Lord God of all the Living Universe, God of Whom there is no image,

--Thank you for the Constitution of these United States, for once we knew we should be free.

--Thank you for the men and women of the Armed Forces who offer their lives in defense of America--no greater sacrifice is found.

--Thank you for our children, our future. May we not disappoint them--or you.

--Thank you for good friends and sworn enemies. Both teach us more about love and hate, trust and dishonesty, than we ever learn in church or school.

--Thank you for the athiests who daily prove your existence, lest their clamoring voices be raised against nothing but thin air.

--Thank you for what's right in our world, and what's wrong, that we may better know the difference, that we may all find the purpose--large or small--to our lives.

--Thank you.

The LA Times posted an "article" entitled Google won't exclude distorted Michelle Obama image from search and there were maybe ten or fifteen comments, mostly asking why this was news and what's wrong with free speech. Then I posted the following comment and in the time it takes to read said comment, all the comments were gone, as if the LA Times had never allowed comments on the article. So, did the following touch a raw nerve? Or was it too close to the truth? You be the judge. Could've been a technical glitch, but the timing's incredible, and the last time I checked, the comments had not been restored.

My comment:

Gee, LA Times, did you want everyone in the world to view the image? That's all you've accomplished here, in addition to revealing your pseudo-elitism by thinking you're big and bad enough to tell Google where it ought to stand on free speech. So, does this mean you're against free speech? Or is speech only free when it criticizes those you hate versus criticizing those to whom you would surrender your rights as well as the rights of all American citizens.

You people are moronic. Perhaps if you spent as much time studying the Constitution as you do looking for flaws in others, you'd get an idea of why newspapers are losing readership, yours included. God knows few working at your paper have actually studied journalism.

Get off your high horse and do some real reporting for a change. Start looking at the bigger picture, the one beyond Obama. You'll be amazed at what you find. Hell, why not Google George Soros and the Bilderberg Group for starters? See how much practice Soros has at collapsing a country's currency, then ask yourselves if Bernanke of the Federal Reserve has quit printing dollars yet? Then ask yourself why he hasn't? Why not ask why he attended the Bilderberg Group's annual meeting in 2008? Or why Tim Geithner's a regular guest? George Soros last attended in 2002 I believe, but don't ever doubt that he's not well-represented.

Maybe if you dug a little, you could report truth instead of opinion and increase your readership. Unless, of course, you want to be bailed out by Soros and Co. using taxpayer's money--until the dollar's worth less than toilet paper, I might add. You better hurry and do something because you're going to be in the same boat as all the rest of us if you don't. Then you'll wish you'd done some real reporting. Oh well, I'm sure there will be a public works job for you all somewhere. And to think you could've stopped what's coming down merely by seeking and reporting the truth. 

I used to believe in newspapers and reporters. Until they sold their souls to make a puppet a king.

If you, above all else, wanted to make your puppet king of a free people and resources were no problem, how would you do it?

Fund anti-freedom organizations to slam these people from all political sides, every day virtually a new issue brewing a new fight, keep all of them distracted and/or afraid so they don't have time to see what you're doing to them; threaten their freedoms, threaten to redistribute the wealth from those who work to those who don't; turn the have-nots against the haves and vice versa, make sure you do nothing to create jobs so that people get hungry and desperate; tank the currency so that it's worth less and everything costs more; spend, spend, spend the People's money to create a need to raise taxes across the board; dither on the important issues without actually doing one single thing to solve the problems; by doing nothing, encourage violent class warfare to break out so that your puppet can declare martial law and suspend elections. Voila, you have now made your puppet a king.

Consider this:

*Since Obama took office we have a spend, spend, spend Congress creating a tax debt our children's children cannot pay.

*We are fighting with each other over the war in Afghanistan, over health care and cap and trade, fighting over whether a terrorist act like the one committed at Fort Hood should be called just that--a terrorist act--while the administration announces plans to try the mastermind of 9/11 as a common criminal, and causes yet another new controversy.

*We've lost six million jobs and the economy is in the tank, and Obama announces a useless "job summit" to be held between his numerous globe-trotting trips on our dime--this is another way of doing nothing while people get hungrier and more desperate.

*Our dollar is worth less every day and prices are rising while Bernanke of the Federal Reserve continues to print money like we've got it and will, if not stopped, devalue the currency to the point where toilet paper is worth more.
*The haves are growing angry at the have-nots for not wanting to support themselves; the have-nots are already mad at the haves for standing in the way of their "promised" free government ride.
*Meanwhile Obama and Pelosi and Reid steer more billions of tax dollars we don't have to organizations whose primary goal appears to be the destruction of the American way of life.
*Too few are taking the time to look at the larger picture because we're all too preoccupied--distracted--fighting amongst ourselves.
The bottom line is this: If class or civil or racial warfare = martial law, a puppet becomes king.

Soros is the puppet master; Obama, Pelosi, Reid and others of both political parties are merely dancing to his tune. If we pawns don't get off this dance floor and start focusing on the true enemies to America, we'll wake up one day to discover we the People--republican, democrat, conservative, liberal and independent alike--no longer have any skin left in this game.

