So Barney Frank gets re-elected. Barney Frank, “the colonoscopy gone bad. The proctological carbuncle that refuses to subside.” In spite of the fact that he, as much as anyone, is responsible for causing us all to implode inside the housing bubble. People do know that, don’t they? That he led the brigade that forced banks to make loans that were destined to default that caused the housing bubble that encouraged banks to find ways to make money anyway because that’s their job, that undermined the entire financial system.
And Jerry Brown? Californians do remember don’t they that Jerry and his father Pat, for 16 years, led California down the entitlement path that has destroyed the state? I liked him. I remember how noble he was, refusing to be chauffeured, declining the governors mansion in favor of a third story walk up (or something like that). Now here was a governor with the welfare of the people at heart. However, the Brown governorships could be the poster child for Thomas Sowell’s Unintended Consequences. Their attempts to cure all of California’s social ills resulted in a social ills boom. You get what you pay for.
Meg Whitman was blasted for suggesting that Jerry Brown was responsible for California’s failed school system, but it was Brown who, when Proposition 13 passed opted to start supporting schools with state funds which eventually undermined the constitutional mandate for local control of schools.
Even the Terminator could not blast through the stronghold of excesses at Sacramento, moderate their lack of fiscal discipline, mitigate their indenture to union bosses, restrain their unsustainable entitlement programs that the Browns set in motion.
Maybe salt sea zephyrs cripple the judgment, soften the brain. But why, then, is Florida not affected? Perhaps warm salt sea zephyrs are less noxious. Hmm. I think I’ll apply for a $4,000,000 federal grant to study the issue.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
A Confluence of information
It’s strange how sometimes unrelated bits of information fall into place like pieces of a puzzle. For me, this week, it was a National Geographic story about the happiest people in the world, a rabbi’s enlightening discussion of the story of the Tower of Babel, and the Sunday school class’s examining of several Bible verses that counsel us to be alert, to wake up.
Dan Buettner, a National Geographic researcher recently revealed that people who live in Denmark and Singapore are the happiest people in the world. The investigation conducted by the staff revealed that, however dissimilar the countries are, the reasons for the inhabitants’ sense of well being were similar, feelings of contentment and safety.
Danes are happy because they are well taken care of, all of them, from cradle to grave. Danes pay some of the highest tax rates in the world, but in exchange the inhabitants lack for nothing. Because the system is so efficient, Danes feel "tryghed" -- the Danish word for "tucked in" -- like a snug child. The rigid penal code in Singapore makes it an unlikely place to evoke such happiness. The death penalty in Singapore is invoked more often and for a wider variety of crimes than any other nation on earth. Murderers, drug dealers, tax evaders and the like are quietly hanged in the pre-dawn hours of perhaps every other Friday, on average about 34 people a year. The process is shrouded in secrecy, but as a result the inhabitants of Singapore feel safe.
All such studies rank The United States much lower on the happiness scale. Perhaps we still believe what Benjamin Franklin said: “He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.” Perhaps we listen more carefully to lessons of history.
The Bible is largely a history of God’s struggle to preserve individual freedoms. I remember hearing the story of the tower of Babel as a child and thought that God was angry at Nimrod for worshiping the tower and, by confusing their languages, scattered the people as punishment. I recently heard a Jewish Rabbi explain the story from a different prospective. The peoples were scattered, not as punishment, but as a blessing. Nimrod had brought together all the peoples of the known world, and under his encouragement they built the tower, a stairway to heaven.
According to the rabbi, the bricks the Israelites used to build the tower were actually symbolic of the Israelites themselves. God prefers people to be individuals like stones, not identical like bricks. So, in Genesis 1:6 Jehovah says, “Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language.” To save them he confused their languages and scattered them. He had created each one of us for a special purpose and through our walk with God we discover and accomplish that purpose. When we allow ourselves to be gathered like sheep in safety and comfort, we find no need of God and, as a result, lose our sense of purpose.
The Israelis slipped almost willingly into bondage several times throughout their history, and many other civilizations have repeated the pattern of destruction, from bondage to individualism to great courage to liberty to abundance, then from abundance to complacency to apathy to dependency and finally back to bondage. The leaders of Rome destroyed individuality by the same method. Their influential people knew that if they provided their citizens with their bread and circuses, made them comfortable and amused, the leaders could maintain their power base and insure their wealth. Nero said, "Let us tax and tax again. Let us see to it that no one owns anything!” Every leader further enmeshed the citizens into a sense of dependency. Eventually the country was buried under a bureaucracy that stifled all freedoms.
The Israelis traded their freedoms for security. Rome was lulled to sleep by bread and circuses. China was held in bondage by England’s generous supply of opium. The Danes like being safely tucked in. The people of Singapore are willing to sacrifice freedom for safety. America, however, might be taking Paul’s advice. In his letter to the Romans he said, "The night is far spent; the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light" (Rom. 13:11,12).
Dan Buettner, a National Geographic researcher recently revealed that people who live in Denmark and Singapore are the happiest people in the world. The investigation conducted by the staff revealed that, however dissimilar the countries are, the reasons for the inhabitants’ sense of well being were similar, feelings of contentment and safety.
Danes are happy because they are well taken care of, all of them, from cradle to grave. Danes pay some of the highest tax rates in the world, but in exchange the inhabitants lack for nothing. Because the system is so efficient, Danes feel "tryghed" -- the Danish word for "tucked in" -- like a snug child. The rigid penal code in Singapore makes it an unlikely place to evoke such happiness. The death penalty in Singapore is invoked more often and for a wider variety of crimes than any other nation on earth. Murderers, drug dealers, tax evaders and the like are quietly hanged in the pre-dawn hours of perhaps every other Friday, on average about 34 people a year. The process is shrouded in secrecy, but as a result the inhabitants of Singapore feel safe.
All such studies rank The United States much lower on the happiness scale. Perhaps we still believe what Benjamin Franklin said: “He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.” Perhaps we listen more carefully to lessons of history.
The Bible is largely a history of God’s struggle to preserve individual freedoms. I remember hearing the story of the tower of Babel as a child and thought that God was angry at Nimrod for worshiping the tower and, by confusing their languages, scattered the people as punishment. I recently heard a Jewish Rabbi explain the story from a different prospective. The peoples were scattered, not as punishment, but as a blessing. Nimrod had brought together all the peoples of the known world, and under his encouragement they built the tower, a stairway to heaven.
According to the rabbi, the bricks the Israelites used to build the tower were actually symbolic of the Israelites themselves. God prefers people to be individuals like stones, not identical like bricks. So, in Genesis 1:6 Jehovah says, “Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language.” To save them he confused their languages and scattered them. He had created each one of us for a special purpose and through our walk with God we discover and accomplish that purpose. When we allow ourselves to be gathered like sheep in safety and comfort, we find no need of God and, as a result, lose our sense of purpose.
The Israelis slipped almost willingly into bondage several times throughout their history, and many other civilizations have repeated the pattern of destruction, from bondage to individualism to great courage to liberty to abundance, then from abundance to complacency to apathy to dependency and finally back to bondage. The leaders of Rome destroyed individuality by the same method. Their influential people knew that if they provided their citizens with their bread and circuses, made them comfortable and amused, the leaders could maintain their power base and insure their wealth. Nero said, "Let us tax and tax again. Let us see to it that no one owns anything!” Every leader further enmeshed the citizens into a sense of dependency. Eventually the country was buried under a bureaucracy that stifled all freedoms.
The Israelis traded their freedoms for security. Rome was lulled to sleep by bread and circuses. China was held in bondage by England’s generous supply of opium. The Danes like being safely tucked in. The people of Singapore are willing to sacrifice freedom for safety. America, however, might be taking Paul’s advice. In his letter to the Romans he said, "The night is far spent; the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light" (Rom. 13:11,12).
My Quest
Today I am starting on my second quest. About a year ago I dedicated my mornings to a 1 year plan for reading the Bible chronologically. I did it. Much to my surprise, I stayed with it. Today I am starting on a thematic program. This time, however, I plan to use the readings as springboards for commentaries.
My first reading Daniel 11:36-12:13 establishes again why it is that kingdoms fall, why great nations destroy themselves. We become so self-satisfied that we“ have no respect for the gods of {our}ancestors.” Daniel 12, the second reading is Daniel’s prediction of the end times. I remember discussing this passage with April, my Jehovah’s Witness friend. She lead me to several passages that determined quite convincingly was Daniel’s “time, times, and half a time” meant. I need to refresh my memory.
Lynne was quite disturbed by the reading of I John 4 when he says, “Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.” She felt that love should not be limited to loving their Christian brothers and sisters, we should love everyone. I thought perhaps that the implication was that all of us, are recipients of God’s prevenient (sp?) grace, whether we know it or not, God is with us.
My first reading Daniel 11:36-12:13 establishes again why it is that kingdoms fall, why great nations destroy themselves. We become so self-satisfied that we“ have no respect for the gods of {our}ancestors.” Daniel 12, the second reading is Daniel’s prediction of the end times. I remember discussing this passage with April, my Jehovah’s Witness friend. She lead me to several passages that determined quite convincingly was Daniel’s “time, times, and half a time” meant. I need to refresh my memory.
Lynne was quite disturbed by the reading of I John 4 when he says, “Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.” She felt that love should not be limited to loving their Christian brothers and sisters, we should love everyone. I thought perhaps that the implication was that all of us, are recipients of God’s prevenient (sp?) grace, whether we know it or not, God is with us.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
I always new my Dad was smart.
