Right Makes Might

"The Violation of America, a Year Later"

2011-03-21T16:16:00.000-07:00

** I am posting this same article with a second title for those who feel the first one is too strong for sharing.

There are varied events in history that carry a defining, life-altering impact. America has had many such events, especially in recent years. 9/11 is one, incomparably tragic, that instantly changed us forever.

There are others far less tragic, yet no less significant and defining.

A year ago, against the impassioned will of the majority of Americans, the infamous Obama Care Bill was brazenly forced upon us, barely passing into Law, destroying the world’s best Health Care System, with the government taking over one-sixth of the economy to achieve it.

With it also came what president Obama promised – America had heartbreakingly begun the process of “fundamentally transforming.” Many of us felt the anguish of this America –altering moment, grieving the loss of something sacred. This assault was a huge loss of the America we had otherwise always known. It disgracefully spit on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of a free America.

And it’s not just that Obama Care passed into Law, it’s equally important who ensured it and even more, how. By force is un-American and unacceptable.

No matter how passionately we said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this atrocity, they proceeded with the unthinkable and appalling governmental rape of our Republic anyway, smiling, without shame, like it was perfectly normal.

Watching then Speaker Nancy Pelosi march with fellow democrats to the Capital with such arrogance, carrying her oversized gavel (the pun not lost on us), was more than we could stomach.

Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, and believing that they knew better than us, the democrats insisted that later, once we had Obama Care, we would come to like it. However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist. But they do eventually heal in the fight to take their life back.

A year later, unwavering from our initial reaction and resolve, we are fully in the fight of our lives, on all fronts, against the tyranny of Obama Care.

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us. So if Obama and the democrats still believe we are going to eventually lie down in defeat and acceptance, they completely under estimate our fervent and vehement disapproval.

We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the democrats want.

The Constitution has ensured that in America all power is temporary so that liberty is not.

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."

Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare, as proven in the 2010 mid-term elections.

While the conservative victory of the mid-terms stopped the bleeding out of our liberty and voted our voice back into the game, America is still on life support. Our Country will not heal and economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and by undoing his policies, specifically, Obama Care.

Recent polls reflect that even more people are opposed to Obama Care than ever before, with 62% favoring its repeal, especially after finally discovering “what is in it.”

In response to a suit brought by 26 states, (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on January 31st that Obama Care is unconstitutional, stating, "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."

Currently, we are waiting for the case to be escalated to the Supreme Court for final ruling.

The newly Republican-led House, repealed Obama Care 245-189, but as long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies will remain in place. This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; to ensure the successful total repeal of Obama Care before it can be fully implemented and therefore never reversed.

It should be no surprise that completely undoing Obama Care is the number one priority; everything hinges on it. Our Republic’s survival depends on it. If we fail to do so, indeed, America will be forever fundamentally transformed and it will be all downhill from there.

We don’t want to transform America into a European welfare state; we don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth. We’re not standing for the “remaking” of America; we’re fighting without ceasing to retake Her.

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Significant baby steps made, there is still a road of struggle ahead. Obama Care is the “Holy Grail” of the left and thus, will not go down without a fight.

Our victory depends on both taking back the Senate and electing a conservative president in 2012, as well as the Supreme Court ruling in our favor. There is little to no margin of error. Time is of the essence, yet it is far too soon to lose heart.

They may have knocked us down, but they have not knocked us out. If we stay the course through 2012 and finish what we started in the 2010 mid-term tsunami, which returned America to a sea of conservative red, they never will.

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Thousands of our forefathers paid forward an America they never lived to see. Never in our lives have we teetered so close to losing it. Let us now also pay forward the America we inherited so that no generation ever teeters this close again. It is the very least we could and should do.

“The Raping of America, a Year Later”

2011-03-21T10:54:00.000-07:00

There are others far less tragic, yet no less significant and defining.

A year later, unwavering from our initial reaction and resolve, we are fully in the fight of our lives, on all fronts, against the tyranny of Obama Care.

Recent polls reflect that even more people are opposed to Obama Care than ever before, with 62% favoring its repeal, especially after finally discovering “what is in it.”

Significant baby steps made, there is still a road of struggle ahead. Obama Care is the “Holy Grail” of the left and thus, will not go down without a fight.

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

“The Divided States of ObamAmerica”

2011-03-11T15:59:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama’s election to the highest Office in our Country is undeniably historic; he will forever be known as the first black man elected President of the United States. And we’re the generation that finally surpassed this racial threshold signifying how far we’ve come as a Nation. His election reflects the fulfillment of what Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about so many years ago, where all men would be judged only by the content of their character and no longer by the color of their skin… as it should be.

Obama’s election is also historic for what he can uniquely do in the job, as no other President before him. Having won the highest platform of power and influence in the land, he could bring closure to the wounds of racism in America, and take us to the next level of rising above the sins of the past.

I grieved the night Obama won the Presidency, for two reasons, the second dovetailing the first, and neither had anything to do with objecting to a black man in the White House; on the contrary. I 100% do not agree with his ideology, his policies, or his desire to “fundamentally transform America.” I am not disappointed or surprised by his Presidency; it’s exactly what I expected and feared, and therefore why I grieved – I knew what was to come and didn’t want to go there. Now that we’re here in the thick of it, I feel all I never wanted to feel. I became part of the TEA Party to express that. The dovetail is I felt robbed of the joy of fully celebrating the first black president because I couldn’t celebrate Obama being the president. A black president is something I had longed and prayed for America and always believed I would see in my lifetime, just not someone as far left as Obama.

After I finished sobbing, I got on my knees and thanked God that at least we could finish healing the wound of racism in our Country. What an opportunity Obama would have to make that mark on history, something in which I could participate, support, and be grateful from the bottom of my heart.

How is it, then, since Obama’s election that it’s all been downhill? There’s never been such racial tension so ratcheted up, let alone from finally having the first black man in the White House. Shouldn’t the converse be the case?

Instead of feeling the joy of closure and the dawn of a new day, leftist blacks are feeling unabashedly emboldened to lash out at every perceived opportunity, exposing the stark contrast between how far we have actually come and sadly, how little they yet believe we have. Therein lays a huge part of this unresolved problem manifesting in projections of racism onto anyone who opposes the policies and agenda of the president who happens to be black.

Since before Obama’s election, the race card has been played at every turn. Regardless of polls showing that most of the Country is conservative to moderate, opposing his far left policies is blamed on racism. From musicians and celebrities, to politicians and talking heads in the very liberal, biased, main stream media, constantly crying “racism” wolf has become the disgraceful staple of their strategy to undermine and silence opposition.

At any time, the president could step forward with a genuinely meaningful exhortation, like the one he gave after the Arizona shooting tragedy, challenging everyone to step up to the better angels of our nature, putting an end to the divisiveness. He could historically finish the job Martin Luther King Jr. started.

Cue the crickets from the White House.

Unfortunately, Obama’s tacit approval has only fomented the ongoing problem, condoning the accusers who are ironically emboldened by his presidency.

Racism is racism whether it is white against black, black against white, or any other racial combination; it is not an exclusive club. It’s wrong, all of it. Given America’s history, white against black is understandably the most volatile, but it is not the definition.

“You white patty!” This was my first introduction to racism at age 7, racism hurled at me from two little black girls who didn’t want me to play with them. I had no idea what they meant, but their rejection was crystal clear and hurt me deeply. This engendered sincere compassion for anyone hurt in like manner. This vivid experience gave me a keen awareness and a special sensitivity to racism. I’ve since endeavored to both understand it and help abridge the divide.

To subsequently and falsely be called a racist cuts to the heart. Three years of it wears out the heart.

Admittedly and obviously, whites will never completely understand what it is like to be black, especially considering the stigma of slavery in America’s past and the subsequent struggles to get from there to here. I won’t pretend to ever know because I will never get the chance to walk in those shoes.

Conversely, many blacks do not understand what it is like to be white in today’s America, ashamed of our forefather’s sins, compassionate towards those so offended, yet grateful to live in a day and age where we’re all free to be that one great big melting pot of diversity.

At the height of this ultimate opportunity, Obama’s failure of leadership, missing perhaps this most significant opportunity to unite all Americans like never before, instead, has divided us more. Instead of this being the defining moment that takes us over that final hump into a higher level of American unity, and a proud celebration of that historic achievement, led by our first black president, we’ve taken 40 years of steps backwards. We’ve become the “Divided States of ObamAmerica.” What a legacy; the exact opposite of what it could and should be.

Now, on the eve of hitting the re-election campaign trail, trying to invalidate opposition, Obama has disgracefully thrown his own voice into the voluminous mix of shameful race-baiters, accusing “race is a key component of the TEA Party,” thus, further validating and encouraging this behavior when he should reprimand it and lead everyone above it. For any U.S. president to misuse racism for political gain is beyond offensive – it is reprehensible and completely irresponsible. It’s an egregious offense, undermining the very healing that otherwise lies in his hands and the power of his teleprompter.

My question to the president, and to all who continue to cry “racism” wolf, do you really want to heal racism in this Country? Or would you rather keep it on life support because it’s an effective tool to obtain the things you want, and that, much more than you want to heal racism in this Country?

“The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf” learned a harsh lesson: when liars do tell the truth, they are never believed. Playing the race card in like manner has the same undermining result. With every false accusation comes the lack of credibility for legitimate cases. Is this the price anyone wants to pay for political gain?

The truth is revealed in the choices made, not in the accusations laid. And if the latter choice is the answer, then sadly, the dream was nice while it lasted.

“Near and Dear to My Heart”

2011-01-24T15:08:00.000-08:00

Almost 18 months ago, I lost one of my best friends to a resurgence of the breast cancer she had conquered 12 years previous. Bev was a shining light in my life for many reasons, greatest among them her indomitable spirit that never complained and gave God glory for the gift of her life and whatever the purpose her suffering was to serve.

For all who knew her, she was a daily inspiration and a reminder to keep life’s ills in perspective. If ever there was a “wonderful life” it was Bev’s, as our lives were made richer, more humble, and substantially better for how hers so graciously touched ours. She was known for always saying about her life, “It is God’s will.”

She made peace with how her health had been affected long before the news arrived that the cancer had returned with a vengeance and it was now in her bones. And when it was time to go, she was ready, her heart halfway inside Heaven’s gates as she raised her hands in worship to the God she loved and trusted no matter what, while her favorite praise music played in the background of her hospital room.

My last time with her was the night before she removed her breathing tube herself and surrendered. She kept writing on a tablet that she is “at peace with God” and “now all was right in the world.” She was ready to go. I drew close to her so she could read my heart through my eyes, and through choked up tears, I was able to let her know how much I loved her, how much her life has meant to me, and that it was okay to let go now. Her own eyes smiled back with a glistening of tears, and when I said, “I love you, Bev” she pointed to her heart and then to mine to let me know she loved me too. I never had any doubt of that as she was a true friend in word and deed, always serving the needs of others and never asking for much help for her own. She preferred it that way, not wanting anyone to pity her for her physical limitations.

Needless to say, my words are not post-mortem hyperbole. Ask anyone who knew her, the stories are the same. Each one of us held such a special place in her heart that each of us felt like we were the most special. What a gift she left behind for all of us to emulate.

About 5 years ago, I had my own personal scare after finding an unusual lump that gratefully turned out to be fibrocystic and not cancer. Even so, those few weeks of my life brought me face to face with my own mortality in a way that has forever changed me. Truly, “our lives are but a breath” as Psalms 39:5 tells us.

While Bev eventually lost her fight with cancer, it was not before winning the fight of her spirit. It is easier to share about this today than it was even 6 months ago, but still not without the tears welling in my eyes. I share her story today because I know I am not the only one who has had a Bev in their life. I have lost other women from my life due to breast cancer and I am blessed to have several women in my life who have been mighty conquerors. And in recent days, news of yet someone else dear to me being touched by this disease has burdened my heart again.

This brings me to the point of my sharing this: Susan G. Komen’s Walk for the Cure and the special friend in my life who has taken up the challenge in such an inspiring way I just have to tell you all about it. I met Jim Hillmann when we worked together many years ago. We have remained dear friends since that time and now he is doing something absolutely amazing to me. After losing his mother to breast cancer in February of 2004, Jim got involved with the 3-day, 60 mile walks in the Bay Area. After being inspired from these events, he has decided to try to do all 14 events in 2011.

I am so blessed by Jim's passion for this worthy cause. I just have to do all I can to support his efforts because he is walking for you and me.

This past December, John Dugan of the Sunnyvale Sun wrote a wonderful article about Jim and what he is trying to achieve. Jim has also put together his own website which outlines his story and his goals, and how you can be part of what he is doing to support this effort.

Please take the time to review both the article and his website where he is trying to raise funds for what he calls, “900 Miles – 15 Cities – 1 Cure.” Whatever you can contribute towards such a worthy cause would be greatly appreciated, even if it comes in the form of passing on this message. If each one could reach one, imagine what miracles we together could do.

Thank you all from my heart,

Wendi

Quick Links:

To read Jim’s story: www.WalkingForACure.info

To Donate: www.900MilesCloserToACure.org

Jim’s Email: Walking_Them_All@WalkingForACure.info

On Facebook: 900 Miles Closer to a Cure:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/900-Miles-Closer-to-a-Cure/149506038408305

"The Elephants in the Room"

2010-11-11T16:04:00.000-08:00

My latest article as published on my column at Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/the-elephants-the-room

President Obama is either clueless or he genuinely believes “we the people” are. I purport it’s the latter. He has this way of revising history even as it’s being made, smoothing things in his favor, fully expecting we’ll buy it and eat it up like some scrumptious dessert. It’s as if by his saying so, makes it so, the truth be damned. If only we could be smart enough to see as he sees, and he tries so hard to help us do just that. But a funny thing happens on the way to a TEA Party when one becomes the target of such spin… like Dorothy discovering that “The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz” is just a man behind a curtain, a mouse with a microphone, the truth becomes irrevocably crystal clear and spin becomes obvious, and thus, thereafter impotent.

The Emperor has no clothes and we know it, however, he doesn’t know we know it; at least this is how Obama behaves. It’s as if he mistakenly believes we still see Oz when we’re staring directly at the man behind the curtain. It’s embarrassing for him to continue to unabashedly display his goods as if we can’t see them. Surprisingly, he doesn’t seem embarrassed at all. Instead of such exposure sincerely humbling and changing him as it did Oz, Obama further insults and alienates us by continuing to act like the ‘Great Oz’ expecting us to keep playing along.

What does a naked Emperor want us to believe, after all? Not that he is naked but that we aren’t seeing clearly. And if we aren’t, it could only be that we didn’t hear the message correctly, right? Please! It’s like the proverbial elephant in the room that the stubborn mule refuses to acknowledge even when everyone else already has.

Such is the case during the November 3 press conference the day after the wave of the 2010 mid-term elections returned America back to a sea of red. How does Nancy Pelosi view such “Astroturf” now? But I digress…

Obama said that living inside the White House bubble, “it is hard not to seem removed.” Seem removed? He even claimed in the subsequent “60 Minutes” interview that he was “surprised at the political cost” of Obama Care. Obama can’t believably go from the retaliatory mocking of the grassroots TEA Party early on in the uprising of the movement, proclaiming, “you see folks waving tea bags around,” to an “I just didn’t realize” type of response almost 2 years later. Of course he knows! He just doesn’t think we do. This is why he is deflecting the truth in a cloak of feigned humility, spinning the reason for this wave as a “messaging” problem he needs to correct instead of acknowledging exactly what it really is: a clear repudiation of his policies, policies that are bleeding the greatness out of America, and at an alarming rate.

The only messaging problem Obama actually has is he’s been “messaging” us to death on our TV’s almost daily for nearly his entire Presidency. This overkill doesn’t change what we know, no matter how many times and ways he explains, as if we’re stupid children. We understand that he wants to “fundamentally transform America.” This is crystal. We want to prevent the success of that agenda. No matter how he slices the turkey, it’s still unwanted stuffing inside.

I've been listening to various pundits follow Obama’s lead, speaking for “we the people” as always, minimizing and misinterpreting the truth about the mid-terms. These are the moments that most frustrate us. We wish we could jump through the television and “pundit” for ourselves, which is why we rally, blog, and pray that we are heard. And the left wonders why we are such an “angry mob.”

In addition to Obama’s “messaging” claim, there’s:

-          It’s not about Obama Care but about the economy.
-          It’s not about anti-Democrats but anti-incumbents.
-          It’s about making Obama a one-term President.

The strands of truth are:

-          It’s about remaining the Republic as we were founded.
-          It’s about the economy and Obama Care.
-          It’s about anti-Democrats and anti-RINO Republicans, not anti-incumbents.
-          It’s about making Obama a one-term President…

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us. We don’t want to fundamentally transform America into a European welfare state; hence, we do not want bail outs, higher taxes, increased spending, big government, or Obama Care which is one sixth of the economy. We don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth.

We don’t want Obama Care, or Hillary Care, or any other Universal, single-payer, Government-run Health Care system in America – period. We love our private sector, capitalist, free-market America. Our Country will not economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and undoing his policies.

The wave most definitely was repudiation of Obama’s policies and of anyone, regardless of Party, who aided in the success of his agenda. We don’t want any more tyrannous rule of Democrats or the enabling help of RINO Republicans who have held open the door for them to do so. It’s not just that Obama Care passed into law, it’s equally important who ensured it and how. By force is un-American and unacceptable. We’re cleaning house – our House.

As long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies remain in place. This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; not for partisan political reasons or because of racism, but to ensure the successful repeal of Obama Care before it can be implemented and therefore never reversed.

All of these strands are tied together like fingers forming a fist. The mid-term wave was just our first punch. To mistake the Conservative wave as anything but stopping the bleeding and voting our voice back into the game is to miss the whole point. A 2 year gridlock, if necessary, is preferred to save our Country.

But America is still on life support.   This is why the elections of 2012 will be a tsunami in comparison. Anyone who stood with Obama and aided his agenda will be voted out right along with him. It makes zero difference what any of them do between now and then. They brazenly forced their hand when we had no say, thus sealing their fate. Now they have no more say. The lesson must be learned that we the people hold the power of our Nation and we’ll never accept going down this road ever again. John Boehner, and Republicans like him, gets that. His election night speech and his press briefing the following day articulated it well.

Dr. Phil has said, “You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.” Obama would be wise to heed those words. We know the Emperor has no clothes. We believe what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears. Ignoring the elephant in the room has only multiplied the herd and filled the House with them. Election night was a Republican stampede he shouldn’t paint as anything else. There are just too many elephants in the room now to ignore.

“It’s About the Votes, Stupid”

2010-09-24T17:37:00.000-07:00

As shared at my Column with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/it-s-about-the-votes-stupid

When I was young, my mother used to say to me, “Do as I say, not as I do.” For as wise as she was sweet, this clever quip never worked for me. The example set in what she actually did had the greater impact on my own choices and behavior. I have otherwise heard it aptly put, “Your actions speak so loud, I cannot hear what you are saying.” In the current political climate heading into the 2010 mid-term elections, the usual siege of campaign rhetoric, promises and smears are no different; these mere, empty, last minute words cannot undo 20 months of choices and behavior, and therefore, no longer have enough depth to hold air let alone our trust.

The polarizing issues of the 2008 Presidential Elections began disturbing the slumber of the politically apathetic. Unfortunately, as often goes with apathy, the awakening comes a day late and a dollar short, now racing from the disadvantage of the back of the field. It’s like “The Frog in the Kettle” analogy: toss a frog into boiling water, it will immediately jump out, but, put the frog in tepid water and slowly turn up the heat, it will boil alive because it won’t even feel it.

While the cost of our apathy eventually gave us an Obama Presidency, fortunately, we the people did feel the heat (called the TARP Bill) soon enough to begin our subsequent uphill fight, furiously calling and writing our respective Congressional Representatives to not support the Bill, all to no avail. Against the will of “we the people,” especially those of us in the Republican Party, even John McCain, the 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, voted in favor of it, speaking huge disappointing volumes.

What a rude awakening. Not only was our voice not heard, worse - while we’d slumbered, our voice became irrelevant to those voted into Office to serve us. Instead, Congressional Representatives, including Republicans, were lording over us and serving themselves, as if this was normal and acceptable, as if they knew what was best for us, the ignorant and stupid. We were just asleep and therefore silent… but no more.

This under-estimation of we the people has subsequently exposed that it’s not we who are the ignorant and stupid or the only ones asleep. While we are now wide awake and motivated to action as reflected in the grassroots TEA Party movement, they remain clueless, especially to the fact that we feel most betrayed by the votes of those in our own Party, the “moderate” Republicans, or RINO’s (Republicans In Name Only).

From that first vote for the TARP Bill to all the votes that quickly followed Obama’s Presidential Inauguration, we the people have been taking copious notes. RINO’s made 3 key mistakes, thus, outing themselves and forever etching their names in our minds: 1) they voted for Obama’s radical agenda at every turn, 2) they believed we would forget these votes, and 3) they demonized us for opposing them. They’re like the dross which surfaces and is then removed in the process of purifying silver. All it took was turning up the heat to expose them. As we fast approach the 2010 mid-term elections, we haven’t forgotten. Anything but – we’ve been like a stampede of horses chomping at the bit to get out of the gate and to the ballot box to finally be heard. The heat of the TEA Party is purging the dross of compromise right out of the Republican Party.

Still fresh in our minds are the names of every RINO who voted for the passage of Cap and Trade, the Stimulus Bills, the Obama Care Bill, and the confirmation of radicals to our National Supreme Court, all in spite of the passionate opposition from the majority of we the people, essentially shoving their will down our throats time and time again. When Cap and Trade barely passed, due to the votes of just 8 RINO’s, a “Wanted Poster” of them quickly circulated over the internet.

The reason there is such uproar over the primary election of Christine O’Donnell instead of incumbent Mike Castle is because RINO’s still don’t get it. Dick Morris does.

Morris said labeling candidates like O’Donnell “extremist” was based on outdated political calculations. “There is a basic misconception which the establishment has about these primaries. When a tea party candidate or an ‘extremist’ wins the primary, normally that would mean there’s a lesser chance of winning the election.”

        “The issue is not extremism or moderation, its sincerity or insincerity.”

        “Fiscal and economic concerns are more important to voters.”

        “Someone who is an ‘extremist,’ in the words of the establishment, is probably more trustworthy on those issues.”

We don’t care about O’Donnell’s “dabbling in witchcraft” as a teenager, or any other stupid issue for which she has been attacked, and more scrutinized and scandalized than Obama ever was. We only care about the conservative principles she stands for and how she will vote. We already know by the aforementioned "Wanted Poster" what Castle believes and how he votes.

What is so surprising then about the ousting of these RINO’s like Crist, Murkowski, and now Castle? Their votes for Obama’s radical agenda, against our will, were painful to helplessly witness. We prayed, we called, we wrote, we rallied, we did all we could to make it clear, “Please do not vote for Obama’s agenda!” Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” For each vote that betrayed the will of we the people, our hearts grew increasingly sick with deep disappointment. Of course we no longer want them to have the opportunity to vote against us again. We don’t want any more painful and hopeless angst with each vote cast against our will; we want the peace and confidence that the votes will represent it.

Call it extremist, purist, or foolish, we don’t care. We only care about one thing - the votes. That’s what it boils down to. There’s no mystery here. It’s about the votes, stupid!

We don’t care about the attacks on the TEA Party or the candidates we endorse, attacks which only reinforce our assessment of the opposition. We are not swayed but their deflection of blame onto Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Fox News. They have no one to blame but themselves. No one else placed their vote in the box.

We don’t care about last minute campaign ads trying to save their hides; our minds were made up when they voted. Campaigning now doesn’t erase all they’ve done and how they voted in the previous 20 months.

Fortunately, in the beauty of our sacred Republic our Founders established the failsafe of empowering us, the people, with voting these public servants not only into but also out of Office.

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Instead of building upon Reagan’s proven conservative legacy after he left Office, RINO’s have dragged the Republican Party away from it by the leaven of their compromise. First it paved the way for an Obama Presidency, and now it’s been paving the way for the blasphemous Obama agenda to fundamentally transform America. They have dragged us so far away from true Reagan conservatism that our current efforts to return to our Founding principles of smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and a strong national defense, are now ironically viewed as extremist.

Every time we have been diminished, mocked, attacked, and ignored, it has only fueled our resolve. We want public servants who indeed serve the will of the people and not a radical Presidential agenda. It is time for the Republican Party to get behind we the people and no longer the other way around.

In the end, if they do not represent the will of the people when they vote, they will be purged by the votes of the people they refuse to represent. If they vote for us, we will vote for them. If they don’t – we won’t. It doesn’t get clearer than that.

"No More Leaven of Compromise"

2010-09-09T20:29:00.000-07:00

As shared at my Column with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/no-more-leaven-of-compromise
(includes the sourced links)

The recent primary battle between longtime Republican Senator Mike Castle, an establishment politician liberal Republican, and the grassroots TEA Party citizen contender Christine O’Donnell, perfectly exemplifies the very serious problem that conservatives have with the Republican Party; they keep endorsing the wrong candidate, just as they did when John McCain became the only option for the 2008 Presidential Election. It wasn’t until the principled conservative, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, joined the ticket that conservatives felt they finally stood a fighting chance against the Obama campaign machine.

The RNC continues to make the mistake that they need “moderate” candidates in order to secure independent votes. Even under the leadership of Michael Steele, the RNC fails to recognize that such compromise of true Republican principles, conservative principles, secures the liberal agenda, as often, these “moderate” Republicans, otherwise known as RINO’s (Republican In Name Only), tend to cast Congressional votes in favor of the liberal agenda. This compromise is exactly how Obama Care, as well as all the other tax and spending Bills which Americans passionately oppose, was shoved down the throats of the American people.

Conservatives do not want leaven-like Republicans in Office who “reach across the aisle.” Americans want candidates who have enough principle and conviction to stand firm on the conservative side of the aisle. Never before in America’s history has this mattered more as the Obama Administration is in full force to “fundamentally transform” Her.

If the RNC fails to understand that the TEA Party movement is not just about opposing Obama’s radical “fundamental transformation” agenda, but also about conservatives taking back the Republican Party in order to have an arm to fight with let alone a leg to stand on, then they demonstrate why their own tone-deaf candidate endorsements will cause their eventual removal from Office as well, via the cleansing affects of the ballot box.

A majority of Conservatives today still hold to the same convictions of former President Ronald Reagan who shared in a 1977 CPAC speech about revitalizing the Republican Party. He encouraged Republicans to stand on conservative principles, and then make room for others to join. He demonstrated the success of this concept, eventually winning the respect of the Democrat Party, hence the term, “Reagan Democrats.”

Sacrificing conservative principles to make room for independents was not the compromise Reagan encouraged. He did not espouse trading in common sense to win them, only to then hand over the reins of the Party to them. If it takes apples of compromised principles to get them, it will take those same apples to keep them. This is exactly how the Republican Party became the tail wagging the neutered dog; conservatives and TEA Party patriots are passionately trying to correct this crippling error.

However, if independents, most of whom are center-right, are won without compromise, because of common sense principles, then the Republican Party will once again be the empowered Party of the successful Reagan era. This is not a complicated task. Until they do, the Republican Party will continue to be a lukewarm losing Party, something this Country desperately can no longer afford.

One well known definition of insanity is continuing to travel down the same road and expecting a different result. How insane has the RNC become? Compromise does not work! If you give the left a peephole, they make it into a loophole to advance their agenda, an agenda that a majority of Americans adamantly do not want. The Bible says in Galatians 5:9, “A little leaven, leavens the whole lump of dough.” It doesn’t take much.

Americans have been making this as clear as possible every time they get behind candidates that better represent conservative principles, even as far as rejecting the “RNC endorsed” anointed candidates. This recently happened again in Alaska with the primary win of Joe Miller over the RNC backed Lisa Murkowski.

Why then, is the RNC working so hard like a Democrat to demonize the people’s choice of Christine O’Donnell to secure the win of Mike Castle? If there is even a remote chance he could vote with the Democrats on any part of Obama’s transformational agenda, as he has already done, he is of no help to conservatives fighting to remain the America of our blessed inheritance.

Thursday, the Christian Science Monitor crafted an article that asks, “Could Mike Castle be part of a new Republican middle?” The answer is a resounding “no!” Mark Levin clearly explained on his Facebook page, “This is what I’ve been warning about both on my show and here. So-called moderates will be swept into office on the coattail of the anti-Democrat, anti-Obama, pro-TEA Party surge in November, and they will organize against conservatives and the conservative agenda… It will mean the end of the GOP as a potential conservative party that can counter statists, and more importantly, it will mean that America has crossed over to a socialist nation.”

Sarah Palin called into Sean Hannity’s radio program Thursday to officially give her endorsement to Christine O'Donnell. "Let me go ahead and endorse Christine O'Donnell because, Sean, she's the conservative in the race," Palin said. "She is against Obama's cap-and-tax scheme, she is against Obamacare, and she is for the free market principles that need to get plugged in to put our economy back on the right track."

There is a clear line drawn in the sand in this a tug-of-war for the Republic which we cannot afford to lose; either America will be fundamentally transformed into a European style welfare state, looking more like Venezuela, or America will remain the Republic of Her founding. There is no middle ground. America still has a chance, but the window of opportunity is quickly closing. Risks of compromising shots in the dark between these two camps will all but secure the unacceptable success of the Obama agenda.

Compromise, therefore, is no longer an option. It is how Republicans have been needlessly drawn this far into the battle to begin with; we are far too close to that middle line. Any closer to the fire and it will consume the small hope that still remains, which is why conservatives will no longer concede to their compromise; they will never give up this fight. Instead, they will continue to vote for solid and unleavened candidates in order to revive America and, once again, become that shining light upon a hill.

The RNC would be wise to finally get a clue and get the leaven out of the Republican Party already. America cannot afford to become like a fluffy loaf of white bread stripped void of all its nutrients. It is up to them to come back to the people and stop dragging the people away from conservatism. It isn’t working. If they do not, they will make themselves a losing third party with no one to blame but themselves.

"The American Poker Game" (updated version)

2010-09-03T12:49:00.000-07:00

As shared at my Column with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/the-american-poker-game

** AUTHORS NOTE: Democrats have continued to proclaim that voters will forget their political frustration come the November mid-term elections, even as it is now fast approaching. I share this article again (originally published at "American Thinker," December 22, 2009), with a few minor updates, to emphasize the point: voters have not forgotten, feeling the same now as then, perhaps even more so. With growing concern for the future of our Country, voters have been impatiently counting down the days until the November 2, 2010 vote, an election day already predicted to be historical.

When the Senate reached the 60 votes needed to pass cloture on the Obama Care Bill in late 2009, President Obama declared “this scored a big victory for the American people,” continuing to ignore that “we the people” didn’t consider this a victory by any stretch. At that time, a CNN Poll revealed that 61% of Americans didn’t want Obama Care in any form. A Rasmussen Poll showed that 57% of voters said passing nothing would be preferable to passing the legislation. Since then, a recent Rasmussen poll explains that 58% of Americans favor repealing the now official Health Care Law.

The passage of Obama Care into Law alone has been enough to critically upset the voters. Add to it the many "transformational," far-left policies of the Obama Administration being forced upon the American people against their will, as well as the constant demonization of them for their opposition, and it is no secret as to why 71% of Americans have been angry at the current Government.