Here's just a few of the more disturbing manipulations taking place in our country that you'd be hard-pressed to find reported anywhere but Fox News:

--In what is clearly an underhanded effort to secure yet another liberal vote in the US House of Representatives, the White House appoints the Republican incumbent in NY district 23 to the relatively powerless position of Secretary of the Army. That move by Obama's White House leaves the seat up for grabs in a special election. The Republican committee in upstate New York nominates Dede Scozzafava, a Republican In Name Only, who is so far left that she's even more liberal than the Democrat running in the race. Doug Hoffman, a conservative CPA with no political aspirations, decides to run on the Conservative Party ticket. And so many conservatives jump on his bandwagon that Scozzafava pulls out of the race. A day later, she endorses not Hoffman the conservative, but the Democrat, Bill Owens. Whose side is she really on anyway? And where do the best interests of her constituency figure in? Personally, I think she was bought off like the Republican committee who nominated her to run, but you best decide for yourself.

--In the race for governor of New Jersey, the Democratic National Party, on the eve of the election there, admits to bankrolling a robocall for the third party independent candidate. Obviously, the Dems were hoping to split the Republican vote to assure Corzine, a corrupt Democrat whose lips appear to be firmly planted over Obama's rectum, four more years as governor. And Obama made three appearances in New Jersey to "get out the vote." This news comes on top of even more disturbing news that 3000 or more absentee ballots have already been set aside for "discrepancies" such as signatures that don't match. Add to this the fact that the Democratic Party in New Jersey is demanding that those questionable absentee ballots be counted in a race that's too close to call. Doesn't this kind of behavior by any political party trouble you? There's more than a dozen states with voter fraud investigations currently going on, but where is the hue and cry of the mainstream media? Largely nonexistent, save for Fox News. 

--While the boondoggle that is the 1990+ page Health Care Bill is all the news that's fit to print, at least according to the Obama/New York Times, the Cap and Trade bill is making its way quietly through the House and Senate. Cap and Trade, also known in my household as Crap and Tax, will not only raise everyone's electricity costs in the form of new taxes passed on to the consumer, but also drive even more manufacturing and jobs out of the country. To say otherwise is to be unable to understand the most basic math.

--Why, it's almost as if our politicians, Democrats and Republicans, are desperate to neuter as quickly as possible America's ability to manufacture anything, including a self defense should the need arise. What do we make here anymore? Very little, judging by the wares on the shelves of Wal Mart and other stores. And if we cannot manufacture anything, such as arms and tanks and planes to defend ourselves, what happens when, say, a country with too many people like China decides to turn all those modern factories we've helped build to weaponry? How do we defend ourselves then? Do you think the Chinese will be happy with us if we default on our loans? Perhaps they will want to foreclose. What do you think?

--Who's bankrolling this scheme to render us incapable of defending ourselves? The European socialist-billionaire George Soros? Probably, among others. After all, he's only visited the White House 22 times since Obama took office a year ago. That means over two visits per month. What's Soros checking on anyway? The return on his investment?

--Why won't Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke tell us and Congress just who he's lent a couple of trillion of our money to in the last year or so? Why is Bernanke continuing to print money at a record-breaking pace? To weaken the dollar? Perhaps collapse our currency to allow for the introduction of a new, global currency? I know what I think, but I'll let you be the judge.

--What and who is behind the so-called "climate change" treaty to be discussed, and possibly signed, in Copenhagen in December? Coincidentally--or not--this global meeting of over 150 nations will occur at the same time Obama is due to pick up his Nobel "peace" prize--in Copenhagen. Just an FYI, this treaty's wording includes the phrase "global government" and would, in effect, should Obama be treasonous enough to sign this thing, give our national sovereignty away.

--Why is land here in this nation being grabbed left and right by Congress under the guise of "environmental protection" so that no oil exploration or drilling is allowed to take place? Why does Obama encourage Iran to develop nuclear power plants to serve that country's electricity needs, but we Americans, in this time of so-called "energy crisis" and "green solutions" are not allowed to build any, not a single one? Is this to prevent us free Americans from using our own resources to become energy independent of the rest of the world? Again, I insist you be the judge.

--Why is it that Obama seems to have plenty of time to, for example, fly overseas to bid for the Olympics or fly overnight to Dover for cheap photo ops to "honor" the dead soldiers returning from Afghanistan, plus manipulate the politics of upstate New York, and make campaign appearances for candidates in Virginia and New Jersey, and attend fundraisers all over the country, but he can't seem to spare a few moments to make a decision on Afghanistan, or address the issue of the flagging economy here in America, or even push Congress to enforce existing laws to close our porous borders?

--Why is it this White House has the time to waste picking a fight with Fox News and no time to at least decry the nasty and despicable acts of voter manipulation and outright fraud in New Jersey by Obama's own political party?

