What I'm Thankful for.

Whenever we get food for thought, wherever it comes from, we need to be thankful for our wonderful country...Some say I can't say that; after all, isn't America responsible for all great evils in this world.? What, with Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, aren't we the meanest people on the planet?

At this time in 2008 aren't we closer to Nazi Germany than to the America poets wrote about.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/figures-obama-compares-us-to-nazi.html

Aren't we the land of the free... oops can't say that...the oppressed live in America and the "Messiah" has come to level the playing field. He's going to "spread the wealth".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqI5PSRcXM

Our Financial institutions are the strongest in the world...oops...can't say that. We've just had the 2008 financial meltdown.

With all our problems how could anyone in their right minds love the United States of America. How can America survive? How could any of us be proud of America and say so.

Well I can!

I am proud to call this land my home and fortunate, beyond what my words can convey, to abide here. We have our problems but we are still the greatest nation on the earth! We can pray, freely to God, or whatever higher power we believe in. We don't have to believe at all, but that's America.

We are not Nazi Germany! Not even close. Other countries accuse of of torture and mayhem when they do worse to their own people and countrymen. We are transparent. We shine a light on our short comings. They hide their misdeeds in dark places and keep their citizens in fear.

We still help our neighbors when they are in trouble and our families when they are in need. As Americans, we give more...freely, from our hearts. We give in times of emergency or of national disasters. We give, not just money, but hands to help and minds to solve problems. We give in love to our friends and families every day, not just birthdays or holidays. We even give to the rest of the world.

We are many people from many places who have come together to form that perfect union, or as the constitution says, a "more perfect union". We are constantly changing, yet, still the same. The same great Nation our mothers and fathers taught us to love. The country people come to when they want to live free and dream big.

There are rumbling from some voices in our country that say they want to change our constitution, to make it fit their views, make it more like their beliefs and notions. They had better study history. We fight for what we believe in.

We self correct when needed with amendments to our constitution. We right wrongs for great issues like the women's right to vote and minorities rights to live, side by side, with the same rights as all Americans. Those changes are fought for with struggle and sweat and voted on so that it takes two thirds of our people to make any change. It takes votes from the majority of people in at least 29 states to add an amendment to the constitution.

Change doesn't happen quickly in America although thought moves more quickly today with all our forms of communication. Thats the important thing, to share thoughts and dreams. Most of us don't bully others to get our way. We exchange ideas and debate our views. All while still loving our county.

It's because we live in America that we can express our opinions to others. If we lived in some other countries in the world we could be silenced for expressing our views. Not just silenced verbally but permanently.

Free Speech, Free thought, Free expression. That is why I love America and why I am thankful for her. Scores of others men and women from all walks of life and diversity of thought have expressed their love of America. Here are just a few.

Ronald Regan said:

"And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."

Carl Sandburg wrote:

"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."

Henry Ford II wrote:

"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."

John Adams wrote:

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

Lyndon B. Johnson wrote:

"This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith."

Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"

William J. Clinton wrote:

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

Wendell L. Wilkie wrote:

"I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true."

Mary McCarthy wrote:

"The happy ending is our national belief."

Felix Frankfurter wrote:

"We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights."

Lee Greenwood wrote in his great anthem:

"And I'm proud to be an American,
Where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men who died,
Who gave that right to me
And I'll proudly stand up next to him
to defend her still today,
Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA"

We are a patchwork of humanity that forms the quilt of lives bound to a great purpose. To keep freedom, liberty and justice not just words said, but deeds practiced, everyday and in generations to come. May we be thankful for the promise that is the United States of America.

Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans.

Killing the American Dream

The One Worlders’ didn’t have to defeat the United States with a bullet or a bomb, they’ve done it with the ballot box.

America has done itself in and put the most radical Congress, Senate and President in place probably for the next eight years and beyond. I don’t care how mad you were at the Bush administration, Democrats and every person who voted for Barak Obama and the new Congress; have unwittingly given the radicals in the United Nations and the United States Congress the tools to dismantle the US economy and its military position in the world. We are in for an era of higher taxes, more stringent environmental controls and less freedom and greater danger from our enemies.

Australia has been in the grips of major drought for more than a decade and some in their government are pushing for world wide restrictions on water usage through the UN. This is happening right now in Australia with the waterless toilet initiative, the toilet flush tax and the limit to the use of water in general. They want to restrict how many loads of laundry you do, how many times you use your toilet, how many showers you take and for how long, no dishwashers, no car washes, no water parks, less air conditioning and the list goes on.