There’s been discussion that the Democrat’s believe “we the people” will forget all of it in the fast approaching November 2010 mid-term elections. This belief underscores the huge disconnect between the people and them. The Democrats and the Obama Administration are blinded by political ambition, emboldened by the 2008 Elections, even now.

No poker face – the majority of Americans are brazenly clear: they have not forgotten and are not going to forget. Still, the Democrats cannot see that the voters haven’t folded their hand in this poker game they are playing with American lives; there is no intention of doing so. Every time they refuse to hear the protests, downplaying the significance of the grass roots TEA Party movement, the voters fight harder to be heard. They raise the stakes of the game, the voters see their call, toss in more chips, and raise them in kind.

The majority of Americans fervently do not want to “fundamentally transform” America. They want to live in the free America of their blessed inheritance, the Republic for which the Founding Fathers gave their lives, the shining light on a hill. John Quincy Adams said, “You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." Anything less is a shameful travesty, spitting on the blood which was shed to provide it.

We are America, not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us America. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.”

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” If the Obama Administration believes Americans are going to lie down and accept the “remaking” of America, they completely under estimate that the people's votes hold the winning hand with plenty of constitutional chips to spare.

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

The Obama Administration can keep upping the ante in this fight for America, even until November 2, 2010. Rest assured, voters will respond accordingly on this day with an unexpected passion. Forget? Voters can hardly wait to finally be heard! They are like a stampede of horses chomping at the bit to get out of this gate and get to the 2010 Elections. They anxiously anticipate the moment they can reveal their winning hand, triumphantly gathering the chips of their America. They'll not stand for the remaking of America. But they’ll fight without ceasing to retake Her. Though Democrats cannot see it, it’s no gamble at all for “we the people.” The odds are in their favor. They have grown increasingly grateful to the Founding Fathers who paid with their lives to make sure it would be so.

Obama’s “Car” Metaphors Inadvertently Drive Home Republican Points

2010-08-09T12:30:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest as published at my Examiner Column (sourced links there):

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-51986-Silicon-Valley-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m8d9-Obamas-Car-Metaphors-Inadvertently-Drive-Home-Republican-Points

For the 2010 mid-term and 2012 elections, President Obama and the Democrats have chosen to continue to campaign against… George W. Bush? Really? That’s the game plan? Is this overly exhausted tactic the best they have? If so, they should hit with their best shot and all but assure their defeat. If they believe this is a winning strategy for them, then they are more deluded and disconnected from the Country than previously thought.

Ironically, Bush is being given more credit and power than anyone on the left ever wanted him to have.

After a disappointing attempt by Obama to make humorous “digs” at Republicans during a speech given at a DNC fundraiser on August 2, the joke is on him, as he provided enough meat to create a great “Republican Ad” sandwich. Thinking himself so clever, and believing he was making great metaphorical digs, he inadvertently made the Republican’s case for them instead.

Obama’s first mistake was mentioning Bush. Two years into his radical “fundamental transformation of America,” many Obama-voting Americans, suffering buyer’s remorse, no longer buy this worn out rag of a strategy. On the contrary, they join a majority of Americans who are so opposed to Obama’s radical policies that they would now view the imperfect Bush White House as a refreshing drink of water comparatively; at least it was still the untransformed Republic of our Founders, something that could actually be workable. Billboards have been popping up around America with a picture of Bush and a caption that asks, “Miss me yet?” for a reason. What a statement of the current political climate!

Obama has beaten this dead “Bush” horse so much that it has become glue, but, unfortunately for him, not the kind that sticks. Two years later, the cat is so far out of the bag with the now more informed American people, the argument has lost its potency. In fact, it’s so obvious that it’s embarrassing to see him still use this huge turn-off of a deconstructed, benign and ineffective strategy. Now falling on deaf ears, it has the opposite affect Obama mistakenly hopes for. Instead of helping boost his rapidly declining approval, it exemplifies why there is such a decline, further, it increases it.

During this speech, Obama yet again used a now familiar Alinsky tactic, made familiar by his own over-usage of it: deflection by blaming others for the very things of which he is guilty. With an apparent and usual smug pleasure in his own chiding, Obama said, “… they're betting on amnesia… They're counting on that you all forgot. They think that they can run the okey-doke on you. Bamboozle you." Hilarious! But not how he intended, rather, because, obviously, he is the one hoping Americans will have amnesia about the past two years, hoping they have forgotten. Reminding them of their former ire against Bush is his own bamboozling deflection from himself and all he has radically done the past two years, against the passionate disagreement of the American people, a deflection that no longer works. The damage he has done in so short a time easily overshadows anything Bush did. It appears that only Obama doesn’t yet realize it - Bush is so yesterday. All eyes are now fixed on Obama and his Administration. The clear disapproval of Obama’s policies are still so fresh in the minds of the American people, no “Bush-like” reminders are needed. And while the left likes to declare that voters always forget, they are in for a huge shock in November as voters have been chomping at the bit to get to the 2010 mid-terms and stop this “Wonderland” madness.

As far as exactly whose policies “got us in this mess in the first place,” awakened and thus, better educated Americans know that the economic downturn began in 2006 when Democrats took over the Congress. Blaming Bush and conservative policies is a hollow argument when history clearly proves the conservatism of our Founders works. Obama claims Republicans drove us into an economic ditch but he dug us out. Just because he says it over and over again does not make it so, especially when there is an abundance of proof otherwise. He fails to recognize that the American people are watching him drive us off a cliff a la “Thelma and Louise” style! His policies have tripled our National Debt in less than two years! In this time, he has spent more all by himself than all previous Presidents put together. He cannot revise history and sell it like a welcomed lemonade stand in the summer heat. Americans are no longer thirsty for his spin, or his radical policies.

As for his mocking of the number one item on the Republican agenda being the repeal of his Healthcare Bill, saying, “I have no idea why you would want to repeal that in the first place,” of course not – he is clueless! Repealing the Bill is the greatest music to America’s ears! It is the number one item on the agenda of the American people who never wanted it in the first place. Obama has forced this upon the American people and before it can do any damage, Americans want it shut down. What does he think the TEA Parties have been about? Why doesn’t he recognize how the TEA Party fires were turned up considerably during the Health Care debate last summer, both in rallies and those “violent, angry, mob-filled” Town Hall Meetings? Republicans will be considered heroes if they succeed in repealing the monstrosity of a Bill.

Lastly, Obama’s “Car” metaphor, with the double entendre of the “D” standing for “Drive” and the “R” standing for “Reverse,” was the garnish on the sandwich. When driving forward means driving off a cliff and destroying the Country, you can’t get into reverse fast enough to prevent it! It is embarrassing that he fails to recognize that slamming on the brakes and throwing it immediately into reverse is exactly what the American people want!

Republicans would be smart to make the most of this one speech – Obama provided all they need to make their point, both for the 2010 mid-terms and the 2012 elections. They could create a multitude of creative ads using clips from the speech to “drive” home the point: this President and the Democrat-ruled Congress are “out of touch!” The evidence comes from Obama’s own lips, through his not-so-clever quips, as if the majority of Americans are still bamboozled by his spin.

Indeed, Obama should run against Bush and equate Republicans with the TEA Partiers, just as they have planned. Brilliant! The American majority is no longer asleep and is not so “stupid” as Obama once counted on. In the summer of 2009, he jumped the shark and now he is trying to use old tricks to swim back upstream to his former glory days. However, all that his tactics do is cement everything Americans have learned since then until now: mostly that Obama’s “Hope and Change” feels more like “Hype and Chains,” and all that Americans hope for now, effective immediately, comes in this new mantra: “Change it back!” That would be a very good place to start.

Sticks and Stones

2010-07-15T16:44:00.000-07:00

I am done – done, playing along with the political agenda of the radical left. I refuse to be the dog wagged by this small tail any longer. The roaring accusations of racism is not from the mouths of many lions but rather from a few mice with microphones. Just because they accuse us TEA Party patriots of being racists, “official” NAACP injunctions and all, does not make it officially the truth, any more than if they claimed all elephants are tiny. They are just words, lying words, definitely repeated too often, but empty nonetheless. They are mere sticks and stones.

I’m done defending against such baseless and unproven accusations, and foolish, shameful tactics. It avails nothing. They are irrelevant to our cause, so why are we allowing them to find a foothold by even acknowledging them? Why do we continue to allow their disgraceful, exploitative, and divisive blasphemy to distract and deter us from our cause? Why are we falling for their ploy to render our movement ineffective? If this is their best shot, we need to dust it off and forge ahead. When your armor is the Teflon of the truth, even sticks and stones, though they may sometimes hit you, just slide off. It is the truth that always sticks, that always remains. And as Jesus said so well, in John 8:32, “Then you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

The truth is that the TEA Party movement is about America loving patriots of all races, political parties, and backgrounds, who 100% disagree with the Obama Administration’s radical agenda to “fundamentally transform America” into a far left, socialist Country. We do not want higher taxes, to grow Government, increase our national debt to unsustainable levels through slush-fund spending bills, nor do the majority of American’s want Universal Healthcare. Despite how earnestly and passionately we have tried to make these desires heard, we have been completely ignored and dismissed. The TEA Party movement began as a means for all like-minded Americans to band together and find a way to finally be heard. Our number one rallying cry of “Can you hear us now?” stems from Rick Santelli’s first question, “President Obama, are you listening?” The more we have been ignored and dismissed, the greater the movement has grown. And despite all hopeful speculations that we will lose steam and eventually die out, we have continued to grow and pick up steam.

Make no mistake; we aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, even if Senator Lindsey Graham declares we will. He can get in the line of denial right behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid. The truth is that our accusers have finally realized that, indeed, we are not going away of our own accord, so now they must do all they can to make us go away. Calling us “racists” is their best and only shot, which will be successful only if we leave our offensive position to go on the defensive against these lies, playing right into their hands.

When others do not have the ears to hear, it becomes a waste of time to defend ourselves in explaining the truth. Our energies are better spent staying the course of our cause to retake America and steer this Country back in the right direction towards liberty and justice for all, the gift our Founders painstakingly gave of their lives to ensure for us. Teetering this close to tyranny leaves us little room for distractions. Proverbs 4:27 tells us, “Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.”

TEA Party patriots have one goal which is to take our Country back from the jaws of tyranny and return her to liberty, and thus for all Americans. Stay the course; remain on the offensive. Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain. We are in the driver’s seat so do not surrender the wheel to the passengers trying to pick a baseless fight with us. Drive on and leave them on the side of the road shouting amongst their selves. They can’t handle the truth.

The truth is we know that TEA Party patriots are not racists. It is called the TEA Party for a reason that has nothing to do with race but everything to do with opposing too much “tax and spending.” The acronym, “TEA,” stands for “Taxed Enough Already.” We just love and want liberty – period. It is that simple. Glenn Beck coined the perfect phrase: “Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent.” To make our cause anything else is a bald face lie and a shameful tactic of distraction, plain and simple.

The truth is that those who accuse us of racism for opposing far left radical policy - policy, a connection for which there are no dots of logic between the two points, foolishly undermine their selves in crying wolf. Playing the race card in a non-racial game makes for a losing hand for them.

The truth is that we care about legitimate racial issues which is why we find it so offensive to not only be called a racist but to also see legitimate concerns undermined. No one wins here, not even the accusers who further divide all of us with their lies. This is not what we want – far from.

We just want our Country heading back in the right direction. We just want to stop the radical destruction of America. We just want to stop the tyranny and get big government out of our lives. We just want our voices to be heard, and heard they will be very soon at the ballot box during the November 2, 2010 mid-term elections, when we fire those who no longer represent us as they were originally voted in to office to do.

As we march toward that day, we must remember to stay the course of truth, ignoring and dismissing this baseless distraction – that is all it is. It is all they have. Sticks and stones…

“Sticks and stones,
From lying drones,
Will never ever stop me.”

Let the truth set you free and march on towards your goal, patriots. The truth keeps marching on.

** Sourced links for this article are forthcoming

"The Raping of America"

2010-03-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

** As posted at my new Column at The Conservative Camp (Bolded words are sourced links embedded there)

http://www.conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=337247:the-raping-of-america&catid=216:wendi-tindall&Itemid=228

I knew it the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001; America was forever changed. While there's no appropriate comparison to the huge loss of American lives that day, that is not my point. Please hear my heart as I mean no disrespect, having been personally affected by the events of that day. My following sentiments are only about the defining impact of that day and the grief associated specifically to that point.

As I sit here, just days after Obama Care has passed, I feel a similar anguished loss for America in that I know we are forever changed - we've begun to fundamentally transform. For certain this moment is historic; more of infamy for the majority of Americans who never wanted this raping of our Republic, this spitting on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of free America. Like 9/11, we will never forget.

To be clear and to the point, the majority of Americans do not want Obama Care, though president Obama claims otherwise. We fought it but he proclaimed “the American people championed it.” He’s repeatedly parsed statements like this, distorting the truth to suit his point. His tactics are so dysfunctional and manipulative; I’m amazed that any Mental Health expert worth their salt hasn’t yet called him out. I will.

Most offensive is how Obama uses the “either-or” tactic, excluding any other option – like the truth, from the equation. For example, he purports that if you’re against his reform, you’re for the status quo. The excluded truth is, we’ve long wanted Health Care Reform, and agree on several points of specific needed reforms; to say otherwise is 100% wrong. We don’t agree on how to reform, hence, his reform, and that’s the point, that’s the truth.

Regardless of the few “good” things that might be in Obama’s reform Bill, things repeated as their enticing talking points like children remaining on their parent’s coverage until they are 26, there are too many not so good things included. Drowning dog poop in chocolate sauce doesn’t make it a desirable dessert. Obama Care comes at too high a cost and too many chains attached: unnecessarily requiring the government to take over the Health Care System that works for 288 million Americans to help the 12 million Americans without care, and, taking over one-sixth of our economy in order to enact it.

Another less direct “either-or” tactic Obama uses is “guilt-manipulation” to allude that if we don’t want reform, i.e., his reform, and unless we agree with the way he cares about the less fortunate, then we are heartless, compassionless, selfish people that don’t care at all. He exploitatively props up the misfortunes of others to reinforce this point. The excluded truth is, we indeed do care, deeply and sincerely, but we disagree with his belief that government must mandate then facilitate our acts of compassion, and that, in a manner that undercuts empowering the helpless to rise to a better outcome for them. Like the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach him to fish, feed him for the rest of his life.” The excluded truth is our compassion is true compassion as it reaches further than just giving fish everyday.

Jesus clearly exhorted that we’re each personally responsible to help the helpless, like the example of the Good Samaritan. He preached that we should give, directly, from the heart. He never preached that the government must facilitate your help, taking from you to redistribute to the poor. Conversely, in fact, He turned over the tables in the temple with righteous anger because the leaders were oppressing the people much as we’re being oppressed today. (I'll share a more in depth explanation on this verse in a forthcoming article entitled "Socialism is Not Christian.)

How we help matters just as much. For both the sake of the giver and the receiver, charity is to come from the heart, not mandated from, then facilitated by the government. 2 Corinthians 9:7 says, “Let each one give as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.” It’s not just about the one who is helped. It equally matters the heart that does the helping; the greater sincerity of heart, regardless of the amount, the greater the gift. The story of the “widow’s mite” beautifully illustrates this point. Being one of the helpless didn’t keep her from giving, and she gave all she had which was next to nothing, but Jesus said she gave more than all.

When government interferes in this process, by just handing out fish everyday, it undermines the good that’s meant to be gained, both in the heart of the giver and in the empowering life skills gained by the receiver. Do we need to improve in this area? Indeed, however, Obama’s socialistic way will ensure we never improve; in fact, it perpetuates the endless cycle of poverty and governmental rescue instead of breaking that cycle and charting a new course towards the true liberty of strong, self-respecting character and personal empowerment.

How weak when Obama and the Democrats call Republicans “the Party of ‘No,’” falsely accusing them of playing partisan politics and wanting Obama to fail as President only because he’s a Democrat. The first excluded truth is, we want his policies to fail; huge difference. Policies aren’t the same as the Office and to equate them is incorrect and dishonest. We love America so we don’t want any American President to fail. However, when it comes to unconstitutional, socialist policies which oppose American values, of course we want them to fail.

The other most infuriating excluded truth is, “we the people,” not the Congressional Republicans, are not only “the party of ‘No’” but “the party of ‘Hell No!’” This is what the grassroots TEA Party movement is all about. We’re the one’s opposing Obama’s policies. We’re the one’s marching on Washington, shouting from the collective depth of our hearts to be heard. The disparity in how each Congressional Party has responded to us is where you find the truth.

Obama and the Democrats have ignored us, belittled us, attacked us, lied about us, and eventually forced their will upon us. They’ve also demonized Republicans as the ones who are against us. We know the truth; it can’t be “spun” into anything else that we’ll ever believe. The more they’ve attempted to, the more they’ve exposed how devious they are, hence, their rapidly declining approval ratings.

Congressional Republicans are the only ones who have finally heard us and thus, are fighting and speaking for us in opposing Obama’s policies. If only they had done so sooner, we could’ve prevented having to enter into this fight for our liberty. Better late than never; we won’t surrender to becoming the USSA. Though we’ve failed in stopping the passing of Obama Care, we will fight to repeal it.

If Democrats believe in 7 months at the mid-term elections, that we’ll be so pleased with the “chocolate” in ObamaCare (the small part they’ll strategically enact immediately) that we’ll forget what they’ve done, they’re hugely deluded. This embarrassing ignorance is what comes from trampling on the voice and will of the people. By dismissing us and playing politics with our lives, we’ll appropriately respond in November with an unexpected and overwhelming passion, firing them, and they’ll continue to lose for a long time to come.

Forget? Think again! Though there’s amazing healing that makes you stronger like a bone after it’s been broken, make no mistake - no one who’s been raped ever forgets. On the contrary! We’re like a stampede of horses chomping at the bit to get out of this gate and to the mid-term elections. We’ll not stand for the remaking of America. But we’ll fight without ceasing to retake Her. The odds are in our favor; our Founding Fathers paid with their lives to ensure it would be so. Like 9/11, we’ll heal, but we will never forget - never.

"Progressive Radicals Gone Wild"

2010-03-19T16:18:00.000-07:00

** As posted at my new Column at The Conservative Camp (sourced links embedded there)
http://conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333518:progressive-radicals-gone-wild&catid=216:wendi-tindall&Itemid=228

We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the progressive Democrats want to do beginning with the passing into Law their infamous Health Care Reform Bill, or Obama Care. It matters not that the majority of Americans passionately oppose it; the desperation, with which they are driven to force this monstrosity of a Bill on the American people, from resorting to unconstitutional tactics to committing political suicide, is revealing of the obvious answer.

Behaving like a candidate instead of a President, Obama has campaigned for his Health Care Reform Bill like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, using deceptive rhetoric to appear as though it’s about charity and compassion, and that he is fighting for “we the people.” In truth, it’s not about the people at all; it’s about progressives obtaining power and control. It’s about this once in a lifetime opportunity to finally grasp their holy grail, to “fundamentally ">transform America” into a European style welfare state. Health Care is merely the door to achieving this ultimate goal; it’s the skeletal foundation for this radical transformation. And they’re determined to get through that door at any and all cost, even if it means politically raping the American people and falling on their swords in the process. Saul Alinsky, Mr. “the ends justify the means,” would be proud.

Americans now understand progressives, and thus, are finally fighting them. Progressives therefore realize, pushing through their agenda is no longer the slam-dunk they originally hoped it would be. With the November mid-term elections fast approaching, and the influencing voice of the grassroots TEA Party movement representing America’s true majority, time is of the essence. They can no longer afford patience, nor can they give up, especially when they are so close to their victory they can actually taste it. Instead, it’s become a fight to the death, either the death of their agenda or the death of capitalist America, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to pass Obama Care, of late attempting to use the unconstitutional “Deem and Pass” Rule. They’re willing, in their own estimation, to “heroically” sacrifice their soul for the cause - if they had a soul.

Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, progressives forget that the Constitution has ensured their power is temporary. While recent polls have shown that conservatives are the American majority, progressives behave like they are the majority, like their “moment” to rule has finally come, and conservatives will never be back in power again. This false sense of security has resulted in foolishly exposing themselves with the same gleeful abandon as the women in “Girl’s Gone Wild.” In doing so, they’ve ignorantly handed Americans the evidence needed to defeat them. Once Jack is out of the box, you might be able to put him back in, however, now we know what he looks like and who he really is. The element of surprise is gone. To then keep acting like we’re still clueless only underscores how exposed they really are.

One of the most perplexing reveals is how anti-American progressives are. They’ve stealthily infiltrated our schools, courts, and legislatures, like a “Trojan Horse” filled to the brim with an agenda that is a direct threat to the free America of our blessed inheritance for which our Founding Fathers gave their lives. John Quincy Adams said, “You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." Anything less is a shameful travesty, spitting on the blood shed to provide it.

If progressives hate America, why are they here? Why bother trying to fundamentally change her when there are Countries like China, Venezuela and Cuba, already made to their preference? For touting themselves as the voice of diversity and tolerance, they certainly have none for allowing the existence of America’s diversity in the world; they would rather have more of the same.

No matter how many speeches Obama gives, and no matter how deceptive the packaging, we fervently do not want to “fundamentally transform” America, especially destroying the world’s best Health Care System and with the governmental taking over of one-sixth of our economy to achieve it.

1) Obama claims if you oppose his plan, then you simply want the status quo.
- However, most Americans agree that we need reform. We disagree with the need to overhaul the whole system to resolve the issues at hand.

2) Obama falsely purports that 30 million Americans are without Health Care.
- The real number is more like ">12 million. In his book, “Liberty and Tyranny,” Mark Levin explicitly details the truth.

3) Obama claims there is such a dire urgency for reform, exploitatively propping up the misfortunes of others to reinforce his point.
- If it’s so urgent, why doesn’t it become effective until 2014?

Why is it necessary to completely overhaul the Rolls Royce in order to fix faulty or broken headlights and that for such a small percentage? Let’s just fix the headlights. If 12 million Americans are lacking coverage, let’s extend to them the already existing Medicaid program without disrupting a system that is working for the remaining 288 million. And while we’re on the subject, let’s fix the current problems with Medicaid instead of creating another dysfunctional government run program.

In the end, Obama and the progressive Democrats believe that they know better than us and once we have Obama Care, we will come to like it. However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.

No matter how passionately we’ve said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this America-altering atrocity, they’re proceeding with the unthinkable governmental rape of this Country anyway, smiling, without shame, like it’s perfectly normal. It’s disgusting on every level – except to them.

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

If the Obama Administration believes we’re going to lie down and accept the “remaking” of America, they completely under estimate the vehement disapproval of the American people. Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare.

Their holy grail - of power and control through Health Care - is so close they are willing to politically rape, pillage and die for it. And politically die they will, beginning in November. Progressive radicals gone wild, indeed…. gone off the deep end…. and then overboard.

Check and Check Mate

2010-02-13T21:34:00.000-08:00

Memo from “we the people” to President Obama: Republican Scott Brown’s miraculous election to the newly ordained “people’s seat” in liberal Massachusetts – Check. Just how much this game changing move has resonated with Obama remains to be seen. However, I do think I could venture a good guess – not much… yet.

Prior to the recent State of the Union Address, I correctly predicted President Obama wouldn’t triangulate and move to the middle as Clinton did in 1995. He’d dismiss Brown’s win and remain course with his radical agenda. Since his community organizing days, this has always been the priority, to “fundamentally transform America.” He’s repeatedly told us this outright so my prediction isn’t impressive.

Obama’s agenda will never change, especially now that he’s so close to achieving his far left goals, but after Brown’s win, how he delivers it will; he’ll give the appearance that he’s moving towards the middle without actually doing so. For Obama, perceptions are everything and reality is of little consequence, as long as the ends justify the means, as Saul Alinsky taught him.

It’s important to Obama that we buy the “perceptions” he’s selling. Any affront to them is met with his immediate attempts to correct it. He rewrites the truth to create a new “reality” no matter how obvious and ridiculous. This is why the White House dispersed the “spin trifecta” of David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs, who shamelessly echoed Obama’s false interpretation of Brown’s election. Instead of acknowledging the clear referendum it is, they audaciously asserted that it’s an Obama affirmation. Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” When Fox News’ Chris Wallace addressed that Brown ran on being the 41st vote against Obama Care, Gibbs replied, “Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.”

The incessant defensive spin makes it appear that criticism and clear referendums fall on deaf ears, especially coming from the rapidly growing grassroots TEA Party movement, who strongly oppose his policies; even from an election like Brown’s. Rest assured, Obama hears. He’s keenly aware of more than his ego will allow him to admit. Unfortunately, that same ego is buried under thin skin that exposes just how much the criticism so frequently strikes a nerve. He can’t help himself; the distracting Achilles heal of his narcissism is predominant and everything else is viewed and prioritized through that skewed lens. He spends more time responding to criticism than he does to the concerns of “we the people.” He hears us, but he refuses to listen; there’s a vast difference between the two and therein lays the problem.

Obama interprets "we the people," spinning the truth to affirm the agenda he pushes at our expense. He campaigns against us for that agenda with the same focus and fervor employed against McCain in the 2008 election. We’re mere pawns to him in his chess game of political strategy, manipulated with sweeping, crafty rhetoric in order to serve his purpose. We’re smart enough to recognize political posturing that gives the appearance of connecting with us. But, real connection can’t be faked; it’s there or it isn’t, as revealed by subsequent actions. Obama’s actions speak so loud we can’t even hear what he’s saying.

During his State of the Union speech, Obama reframed our anger at him as being about partisan arguing. He claimed our anger was because “TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments and big issues into sound bites,” and as frustration with “a Washington where every day is Election Day.” He invalidated the legitimacy of our anger by implying we believe partisan lies told to us by the GOP. At the recent annual retreat for the House Republicans, Obama said, “You've been telling your constituents, 'This guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.'" Oh, if we only had the truth – his truth, then we wouldn’t be angry.

Oh, if Obama would only listen to the messages on the clever, homemade TEA Party signs then he would know our truth:

- We don’t want government controlled Health Care or Cap and Trade – ever.

- The only way to stimulate the economy is – get government out of it! Get out of the private sector and leave us alone – period.

- We don’t want tax increases, spending bills, or bigger government.

- We want the president to uphold his oath to protect and defend our Country and the Constitution.

- We don’t want to fundamentally transform America – never!

A recent Rasmussen poll revealed that the majority of Americans feel this way. That it doesn’t matter to Obama is beyond infuriating. Instead of listening and appropriately responding to what “we the people” want, he continues to pull hard left to achieve his long time goals, whether we like it or not. He believes he knows best and will eventually win us over. He doesn’t know how wrong he is! Recently, on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Obama said Wall Street Fat Cats “still don’t get it.” How ironic! This is how we feel about Obama. How can we be any clearer? What will it take for him to listen and finally get it?

In the address, Obama threw the Republican’s a few bones, giving the appearance that gets it. He mentioned freezing discretionary spending, looking at offshore drilling, and building nuclear power plants. And all of a sudden Health Care Reform is not urgent anymore. Finally the focus is on jobs and the economy. Big deal! It doesn’t really matter how many bones he throws or which part of his agenda he works on if his solution is more government. As former President Reagan eloquently made clear, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”

He may dismiss Scott Brown’s election as being any kind of serious message. Some called it the “Scott Heard Round the World,” heard by everyone except the Obama Administration! After all, Brown represents only one changed Senate seat and Obama still holds the majority with 59. However, at the coming mid-term elections, our votes will reduce that number more significantly. Our Founders were wise to establish a Republic providing a system of “checks and balances,” putting proper use of power in the hands of the people at the ballot box. Come November 2010 and 2012, make no mistake, we the people will finally be heard - “Check mate!”

"Obama Hears Us, He Just Refuses to Listen"

2010-01-27T14:53:00.000-08:00

** (Due to the timeliness of the subject and the Presidents State of the Union Address in a few hours, I am publishing this article here instead of another outlet.)

The recent miraculous Massachusetts Senatorial election of Scott Brown to the sacred “Kennedy Seat,” appropriately renamed by Brown as “the people’s seat,” was a huge, definitive message sent to Washington: “We the people” passionately oppose the Obama Administration’s far left policies, specifically the taking over of our Health Care System, and we desperately want to stop the incessant bleeding out of our liberty through the steam roll of a Democrat Supermajority. A post-election CNN Poll affirms that 70% of Americans believe ending this super majority is best for the Country.

Washington’s answer to our escalating question “Can you hear us now?” is an undeniable “Yes we can!” However, they actually are denying that they received the message we sent with Brown’s election. The White House dispersed the “spin trifecta” of David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs, who shamelessly echoed Obama’s false interpretation of our message. Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” When Fox News’ Chris Wallace laid out Scott Brown’s platform, specifically that he ran on being the 41st vote against Obama Care, Gibbs replied “Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.” Instead of acknowledging it as the clear referendum that it is on Obama’s agenda, they audaciously assert that it’s an Obama affirmation.

Obama-spin is the typical knee-jerk reaction we should expect. Obama responds to criticism by rewriting the truth, no matter how obvious and ridiculous, to create a new “reality.” When it appears to tarnish his “image,” he comes out swinging. He can’t help himself; his narcissism is predominant and everything else follows. On Martin Luther King Day he gave a speech finally admitting that it “stings.” We know this as his frequent defensive public reactions are embarrassingly more transparent than he realizes. His unpresidential war with Fox News is one of many exposé’s of his thin-skinned nature. He even mockingly retaliated against the grassroots TEA Party movement by saying that we were “waving tea bags around.”

I’ve long suspected the problem isn’t that president Obama can’t hear us. Oh sure, he strategically tries to appear to not, but the aforesaid examples are among many that expose how he clearly does. What’s worse is that he refuses to listen and respond appropriately; that’s the real issue. The evidence, as revealed in his constant spin, belies the truth that he’s intentionally disregarding us in order to push through his radical agenda at all cost. It foretells what Obama will do moving forward, which is as he’s always done from his community organizing days and from day one of his presidency – continue hard left. His agenda will never change, but how he delivers it will. He’ll wrap his far left policies in a more populist and fiscally conservative package to give the appearance that he’s moving towards the middle without having to actually do so.

What else can Obama do? Continuing to be unwaveringly dogmatic and obvious, especially now after the Brown win, will undermine all Democrats heading into the upcoming November mid-term elections. He has to back down without appearing to surrender. A sudden move to the middle will only seem like obvious, disingenuous posturing to save his political hide. It’ll also further anger his far left base which he can ill afford. In the realm of political games, he has backed himself in between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Continuing to play those games is exactly what has turned off the majority of Americans.

The only acceptable response he could and should give is a humble one – to “we the people.” To acknowledge the truth and genuinely change course would reflect that he understands our message, as Clinton did in 1995. He should say that he has finally heard us, he understands clearly what we want, and the point is to do right by the American people instead of executing his own personal agenda. Anything less would simply be more of the same bitter pill we just made clear we desperately cannot ever swallow. However, he won’t do this because he sincerely believes his radical policies are best for America. Eating any kind of crow, even for the American people, isn’t something he can chew let alone digest.

Obama has made it clear that he’d rather accomplish his agenda and serve one term than to not accomplish it at all. He acknowledged this potential outcome in a recent interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, stating, "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." He admitted, "I will not slow down in terms of going after the big problems that this country faces." In other words, his agenda hasn’t and won’t change. Even Vice President Joe Biden insisted that the administration is "not backing off a single thing we believe in."