--Why is it that Democrats like Pelosi and Baucus "claim" to be able to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare, but need to pass a health care bill that includes no less than 13 new taxes and the creation of 111 new bureaucracies to do so? Why has Obama not taken the time to appoint someone to head Medicare even now, yet we have all these unconstitutional "czars", more than 32 I believe, already in place and in record time?

--Why is the mainstream media, in print and on television, with the exception of Fox News, largely silent on all these issues and more? Who's bankrolling their concerted silence?

Now, add up the above and tell me there's not a concerted attempt by someone or many well-heeled global someones to neutralize, control and otherwise takeover the only country left in the world whose citizens are yet free to speak, to rise up even and prevent this. Just like South Carolina's Joe Wilson shouted at Obama recently, I will also shout, "You lie." And you and I both know I've only shone a tiny light on just a tip of this increasingly alarming iceberg.

The question we are left with in the face of overwhelming evidence is what are we, the free People of America, going to do about this?

My first answer is to vote out every single incumbent--local, state and federal. If that doesn't stop this takeover in its tracks, if our politicians--Republican and Democrat--continue to allow themselves to be bought off by the "global governance" interests so obviously intent on neutering America to extinction, then I believe we have no choice but to follow the example of our Forefathers and throw the tea into the harbor, every harbor--sea-going or landlocked--all over America. Our nation, our children's future depends on us and what we do right now and in the coming months.

When Congress first tried behavior modification through arbitrary taxation, smokers were the guinea pigs. That was such an emotional issue, wasn't it? And a lot of Americans, easily swayed, helped Congress perpetrate this scheme by falling prey to the emotional selling points. What Congress did, and is still doing, was rake in the dough and laugh behind our backs at how stupid Americans were. And local and state governments were quick to follow suit.

Now, Congress and Obama have set their sights on fat people. Soda is the "enabler", soda and all those "damaging" fruit drinks. Congress and Obama must "save" all fat Americans from themselves by modifying the behaviors of all of us through taxation. Oh, they'll push the emotional hot buttons, try to make bad guys of those who are overweight, those who don't look like the liberals' idea of what a robotic model citizen should be, just like before when they, with the help of the mainstream media, victimized smokers in a blatant attempt to cannibalize their rights.

Is that what you want? To have your behavior modified and your choices stolen left and right by Congress and Obama? Or do you believe, as I do, that being an adult I, as a free American, have the right to decide for me what is best for me. That I and you, as free Americans, should not be subjected to a behavior modification ala Hitler's Germany where the tool to modify that behavior is not shock treatments or internment camps, but a cattle prod dressed as a tax.

Freedom means that although we may not like the choices made by the American next to us, we are duty-bound to defend his or her right to make those choices, without arbitrary and discriminatory taxation. We are not peasants, serfs, slaves or cows, to be prodded by higher taxes to give up our freedoms, especially to an elitist Congress and President who thinks we're all so stupid as to not see this scheme for what it really is--another attempt at control.

Over the weekend, particularly on Sunday, Obama took to the airwaves to sell healthcare insurance. Unfortunately, his sales pitch had several flaws, the most notable of which was the auto versus healthcare insurance argument to support what he claims isn't a new tax.

From CNN:"What it's saying is ... that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you any more than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance," [Obama] said. "Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that, if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs."

Perhaps no one has told Mr. Obama that Americans are not currently required from cradle to grave to own a car or carry car insurance. Hell, even those Americans who hold a driver's license are not "mandated" to purchase auto insurance unless and until they actually put a car they own on the road and get behind the wheel of said car. This is why the comparison of auto insurance to healthcare insurance doesn't work.

Just because our purported president says a "mandate" for all Americans to purchase healthcare insurance isn't a new tax doesn't mean it isn't. And since when did Obama, or the Congress, presume the authority to tax me or my fellow Americans, our children or any baby born in America for the right to live? I did not choose to be born, yet I am here, but that doesn't mean I want my air taxed or my very life taxed to death. As many of the signs at tea parties across the nation read: I am not your ATM, Mr. Obama.

I highly resent the fact that Obama, Baucus and the Congress appear to assume that I and the rest of my fellow Americans are so stupid as to not be able to reason. I'm insulted by the obvious assumption on their part that we the People will swallow any kind of BS they wish to offer in support of their attempt to take total control of our lives under the guise of "healthcare reform."

Regardless of the sales pitch, no one but the most brainwashed among us is fooled: a government "mandate" for all Americans to purchase anything, especially healthcare insurance, IS a tax.  There might've been one born every minute, according to PT Barnum, but it's becoming increasingly obvious to a growing majority of the American People that they all work in Washington DC--for the moment, anyway.

Either our purported president has no ability to reason, he possesses no common sense whatsoever or he is just lying through his teeth to sell this new tax on all of us, young and old, newborn to senior citizen. I leave the reader the absolute freedom to be the judge of that.

I was watching a movie the other day--Good Night and Good Luck, about Edward R. Murrow when he and CBS News took on Senator Joe McCarthy--and I was struck by the similarities between the tactics of McCarthy and those of the liberal left today.