I always knew my Dad was smart. He could sit down with a book after lunch and finish it before supper. I just didn’t know that he was brilliant. His inability to pronounce words masked his aptitude. He’d say, “Listen to this, Cora Lee,” and read a passage that had stirred his imagination. I’d pretend to understand and then take the book and read it for myself. He was a sight reader, having been largely self-taught, quitting school and taking over the family farm. His father died when he was 12.
As a side note, I often though it odd that my sisters don’t remember spending time with my father, while my childhood memories are flooded with such images. Recently I have arrived at a conclusion as to why that would be true. I think I cried a lot and my mother had Dad take me off her hands. A conversation I had with Mrs. Holen, a woman who at one point was our housekeeper, suggested that. She told me she felt bad for me because I always wanted my mother and could not be consoled. My father probably relieved her of the burden, so I remember golden times, going to town with him, riding on the hay stack while he hauled it to the barn, “helping” build a new “shit house”; and in the course of those adventures overhearing bits and pieces of conversation, references to acronyms that made no sense but clearly communicated his disdain for FDR.
So, when Newt Gingrich said that the president he admired most was FDR, I was confused. According to my father, FDR was an arrogant man who thought government could use its unlimited power to create a more perfect world. He was a man who knew nothing about running a business, but who thought he could manage the entire economy, a man who knew nothing about farming, but who thought he could save those small ignorant farmers by forcing them onto communal farms where he and the members of his brain trust could show them how it should be done.
Needless to say, the more I read about Theodore and Franklin and that era of American history, the more I read Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams and Charles Payne, the more respect I have for my father. They all understand what unintended consequences are in store for us as a result of politicians who take pity on us. A recent article in Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College (Get it. It’s free and most informative.) reinforced that respect (“The Rules of the game for Economic Recovery,” by Amity Shlaes).
I am sure the members of the brain trust were smart, and that was their tragic flaw, hubris, men who thought they could play God and manage the world. Ms. Shlaes tells one story about the way FDR managed the price of gold which made me laugh. He decided on what the price of gold should be each morning as he awoke in his bed. One morning he raised the price 21 cents. When he was asked why 21 cents he told Morgenthau, his advisor, that it was because 3 and 7 were lucky numbers.
It’s hard for me to believe that those in power aren’t totally aware of the unintended consequences of their manipulations. The market crashes of the 1919 and 1987 were just as severe but the sitting presidents rode it out and both crashes ended in a decade of economic boom. Fight a rip tide and you drown.
As a side note, I often though it odd that my sisters don’t remember spending time with my father, while my childhood memories are flooded with such images. Recently I have arrived at a conclusion as to why that would be true. I think I cried a lot and my mother had Dad take me off her hands. A conversation I had with Mrs. Holen, a woman who at one point was our housekeeper, suggested that. She told me she felt bad for me because I always wanted my mother and could not be consoled. My father probably relieved her of the burden, so I remember golden times, going to town with him, riding on the hay stack while he hauled it to the barn, “helping” build a new “shit house”; and in the course of those adventures overhearing bits and pieces of conversation, references to acronyms that made no sense but clearly communicated his disdain for FDR.
So, when Newt Gingrich said that the president he admired most was FDR, I was confused. According to my father, FDR was an arrogant man who thought government could use its unlimited power to create a more perfect world. He was a man who knew nothing about running a business, but who thought he could manage the entire economy, a man who knew nothing about farming, but who thought he could save those small ignorant farmers by forcing them onto communal farms where he and the members of his brain trust could show them how it should be done.
Needless to say, the more I read about Theodore and Franklin and that era of American history, the more I read Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams and Charles Payne, the more respect I have for my father. They all understand what unintended consequences are in store for us as a result of politicians who take pity on us. A recent article in Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College (Get it. It’s free and most informative.) reinforced that respect (“The Rules of the game for Economic Recovery,” by Amity Shlaes).
I am sure the members of the brain trust were smart, and that was their tragic flaw, hubris, men who thought they could play God and manage the world. Ms. Shlaes tells one story about the way FDR managed the price of gold which made me laugh. He decided on what the price of gold should be each morning as he awoke in his bed. One morning he raised the price 21 cents. When he was asked why 21 cents he told Morgenthau, his advisor, that it was because 3 and 7 were lucky numbers.
It’s hard for me to believe that those in power aren’t totally aware of the unintended consequences of their manipulations. The market crashes of the 1919 and 1987 were just as severe but the sitting presidents rode it out and both crashes ended in a decade of economic boom. Fight a rip tide and you drown.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
PBS stands for Public Bulls____.Station.
I listened to the PBS interview of Dana Milbank about his new "expose" of Glenn Beck, Tears of a Clown. According to him Beck is a very dangerous man who is influencing middle America with distortions of history. Beck supposedly said that the Dark Ages ended in the 17th century and that we bought Alaska in 1950. Now I often watch Beck and have never heard him say either, but even if he had, it would hardly be considered a "dangerous recasting" of history. The other thing Milbank says Beck lied about was his accusing a great American, Woodrow Wilson of supporting eugenics. Milbank is either lying or he knows little of US History. It is common knowledge that Wilson supported Eugenics. When he was governor of New Jersey he signed a brutal sterilization act designed to prevent defectives including simply poor children from procreating. He wrote of the need to improve “racial qualities.” Hitler sent members of his inner circle to America to learn more about how racial purity might be advanced through eugenics. The most outrageous accusation, thought, was that Beck was inciting violence, calling conservatives to arm themselves for a great revolution. Beck is, of course, totally committed to the Gandhi and King camp. You may not like Fox News, but always air both points of view. Not PBS and our tax dollars support their distribution of crap.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Senator Hatch:
I will donate generously to the Republican Party when I see a serious commitment on the part of the party to deflate the federal government. You can start here:
1.I am a teacher, have taught for 46 years, but I want the department of education eliminated. It is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars.
2.I want to see the department of energy dissolved completely. They have done nothing but get in the way of our energy independence.
3.Get a commitment from all Republicans to be real servants of the people. Show us your willingness to sacrifice. Demonstrate that they are willing to cut their staffs by half and cut their benefit packages by half.
4.Vow that you will no longer allow FEMA or federal insurance to pay people to rebuild homes over and over again that are built in vulnerable places. I read the other day about a $69,000 home that had been rebuild 14 times since 1974 at a cost to the American tax payer of $685,000. And it happens over and over again. Are you guys STUPID?
And then you write me a letter on the part of the party and show me what else you are committed to doing to downsize Washington.
If what I see shows a real commitment to getting the federal government under control, I will send you a very generous donation.
I will donate generously to the Republican Party when I see a serious commitment on the part of the party to deflate the federal government. You can start here:
1.I am a teacher, have taught for 46 years, but I want the department of education eliminated. It is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars.
2.I want to see the department of energy dissolved completely. They have done nothing but get in the way of our energy independence.
3.Get a commitment from all Republicans to be real servants of the people. Show us your willingness to sacrifice. Demonstrate that they are willing to cut their staffs by half and cut their benefit packages by half.
4.Vow that you will no longer allow FEMA or federal insurance to pay people to rebuild homes over and over again that are built in vulnerable places. I read the other day about a $69,000 home that had been rebuild 14 times since 1974 at a cost to the American tax payer of $685,000. And it happens over and over again. Are you guys STUPID?
And then you write me a letter on the part of the party and show me what else you are committed to doing to downsize Washington.
If what I see shows a real commitment to getting the federal government under control, I will send you a very generous donation.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Gary Knox’s column in the July 27th edition of the Yuma Sun was a real hoot. It was a joke, wasn’t it? He certainly couldn’t be serious about describing those of us on the right as mindless robots, mentally lazy ideologues, rabble rousers, full of hostility, not use a shred of evidence to back up his assertions, and then call our rhetoric “mean.”
He is right about one thing, “our political and economic systems are threatened,” but it’s not because we’re speaking out, it’s because we have been silent too long. And I didn’t need Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck to alert me to that. It’s a lifetime of learning. My father spoke out against big brother government in the thirties when FDR sent his henchmen to our farm to slaughter our cattle in order to protect the price of beef. My father quit farming when the government began paying farmers not to farm. He didn’t think it an honorable proposition.
I saw as a teacher what big government did to education. Federal dollars had to be spent before a certain date or the federal funds would be curtailed the next fiscal year. It didn’t matter much what we bought, just spend the money. I observed reading programs which were rated excellent by Title I just because the classroom was surrounded by computers and tens of thousands of dollars worth of computer programs lined the walls. It mattered not that the classroom teacher didn’t know how to use the computers and so taught reading the way we all learned, with the printed word. The Title I programs were rewarded simply because they looked good and the coordinator had spent a lot of money.
Rent control legislation in New York made the cost of housing skyrocket. Section 8 government aid caused the same bubble in Flagstaff. I built a duplex on some property there and rented the units for $250. But when a tenant couldn’t afford the rent I applied for Section 8 and discovered that all of the sudden my little two bedroom unit would rent for $650. When the taxpayers are paying the bill, the sky is the limit.
The biggest reason the cost of higher education has quadrupled, nay risen ten fold, is that Uncle Sam started paying the bills. If we worked and saved all summer we could squeak through a year of school on little more than $800. We had wardrobes of two skirts and five blouses and squeezed our toothpaste tubes until our fingers hurt, but we made it. Now colleges don’t bother to control costs. Raise the cost of tuition and then build monuments that show the world what a great educator you were. Why do college books cost $200 - $400 each? Because Uncle Sam is paying the bill. What caused the cost of health care to spiral out of control? The government began paying the bills.
Reagan said it best. Governments do not solve problems, they create them, but we knew that long ago. The government forced banks to make risky loans. Banks have to make money, so they found a way to profit in spite of government regulations.