There’s no mystery; Obama will move ahead with his agenda however he must, whatever the cost, re-wrapping it in new populist packaging, hiding it in smoke and mirrors,. His refusal to listen and heed our message, in the end might be worse than eating political crow; it might just indeed be his Waterloo after all.

The Great Hate of the Left

2010-01-18T00:04:00.000-08:00

* As Published by American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_great_hate_of_the_left.html

The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hatemongers. We stand for law and order, but they call it fascist oppression. We attend Tea Party rallies to express passionate opposition to the radical agenda and policies of the Obama administration, and we are called hateful racists. Our accusers forget that our president is also half-white, and further, that we couldn't care less either way -- race has long been a non-issue for us.

We attend town hall meetings to make it clear that we oppose a health care bill the Democrats insist on forcing down our throats, and they call us a hateful, angry mob. All passionate opposition to their point of view, even on the faces of smiling Tea Party participants, is considered angry hate. Because conservatives do not show compassion in the same way that liberals do, liberals say that conservatives have no compassion at all.

The way the left spins the truth about the right is deception at its finest. It is no wonder there is so much confusion about the truth in politics! The truth is that looking at conservatives through liberal-colored glasses makes for a complete distortion.

- Why is it considered "hate" to oppose the left but considered "civil rights" to oppose the right?

- Why do the left see government interference and control as compassionate liberation while conservatives see personal empowerment and responsibility as truly compassionate and liberating?

- Why is the Fairness Doctrine fair only if it shuts down the voices of conservatives?

- Why do the left call themselves pro-choice when the only thing they choice they endorse is to kill an unborn or partially born baby?

- Why can the left be harshly partisan when a conservative president sits in office, but when a far-left president sits in office, they want us all to come together? (And if we don't, we are hatemongers.)

Why are those on the left permitted to do and say appalling things that would destroy anyone on the right? Such hypocrisy is infuriating because it masks the truth that the hate is really a projection of the misery and hate within their own hearts.

However, every once in a while, we are provided a perfect teachable opportunity to expose the truth, as was the case during the recent health scare of Rush Limbaugh, in which the left exposed themselves in full regalia. Shameful and beneath any American was the hate displayed not fifteen minutes after it was reported that Rush was taken to the hospital in serious condition. There was a flood of responses in online commentary -- so many praying for his recovery, and disgustingly, some for his demise.

It is one thing to hate someone. However, for Americans, it crosses the line when that hate makes one wish for the harm or demise of another. To pray for anyone to die, let alone with such brazen arrogance and glee, is appalling and breathtaking.

As usual, I saw no compassion from a left who hail themselves as the "leaders of compassion for all people." I saw more hypocrisy from the left, who railed in hyperbolic outrage against anyone on the right who didn't grieve with them over the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful commentary made me wonder if these people all graduated from the Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.

Where are Nancy Pelosi's crocodile tears now? Where is her heart-wrenching concern for "this kind of rhetoric" -- the kind that creates a climate in which violence takes place (from the left, might I remind her)? Where is the co-called "nonpartisan" outrage at such behavior, the kind that screams from every biased mainstream media outlet when a clever and homemade Tea Party sign disagrees with the Obama administration? Why are they not also being called out on their legitimate hate behavior and language?

The truth is that no matter how passionately we oppose the policies of President Obama, no matter how fervently we want to remove Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from office, and no matter how angry we are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish for the harm, illness, or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to even think it, let alone to say it, even in jest.

For a people who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I daresay they need to take a good look in the mirror -- and then consider that they should be first in line for that handout. Praying for anyone to die is beneath any American. Those whose hate would compel them to wish another person to die desperately need the grace of God for a heart and a conscience, as they are already reprobate and half-dead themselves. For all of their prayers for death, they need our prayers for life so much more.

An Expose of Hypocrisy and Hate – On the Left

2010-01-16T15:08:00.000-08:00

The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hate mongers. It’s one of the more common liberal mantras; a staple in their cupboard of ‘talking points’ that poison the political spectrum. The way the left spins the truth about the right is deception at its “spinning” finest. It’s no wonder there’s so much confusion about the truth in politics. Looking at conservatives through liberal colored glasses is a complete distortion.

          - Conservatives with a passionate opposition to the radical policies of the Obama Administration, are irrelevantly labeled as hateful racists, forgetting that the President is also half white, and further, conservatives could care less either way – race has long time been a non-issue for them.

          - All strong disagreement with liberal ideology, even on the faces of smiling Tea Party participants, is considered extremism and angry hate.

          - Conservatives attend Town Halls to make it clear that they oppose the Health Care Bill which Congress insists on forcing down their throats anyway, and they are called a hateful, angry mob.

          - Because conservatives don’t show compassion in the same “way” that liberals do, they say that conservatives are hateful, having no compassion at all.

Why are those on the left permitted to do and say things that are appalling and outrageous but would otherwise destroy anyone on the right? In a liberal world, what is good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander. The now famous, recent “misspoken statement” from Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid is a great example, the one where Reid referred to Obama as “light-skinned” and with “no negro dialect.” The judgment of liberals is, for Harry – forgiveness; for a Republican – not so much.

Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” The ever vociferous Al Sharpton, who calls out every perceived instance of racism he can find on the right, also gives Reid a pass, excusing Reid’s poor “word selection” and redirecting the issue back to his work on Obama Care. Clearly, Sharpton exposed his own hypocrisy, only caring about racism when it serves the left and their socialist agenda. That agenda comes first; it is far more important. Any threat to it must be shot down, even if it means swallowing racist crow in the form of “forgiveness.” Even Senator Diane Feinstein stands behind Reid, stating that “all of us are imperfect.” That is, if you are standing on the left.

As for anyone on the right, we need only look back 2 months to October 2009 at the renewed outrage at Rush Limbaugh for a 2003 comment he made about Donavon McNabb while working at ESPN. For weeks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others relentlessly beat this dead horse, crying “racism” with such moral indignation. As a result, Rush was disqualified from the opportunity to become partial owner of the Rams.

Then of course, in 2002, former Mississippi Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made his own statement. The ensuing relentless outrage resulted in Lott resigning from his leadership post. The ever forgiving then-Senator Obama helped lead the charge in calling for the Republican Party to “drive out Trent Lott.”

Those who are normally outraged by a comment like Harry Reid’s, say, if it came from someone like Glenn Beck, are now shamefully not so outraged at all. They held more contempt over the frivolity of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe during the 2008 Presidential campaign! It is like Whoopie Goldberg saying that Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape, rape.” I guess Reid’s comment isn’t really racist, racist – because he is on the left. Such hypocrisy is infuriating because it masks the truth that real hate comes from the left. .

Every once in a while, we’re provided a perfect teachable opportunity as was the case during the recent health scare of Rush Limbaugh, in which they expose the truth about themselves in full and proud abandon. Shameful and beneath any American is the flood of shocking and appalling hate displayed in online commentary, praying for his demise, not fifteen minutes after it was reported that he was taken to the hospital in serious condition. It’s one thing to hate someone; however, it has gone too far when that hate spurns prayers for the death of another, and with such brazen arrogance and glee, it is disgusting and breathtaking.

As usual, I saw no compassion from a left that hails themselves as the ‘people of compassion.’ I saw more hypocrisy from the left who railed, in hyperbolic outrage, against anyone on the right who didn’t grieve with them over the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful dribble made me wonder if they graduated from the “Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.”

Where are Nancy Pelosi’s crocodile tears? Where’s her heart wrenching concern now, for “this kind of rhetoric” – the kind that creates a climate in which violence takes place (from the left might I remind her)? Where is the co-called “non-partisan” outrage at such behavior, that only otherwise screams from every biased media outlet when a clever, home-made TEA Party sign disagrees with the Obama Administration? Why are they not being called out on their legitimate hate behavior and language?

The truth is that no matter how passionate the opposition to President Obama’s radical policies, no matter how fervently conservatives want Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid out of Office, and no matter how angry they are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama Administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish the harm or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to think it let alone to say it, even in jest.

For those who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I dare say, they need to take a good look in the mirror and then stand in line first for that handout. Those whose hate would wish another person to die desperately need a reality check as they are reprobate and half dead themselves. The accusation of conservatives being hateful is really a projection of the misery and hate within their hearts. For all of their proudly displayed hateful death prayers, they need our humble prayers for life so much more. Their political double standard is blatantly obvious. Indeed, in the recent displays of political games, the liberal left is once again showing their true colors - embarrassing shades of hypocrite and hate.

For A Republican, Outrage but For Reid, Forgiveness

2010-01-11T12:44:00.000-08:00

** As published by Stand Up America
http://standupamericaus.com/wendi-lynn-g-for-a-republican-outrage-but-for-reid-forgiveness:23642

Remember the recent renewed outrage at Rush Limbaugh for a 2003 comment he made about Donavon McNabb while working at ESPN? For weeks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others relentlessly beat this dead horse, crying “racism” with such moral indignation. As a result, Rush was disqualified from the opportunity to become partial owner of the Rams.

Remember in 2002, when former Mississippi Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made his own “poorly misspoken” statement while attending a birthday party for then Sen. Strom Thurmond? The ensuing relentless outrage resulted in Lott resigning from his leadership post. Then-Senator Obama helped lead the charge in calling for the Republican Party to “drive out Trent Lott.”

Now liberal Senator Harry Reid has taken his own turn at “poorly misspeaking” – about President Obama. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, in a private conversation with authors Mark Halperin and John Heileman of the new book, “Game Change,” Reid referred to Obama as “light-skinned” and with “no negro dialect.”

In each case, there were apologies. However, unlike Rush and Lott, the astounding difference for Harry Reid is, he is forgiven. Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” Wait, it gets better! The ever vociferous Al Sharpton, who calls out every perceived instance of racism he can find on the right, also gives Reid a pass. Sharpton’s response excuses Reid’s poor “word selection” and endeavors to redirect the issue back to his work on Obama Care.

“While there is no question that Senator Reid did not select the best word choice in this instance, these comments should not distract America from its continued focus on securing healthcare or creating jobs for its people.”

Clearly, Sharpton has exposed his hypocrisy. He only cares about racism when it serves the left and their socialist agenda. It is that agenda that comes first; it is far more important. Any threat to it must be shot down, even if it means swallowing racist crow in the form of “forgiveness.”

Even Senator Diane Feinstein stands behind Reid, stating that “all of us are imperfect.” That is, if you are standing on the left, then you are forgiven; if you stand on the right, not so much, if ever.

I don’t know why it continues to amaze me, their audacity of hypocrisy. They can deny it all they want, but the political double standard of the left is blatantly obvious. Those who are normally outraged by a comment like Harry Reid’s, say, if it came from someone like Rush Limbaugh, are now shamefully not so outraged at all. They held more contempt over the frivolity of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe during the Presidential campaign! It is like Whoopie Goldberg saying that Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape, rape.” I guess Harry Reid’s comment isn’t really racist, racist – because he is on the left.

Indeed, in this recent display of political games, the liberal left is once again showing their true color - an embarrassing shade of hypocrite.

The Rush to Judgment on Limbaugh

2010-01-06T09:51:00.000-08:00

Shameful and beneath any American is the behavior of hate that was on full and proud display not fifteen minutes after it was reported that Rush Limbaugh was taken to the hospital in serious condition due to chest pains. There was a flood of response in online commentary; so many praying for his recovery, and disgustingly, some for his demise.

It is no secret that Rush has long been a target of criticism and attacks from the left. This is to be expected, especially for someone who is known for ardently not withholding his opinion and expertise when it comes to politics and his conservative values. Agree or disagree with him, no one is in the dark regarding where and why he stands on any given issue. It is even expected for him to be hated by some on the left for those things; even more so now for opposing the radical policies of the very polarizing President Obama. All of that is to be expected and even accepted. It is the nature of politics.

However, as Americans, we have crossed the line and gone too far when we wish ill or harm on our opposition. That anyone would pray for Rush to die is beyond the pale. Further, to declare such wishes with such brazen arrogance and glee is appalling and breathtaking. So offensive was it that I cannot quote any of it in good conscience; but you will find it all easily upon investigating it yourselves.

I saw no compassion from a left that hails themselves as the leaders of compassion for all people. I read more vicious hate mongering from a left that accuses the right of being the haters for passionately disagreeing with them. I saw more hypocrisy from the left who railed, in hyperbolic outrage, against anyone on the right who didn’t grieve with them over the loss of their precious Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful commentary made me wonder if these people all graduated from the “Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.”

Where are Nancy Pelosi’s crocodile tears now? Where is her heart wrenching concern, for “this kind of rhetoric” that she heard in the late 70’s that “created a climate in which violence took place” (from the left might I remind her)? Where is the co-called “non-partisan” outrage at such behavior, that only otherwise screams from every biased main stream media outlet when a clever and home-made TEA Party sign disagrees with the Obama Administration?

The truth is that looking at conservatives through liberal colored glasses is a complete distortion. Because conservatives do not show compassion in the same “way” that liberals do, they say that conservatives have no compassion at all. When we passionately disagree with them on any given issue, they call us hate mongers. For disagreeing with President Obama’s radical associations and policies, they call us racists, forgetting that our President is also half white, and further, that we could care less either way – race has long time been a non-issue for us.

The truth is that the hate, of which the left loves to accuse the right, is really a projection of the misery and hate within their hearts, not ours. They expose themselves in full and proud abandon with such an opportunity as this, the chest pains of Rush Limbaugh, their most feared and more than worthy rival.

The truth is that no matter how passionately we oppose the policies of President Obama, no matter how fervently we want to remove Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from Office, and no matter how angry we are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama Administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish the harm, ill, or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to even think it let alone to say it, even in jest.

For a people who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I dare say, they need to consider that they should stand in line first for that handout. Anyone who’s hate would wish another person to die needs to seek God for a heart and a conscience as they are already reprobate and half dead themselves. Again, praying for anyone to die is beneath any American. As much as Rush needed our prayers, those who prayed for him to die need our prayers so much more.

Sourced Articles:
1) http://race42008.com/2009/12/30/liberal-glee-on-display-over-limbaugh-hospitalization/
2) http://www.kitv.com/entertainment/22094552/detail.html
3) http://twitter.com/billpalmer/status/7220789869
4) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/alan-grayson-republicans_n_303996.html
5) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704514.html

Author’s Credit: Wendi is a Writer and Blogger residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently working on her first Book. Her Blog can be found at www.rightmakesmight4all.blogspot.com

My Two Articles Published in American Thinker

2009-12-24T10:44:00.000-08:00

The American Poker Game
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/the_american_poker_game.html

Why the 'Angry Mob' is Angry
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/why_the_angry_mob_is_angry.html

Wendi Lynn G: Wendi's Journal 2009 (November 2, 2009) "The Era of Reagan is NOT Over!"

2009-11-02T19:08:00.000-08:00

We all know the story of the “Tortoise and the Hare.” It is a great lesson in how haste makes waste and steadiness wins the race. The Hare appears as the obvious predicted winner while the slow and deliberate Tortoise could never possibly do so. He is sadly under-estimated. Life has taught me that being so under-estimated has its advantages. Tactically, the opposition is in such denial that they never see you coming. However, this wonderful element of surprise brings much of its own reward. The victory of the Tortoise is extra sweet! The key is in the steady and deliberate patience required to properly execute the surprise in just the precise moment – like coming out of nowhere. To ensure this victory, you cannot afford to get tripped up by the provocation of trying to right the wrongs in the earnest. Those small triumphs must be temporarily sacrificed for the finish line victory, the end result that in itself makes the correction in one wholly triumphant swoop. Such is the case in how wars are won, races are victoriously run, and in the lessons learned from the “Tortoise and the Hare.”

Early in my life, I recognized the Hare within myself, yet always being tempered, harnessed and trained by the Tortoise of life experience. For this seasoning of my character, I am truly grateful, as it has developed the agile skill of reigning in even negative energy which makes way for the creation of things far more positive. The seal of this life lesson deal, a true lifetime “aha moment,” came to me a few years ago while watching my favorite NASCAR Driver, Jeff Gordon, during a critical Championship race. It is WHY he is my favorite driver. He was fast, like the Hare, and he was winning. About 2/3’s into the race, while lapping traffic, he got entangled in the tail end of a crash that sent him to the garage for maintenance and therefore sent him to the back of the pack and a couple laps down. I felt totally defeated believing that there was no way he could ever win this race now. Jeff probably felt these same feelings but he still got back out on the track and rejoined the race like that same Hare determined to win. Then I saw he was not the Hare at all as he focused all of that energy into one goal – winning – despite the odds. Instead of the emotion ruling him into making further reckless mistakes like the Hare, he positively used that emotion like extra fuel, methodically, patiently, and steadily, like the Tortoise, driving his way back through the pack; back through to the lead lap, despite suffering a few additional minor setbacks in the process. Eventually, with 3 laps remaining, he found himself only 5 cars from the lead – and he went on to win that race!! Unbelievable! No one saw it coming! What an extra sweet triumph for the fight! I have heard it said, “a setback it just a set-UP for a great comeback.” Indeed! This changed my life as I realized, you may not win, but for sure you lose if you do not get back in the race. With all of my own personal life setbacks, I wrote off myself as having missed the boat for my life that it was too late for me to do what I felt I was called to do. After that day, I wrote myself back IN to my own life! I may be starting from the back of the pack and even a few laps down, but I will only be out if I never try. Once in, who knows what I could do?

I say all of this to say, resoundingly, the “Era of Reagan” is definitely NOT over! The era of the RINO is! The Era of Reagan may have crashed and gone to the garage once Reagan left the Office of President. During that time, feeling defeated, Conservatives surrendered the Republican Party back to the RINOS who’s philosophy of “compromise” has betrayed and failed us ever since. It has been said that the definition of madness is in continuing to do the same thing over and over again but somehow expecting a different result. At what point do the RINOS, who have hijacked the Republican Party, get it, that compromising the vital organs of our governing body – our Founding Father, Constitutional “principles,” does not work? This is the current clueless status of the RNC being so loudly clarified and demonstrated in the political races taking place in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia.

In order for our setback to be the setup for our great comeback, we must recognize that we fight TWO enemies: Liberals AND RINOS. The beauty in it is both are in such clueless denial, they can’t even see us coming – and we are right in their faces!! We are sick and tired of politics as usual! We are tired of the “Official Party” politicians and the “DC Way.” There’s such a HUGE disconnect with “we the people” that RINOS are still trying to demonize Conservatives as the ones who are ruining and poisoning the Republican Party. They are so clueless they endorsed a liberal “so-called” Republican in Scozzafava – over a true Conservative in Hoffman!! They don’t get it! They completely miss WHY Conservatives love leaders like Sarah Palin and they so easily throw her and us under the bus like yesterday’s trash. She is the real deal!! She is like us, we the people, in every way, a Conservative who uncompromisingly rules herself and her political choices upon genuine and immovable “principles” and is not affected by the “Game” of the professional political enterprise of DC! AND, she has a backbone of steel! They don’t get it!

Further, we are sick and tired of the RINO creed of compromise that produces the very opposite of all they hope to achieve. And they keep doing it! Madness!! There is a Bible passage that says, “Be hot or cold, but the lukewarm I will spew out of my mouth.” Seems we Conservatives have the same reaction to RINOS for the same reason. Compromising Founding principles in order to gain additional so-called Republican votes and hence, victories, only results in producing compromising Public Officials who do NOT represent we the people. What is so genius in thinking that if you elect an orange into the apple cart that once there, they will also act like an apple? They are oranges!! They will act like oranges IN the cart as well as out! HELLO?!! Once these RINOS are in Office, because they do NOT represent us, we are forced to spend a lot of our energy fighting both Parties. We don’t want to do this anymore! We elect Officials to represent us so we can live our lives in peace. We want and NEED our elected Officials to represent us fully and stop betraying us daily! Especially during a time like now when we are fighting the most damaging radical agenda of any Administration!

It is once again time to take back the Republican Party. Until we do, the RNC better wake up and realize that we are not compromising our conservative principles anymore – we will vote for and elect true Conservatives, no matter which Party they are in, or no Party at all. For now, the Republican Party does not produce anything close to what we want and need; we will no longer yield to “their way” of representing us especially if we even remotely hope to take our Country back! Until such a time that we reclaim the Republican Party, Conservatives, by default, are a third and unofficial Party. I keep hearing how a 3rd Party never wins. Well, that was before the “Era of Obama.” Now I say, ‘never say never,’ and ‘there is a first time for everything.’ We never would have believed that we would ever live to see a Marxist Radical in the White House either! Such are the times we now live in and never before have we been more poised for us Conservative Tortoises to retake both the Republican Party and the Country.

As voters, we may have to patiently wait for the day when we can place that vote that shouts from the housetops the truth as to what we need and want. We long for the votes in 2010 and 2012 like a NASCAR Driver awaiting the green flag. We are like a jockey awaiting the sound of the gunshot signaling the release of the gate that propels us into the race of our lives. We are chomping at the bit! But we must harness that emotion knowing the sweet victory that lies ahead. Libs and RINOS alike, with their own dogged “compromise” madness and insistent clueless blindness will feel the true shock and awe of our votes because they cannot see that not only are we coming, we are already here!

The “Era of Reagan” is not over and never has been. We have just been in the garage for maintenance. Now we are back in the race, and patiently, steadily, and more passionately than ever, we are racing our way back to the front, just like every wise Tortoise does. The “Era of Reagan” is back in to play, we are back in the fray, and we are here to stay. We will pass up cars one lap at a time until we win this race of taking back our Party but regardless, taking back our Country. We will pass the first 3 cars in tomorrow’s votes. We are on the move! Ready Tortoises? The green flag awaits! “Gentleman (and women): start-your-engines!!!”

"Look, Magic!" (updated version)

2009-10-21T16:34:00.001-07:00

Have you ever enjoyed a really great magic trick? Chris Angel and Lance Burton are two of the best in their entertainment field. My boyfriend, Lance Austin, is an amateur magician doing it for fun. One of my favorite tricks that he does is floating and spinning a playing card in mid-air. I stand 3 feet away from him and can’t figure out for the life of me how he does it! On occasion I have been fortunate to be his “Worthy Assistant” and therefore, privileged to know the “secrets” of a few of his best tricks. No, I am not telling; I am sworn to secrecy under the magician’s code of ethics, so don’t even try to get it out of me! But I digress… We all have seen the infamous magic “expose” shows so we have some idea of how it works. Magic is the skill of slight of hand trickery, smoke and mirrors – a distraction, the old “look over here while I do something else over there, right under your nose.” Viola! Magic! And we love this because we are right there and witness it with our own eyes and yet we can’t figure out how they do it!

Understanding these “magic” tools/skills and how to use them create a clearer lens through which we can watch what is going on all around us, both far and near. It provides us with a much needed discernment skill as we look at all that is currently taking place in our Country. In media terms, they call it “spin.” It is classic slight-of-hand trickery intended to serve as “fact” for the casual observer and hearer. I realize it takes great effort, an effort for which not all have the time, let alone the desire to exert. However, it is all too sad, and tragically detrimental that this “casualty” is far too many Americans who can no longer afford to be as casual. I realized this very truth for myself over the last few years. Therefore, these are the “magic secrets” I CAN expose so that there are far less casualties of “spin” and far more empowered and educated Americans.

All during the 2008 Election cycle, first with then Senator Clinton and later with Senator McCain and then Governor Palin, I watched then Senator Obama use a familiar “magic trick” over and over again. I had ample opportunity to get really good at spotting it and seeing it for what it is. No one will dispute he is a skilled political magician. Whenever the important issue of his character came under any type of scrutiny, he, with help from the MSM who wanted him to win, used a “magic” trick to deflect from himself. He would create “distractions.” He would simply get people looking away from character scrutiny and get people talking about other people, resources, and issues – anything and anyone but him. Sean Hannity and Fox News came to the fore because he called attention to them by attacking THEM for doing their job – vetting him – scrutinizing him, and exposing the truth as the rest of the media would not do. He didn’t like it, so much so that he would turn the tables on them. Suddenly, instead of scrutinizing his character, we are ridiculously scrutinizing Governor Palin’s wardrobe! Bate and switch, slight of hand, smoke and mirrors… Anytime something legitimate about him was addressed, HIS judgment was that the talk was only a “distraction” from the issues HE deemed important. I could retire a wealthy woman on the dimes collected for every time the talking point response to vetting question about him and his lack of qualification to be President was, “There is nothing to that concern; it is just a DISTRACTION…”

THE very things he was guilty of saying and doing, he accused the opposition of doing, over, and over, and over again. I watched it all day (I was out of work for 4 months and had nothing else to do but educate myself). He had ample opportunity to win me over as I began the election season with a clean pallet. Instead, he drove me away with this type of conduct. I watched one day with total shock at the blatant audacity to lie to the American voters. It was like a light came on and suddenly it all made sense as to how it all works and why it had previously been so confusing. The morning of the economic downfall in September 2008, I watched 4 successive speeches live: First Senator McCain, then Mr. Paulson, then former President Bush, then Senator Obama. One of the things Senator McCain sighted was that back in 2005, he and others tried to do something about resolving issues with Fannie and Freddie before it all fell apart, “and Democrats, including Senator Obama, blocked it.” That is all he said. Within 2 hours, then Senator Obama was out on the stump and spun it this way: “… You want to know what Senator McCain had to say about our economic crisis? He blamed the whole thing…. on ME!” And those who were there believed it as Gospel, the way it was later reported was Gospel, and how it was later believed was as Gospel. This new truth was a very blatant lie! I have it all on tape! I saw it for myself and couldn’t believe it! And not even Fox News called him on it!! The frustration I felt was accelerated as I saw this happen over and over and over again! That marked the first day of my quest for political truth, both finding it and sharing it.

Now, as of today, his historic approval rating has dropped significantly and there is valid reason for it – most Americans do not want to become socialists! We have figured out the magic tricks and we do not want to be fooled any longer! There is massive disenfranchisement growing rapidly across the Country and instead of “hearing” us and realizing his policies are not what we want, he goes to work campaigning again, trying to win people back over with his charm and more magic tricks, and completely missing the point! What of anything new will we hear that we haven’t already heard every single day already? It is socialism and we emphatically don’t want it!! And true to form, he has created a “distraction” so that we do not focus anymore on what is causing his rating to drop, nor notice how the Democrats are deceptively doing things secretly behind closed doors to pull the “Health Care” rabbit out of the hat, even though we do not want it. “Ooh! Look over here at how bad Fox News is because I don’t want you to even notice how we are going to screw you over with Health Care Reform over there.” They really believe Conservatives and Capitalism have destroyed our Country and they are going to “rescue” us. In another magic trick, they have to show you what a mess it has all become so that they can convince you we need help. And for the cherry on top of all of this: "See why Government must be in control? WE will fix this mess for you!" It is controlled chaos which paves a road to justify tyranny. It worked for Hitler (economically speaking) exactly like this, and in the same, patient, methodical steps.

Bottom line: they don’t care!! They only care about money and power – control! We have all forgotten that they work FOR us - for US! Government does NOT have our best at heart. The more power you give, the more they take. BE VERY CLEAR: The bigger Government power THEY have, the less power WE have. I don’t care what side you stand on – I am all about personal empowerment and NOT for Government power over you. The sooner we realize that WE have the power to make good things happen with our own best at heart, that is when we will be empowered by it to do something good for US, not them.

Government Officials are guilty of “magically” bamboozling the American people because we enable it and we allow it through ignorance. I can’t take it anymore. Magic tricks are for fun and entertainment, not for running the American Government. “WE the people” are empowered with the gift and responsibility to make sure we retain Liberty and not move swiftly to Tyranny. It is what our forefathers painstakingly ensured for us, thousand with their lives. If we don’t, then just like the surprise assault on the Twin Towers (representing all the precious Americans we lost) on 9/11, we will be blindsided by the greatest magic trick of all – America, now you see Her, now you don’t. God forbid… God forbid.

"The Childish Shame Of The UNpresidential President"

2009-10-21T00:54:00.000-07:00

I have never seen anything like it. That I am even sharing about this is amazing to me. How childish and totally unbecoming of the Office for President Obama and his Administration to declare war on Fox News! I dare say that not even President Bush reacted the same way after enduring 8 years of brutal liberal bashing – because he was behaving Presidential! He never stood a chance with anyone BUT Fox News! But it was okay then! Hey, if President Bush woke up in the morning and he was still President, he was bashed for that. But he went about the business of BEING the President, doing his job, and graciously replying that he was okay with the dissent – it was their American right to do so. Not so with President Obama – his behavior has lowered the “prestige” of the Office. It is embarrassing and downright shameful! It is BENEATH the Office of the President of the United States!

That being said, appalling as it is, it is no big surprise to me. This is the EXACT same behavior demonstrated and Saul Alinsky tactics employed throughout the Presidential Campaign, especially how they attacked John McCain and Sarah Palin. They may have helped him deceptively win the Election, but they should have been rendered as ‘purposed served’ and retired to the “campaign closet.” It is as if he has not yet “transitioned” – from Candidate Obama to President Obama – he is still campaigning!

While still in this “campaign” style of so-called Governing, one way to throw off criticism is to create something else on the opponent’s side to criticize instead. At first, President Bush served as a great whipping post. After almost his first year as President, that scapegoat has been beaten to death. President Obama needs a new opponent for the success of this distraction tactic and Fox News foots the bill easily. After all, they are the only official News Media who are not “in the tank” for the Freshman President. They believe in REAL Journalism as opposed to the worshipping style and fervor of tingly thrills running up one’s legs. The last PEW Poll proved that Fox News is the only News Station that was indeed 50/50 in fairness and balance of their coverage of each point of view.

The problem is not that Fox News is too conservative; it is that it is ALSO conservative. Aside from a few clearly conservative opinion based Shows, the rest of the Station is fair and balanced and full of Journalistic Professionals reporting the news – ALL of the news, favorable and the not favorable. All of the other Stations in the Main Stream Media have long time been highly liberal and unfavorable towards anything or anyone conservative. They are gleeful about being in the tank for ANYONE who is NOT conservative. President Obama kicked that up several notches to embarrassing heights. In comparison, Fox News remained the same fair and balanced News Station and didn’t follow suit.

It is laughable to accuse Fox News of having “a viewpoint,” code for being conservative, simply because they share BOTH viewpoints. The truth is, Stations like MSNBC have the “viewpoint” and it is totally liberal. They act like “liberal” is the standard for everyone and therefore, to even think anything conservative is the bias. Isn’t it hilarious? This is the pot calling the kettle black! Like everything else President Obama does and says, he accuses others of the very things which he alone is guilty! The liberal MSM is biased so they accuse Fox News of being biased – against him!!! HUH????

Further, it is quite an expose for them to complain about Fox NOT being in the tank like everyone else! At first I thought it was just whiney thin skin because someone dared to not adore him. But I really believe it goes beyond the need for EVERYONE to love, worship and agree with him. Isn’t it obvious?? President Obama doesn’t like that they cannot “control” Fox News and therefore cannot control the “messages and the propaganda” of their Agenda!! They are angry that Fox News REPORTS news, all news, and often that news reveal opposition to their agenda!

Oh yes, it is clear to me now, they hear us! They DO realize that we do not like his agenda. The TEA Parties bother him! He doesn’t like the truth of his Agenda being exposed – the unveiling of the hoax – the man behind the curtain is just a man and not the great and terrible Obama! More and more, Americans are getting educated and what they learn they don’t like, and this change of heart is reflected in his rapidly falling approval ratings.

