integrate-neighborhoods">That's the ticket!</a> Let's do that. Everyone should live next to or in a ghetto. It's only fair. We can all be like Chicago and the crime rate there...or like Detroit where no one can live anymore. Perfect!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's great idea! <a href="http://www.governing.com/blogs/fedwatch/gov-could-feds-lift-ban-interstate-tolling.html">Let's make every road a toll road.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Oooooohhh, I really like that one. That'll keep those slippery citizens from moving around! You know. They use those very bad cars to get to work and school and ...the grocery and the mall. Sometimes they are really indulgent and drive on vacations. Make 'em pay even more to even try to do those things. That'll show those bad Americans what it's really like to live. Bicycles and sidewalks, subways and light rail, bullet trains and greenways...."these are a few of my favorite things!!" (I think I feel a song coming on.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, back at the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/04/common-core-in-pursuit-of-the-new-soviet-man/">school system:</a> Let's make sure those little munchkins get it through their little minds full of mush that whatever they do will kill the planet! <a href="http://www.c3headlines.com/2013/07/us-senate-hearings-pro-agw-experts-confirm-obama-lied-about-global-warming.html">Global Warming is the ticket!!</a> How dare they consider growing up, having more children, owning homes, eating hamburgers...those bloodsucking parasitic kids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now let's move on to the Smart Grid, <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2685">shall we? </a> The good Dems have put a <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013072132915/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/smart-grid-advancement-act-introduced-in-us-congress.html"> bill forth that will make sure EVERY citizen will be attached to the Smart Meters we spent so much money on as we subsidized the high tech energy companies. </a> We can radiate everyone and at the same time we'll be able to control every appliance and HVAC system in the nation! Whoo hoo....that is going to be sosoooo much fun!! When Suzy goes to turn on that washer, BINGO, we can turn it off...or turn her refrigerator off while she washes her clothes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Black boxes on every car by 2014!! Of course! That way we can hijack anyone's car at will. We can control the speed, too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh yeah, don't forget to instruct the kids how to be homosexuals. That ought to fix things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On top of all of this chaotic destruction, by all means let's bomb Syria!! Yeah, that'll get our minds off of Obamacare, Common Core, Amnesty, Benghazi, the NSA, and all of the other corruption in Washington DC. Keep the focus elsewhere. Let's bomb Assad without any concrete proof that he is responsible for using chemical weapons and let's, by all means, arm the same Al Qaeda that is our known enemy. What a great idea!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those are just a few of my random thoughts as I went through the trials of this last month. I am going to be taking it slow and steady to get my strength back. As the Dr. reminded me after the gall bladder surgery, "Lady, you have four very deep stab wounds. You need to take time to heal." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All's well that ends well. I'm going to rest again now. Back later!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somehow I don't think <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/30/govt-knows-best-white-house-creates-nudge-squad-to-shape-behavior/"> this </a> is what the Founders had in mind when they created limited government for the sake of our freedom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The federal government is hiring what it calls a "Behavioral Insights
Team" that will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior,
according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com.
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've known people throughout my life who thrive on telling other people what to do, how to live, and generally advocate control tactics using power over individuals. I don't like them. I have avoided them whenever I've discovered this about them, something I consider a fatal flaw. Otherwise known as "control freaks," these are people who normally think they sweat perfume and think it is their job to run your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meet Cass Sunstein, the ultimate control freak. He has longed for the power to rule your life and has now gained that power through the Obama administration. His book, "Nudge," reveals his passion for manipulating behaviors. This is what makes him tick. The power of unconstitutional government is a dream come true for such people as Cass Sunstein. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yep. Don't bother your little head about serious things, we will just sign you up "automatically." It's our call, not yours. I can't wait to see what else Mr. Sunstein would automatically sign me up for! I'm sure it will be just dandy! This is not a "nudge," folks. This is tyranny. He has the gall to call this "freedom of choice." Sort of like ...do you want to do what I want? Or do you want me to force you to do what I want? Either way, you WILL do what I want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mayor Bloomberg fits this category to a "tee." These are very sick psychopathic people and don't belong anywhere near government positions. Can this country find a few good men to run for elected office? Please?</span></span>Cheryl Passhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894307477506374497noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215147935611201277.post-51175131917240586662013-07-29T08:08:00.000-07:002013-08-01T07:52:05.852-07:00WHO ARE THE SEDITIONISTS IN AMERICA TODAY?<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. <b>Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority.</b> Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the dilemma: When government officials, appointees, representatives, and all in supposed positions of power are actively involved in sedition against our Constitution, what do you call it and who will enforce the sedition laws? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sedition is the crime of revolting or inciting revolt against
government. However, because of the broad protection of free speech
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prosecutions for sedition are rare. Nevertheless, sedition remains a
crime in the United States under 18 U.S.C.A. § 2384 (2000), a federal
statute that punishes seditious conspiracy, and 18 U.S.C.A. § 2385
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by force. Generally, a person may be punished for sedition only when he
or she makes statements that create a <a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Clear+and+Present+Danger">Clear and Present Danger</a> to rights that the government may lawfully protect (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">schenck v. united states,</span> 249 U.S. 47, 39 S. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. 470 [1919]). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before you go all crazy on me and cite the abuses of the Alien and Sedition Act from John Adams, please know I am not talking about eliminating free speech. I am talking about government officials, elected and otherwise, who are "transforming America" by seditious acts against the Constitution thereby creating a "clear and present danger" to our rights. The most egregious assault on us is coming from elected officials who have sworn to protect our rights under the Constitution. These people are supposedly representing us. But they aren't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Authority in America is granted only for the purpose of upholding our Constitution. However, that authority has been abused. Unelected agents within our government are creating regulations and so-called laws that are unconstitutional, both by virtue of the agents' lack of authority to do so, and by virtue of the particular laws and regulations not allowed by the Constitution itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So let's look at the NSA surveillance situation. Here is an agency, unelected by the people, directed by the Executive Branch of the government, who is now engaging in an outright attack on the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. The rights of people to be secure in their homes and possessions is ignored. Has Congress stepped in to protect the 4th Amendment? Nah...not so much. In fact, many in Congress have stepped in to support this abuse of the 4th Amendment. Instead of the rights of the people, we are now looking at the rights of unelected agencies, as the Supreme Court affirmed by allowing the EPA to define CO2 as a pollutant, and further leaving Congress out of the decision making process altogether. Again, did Congress step in to defend against this abomination of the rules? Nah....not so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How about the Justice Department? Under the direction of the Executive Branch, Justice was told to ignore the DOMA law and immigration laws. Those laws that were passed by Congress and signed by previous Presidents were / are ignored by the current administration. It is government itself in these circumstances that is committing seditious acts, but so far we are seeing no one in authority going after the culprits. With this current Executive Branch and this Justice Department, the laws of the nation are to be tossed aside and ignored. This is subversive / seditious activity by the government itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Congress is becoming both seditious and irrelevant at the same time. Irrelevant by refusing to support the Constitution and prosecuting those who actively undermine it, seditious by passing laws that are unconstitutional, such as the misnamed Affordable Care Act. (There are a few in Congress who are doing their best to combat all of this, but too few to be able to yank the entire mess in DC back to its original concept of limited government.)</span></div>
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