An air of unspoken terror prevailed in the country during McCarthy's era. If you publicly opposed Joe McCarthy, you were immediately branded a communist or a communist-sympathizer. The thought police would be digging into your past and if you ever picked up even so much as a magazine the junior Senator deemed subversive, you might be hauled before the Senate Committee for questioning.

McCarthy was not against lying either. He was fond of stating untruths, such as organizations like the ACLU had been listed as communist by one government entity or another when, in fact, they had not and never were. The ends justified the means, according to McCarthy, even if those means meant trampling the constitutional rights of anyone who opposed him.

Now apply that to the "race card" and "racism."

According to the mainstream media, the official mouthpieces for the current leftist administration in Washington DC, you must be a racist if:

1. You're white.

2. You're white and you disagree with the purported president of these United States.

3. You're white, you disagree with the purported president as well as oppose the spendilicious Democratic majority in Congress.

When President Bush was booed by Democrats during a speech to a joint session of Congress, were these Democrats reprimanded for their rude and crude behavior? No. No resolutions of disapproval. No pointing fingers or continuing accusations fabricated out of thin air that Representative Joe Wilson was even thinking "boy" let alone considering adding that to his "you lie" shout during Obama's healthcare propaganda...er, speech...a week ago Wednesday.

I'm not defending Joe Wilson's lack of decorum, by the way. But he apologized, the president accepted and that should have been the end of it. But the liberal left won't let the issue go--a simple "you lie" has now blossomed into a race issue, at least according to the mainstream media, FOX News excepted. Why is that? Why does the media feel a need to continue to exploit "race" at every turn? Think McCarthy-style tactics and you'll have your answer.

Decades ago, I believed with all my heart--to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson--that if I had to choose between a government with no newspapers or newspapers without government, I would choose the latter. Over the years I have been rudely and crudely disabused of that notion, to my grave disappointment.

There is less a problem with race in this country than those with an ulterior motive would have us all believe. So why do those so-called journalists who would shout to the rafters "I am not a racist" see racism at every turn? Can anyone here spell "manufactured crisis," as in "never let a good crisis go to waste?"

A race war could "force" the purported president to declare martial law, thus suspending elections until such a time as he "deems" the American People fit to choose their next president.  And since, according to the 60 minutes interview, Obama intends to "be president for a while," these McCarthy-style tactics with "race" and "racism" may just be the first shot in an all-out coup de tat. I wouldn't put this past him, or Pelosi, or Reid, who said only a few days ago that if he can't get healthcare passed with a proper Senate majority of 60 votes, he'll resort to a budgetary "resolution" that will allow Congress to pass healthcare, whether we the People want it or not, with just a simple majority vote in the Senate.

So, what is the liberal agenda anyway? And what does it mean for America as we know it?

Edward R. Murrow must be rolling in his grave.

Anyone who knows me knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that I have absolutely no use for liars. Once a liar, always a liar, at least to my way of thinking. And last night's speech by our purported president wasn't anything less than a pack of lies designed to sell the American People on a pig in a poke.

Long on partisan rhetoric, the speech was too short on details. The president's so-called plan sounded suspiciously like HR 3200, the House bill passed out of committee prior to the August recess, a bill that amounts to nothing less than government control of not only our healthcare system, but our lives. And I'm not buying.

Obama spoke out of both sides of his mouth last night. He called for civility and then attacked republicans, independents, and anyone who disagreed with his "vision" for healthcare. He asked for bipartisanship, then said in reference to what he called lies and misinformation about the proposed healthcare reform, "we will call you out." So who is this "we," Obama? Is "we" your band of union thugs that beat up a black conservative outside of a townhall meeting in St. Louis for merely giving away a few anti-government trinkets? Is "we" the members of the New Black Panther Party who stood outside a polling place in Pennsylvania with baseball bats in order to intimidate voters (and whom Eric Holder refused to prosecute)?

Is "we" Van Jones, the recent "green czar" who resigned after claiming he was "smeared" by his own words caught on tape? Is "we" the socialists and communists with whom you've surrounded yourself?

What about "We the People", Obama? Have you heard us at all? Apparently not.

We the People might want healthcare reform, but nothing close to what Obama and his band of Demothugs proposes.

Last night, the so-called president claimed to be for free enterprise and competition. I almost fell out of my chair at the audacity of the man. His actions to date speak louder in opposition to that statement than his latest lies.

I highly resent being called a liar in so many words by a proven liar elected to represent all Americans merely because I vigorously oppose what he and his band of lefties are trying to do to our country--unconstitutionally, I might add. And I've read HR 3200, something I doubt Obama has done, even now.

We the People need to change the face of Washington, beginning with the House of Representatives in 2010. I'm all for voting out every single incumbent. Perhaps our Liar in Chief will begin to hear the American People then, although I, for one, am not holding my breath.

Many people attending the Town Hall meetings are asking the question: why isn't tort reform addressed in the pending healthcare legislation?