Do you really think that the 2000 page health care and finance bills have broken “complex problems into easily understood component elements”? If we do not speak the truth, Mr. Knox, dispute our facts, but don’t call us mindless, lazy ideologues. That’s a lazy man’s style of rhetoric.
He is right about one thing, “our political and economic systems are threatened,” but it’s not because we’re speaking out, it’s because we have been silent too long. And I didn’t need Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck to alert me to that. It’s a lifetime of learning. My father spoke out against big brother government in the thirties when FDR sent his henchmen to our farm to slaughter our cattle in order to protect the price of beef. My father quit farming when the government began paying farmers not to farm. He didn’t think it an honorable proposition.
I saw as a teacher what big government did to education. Federal dollars had to be spent before a certain date or the federal funds would be curtailed the next fiscal year. It didn’t matter much what we bought, just spend the money. I observed reading programs which were rated excellent by Title I just because the classroom was surrounded by computers and tens of thousands of dollars worth of computer programs lined the walls. It mattered not that the classroom teacher didn’t know how to use the computers and so taught reading the way we all learned, with the printed word. The Title I programs were rewarded simply because they looked good and the coordinator had spent a lot of money.
Rent control legislation in New York made the cost of housing skyrocket. Section 8 government aid caused the same bubble in Flagstaff. I built a duplex on some property there and rented the units for $250. But when a tenant couldn’t afford the rent I applied for Section 8 and discovered that all of the sudden my little two bedroom unit would rent for $650. When the taxpayers are paying the bill, the sky is the limit.
The biggest reason the cost of higher education has quadrupled, nay risen ten fold, is that Uncle Sam started paying the bills. If we worked and saved all summer we could squeak through a year of school on little more than $800. We had wardrobes of two skirts and five blouses and squeezed our toothpaste tubes until our fingers hurt, but we made it. Now colleges don’t bother to control costs. Raise the cost of tuition and then build monuments that show the world what a great educator you were. Why do college books cost $200 - $400 each? Because Uncle Sam is paying the bill. What caused the cost of health care to spiral out of control? The government began paying the bills.
Reagan said it best. Governments do not solve problems, they create them, but we knew that long ago. The government forced banks to make risky loans. Banks have to make money, so they found a way to profit in spite of government regulations.
Do you really think that the 2000 page health care and finance bills have broken “complex problems into easily understood component elements”? If we do not speak the truth, Mr. Knox, dispute our facts, but don’t call us mindless, lazy ideologues. That’s a lazy man’s style of rhetoric.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
OathKeepers
If you follow the extremist blogs, you no doubt have heard of the threat of the Oath Keepers often called “crackheads” “hate groups” “extremist nimrods.” The Southern Poverty Law Center says they are a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival. What is especially egregious is the likes of David Neiwart who suggests many of them have graduated from “the Timothy McVeigh Finishing School." The left must thank God every day that they have the Timothy McVeigh brush with which they can paint every person who disagrees with them. Smear campaigns are their favorite, perhaps their only available rhetorical device.
These dangerous ex-soldiers and law enforcement officers vow that they will not obey an order that contradicts the constitutional rights of Americans. They will not disarm, detain, seize or search property of peaceful American citizens, nor will they put them in concentration camps. Remember the Trail of Tears? Remember Kent State? Remember Selma Alabama? These men have vowed never to participate in the ilk.
Who’s the real nimrod, Ariana?
These dangerous ex-soldiers and law enforcement officers vow that they will not obey an order that contradicts the constitutional rights of Americans. They will not disarm, detain, seize or search property of peaceful American citizens, nor will they put them in concentration camps. Remember the Trail of Tears? Remember Kent State? Remember Selma Alabama? These men have vowed never to participate in the ilk.
Who’s the real nimrod, Ariana?
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Glenn Beck Lies
Glenn Beck is outrageous, silly, bonkers, but he’s also thought provoking. Some of my friends, yes you Debbie, are just appalled. They give him no credit. Assuming that I was being misled, I decided to google “Glen Beck Lies.” Following are what were considered his big whoppers. Now Glenn Beck has said some pretty outrageous things about members of our government, much of which I would like to see disputed. If these are the only whoppers his naysayers can find, I really am worried about our country.
1. He said no other country grants birthrights of citizenship.
Lies, lies. He should have said that no western democracy other than Canada. They do because they’re a huge country with only 50 million residents. .
2. John Holdren suggested forcing abortions by lacing the drinking water.
Big fat lie. John Holdren only said that SOME countries may have to resort to these methods.
3. He said no other network is going to show the video of the shot by Israelis regarding the boarding the relief ships.
Big Fat Lie. The other networks did play it.
4. He took John Edwards to task for saying the middle class was declining. Beck said the percentage of the poor has remained the same, so it stands to reason that the middle class must be shrinking because they were moving up, getting richer.
Big Whopper. Couldn’t be.
5. He said that 48% of the doctors will quit if the health care bill passed.
Big whopper. The report said that 48% might quit
.
6. He said Van Jones got arrested during Rodney King riots.
Big whopper Jones was arrested but released in few hours
7. He said the winter Olympic cost BC a billion dollars.
Wrong The Olypics hadn’t started yet.
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8. He said Chicago had to close offices due to financial troubles
LIAR! They only closed their offices 3 days.
9. He said you ou don’t know if H1N1 is going to cause neurological damage like it did in the 70’s.
Big fat lie. There were 800 cases of Guilain Barre, but there is no definite proof that it resulted from the vaccine.
10. Quite a few sites talked about his rant about the Cash for Clunkers web site was a lie, but I wasn’t moved to really research that.
11. One of the lies listed was “Of course, we all know about him being called out as a liar by Whoopi and Barbara Walters.” No we don’t all know. Some of us don’t watch the show. Really! We’re supposed to assume that Whoopi and Barbara are some kind of great truth detectors.
1. He said no other country grants birthrights of citizenship.
Lies, lies. He should have said that no western democracy other than Canada. They do because they’re a huge country with only 50 million residents. .
2. John Holdren suggested forcing abortions by lacing the drinking water.
Big fat lie. John Holdren only said that SOME countries may have to resort to these methods.
3. He said no other network is going to show the video of the shot by Israelis regarding the boarding the relief ships.
Big Fat Lie. The other networks did play it.
4. He took John Edwards to task for saying the middle class was declining. Beck said the percentage of the poor has remained the same, so it stands to reason that the middle class must be shrinking because they were moving up, getting richer.
Big Whopper. Couldn’t be.
5. He said that 48% of the doctors will quit if the health care bill passed.
Big whopper. The report said that 48% might quit
.
6. He said Van Jones got arrested during Rodney King riots.
Big whopper Jones was arrested but released in few hours
7. He said the winter Olympic cost BC a billion dollars.
Wrong The Olypics hadn’t started yet.
.
8. He said Chicago had to close offices due to financial troubles
LIAR! They only closed their offices 3 days.
9. He said you ou don’t know if H1N1 is going to cause neurological damage like it did in the 70’s.
Big fat lie. There were 800 cases of Guilain Barre, but there is no definite proof that it resulted from the vaccine.
10. Quite a few sites talked about his rant about the Cash for Clunkers web site was a lie, but I wasn’t moved to really research that.
11. One of the lies listed was “Of course, we all know about him being called out as a liar by Whoopi and Barbara Walters.” No we don’t all know. Some of us don’t watch the show. Really! We’re supposed to assume that Whoopi and Barbara are some kind of great truth detectors.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Independence Day 2010 Cont.
The Overton Window meets a KGB Agent
Independence Day 2010 (Continuied)
Yesterday I wrote that perhaps because of some cosmic convergence, wasmoved to pledge my allegiance to this perhaps once great nation. What converged? My reading of Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window and a Facebook link that led me to the confessions of an ex KGB agent.
A central theme of The Overton Window is government corruption. The powers that be have over the years reached their tentacles into every area of government and finance enacting a well thought out strategy designed to create a global disaster using the crisis as an opportunity for their stepping in and seizing power. A character in the book uses the metaphor of the tsunami to show demonstrate their plan. The collapse of Bear Sterns was the earthquake and all the bailouts that followed have added to the power of the wave gathering in the distance. When it breaks we, the great unwashed, will be buried alive. Another character expresses the central irony: “It’s a heist an inside job.” The very people who intentionally caused the disaster are being rewarded.
The founders of our country knew that governments go bad. "They knew that evil, like gravity, is a force of nature," that corruption will always raises it evil head. The purpose of those checks and balances they drew into the constitution was to keep the government in check. We have not been vigilant and have allowed the government to grow into a behemoth that is eating us alive.
One of the main characters of Beck’s book is a PR expert who knows that by planting news items and crafting clever stories, the public can be sold anything, the populous can be lead to believe the ridiculous and participate in the absurd. He uses the pet rock and all the fads that followed as an example. “We don’t change their minds. We change the truth.” A PR campaign can help pharmaceutical companies create unheard of diseases and get the public to buy drugs. He uses restless leg syndrome as an example. Talk about the problem and people think they have it and go out and buy the medication.
He takes pride in knowing that it was he who made heroes of criminals and got the public to wear t-shirts idolizing Chairman Mao and Che Gurerva. He takes pride in his enormously successful campaign for bottled water. The clever articles, the witty blurbs, the images of showing their idols all with water bottles in their hands insinuated themselves in our minds and got us all to pay dearly for water that flows free from any faucet in America . “Once convinced, you can show them the truth, read the label ‘contents drawn from municipal water supply’ and they will nod their sleepy heads and walk like zombies past the faucet to the vending machines…..Before we're done they’ll gladly pay a tax for the very air they breathe.” And isn’t that what we 're being led toward now?