They don’t want the truth to get out – they want the SPIN to be accepted as the truth. Fox is foiling their plans! They are getting weary of fighting this opposition and methinks the President doth protest too much when he says, “I’m not tired! I’m just getting started!” Like this is somehow intimidating! No, they just want to hurry and pass their Agenda before the truth comes out and that without a fight! They want to make sweeping changes, control the “spin” of it, and take credit for historical events! They want President Obama and the Democrats to go down in history as the right Party for the Country and the most momentous! To accomplish this, they first have to demonize President Bush, Republicans, and conservatives, and then they have to exalt themselves. With Fox News simply reporting the facts and reporting the news, totally gets in the way of their Agenda.

So, they “Alinsky” them as they have done to McCain and Palin, as they did to us TEA Partiers, and as they have been doing to Rush. They think if they can drive away the viewers from Fox News by minimizing them, dismissing them, and “breaking” them, they will win. It is a classic move of “leveling” the playing field. They don’t have to be better or correct to win the fight – they just have to remove the opposition and win by default! It is how President Obama has won ALL of his political races beginning with his Chicago Senate seat, hence, the name "Chicago THUG Politics."

That any of the other media outlets enable this “game” is disgusting. Jealousy over Fox News’ success is no secret. But like Rush said about the fear of others “breaking” him, “they didn’t make him (we, the listeners/fans did) so they cannot break” him. It is no different for Fox News. The fact that Fox News behaves more professional and Presidential than the President and his Administration is something for which THEY should be embarrassed and ashamed.

The most shameful thing of all of this is, for all of their crafty ploys, they cannot see how totally obvious to us that they have become! For an Administration desperately trying to hide the truth under the “spin” of transparency, they do not realize how much they have totally exposed the truth of who they are, how they operate, and what they really want. In their minds, it is Fox News’ fault for preventing us from being like the zombified, Kool-Aid drinking, sheeple who worship and adore him and think the “hope and change” of a Socialist America is what we have been waiting for. Fortunate for us, the arm of the White House is not long enough, nor powerful enough, to slap a hand over the mouth of Fox News, or us for that matter. We will not rest until we vote them all out of Office. He has no clue just how vast is the right wing of this Country. Come 2012 he will – resoundingly! Between now and then, we will continue to fight to be heard – we will keep having our TEA Parties until we are tea stained! President Obama said he is just getting started…. He has no clue that so are we – "we the people" are just warming up.

“Living in ObamA-merica: Surviving the Emboldened Liberal Happy Dance!”

2009-10-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site September 30, 2009)

Today, I cannot take it. Today, my ability to endure the onslaught of sheer madness being forced upon America has been filled to capacity. I am living in a time where everything that is being generated from our President to rapidly “remake” America has me scratching my head and wondering when I will be able to wake up from this hell hole of a nightmare and get back to living my life. Usually, in spite of it all, I am still filled with hope enough to sustain me daily. Today is different. Today, I have had enough. I am discouraged. It has taken A LOT to get me here as I am not one who discourages easily. But I am discerning great trouble that has intensified my concern. I not only smell the smoke of trouble, I am choking. It is cutting off my air supply; I am suffocating and I am angry.

I don’t want to live in ObamAmerica! However, I am being forced to do so anyway. To put it bluntly: I feel like I am being politically raped, being stripped of my freedom, my voice, and my choice, and instead I am being forced to accept a life I 100% never wanted or asked for. I don’t feel hopeful right now, I feel angry! President Obama deceived the American people by posing as a moderate and enough people bought this snake oil!! Those of us who already knew the truth about him had one of two reactions on Election Night: If you are like me, you cried with an overwhelming grief, knowing – KNOWING that America would be assaulted with a radical agenda that 100% opposes everything America is and stands for. We knew what was to come and now we are living it. The others cried with glee knowing that they got away with FINALLY getting a radical in the White House!

Election Night commenced the beginning of what I call the “emboldened liberal happy dance.” It is amazing what truth comes out when you feel you are in a place of untouchable power. It goes beyond the “ha, ha, we won” chant. It is a counterfeit euphoric delusion which forgets that the power is borrowed and temporary. They behave as if they will never be without it ever again; hence, they do not fear any repercussions for exposing what is really in their hearts. As for me, I have not missed a beat as I sit in awe of the sheer audacity of their “happy dance.” They are dancing because a radical deceived his way into the White House and can now “remake” America into everything She was never meant to be!! They are proud of their deception!

With each exposure of the loony Czars surrounding and advising the President, WE are shocked but they are unmoved. Why is that??? Because what it means to “remake” America is about calling their lunacy normal and calling our objection to it all as lunacy! They have successfully turned the tables and it is time to pay!!! In their minds, they do not care how we feel because this is how they believe THEY have felt all these many years! And now, all of the closeted loons who have always agreed with the front line loons feel safe and therefore emboldened to come on out and join them as they all laugh in our faces! Loons – LOONS are running our Country until 2010! But today, I don’t know if I can make it that long as I can barely take this first 9 months!!

I don’t want Universal Health Care, Cap and Trade, and teaching sex education to 5 year olds! I don’t want to make Al Gore rich with his “green” agenda! I don’t want to let terrorists free and rename them “refugees” nor do I want to make friends with Dictators without preconditions! I could go on and on – you all know the drill. Every single thing the Loony Left is offering, I do not want it!! I don’t want to be controlled, monitored, and limited! I don’t want to live in ObamAmerica!! I don’t want to endure it, fight it, and deal with it! I am tired and I am furious! But what choice do I have? Harry Reid is making it clear, just as they cheated to get Obama in the White House, they will also cheat and backdoor their Health Care agenda no matter what we say! They know full well that the majority of Americans don’t want it but they don’t care! Just like a rapist who doesn’t care when you say “no,” they are going to force it on us anyway!!!!

I have never been one to deal with being controlled on any level. I left home at 18 years old and never looked back just to be independent and to be able to rise and fall on my own merits. I have left unhealthy working environments, relationships, and even Churches just to be free of control. But where can I go to escape the control of an Obama Nation? Where can I go? America has been the safe haven of the world but now where is the safe haven for America? I feel the walls caving in and I do not want to allow this political rape of our Nation to happen. I am not doing any thing that closely resembles a happy dance. No, I am looking for a pocket of air in a drowning pool of radical control and take over. I need air today…. Because today, I just cannot take it. I just can’t.

I know, tomorrow will be another day and I will begin the fight again, exhaustion, discouragement, hopelessness and all. In the very least, just as our Forefathers fought and died to give a free America to us, I owe it to them to fight just as hard to keep it. I will go to my death if necessary. I am praying in earnest, it will not be necessary. While loons want to “remake” America, we will “reTAKE” America at any cost and fight to preserve Her honor. She may currently be held hostage by loons, and held upside down by Her ankles, but we will see to it that She stands on Her feet again, dignified, with “Liberty” and justice for all…. just as it should be…. as She was always meant to be. 2010 cannot get here fast enough for me.

“America Through The Rabbit Hole And Into The Twilight Zone!”

2009-10-19T18:02:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site September 16, 2009)

It is official: Left America has lost its ever loving mind and has taken the rest of us through the proverbial rabbit hole and directly into The Twilight Zone! Never in all of my life did I think we would ever sink to such shameful lows! The abuse of the race card by the newly crowned “Fringe Media” and our Liberal Politicians has gone way overboard! This has gone beyond the pale of anything remotely descent or normal to the point of the completely despicable.

How is it that because Right America does not worship our new Far Left President as they do, that instead we oppose his policies and his vision for remaking America, it can only be because we are racist and cannot handle a black man in the White House? How is it that we have come so far in America with regards to overcoming most racial issues (not all), that today, in 2009, the year Americans elected the first black President, it is becoming an issue all over again? Instead of President Obama’s election signifying the greater healing that our Country has achieved, as one giant step for mankind, if you will, regardless of whose Political Party he represents, it is now being exploited as one huge setback, right back to the 1950’s and 1960’s!

What is sickening to me is how the Left is exploiting the black half of our President’s race to beat down the Right, as if the Left are the champions of the racism fight and the Right are the problem, while their very actions expose the fact that they are no champions at all!! Set aside the sheer and clear fact that their accusations are baseless and blatant lies, that their perfected Saul Alinsky attack of accusations serve only as a smoke and mirrors type distraction from the issues while they sneakily rush through items they do not want us to notice, and that their accusations expose the truth that this is their best and last defense for policies that a majority of Americans do not want. These are all valid issues, each worthy of being highly offensive. That they even dare hurl the accusation at all under the guise of being champions of the cause is what offends me the most!

All of my life, it has been in my heart to champion for justice for all people and for various causes, including racial issues. I grew up believing Dr. Martin Luther King’s words that all men are created equal and that we should be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. I have wept over many racial atrocities in our Country and in the world, and do not discard the fact that racism still exists, but grateful that it is no longer but a small percentage of ignorant idiots. This issue has been near and dear to my heart as I have endeavored to be part of the solution, desiring to partner with my fellow Americans of all nationalities to finish the healing we have worked so hard to achieve. I am obviously not alone as one of many who sincerely champion this cause. I get it which is why I find this accusation particularly shameful and offensive.

I remember long ago, before realizing that he was not a Conservative, praying that Colin Powell would run for President! I have longed to see us celebrate our first black President as I have longed to see us bring this racial surgery to a close. On Election night, I personally felt robbed of the joy many felt because, while we did indeed finally get our first black President, he was not the correct choice. I could not celebrate his election, grieving in tears for hours that night. The only hope I did feel was that maybe, prayerfully, regardless of Obama being the wrong choice, at least, we would finally begin to have closure. I was wrong, more wrong than I could ever imagine.

What I have seen from day 1 is this emboldened audacity of the left as well as the left within the black community, and the exposure of just how UNhealed and angry some blacks remain. You can’t bring up in the bucket what ain’t down in the well. Sometimes, we don’t even know what is inside until there is some shaking going on. Shake a glass of water, the water will come out, NOT because of the shaking of the glass, but because the water was in there to begin with. Shake an empty glass all you want, water will not come out. Because of this newly found confidence that comes with the “shaking” of Obama being elected President, the truth regarding everything that is in their hearts is coming out because they finally feel free to let it out – a freedom they have always had, but did not recognize until now.

No one denies that blacks have had challenges that whites have never had. I feel compassion for the justified anger, even in the face of being called a racist. However, when this anger becomes extreme and remains trapped in a place where no healing can come to the rescue, it becomes the very racism by which they have been wounded. This racism within their own hearts in turn blinds them from being able to see the healing that has already come and is yet to come.

Further, and more to my point, in this blind state of their own racism, they cannot see how they are being exploited by the shameful left who perpetuate holding onto shackles we have long ago thrust aside and who claim to be their champions but in fact, keep them a victim – of their own racism! They cannot see how most of us have already made room at the table and long to partner together towards being the best of what America offers the world! They become unwitting partners in their own entrapment and the left is happy to let it happen because it serves THEM! It is a twisted day in America when exploiters are seen as champions when the exact opposite is true! And the very accusation they hurl, they alone are guilty of!! It disgusts me to my core!

Additionally, by continuing to place the race card where no racism exists, to rename political and substantive policy disagreement as racism, and to recreate 1960’s racial tensions in order to beat back the opposition of Obama’s far left policies, it is like the boy who cried wolf: it serves only to undermine the resolve of remaining legitimate issues of racism. It 100% does not help our Country on any level. It is a shameful, exploitive tactic at best.

So, if Maxine Waters, Jeannine Giroffalo, Jimmy Carter, the Fringe Media, and their far left ilk, want to call us racists, I say, bring it on! I will expose who the REAL racists really are! I refuse to sit idly by and allow the re-wounding of America, the knifing open of a barely visible scar, so that they can further their far leftist causes at the expense of real progress and success in America. And because I can multitask, make no mistake; I refuse to allow this to be a distraction from what corruption and destruction is really going on. I refuse to be thwarted from taking our Country back! I refuse to allow this shameful and despicable assault to derail me from what matters most. I will never tire of doing good and doing what is right, by ALL people, no matter the cost. Because even in the Twilight Zone, when all else fails, truth resoundingly makes itself known and sets us all free!!

"A Vulnerable Reveal of My Heart...."

2009-10-19T18:00:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site August 22, 2009)

Today I need to get something off of my chest…. I am scared to pieces to even open up and post this… Whether or not you are a person of faith, as I am without apology, I hope that you can really HEAR where I am coming from, even if only in principle. Your friendships each mean something valuable to me; even with the varying degrees of things we each believe, the thing that unites us is our passionate love for America and, for most of us, our Conservative and Founding Fathered principles. I love you all for that!

I am an honest and straight forward person and don’t know any other way to be. I am typically a very positive person regardless of what is going on in my life. I believe everything happens for a reason and in that Bible verse that promises, “God works all things together for good…” He has proven this all to be true in my life more times than I can count. But even we faith-filled and positive people can get very discouraged and even despair. Further, for as open as I am, there is a “safe place” in my heart with a high wall around it that is not easy to infiltrate. I am both very open yet very private. Usually, in that safe place is where I keep my pain, my vulnerabilities, and my most sensitive core of my heart. Every once in a while, I allow myself to take a risk and put things out there that might hint of what is going on deep inside. Sometimes, if I think there might be some trust, I might expose some of that and test it out. It is the rare occurrence that I am grateful I did. More often than not, it only validates why I have built that wall to protect my safety zone.

It is hard for me when I am misunderstood, judged, and rejected, just like any other normal person. It is human nature for us to not look to one’s heart and so I do not, in turn, judge others for being, thus, so human. Nor do I expect others to get it, or get me. I learned a valuable lesson early on in life: to the degree that you cherish what I offer, is to the degree that you can have. If you cannot cherish the front yard of my house, why should I invite you to my dining room table for a family, home cooked meal? Because I have no pretense, I usually expect that most people are the same. I trust you until you give me reason not to do so. I respect you until you give me reason not to do so. I accept you at face value because I know you can accept me at face value. Now, I am far from perfect and will never claim to be as such. I only ask that if you want to discuss my faults, please just get them right as there are plenty to choose from – but do not attribute to me faults I do not have. That is what hurts.

I share this prologue so you might better understand my heart when I share what is next. I am in a life transition. God has brought me through a very dark season in my life into a new light where I finally understand, everything I have ever been through, good and bad, every detour, every disappointment, every sacrifice, every gift He has given me, every life and job experience, and every skill set, has all brought me to this point in time. It is like all of the sets are up, the lighting is perfect, lines memorized, the house is packed – everything is in place for me to finally begin the path of doing what He called me to do, that which brings me joy knowing I am in the center of His will and He is pleased. There is no greater feeling than that, especially after such a long time in the wilderness of life. I finally understand what my life means and what I am supposed to do and I can hardly wait to get at it.

If you are familiar with any Bible stories, specifically the story of Joseph, God speaks to my heart and teaches me from this story almost more than any other. I know what it is like to be betrayed by those I considered family, for them to try and destroy me, and leave me in a pit alone to die. “Pit time” is such a dark experience. You are there alone and no one but God knows you are there. It has been some of the loneliest of my life but also the most intimate with God. The lessons learned are invaluable. I know what it is like to be accused of things that exiled me and sent me away to a prison-like form of life. I know what it is like to wonder about all the dreams that were supposed to be my life but are not, and to question God, “What do you want from me? This is not the life you promised! This is not the life you showed me! What does my life matter anymore?” Joseph ultimately was brought through ALL of this and placed in a high place of authority where he was used to bring so much blessing and help to others, especially those who first derailed and detoured him by throwing him into that pit to die alone. In order to be in such a place of leadership later, and to do what he did, it was necessary for him to go through the things he went through in order to learn and grow and to be ready for it. All of those things MADE him, they never destroyed him. God gave him this vision of his life as a teenager but it wasn’t until he was an older man that the vision of his life even began to come to pass. My life has been no different.

You have heard me make the quote: “I am like a finely sharpened and prepared arrow, ready to be shot from the right bow to hit my God-ordained mark.” This is how I feel. I finally know where I am going, what I am called to do, and the favor and grace is there for me to now go and do it. It is like there is this bridge just up ahead in the distance. Once I reach it, and begin crossing it, my life is forever changed as I enter the season of my life where I begin doing all those things that long ago, God gave me the vision of what I would do. He has opened the doors for me to see the bridge and to go across it. In addition, He has closed the doors behind me so that I cannot ever go back. What is left is this small wilderness between what was and what is soon to be. Like the Israelites of old, in the Bible, when Moses was leading them out of slavery in Egypt and towards the Promised Land, they had to go through the wilderness to get there. At first they were so ecstatic to be set free, but the journey of the wilderness soon left them grumbling and complaining, saying, “At least when we were slaves we had shelter and food.” They actually looked back at slavery with some level of longing to return! They endured being treated so poorly as slaves, but they couldn’t handle the wilderness! Every time I feel this way, God reminds me that there is no going back to Egypt! So the only way for me to go now is forward, through a short wilderness (the only short one of my life as the others have all been very long), towards His promises for me.

Now that you have the metaphorical and Biblical foundation of my point, there is a very real and practical interpretation. For almost 20 years, I have worked in Corporate America and while it has provided all these years (I have been self sufficient, on my own, and taking care of others, since I was 18 years old), it has also been slowly killing my spirit because I was a slave to it and not free to utilize my real gifts and talents. I know how to make lemonade from lemons which I do almost too well – the problem comes when it causes you to lose sight of the chocolate of life and you settle for good lemonade. That was me. So, now I am awake from that slumber and moving towards the chocolate. Lemonade is not even an option anymore.

Back in May, I lost my job and I have not been able to get a new one since. Yes, a lot of it has to do with the Obama-conomy. I have been an Executive Assistant for almost 20 years with a lot of success. This is not a hard job to get. It never has been for me – I have always worked. I spend a good portion of my day applying for all of these jobs I see out there. I am signed with 17 Agencies and 5 Online Services. For all of my effort, I cannot get connected to one of these jobs! A wise man in my life once said, “The way you can tell an open door is that you don’t bust your nose trying to go through it!” My nose is in a cast right now!! I get the message – Egypt is no longer an option! Unfortunately, I still have to pay the bills and right now, I am fighting to hold onto my house – all of this a total first in my life! It is not only humiliating, it is down right frightening!

That is the here and now – the little wilderness I am in. The bridge is the book I am writing. God easily opened the door for this and I even have a wonderful and credible Publisher! Once I get the book done and published, things will change for me financially and as well as for my career. I write the book from a God given and passionate place in my heart – finances are a by product and not the motivation. (There are 4 others in my heart that will follow the first one) In fact, I have made a promise to God, from that first book forward, I will create a Charitable Foundation to which I will tithe faithfully of all income earned. Money is for living and providing opportunity; you can’t take it with you to the cemetery. In fact, there is a line from one of my favorite Musicals, “Hello Dolly,” that says, “Money is like manure. You need to spread it around to encourage new and young things to grow…” It is how I see it and how I want to use it once I have it. I have always done this with whatever I have had, but now I will have the opportunity to do so on a greater scale which has always been a dream and prayer of mine. All of this is awesome news! I have such HUGE plans and dreams – God is calling me forth to finally live them saying, “NOW is the time!” Finally! It has all led to this….

Only there is one more wilderness, a short one, between my Egypt and that bridge, and I have been distressed for weeks trying to understand how to get through this wilderness. Unfortunately, after getting to the point of emptying my small 401k, I have exhausted every resource I had financially. Right now, I have a figurative gun to my head as I am trying to hold onto my house. This very immediate need has distracted me from writing my Book and moving me towards that bridge. I am out of money and the doors all seem closed as to how I generate more. I feel so alone in this plight.

It is hard to share this and to so vulnerably lay my heart so bare because I run the HUGE risk, at least from my perspective, of being so totally misunderstood and turning others away from me. Sharing this honestly with others can be a total turn off, especially in the “bail out” society we live in. I admit that I totally suck at asking for help - I am used to being the one doing all of the helping.

Perhaps it is my pride that is holding me in this wilderness as it is now 11:59pm (figuratively speaking) for me and I am only now really opening up about my plight. Should I have done so long ago? I didn’t want anyone to know – in all honesty, I still don’t. It gives the appearance of something it is not and I don’t want to go anywhere near that appearance – at all!! I prayerfully am seeking, “Lord, what is the right thing to do?” He says in the Bible, “You have not because you ask not.” So, the closest I can come to that is to “advertise” my Mary Kay Business (something I have done for fun but now is my only source of immediate potential income). Even doing that does not feel right to me! I don’t know how to ask for help - I don’t like being in such a place of need. It is beyond humiliating to me, and perhaps this is the lesson I must learn so that I am held to my promise when I am in more prosperous times.

I share all of this with all of you because, as I said before, I don’t know how to be anything but honest and who I am. I cannot have pretense. I am credible, but right now, I am also vulnerable. What is God’s answer for this short wilderness? Only two things are crystal clear for me: Egypt is not an option, and once I get to the bridge, everything changes for the better. How do I get from here to there? It is total darkness for me.

In practical terms, I want to have my book done and ready for submission to the Editor by the end of February 2010 (or sooner) because it needs to be published in time for the 2010 Elections. I don’t know how to get from here to there, I just don’t. I can only surmise that I need the answer to come from another source. I am humbly asking whoever reads this, please hear my heart, pray, and if God gives you any wisdom in the matter, please share it with me. I am looking for that God-inspired voice of wisdom, not just off-the-cuff, even though well meaning, advice. I am humbling myself, and it chokes me up to share that because it is just so difficult for me to do, but I am humbling myself that I may hear from God, however He chooses to speak to me, through whomever He chooses to speak.

I will end with this… And this is soooo hard…. I have a dear friend, Dan. I have tagged only him in this Note. As we have spoken recently, it has been proposed that perhaps a small group of people, with him, could help sponsor me through this short time. He would use his Business as a form of collateral. Is THIS God’s will? Is THIS God’s answer? If so, as is true to form for me, I ask, “Why, Lord? Why like this? What is the purpose of doing it this way?” Is it to remind me that all I do for Him is a partnership and all glory goes to Him? I just don’t know. I am looking for the answers…. This short wilderness is a stark contradiction to what lay just ahead, from where I have already been, and who I am/what I am all about. Please pray and if God gives you His wisdom or even a small piece of it, please share it with me. If you agree with Dan, please feel free to connect with him, as these are his feelings:

“I am constantly left with the understanding that God wants to raise the few to make His plan possible in your life so they in turn will have the opportunity to share in the rewards of your service. This is a highly vulnerable thing to ask, and an equally faith based issue to respond to. Those who are able already have the knowledge in their heart of how God is raising His own to great service, and they will automatically be drawn to the light of His plan. This plan is not for everyone, but it is for some because God keeps telling me I should not be alone in this. I am guessing that after you have taken this step, God will allow me to speak to others on your behalf.”

I pray above all things, you hear my heart. I just feel the proverbial gun to my head financially and it is paralyzing me from moving forward towards a very bright future of service to my fellow Americans. And this process makes no sense to me at all in light of who I am, where I have been, and where I am going. I just don’t get the irony of it at all. I am just trying to humble myself and hope you hear my heart, that vulnerable part of my heart I usually keep safe with me behind the wall. Thanks for your prayers!!!

With gratitude and a lot of trepidation,
Wendi

P.S. Aside from my Mary Kay Business, areas I desire to work in if there were opportunity to do so (and I have the proven skills) are with singing, article writing, and voice-overs/acting.

"My Pelosi Town Hall Fantasy..."

2009-10-19T17:57:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site August 3, 2009)

So, let’s suppose that Nancy Pelosi had the courage to hold her own Bay Area Town Hall Meeting to do ever devil best to convince “We, the People” to buy into Nationalized Universal Healthcare, otherwise known as the Government take over through the tyrannous Obama-Scare System. Yes, I am having a political fantasy because God knows this one can only exist in my mind. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy it vicariously through me. Anyway, of course I am there, along with many other of my fellow Bay Area, California TEA bagging, right-wing-extremist, American loving, concerned citizens. I make good and sure that I am near the front and as close to a Microphone Monitor as possible. When the opportunity arrives for my chance to voice my concerns, I am long overdue in being poised and ready.

Finally, after forcing my stomach contents to not hurl forth my breakfast during the “Pelosi Talk-Down,” I get my long awaited chance. I hold nothing back – not anymore. Looking Pelosi square in the eyes, I passionately begin….

“You have come here today to speak to us, trying to convince ‘We the People’ about the wonders and miracles of Universal Healthcare like some used Car Salesman, actually believing that we will buy what you are selling. But I came here today, along with these wonderful Americans, who, like me, realize we need to convince YOU of some things that matter to us. The time has passed for listening to you. In fact, if you were listening to US at all, you would have long ago realized that we have not only heard you already, we have actually heard more than enough! So as our President likes to say, “let me be clear,” and do your best to finally hear us, we did not want the “Bail outs,” we did not want the so-called “Stimulus Bills,” we do NOT want “Cap and Trade,” and WE DO NOT EVER WANT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!! Do you not get that? We don’t want it in ANY way, shape, form, or package!

There is a reason the polls are plummeting because over 70% of ALL Americans do NOT want any of this! We have been trying to send you the message but you all do not seem to hear us! You look like foolish children squabbling on the Hill while you revel in your new found power, a power that is supposed to be used for the SERVICE of the people, not to rule over us! You say you care but you act like you only care about yourselves and your power. You speak for us saying things like, ‘the American people want….’ But you have NO clue what we want! We keep trying to tell you, through calls, emails, faxes, protests, every way we can – WE DON’T WANT IT!!

We are here to tell you, we don’t want it! So why are you still going ahead and doing it? You seem to forget that we voted you into those Offices, and we will vote you right back out! Oh yes, REAL change is coming because you have wakened the sleeping giant of Americans who want this self-serving nonsense to stop and stop now!

You all act like we are just dumb and blind sheep that you can so easily lead to the slaughter, but it is all of YOU who are dumb and blind for not realizing that we understand so much more than you want us to. Let me explain. Logically speaking, and please try to follow me….

1) If this plan were so great, why is it that none of you will also partake?

2) If you can “find the funds” for this, why not just use it to UN-bankrupt Social Security and Medicare already?

3) From there, for the approximately 12 million people (we understand the actual numbers) who are without, why can’t you just extend the newly healed Medicare program to them? In fact…

4) Why can’t you just overhaul Medicare and leave the rest of us alone?

5) For the rest of us, the issue is dealing with some high insurance costs. So why can’t we just find a remedy for that part of the system? It is like you are trying to fix the defunct tail light of the Mercedes and so you are going to trash and overhaul the whole Mercedes to do that. Why not just fix the freaking tail light?!

There is no logic to overhauling an entire system that, though not perfect, is the best the world has to offer! The world comes HERE we do not go out there! If you cut off our hope this way, you in turn cut off the hope of the world and those who come here.

Above all, Ms. Pelosi, let me again be clear: America is a Republic! This means, our Constitution WISELY and painstakingly was established to keep Government OUT of the private sector and leave the people alone. Government is only to provide structure through law and nurture through serving in Office – period. We do not want Government meddling in our lives, especially through the Trojan Horse of Universal Healthcare!!

Please, Ms. Pelosi, PLEASE hear us today, once and for all, loud and clear, WE DON’T WANT YOU IN OUR LIVES! We don’t want Universal Healthcare or Cap and Trade – ever! Not in any package – EVER!!! If you continue down this destructive path, mark my words today, your political “career” is over! Because at the end of the day, no matter what you do to us and to this miraculously amazing Country of America, ‘we the people’ are the ones who have the Constitutional power to wield and we will wield it passionately to vote you out!

Take our message back to the White House and be sure President Obama and all of you far left politicians are clear that, we don’t want this. I implore you to HEAR us and to stop the madness. If you REALLY care about the American people at all, set aside your personal agendas, your political career agendas, and your pride, and do what is right by us. If you don’t, in the end, it is your own shame that will drag you down with your legacy into infamy. ‘We the people’ will be sure to see to that! And we also mean it!!”

How I would LOVE for this to be more than a fantasy… mark my words, should I EVER get the chance, my fantasy will become a reality. WE the people deserve better!

Astroturf indeed, Ms. Pelosi! Wake up and hear the lawn mower! We the people are not only coming - we the people are HERE!

"10 Surprising Facts About American Health Care"
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649

P.S. Perhaps I will send this as a letter and let her know:

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
United States House of Representatives
235 Cannon House Office Building,
District of Columbia 20515-0508

“It Is Us or Them…”

2009-10-19T17:54:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site June 7, 2009)

Back in January I wrote a Journal entry that I reposted here on March 20 when I opened up this second site to discuss politics and current events. It shares the story of my brief but eye opening encounter with a former terrorist who escaped the life forced upon him and came to America about 5 years prior to 9/11. This man set me straight about who terrorists are and why they are attacking us. They want us obliterated off of the planet – period, at any and all cost. They don’t care about our feelings, our desire for peace, or how diplomatic we try to make nice with them. All of it is to no affect and avail. They want us gone and in their hearts it basically is “us or them.” They set the bar and the rules of this war and the only way to defeat them is to engage or be obliterated. We don’t have a choice as they are not giving us one. They will never change their minds and they call us naïve, laughing at our every “attempt” in all of its various styles to dare try and change them. Oh sure, there are those, like this man I met, who never believed as these terrorists do. He never wanted any part of what they term a “holy war,” leaving family and friends and risking brutal and torturous death for such betrayal, in order to escape. There are those who hear the miraculous and liberating truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, finding salvation. Short of this miracle, made even more so by the mere fact that this is indeed a religious war of their “god” against the real God, they will never, never, never, never, never, never, never change – ever. Talking to this man, I got it, my “ah-ha, the lights are now turned on in the house moment,” and feel compelled to do all I can to impart this truth, because until we know our enemy and what and with who we are dealing, until we REALLY get it, that it is us or them and we have no choice in the matter, we will not win this defensive war we are forced to fight.

After reading the wonderfully written article today from the National Review Online, exposing the harsh realities of our enemies within and how these radical liberal leftist fight those of us conservatives on the right, I have come to the same “light bulb, ah-ha moment” where I realize, in our fight for America, it is us or them – period! The truly appalling and ironic thing is how this evil machine tries to villianize US – conservative Americans! We are the extremists akin to homeland terrorists! But we are being terrorized by President Obama, his Administration and his Radical Agenda to “remake” America in his image on a daily basis. According to the NRO article, this evil machine plays for keeps, including making themselves out to be the heroes by making us the “bad guys.” The Bible tells us, “Woe to him who calls evil good and good evil…” There is a reason for this! It is like flipping a house! Only this fight flips everything completely upside down! It is the equivalent of Ahmedinejad calling America the Big Satan. He is an evil man, in fact is the evil one, daring to call US, Americans, evil for wanting and performing good deeds in the world! I see President Obama employ this same house flipping type tactic over and over again; doing the VERY things he accuses others of doing and “remaking” reality for everyone including who said what and even what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears. I think the NRO article is very enlightening and dead on – liberals play for keeps. And if any of us do not see by now that every power grab being made is for keeps, we had better wake up and quick! There is an agenda to keep liberals running this Country forever and for Conservatives to never have the power to have a say ever again.