None of the politicians holding these meetings are answering the question.

But the answer is relatively simple.

If this legislation is passed, as is, there will be no need for tort reform in a few years.

The unstated intent of this legislation is for doctors and nurses, all healthcare professionals to be working for the Feds eventually, their mistakes and/or malpractice to be protected under the Fed's umbrella by legislation that will not allow anyone covered by the government's health insurance plan to sue the Federal government or, by extention, the doctors and nurses working for the Fed's plan.

I can't stress this enough: READ the bill, HR 3200, then read the editorial from Investor's Business Daily, from which I quote:

"What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law."

Tort reform will be a moot point if this legislation is passed. And that's why the issue of tort reform is not addressed in the legislation, nor will the politicians holding these public meetings even begin to answer the question.

This bill was clearly written and designed to be rushed through Congress WITHOUT anyone reading it. But once this rush job failed, the intentions of the legislators behind this attempt to give the Federal government even more control over the lives of individual Americans are very clear--in what is mentioned in the bill as well as what is omitted from mention in the bill.

From an article in the Washington Post: "Health-care reform comes in several different flavors these days, but the basic minimum is that it allows all people to buy health insurance regardless of medical history, and it provides subsidies to help poor and middle-income families buy health insurance. That means that if you get sick and lose your job, you will still be able to get health care. That is something that everyone should be in favor of -- because everyone can get sick and lose his or her job."

Right. So if you get sick and lose your job, and lose your health insurance that went with said job, with what funds are you then going to purchase healthcare insurance from the government? There's no logic here.

And as for the liberals railing on about insurance companies and computers and nurses deciding care, just what do you think the government will be using to decide whether or not you qualify for treatment? The biggest problem is that the government's computers will be scoring your ability to receive treatment based on your age as well. Ever see Ezekiel Emanuel's little life chart? This modern-day Mengele would deny treatment to the youngest and oldest among us, including newborns, based on expected years of productivity--and this is the man advising Obama on...say it with me, kids...healthcare. He's also the brother of Rahm Emanuel of "never let a good crisis go to waste" fame. And why would Obama surround himself with sicko's like these two if he didn't subscribe to their thinking?

Since when should we Americans support a bill that says in the best of government doublespeak, "this tax shall not be considered a tax." Hello? Anyone got a clue out there?

Why should any halfway-informed American support a bill that allows the government to reach into their bank accounts on a whim? Or run an end-around play on Real ID by issuing us all a national health ID card? Excuse me, but why is this stuff, and more like it, even included in the bill? Are the 1000-plus pages supposed to act as a deterrent to anyone who might want to read the damn thing? Oh, I think so. If Obama and his unhappy socialists want to provide healthcare reform, I'm quite sure they could do so in plain English, without all these other hidden perks designed to give them total control. The bill, as written, was designed to be rushed--unread--through Congress, like the stimulus, but now that we've managed to slow those spendy b*st*rds down long enough to read what's in the bill, their sell has become ten times harder because they've learned, the hard way, that the American People are not as dumb as they think.

I'm not at all convinced the new Health Czar created under this bill--or should I say Health Commissioner--will be any more sympathetic to my needs or that of my family than the computers they're going to use to calculate who lives and who dies, who's worth treating and who isn't.

Occasionally, at the insurance companies, you can actually get a real live person on the line who can help you. What kind of customer service do you think we're all going to get from a government whose social security reps already take four months or more to get back to you? Please. Look at all the above and tell me why Congress and the president have exempted themselves from coverage.

One other thing: at least now, under the present system, if I have a gripe with my insurance company, I can sue. But under this bill, you can't sue the government for letting your children die because they dragged their heels making a decision. Says so, right in the bill.

My last point, however, is something every American should seriously consider--why haven't the stimulus funds been spent yet? Why is the economy of this country being allowed to shed hundreds of thousands of jobs every month without those funds being spent? Why is the Congress even considering Cap and Trade now, when everyone agrees that it will raise prices on everything across the board? Now, think about that "never let a crisis go to waste" philosophy, then ask yourself if Rahm meant to say "never let a manufactured crisis go to waste." Because that's what I think is going on here, a manufactured crisis in economy, in healthcare, and soon, immigration reform, etc, to drive us all like mindless cattle to embrace Obama socialism. I'm going to be very curious to see if, in the next few months and certainly before Obama's term expires, whether he and his thugs will have the audacity to find some reason to invoke martial law and suspend elections "in the interest of national security" you understand.

If you want to snitch on me for being an unAmerican American patriot, don't bother. I already did that myself.

The environmental movement wants you to do your part to save the environment so you purchase reusable grocery sacks to bring again and again to your local grocery store. And what do you fill these environmentally-safe sacks with? Plastics of all sorts--drink jugs and microwave dinners, cellophane-wrapped packages of cookies and six packs of soda with plastic rings that throttle wildlife, etc and so forth.

Never once do you step back from the media hype and consider what you're actually doing by purchasing these "green" sacks.