After reading the thought provoking book, I visited my email and a variety of links led me to an interview of an ex KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDDBZuheQxs
At the turn of the 2oth century it became obvious that America would not turn willing to Marxism or Leninism, but they knew that if America couldn't be beat on the battle ground, they could win through ideological subversion, a process of changing the perception of reality. They knew from experience how the process worked.
Independence Day 2010 (Continuied)
Yesterday I wrote that perhaps because of some cosmic convergence, wasmoved to pledge my allegiance to this perhaps once great nation. What converged? My reading of Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window and a Facebook link that led me to the confessions of an ex KGB agent.
A central theme of The Overton Window is government corruption. The powers that be have over the years reached their tentacles into every area of government and finance enacting a well thought out strategy designed to create a global disaster using the crisis as an opportunity for their stepping in and seizing power. A character in the book uses the metaphor of the tsunami to show demonstrate their plan. The collapse of Bear Sterns was the earthquake and all the bailouts that followed have added to the power of the wave gathering in the distance. When it breaks we, the great unwashed, will be buried alive. Another character expresses the central irony: “It’s a heist an inside job.” The very people who intentionally caused the disaster are being rewarded.
The founders of our country knew that governments go bad. "They knew that evil, like gravity, is a force of nature," that corruption will always raises it evil head. The purpose of those checks and balances they drew into the constitution was to keep the government in check. We have not been vigilant and have allowed the government to grow into a behemoth that is eating us alive.
One of the main characters of Beck’s book is a PR expert who knows that by planting news items and crafting clever stories, the public can be sold anything, the populous can be lead to believe the ridiculous and participate in the absurd. He uses the pet rock and all the fads that followed as an example. “We don’t change their minds. We change the truth.” A PR campaign can help pharmaceutical companies create unheard of diseases and get the public to buy drugs. He uses restless leg syndrome as an example. Talk about the problem and people think they have it and go out and buy the medication.
He takes pride in knowing that it was he who made heroes of criminals and got the public to wear t-shirts idolizing Chairman Mao and Che Gurerva. He takes pride in his enormously successful campaign for bottled water. The clever articles, the witty blurbs, the images of showing their idols all with water bottles in their hands insinuated themselves in our minds and got us all to pay dearly for water that flows free from any faucet in America . “Once convinced, you can show them the truth, read the label ‘contents drawn from municipal water supply’ and they will nod their sleepy heads and walk like zombies past the faucet to the vending machines…..Before we're done they’ll gladly pay a tax for the very air they breathe.” And isn’t that what we 're being led toward now?
After reading the thought provoking book, I visited my email and a variety of links led me to an interview of an ex KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDDBZuheQxs
At the turn of the 2oth century it became obvious that America would not turn willing to Marxism or Leninism, but they knew that if America couldn't be beat on the battle ground, they could win through ideological subversion, a process of changing the perception of reality. They knew from experience how the process worked.
There are four stages in the process, demoralization, destabalization, crisis and normalization. The first stage takes the longest, generally 50 years, because it's necessary to indoctrinate an entire generation. The key is to identify your team. Dissidents, professors, intellectuals, civil rights defenders, and the like suffer from self importance and serve the purpose of spreading disinformation. The irony, according to Yuri, is that once the country collapses, they will be the first to be assassinated. When the interviewer expressed disbelief, Yuri said, "Oh, yes. When the promise of new regime do not materialize, they will lead the opposition, so they must be destroyed. Your Jane Fondas will be squashed like a cockroaches."
According to Alexandrovich, the demoralization of America was especially effective thanks to the simultaneous disintigration of moral values, "far beyond our expectations." On thing that connected so completely with The Overton Window is that Alexandrovich said that once indoctradted, the condition is truly irreversible. True information doesn't matter any more. Shower them with facts, show them the evidence, you cannot change their minds. They will refuse to recognize the truth "until the boot is on their necks."
The second stage of the process, destabilization, Alexadrovich predicted would take from two to five years. That time period correllates with the financial meltdown we've experienced and we can see the power of the tsunami gathering in the distance. The massive wave will be the thrid stage, the crisis and a quick overthrow of the government and then the final stage, normalization. Beck's book suggests that it might be established by some of the globalist groups do exist, The Club of Rome, the Council for Foreign Relations. I think it might be those very wealthy socialists I mentioned in an earlier post, Soros and his Leninist cohorts Bing, Sandler, Blankfein, Janss, and Anagnos. They work openly and we refuse tp recognize the threat.Whatever the group, once successful, the truth will out. We will realize that all people are created equal, equal in poverty, ignorance, and misery. Abundance peace and prosperity are reserved for the fittest, the deserving, the most courageous, the visionaries.
New speak is an important part of the process, and The Overton Window demonstrates how it might work. The Patriot act will quickly become a license to hunt patriots. The Fairness Doctrine allows the government to manage "free speech." Net Neutrality will make it possible for the powers that be to neutralize their enemies.
According to Alexandrovich, the trend can be reversed. "You need to start a new program of re-education which takes 15 to 20 years." But that interview occurred many years ago. Is it too late? I am reminded of the image at the end of Ayn Rands The Fountainhead. The coins are deeply imbedded into the tarmac. We are imbedded much too deeply into the tarmac of the federal government. Can we extricate ourselves. I am not optimistic.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
I pledge allegiance to the flag
July 4, 2010
It’s Independence Day and I, perhaps as a result of some cosmic convergence, am moved to pledge my allegiance to this perhaps once great nation. What converged? My reading of Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window and a Facebook link that led me to the confessions of an ex KGB agent.
First a little biography. I was perhaps a bit of a political junky from an early age. I remember fondly precious times with my father when we discussed political issues, his anger about FDR’s slaughtering our cows which supposedly helped drag the country out of the depression, his defiant shooting ducks out of season because they ravaged our wheat fields. His hunting deer out of season because that’s how he fed his family. Once, I was maybe 12 or 13 we were in the car alone, odd, because I had seven brothers and sisters that we should have time alone, but we had a bit of a political discussion. I thought I was a democrat and said people should vote for Adlai Stevenson. I don’t remember why, but one of the issues must have had to do with conservation, because I remember my father reminding me that if we’re interested in conservation issues, wouldn’t we vote Republicans. They were the conservative party after all.
I remember sitting on the front porch reading the local newspaper the bold headlines pronouncing the ending of the Korean War. I wept, I think mostly because I had expected more fanfare, perhaps a parade, even a national holiday. I thought it was a big deal.
My father was a proud hard working man. He supported his large family doing any job he could find, farming, well digging, sheep herding, house moving, renovation, carpentry. When one job petered out he could always find another. The only thing that was beneath him, that compromised his integrity was living on the dole, so when a job shut down and he was briefly unemployed, his friends would encourage him to take unemployment compensation. “It’s not welfare. You paid for it. It’s been deducted from your check every week.” My father refused. He wouldn’t stand in line for a hand out, no matter what.
I respected him for that, but when I sat in political science classes in college, or listened to the discussions in the teacher’s lounge after I graduated, I silently questioned his ethics. My best friends assured me that people should not be ashamed of having to accept charity, that redistribution of wealth was necessary, that we should be a compassionate country. I did stand firm on one issue. When my colleagues threw showers for pregnant unmarried students, I did not attend, unwilling to kind of glorify, and thus encourage promiscuity.
On most issues I joined the crowd. When the Department of Education was formed I felt proud to think that Education finally got the recognition it deserved. I didn’t recognize the tusk of the elephant that would soon fill the entire tent. When Goldwater insisted that Arizona should not accept federal funding for education, I mocked him saying he was like the boy in the Netherlands who stuck his finger in the dike thinking he was stemming the flow while a tsunami of water was rushing over the top of the dam. It didn’t take me long to recognize the folly, the colossal waste of the federal aid to education.
I had been voting democrat or independent in every major election until 1980. My husband and I had agreed to vote for the third party candidate, was it Anderson? as a kind of toothless inane political protest. As I poised my hand to punch the ballot, I felt, I kid you not, I felt an invisible hand take mine and punch the ballot for Reagan. I knew that was not what I intended to do, and I knew that I could ask for another ballot saying that I had spoiled mine, but the experience was so compelling, so profoundly moving, that, almost in a trance, I simply finished the ballot and turned it in. The Reagan presidency was pivotal for me, but I remained a timid, apprehensive voice for conservative values. I registered republican, but no republican administration, no republican house or senate ever impressed me, being never quite conservative enough. I realize that republicans were trapped. In order to get elected they had to join or at least support the move toward government largess. When Clinton was elected, I think it was Al Gore who held his hand to his ear and said, “I can hear the sound of gridlock breaking up,” and I cringed knowing that what we needed most in Washington was gridlock. But I remained pretty much silent. My rebellion amounted to quitting my support of the National Education Association.
On a pivotal day for me I expressed my disdain of all the brouhaha regarding the sexual harassment suits that arose out of the aviator’s tailgate convention. One of my colleagues said, “You must listen too much to Rush Limbaugh.” “Rush who?” I countered? And that was the day that I finally found a voice that expressed the views that I had so silently held for those many years. Because I worked, I could rarely listen to him, but when I did, I was renewed.
Rush led me to talk radio, and that led me to Glenn Beck, and this pivotal day, July 4, 2010, when The Overton Window met the ex KGB agent.
It’s Independence Day and I, perhaps as a result of some cosmic convergence, am moved to pledge my allegiance to this perhaps once great nation. What converged? My reading of Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window and a Facebook link that led me to the confessions of an ex KGB agent.