We can never defeat an enemy we do not know! It is time to get busy doing some “knowing!” They know us better than we know them and they use our very civility against us to defeat us! They are proud of being evil and dance like the devil himself in the faux success of their deceptive and lying battle strategies. They are reveling in a highly emboldened arrogance of their evil ways because for a season, they are seemingly getting away with it. We all know that pride goes before a fall, so this evil glory has an end. As the Bible says, and I have seen this happen many times in my life, “He who digs a ditch for another will himself fall into it.” Sometimes the longer it takes for that fall is only a measure of how deep and wide that ditch must be before God says it is time. How short or long this season will last is up to us and how we respond when stepping into the fight. And we MUST step into it – wiser and better equipped! We can still sling mud while holding to our honorable principles. It is no different than sending our soldiers to fight terrorists. It is the same honor and love for this Country that we must fight like genuine and equipped soldiers. Anything less is the equivalent of handing the enemy our guns and standing in front of them. Until we heed the wisdom set forth in this article, we will continue to shoot ourselves before they ever get to us. I may be a female but I am no wuss! Time to give the “Sarah Palin Smear” treatment back to them – after all, we know there are PLENTY of buried bodies they dance upon in their glee of ruling over us. Like a Warrior, either we fight to win or we surrender. Surrender is not an option to me. Our very liberty is at stake. We have no choice. They are not giving us one. It is us or them - period. “Them” is not an option for me either. Not if it means losing the America we know and love. And I love America with my life, just as our forefather’s did.

“My Country ‘tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty,
Of Thee I sing

Land where my Fathers died,
Land of thy Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring!!!”

** For any liberals who ever see this and do not understand, I am not talking about becoming terrorists ourselves or advocating violence in any manner or form. It is sick I even now have to make this disclaimer.

“A Reminder to the Talking Heads: It is OUR Votes and Voices That Matter….”

2009-10-19T17:49:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site July 5, 2009)

(Back off of Sarah Palin already!)

Okay, I have had enough and have heard enough. Time for a voice from “We the People” to sound off! Clearly, the “talking heads” of the people have not quite HEARD us yet! As if by saying so, their opinions nullify our votes and inaugurate their summations into any Office! NOT! I woke up this morning hearing about the latest and greatest headline/op-ed from the New York Times and the ever so NOT eloquent Maureen Dowd, referencing the resignation of Governor Sarah Palin, stating, “Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05dowd.html)

Oooohhh funny! Only I am not laughing, are you? From the moment Governor Palin concluded her Press Announcement, even Fox News (and I LOVE Fox News) began the immediate picking of the bones trying to assess “what she meant” and “what her REAL intentions” might be. Wasn’t anyone listening?! I listened intently. She told us, from her heart and without a teleprompter, what she was doing and why. Even if it wasn't ALL, what she did share was the truth. Good for her for not revealing her whole hand. That is smart poker playing, and some would dare say, smart politics. Still, it is as if they watched a whole different Press Announcement. Unbelievable! She is tired of being "spun" in the Press, but then the Press goes into immediate "spin" mode, reflecting that they clearly don't listen. We the VOTERS and the ones with the REAL power they have forgotten about, are frustrated with the norm being "not being heard." And still today, this conversation continues, trying to predict what her political future will be and voting on whether or not her decision was a “smart move” or political sabotage. I don’t know why I am so shocked. If they aren’t listening to her then it tells you how much they still are not listening to us. They purport to speak on our behalf, always invoking our will by saying, “The American people want….” without ever asking us! It makes me want to climb through my TV and grab the microphone and shout, “NO! That is NOT what we think or want!” Do they not even yet understand why we are having TEA Parties?! We are not by nature, “activists.” It is that we are sick and tired of BEING sick and tired of nobody HEARING us! And never before have we lived in a time when our voices and votes matter and we must be heard.

When I listened to Governor Palin speak this past Friday, she reminded me afresh why we love her so much. She is the genuine article – she is one of us! She has principles and this ALONE is why her choices will never sabotage her! How refreshing for someone to resign over principles instead of scandal! And because scandal is the norm, I do not blame anyone for having a small curiosity if there is a scandal to hide. However, I doubt it. They "dug for the dirt" already, as she has also shared. The best they could come up with is frivolous and now dismissed lawsuits and Bristol's pregnancy. Say what they want, we are sick and tired of "political strategists" and professional politicians" sizing her up and counting out our voices. They are 100% disconnected from what is actually happening between her and us - the voters! We want what SHE wants - no more politics as usual! We are not playing by their playbook anymore!

It is hard to not take it personal when they attack her. Little does Ms. Dowd know how painfully obvious she is, coming off like a jealous “mean girl” who must tear Sarah Palin down, spin her persona to be way less than the truth, and shout the loudest so that somehow, in her ill-perceived power, she can prevent Sarah Palin from ever succeeding. Little does Ms. Dowd, and so many others like her, understand, there is at least HALF of America (Conservatives) who are just like Sarah Palin and grateful we have someone finally representing us; not only who we are but the principles we believe in. She is not tarnished by the “Washington Veneer” nor moved by their elite. We are HAPPY about that! She is not perfect, but neither are we. When they, like Ms. Dowd, call her “Caribou Barbie” and refer to her as nutty, they sweep up in their statements the other half of America (us/Conservatives) who identify with Sarah Palin, and they attempt to silence our voices and votes by declaring that we are not anything that matters. It is their normal multi-layered tactic to silence Conservatives and the rising tide of our Grass Roots disenfranchisement. The more they try to silence us, the more ferocious in my passion I become to be HEARD. Their attacks are like gasoline instead of the water they think they carry as they stoke the very flames of a fire they are trying in earnest to squelch.

I have heard it said that Sarah Palin is very “Reagan-esque” and I wasn’t so sure at first that this was entirely accurate. But even in the beginning of his political career, he was attacked in much the same way for being just like her and we all know how ineffective that was. He went on to be one of the greatest Presidents to serve our Country. Talking Heads are only “opinionates;” they don’t write History. Our votes do. Let them count her out, try to figure out what she “really meant,” or what she will do next. It is only talk and guessing, not reality. If they know Sarah like we do, she will go on to serve the people and continue to represent the voice of Conservatives no matter how she does it. She will only fail if she does not. She may be attractive like a Barbie, but she is far more intelligent than they want to accept. We know that. They know that. Even more, she understands what the “professionals” do not: We the people want someone who will unabashedly stand for Conservative principles. Regardless of “how” she does it, whether it is running for the Senate, the Presidency, or even a Talk Show, she will continue to represent our voices and do it well. We love her for this reason and we are not going away! In the end, say what they want, OUR voices and votes get the last laugh.

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Rush's Take...

Rush Limbaugh Comments on Sarah Palin's Resignation

July 5, 2009

Listen To It! Windows Media Player
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RUSH: This is Rush. I’m on a golf vacation, parts unknown, all week long. Six cities, six courses, starting today. On this Palin business, you know, one of the reasons I haven’t said anything to anybody is I don’t know what this means – and I think all of this is just speculation. We don’t know what her reasons for doing this are yet. The speculation here and the predictions here rival some of the irresponsibility I saw with people speculating on the cause of death of Michael Jackson when nobody knew – and we still don’t know with Michael Jackson. We think we do but we don’t. We haven’t had an official autopsy report.

As far as I know, nobody in Palin’s camp or Palin herself has said what the hell this is about and why she’s doing this. So everybody’s guessing and everybody’s applying their own, either inside-the-Beltway formulas to this... All I know is this: If Sarah Palin has any desire to do a TV show, to do speeches, to raise money, to earn money – whatever it’s for – if she has any desire for a future, be it in politics, be it in media or whatever, she’s going to have to do it in the Lower 48. She cannot do it in Alaska. It’s not going to get it done.

I don’t think this precludes her running for office down the road, the presidency in 2012, at all. I think these people saying that she’s an instant target because she quit, that’s just inside-the-Beltway formulaic and she’s not that. If anything this woman, her m.o. is outside-the-box and not formulaic. So until we know what this is all about, I think it’s just everybody trying to be the smartest person in the room trying to predict or analyze, when nobody can really know. All I know is that she is going to continue to fire-up people in the conservative Republican base as often as she speaks to ‘em.

Judging from my emails, I haven’t seen a whole lot of ‘em from people who are disappointed or who will throw her overboard like a lot of people are. It boils down to this: When you have so many establishment types – inside-the-Beltway, elite, establishment types (Republican, Democrat, it doesn’t matter) – just so eager to destroy this woman, it means they’re still scared to death of her. And that, to me, is the bottom line. You know, I’m living proof that you do things outside the box, that you don’t do them formulaically – and if you do it the right way, you don’t have to be part of a formula.

And I think it’s one of the problems with D.C. Beltway types and wannabe D.C. Beltway analyst types or whatever. So I hope this helps, but I’m not going to sit here and tell you I know for sure what this means because I don’t, ‘cause I haven’t heard her say – I haven’t heard anybody in her camp say – what this is all about and why she’s doing it. It’s all just speculation, and until we know, it’s just stupid to sit here and say, “I know for sure what she’s doing,” when nobody does except her – and she’ll tell us at some point, and then we’ll know.
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HANNITY'S Sentiments:

Palin’s Resignation
Democrats and the left-leaning mainstream media were eager to jump on the “Palin is finished” bandwagon after her surprise resignation announcement over the weekend. Critics point out that she “quit” in the middle of her term and foresee a negative reaction from the public in any future elections. “So I guess the same could be said for ‘The Anointed One’ Barak Obama, Napolitano and Rahmbo Deadfish Emanuel?” asked Sean. “It seems to me that she didn’t want to waste the rest of her governorship dealing with the absolute insanity of these reckless, irresponsible, taxpayer wasted ethics charges against her.” Sean also doesn’t feel Palin’s resignation will exile her from future political aspirations. “The idea that she would have to spend the rest of her time as governor accepting a paycheck and then having to raise funds on the other hand to pay legal bills resulting from these frivolous ethics complaints…none of it makes any sense for anybody. At that point she is a lame duck governor and she’s not serving the people of Alaska well. Whatever it is, she is such a threat to the mainstream media that is why she’s become a target,” Sean concluded.
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Ann Coulter's Take:
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/07/06/video-ann-coulter-on-palin-resignation/
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http://www.wowowow.com/politics/ann-coulter-explains-palins-exit-330908
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I’m confused by all the confusion among the chattering classes about Palin. I thought her press conference explained it very clearly – though she couldn’t put it precisely this way without sounding vain, but it’s obvious.

Even though she’s just a state governor, she’s a HUGE national star who is both sought after and attacked as if she is already a president (a Bush, not an Obama). But she basically can’t participate because she’s tethered to the governor’s office up in Alaska. Consequently, she has to fight with one hand tied behind her back and she also can’t go around the country campaigning for candidates and principles she believes in – because she’s governor and would be accused of neglecting the state.

Meanwhile, the Lt. Gov. is a great guy, so she’s leaving the state in good hands and now she can go on to be an even bigger star.

It’s a weird Washington insider perspective to be perplexed by what she’s doing. Contrary to Mark Sanford’s e-mails to his mistress, no one was really impressed with him; 99.99999999999999999% of Americans didn’t know who he was. Who is more influential: Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and Bill O’Reilly, or Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal and Mark Sanford (before the fall)? As Palin said, God bless people who run for political office, but – and she didn’t say this part – she’s too big to be a lame-duck governor stuck dealing with fishing licenses in Anchorage right now.

She’ll be much bigger now and can play on the national stage without constantly setting off state ethics investigations by loons, parasites and liberals. None of this applied to McCain or Kerry – both of whom went back to the Senate – because their national campaigns diminished them. Palin’s national campaign made her a major star. As she said, she’s not retreating, she’s advancing in another direction.
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Glenn Beck reacted on Twitter:

"True about Palin dropping out and stepping down. GOOD. Get out of the system. Be a CREATIVE extremist as MLK said.

Many write: Palin is done. U don't understand EVERYTHING is about to change. What you thought you knew, could trust or depend on is shifting reading Palins speech again. SHE is going to be a force.GOP-be afraid. Very Afraid. There will be only one standing in the end. I'll bet on her."
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Link to Levin and some others....
http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Rush-Levin-Beck-Coulter-react-to-Sarah-Palins-resignation
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“The Muddied Waters of Looking at Conservatives Through Liberal Colored Glasses"

2009-10-19T17:43:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site June 16, 2009)

I need to get something off of my chest. A couple days ago, while I was enjoying time away visiting my Sister who is miraculously recovering from a burst brain aneurysm, my dear friend was under fire after making a supportive post about John Voight on his FB Wall. He reached out for support and unfortunately I missed the opportunity to provide it. I read the whole thread and those who voiced their hearts were in no need of my assistance; they were amazing in defending and articulating the conservative viewpoint in defense of my dear friend. In the attacking opposition, there were so many things said that troubled me, much I keep hearing elsewhere, that I considered adding my voice after the debate was over. I am glad my Mother taught me, “When in doubt, wait it out.” So, I waited until I knew what to do, hence, as I said, I have a lot to get off of my chest - here.

As my fellow conservatives recognize, it always seems so challenging trying to reason and have a civil debate with liberals. This has bothered me greatly as I continue my sincere and earnest endeavor to do my part encouraging a healthy debate and a respectful exchange of thoughts and ideas. I try to understand “why” they believe what they do even if I will never agree, especially when they do not ever try to understand my point of view in kind. Still, you can only lead a horse to water, as it has been said. I can no more make anyone thirst to “hear” than I can make a horse drink at the water’s edge to which he has been led. I get it that they simply view the world through a very different lens than we do. We look at the same things but we do not see the same things. Moreover, their interpretation of our point of view is so off base; how can they know our view when they do not see through our lens nor ever bother to try? This is a point I cover in the Chapter “The Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side” in the book I am currently writing.

What furthers the “discussion challenge” is that so often the liberal Political Party, the self appointed and anointed distributors of information, works to drive their points ever so close to the fence of truth so as to muddy the lines that distinguish between them, creating the necessary confusion and appearance of truth for the majority of voters, the casual constituents and listeners. When in heated debate with liberals, you get enough of these “muddied” issues thrown at you fast and furious; it can be frustrating trying to communicate a point of truth. They can not hear the truth nor distinguish it because when you state it, they think you are proving their point for them, using the muddied distortions against you like a frenzied Messala in the Chariot race against Ben Hur, beating his horses with an emboldened glee and taste of hopeful victory in his mouth. Then it escalates into ugliness from there, a jump-off point for me. Proverbs warns us to not argue with a fool in his folly. It is all breath spent in vain.
(Attached is video clip of this race from the greatest movie of all time, “Ben Hur”) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQvpJsTvxU

To illustrate my points, the following are a couple of unedited quotes from the attacking opposition, which I will address each strand at a time:

I. “Sadly, this is what causes: Hate, Fear, doubt, hostility. Yet, another celebrity/media person (reference to John Voight) paid to create the above mentioned. If you look for bad things, you'll find bad things. Stop looking. Every single person that he mentioned: Rush, O'riley, Beck, Hannity etc... They ALL inject hate and fear into people who take them serious. Listen and you will not hear ONE SINGLE good thing they have to say, NOT ONE. I'd love to get paid that kind of money but I have morales and ethics and a love for the good of what our country can and will be. …”

MY HUMBLE TWO CENTS:

No doubt both sides of the political spectrum feel a passion for America and what is right for Her. In part, I can buy that this is what motivates the left. In larger part, they fail to see exactly how they are guilty of the very things of which they accuse the right. As demonstrated in some of the words from the attacking position revealed here, this is the hate and hostility I see and it comes from the left. They seem like angry and hateful people. I have been personally attacked by every liberal with whom I have ever tried to have a decent conversation, including family members who I love more than life itself. I had a dear friend cut me out of his life with hurtful words and baseless accusations. (See Notes where I vulnerably shared this experience as it happened, dated May 16, 2009 “Liberals Rules of Tolerance… I & II) I am not saying the right is guiltless. But like me, conservatives don’t agree with everything coming from our side just because they are our side. We stand for principals not positions and people, and ANY and ALL who are guilty of breaking them, regardless of side, we address in the same way.

When it comes to how the much of left sees the right, A) we are accused of injecting fear and hate, C) we are seen as being easily led like Kool-Aid drinkers to the Fox News slaughter without minds of our own, and 3) that because we disagree it is seen as not having one good thing to say. Again, the truth lies close to the fence of the lie so let me separate these stringy strands and break this down:

A - Hate is a passionate emotion. It is not a bad emotion; it is what you do with it that is bad. God hates evil. We are called to hate evil in kind and to turn from that which is bad. Conversely, God loves goodness, kindness, mercy, forgiveness, grace, and righteousness, and we are called to embrace them. These two sides are equally passionate and yet do not contradict. Here’s the stringy strand: God calls us to hate sin but love the sinner. These are two distinct issues to God and thus to the conservative. Not so to the liberal. They see the sin and sinner as one in the same. When we take a stand against evil, they say we are hostile and hateful against the evil-doer. Conservatives can passionately love a person and as equally passionately hate what they do. We understand this distinction; they do not. For us to take a stand against an action of theirs is to hate them. They see our opposition as hate and their own opposition as righteous indignation against our hate. But it is not the truth.

B - O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and Rush do NOT inject fear and hate just because they passionately oppose liberals/disagree. What the left fails to understand is that conservatives are not “inject-able.” These men merely give us our voice, a voice we already have individually and on our own!! They aren’t influencing us like we are mindless idiots; they speak what we already believe! Conservatives are people of principal, many of us because of faith, so we are not as vulnerable to swallowing enticing Kool-Aid. We have already done a lot of research and thinking for ourselves. We stand by all things that line up with our principals – period. These men just articulate that. Further, being passionately concerned is not fear mongering. Better to have your eyes wide open and deal with harsh realities than to fall into a ditch and later wonder how did it happen and when could we have prevented it? I know this all too well as I have a God given gift for smelling smoke LONG before anyone ever sees it. Someone has to yell fire and sound the alarm of warning. God mercifully provides those “seers.” Like it or not, sounding the alarm is mercy. Why do we have to be burned before we appreciate it?

C – I do not agree with President Obama on anything he stands for. This does not mean that I have nothing nice to say. For the conservative, it is not about being nice but about being right. I am not going to pretend I like something I don’t. I am not going to pretend I am not upset when I have to pay for overseas abortions with my tax dollars just so I can be “nice.” I am a very gracious and kind person but I am equally passionate about what is right. My passion does not nullify my kindness. If you offer me nothing nice, I have nothing nice to say – period. If President Obama did something I agreed with I would be the first to say so! I am still waiting - for anything! Until then, I am not going to pretend I agree with something to prove I have something nice to say. For the record, I have heard Rush, Hannity, Beck, and mostly O’Reilly say many nice things about Obama, but as it is merited only, as it should be. Liberal critics have not listened long enough to get the whole picture. I watch and listen all day every day so I do.

II. “The reason that the republicans continue to implode in on it self is because they think that they are better than everyone else and forced their own agenda no matter if they broke the law, are the most greedy and allowed the non regulation of many different things: hints the failed war, failed economy and working really hard making he world hate us.”
MY HUMBLE TWO CENTS:

This one is humorous to me. Still, it is another stringy strand. The left has no clue what the Republican problem is. First of all, they are not imploding, but this is what the left sees and wants to believe. Indeed, in truth, what they are is severely fractured. In that, they are not fractured for reasons the left supposes. They completely miss the point of what fractures the Party as does the Republican Party! Conservatives are clear about it. Conservatives continue to stand on timeless and simple principals, our Founding Principals, and the Republican Party left us, hence the fracture. They want us to get on board with their compromising leftward movement and we refuse to budge, instead taking the stand our Founders prayed we would in painstakingly formulating our American Republic. The Republicans can either return to us or lose our vote. It is that simple. The Republican Party will either heal by returning to the conservative base or be forever severed from conservatives who will vote for conservatives and not compromising Republicans. Conservatives everywhere continue to unite, grow, and find our voice regardless. We could care less if the left leaning Republicans implode or whatever leftists think they are doing. Conservatives are finding their voice again and WE speak for ourselves. Our votes will tell the story as they always do when we wake from slumber and take action for what is right.

As for working really hard for the world to hate us, it is a sad thing and extremely naïve to believe we have caused Islamic Terrorists to hate us and attack us. For brevity sake, because this is already too long, please refer to my Journal Entry where I talk about my encounter with a former terrorist, in the Notes area. It addresses this point directly. (First Note dated March 20, 2009)

Last, in a post on my own Wall several days ago, a liberal friend I care about (and I have many in my life) challenged some of the words he saw posted. I could not respond properly to him at the time. In response to a “Tiller: Abortionist” article, someone wrote that they were glad the F--- was dead. My liberal friend heard hate and anger. I saw righteous passion in defense of the unborn. His feelings were expressed more intensely than I would have personally expressed but regardless, I totally agreed with his passion and his point of view. He hates evil and loves what is good. I doubt he wishes anyone evil, including Tiller. His being glad about Tiller being dead was more about being glad Tiller can never kill another baby. His heart was angry about those who defended Tiller and called him a hero for killing partial birth babies and a passionate defense for those defenseless babies who never had the choice Tiller had, both in having a life and in who chooses who gets to have life. I want my passionate friend to defend me any day! I know I would survive!

I cannot make a horse drink. Even I won’t drink muddied water. Still, somehow I try to reason in hopes that at least one untangled stringy strand might spark a light that shines on the truth. In the same way I saw the “issues” of my passionate conservative friend, I am equally listening to hear my liberal friends. I am trying to encourage the liberals to do the same for us in kind. More often than not in life, it is not the words or the tone that tells the story; so I intentionally look past the words someone uses and the tone with which they speak to really HEAR the issues and the points they are making. It is what lies beneath in the heart where you find the truth for any side. I try to emulate God who does not look at the outward appearance but instead looks at the heart. I want to drink all the truth to which He leads me. It is a fresh un-muddied well of life to all who find it. I hope my words are salty enough to inspire the same thirst that will reap that refreshing reward.

"An Excerpt From My Book... " (Currently Writing)

2009-10-19T17:40:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site May 24, 2009)

** As you all know, I am currently writing a Book. (Title yet to be determined but I do have about 4 I am mulling over.) Many have asked me what it is about and it has been a challenge to come up with a brief synopsis of an explanation because it is not a typical book. Any brief explanation is incomplete. So, following is a rough draft (only the published version will be the clean draft) excerpt from the first chapter. Hopefully, this will explain a little bit. :)
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Chapter 1: Politics and Government for Dummies… Like Me!

I am just like you. I am one of you. I am just a regular person swimming in the ocean of “We the People” of the amazing United States of America. I work hard, pay my taxes, relish my friends, cherish my family, worship God, contribute to the good of society, try in all ways to be the best “me” that I was created to be, and I vote in our elections. Like many regular folk, when it comes to voting, I have often found myself frustrated over the “issues,” trying to decipher a nugget of truth from the array of jargon and rhetoric with which we are bombarded. I am a relatively smart cookie but even a good education, a high IQ, and a happy upbringing doesn’t lend assist to this effort, an effort for which is additionally hindered by the “busy-ness” of life and all it takes to just BE one of us regular “We the People.” Every year I have done my best to become better informed, often seeking out the wisdom and experience of others who seem to know better than I, and “doing my part” accordingly. Even so, I have grown increasingly aware of how I can no longer afford this fast-food style of contribution; the more I know the more I realize that I don’t know and NEED to know. Not good.

For a few solid months during the 2008 Election Season, I found myself in a unique position of being among the unemployed; unfortunate for me. For the first time in my life, all I had was time. Quickly, I found myself paying explicit attention to everything going on during the election; fortunate for me. What I learned during this time frame went far beyond just gathering enough information to feel good enough about voting effectively and responsibly. In very short order, it was as if someone turned on the lights and I had absolute clarity once believed impossible to achieve. I could see it because I was afforded a window of time to actually take a good, hard look, and look I did – thoroughly.

Like me, so many just do not have the luxury of time or the desire to get involved, to investigate let alone digest the huge meals of politics which we are offered, and to realize that understanding how politics and government work is not so above our ability to quickly grasp. Professional Politicians already know this. Mainstream Media already know this. As a result, they use these very deficiencies against us, offering us a meal of delectable appetizers that appeal to our needs and perpetuate the myths that keep us in this deceptive cycle where they win and we lose. If our votes are intended to bring into Office the Public Servants who will truly serve, we need to be the ones who win.

I am not an expert but I know the ones who are and will appropriately direct you to them for more in depth studies on the issues I will address. These are the ones from whom I have been able to learn as I further investigated my discoveries. They either validated or debunked what I had believed. They are the ones who have done the extensive research, have earned the degrees, and have more than earned the credibility and prestige for the respective areas which they have mastered.

I am a self-educated person; self-educated because early on in my career and education, I had to walk away from it to care for my family and ailing mother. Not knowing then that I would have only 6 more years left with her, I made a choice that was the right choice, one that I do not regret. Still, it cost me everything at the time having to turn down promising opportunities and quit college to work full time and help keep my family afloat. But I never stopped hungering to learn and consistently took advantage of every alternate opportunity to learn and educate myself from that point until now. This many years later I have the sum education equivalent to a couple of degrees but I do not have the degrees to show for it. I know a lot of people with degrees who don’t have much else to show for it. I would rather have the substance without the degree than the degree without the substance. Even so, I am hoping to pursue completing the youthful goal of a degree in the years to come, but regardless, I will never stop self educating. There is much to be said for self education and anyone, regardless of degrees or the lack thereof, can do it. It takes one major qualification: you need to have the ears to hear. To the degree that you want to hear (and know) is to the degree that you WILL hear (and know).

Ever since I can remember (and I can remember as far back as about 20 months, believe it or not!), there has always been this thing inside of me hungering for truth. I don’t know why I have it, only that it has always been with me. It is the quality that won’t let me put down a great mystery novel long after I should have gone to bed. It is the quality that makes me a terrible liar and resulted in my share of appropriate punishment as a child when ever I tried to do it. It is the quality that has stabilized an otherwise rocky life for me as I have had to face many painful things about myself in order to better my character, my relationships, and my world as a whole. We have all heard the famous Bible passage that tells us that “the truth will set you free.” I have found this to be so right on! Like Dr. Phil always says, “You cannot change what you cannot first acknowledge.” The first step of any 12 Step Program is admitting to yourself and others the truth about yourself. You cannot step any further to conquer your shortcomings until you do. Truth is the path to freedom. I was fortunate to learn this very early on in life. Yet, even this, I am not an expert. I continue to pursue greater truth as I have had the humbling realization that the better I become, the further I actually have to go. Truth is a very humbling experience, a path for which our prideful human nature so easily resists. Even with this hunger for it, it is still by choice that I go there, as much of the time, truth is a large and bitter pill to swallow. It is a higher and more difficult path. At the most difficult of times, the God-given, gracious, temporary escape route of denial is an easy one, even if for a short respite of regaining strength and renewed momentum before choosing yet again to return to climb the path of truth. We all do it, but some break camp and remain there in the Land of Denial. Not an option for me. If you want truth, it cannot be an option for you either. To the degree that you have the ears to hear, you will.

While I do speak in colorful metaphors and analogies, otherwise known as relatable word stories, which are designed to help you more easily grasp a given point, I do not parse words. I say what I mean and mean what I say, a skill I learned on the path of truth. By the end of this book, in the spirit of truth and full disclosure, you will have no doubt where I stand and why, as I will share how I arrived there. Even so, the intent of this is not to convince you to agree with me. I am not trying to influence anyone in any particular direction. It is merely to help you make educated choices versus uneducated guesses. I would rather have you disagree with me but at least fully understand why you do, than to have you mindlessly agree with me. Too often we are like sheep led to the slaughter and this sickens my heart. We should never be part of the flock of “sheeple” led to anyone’s slaughter. I merely want to translate the language of modern day Government and Politics into a simple form we regular folk can intelligently utilize. I want to equip you with the basic tools to help you discern the truth you need, abstract the gold from the garbage, and help you gain the gloriously liberating ability to quickly think for yourself. That is the whole point. You should KNOW what you believe and why. It should be based on facts. You must be equipped to find those facts. I am here to help you quickly cut through the bull to find it all.

Having said that, I am sure many of you will not agree with my stances. Much of what I will share may very well pleasantly surprise you; much might not so pleasantly surprise you. Again, this is not the point. I offer you tools to help you find your own way whether or not you agree with me in my political conclusions. The tools do not have a partisan nature. Anyone can buy a rake and use it exactly the same way someone else does even if that other person disagrees with the type of trees that should be grown in the yard. What I offer is no different. All I offer here, you are free to do with it what you want. It is here to serve you.

This book is not like all of the other political books out there. This one is tailor-made for the regular voting people like you and me. I will share the things that seem to never get said, the things that leave many of us shouting at no one while we shout at our TV’s wishing SOMEONE would finally HEAR us – hear US! WE are the voters; WE are the voices that matter. It is a book that no one has written until now. I saw the desperate need for it and realized, if it is going to be it is up to me. I write this book to offer you the benefit of my experience as I know all too well how much it is needed. I know because I am just like you. I am one of you.

** Other enticing Chapters to include:

- Red or Blue, Which One Are You?
- The Bridge to "Somewhere" (Thank God There Really Is One!)
- The Jesus I Know
- Poltically Correct? Screw That, It Offends Me!
- The Second Coming of The Emperor and His New Clothes

and...

- Two Nations Within Your Womb... (My personal encounter with a former terrorist and the Biblical trail to our current Holy War.)

"Liberal's Rules of Tolerance Apparently Do Not Apply To Them...."

2009-10-19T17:37:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site May 16, 2009)

Pet peeve #1: Liberal's rules for tolerance apparently do not apply to them. This is how it goes:

- They call us intolerant for our living by principals and standards with which they do not agree and choose to not live by.

- We allow the peaceful choice to agree to disagree but, because we do not also lower the standard, they call us intolerant. They cannot tolerate "how" we tolerate them.

- They do not want to live according to our standards (we allow for that choice) but they want us to live according to theirs (and do NOT allow for another choice).

- They can take a stand for what they believe in, but if we do the same for what we believe, we are intolerant.

- We have to accept them and their choices (tolerance) but they do not have to accept us and our choices (righteous indignation).

- They can oppose our alleged "intolerance" of them but we cannot oppose their intolerance of us. Because if we do, we are STILL intolerant.

Why is it okay for them to NOT tolerate us? Why is it okay for them to force us to accept them but they do not have to accept us? Why is it okay for them to cry for their rights but it is not okay for us to have our rights? Why doesn't the rule of tolerance go both ways?

Basically, no matter what we say or do, it is still intolerance unless we 100% abandon what WE believe to embrace what THEY believe, even though we allow them the freedom to not have to abandon what they believe to embrace what we believe. They are guilty of the very intolerance of which they accuse us!! But it is okay for them, it is not for us. We can never win this argument in their eyes!

“America Down the Rabbit Hole”

2009-10-19T17:33:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site May 7, 2009)

Most of us are familiar with the childhood story of “Alice in Wonderland,” a fairytale about a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole during an afternoon of innocent play, and finds herself immediately thrust into a world of the unbelievable, including characters even her own daydreaming and hyperbolic childhood imagination could not create. While there, she experiences an array of the surreal. Nothing makes sense anymore. Nothing and no one is as she once believed them to be. She eventually realizes that it is time to grow up, “put away childish things,” and face the harsh realities of life as it really is and not as she wants it to be. This includes the fact that it is no longer all about her or about her always having what she wants when she wants it. The “wonderland experience” transforms her in the end, subsequently returning her to “reality” and the safety of her family. Good for Alice. She learned. Now America has fallen down the proverbial rabbit hole. Need I say more? Our new “wonderland” is both surreal and loaded with unbelievable characters! Immediately, we have realized that nothing is as we believe it should and want it to be.