Senator Barney Franks who brought us the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle has put a kink in the bailout for the auto industry insisting that there needs to be more “regulation” by congress in the way auto makers run their companies and make their cars. The Greenies are going to have their wildest dreams come true. You think Americans don’t like American cars now, wait till you see what happens when congress designs our vehicles!

Franks wont hold the unions accountable for driving up car prices with higher and higher wages and benefits for workers. This is not the workers fault. Yes, they have benefited from the union negotiations but they have little control over what’s asked for by the Union.

Auto Executives stubbornly hoard their executive power in an unabashedly brazen spectacle of arrogance by flying on their corporate jets to meet with Congress and that’s the only thing Congress can focus on. Congress has never taken an honest look at itself. There are enough Prima Donnas on the Capital Hill to make the executives of any company seem less culpable for their actions.

If the auto makers are allowed to go under then literally thousands of American workers and thousands who are retired will loose their income and health care. Hundreds of related industries will go under as a result of the Auto Makers demise. Steel and metal manufacturers of which there are a scant few left in this country will go under or leave the country. Companies that manufacture parts, batteries, seat belts, car seats, nuts, bolts and rivets that support automobile manufacturing will go under.

This is a crisis of epic proportions!

America is careening down a road that takes us away from true free market capitalism and we are being led into a China-like capitalistic socialism. Most Americans don’t even know what that means.

If we value our freedoms we had better WAKE UP!

Things like "Seeing the USA in our Chevrolet" and taking long hot showers and having green lawns will be a thing of the past. The American Dream, however we define it, will be a distant memory for all of us.

Good bye United States of America.

Hello United States of Socialist America ...

and you thought it could never happen.

Acorn and Why it Must Be Stopped

From the ACORN training manual:

“This is a mass organization directed at political power
where might makes right”

On voter registration:

“In 1970 Wade Radke went to a meeting with the political director of the Republican Party in Arkansas. Wade offered to trade boots for funds in the election. They thought they were going to register Republicans.

“of course, they thought we were going to register Republicans. We did not register a single Republican voter in that election. However, we did use those resources early on to build the organization … That money enabled us to hire our first organizer after me.”

Founding ACORN Organizer Gary Delgado

For a comprehensive report on what ACORN really is,
you must read this 27 page article:
http://rottenacorn.com/downloads/060728_badSeed.pdf

ACORN is as close as you can get to a Racketeering scheme that just skirts the law. It appears to break the law over and over again but stays legal by using laws governing non profit organizations when in fact most of the hundreds of ACORN or ACORN affiliated organization are nothing more than a way to enrich Wade Radke, a union organizer, and his family. The Radke family is profiting wildly from the misuse of ACORN and it‘s hundreds of tentacles.

See the above article for some eye opening reading. The information is all footnoted and easy to confirm. They (ACORN) are not only involved in voter fraud, but in Union fraud, political fraud and Housing fraud. They may be partly responsible for the credit crisis we now find ourselves in. ACORN used its clout to secure loans for families that did meet even the most liberal loan practices in the housing debacle and extracted a fee for every client they serviced as well as a membership fee for ACORN from those clients.

ACORN is one of the main supporters of the crusade to unionize Wal Mart employees or destroy Wal Mart in the process with the aim, if they are successful at unionizing Wal-Mart, to use that model to unionize Lowes, Home Depot, Sears etc. and other retailers.

They have been involved in most local and national lobbying to advance the minimum wage which is driving small businesses out of exsistance and at the same time are guilty of mistreating their employees, requiring them to turn in a minimum of 200 voter registrations a day while working employees in excess of 90 hours in a seven day week. They don’t pay earned wages on a timely basis and it appears most chapters make up their own rules on payday and employee issues.

Related articles from around the web:

Radke's Blog:
http://www.chieforganizer.org/

Prior years known of fraud
http://www.rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html

Inside Obama’s Acorn
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=

The ACORN “Foundations”
http://www.acornhousing.org/index.php

Mischelle Malkin’s Great article:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/25/the-acorn-obama-knows/

Kansas City Indictments Against ACORN workers
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009189

Blog Post with footnoted links:
There's My Two Cents!
http://www.theresmytwocents.com/2008/10/cracking-obamessiahs-nut-acorn.html

Las Vegas Voter Fraud...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/07/acorn_nevada_offices_raided.html

A communist connection to Acorn:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

A Must Read about Obama's Philosophy and Political Rise in Chicago:(Use the links in the article to see more indepth information on Obama)
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/31/conspiracy-of-the-lemmings-barack-obama-and-the-strategy-of-manufactured-crisis-part-ii/

There are hundreds of eye opening articles on the web. Just Google “ACORN”

Interesting side note from our "friends" in the Communist Party USA:http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/858/1/39/

Compiled by Gayle Brown