First a little biography. I was perhaps a bit of a political junky from an early age. I remember fondly precious times with my father when we discussed political issues, his anger about FDR’s slaughtering our cows which supposedly helped drag the country out of the depression, his defiant shooting ducks out of season because they ravaged our wheat fields. His hunting deer out of season because that’s how he fed his family. Once, I was maybe 12 or 13 we were in the car alone, odd, because I had seven brothers and sisters that we should have time alone, but we had a bit of a political discussion. I thought I was a democrat and said people should vote for Adlai Stevenson. I don’t remember why, but one of the issues must have had to do with conservation, because I remember my father reminding me that if we’re interested in conservation issues, wouldn’t we vote Republicans. They were the conservative party after all.
I remember sitting on the front porch reading the local newspaper the bold headlines pronouncing the ending of the Korean War. I wept, I think mostly because I had expected more fanfare, perhaps a parade, even a national holiday. I thought it was a big deal.
My father was a proud hard working man. He supported his large family doing any job he could find, farming, well digging, sheep herding, house moving, renovation, carpentry. When one job petered out he could always find another. The only thing that was beneath him, that compromised his integrity was living on the dole, so when a job shut down and he was briefly unemployed, his friends would encourage him to take unemployment compensation. “It’s not welfare. You paid for it. It’s been deducted from your check every week.” My father refused. He wouldn’t stand in line for a hand out, no matter what.
I respected him for that, but when I sat in political science classes in college, or listened to the discussions in the teacher’s lounge after I graduated, I silently questioned his ethics. My best friends assured me that people should not be ashamed of having to accept charity, that redistribution of wealth was necessary, that we should be a compassionate country. I did stand firm on one issue. When my colleagues threw showers for pregnant unmarried students, I did not attend, unwilling to kind of glorify, and thus encourage promiscuity.
On most issues I joined the crowd. When the Department of Education was formed I felt proud to think that Education finally got the recognition it deserved. I didn’t recognize the tusk of the elephant that would soon fill the entire tent. When Goldwater insisted that Arizona should not accept federal funding for education, I mocked him saying he was like the boy in the Netherlands who stuck his finger in the dike thinking he was stemming the flow while a tsunami of water was rushing over the top of the dam. It didn’t take me long to recognize the folly, the colossal waste of the federal aid to education.
I had been voting democrat or independent in every major election until 1980. My husband and I had agreed to vote for the third party candidate, was it Anderson? as a kind of toothless inane political protest. As I poised my hand to punch the ballot, I felt, I kid you not, I felt an invisible hand take mine and punch the ballot for Reagan. I knew that was not what I intended to do, and I knew that I could ask for another ballot saying that I had spoiled mine, but the experience was so compelling, so profoundly moving, that, almost in a trance, I simply finished the ballot and turned it in. The Reagan presidency was pivotal for me, but I remained a timid, apprehensive voice for conservative values. I registered republican, but no republican administration, no republican house or senate ever impressed me, being never quite conservative enough. I realize that republicans were trapped. In order to get elected they had to join or at least support the move toward government largess. When Clinton was elected, I think it was Al Gore who held his hand to his ear and said, “I can hear the sound of gridlock breaking up,” and I cringed knowing that what we needed most in Washington was gridlock. But I remained pretty much silent. My rebellion amounted to quitting my support of the National Education Association.
On a pivotal day for me I expressed my disdain of all the brouhaha regarding the sexual harassment suits that arose out of the aviator’s tailgate convention. One of my colleagues said, “You must listen too much to Rush Limbaugh.” “Rush who?” I countered? And that was the day that I finally found a voice that expressed the views that I had so silently held for those many years. Because I worked, I could rarely listen to him, but when I did, I was renewed.
Rush led me to talk radio, and that led me to Glenn Beck, and this pivotal day, July 4, 2010, when The Overton Window met the ex KGB agent.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Kathy Hancock's Facebook note about how people amaze her inspired me to write about some amazing people I've met. First of all, I am amazed at the number of times my various lost purses have been returned, all the money included. The most amazing time was when I went Christmas shopping in Spokane. I had just cashed my paycheck and was planning on a real Christmas binge. The first place I stopped was the Salvation Army because I wanted to buy Lynne a tricycle. (Ok, my splurges are a little more conservative than most.)
I carried my trike and my daughter back to the car, set everything down on the pavement behind my car so I could open my truck. I had no more than shoved in the trike than Lynne decided to take off across 5 lanes of heavy traffic. I ran across the street, piacked her up, probably paddling her butt, shoved her in the car and drove to Sears. When I got there, no purse. I went back to the Sally Ann, but of course the purse was gone. The police said, "Oh, you'll get your purse back. Here's what will happen. Someone picked up the purse already. He's taken out the money and dropped the purse at another location. Someone else will pick it up and turn it in."
So much for Christmas. I drove back home to Metaline in just a bit of a funk, you can imagine. Five days later I get a card in the mail from the Spokane police department. My purse had been returned. When I picked it up, all, yes all, the money was there. I wanted to leave a reward, but they had no idea who turned it in. That scenario has repeated itself over and over again in my life.
A more recent "people are amazing" experience also occurred in Washington...Seattle. My Vancouver, BC bus got a very late start so I ended up needing to find my way to the Seatac at about 1:00 a.m. The bus driver told me I had a choice. If I was willing to pay $75, I could take one of the cabs lined up at the station, or I could walk up the street 3 blocks and catch the city bus for 50 cents. (My numbers are approximate, but you get the idea.) Being a cheap skate, and feeling as though I'd lived 70 great years and could afford to take a risk, I opted for the bus I walked up the street 3 blocks. Wrong way. I walked down the street 3 blocks. It wasn't there. I asked a scuzzy young gentleman if he knew where I could catch a bus to the airport. "I think it's over that way 3 or 4 blocks. It wasn't there. I met two other people; they all sent me in different directions. (Remember now, I am traveling, so I'm toting luggage.) Finally I meet a young man, maybe 40, limping along with a cane. He says, "Here I'll show you." We walk up a hill two blocks, left a couple of blocks, and then down an outside stairwell, perhaps it was an escalator. I of course wondered where he was taking me. But I followed. What I didn't know is the the bus system in Seattle runs 5 floors below the city streets. After the third escalator flight he leads me to an elevator door. He says, when you get in, press the platform button and it will take you to where the airport bus stops. As I entered the elevator, I asked him, "Are you an angel to all the people you meet?"
"I try to be," he said as the door closed. I go to the platform and check the schedule. Yup, the airport bus would arrive in 15 minues. It was only then that I realized that I had no American money. There happed to be an Etheopian imigrant also waiting for the bus. I offered to trade him two tunies, two dollar Canadian coins for the bus fare. He gave me the fare, but wouldn't take the tunies. (I have since discovered that you cannot exchange Canadian coins in American banks, so it wouldn't have done him any good anyway.)
I board the bus, and it is packed full, 2:30 in the morning by now, and the bus is full. The man sitting across from me was going to the airport, but I think the rest of them were just riding the bus because they had no place to go. At one point the driver pulls up to the curb to let a man board. "You're all wet!" she says to him. He has obviously soiled himself.
"I know. Will you let me on anyway?" The driver welcomed him aboard.
Now while I was waiting for the bus in Vancouver, I read a book I picked up there. It was about the short trip to the after life of a woman who died temporarilly. She meets God, who in this version of the afterlife takes on the image of a beloved acquaintance of the new "inductee." They have a love discussion, and at one point the lady asks him, "What do you think of the people back there on earth." God smiles fondly and says, "Oh, I love them every one. They struggle so, and they have so much compassion for on another, they suffer so. I love them every one."
When I gazed back at the gaggle of people on that bus, I thought of that line and said to myself, "Yes, and God loves you, every one."
I carried my trike and my daughter back to the car, set everything down on the pavement behind my car so I could open my truck. I had no more than shoved in the trike than Lynne decided to take off across 5 lanes of heavy traffic. I ran across the street, piacked her up, probably paddling her butt, shoved her in the car and drove to Sears. When I got there, no purse. I went back to the Sally Ann, but of course the purse was gone. The police said, "Oh, you'll get your purse back. Here's what will happen. Someone picked up the purse already. He's taken out the money and dropped the purse at another location. Someone else will pick it up and turn it in."
So much for Christmas. I drove back home to Metaline in just a bit of a funk, you can imagine. Five days later I get a card in the mail from the Spokane police department. My purse had been returned. When I picked it up, all, yes all, the money was there. I wanted to leave a reward, but they had no idea who turned it in. That scenario has repeated itself over and over again in my life.
A more recent "people are amazing" experience also occurred in Washington...Seattle. My Vancouver, BC bus got a very late start so I ended up needing to find my way to the Seatac at about 1:00 a.m. The bus driver told me I had a choice. If I was willing to pay $75, I could take one of the cabs lined up at the station, or I could walk up the street 3 blocks and catch the city bus for 50 cents. (My numbers are approximate, but you get the idea.) Being a cheap skate, and feeling as though I'd lived 70 great years and could afford to take a risk, I opted for the bus I walked up the street 3 blocks. Wrong way. I walked down the street 3 blocks. It wasn't there. I asked a scuzzy young gentleman if he knew where I could catch a bus to the airport. "I think it's over that way 3 or 4 blocks. It wasn't there. I met two other people; they all sent me in different directions. (Remember now, I am traveling, so I'm toting luggage.) Finally I meet a young man, maybe 40, limping along with a cane. He says, "Here I'll show you." We walk up a hill two blocks, left a couple of blocks, and then down an outside stairwell, perhaps it was an escalator. I of course wondered where he was taking me. But I followed. What I didn't know is the the bus system in Seattle runs 5 floors below the city streets. After the third escalator flight he leads me to an elevator door. He says, when you get in, press the platform button and it will take you to where the airport bus stops. As I entered the elevator, I asked him, "Are you an angel to all the people you meet?"