Since Obama has taken Office, much of the political and media chatter has been about how the Republican Party needs to “fix” itself in order to win elections again. Especially during this past week, there has been a lot of conversation about what that “fix” is or should be. I have been pondering all of it, choosing to not throw in my own offerings to this issue. Then, this morning as I was getting ready for work, listening to Fox News discuss the latest on the issue, as Colin Powell has offered his “wisdom,” it came to me like pieces of a puzzle all set in place, what is really happening here. Glenn Beck did an excellent piece on his TV Show (of which I hope to find the video to post for everyone) explaining the truth about the respective “Parties” and where on the scale of “left and right” that each began and where each currently stand. This scale begins and ends with the two true extremes: Far Left is “100% Government,” i.e., dictatorship (tyranny and control) and Far Right is “no Government,” i.e., anarchy (totally out of control). To complement Glenn’s excellent explanation, at the end, I include a link to a brief video that perfectly explains each existing type of Government so that you better grasp how and why our Founding Fathers established America as they did. The truth is, when America was born, our Government was established just left of anarchy, to have only enough Government to NOT have anarchy. By Janet Napolitano’s standards, we are total left wing liberals today, in comparison!

Through the years, the short story is, we have continued to inch left at a pace that is like the proverbial “frogs boiling alive in a kettle.” We haven’t even noticed! If JFK were alive today, he would be a Republican! As I am writing this, I am listening to Rush’s Show and a caller who repeats what I keep hearing, especially this past week: unless conservatives shift a little to the left, we will never return to the White House. We are too extreme. WE are too extreme! I heard on Fox News someone saying something similar in that we need to widen our tent to include “moderates” in order to return to the Majority Party. Then it hit me – THAT is the problem! Buying that offering is what has cuffed us to the chain that keeps inching the Republicans ever leftward! Conservatives realized during the wonderful President Reagan era that we had left our Founding Principals and have long since returned to those convictions without budging. That is as it should be. Republicans have continued to shift left with the Democrats. Even though they remain to the right of Democrats, they have still shifted left, so much so that they are now LEFT of center on the Founding “scale.” Once Reagan left Office, Republicans once again began shifting left while conservatives did not move, hence, the “fracture” that everyone is now talking about trying to “fix.”

Currently, the Obama Administration has shifted so far left that it is just outside of “Total Government.” Because they are the ones in Office, in comparison, conservatives are considered the “extremists” while in truth, as measured on our Founding Scale, THEY are the extremists. Because we are SO close to Dictatorship and tyranny, like Alice in the rabbit hole, conservatives everywhere are beginning to “grow up” and stand up and resist the slippery slope that is trying to pull America to become what she was never intended to be. Equal in the fight to ensure this is exactly where we end up; the Obama Administration seeks to villainize conservatives in any and every way possible.

Two tactics are in play, that if we recognize them for what they are, we will naturally HAVE our “fix.” First, Republicans and conservatives are still being lumped together when the truth is Republicans left us a long time ago. Second, we keep being told that to reclaim leadership we (conservatives) must abandon our convictions and re-attach to the “moderate” chain that keeps us left of center and inching slowly towards eventual tyranny. Here is where most of our current Republican leaders miss the boat, hence, the “fix”: they do not HEAR the people – WE the people! And what are we all saying? “We are conservatives without repentance! We are NOT budging or compromising!” Until they return to US, we will remain fractured – period. The time has come that either we begin standing our ground and pulling this train back towards our Founding Right, or we will become a Dictatorship with the liberals forever in rule. All we need to do is what we have already begun doing – TEA Parties, protesting, speaking up, standing our ground. And as the Bible so wisely exhorts, “When you have done all you can to stand – stand.” Hold our ground – period. We have two Parties and several variations across the scale. These include conservatives and moderates. I mean no offense to the moderates as in all truth, they have the more challenging part – choosing where they stand. Far leftists are clear and conservatives are clear. Moderates do not have a third choice so they must choose between the two sides. Our mistake has been in trying to do as liberals do and compromise everything to get the moderate. As Hannity calls it, we have become Democratic-lite. As long as we do this, we fail to see that the chain we link to is ALSO linked to the far left who has been pulling the train to the left through the years, quite successfully might I add.

So, what is the answer? I compassionately say, moderates will still need to choose between the two sides. Conservatives need to detach themselves from the “moderate compromise chain,” as Republicans return to the conservative majority and begin again to pull the train back to the right, and do this without compromise. I don’t know about you but I choose to learn the lessons of the rabbit hole. It is time for us to grow up and put away childish things. It is time for us to reclaim America with the same timeless tools our Founding Fathers birthed this Nation. If we do not do this, we will not have the “happily ever after” that Alice had. We will live in “Wonderland” forever, wondering, how in God’s Name will we ever get out, if we ever will? That is no choice at all.
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ADDENDUM: Look who agrees with me! My Man for the Office! :) I KNEW I had him pegged right! :)
(Mike Huckabee was on Sean Hannity today...)

Let’s Make The Tent Bigger?

Governor Mike Huckabee joined Sean this afternoon to argue that the Republican Party doesn’t need to expand to include everyone but rather keep to the principles that created the party. Democrats like James Carville are missing the details of some demographics, argues Governor Huckabee. Key constituencies like Hispanics and African Americans, while trending toward the Democratic Party, have core issues like pro-life stances and lower taxes that could be very popular with these groups and others. The “Contract With America” that swept Republicans into power in 1994 needs to be revisited. Republicans abandoned their promise once they gained power and ultimately, lost the power because of their abandoned principles."

"Beyond 'Dear Mr. President' - How Dare You, Obama!” No. 5

2009-10-19T17:27:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted to my FB Site April 29, 2009)

Today, I skip with my usual respectful pleasantries and greetings and get right to the point, sir. How dare you insult me and the many millions of voices in this incredible Country with your dismissive and condescending comments at your Media orchestrated and favorable appearing, fake Town Hall Meeting today in Saint Louis, MO, on this, your 100th day torturing us in Office! Let me refresh your very short memory of what you said so that you do not need the Teleprompter to read it back to you!

Taken from the Politico Article: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21870.html

Asked about fiscal discipline and entitlements reform, Obama seemed to be repressing a smile as he jabbed critics of his spending plans.

"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

“But,” Obama continued, “let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."

It’s the president’s most direct response so far to the protests that flared up in some locations around tax day, on April 15.

Oh yes, the video proof too:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/obama_describes_seeing_folks_waving_tea_bags_around_on_channels_where_im_not_very_popular_115293.asp

Well, sir, time to put your money where your big and disrespectful mouth is! I call your bluff as I want to know just exactly how “happy” you really would be to discuss these issues with us!

This is the “Official Announcement” right here!

I, Wendi Tindall, on behalf of all Conservatives in the blessed United States of America, call you to a Town Hall Meeting, set up and paid for by the White House and televised before the whole world, to engage in direct conversation with the Conservative American people about the TRUTH as to why we are protesting in Tea Parties all over this wonderful Country! You said today that you would be happy to talk about these things with us, and we are ready to take you up on your offer ASAP!!! This is the official call and response to your public invitation made today in Saint Louis, MO, April 29, 2009.

Signed,
The Conservatives of the United States of America

Please be clear, sir, we don’t parse our speech and leave ourselves open for insinuation or interpretation. We know when you refer to the “certain news channels on which I'm not very popular,” we know you refer to Fox News, who gives you a BALANCED shake, which means they also include views that oppose you, not just those that worship you like the liberal media does. Fox News adheres to the standards of Journalism and has not strayed or sacrificed principals as the others have. It is too bad that this does not meet with your approval and narcissistic need to be worshipped. We want truth, not spin.

Further, this is the 4th time I have heard you insult us in saying that those who watch Fox News, or listen to Rush or Hannity that we are just brain washed Kool-Aid drinking followers who won’t give you a fair shake. Please be clear sir, we are NOT brainless like your followers who cannot handle reason and careful thought! We listen to them because we DO think for ourselves and we DO want to be educated. So stop insulting us this way! We have had enough!

Next, we did not just go around “waving tea bags” like some pitiful little school children! How dare you talk down to us and minimize us! Even if you do, you can’t make the truth, somehow, NOT the truth! Over a million of us peacefully and joyfully protested your far left policies on April 15th, 2009 doing a whole lot more than just “waving tea bags.” I have included some pictures of the signs and words we have for you, sir, as you seem to not be listening. Oh, it is clear you heard us, but you have not really “heard” us, or we would not have to keep calling your bluff every time you up the ante as you have done yet again today.

So in your own words, sir, you are darn right we should not play games! We are actually sick and tired of your games!! Be clear – WE are not playing games or pretending ANYTHING! This outrage is 100% real!! YOU are the one playing games, sir, so stop doing as you always do and declare your opposition guilty of the VERY things that YOU are doing!! Enough spin!! We are so dizzy from it we are sick to our stomachs!

Also, be clear, we are not “pretending that the reason for the deficit is because of the Recovery Act.” We know where some of the deficit started. But President Bush is not in Office anymore. YOU are the one who has tripled our deficit and leaving it to the next several generations to pay for! YOU are the one who is taxing us and changing everything into all the things we do NOT want, without giving us a voice!! We are trying to let you know that with the Tea Parties because clearly, you are not hearing us with letters and calls! It is not in the nature of a Conservative to protest; the fact that we actually did, most of us for the first time in our whole lives, ought to tell you just how desperately we want you to HEAR us!

You say you want to win us over but you have yet to demonstrate that! In fact, with your latest remarks today, you prove that you don’t care about the Conservative point of view. Oh of course, if you didn’t have the majority in your favor right now, MAYBE you might be singing a different tune. But the fact that you have the majority is only to our benefit as you expose the truth of your heart and motives – you do not care about our voice!! You don’t even think you need our votes!! How sad for your own self deception when you cannot recognize that many of those who voted for you this time around already have “buyers remorse” and will NOT be voting for you next time! How sad that you think that Americans “overwhelmingly made their point when voting for (your) change,” but in truth, it was just a little over half of the Country – a portion who have now departed and apologized for ever voting for you!

The way I see it, SIR, it is in your best interest to make America your best interest, and set up this Town Hall Meeting, and do it soon. Because everything I have written here, exactly how I have written it, I would RELISH the opportunity to say directly to you, to your face, and the sooner the better. Now is the time to prove to us if you can actually put your money where your mouth is. You act like you are calling us out, sir, but be clear: we are calling YOU out! Step up, sir, step up! We want to have this respectful, peaceful, and honest conversation with you. In fact, we are MORE than ready for you. Are you ready for us? We’re coming to a Town Hall near you soon!

Patriotically,
A Representative of the Conservatives of the United States of America

“I Am Confused….”

2009-10-19T17:25:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site April 28, 2009)

Why is it that: it is only considered “hate” when you oppose the left but it is considered “civil rights” to oppose the right?

Why is it that: the Fairness Doctrine is only fair if you shut down the voice of conservatives?

Why is it that: the left calls themselves pro-choice when the only thing they believe you have a right to choose is to kill an unborn, and now partially born, baby?

Why is it that: conservatives long ago compassionately “accepted” gay people and chose to not judge THEM, but because we do not agree with the lifestyle, they now want to shove us into the closets they hated and from which they are now free?

Why is it that: liberals can protest, rally in the streets, loot, burn up cars, incite violence to express their outrage, and call it righteous dissent for civil rights, but when conservatives peacefully and joyfully, without violence, protest and rally in an organized and respectful manner, we are ostracized, belittled, and called anti-American?

Why is it that: liberals can hate, name call, oppose, and disrespect the Conservative President, but when conservatives just oppose a Far-Left President’s Policies, we are called haters, racists, and the Party of No?

Why is it that: liberals can be divided and partisan when a Conservative President sits in Office, but when a Far-Left President sits in Office, THEN they want us all to come together and unite?

Why is it that: no matter how hard I try to listen to a liberal, try to be gracious, and try to have a healthy discussion about the issues, it always ends up in a heated anger-fest because the consideration NEVER goes both ways back to me?

Why is it that: liberals see Government interference as being taken care of and find that being controlled is somehow liberating to them, while conservatives see personal empowerment and responsibility as truly liberating?

Why is it that: I am so confused about liberals? Or am I? Oh, I have so many questions as to “why is it that,” but I am pretty sure I already know my answers…. What say you?

“The Tail Wagging the Dog"

2009-10-19T17:22:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site April 22, 2009)

Growing up in an era that I call “the last of the good ‘ol days,” when morals were held in esteem and you didn’t fear being kidnapped from your front yard, I remember my favorite TV Show, as well as America’s at the time, being “The Brady Bunch.” How I wanted to be like the beautiful Marcia but related more to the middle daughter, Jan. Oh come on, I know I am not the only one who watched this show. I have so many favorite episodes like “Bobby sees a UFO!” Today I am recalling one of the first episodes when Peter has to contend with the neighborhood bully. The parental advice from the Dad, Mike Brady, was to “reason with him.” You know, talk it out don’t duke it out, even though Peter was getting pummeled daily with black eyes offered as perfect evidence. Long story short, even Mike Brady realized in the end that “reasoning” and trying to be nice and diplomatic doesn’t work with bullies, especially when the bully has an even bigger bully of a father, an “adult” with who Mike cannot even reason.

This came to mind today because it serves as a great illustration of the dysfunctional thinking and world view of President Obama. He truly believes that “being liked” is a powerful force, so much so that to be liked by the world at all cost is what will keep us safe from another terrorist attack. He genuinely believes that to apologize for America, to appear more humble, and to try to “reason with” those that hate us, especially terrorist Nations and rogue Dictators, he will actually win them all over and they will no longer hate us so much and therefore will stop attacking us. He is trying to reason with bullies that cannot be reasoned with.

There are two significant points he completely misses, and until he finally gets it, he will transform America into a dysfunctional and vulnerable Nation. First, his narcissistic need to be liked is his Achilles Heal. It will become America’s Achilles Heal as well. Any Mental Health expert worth their salt will tell you that to want to be liked is not healthy. It is like the tail wagging the dog; instead of being in control of your life, your life will control you, and not so happily might I add. I spent all of my 20’s learning to NOT care anymore about being liked. It is called “self respect.” Once you have that, then others will follow suit. I used to be picked on and mistreated because I am a nice person, but coupled with the need to be liked, it was perceived as weakness and provided the impetus for others to enjoy picking on me. They did so because they could. Once I realized that respect was more important than being liked, I changed. I remember the neighborhood bully who enjoyed terrorizing me. One day I just got tired of it and smarted off. She came over and began to try to beat me up. I was so infuriated that even if she killed me, I couldn’t help but start swinging. I was later told it was a pretty fair fight. I think I surprised her as well as myself. I remember her hitting me but I never felt any of it. I also remember that after that she never bothered me again but still enjoyed telling everyone that next time she was going for blood. I am happy to report, she never got it. She never got anything from me ever again, but I got something – self respect. Because I stood up for myself, I am now a happy and healthy balance of nice and self respecting. Additionally, even though others may hate me, they do respect me and do not push me around anymore. My life no longer controls me through a need to be liked. As long as President Obama is guided by the dysfunction, America will be the vulnerable tail being wagged by the dogs of the World.

The second and more important missed point, dovetails from the first point. Our enemies, specifically Iran, radical Islamists, and terrorists, do not care about “reasoning it out,” “making nice,” or “kissing and making up.” Being liked is irrelevant to them. As long as President Obama thinks this is the Enemy Playbook, we lose every time. The truth is that for them, this is a religious and Holy War. It is the height of irony that at a time when America is fighting to hold onto our Judeo-Christian heritage in our own In-War against obliterating religion from our Country, radical Islamists, though wrong, could not be more passionately devoted. We have the truth on our side and we throw it away while they are willing to die for a complete lie! So fierce is their devotion that we could NEVER hope to change it. For them there exist two key truths that make this so:

1) Their own scriptures tell them that Islam will always be at war with us and to make peace with us is to sin against their god, Allah, a sin deserving of hell.

2) Dying as a martyr increases their honor and reward, SECURING their place in heaven. They WANT to die as martyrs hence becoming human bombs for the cause.

In an additional Journal Entry, I will take the time to outline how this Holy War started going all the way back to Abraham. For now, it is enough to know that President Obama can never win them over because that is not an option to them. In their minds, to do so will send them to hell. In fact, that Obama believes it will make all the difference is actually something that plays right into their hands, BECAUSE they don’t care. Obama’s naiveté and his need for America to “be liked again,” are the very tools the terrorists will use to hurt us. It is called a blind spot and this is the place they will enter in and harm us again. Until America acknowledges that this is a Holy War pure and simple, we will not win. We will be playing with the wrong Playbook, one that is filled with maneuvers and strategies that secure our demise.

My very first Journal Entry (dated 3/20/09, a reposting of the original from 1/26/09) details how my own personal encounter with an escaped former terrorist opened my eyes. Like Obama, I wondered what WE did to provoke the 9/11 attacks and Al Qaeda’s hatred for us. Unlike Obama, I learned that we didn’t do anything. They believe that it is Allah’s will for America and Israel to be obliterated from the earth. The sooner this happens the sooner their “messiah” will return and they will go to heaven forever. This is why Ahmedinejad invokes his coming and is doing all he can to hasten it. No matter how nice we are, we are not going to change this. It is literally us or them; they have not given us any choice. It was only after this encounter that I realized that Biblical Prophecy was playing out right in front of our eyes. All the pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place, and with my upcoming Journal Entry I will do my best to lay it out clearly.

For now, suffice it to say, focusing on “being liked” on any level completely misses the mark. It’s like picking up a Basketball Playbook to win a Football game. It is a game we will never win. It is a War we cannot treat like a game. Our very lives depend on it. Like Mike Brady learned in the end, not only should we have a great defense and stand up for ourselves, we must also have a great offense and deck them. With bullies, there is no other option.

"I Will Never Forget... 9/11"

2009-10-19T17:20:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site January 26, 2009)

** I have been asked by a few people to share this first Journal Entry again, originally posted 1/26/09. It is about my encounter with a former terrorist who escaped to the USA about 5 years prior to 9/11.

9/11... Have you forgotten? Do you remember where you were the moment the events began unfolding? Like me, were you personally affected, having lost a loved one? If not, do you still remember the impact you felt as a fellow American, how it felt personal anyway?

As I promised myself, I have not forgotten. Even as I write this, the computer screen is blurred with the tears of memories welling up from my heart and gut. Perhaps on 9/11/2009, I will share MY story of that horrible day. For now, I think about the truth of what I said as I watched with utter shock, horror, and surreality, as the Twin Towers fell and thousands died within seconds, right before my eyes: "Our world, our Nation is forever changed. We will never be the same, never... we will never be what we were when I went to bed last night...."

Now, 7 1/2 years later, we continue to experience the manifestation of that truth. As all the discussions about Guantanamo come to the fore, and President Obama vows to close it within a year, it reminds me of another significant and almost surreal encounter I had the Summer of 2003, while visiting my friend, Dawn, down in Los Angeles. (Dawn is a friend I met on the set of the movie, The Bachelor, starring Rene Zellweger and Chris O'Donnell - a great story to share another time.)

Dawn has this vibrant energy about her and a spirit of adventure that is infectious. She was the PERFECT person to show me around town and get the most out of my short trip to the land of the Stars! (I am no longer impressed.) On one such afternoon, we went to this really cool place (I can't even remember the name.) where Stars are known to frequent from time to time and we wanted to up my odds of running into Mel Gibson!

While there, we stepped up to the bar for margaritas, (I don't drink much or frequent bars, but I do like margaritas and wine on occasion), and Dawn, being very attractive, caught the eye of the gentleman standing next to her. He spoke with a distinct accent so we asked him where he was from. (I love diversity, different cultures, languages, etc. so this was really cool for me.) When he told us he was from the Middle East and had been in the USA for only a few years (about 5), we were intrigued by his story, and he was happy to share - at first. When my curiosity steered the conversation away from him "connecting" with Dawn, it led to a moment of enlightenment and truth I can never forget, coming straight from the horse's mouth.

We never got his name, but he explained that he came to the US to escape further participation as a terrorist. (Be reminded, he came here before 9/11.) He described how they call their mission a Holy War, how they are forced into it (that or death for resisting) and indoctrinated at a young age, and how he never bought into it - wanted no part of it. He would not expound any further on his actual escape to the US and at the time I felt it best to respect that. Besides, I had more pressing questions

Was meeting him providence? At that time, like so many, I was trying to understand WHY we were attacked and WHY do they (Al Queada and all terrorists) feel the way they do? I couldn't understand why they WANTED war, and why with us? Thinking logically, I was always questioning, what provoked them? He did his best to answer me and explain. It still wasn't sinking in. (He explained to me that he drank to help forget the things he saw, did/experienced, and knew, and that he didn't really want to spend a lot of time on it. I told him how I respected that but I sincerely wanted to understand - that I would appreciate his effort to help me understand.) He explained, in a nutshell, it is their religious belief that God wanted them to destroy us. I said, "But they are wrong." He said, "They believe you are wrong." I tried to press, "But..." He cut me off and said this, and this is the point:

"You don't get it. You Americans are so naive. They don't care what you believe, or think. They don't care that you want to make nice with them. They laugh at the stupidity of that reasoning because in their heart, there is no compromise. They think nothing of dying for their God and think nothing of blowing your head off for looking at them in a way that displeases them (simulating a gun with his hand at my temple). There is no reasoning with them. They will never stop until they finish the mission to destroy you. You have no idea what I know... you have no idea how they operate... What you think, what you believe, they don't care. You will never be able to change their minds or make them stop. You guys just don't have a clue..."

Needless to say, this was difficult to grasp. I am a "resolver," and believe America represents peace. To then be told that there is no hope for resolve, at least as we know it, was surreal. As I thanked him for sharing and sharing honestly, (and wishing I could apologize for ruining his attempts to swoon Dawn) he nodded and returned to his Patron, the 6th shot he had during the course of our brief encounter.

My heart and mind were reeling, trying in earnest to fully process this information. According to him, we have no choice when it comes to terrorists. In their mind, it is us or them and they don't intend to lose. That was it - period. No peace making, no resolve, no hope of that ever. Trying to reason with them avails nothing. In fact, he said it would result in a mocking laughter before mercilessly blowing my head off or cutting it off (remember the internet murders?). I imagine Obama thinks he is going to fix it all, and they would be happy to let him believe that. But the minute Obama turns his back, they will break out in a mocking laughter, knowing they have him (and thus America) right where they want him/us. NOT good.

Back to the present... and Gitmo... as of 3 days ago, we now have 62 released terrorists from Gitmo who have returned to the "cause" - number 62 is back to the top leadership of Al Queada. I think about how President Obama wants to try to "reason" with rogue dictators. My beliefs about all of this were solidly validated by what I was told by the escaped former terrorist I met at that bar in Los Angeles. Bottom line: It is us or them - period. Us or them... So I choose us at all costs.

The fact that we express the desire to treat all people with a spirit of humanity is seen by the terrorists as a tactical advantage to them. They laugh and say this is our achilles heel - our vulnerable spot. They use our very decency against us without batting a lash! They laugh that we "care." But they DON'T care and will NEVER care. We are not humans to them, we are the devil's spawn that must be obliterated off of the planet. They do this with their self righteous indignation out of their zeal for their God. We all need to grasp the gravity of the sobering reality that it is "us or them" - period - us or them, end of story.

Regardless of where you stand and why, please be clear on one truth as I say it again: It is us or them - period. No hope of compromise, no hope of making "nice," no hope of making peace with them. They set the uncompromising terms - we must adjust accordingly to protect ourselves. That's all there is. Fight, defend, and protect, or get whipped - right off of the face of the earth just as they want it. It is us or them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some facts and thoughts....

FACTS:

1 - Habeas Corpus (the right to have your day in court) was designed for Americans. A legal provision for temporary suspension is in the Constitution, which states: {Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution, restricting powers of Congress, forbids the suspension of habeas corpus except, "when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion, the public safety may require it."} Former President Lincoln did it for said reason to ensure winning the Civil War. Former President Bush did it to protect us from unrepentant terrorists.

2 - Terrorists are a) criminals; they are unrepentent and given the chance, will return to their "mission" field of terror. b) not Americans with access to our rights.

THOUGHTS:

1 - There are always 2 sides to every coin and thus, different perspectives on things. Let me make clear; I do not support torture, but I do support pressure techniques that have been effective in abstracting vital and critical information, and thus, keeping us safe on our soil these past 7 years. Additional major attacks have been foiled including one at the Jersey Bridge. We don't have a choice, it is us or them. This is the law of the ball game they have established. We defend, prevent, and like a mother bear protecting her cubs, we do all we can to protect "us."

2 - I don't think we should let them (the ones we know for sure are guilty and/or unrepentent) go free because they return to the "mission" field.

3 - For the rest, we must do all we can to determine guilt, and the levels of guilt. There does need to be an appropriate process for that. Not our court systems, they are not Americans with American rights. However, they are human beings first, and we must go from there.

4 - If they are guilty, keep them away from our free society. Right or wrong, I don't want them on our soil. So, if not Gitmo, where?

"Dear Mr. President Obama" No.4 Also entitled: "Sticks and Stones"

2009-10-19T17:15:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site April 17, 2009)

Dear President Obama,

Can you hear me now? No? Okay, no problem. We will speak louder until you can. I know, I know, your OTHER Teleprompter, Robert Gibbs (who, by the way, needs to be taken in for maintenance as he seems to be really slow, inarticulate, and at a loss for everything but childish and unbecoming sarcasm, not suitable for Presidential employ), let everyone know that you, the President of the glorious United States, the current and temporary leader of the free world, the “One” with an off the chart IQ, and the person most in touch with Americans, are not even aware of us let alone our hugely successful National Tea Parties. We can’t really blame you for not hearing what you can’t even see. So who do we blame? Hmmm…. You see, Mr. President, we KNOW that you know about us, but your arrogance would have you risk appearing to us like the clueless idiot you claimed former President Bush was, to make YOUR point, in response to our Tea Parties: we don’t matter. Well, make no mistake; we heard you – long ago! Hence, the Tea Parties! And the more you ignore us, minimize us, use the media to do your best “Sarah Palin Smear” on us, and villainize us, the bigger, louder, and stronger we will become!

We have already established that you think we are stupid. Please know that we do not buy that you are so totally uninformed! Please! Anyone whose skin is so thin that he closely pays attention to Sean Hannity, enough to attack him personally 10 times in a short time, clearly KNOWS about the Tea Parties. You cared enough to be sure to send the typical left wing media attack that has your childish, thin-skinned, knee-jerk reaction all over it! It was ALL shameful! Your being THAT clueless does not make us feel anymore confident in your leadership; we all know how much your “Rock Star Status” means to you. Thus, that even our growing lack of confidence does not concern you only furthers the great divide you have created in our Nation as no one in my lifetime has.

On Election night, you made a disingenuous attempt to connect to those of us who did not vote for you by promising to do all you could to win us over and unite us all as one Country. Some of us were willing to give you that chance, difficult as we knew it would be. We hoped the political talk that speculated of your leading from the middle of the spectrum would be the case as this was all the hope we had left that night. From day one we learned that you would do as we always knew and that is to lead from the radical left.

And look what you have accomplished in three months, Mr. President. You are radicalizing at such lightening speed every day that our reciprocated daily protestations, in an effort to keep your pace, are being perceived as our not giving you a chance. Talk about creative spin! YOU set the pace and we are just keeping up, but somehow WE are the villains. We voted against you to prevent your radicalization from happening so why would we vote any different now simply because you are the President? If anything, we are MORE concerned and rightly so, as you have filled your Cabinet with the most unqualified, radical, inept, and childish people. HEAR this: because we 100% oppose YOUR extremism, WE are now considered extremists! The epitome of spin!! So okay, if I am an “extremist” to YOUR radicalization, then I wear it as a Badge of Honor to our forefathers and mothers and our Founding Fathers and mothers, paying back the many that paid it forward to us with their lives.

With our new name, “Right-Wing Extremist,” according to the very clear and detailed description of us in the DHS Report, you have successfully turned the tables so that your Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Saul Alinsky New America is now the standard, and our standing up for, and fighting for the rights of our Founding Constitution has become the radical extreme you need to be concerned about. And you call yourself the President of the United States?!! If you do, and if you are, by doing this very thing, you are guilty of treason, the highest American offense! You confirm why we knew you were never worthy of the Office of President of the United States, especially now when you are trying to make nice with terrorists, a label we aren’t even allowed to call them anymore, while demonizing your own people, who disagree with you! You make us more vulnerable to our enemies in recent weeks with the dumbing-down of terror, reaching across the aisle to Cuba and Iran, taking needed support and revenue from our awesome Military (so that you could give $500 Million to Acorn instead), and then just yesterday, you gave Osama Bin Laden our interrogation techniques! In the same week, you issue a report that says, basically, “Beware of the terror within! Right-Wing extremists are a danger to our Country!” What??!!! Now WE are the ones fighting for rights! WE are the ones you call the terrorists! All we want is to preserve our Founding Constitution!!

Please, Mr. President, explain to me how WE are the evil radicals just because we love our Country and honor our Constitution, just as you took the oath on January 20, 2009 to do. Why is it that you would rather demonize us, claim to ignore us, and sick the liberal media on us, than to do as you promised on Election Night and seize this opportunity to actually begin to win us over? Make no mistake, Mr. President, we know that you have never had any desire to do that. We know how you don’t say what you mean or mean what you say. We have LONG figured that out. In fact, I think you know you can NEVER win us over. You know that we have the truth and that we have your number. The best you can do, and in fact is what you are trying to do, is to obliterate us. We are to you as the Jews were to Hitler; expendable. (Not that I currently believe you will actually kill us as Hitler did; I am not saying that at all.) Thank God, for our sakes, our Constitution was written in such a way to prevent you from becoming like Hitler. This is why you and Harry Koh are for Internationalism and submitting America to National Law, treasonous of itself. It is your only hope around the Constitution to enable your Dictatorship agenda. As passionate as you are about obliterating us from having a voice or voting power ever again, we are even more passionate about preserving the most amazing gift of freedom, liberty and justice for all, through our invaluable Constitution.

Go ahead and ignore us and our Tea Parties. Your time in Office is short and our time to possess voting power is a lifetime. If you won’t hear us now, you will hear us in 18 months and then in 3 ½ years. Between now and then, your arrogance will expose all we need to know to successfully vote you out, though you have provided more than enough already in just these first three months! Pride indeed does go before a fall. Like a clever serial killer growing increasingly careless as he grows increasingly emboldened by not getting caught, and like former President Clinton who said he engaged sexually with “that woman, Monica Lewinsky,” because he could, right now, you, Congress, and your “crew” all feel like you can get away with anything. After all, as you keep reminding us - you won. You forget, in the joy of this momentary power, that it IS momentary, and you act like bullies, thus, exposing the truth of what is, and has been, in your heart all along. In the end, this blind spot is the very hole you will fall through, just like Clinton did. Another wise Biblical Proverb says, “He who digs a ditch for another will himself fall into it.” You are no exception, Mr. President. You are no Messiah.