For one, you're giving the store your hard-earned money for these reusable sacks, so the store is profiting. And you're saving the store money by not using their free sacks, thus increasing the store's profit. You're also keeping a lot of folk in China who labor to produce these "environmentally safe" sacks gainfully employed, the same China whose government has no stringent EPA requirements for their manufacturers to follow. Not only that, but you're showing everyone else standing in line without their own bag of reusable sacks that you are, indeed, a sheeple and easily led because you've bought into the idea that you can significantly reduce your carbon footprint on the earth by buying reusable grocery sacks.

Never mind the fact that your environmentally-safe reusable sacks are filled with plastics. Forget the fact that you, for all your environmental awareness, most likely drove your fossil-fuel burning vehicle to the store to use your reusable sacks. Or that no one in the environmental movement appears to be interested in asking and/or reporting on how much the Chinese manufacturers are polluting the Earth to produce your environmentally-safe sacks.

So, how green are you anyway?

Tenderfoot comes to mind--specifically, tenderfoot left holding the "bag."

I wrote an email to my two Senators, Baucus and Tester, registering my opposition to the so-called healthcare reform. Then I forwarded said email to my lengthy list of friends, most of whom are now in the process of sending this email to their Senators, or an edited version of the email (with my compliments) or writing their own emails to their respective Senators. Here's a link to the Senators if you wish to contact them yourself (and I hope you let 'em have it): http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

I received an "answer" from Baucus a little while ago, which would be funny, if the issues weren't so serious and it wasn't our tax dollars paying some staffer to reply on his behalf. The stump speech he sent me I put in italics so you can scroll down to my reply to his so-called "reply."

But first, the original email I sent to my Senators and forwarded to my friends (and, again, feel free to copy and paste, edit, or write your own):

Dear Senator (insert name here):

I don't know why you and your fellow senators, plus our so-called Congressional representatives think you can legislate healthcare reform when Congress is unable to balance the nation's budget or refrain from ludicrous legislation such as Cap and Trade, which is really another tax on all of us and nothing more.

Forcing people to acquire a healthcare plan according to your whims or face a fine is also just another form of taxation.

Before you try to legislate my health insurance or lack thereof, before you impinge on my right to acquire the healthcare insurance I choose or not, I suggest you and the rest of Congress round up the twenty million plus illegal aliens in this country and send them home and see what kind of savings are realized in doing so. California's budget problems might actually get closer to being solved. I also suggest you and Congress get off your lazy assets and close the loophole in the immigration laws that allows an illegal alien to "pop" over the border at the last minute and give birth, thus enabling the immediate family to be eligible for the many free services this country offers to our poorer, yet LEGAL citizens. See what kind of money can be saved by doing this, not only in healthcare but also in educational service, etc., before you and Congress think of taxing the American People yet again with your "healthcare reform."

Another thing I think you and Congress ought to do is make English the national language and thus do away with any state's need to post signage in up to six different languages. Again, California might save some money by not having to print so much signage. Why not stick up for your own country once instead of buying into the "hate America" rhetoric spewing from the White House. I am not ashamed of my country, not in the least. But I am ashamed of its leaders.

I will also tell you I am sick and tired of taxes labeled as something else in the hopes the American People are dumb enough not to see past the subterfuge. I am sick of the games Congress is playing with our money and the wasted time in salaries we and our hard work provide for you. My ROI (return on investment) in Congress and the White House appears to be nil.

I suggest the whole of Congress, and the White House, get its fiscal house in order before attempting yet again to stick its hands in my pockets or legislate my or any other American's behavior through taxation.

You are shooting yourselves in the foot by ignoring the hue and cry of the American People. The Sleeping Giant is waking from its American Dream to this ongoing National Nightmare that Congress is allowing to happen and there will be consequences for you and your Congressional buddies should you persist in taxing and spending our children and their children's futures.


Mari L. Bushman

Here's Baucus's reply (feel free to scroll down to my reply to his reply--I think he's given this speech already, ad nauseam):

Dear Mari:

Thank you for contacting me about health care reform. I appreciate
hearing from you on this very important issue.

There is little disagreement about the state of America's health care
system. It's broken. Today, 47 million Americans, including thousands of
Montanans, find themselves without health insurance either because
they're denied coverage by insurance companies or because they can't
afford it. Millions more Americans are finding that health insurance
doesn't cover sky-high medical costs. The link between health care and
the financial security of working families is undeniable. Just last
year, the average household spent more than a quarter of its income on
health insurance premiums. This trend is unsustainable.

Reforming a health care system as complicated as ours requires us to
work together. In my over 30 years of serving Montanans, I've faced no
greater challenge. We can't afford to ignore the serious issues facing
our health system any longer. I understand we won't agree on every
detail of comprehensive health care reform. There are trade-offs with
any proposal. Radically changing American health care by adopting a
single-payer system, for example, is not a solution that could pass in
either the House or Senate. We are not Canada or Great Britain. America
needs a uniquely American solution with both private and public funding.