"I try to be," he said as the door closed. I go to the platform and check the schedule. Yup, the airport bus would arrive in 15 minues. It was only then that I realized that I had no American money. There happed to be an Etheopian imigrant also waiting for the bus. I offered to trade him two tunies, two dollar Canadian coins for the bus fare. He gave me the fare, but wouldn't take the tunies. (I have since discovered that you cannot exchange Canadian coins in American banks, so it wouldn't have done him any good anyway.)
I board the bus, and it is packed full, 2:30 in the morning by now, and the bus is full. The man sitting across from me was going to the airport, but I think the rest of them were just riding the bus because they had no place to go. At one point the driver pulls up to the curb to let a man board. "You're all wet!" she says to him. He has obviously soiled himself.
"I know. Will you let me on anyway?" The driver welcomed him aboard.
Now while I was waiting for the bus in Vancouver, I read a book I picked up there. It was about the short trip to the after life of a woman who died temporarilly. She meets God, who in this version of the afterlife takes on the image of a beloved acquaintance of the new "inductee." They have a love discussion, and at one point the lady asks him, "What do you think of the people back there on earth." God smiles fondly and says, "Oh, I love them every one. They struggle so, and they have so much compassion for on another, they suffer so. I love them every one."
When I gazed back at the gaggle of people on that bus, I thought of that line and said to myself, "Yes, and God loves you, every one."
Rush Limbaugh lambastes the left daily for what he considers disingenuously spinning his “I hope he fails” comment making it seem anti-American. “If you hope the president fails, you’re hoping the country fails.” According to Limbaugh, those on the left know full well that the reason he wants Obama to fail is that he wants his socialist agenda to fail.
Both our president and our vice-president scoff at the notion. “Our policies are socialistic? You’ve got to be kidding!” (Biden) “When you suggested I was a socialist, I thought you were joking.” (Obama) I responded physically to both those comments. Something crawled up my spine. Absolutely Orwellian. Our country has been steadily on the path toward socialism since 1933, and the present administration has said openly that they see the present crisis as an opportunity to move their agenda forward. Spreading the wealth? Spending $800 billion dollars as a down payment on a federal health care system? Incidentally, that’s more than we spent on both war Iraq wars. Extending unemployment benefits? Strengthening unions?
That kind of ad homien scoff (Silly you! You’ve got to be kidding) is effective, however. It simply avoids the argument which they both know they would lose hopelessly. It’s a strategy concocted, I suppose, by James Carvill, the operative who has been working the back room for the Dems since before the Clinton era. He was the one who, panicked by Bush’s popularity after 9/11, began immediately feeding politicians talking points to “destroy him at once” or they’d never reclaim the White House. You can be sure that Carville feeds talking points to every Democrat in Washington.
He is probably the one who has made certain that the liberals keeps repeating “the carnage of the last eight years,” hoping we’ll all blame Bush’s silly war for our economic problems. They are educated people. They know right well that our economic problems result from the fact that the chickens spawned by FDR’s new deal and LBJ’s War on poverty are coming home to roost. In 1955 entitlement spending totaled 12 per cent of the budget, in 1965, 30 percent, in 2008, 55 per cent. As a percentage of the budget, discressionary spending, including military spending, has remained almost stable since 1965. The per cent spent on entitlement spending has tripled. The deficit rose sharply over the last few years largely because the boomers, that large group of wage earners who have been supporting the FDR and LBJ entitlements, are beginning to retire. You can be sure that every liberal in Washington is fully aware of this problem.
I have certainly benefited from that socialistic gamble. Social security makes my “retirement” years quite comfortable and adequately looks after my disabled daughter. An inexpensive supplemental insurance policy covers those Medicare gaps. Farmers love being paid not to farm, especially those millionaire owners of American farms who live in France and Quebec and Saudi Arabia and Germany. However, I do fear for my grandchildren, indeed, my great-grandchildren. Mandatory government spending has increased by 769 per cent since1965, and the baby-boomers have just begun sucking at the federal teat. We may not be as openly socialistic as Sweden or say Great Britain, but if Obama gets his way, we will be by 2012, and his recent stimulus package included every wet dream a socialist ever had.
Those rising costs would pose no problem if we could make the conservative give up their anti-government ideologies. We can learn that much from European Socialism, countries that have achieved a kind of socialist utopia. Sweden is often seen as a model of a compassionate, healthy, caring country. To support their socialist state they tax car purchases, for example, at 100 per cent of their cost, and that’s good, because the Swedes opt to ride bikes. Good exercise and good for the environment.
It is true that they have a 17 per cent unemployment rate. One has to consider how that rate is calculated. Great Britain, for example, boasts an 8 percent unemployment rate, but according to The Mail, the officials don’t count the 8 million people classified as economically inactive, 21 per cent of the working-age population. I guess it’s great to live in a country willing to subsidize “discouraged workers,” those just not interested in finding a job. I can’t say that I understand. I’m 70 and I still work simply because it seems satisfying. My siblings, all in their 70’s, also work. I guess we’re still plagued by that silly Puritan ethic. We simply convince ourselves that work is rewarding. Or perhaps Phillip Hammond is right: that that “21 per cent of the working age population in Great Britain represents a huge pool of wasted talent.”
So why do liberals, knowing full well what our move toward socialism is costing our country, want to lead us down that path. Power. They learned in 1933 that if they put out a trough, we will feed at it, and the more of us they can get feeding at their troughs, the more power they have. They keep building the troughs and pouring in the slop and we keep lapping it up.
What puzzled me for a long time was why so many of our billionaires were supporting this madness? Warren Buffet and George Soros are the ones most commonly linked to the radical left, but the list includes others: Hollywood producer Stephen Bing; Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance Company; Herbert and Marion Sandler of Golden West Financial; Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs; Citigroup’s Robert Rubin; Edwin Janss, founder of the leftwing Janss Foundation; and Aris Anagnos, a Los Angeles real estate magnate and a rabid Marxist-Lenonist. It’s important to note that none of these billionaires are directly involved in an enterprise that actually produces something. Mostly they just play with money. If they are simply committed to service to their fellow man, they certainly have the assets adequate to funding their charitable enterprises on their own.
I have to conclude that charity is not their goal, so there must be another reason for their interest in promoting some form of a fascist-socialist-Leninist state. To Insure their power base?
The content of this diatribe now veers toward one of those crazy conspiracy theories. First a fact based question: Why is it that 80 per cent of America’s very rich are self-made men and that 80 per cent of wealthy Europeans have inherited wealth? Perhaps because socialism has managed to destroy the talent and initiative of “21 per cent of the working age population.” Soros and his cohorts Bing,Sandler, Blankfein, Janss, and Anagnos are enjoying the power their wealth affords them and are probably threatened by our talent and initiative, so they want to get us in the habit of feeding at federal the trough.
Now the really wild theory. Could it be that our recent stock market collapse was created by those rich Marxists who, perhaps under cover of anonymous sources, pulled huge amounts of money out of the market to create a panic? They have admitted openly that this decline is an opportunity to advance their agendas, that our system needs to be dismantled brick by brick, that the new order must be accomplished either by the power of persuasion or the persuasion of power. Chilling, isn’t it?
Merrick, Jame. “Unemployment is 6 times higher than official figures.” March 12, 2009. Mail on Line. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475517/Unemployment-rate-times-higher-official-figures.html
Both our president and our vice-president scoff at the notion. “Our policies are socialistic? You’ve got to be kidding!” (Biden) “When you suggested I was a socialist, I thought you were joking.” (Obama) I responded physically to both those comments. Something crawled up my spine. Absolutely Orwellian. Our country has been steadily on the path toward socialism since 1933, and the present administration has said openly that they see the present crisis as an opportunity to move their agenda forward. Spreading the wealth? Spending $800 billion dollars as a down payment on a federal health care system? Incidentally, that’s more than we spent on both war Iraq wars. Extending unemployment benefits? Strengthening unions?
That kind of ad homien scoff (Silly you! You’ve got to be kidding) is effective, however. It simply avoids the argument which they both know they would lose hopelessly. It’s a strategy concocted, I suppose, by James Carvill, the operative who has been working the back room for the Dems since before the Clinton era. He was the one who, panicked by Bush’s popularity after 9/11, began immediately feeding politicians talking points to “destroy him at once” or they’d never reclaim the White House. You can be sure that Carville feeds talking points to every Democrat in Washington.
He is probably the one who has made certain that the liberals keeps repeating “the carnage of the last eight years,” hoping we’ll all blame Bush’s silly war for our economic problems. They are educated people. They know right well that our economic problems result from the fact that the chickens spawned by FDR’s new deal and LBJ’s War on poverty are coming home to roost. In 1955 entitlement spending totaled 12 per cent of the budget, in 1965, 30 percent, in 2008, 55 per cent. As a percentage of the budget, discressionary spending, including military spending, has remained almost stable since 1965. The per cent spent on entitlement spending has tripled. The deficit rose sharply over the last few years largely because the boomers, that large group of wage earners who have been supporting the FDR and LBJ entitlements, are beginning to retire. You can be sure that every liberal in Washington is fully aware of this problem.