Yes, go ahead and call us names, like “Right-Wing Extremists.” Go ahead and use the liberal media to attack us and call us racists, crazies, and anti-government whiners. No problem, Mr. “childish, thinned-skinned, unqualified for Office” President. As my wise mother taught me well; stick and stones, sir, sticks and stones. The truth endures forever. And on Election Day 2012, when we vote you out, we will ask you one last time, “Can you hear me NOW?” GOOD!

"TEA Anyone?"

2009-10-19T17:12:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site April 13, 2009)

"And tonight, our top story; Captain Phillips is free and 3 pirates dead. Hear the significant part President Obama played in making the rescue happen, on this Easter Sunday, 2009...."

For a minute, I thought I had fallen asleep on the couch during "Celebrity Apprentice" and was dreaming this ABC News opening. I mean seriously, this is what happens when we are dreaming; things don't always make sense. Sometimes they are so surreal it is hilarious to recall upon wakening. If I had been remotely dreaming, I would have remembered taking GREAT joy at being "The Donald," looking Obama right in the eyes, and saying, "You're a real nice guy and I am sure you will do good things, Obama, but - you're fired!" Unfortunately there was no such joy or luck, as I received the above mentioned dose of sickening reality in our local news opening. No joke! That is what the Newscaster actually said! And honestly, it was so unbelievable I actually wanted to laugh! Instead, I nearly threw my laptop at the TV in utter frustration by this ridiculous headline, one that I should have seen coming, as Rush Limbaugh did.

How is it that for the several days that this was going on, our illustrious President says NOTHING about the issue? In fact, upon returning from his "Glory Tour" abroad where he dissed America and embarrassed us with apologies we don't believe in, instead of getting right on this issue that has had most Americans attentive with great concern, and at least make some kind of statement to the effect that, "he is on it, he will have more to say when he knows more, and his thoughts and prayers are with the family," he RUSHED into a Cabinet Meeting to deal with "urgent economic issues" about how they can do yet more to "jump-start the economy further!" Then, later, when at a Press Conference about the economy and dealing with the "housing" part of the issues, he is asked for a word about the pirate hostage situation, and unfortunately, the Teleprompter was not loaded with an appropriate response. All he could do "off the cuff" was reply with, "Uhhh, guys, we are talking about Housing Issues right now, okay. Thank you very much." Then he whisked everyone away. Then... more silence.

Then, as the top headline should have been spoken, our NAVY SEALS and Captain Phillips played a significant role in ending the pirate hostage situation. It was like an Easter miracle! Our Military Forces are awesome. Captain Phillips was a hero before ever being freed for saving the lives of his crew and ship by offering himself to the pirates. By now, we all know the details. The point is, they were there going through it while Mrs. Obama had to pick out her Church outfit for the Obama's first Church appearance since moving into the White House. I don't care if in the end, the President really did "authorize" ending the stand off by force if necessary. All the effort he exerted for that was a quick phone call. And it was a call that should have been made so much sooner. Like, uh, immediately, along with an appropriate statement to the Press. That is one time we WANTED to hear from him.

To then credit our President for resolving this issue and hail it as HIS great success and a reflection of what a great job he is doing as seen in passing his "first real test,", and to say this AFTER the fact when there was no longer any potential of an "Obama mis-step," is once again, offensive spin at best! His Press Conference today, FINALLY, is just a little too late. It is laughable that he is being credited on any level, a credit that would NEVER have been given Former President George Bush in the exact same context. The clear "talking point memo" coming from the White House to top the news was so obvious it is embarrassing! Like his track record to date, Obama voted "Present" on this issue because he does not have the courage to put his neck on the line and make "hard decisions," a job description that goes with the beautiful desk in the Oval Office. No, don't muss the shining appearance of "The One," or even run the risk of messing up his declining approval ratings. I got it - talk about the economy!

And this is the greater issue I am getting at. Remember, we already established how Obama works with slight-of-hand, smoke-and-mirrors tactics. That "Economic Meeting" he rushed into was indeed significant, and the pirates provided the perfect distraction for Obama to find cover and work on other things while no one is paying attention. He has great need to be concerned as TARP recipients all over the place now want to give that money back, and Obama is refusing to accept it - he is forcing them to keep it, or trying to. TARP bailouts come with so many strings attached that many recipients are finally realizing they are some of those frogs boiling alive in the kettle. The price paid to be bailed out is not worth it.

There is a Biblical Proverb (and I LOVE the wisdom of Proverbs) that says, "The borrower is servant to the lender." We feel this with our Home Mortgages and Car Loans on a small scale. But the greater truth, one Obama understands full well in his many grabs for power, is what Proverbs says here: the borrower is literally a slave to the lender. This is how Obama's Administration justified firing a Corporate CEO, Wall Street or not, and how he has strung up the next few generations with taxes. If TARP recipients start giving this money back and effectively severing the slave ownership, the Obama Credit Card goes down, and THIS is what is more important to Obama than one heroic Captain kidnapped at sea. Because another wise Biblical verse says, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." The things that matter most to you will get your most attention. And for all the double talk streaming from both sides of his mouth, it is not what he ever says that matters as much as what he actually does in the end.

I have mentioned this Obama Credit Card before. Our President has made no attempt to hide the fact that he is fighting a Class Warfare that matters more than International Warfare and National Security. He wants to level the playing field and "spread the wealth around." He also never wastes a good crisis, and with the advent of our hurting economy, for which I am still not convinced he didn't have something to do with hastening (the timing of it all was almost too perfect, but alas, another subject for another day), he has spent the first 3 months in Office amassing greater funds at our expense than ever in American History combined. This is why he does not care what is in the Porkulus Bills and Budgets. While he has the power, he is doing all he can to level the Country to everyone being on an even playing field, hovering always near some level of "needing the Government to bail us out," and holding the control of the wealth of the Country to divvy out as he sees fit. Money is power, and power is control to him. It is control for which Obama lusts most. Obama recently signed an International agreement at the G20 that puts our American money at risk as he submits our Banks to a higher Law for the first time in History. This is just the first treasonous step in usurping the Constitution for an even greater power in the world. He needs as much money on that White House Visa to bargain with. Think this sounds a hint like conspiracy theory? Trust me, it is not. The talk you hear now about a "One World Government" and a "One World Monetary System" is more than just the stuff of great Science Fiction writers. This is something that is increasingly becoming the potential of reality in our lifetime. It is the stuff even the Bible predicted and an issue I will outline in a future Journal entry. For now, pay close attention: follow the money and follow Obama's actions. They tell the truth of this story and what he is doing to our precious Country.

This is why the TEA Parties matter so much! We must do all we can, while we still have the chance, to make it clear, WE the people, WE the voters still have the real power and we must use it as our Founding Father's designed us to do to preserve our freedom on every level. We cannot afford to be the silent majority any longer. If we do, we will soon not be able to afford anything, and that is just not something upon which I am willing to vote "Present."

"Dear Mr. President Obama" No. 3

2009-10-19T17:10:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site April 7, 2009)

Dear President Obama,

In light of the events of recent weeks, I realize that you are due another Reality Check from America and so today, I am honored of "The People" to deliver to you that message.

As I begin, in all fairness, you may want to get a Teleprompter to interpret my message because, as you well know by now, I do not parse or mince words as you do; nor will I apologize for it, as you would in feigning a humility you do not possess. As for finding the intestinal fortitude and support to handle the blunt truth, I can't help you there as you hired your Staff, not I.

Yes, Mr. President, I am angry today, and that with just cause as I see what you are doing to my beloved Country in such short a time. It makes me highly concerned for what you will attempt to do in 4 years. So first, let me begin by saying this: You are out of touch with the American people and you have no clue who America the Beautiful is! It angers me (the flames and fumes coming out of my head kind!) every time you speak in representing America and you then MISrepresent Her! You are more in touch with Europe than America and I have often wondered why you didn't run to be President there!

You see, Mr. President, our Honored Forefathers LEFT Europe to come to America to create a Country FREE of Europe and tyranny. They paid in blood, sweat and tears, and then a whole lot more blood to ensure we would have such a Country. To now try to make us like Europe, holding THEM up as the World Leader and example for all, is like what the Bible says about "a dog returning to his own vomit." You spit in the face of those who fought and died in our Revolutionary War and commit the highest offense to the Country of which you are supposed to be THE Leader! Your whining about the lesser Class of our Country who want to be taken care of instead of taking personal responsibility for what their lives are or are not, is highly offensive, insulting, and embarrassing in comparison to the price our Founders, Forefathers, and first settlers paid in order for you and I to have all the blessings we have today.

I think of the many stories and documentaries I have studied about the Revolutionary War and there is always one event that rips me to the core, exemplifying a portion of the price these men and women paid for our Liberty. During one cold winter, about 4 years into the War, General George Washington and the remaining troops were hunkered down in tents at Bunker Hill waiting for the endless blizzards to pass. It was an extra long and cold winter and the men were low on everything from munitions to clothes and especially food. At one point, these starving men were so hungry, they cooked their boots and ate them so they would have the strength to fight on when the winter passed! Liberty meant that much to them! Do you even comprehend what that must have been like?!! WE were worth it to them! Our being FREE - from tyranny, from England, and from being subserviant to anyone but our own rule, was worth it to them! Thousands died for a freedom they would never enjoy themselves! It was worth it to them! They believed THAT much! To then do and say all you have said, especially in recent days, incenses me to no end! So you bet I am scathing mad! You do NOT represent America or Americans! If anything, you betray the truth of who we are and what we are! We came here to NOT be like England or under their rule, so why are you trying to return us to this and spit in the face of our Founders and Forefather's lives?!

I take GREAT issue when you say that "America is not a Christian Nation..." and that "America is not and never will be at war with Islam...." and on and on about who and what America is or is not! You don't even know yourself! America is NOT changing! Oh yes, YOU are trying your best to change Her, but as the saying goes, if it ain't broke... No, America is not perfect, and yes we are always needing to make appropriate adjustments, as our Founding Fathers even acknowledged and provided for that, but we do not need to change her fundamentally! You do NOT speak for me and for at least 60% of us! You do NOT tell the truth when you speak to other Nations, painting this picture that we all adore you and we all agree with you! We DON'T!! We SO don't! Don't delude yourself while you, in turn, lie to the world! Just because you say it, does not now make it the NEW truth! It is still a lie!

Make no mistake Mr. "MUSLIM in hiding" President, America IS and always WILL BE a Christian born Nation! Let me repeat, America IS and always WILL BE a Christian born Nation, one that "provides the freedom of other religions..." while at the same time, leading by the guidance and wisdom of Her own CHRISTIAN God. Our Founders recognized that not all were Christians and allowed for those differences, but all espoused the Judeo-Christian principals. It is no different today in that, not all Americans are Christians, nor do they have to be. But America was born of "Christian" principals and values and not just some set of erroneous "principals and values that tie us together" as you say it, in an effort to minimize and water down the truth. You are no authority on who America is, especially if you cannot tell the truth about the FOUNDATION!! Make no mistake, Mr. President, America IS a Christian born Nation, born of the liberating, gracious, and loving Christian principals upon which our Forefathers relied to create our Constitution. I am apalled that you are the first President in American History to NOT proudly and boldly share that.

Additionlly, as a Christian man, you would not then downplay our founding heritage. It is only one more reason I find it hard to buy your tale of you being a Christian man. In fact, I know you are not a Christian, Mr. President because the Bible says you know others by the fruit they bear, and your fruit does not look Christian on any level. Just because you sit in a garage, it doesn't mean you are a car. As all real Christians know, to BE a Christian is not an act of going to Church and saying you believe. The Bible says even demons believe and tremble at the Name of Jesus. Being a Christian is not knowing ABOUT Jesus, but it is KNOWING Jesus - personally. It is a living, real relationship. And like all relationships, who you are reflects that relationship. To KNOW Jesus, you know His heart, you understand what He says is right and wrong, and you passionately espouse the things He does; you are compelled as such. But YOUR compellations are exactly the opposite. For a recent and fresh example, lets look at your bowing to the Muslim Saudi King. No matter how "official" the statement issued by the White House to the contrary, which yet again "spins the truth," it WAS a bow, and very revealing of what you REALLY believe! I have reserved comment on your Muslim faith until now but I saw the very telling pictures and film footage for myself. You would not do that unless you felt compelled, especially when you and Michelle didn't even give the appropriate homage to the Queen of England! No Christian, let alone an American President has ever or should ever bow before the Muslim Saudi King!

As for "being at War with Islam..." Let's not parse more words. "Radical" Islam IS at war with us! By NOT making that clear, you leave it open to be interpretted as our making nice with the radicals. To then go to Iraq to make nice with the Soldiers does not cover the fact that you do not REALLY support them. It is the talking out of both sides of your mouth once again. Say one thing over here, then say another over there.... You go thank the Military for their service while you gut them of support on every level, disarming our Country in order to fund all your porkulus projects. It is no wonder 70% of the Military does not like you.

You see Mr. President, At least HALF of this Country, and now quickly increasing in number as the koolaid wears off, do NOT agree with your radical left, bordering on tryannis-building policies - that is NOT who America is or who we want Her to be! Let me be clear with you, Mr. President:

- We do not want a President who apologizes for us to the Nations of the World.

- We do want a President who tries to RE-make us back into the image of the Country we left and fought to be free from forever.

- We do not want a wimpy and lukewarm President who cares more about the World liking us and adoring him, than he does about being a true President who cares about PROUDLY standing for America and Her true Leadership and service to the World, doing what is RIGHT no matter the cost.

- We do not want to redo our Constitution and submit ourselves to "National Law."

- We do not want Universal Health Care, Smart Grid, and a Civil Militia run by radicals in our "new" School System. You know these are all ruses to make money off of the people and be "in control!" And this I will address in clear detail soon.

- We do not want to end Capitalism and become Socialists.

- We do not want the Government to run our lives.

- We do not want to be so vulnerable to terrorists/Radical Islamists, having them leave Gitmo to live in our neighborhoods, nor do we want to now also become vulnerable to the Castro brothers with your new "moves" to open up Cuba, something even former President Kennedy wouldn't do THEN let alone today when it is more dangerous!!

- We do NOT want to fund overseas abortions let alone homeland, partial and fullbirth ones!

- We do not want to support bailouts and have our taxes for 2-3 generations raised to pay for your radical agenda that we further do not believe in!

Oh, Mr. President, there are so many things, but at least 60% of us now, do NOT want what you want, which is to make America NOT America. Yes, I am angry wth you Mr. Ungracious President. I am embarrassed that you must still campaign daily, unable to live outside of the spotlight of the camera, droning on with empty and repetative words with which you torture us. While President Bush is gracius enough to never retaliate, defend himself, or even speak during your Presidency, while he reached out to you and held a Presidential Luncheon for you, while he cheers you on and prays you succeed, you cannot seem to help yourself in daily berating him and enjoying the undoing of all the good he did for America. He is far more gracious in that he never did to President Clinton as you do to him. And in this way, you appear very UNPresidential. It is embarrassing. It is infuriating.

Last, many of us already understand your "sales job" style. We know by experience that you talk out of both sides of your mouth, trying to appear so moderate, the peacemaking unifier, and trying to level the playing field so as not to offend anyone. But when it comes to action, you take a far left, radical course with a dogmatic authoritarianism bordering on a soft tyranny. I have 2 issues about this behavior:

1) We don't want a lukewarm President who tries to "make nice" with everyone. We want a President who takes a stand for what is right no matter the cost. We need a Leader and one with courage. The Bible even says, "Be hot or cold, but the lukewarm I will spit out of my mouth." Lukewarm comes across as weak, and compromise of this kind creates an advantageous vulnerability for our enemies (and terrorists ARE enemies who we will NEVER change) to sieze.

2) Because you sell a "moderate" nicey-nicey program, but then take radical action, how can anyone believe your parsed words let alone trust you? We want a President who "says what he means and means what he says," and does not water down the truth to deceptively win people who will regret it later like so many are now who voted for you. They are sorrowfully repenting all across this Country. I hear it on a daily basis for myself. You come across as naive and in over your head when you think "turning the page" is to reinvent the wheel in a new decade or century. We cannot "make nice" with Nations who do not see they have a problem. And you further their belief that WE are the problem everytime you apologize for America being a great Nation, hoping this feigned humilty will change their minds. It won't. It only makes us vulnerable, especially in ways we have never been. Your naive attempts at "making nice" ONLY serves to dismantle our National Security, and for this, I am angry!

So I ask again, why didn't you run for President somewhere else, like Europe, that believes as you do? Ahhh, but now we are getting somewhere. To answer that question belies the REAL reason you DID run for the American President... and rest assured, I will have a letter for you when the right time comes regarding this answer.

For now, I want you to know something you seem to not get (along with everything else): You are appointed to serve the People not rule over us. Your power is borrowed for the purpose of care giving like you do for your own children. The people (a little over half of us anyway) voted you in and we will vote you out. Start thinking about what type of Hollywood Career you want because you will need it in 3 and a half years. And while you are thinking about that, work on your act please because thus far, we are NOT entertained!

With Passion for America,
Wendi the Christian American Patriot

(Sorry for all typos and grammatical errors - this is a first draft rant I needed to get off of my chest.)

"Look! Magic!!"

2009-10-19T17:06:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site March 30, 2009)

Have you ever enjoyed a really great magic trick? You know it is slight of hand, smoke and mirrors, and not the whole of what you are seeing. Chris Angel and Lance Burton are two of the best in their entertainment field. My boyfriend, Lance Austin, is an amateur magician who does it for fun. One of my favorites that Lance does is floating and spinning a playing card in mid-air. I stand 3 feet away from him and can’t figure out for the life of me how he does it! On occasion I have been fortunate to be his “Worthy Assistant” and therefore, privileged to know the “secrets” of a few of his best tricks. No, I am not telling; I am sworn to secrecy under the magician’s code of ethics, so don’t even try to get it out of me! But we all have seen the infamous magic “expose” shows so we have some idea of how it works. Magic is the skill of slight of hand trickery – a distraction, the old “look over here while I do something else over there, right under your nose.” Viola! Magic! And we love this because we can’t figure out how they do it! We are right there and witness it with our own eyes. We know it is a trick but we can’t explain why.

We all have also heard the Biblical passage which says, “Judge not lest you be judged…” It is often misunderstood and misused, largely because the passage is never recited in its full context. One thing I learned from a very wise man in my life is it is so easy to change the entire meaning of a phrase with just one word. For example, let’s use the phrase, “Lance knows Wendi.” This phrase tells you that we have a relationship; we know each other. But add one word and you change the meaning: “Lance knows ABOUT Wendi.” This tells you Lance has a lot of informational knowledge of who I might be, but does not have personal knowledge as he is NOT in a relationship with me. Keeping this in mind, we can better understand the Bible passage when we complete it in context: “Judge not lest you be judged; rather judge with righteous judgment. For the measure with which you judge others, is the same measure which will judge you.” In other words, don’t have a judgmental attitude towards others because this is the measure that your own conscience will condemn you. Instead, be more humble and realistically understanding of human frailty - a frailty we ALL possess - just gather the facts, and make a sound judgment, much like we do in our Court Systems. We understand more when we read another passage which tells us that “… you will know someone by their fruit…” We know an apple tree because when we inspect the tree we see apples growing on it. So, while we are not to be judgmental (an attitude that puts another down while elevating self as being above ever doing or being like the one we put down), we are to be fruit inspectors. The more facts you have, the more sound your judgment.

There are 4 ways in which being judgmental affect us, hence, the exhortation to “judge not” i.e., don’t be judgmental. First, any Mental Health expert worth their salt knows that being judgmental is an expose of our own motives. We automatically assume everyone is like we are; thus, we tend to see in others the very things of which we are guilty. We naturally assume that others are thinking and doing things that they more than likely are not because when we are in the same given situation it is how WE would think and/or act. Being judgmental exposes YOU. Second, it fogs/distorts the view through which you are looking at others. This is what is meant of another passage that tells us, “Get the log out of your own eye first (deal with your own judgmental attitude) and then you will see clearly to get the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Third, in the same vein that we assume we are like others, we assume others do exactly to us what we do to them in the same situation. If we judge someone for how they "show off" dancing at a party, we assume that if we dance freely at a party that others will think we are also showing off. Last, there is a principle of sowing and reaping. You may have heard it as, “what goes around, comes around.” Others call it Karma. However you address it, the principle is the same; if you are judgmental, others will indeed be judgmental towards you, and in the same measure.

Understanding these tools (making a sound judgment and understanding slight-of-hand trickery) and how to use them creates a clearer lens through which we are watching what is going on all around us, both far and near. These tools, with others, as well as validation from other credible resources, assist me in having clarity about the current AIG debacle. It is classic slight-of-hand trickery intended to serve as “fact” for the casual observer and hearer. This “casualty” is far too many Americans who can no longer afford to be as casual just as I realized for myself these past few years. Therefore, these are the “secrets” I CAN expose so that there are far less casualties of “spin” and far more empowered and educated Americans.

Before I finish the point, let me interject my heart intentions in sharing the things I do. Frankly, I can care less about being Red, Purple, or Blue – I care that we are ALL, together, the American people and as we were so appropriately called during the Great Depression, we are “the forgotten man.” I don’t want Government to rule OVER us as they were established to serve UNDER us. It is “servant leadership” which maintains a principle of doing right by those they serve. We call Government Officials “Public Servants” for a reason. They get voted into and out of Office BY us – US! They don’t rule over us, they work FOR us. We do not work for them – they work for US!! This is foundational in understanding the truth of everything else. I simply come from a heart and place that loves my Country, loves my fellow Americans, and cherishes my family and friends more than anything else! I don’t want anything but the truth, no matter the cost or from where it comes, as I have mentioned many times before already. Part of the reason I used to be one of the many “casualties” in my knowledge of politics, our Government, and current events, is because it is so confusing to find and discern the truth. For someone like me who tries to understand all sides, parts, and points of view, I have found myself further vulnerable to the confusion. Since 9/11, I knew I could no longer afford to accept the confusion and began the process of not only finding truth, but also HOW to do it.

I realize it takes great effort, an effort not all have the time, let alone the desire, to exert, so I do it not just for myself, but for anyone who cares to partake of the fruit of my labor. It is a labor of love, again, for my Country, my fellow Americans, and especially for my family and friends. I freely share with everyone regardless of where you stand on anything, because as I have discovered, we are on the same Team. Government Officials are not. THIS is the beginning of the confusion. They try to make it a “Party” thing and scoop us into their “cause” by any means possible. There is no self respect in being a Governmental Pawn. I won’t allow myself to be one and I can’t stand to see anyone else be one either.

So, here is what I know and you are free to do what you want with it. All during the Election cycle, first with then Senator Clinton and later Senator McCain, I watched then Senator Obama use a familiar “magic trick” over and over again. I had ample opportunity to get really good at spotting it and seeing it for what it is. And no one will dispute he is skilled. Let me interject, I have also discovered that his Achilles Heal is the need to be adored by everyone. I can relate to this as this used to be an Achilles heel for me too. It is a need that goes beyond the basic human need for love and acceptance. It is a distorted version of that need in that unless it is acceptance by everyone, it feels like rejection by everyone. I am grateful for the faithful work of God’s love and grace in my life which set me free from that long stronghold long ago. I finally know who I am and Who’s I am and that is enough for me. But this is not so with President Obama. I compassionately understand why this is his Achilles heel, as it stems from a fatherless life from which all children derive a sense of acceptance and security. You see it in the way he must be in front of the camera making speeches every day, in the way he must still campaign to win public approval for his far left policies even though he has already won the Presidency, in the way he childishly engages the media and those who oppose him, in the way he addresses opposition with “there are those that say…” and in the way he responds and goads those who do not agree with him, just for starters. Instead of caring less about being liked, he cares too much about it. He becomes like the tail wagging the dog because his popularity, or lack of it, is what steers him, and steers him off course. His eyes are no longer on the road where they need to be as President.

During the campaign, he behaved the same way. Whenever the important issue of his character came under any type of scrutiny, he was immediately on the defensive. Even with help from the major media who wanted him to win, he used a “magic” trick to deflect from himself. He would create “distractions.” He would simply get people looking away from character scrutiny and get people talking about other people and other things. Sean Hannity and Fox News came to the fore because he called attention to them by attacking THEM for doing their job – vetting him – scrutinizing him, and exposing the truth as the rest of the media would not do. He didn’t like it, so much so that he would turn the tables on them. Suddenly, instead of scrutinizing his character, we are scrutinizing Governor Palin’s wardrobe! Bate and switch, slight of hand, smoke and mirrors… Further, he exposed himself in that, anytime something legitimate was addressed, HIS judgment on the given issues about him, was that the talk was only a “distraction” from the issues HE deemed important. I could retire a wealthy woman on the dimes collected for every time the talking point response to vetting question about him and his lack of qualification to be President was, “There is nothing to that concern; it is just a DISTRACTION…”

THE very things he was guilty of saying and doing, he accused the opposition of doing, over, and over, and over again. I watched it all day as I was out of work for 4 months and had nothing else to do but educate myself, tape it all, and take notes. He had ample opportunity to win me over as I began the election season with a clean pallet. Instead, he drove me away with this type of conduct. I watched one day with total shock at the blatant audacity to lie to the American voters. It was like a light came on as to how it all works and why it is so confusing; but not after that day. The morning of the economic downfall in September, I watched 4 speeches live: First Senator McCain, then Mr. Paulson, the former President Bush, then Senator Obama. I have it all on tape and know exactly what Senator McCain said that morning, all of which was true documented fact. (Links of financial meltdown facts attached) One of the things Senator McCain sighted was how back in 2005, he and others tried to do something about resolving issues with Fannie and Freddie before it all fell apart, “and Democrats, including Senator Obama, blocked it.” That is all he said. Within 2 hours, then Senator Obama was out on the stump and spun it this way: “… you want to know what Senator McCain had to say about our economic crisis? He blamed the whole thing…. on ME!” And those who were there believed it as Gospel, the way it was later reported was Gospel, and how it was later believed was as Gospel. This new truth was a very blatant lie! I have it all on tape! I saw it for myself and couldn’t believe it! And not even Fox News called him on it!! I saw this happen over and over and over again! That marked the first day of my quest for truth, both finding it and sharing it.

Now, as of today, his historic approval rating has dropped over 20% in his first 2 months in Office. Comparatively to former Presidents Bush and Carter, it is lower for this exact same time in their respective Terms. And there is valid reason for it – most Americans do not want to become socialists! We don’t like being forced to pay higher taxes for generations to come by bailing out entities like AIG that need to fail or reboot with Chapter 11. (I addressed this topic in a previous entry.) I could go on and on but the point is there is massive disenfranchisement growing rapidly across the Country and instead of “hearing” us and realizing his policies are not what we want, he goes to work campaigning again, trying to win people back over with his charm, and completely missing the point. What else new will we hear that we haven’t already heard every single day already? It is a socailism and we emphatically don’t want it!!

And true to form, he indeed, does himself, create a “distraction” so that we do not focus anymore on what is causing his rating to drop. Enter AIG. Refer to my links to see Glenn Beck’s video, explaining it all. I will bottom line it here. It is hypocritical as well as deflective to NOW be angry at AIG over the $165 Million bonuses that, right or wrong, are legally bound up in a contract that is protected by the Constitution. Further, Chris Dodd, Mr. AIG Millionaire himself, buried legal protections/provisions for bonuses within the rushed through Porkulous Bill. While AIG has already acted appallingly without regard for us American taxpayers, that is not all that is there by which to be outraged. What our Government has done in addition to this outrage, in BILLIONS of dollars, through AIG, is FAR more egregious than $165 Million, in comparison. So, the distraction has been to take up our fury over this recent AIG issue, to appear to be on our side, all the while THEY helped create and further enable this whole mess for which we and several generations to come will pay, and all so we won’t see the truth and be justifyingly angry at THEM for the Billions of dollars that they funneled through AIG, of which more than HALF went to bail out other Countries!!! “Ooh! Look over here at this awful $165 Million dollar sin and see how angry we are on your behalf at bad corporate raiders! See how bad capitalism is to you the victim? Keep looking over here because I don’t want you to even notice the mess we made with Billions of dollars over there.” And for the cherry on top of all of this: "See why Government must be in control?" It is controlled chaos which paves a road to justify tryanny. It worked for Hitler exactly like this, and in the same, patient, methodical steps.

Bottom line: they don’t care!! They only care about money and power – control! They don’t care about us! We have all forgotten that they work FOR us - for US! And yet, instead of REALLY serving by foregoing their salaries, holding Hollywood fundraisers, and cutting out the Pork; instead of REALLY serving us by cleaning up their own vomit with their own resources, they put it all on us and future generations to pay for something we never voted in to Office!! Government does NOT have our best at heart. And the more power you give, the more they take. BE VERY CLEAR: The bigger Government power THEY have, the less power WE have. I don’t care what side you stand on – I am all about personal empowerment and NOT for Government power over you. The sooner we realize that WE have the power to make good things happen with our own best at heart, that is when we are open to have the ears to hear and the eyes to see all truth, and be empowered by it to do something good for US, not them.

Whether they are Red or Blue, many, but not all, Government Officials are guilty of bamboozling the American people because we enable it and we allow it. I can’t take it anymore. Magic tricks are for fun, not for running the American Government. “WE the people” are empowered with the gift and responsibility to make sure we retain Liberty and not move swiftly to Tyranny. It is what our foefathers painstakingly ensured for us, thousand with their lives. If we don’t, then just like the surprise assault on the Twin Towers (representing all the precious Americans we lost) on 9/11, we will be blindsided by the greatest magic trick of all – America, now you see Her, now you don’t. God forbid… God forbid.

"Dear Mr. President Obama" No. 2

2009-10-19T17:03:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site March 1, 2009)

Dear President Obama,

When Rick Santelli asked you if you were listening, I pray that you are because our voice is about to get ever louder in the Nation's ear. I have a question for you too: How do you like your tea, Mr. President, straight or with cream and sugar? I imagine the latter since you will have an ample supply soon that will not be sweet on your pallet.

I am actually kind of surprised, as well as disappointed, Mr. President, that someone of your "intelligence" and "heart," as we have been repeatedly told, has not come to the same conclusions I have (and I am of a much more lowly position) as to how best to resolve our Economic issues. I am not an Economist but as Glenn Beck says so well, "I AM a thinker." And I believe common sense and the basic economics we apply at home are cut from the same economic clothe from which experts are born. But you do not espouse this way of resolve so let me reason with you from your table of resolve.