Last November, I released my plan, "A Call to Action," that offers a
starting point for reforming America's health system. My plan has three
primary goals: (1) make health care more affordable, (2) increase the
quality and value of the care that's provided and (3) ensure coverage
for all Americans. To accomplish any one of these goals, we must succeed
on all three. For starters, we need health coverage for all Americans.
Covering every American will help make insurance more affordable by
preventing costs from shifting to those who have insurance.

Expanding insurance coverage doesn't mean we are going to limit people's
options. Under my plan, if you are happy with the insurance you have,
you can keep it. But if you're uninsured or you lose your health
insurance coverage, you will be able to purchase affordable coverage
through a "health insurance exchange," a one-stop shopping place for
affordable insurance. If your income is too low to afford coverage, you
can get a subsidy to help pay premiums. Small businesses will be offered
a new tax credit for offering health insurance to their employees.

We also need to improve the quality of health care delivered in our
system. The United States spends twice as much per person on health care
as any other nation in the world. Yet we rank 19th out of 19
industrialized countries in terms of preventable deaths. Clearly, more
care doesn't always mean better care. Too often, patients are subjected
to unnecessary tests and treatments simply because their doctors don't
know their full medical history. My plan rewards care that works, rather
than wasteful and ineffective treatments. In doing so, it takes steps to
reestablish primary care as the backbone of the health care system by
paying primary care doctors more and providing incentives for medical
students to choose a career in primary care. We also need a delivery
system that helps physicians coordinate and manage medical care, and one
that focuses more on prevention and wellness rather than treating a
condition or illness that could have been avoided.

There are other things we can do to reduce costs as well. We need to
invest in health information technology and comparative effectiveness
research to better understand what treatments work best so that doctors
and patients can make better decisions.

Funding health care reform and making the system more efficient and fair
overall depends on our ability to make targeted reforms. For example,
one way to invest in reform is to limit the exclusion of employee health
benefits from tax. Such a limit would not affect the employer's tax
benefit and incentive for providing health care to employees, but rather
would serve to constrain spending. The limit would also be specially
designed to protect low-income tax payers. Rest assured any changes to
the tax code will be designed to make health care more -- not less --
affordable for all Americans.

Many of my colleagues in the Senate share my ideas on health care
reform. My plan is also generally consistent with President Obama's
vision for health care reform. In instances where our plans diverge, I'm
committed to achieving consensus. I understand that there are many
different opinions out there, but most can agree that reforming our
broken health care system is necessary. Thanks again for getting in
touch. Please don't hesitate to contact me in the future.

Senator Max Baucus

Are you still awake? Or did you just scroll past?

Here is my reply to his reply, sent minutes ago:



 

Wow, the headlines from the Obama administration's patsies--the mainstream media--would have us all believing there's some kind of hue and cry going on over Cheney and the CIA.

I guess the Democrats need a playing card to prevent Nancy Pelosi's takedown. Or maybe they don't want us to focus on Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing.

So, let's just look at who's doing the hue and crying on behalf of Obama and his Democrats.

From the Associated Press: Democrats push for probe into Bush policies

Note the wording of the first paragraph--Obama has been reluctant...to put the screws to the former administration? Even serious liberals know that's a lie. Obama's been saving this issue, just waiting for the right time to spring it, the time that would be most politically advantageous. So this smoke-screen begins to take shape, with the help of the mainstream media, on the very day of the Sotomayor Senate confirmation hearings. Gee, wasn't trying to deflect our attention away from those hearings, were they? Perhaps further divide us amongst ourselves? Not Obama, not Mr. Hope and Change, not this man who promised no more "politics as usual." Right. And I have a bridge for sale...

The LA Times is really in the bag for Obama: Clamor grows over CIA secrets

Ooooh, it's a clamor.

So, who's clamoring? Democrat Diane Feinstein of the recently failed state of California? Does anyone besides the LA Times give a rat's asset what she thinks? She lives in NeverNeverLand, along with the LA Times, and they really must be missing MJ now that he's gone. A majority of Americans are not "clamoring" for anything other than an end to the Crap and Trade nonsense, an end to forced healthcare reform that is merely another tax, an end to porkalicious bills masquerading as stimuli for the failing economy. But is anyone on the "Hill" listening? Hell, no. We're just voters, mere numbers that make up the demographics, not real people.

How about "clamoring" for an end to political games from both sides? How about an end to lies and broken promises? How about an end to biased reporting by a mainstream media interested only in promoting the best-paying political agenda?  I know I'm not alone in  "clamoring" for changes like that. I'd love to see every member of Congress investigated for every breath they've taken in the past, but then I'm not in favor of wasting the taxpayers' money on witch hunts, unlike the members of Congress or that would-be tyrant in the White House.

US News and World Report: National Security Debate Takes Partisan Turn

The second line of this "report" reads: The national security controversy...