I have certainly benefited from that socialistic gamble. Social security makes my “retirement” years quite comfortable and adequately looks after my disabled daughter. An inexpensive supplemental insurance policy covers those Medicare gaps. Farmers love being paid not to farm, especially those millionaire owners of American farms who live in France and Quebec and Saudi Arabia and Germany. However, I do fear for my grandchildren, indeed, my great-grandchildren. Mandatory government spending has increased by 769 per cent since1965, and the baby-boomers have just begun sucking at the federal teat. We may not be as openly socialistic as Sweden or say Great Britain, but if Obama gets his way, we will be by 2012, and his recent stimulus package included every wet dream a socialist ever had.
Those rising costs would pose no problem if we could make the conservative give up their anti-government ideologies. We can learn that much from European Socialism, countries that have achieved a kind of socialist utopia. Sweden is often seen as a model of a compassionate, healthy, caring country. To support their socialist state they tax car purchases, for example, at 100 per cent of their cost, and that’s good, because the Swedes opt to ride bikes. Good exercise and good for the environment.
It is true that they have a 17 per cent unemployment rate. One has to consider how that rate is calculated. Great Britain, for example, boasts an 8 percent unemployment rate, but according to The Mail, the officials don’t count the 8 million people classified as economically inactive, 21 per cent of the working-age population. I guess it’s great to live in a country willing to subsidize “discouraged workers,” those just not interested in finding a job. I can’t say that I understand. I’m 70 and I still work simply because it seems satisfying. My siblings, all in their 70’s, also work. I guess we’re still plagued by that silly Puritan ethic. We simply convince ourselves that work is rewarding. Or perhaps Phillip Hammond is right: that that “21 per cent of the working age population in Great Britain represents a huge pool of wasted talent.”
So why do liberals, knowing full well what our move toward socialism is costing our country, want to lead us down that path. Power. They learned in 1933 that if they put out a trough, we will feed at it, and the more of us they can get feeding at their troughs, the more power they have. They keep building the troughs and pouring in the slop and we keep lapping it up.
What puzzled me for a long time was why so many of our billionaires were supporting this madness? Warren Buffet and George Soros are the ones most commonly linked to the radical left, but the list includes others: Hollywood producer Stephen Bing; Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance Company; Herbert and Marion Sandler of Golden West Financial; Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs; Citigroup’s Robert Rubin; Edwin Janss, founder of the leftwing Janss Foundation; and Aris Anagnos, a Los Angeles real estate magnate and a rabid Marxist-Lenonist. It’s important to note that none of these billionaires are directly involved in an enterprise that actually produces something. Mostly they just play with money. If they are simply committed to service to their fellow man, they certainly have the assets adequate to funding their charitable enterprises on their own.
I have to conclude that charity is not their goal, so there must be another reason for their interest in promoting some form of a fascist-socialist-Leninist state. To Insure their power base?
The content of this diatribe now veers toward one of those crazy conspiracy theories. First a fact based question: Why is it that 80 per cent of America’s very rich are self-made men and that 80 per cent of wealthy Europeans have inherited wealth? Perhaps because socialism has managed to destroy the talent and initiative of “21 per cent of the working age population.” Soros and his cohorts Bing,Sandler, Blankfein, Janss, and Anagnos are enjoying the power their wealth affords them and are probably threatened by our talent and initiative, so they want to get us in the habit of feeding at federal the trough.
Now the really wild theory. Could it be that our recent stock market collapse was created by those rich Marxists who, perhaps under cover of anonymous sources, pulled huge amounts of money out of the market to create a panic? They have admitted openly that this decline is an opportunity to advance their agendas, that our system needs to be dismantled brick by brick, that the new order must be accomplished either by the power of persuasion or the persuasion of power. Chilling, isn’t it?
Merrick, Jame. “Unemployment is 6 times higher than official figures.” March 12, 2009. Mail on Line. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475517/Unemployment-rate-times-higher-official-figures.html
Canadian Health Care
My experience with Canadian health care is certainly different from Adolf Blackburn’s (“Canadian System better than others” April 1, 2010). My experience suggests that the health care system there is a classic example of how badly governments manage enterprises of any kind, primarily because health decisions get all mixed up with other political issues. One minor example: a town on Vancouver Island lost its saw mill and, although all the hospitals have brilliantly equipped laundry facilities, the health ministry makes all of them send their laundry to this somewhat inaccessible west island town to provide work for its inhabitants. Political decisions like that are made all across Canada. Patient care takes second chair.
My husband was a scaler who suffered a logging accident in 1985, breaking his back. He lay on the floor of his house living on heavy doses of narcotics for 3 months before they could free up the proper surgeon to attend him. You might suggest that that was ancient history and that BC has cleaned up its act since then, but two years ago my best friend, an osteoporosis victim, snapped her back and lay on a gurney in the hallway of the emergency room of the Nanaimo, BC hospital for 8 days before she was attended to.
More recently my husband suffered some stomach discomfort. The doctor suspected cancer, but my husband would have had to wait 3 months for a colonoscopy and knew that he would probably have to wait another 3 months at least to schedule the operation if he did indeed have cancer. Because a local surgeon had had a cancellation and could do surgery immediately, he opted to trust the diagnosis and they cut out three feet of his colon. He died of complications. Had he had the colonoscopy, they would have discovered that he had a ½ inch tumor that was very slow growing. He could have lived to 90 before it would have caused him any problem. His real problem: Diverticulitis.
And the problem is wide spread across Canada. When there is no more room in critical care units in Canadian hospitals, really critically ill patents, those with severe brain injuries, for example, bleeding in the brain, are whisked to operating rooms in the US. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail about 150 patients a year are sent to hospitals in Washington, Oregon, Michigan, and New York. “Some have languished for as long as eight hours in Canadian emergency wards while health-care workers scrambled to locate care.” Recently there was no room in neonatal center anywhere in Canada for the mother of quadruplets.
On my last trip south at the end of May, I stayed over in Victora, BC, in order to catch an early boat. In my hotel room I watched a piece the evening news had video of a kid, head in a halo, heck in a brace, left leg bandaged and elevated. According to the reporter, he would have to wait 15 months for an MRI as everything in Canada was booked. I have since Googled, trying to find out how it was resolved, but I get no hits.
No one knows what the consequences of these delays are because no one has the right to review the evidence. I tried to get copies of my medical records as well as my husband’s, but was told that if my American doctors had any questions they could telephone. And the evidence is even more tightly held for patients treated out of country. When asked if any patients transported to the United States had died, Mr. Jensen, spokesman for the Ontario Health Ministry, said the “ministry does not specifically record the outcomes of health services provided out of country.” The consequences of critically ill patents waiting that long for care are obvious, aren’t they?
Canada is a very wealthy country of under 40 million, rich in natural recorces. Can you imagine the complications for a country of more nearly 400,000,000?”
My husband was a scaler who suffered a logging accident in 1985, breaking his back. He lay on the floor of his house living on heavy doses of narcotics for 3 months before they could free up the proper surgeon to attend him. You might suggest that that was ancient history and that BC has cleaned up its act since then, but two years ago my best friend, an osteoporosis victim, snapped her back and lay on a gurney in the hallway of the emergency room of the Nanaimo, BC hospital for 8 days before she was attended to.
More recently my husband suffered some stomach discomfort. The doctor suspected cancer, but my husband would have had to wait 3 months for a colonoscopy and knew that he would probably have to wait another 3 months at least to schedule the operation if he did indeed have cancer. Because a local surgeon had had a cancellation and could do surgery immediately, he opted to trust the diagnosis and they cut out three feet of his colon. He died of complications. Had he had the colonoscopy, they would have discovered that he had a ½ inch tumor that was very slow growing. He could have lived to 90 before it would have caused him any problem. His real problem: Diverticulitis.
And the problem is wide spread across Canada. When there is no more room in critical care units in Canadian hospitals, really critically ill patents, those with severe brain injuries, for example, bleeding in the brain, are whisked to operating rooms in the US. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail about 150 patients a year are sent to hospitals in Washington, Oregon, Michigan, and New York. “Some have languished for as long as eight hours in Canadian emergency wards while health-care workers scrambled to locate care.” Recently there was no room in neonatal center anywhere in Canada for the mother of quadruplets.
On my last trip south at the end of May, I stayed over in Victora, BC, in order to catch an early boat. In my hotel room I watched a piece the evening news had video of a kid, head in a halo, heck in a brace, left leg bandaged and elevated. According to the reporter, he would have to wait 15 months for an MRI as everything in Canada was booked. I have since Googled, trying to find out how it was resolved, but I get no hits.
No one knows what the consequences of these delays are because no one has the right to review the evidence. I tried to get copies of my medical records as well as my husband’s, but was told that if my American doctors had any questions they could telephone. And the evidence is even more tightly held for patients treated out of country. When asked if any patients transported to the United States had died, Mr. Jensen, spokesman for the Ontario Health Ministry, said the “ministry does not specifically record the outcomes of health services provided out of country.” The consequences of critically ill patents waiting that long for care are obvious, aren’t they?
Canada is a very wealthy country of under 40 million, rich in natural recorces. Can you imagine the complications for a country of more nearly 400,000,000?”
Tea Party Violence
In the March 28th issue of the Arizona Republic Mr. Eugene Robinson’s (“Tea party rant not harmless”) plea to those who lead the tea party movement and those who “exploit it” start acting like responsible adults. Mr. Eugene Robinson your bemoaning the violence and the threats of violence on the right is so absurd it set my hair on fire. You identify several supposed threats, some of which may actually have occurred. However, did you ever object to even one of the thousands of threats, really bloody ones, that were openly demonstrated against our own President Bush. There were thousands of posters suggesting he be hanged, at least once by an image of Saddam, one by Bin Laden. There were hundreds of images of his being burned in effigy. Listed below are only a few of the most heinous posters.