First of all, if I were to use your "logic," an oxymoron but lets not go there now, I would have chosen a different way of infusing the Nation with funds from the so-called "Stimulus Bill" (there is nothing positively stimulative about Trickle Up Poverty for which you leave the Poverty Invoice with the American taxpayers) that would have IMMEDIATE results and save job right away: Instead of the millions set aside for preserving Nancy Pelosi's field mice in California (where I live, by the way), and all the many PURE PORK accounts such as hers, why not just infuse that money directly into the Companies that are laying off people? Why not give that money to those Companies in the amounts of covering salaries for at least a 6 month period of time, to provide time for the markets to rebound and let the economy move forward? Seems to me, that shuts off the valves of loss right at the source, dontcha think? If we are going to steal from taxpayers up to 2-3 generations from now, why not provide a way to KEEP taxpayers in jobs? More jobs, more taxes paid, right? And more expediently, right? And at least ALL tax payers would participate and not just those lucky enough to remain working, right? Wouldn't this shut off the fear factor, create confidence, make people not panic and keep us in a progressive momentum? Wouldn't this, in fact, limit the generations from whom we are stealing because it could be paid back faster? I say the honey bees and the field mice can wait. I say the libraries being built in your names can wait. I say the study of pig stench can wait as this PORK BILL stinks enough with a clarity even us simple folk actually understand! Remember, it is "we the PEOPLE," not we the animals or we the pig odor.... Even for the 10% of the Bill that the experts say actually MAY do something, it can all wait. Even a heroin addict knows the fastest way to "pick back up" is directly into the vein, and the right vein might I add, not the vein of a pig or field mouse. Yes, pump the money into the Companies laying off so they can stay in business and NOT lay off. THAT could be supported, if I HAVE to buy in to your new Old Deal. But we both know this doesn't fit into you REAL agenda anyway. It would expose and undermine THAT plan... yes, another Letter already written!!

I have another great idea that would actually stimulate REAL compassion and charity verses just the "posturing of compassion" you take. (You paint yourselves as the REAL Party of compassion, and the conservatives as the arrogant, selfish, and compassionless Party that you really are. The truth is, that is just another of your many ways of redefining the truth so it suits YOUR way and makes the RIGHT way look wrong. You are so good at Spin, Mr. President that I am surprised you are not as dizzy as we have become. But again, that is another topic for another letter.) So, here is my idea: Why don't you hold a fundraiser with your Hollywood "friends" who LOVE to speak but who do nothing to put their money where their mouths are. If they matched their pocketbooks with the size of their mouths, you can break all records in fundraising, including the money you have already raised to waste just on yourself!

See, I have a problem with your definition of "rich." In most areas, but especially in places like California, New York, Chicago, etc., $250,000.00 is not rich. It is just beginning of trying to get our heads above water, if possible. No, when we normal folk think of rich, we think of Hollywood big mouths and those in Big Business, as well as those of you on The Hill. Wouldn't it be a great testament to our TRUE National nature to hold a fundraiser for the Nation like we do everything else? Where people give by CHOICE, according to what each one can, and not by MANDATE according to what most of us can't? We raise money for Inaugural Balls and starving Countries, Election Campaigns and disease cures, and for natural disaster relief whether here or abroad. We are a charitable Country, which if nothing else, we still have THAT to be proud of our Nation, but again, another issue for another time.

My point is, charity is a hallmark of character! It reveals what is in one's heart. When you undermine charity with force, you bankrupt the potential of character, not just the potential of free enterprise. Now let me be clear, some can give nothing, many can give little, and more can give much - by choice. ALL is valuable, as the Bible explains how the widows mite (a starving woman gave the last penny she had because of the goodness in her heart and Jesus said she gave more than any that day!) is more valuable!! You clearly are the Champion Fundraiser! Just 3-4 more of those, Mr. President, and we will have resolved this issue. Even THAT would be a new change I could believe in.

But this is just my humble opinion.... shared by MANY across this amazing Country, Mr. President. So as the Tea Parties get louder and louder, I sure hope you know how to answer the question Rick Santelli asked you, "President Obama, are you listening?!!!" This question is not going away. The sound is not going away... Alas, awake the sleeping lions - time to hear us roar!!! ".... With Liberty and justice for all!"

"Dear Mr. President Obama" No. 1

2009-10-19T16:58:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site February 10, 2009)
The First in a New Series entitled: "Dear Mr. President Obama"

Dear Mr. President Obama,

It pains me greatly to even address you as such; however, I have respect for the Office even if I don’t respect you. I have respect for the wisdom that God gave our Founding Fathers in creating our Constitution and Government, even if you don’t. Therefore, I ask you this, Mr. President:

Just how stupid do you think the American people are? How stupid do you think I am? You must think we are totally out to lunch because you are acting like you are clearly out of touch with the people. It is obvious you realize that much of your Presidential win can be credited to your perceived charisma and winning personality. The fact that you are going back out to “campaign” for your so-called “Stimulus Bill” and win over people with your supposed charm and personality demonstrates how you are completely missing the point. You have no idea how totally insulting this is that you feel you have to hit the road to explain to the American people why you feel passing this Bill is so important. We are not lost on that point and how you feel about it. We don’t want to be “charmed” over to support you because your charm doesn’t change the facts or the reasons we are not in support of the Bill. Change the Bill to be 100% stimulus and then we will support it. It is that simple.

Further, the totally insulting speeches and press conferences you have given, last week and this week, reveal how insincere you were the night you won the election and “invited” over to your side those of us who did not vote for you, and how you had hoped you could win us over. So far, like a teenaged boy trying to pursue his first female conquest, you are totally missing the mark. If anything, you have only further pushed us away by more than validating everything we know and believe about you. There are legitimate reasons we didn’t vote for you and why we also oppose your so-called “Stimulus Plan.” Shocking as this might be to you – it has ZERO to do with your charm and personality. It also has zero to do with the lies you have told the Country about our point of view. It has everything to do with the fact that we completely disagree with your ideology on everything, and that we completely disagree with the actual Bill itself. Content and truth, Mr. President, content and truth; can you grasp that at all?

First of all, the truth about our history (the 1920 recession included, which we never hear about) shows us that we don’t need a “Stimulus Package.” We need exactly the opposite! We don’t need it nearly as much as we need to counter the fear you started in mid-September with the whole “the sky is falling; it is all President Bush’s fault; it is the failed Republican way,” rhetorical and partisan routine, in order to win the election. And you continue to feed this fear at a frenzied pace, making it worse, in order to set yourself up as the “hero President” who saved the economy using the so-called “winning Democratic measures” of spending.

As FDR, one of a few to whom you seem to posture yourself to be so similar, said so well, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” If you REALLY cared about “we the people,” if you REALLY cared about this Country, if you REALLY wanted to do what was right, then you would stop lying and stop the fear!!! Stopping fear is not accomplished with the trick psychology of a phony Stimulus Package (which is really a Trojan Horse loaded with deceptive measures to totally change our Country forever. You are using the economic crisis to push massive and unprecedented new government spending that will rapidly move America to the socialist Left, and we know it!)

And right now, you are spewing one lie after another. Things are not near as bad as you claim. It is bad, but not even close to the Great Depression. Once people stop fearing that things are catastrophic and rapidly getting worse, they will stop holding onto their money, laying off employees, and preparing for a difficult future. In the same way you used fear to accelerate the recession, you can use the lack of fear to decelerate it.

It is amusing how you use your deceptive tactics to make a joke of, and to criticize President Bush for what he said about our economy after 9/11, when he encouraged us to not allow the enemy to win and to go on with our lives as usual (go shopping, etc.). You twist it to make it sound like he took the issue so lightly and offered ignorant and freshman advice. What he understood and you completely miss is, the powers of REAL hope! Oh, you preach on a platform of hope but you live on the manipulative platform of fear.

If you tell the truth, and do it with the same hope that President Reagan administered so well, and even President Bush was able to do to some degree after 9/11, then things would begin to turn around! If you want to lie, then lie that things are looking up. After all, it what people "perceive" as truth that they respond to accordingly. People will begin to “live” and give, and thus, once again, over time, the economy will turn around instead of this present quick rolling snowball towards the very disaster you alone are creating with your manipulative parsing of highly offensive and totally partisan words, phrases, and piecemeal partial truths, married in to total lies and fabrications.

But, if we must have this Stimulus Bill, then its content should ALL be stimulating!! 100% of it should create jobs and eliminate fear with actual real help – jobs! Not just “work,” which is temporary, but jobs and various tax cuts which have longevity and propel our economy forward. It is not acceptable to fight the fear by “tricking” the American people with the “appearance” of helping, then loading your “spending bill” with so many irrelevant items that are not job creators – hence, stimulus. 40% tax cuts and 60% spending items, are not balanced if the spending part is not true stimulus, but loaded with pork or other items that can have the case made for them separate from this Bill, as it should be. If you fix the spending portion, you would have our support, even though we would prefer to not have this Bill at all or have you as our President. At least fix the Bill, Mr. President, and in spite of all else, including your lies, charm and personality, AND offensive speeches, you would have our support on the Bill! See how simple that is?

Now, I want to explain to you how your speeches are not winning us over. You give these highly rhetorical speeches about not being Red or Blue States but the United States, yet your actions never live up to your words. This is why, during this election more than ever, you alone can take credit for creating the clearly Divided States of America. If you want us to TRULY unite, then you will stop the partisan and deceptive lying and accusations against President Bush, conservatives and Republicans to defend YOUR side, Party, and points. If they are so credible, let them stand and speak for themselves.

Your defensiveness belies the truth: you are not about change; you are more of the same. The ONLY difference is you put an exclamation point where a period used to be at the end of your partisanship. You have made it worse and broadened a divide, all to win the Presidency, which you can’t seem to stop arrogantly announcing, over stating the obvious that doesn’t need repeating. We are clearly and painfully aware already. And now, you continue this same style of so-called “leading,” adding insult to injury, in order to “prove” your choices are right and better. If you were so confident that your way was right, you would not need to offensively badger and strong arm the other side. You are revealing yourself to be more of an immature, inexperienced leader, a dictator, in this way over your head, and this does not bode well for winning over the Red side.

Speaking of the Red 48%... This week you again harshly parsed the truth saying that the “American people have resoundingly spoken for change….” that you won. Reality Check Mr. President – NOT resoundingly… 48% of us (just under HALF the Country) is not resounding. It is a close call…. Our 48% hasn’t changed yet…. Further, the 48% are ALSO the American people you talk about… and you exclude and insult us instead of trying to win us over. If your bi-partisan rhetoric were sincere, you wouldn’t get defensive so quickly with your totally partisan speak. “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Remember that verse in the Bible you claim to live by? Your frustration has exposed the truth of your heart and motives, and it validates why we didn’t vote for you and why you can never win us over. Until YOU change, and your ideology changes (which would be the real change we could buy into), we will never be won over, never – period! Your campaigning this week is in vain. It serves to do the very opposite of which you hope to achieve. Oh yes, you will get your Bill passed. But you will accomplish nothing else.

Last, your condescending speeches, both last Thursday night, and again at your evening Press Conference last night, were the height of arrogance. Perry Bacon Jr., in the Washington Post, said so well, “He (you) turned to two of his favorite tactics used during his presidential campaign, blasting the record of George W. Bush and criticizing the "the cable chatter" and "distractions" that he feels bog down Washington.” I saw true arrogance in motion when you said the following:

"We're not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that in eight short years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin. We can't embrace the losing formula that offers more tax cuts as the only answer to every problem we face."

What a crock! In your own words, “I reject YOUR reasoning!” We already know the truth! Bush and Republican policies are NOT what got us into this trouble. Do you remember Freddie and Fannie? An issue that Democrats, including you, did nothing to acknowledge let alone support correcting? Do you remember 9/11? Do you remember what President Clinton handed over to President Bush aside the crash of the Dot Com era? Many things contributed to where we are now, but they have nothing to do with President Bush’s Policies and the Republican “formulas.” And if YOU were paying as much attention as I have been, you would know that conservatives do not look to tax cuts “only.” What a clever parsing of words once again. Tax cuts are a PART of successful policies – just look at President Reagan’s era and my point is proven.

My last question to you is (since we already know the truth): What is the urgency? What are you trying to hide and sweep up into your “Package?” Are they loopholes that secure power for your Party? You betcha!! I am appalled at the trickery that is starting to come to the fore, things which you WANT to be overlooked, hence, your urgency.

Oh yes, don’t even get me started on your “accountability and transparency!” You say these words out of your mouth, offer a scrap of evidence that you are speaking the truth, all the while you are the master of deception in hiding the truth. You are like an awesome car salesman! Just listening to your “take” on why we should go paperless with our Medical Records is hysterical and obvious. Oh yes, it sounds so good to do away with the “hassle” of all the clipboards and paperwork. But if you put our personal information online in a National Database, the truth is, not only does Government have access to PRIVATE information at anytime, this critical and very personal information becomes “hack able” at any time. I do not want to be this vulnerable and powerless EVER!!! The clipboards and paperwork are a SMALL price to pay for my security and privacy.

Yes, you have a way of selling YOUR Dictatorship Agenda to the American people by appealing to their “needs.” You are good, I give you credit for that. Unfortunately, you are so good that you are deceptive, hiding the truth inside your Trojan Horse. And the reason you do not like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, conservatives, and Fox News is because, not only do we have your number, Mr. President, but we have the courage to share the WHOLE truth! We are the only ones doing it, the only ones not catering to your whitewashed version of yourself and what you stand for.

Well, in your famous and hypocritical words (at the time you said them, considering YOU were the one doing the very things you accused Senator McCain of doing): ENOUGH!!! Stop lying, badgering, campaigning, manipulating, deceiving, and stop acting like a novice. If you are the President, then be Presidential and do what is right, FOR the people of America, regardless of any cost to you or your Party. (The Bible tells us that integrity does what is right and keeps its word, even to his own hurt.) Go home from the campaign trail and get to work in the Oval Office in which you stopped at nothing to reside.

Otherwise, with all due respect, Mr. President, shut up already. We are not dumb and we do not appreciate your insults. You are not winning over the other half of the Country. If you keep this up, you never will, that is a PROMISE you can believe in.

Sincerely,
A voice of the Red 48%

"Government Controlled 'Hope' Sucks - Literally!"

2009-10-19T16:53:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site February 19, 2009)

* This week, I have started and stopped writing many times, but have not been able to stick with one issue.... soooooo many of them and so much to say. Eventually, I will get to each one, but for today, I have decided that I will just offer a few nibbles of "food for thought...."

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

1) Personal Empowerment or Parent Trap?

Weren't we all grateful for growing up and the opportunity to finally get out on our own and live our own life, free of our respective Parents and "their" rules of home?

I get it that there is a trade off. Living at home comes with the benefit of being taken care of, but also with the price of having to abide by the rules. Moving out on our own comes with the benefit of living by our own rules, if you will, but with the price of having to take care of ourselves.

So, tell me, how many of us would go to live at our Parent's home again with the same price tag of "being told what to do" by them?

MORSEL: Why do we want to essentially do the same with Government? Seems many want Government to "take care" of them, but they ignore the HUGE price tag - they own you!

Any time you are financially beholden, you are not wholly free. Those who hold the deed to your house or car, etc., get to set the terms and call the shots until such a time that you have paid off the title/deed.

2) Power to the Government or Power to the People?

Government Officials are voted into Office BY the PEOPLE, to work FOR the PEOPLE.... They are called Public "SERVANTS" not Public Dictators. They are there to serve the PEOPLE - SERVE the people... So why are we acting like they RULE over the people? Why do we allow it? Further, why do we ENABLE it? Before THEY can be reminded as to who works for who, WE need to be reminded!!

MORSEL: ANY vote for those who impose "financial strings," whether it be through taxes or additinal "fees," etc., is a vote to enable Public SERVANTS to become Public Dictators.

It is like we are saying, "Welcome into my home, devil, and look, I have set the head place at my table just for you! COme in and totally rule and take over my life. As long as you take care of me, I am have to be your slave at all costs for all the days of my life!" Would we say this to our Parents? So why do we say it to our Government Officials through our votes and our ignorance?

I DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT TO OWN ME!!!! Less is more! Regardless of whether you are conservative or liberal, we are Americans and America is not about Dictatorship. Power to the PEOPLE!! NOT the Government!! They only have the power IF-WE-GIVE-IT-TO-THEM!!! So don't! PLEASE!!!!!

3) Stimulus Bill: Obama is Stimulated and WE get the "Bill!"

My summation of the "Stimulus Bill": Obama is stimulated (as he does exactly like Hitler did, building a bridge to Dictatorship plank by plank) and WE get the bill!

Does anyone realize that history is repeating itself? Does anyone realize that back in Hitler's day, in his Country, he was also hailed as the Miracle Man who was going to save the economy and save the Country? Millions of people had NO FLIPPING CLUE that they were like frogs being boiled alive!! They were so blinded by their desperation for SOMEONE to save them from the Depression.... No one could ever imagine that Hitler would ever do the things he did. It is unfathomable even today. I don't believe Obama wants to exterminate Conservatives "literally" but he most definitely wants to do so to our power.

MORSEL: The only reason History repeats is because we fail to learn from it. I happen to be one of those unfortunate people who doesn't have a neck long enough to reach the sand, so I am forced to face reality square in the face. Truth empowers us to do all we can to ensure history doesn't repeat itself - it absolutely does not have to!!

4) "Big Brother: Reality, NOT the TV Show" (This is Journal entry I am working on...)

Does anyone see the big picture here? Can you connect all of the dots and see a familiar theme? See some of the dots listed below? Does anyone really understand the true purpose behind them?

(I will share specifics as to how they work, what they do, and how the dots connect in the forthcoming Journal entry.)

- Card Check
- National Healthcare
- Financial Banks Bailout
- IRS/Tax rules
- Sewage Tax
- Smart Grid
- New GPS Car Systems
- Closing Gitmo

Let me tell you, Government wants to own your whole life!! All of these things, and more, are designed to OWN you, but they come packaged, like wolves in sheep's clothing, as "Bailing out the American People."

We are being sold a bill of goods! They say, "We will help you! We are so compassionate and we care about you! Let us just bail you out!! See how wonderfully kind we are ?" But they don't tell you the price tag - the truth! Which is: They don't give a flying flip about "helping!" They only care that you buy the lie so that you will vote for it - in the end, the noose of Dictatorship will be hung around your neck so fast, you will wonder when that happened.

Don't we look back at the Holocaust, and 9/11 and ask, how did this happen? When could we have stopped that train in time? I am telling you: RIGHT NOW!!!! While we still have time and we still have a chance, we must get our heads out of the sand and use the power of our votes and voices and not allow this to happen!!! We are still HALF of the Country and still have a say!!!Othewise, God help us all....

I am so discouraged by what has happened to our Country in just the last 30 days - I am HIGHLY concerned for what will become of us in 4 years.... All of the "hope" I already had is being sucked out of me on a daily basis.... Obama-maniacs are full of hope - they are sucking it away from us with their ignorance....

A Comparison to the Other "One"

2009-10-19T16:38:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on FB Site February 13, 2009)

**The first part of this is a copied article from the Heritage Foundation. After it, I include my thoughts for today, as it ties in to the article and ALL that has happened this week.

COPIED Article from the Heritage Foundation
2/13/09
An Open Letter to the Congress and President Obama

Today at 1:07pmFor the last 35 years, educators and analysts at The Heritage Foundation have been intimately involved in the nation's great public policy debates. In all that time, we have never encountered legislation with such far-reaching and revolutionary policy implications as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act currently before Congress. And never have we seen a bill more cloaked in secrecy or more withdrawn from open public exposure and honest debate.

In addition to being the single most expensive bill ever proposed, this measure calls for a massive expansion of the federal government's reach into the day-to-day life of virtually every citizen, business and civic organization in the nation. That, in itself, should be the subject of an extensive public conversation and thoughtful debate. Instead, we have seen Congressional leaders schedule snap votes on a 1,434-page bill that no one—repeat, no one—has had a chance to read in its entirety, much less digest and deliberate.

This bill has been advertised as an economic stimulus bill—despite the fact that the Congressional Budget Office estimates it will actually weaken our nation's long-term economic growth. While the stimulative utility of the bill is, at best, questionable, it would unquestionably rewrite the social contract between the American people and their government. For example:

• The bill reverses the bipartisan and highly successful welfare reforms of 1996 and drastically expands the welfare state. For instance, it will start rewarding states for adding people to their welfare rolls, rather than for helping them find gainful employment. And contrary to long-established practice, it will entitle able-bodied adults without children to receive cash assistance.

•It does extreme violence to the concept of federalism—bailing out states that have spent irresponsibly at the expense of taxpayers in states that have been fiscally prudent.

• It greatly shifts the responsibility and power over health care delivery and decision making from individuals to government. Among other things, it would create a new federal health board to decide which medical services are "effective" in America, paving the way for government effectively to overrule the clinical decisions of private physicians.

• It deliberately censors religious speech and worship on school campuses by prohibiting use of any "stimulus" funds for facilities that are used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school of divinity.

The list goes on. These and similar provisions will mean fundamental changes in our society. In many instances, the bill would establish policies that directly challenge widely held American values.

We are appalled that Congress is even contemplating such profound changes with so little openness and due diligence. In the past, major policy changes in our welfare system, or health care, or trade policies, etc., were always, quite properly, preceded by extensive public conversation and full debate. That is how a democracy should make important decisions.

The failure of Congress and the Administration to allow that debate is damaging to our democracy. Both chambers of Congress suspended their budget rules to push it along. And both the President and the leaders of the House and Senate have violated their solemn promises that the bill would be available for several days of public review prior to voting, so that the American people might have a chance to learn what is in the bill and to make their views known to their elected officials.

This reckless approach to governance can only undermine public faith in our elected officials and our government as a whole. We call on Congress and the Administration to live up to their promises and stated ideals, and give the democratic process a chance to work.

Ed Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation.
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I am going to make a bold point here. I expect diverse, and perhaps even adverse reaction to it, whether or not anyone chooses to voice it. However, thoughts I have believed for over a year are now coming to pass, and doing so at a far more expedient pace than I even imagined possible. This frenzy gives me pause and cause to believe that perhaps where this "train" is leading is a location that does not bode well for this Country. God forbid I am anywhere near correct, but if I am, EVEN remotely, we are better served to smell the smoke from the fires burning afar, and do something about it while we still have the time and power to do so.

One word: Hitler. Oh I know, this is LOADED, so let me be clear what I am NOT talking about. It is not human extinction as was horrifically enacted upon the Jews. But it is extinction of our Country as we know it, and the tactics "appear" to be coming from the familiar Hitler Playbook. As in the beginning days of Hitler's reign, when no one could have imagined what was to come, not even I want to come near believing anything like that (conservative, Christian extinction) could, let alone slowly IS happening here in America. But the sad truth, so far as the evidence reveals, the paths are parallel. It is the whole "frog in the kettle" analogy. (At the end of this will be another article by Glenn Beck, who validated what I have been feeling all along, using another well articulated analogy.) You know how it goes: Put a frog in boiling water and he will jump right out. Put him in cold water and slowly simmer to a boil and the frog will never even notice, and thus, be boiled to death. I don't want to be THAT frog, and I do not want Americans to be that frog either. We need to smell the smoke we can't yet see. The stench of it is in my nostrils and I can't help but follow it to find out from where it is originating and do something about it while it is still a campfire. God forbid it ever has a chance to become a Hitler-like wildfire.

The Democratic Party/liberal victory and "agenda" are more than meets the eye. They are more than a new Party in Office and the enactment of the "things" they want to do with which we may not agree. Oh no, this is different this time. There is WAY more going on here and it behooves us to stand up and not only take notice, but take action. My firm belief has always been that President Obama is a Trojan Horse loaded with things that vast Americans obviously refuse to see. When he was inaugurated, I wanted with all of my heart to believe that perhaps I could be wrong after all. It is my nature to want our President to succeed FOR THE COUNTRY, regardless if he is my choice or not. From Day 1, the doors of the Trojan Horse have opened letting free the REAL "change" hidden inside. Within the first 3 weeks of his time in Office, he has moved at a record and deceptive pace (so fast that it has prevented me from keeping up on my Journal, trying to figure out what to address, how much, etc. It has been overwhelming - part of the effective plan but a subject I will address later.) that I have to quickly accept that, much to my chagrin, the "change that has come to Washington," is not anything we should be excited about let alone accept. Quite honestly, I feel like Alice, having just fallen down the "rabbit hole" into the proverbial "wonderland." Like Alice, I want out and I want out - NOW.

I have spent a very long time studying Hitler, specifically how he took patient, deliberate, and educated baby steps, using the "legal" system at the time, to effect a change that resulted in his dictatorship and a complete change to the face of the existing Government of his time. Every day for the past 3 weeks, I have watched President Obama and the Democratic Party, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, begin to execute a very similar, and clearly, a patiently constructed plan that will ensure that the liberal Left will rule America and shut out conservatives forever. Ironic how President Bush's Executive Orders designed to effectively protect America from terrorism on our soil was perceived as him being a war-mongering dictator. What is happening now, within ONLY the first 3 weeks, goes beyond the pale! And if this is a foretaste of what is to come, we should all consider ourselves sufficiently forewarned!

The REAL urgency of passing the so-called "Stimulus Package" is to mask the hidden agenda of a slow and progressive take-over, and the fact that the Bill itself serves to finance those plans. Additionally, I believe the money also serves to "pay back" all entities who contributed in helping President Obama get elected. But this "Stimulus Package," which contains little actual stimulus at all, a package even the CBO said will cause long term economic injury, comes under the cover of "rescuing our failing economy" and "meeting the desperate needs of the less fortunate people," so that anyone opposing it is perceived as the enemy. Sound familiar? The Bible tells us that the devil himself "appears as an angel of light, so that if possible, he could deceive even the very elect." President Obama ran his whole campaign on deception and lies, and continues his march forward with the same smoke and mirrors, bait and switch, and slight of hand (look over here while I do this other thing over there) tactics. He has blatanly lied, and has done so with such audacity and skill that it boggles those of us who know the truth and can (and have) proven him wrong. By now, what he says, and the far left agenda he is fulfilling, is no surprise. It is the pace of its execution which is alarming.

After making Americans beholden to the Government (i.e. create a financial need for which Govt provides the solution - Auto bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Wall Street Bailouts, etc./Nationalizing Banks, the Auto Industry) and I will talk about President Bush's part in this later), through the "generated crisis" to which VP Biden himself alluded (remember?), they will Nationalize everything like Health Care, Union Rule (card check), shutting down the conservative voice through a new "Fairness Doctrine," shutting the voice of Religion (also hidden in the Stimulus Package), Moving the Census to the President's Office, etc. They are doing everything they can to ensure that Liberals will rule America forever. They are shackling the conservative half of America in every "legal" and illiegal avenue they can, and doing so with unabashed deception and trickery in order to accomplish this! Never mind that the expansion of Government, and it's interference upon free will, is exactly why our Forefathers painstakingly and carefully framed the Constitution - because they feared becoming the Country they just left and fought a Revolution from which to become forever free.

The liberals have been angry ever since Al Gore and then Senator Kerry were both beat in the past 2 Presidential elections. I really believe that they were blindsided by the conservative voice during that time. It is as if, with the ushering in the era of all things "Clinton," they believed they had erased conservatioves from America forever. All that is going on now is a response to that; it is all in an effort to ensure that Republicans/conservatives will never rule in Office or the House ever again. They don't want to go through what they have gone through the past 8 years, feeling "cheated" of a "throne" they believe they are entitled to rule. Add to this a new President who, as far back at 10 years ago that we know of (you can find the video on YouTube if you have not yet seen and heard it), believes our very Constitution is flawed and therefore must be "updated" to fit "21st Century America," and you are looking at the emergence of a skillful American Dictator. Don't forget he is a Constitutional Lawyer. An oxymoron but nevertheless, he knows EXACTLY how to legally (and even illegally) work around the Constitution to make a Democratic Dictatorship (centralized, authoritarian Government) possible. He even has a legion of "frogs" willing to help make this happen - just like Hitler. (I will chronicle Hitler's legal rise at a forthcoming Journal entry.)

I am not saying any of this to add to the fear mongering. Nor am I anywhere near a Conspiracy Theorist. Yet, we cannot simply turn a blind eye and go back to sleep until the next Presidential Election. If we do not wake up, if we do not stomp the campfires, and if we do not DO ALL we can to thwart this march towards Liberal Dictatorship, THEN we ought to fear. And I am not willing to even consider THAT outcome. The evening of Election Day, when President Obama won, I had more clarity than I ever had before. Also, I had a premonition-like vision of the potential future of our Country... the potential of a new Civil War, as we have not been so passionately and clearly divided since then. (I wrote a letter that night to my fellow conservatives entitled, "We Mourn," sharing some of this sentiment, that I may share here one day.) I PRAY in earnest that we do not come to that. But rest assured, if we continue down this accelerating path, it will be a necessary evil. And like our Forefathers who gave their lives for this amazing Country, I am willing to do all I can with my life to do the same. Tyranny and Dictatorship are NOT acceptable - period. NOW is the time to be clear and informed, and now is the time to stand up and fight for our awesome Country as we never have before in our lifetime. Now is the time, while we still HAVE time. I can't even allow myself to consider anything else.

"Media Twister: The Liberal Spin Zone"

2009-10-19T16:33:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted on my FB Site January 30, 2009)

Enough is enough! I was one of the unfortunate unemployed until recently. I had several months during the election season in which I occupied my time with 2 things: looking for work, and following CLOSELY the election.

After putting in my time earnestly looking for work (this was my full time job), I spent the remainder of my time reading, studying, watching, listening to, comparing, researching, and examining everything and everyone. I had a front row seat to educate myself and watch exactly how it is all done. I have to tell you, I was ashamed for allowing myself to not see 100% the big picture until now. I am a "big picture down to the details" person, so this reveals the depth of my own "bad." I was even more totally shocked by the audacity of what I saw! It was almost surreal to experience because it was so shamelessly blatant and obvious! It has been said that if you repeat any lie often enough, it becomes the truth others believe. I watched this in living color!! With all the spin I was surprised they weren't as dizzy as I was!!

It has not been enough to try to explain, so I got smart and began to tape things so people can see and hear for themselves. I am a big proponent of not being spoon fed, as much as within our own personal power to not be.

In recent days, a fresh wave of "garbage" and "spin" has begun with MoveOn.org running a shameless attack ad on Republicans. Not only have they ignored all the facts, everything said in the ad is 100% false! They even go as far as to swoop Rush Limbaugh up in this, kind of a 2-fer, and use his words, OUT OF CONTEXT COMPLETELY, to help make their point (of lies.)

Thus, I will be utilizing this section to expose the "spin" and tell the truth. Following are some links that speak for themselves, including MoveOn.org's youtube video and Rush's response to it.

Let me also say, I happened to watch, AND tape, Rush's interview with Sean Hannity, from where the context of the conversation was extracted. The article included with the second link explains the rest, as far as the actual attack of lies against the Republican Party.

My only additional comment on this one is this: This kind of ad does ZERO to help anyone! It does not endear Republicans and conservatives to Obama and his point of view. Using this venue, hypocritical and self serving, to paint Repubs and conservatives as complete self serving and clueless idiots does NOT propogate truth and thus doesn't help anyone! Truth is all that helps and the constant barage of spin and lies like this are THE things dividing our Nation and causing rancor between left and right, blue and red, whatever. In an effort to "smear" the opposition, they ONLY effectively and clearly expose themselves.

I am done with the Left controlled media "defining" who conservatives are, what we believe, and why. I am DONE with them speaking for me/us! How could they possibly know??!!! They don't think like we do or even bother trying to understand. If they had any clue at all, then this would become a non-issue!! Speak for themselves but stop speaking for me/us! We are capable of speaking for ourselves.

So, I will untwist the lies and spin while also accurately and truthfully representing the conservative point of view and all that encompasses. Now, you can lead a horse to water... All I can do is tell the truth. It is a reflection on themselves if they don't have the ears to hear, but my hope is, maybe some will. Hope in the RIGHT things is always good, and thank God I have never lost that!

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCdoeynljb0
2) http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/01/dems-throwing-more-fuel-on-republican-fire/