So, now it's officially labeled a controversy. Really. And who's controverting the issue? Why try to drag the entire nation into the past, ad nauseam, when the future's a whole lot scarier, especially with this America-hating president squatting in the White House? For a guy like Obama, who promised partisanship and tranparency, he sure is one divisive mother. No more "politics as usual," huh? Actions speak so much louder than words.

How's this for spin, from the Dallas Morning News: Obama pressed to reverse course, investigate Bush-era CIA programs

Oh my, Obama's being "pressed" to reverse course...someone is pushing the poor guy into it. It's not his fault, really. So, is the Dallas News saying he's not in charge then? Obama's not directing this sham of a smoke-screen to divert the nation's attention from his highly suspect and troubling agendas? Our so-called president doesn't have a backbone stiffer than over-cooked spaghetti? Obama doesn't want to screw the other side any more than he wants to screw hard-working Americans out of all the money he and his pals in Congress can get? Yeah, right. Really, I have this bridge for sale...

To my way of thinking, a Second American Revolution and a return to the Constitution is looking better and better, every single day.

My devout Mormon neighbors, whose last name is H---h, aren't quite as God-fearing as weekly attendance in church would indicate. Seems they got themselves a new computer and helped themselves to my wireless internet--without even asking me--to the point where my satellite internet service provider sent me an email saying they were going to slow down my service because I was getting close to my usage limit.

I have never in over two years been anywhere near my limit so naturally I looked into it. My usage doubled this month as compared to the last 120 days...DOUBLED!

I couldn't figure it out and called tech support. The rep couldn't see anything on my account other than an increased (highly increased) level of downloading. I got to looking around the files and folders on my computer and lo and behold, there was a whole new MS Workgroup on my machine with one member, H---hFamilyPC, in a folder I couldn't access because it was password protected. I called tech support a second time and we disabled the wireless part of my router. What my so-called neighbors were doing is called theft of service and it's a crime, not that I'm going to press any charges or anything. But what truly boggles me is these people and their children go to church every Sunday like religion and I know enough about Mormons to know they're supposed to live by the same Ten Commandments that I do. Maybe their god only sees them once a week. Good thing my God is the One and Only.

The saddest part of all of this: we could've gotten even higher speed (and a higher usage limit) and split the cost, but now I don't trust them any further than I can spit dry sawdust. All they had to do was ask me. Just be decent, upstanding, ethical, moral individuals and ask me. I suppose waiting for an apology is a complete waste of time.

Oh, I so wanted to scream at them, to knock on their door and ask them what they thought they were doing, but I eschewed the temptation. Turn the other cheek and let the Lord God have them. That's what Jesus would do...no, really, that's what I think turn the other cheek really means. Forgive and let God have a go.

Feel sorry for these neighbors in a way. Wouldn't want the Lord God angry with me...not even an itty-bitty bit.

America hasn't gone to hell, it is hell.  To be an American in this country is hell. To be labeled a right-wing extremist by our own US Government for simply being an ardent patriot and defender of the Constitution is hell.

Radical islamists training in this country and the government does nothing. Why? To use the attacks that must come as a result of all this training as an excuse later, after innocent lives are spent, to take our guns. A crisis allowed to happen. A disarmed American populace left vulnerable to the domestic enemies within--yes, the idea is pure hell. The current administration dreams of the day we are all disarmed.

A man in the white house who promised no new taxes on 95% percent of the population and then proceeds to tax 100% of us through schemes like cap and trade. No, the administration doesn't want to call this scam a tax, nor do the Feds want the mainstream media to call it a tax, but that's what it is. All this doublespeak = hell.

A cyber-czar to be named that answers only to the dictator in chief--to protect America's businesses from hackers, or so the administration says. More doublespeak to hide the fact that the administration will spy on patriotic Americans via the Internet. And they will spy on us, every single one of us who is not afraid to exercise their first amendment right to free speech in objecting to the hell this country has become. And one by one, we could, and just might, disappear into jail cells and re-education camps until we, like good little robots, spout the administration's politically correct lines as if we believed them all along. Or die.

A president who bows to the Saudi King as if he, and by inference America, were slaves to a throwback from the seventh century.

A so-called leader of our "free" world who apologizes for us as if we were ashamed of being America.

Weakness and words in response to nuclear tests by North Korea. Giving aid and comfort to thousands of members of Hamas, relocating these terrorists to this country with our own tax dollars footing their bills.

With the aid of the democratic majority in Congress, spending our tax monies as if no future accounting will ever come due. Promising this wild spending spree will save our economy while the Federal Reserve prints money as if it were worth the paper it's printed on. Jobs shed by the thousands, manufacturing capabilities further reduced.

The government nationalizing two of the big three auto companies, GM and Chrysler, and then closing down dealerships exclusively, with one exception, that contributed to the Republican party. Not that the Republicans currently in office have enough spine or even the will to stand up and bite the hands that feed them.

Yes, hell indeed looks like this. 

Our Forefathers spoke eloquently, at length, against the state of their world when it became a living hell and then backed those words of opposition with action. 

 The question every single American patriot ought to be asking themselves today is will we now, when we are needed most, stop at only words?