“Kill Bush. Bomb his f------n house.”
“Hang bush for war crimes.”
“Bush is the disease. Death is the cure.
“I’m here to kill Bush. Shoot me.
“Bush, the only dope worth shooting.
“Death to worlds #1 terrorist pig. Bush and his sheep.”
“Death to extremist Christian terrorist pig Bush.”
Some of the pictures were absolutely grotesque, one of Bush with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead, blood dripping down his face. In one picture his severed head is held aloft blood oozing from the raggedly gashed throat. Many posters had him brought to the guillotine, one called the Bush whacker.
Can you imagine the furor if even one such poster depicting violence against Obama appeared at a tea party? You scorn Sarah for her imagery, but were apparently not disturbed at all that John Kerry suggested we “kill the bird in the White House.” I go to tea parties. They are Sunday School picnics. The only violence you’ll see is the violence of your socialists friends, Mr. Robinson, who try to disrupt our peaceful gatherings. Speaker Palosi, was supposedly moved to tears remembering the violence of the protestors on the left. It was quite an act, wasn’t it? If we see violence on the right, we help you prosecute the perpetrators. You reward your violent protestors with lucrative government jobs. I know you’re following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, attacking the character rather than the ideas of your opponents, and if you can keep the rest of America away from the tea parties so they can’t see the truth, it may work.
“Kill Bush. Bomb his f------n house.”
“Hang bush for war crimes.”
“Bush is the disease. Death is the cure.
“I’m here to kill Bush. Shoot me.
“Bush, the only dope worth shooting.
“Death to worlds #1 terrorist pig. Bush and his sheep.”
“Death to extremist Christian terrorist pig Bush.”
Some of the pictures were absolutely grotesque, one of Bush with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead, blood dripping down his face. In one picture his severed head is held aloft blood oozing from the raggedly gashed throat. Many posters had him brought to the guillotine, one called the Bush whacker.
Can you imagine the furor if even one such poster depicting violence against Obama appeared at a tea party? You scorn Sarah for her imagery, but were apparently not disturbed at all that John Kerry suggested we “kill the bird in the White House.” I go to tea parties. They are Sunday School picnics. The only violence you’ll see is the violence of your socialists friends, Mr. Robinson, who try to disrupt our peaceful gatherings. Speaker Palosi, was supposedly moved to tears remembering the violence of the protestors on the left. It was quite an act, wasn’t it? If we see violence on the right, we help you prosecute the perpetrators. You reward your violent protestors with lucrative government jobs. I know you’re following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, attacking the character rather than the ideas of your opponents, and if you can keep the rest of America away from the tea parties so they can’t see the truth, it may work.
Were our founders men of faith?
Lest I forget, a few notes about our founders whom we are led to believe were agnostics. Based mostly on David Barton who wrote Original Intent. Continental Congress printed a Bible to be used in schools.
The Founders
Benjamin Franklin recessed the Continental Congress for three days of prayer and contemplation. When governor of Pennsylvania he drew up a plan to encourage wider church attendance. Some historians have discredited him because for his opium use (was in so much pain that he had to be carried to meetings on a chair) and because he was considered by some of his contemporaries to be insane. They don’t mention that it was because he was so fiercely anti slavery. In one letter out of thousands he calls himself a deist, but only to emphasize the belief that it doesn’t matter who you think God is, worship him. When asked about his faith Franklin said there is a god, there is an afterlife where we will have to answer for our sins. We serve God by serving others.
Samuel Adams, governor of Massachusetts called the entire state to prayer and fasting 7 times.
Charles Carol, richest man in America used his estate to endow in perpetuity a chapel and a preacher for a remote area.
Benjamin Rose founded the Bible Society of America and the Sunday School Societyof America.
Stephen Hawkins wrote treatises on Christianity
Robert Payne was a military chaplain
Washington’s adopted daughter described George Washington’s habit of Bible reading and prayer and said that to suggest that he father was not a Christian would be as silly as saying that he was not a patriot.
Jefferson signed his documents not just “In the year of our Lord” as most people did, but “In the year of our Lord Christ.” He instituted church services in the Capitol. The Marine Corp band played the service. Ministers of every denomination took turns. The first woman preacher and the first Black minister in the country spoke there frequently. More than 2,000 people attended. He also established churches in the treasury department, the war department, and at the naval yard. Jefferson published a book called the Red Letter Book, the words of Christ in four languages which was printed every year and handed out to every new member of congress, until 1926 when progressives began taking control of the dialogue and got us to believe that the founders were all atheists.
James Wilson founded the first law school and said that you cannot have good civil law without divine law
Francis Hopkins published a book in which he set the entire book of Psalms to music
Benjamin Rush had a dream about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who had been in bitter dispute for years. In his dream he saw a book published containing the many enlightening letters exchanged between Adams and Jefferson. He felt the dream was a message of the Holy Spirit and wrote to Jefferson telling him about the dream; and, because they hadn’t written any letters, encouraged them to forget their differences and begin to communicate so that the dream could be fulfilled. Adams and Jefferson agreed that messages from the Holy Spirit must be attended to, buried the hatchet and wrote many letters which have subsequently been compiled entitled The Adams and Jefferson Letters.
The founders were men of faith and duty. George Washington did not want to leave Mt Vernon to fight in the wars or serve as president. Patrick Henry said he had 19 children and 89 grandchildren and he wanted to go home, but he served as well. They pledged their lives and their sacred honor. Seven of them were assonated before they could see the result of their efforts. Seventeen of them lost everything as a result of their stand for freedom and independence. Five were prisoners of war.
Early schools required students to read two books. The Lives of the Signers and The Wives of the Signers. But in 1926 two college professors (Yale, Harvard, I can’t remember which) wrote a book called The Godless Constitution in which they pictured the signers as agnostics and atheists. No footnotes, no scholarly references. A year later a book was published that thoroughly disputed The Godless Constitution, a scholarly book filled with footnotes and references that proved them wrong, but professors at colleges still rely on The Godless Constitution for their information about the founders.
There are 5,600 quotations in the founding papers. The largest percentage of them, 34 per cent, came from the Bible, the largest percentage from the book of Deuteronomy, the book of law of the Old Testaments.
The Founders
Benjamin Franklin recessed the Continental Congress for three days of prayer and contemplation. When governor of Pennsylvania he drew up a plan to encourage wider church attendance. Some historians have discredited him because for his opium use (was in so much pain that he had to be carried to meetings on a chair) and because he was considered by some of his contemporaries to be insane. They don’t mention that it was because he was so fiercely anti slavery. In one letter out of thousands he calls himself a deist, but only to emphasize the belief that it doesn’t matter who you think God is, worship him. When asked about his faith Franklin said there is a god, there is an afterlife where we will have to answer for our sins. We serve God by serving others.
Samuel Adams, governor of Massachusetts called the entire state to prayer and fasting 7 times.
Charles Carol, richest man in America used his estate to endow in perpetuity a chapel and a preacher for a remote area.
Benjamin Rose founded the Bible Society of America and the Sunday School Societyof America.
Stephen Hawkins wrote treatises on Christianity
Robert Payne was a military chaplain
Washington’s adopted daughter described George Washington’s habit of Bible reading and prayer and said that to suggest that he father was not a Christian would be as silly as saying that he was not a patriot.
Jefferson signed his documents not just “In the year of our Lord” as most people did, but “In the year of our Lord Christ.” He instituted church services in the Capitol. The Marine Corp band played the service. Ministers of every denomination took turns. The first woman preacher and the first Black minister in the country spoke there frequently. More than 2,000 people attended. He also established churches in the treasury department, the war department, and at the naval yard. Jefferson published a book called the Red Letter Book, the words of Christ in four languages which was printed every year and handed out to every new member of congress, until 1926 when progressives began taking control of the dialogue and got us to believe that the founders were all atheists.
James Wilson founded the first law school and said that you cannot have good civil law without divine law
Francis Hopkins published a book in which he set the entire book of Psalms to music
Benjamin Rush had a dream about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who had been in bitter dispute for years. In his dream he saw a book published containing the many enlightening letters exchanged between Adams and Jefferson. He felt the dream was a message of the Holy Spirit and wrote to Jefferson telling him about the dream; and, because they hadn’t written any letters, encouraged them to forget their differences and begin to communicate so that the dream could be fulfilled. Adams and Jefferson agreed that messages from the Holy Spirit must be attended to, buried the hatchet and wrote many letters which have subsequently been compiled entitled The Adams and Jefferson Letters.
The founders were men of faith and duty. George Washington did not want to leave Mt Vernon to fight in the wars or serve as president. Patrick Henry said he had 19 children and 89 grandchildren and he wanted to go home, but he served as well. They pledged their lives and their sacred honor. Seven of them were assonated before they could see the result of their efforts. Seventeen of them lost everything as a result of their stand for freedom and independence. Five were prisoners of war.
Early schools required students to read two books. The Lives of the Signers and The Wives of the Signers. But in 1926 two college professors (Yale, Harvard, I can’t remember which) wrote a book called The Godless Constitution in which they pictured the signers as agnostics and atheists. No footnotes, no scholarly references. A year later a book was published that thoroughly disputed The Godless Constitution, a scholarly book filled with footnotes and references that proved them wrong, but professors at colleges still rely on The Godless Constitution for their information about the founders.
There are 5,600 quotations in the founding papers. The largest percentage of them, 34 per cent, came from the Bible, the largest percentage from the book of Deuteronomy, the book of law of the Old Testaments.
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