Tea Party Patriots, Now the Hard Work Begins...

This is a message to my Tea Party friends and all those in this fight whether they participate actively or not.

I am hearing an undercurrent, out there, that is calling for a "third party" to be established. This is an idea whose time may have come, in theory. It is a definitely an idea that needs to be explored. However, I would like to add a few words of caution, we must be extremely careful.

Let me pre-qualify my statements by telling you I am currently a registered Republican. Before last November I had been registered in the Reform Party, started to support Ross Perot, so I know a little something about third parties. My husband and I worked very hard in Mr Perot's campaign here in the Kansas City area. We were very disappointed in the way things turned out but still happy that we participated.

I know many Republicans blamed the Perot movement for George Herbert Walker Bush's defeat in the 1992 elections that gave us Bill Clinton. I believed that President Bush Sr, did himself in when he scared the beejeebies out of all of his conservative support with his elitist rhetoric of a "New World Order".

I can remember, for me, the precise moment President Bush Sr. lost my support in his campaign against Bill Clinton in 1992. This video, filmed during the National Grocers Association convention, was used during the election to portray Bush as an elitist snob. Too bad it was a big lie.



I let my anger at Bush's "elitism" cloud my opinion and it determined my vote for Perot. I was fooled and so was my Husband. I don't know, if I had found out about the lie before the election, that it would have made any difference, but the point is this, the incident probably cost George H.W. Bush reelection.

According to Snopes.com the story was false. It was manufactured by the New York Times. Imagine that. Times reporter, Andrew Rosenthal, who wasn't even at the Convention, exploited a news pool report from the National Grocers Association convention by turning it into an embellished, New York Times, front page story. The rest is history. It shows how one small incident can be used to manipulate an entire electorate to win elections.
We have to be smarter than that.

I re-registered my party preference and started attending Republican Party meetings last November because I wanted some structure in my political life. The Independent Party didn't provide that and the Reform Party is dying. I knew the Libertarian Party was an option but I though I needed a bigger foundation.

I didn't like the way the Republican Party was weaseled into nominating John McCain, the closest Republican clone to Obama, by the Left Wing media. It was Sarah Palin who converted me. I am hoping to make a difference along with all the other Conservative Bloggers in the 2010 elections as well as in the next Presidential election.

We have no National Press that isn't in the pocket of the Democratic Party so it will be left with the few media outlets like Fox News and Newsmax magazine , as well as talk radio to carry our message.

Our secret weapon will be the Bloggers! We need to hold the GOP's feet to the fire so they will nominate viable candidates, who support smaller government, less spending, a strong defense, and someone who can win. We need to defend free speech and talk radio from the insidious attacks coming from the Left in the House and Senate.

As Conservatives, Libertarians and Republicans we need to be united behind a National party next year. There simply is not enough time to go through the process of getting third party people on the various state ballots and elected. We simply don't have the resources to fight the Democrats as independents without splitting the Republican Party again and guaranteeing the Democrats a victory. That is what the Democrats are counting on. Divide and Conquer.

We have to get involved in our local Republican Parties and support good candidates. We can't let the Elites back east dictate the direction of the Republican Party any longer. We have to step up and it means we have to begin now. It is going to mean a lot of hard work or as the Dems put it "Boots on the Ground".

We are going to have to use the old Media when we can and the New Media extensively. We have to be very smart and savvy with the new ways of communication. Do we need slick logos and and snappy campaign slogans. Probably, but we can't just copy Obama. We can however use his template.

I urge each and every one of you that read my Blog to reach out to your friends and neighbors and band together, become an Activist, to save this Nation that we love. This is the season of picnics and Bar B Ques. We can use these small events to get other people involved.

The people who still support Obama need to be educated. The need to be shown what the results of Obama's policies are and what they are doing to businesses, large and small. If our Small Businesses start to fail any faster there won't be jobs for anyone. If Obama keeps demonizing Big Business and grabbing control of huge parts of the Business sector there will be even fewer jobs and no tax revenue streams to exploit. Unfortunately we are next on that tax food chain.

Not everyone is reachable. Obama supporters either have an unnatural affection for the man or are just plain misinformed. All I am saying is we need to put one issue politics away for a few seasons. If we stand together we will not fail.

Obama did not, contrary to what people believe, win the last election by a landslide in the popular vote. Out of 129.5 million votes there was only a 9.5 million vote difference. The electoral vote was the landslid. Obama spent most of his money and time in high electoral vote states and received 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173 for his efforts. He campaigned smart.

Some of those states will be hard to wrestle from Obama but, with each day, the evidence mounts that his policies are eroding his support. California's Proposition 8 vote should be noted. It was a shot across Obama's bow. We need to help conservative voices in that state keep the momentum going.

Please consider my words. Lets exchange ideas and form an unbeatable team. America is worth the work. I don't believe this situation can't be changed.

We can be the change that defeats the "Change" and brings all Americans Hope!

Obama to Sieze Control of the Internet!

Hail the new Czar!

President Obama is going to appoint a new position in the White House, the Internet Czar, later this week to better police Cyber-crime against Government networks and seize tighter control of private networks. This is the first real attempt by our Government to take control of something that has been a wild west of information and has not been heavliy limited....until now. According to the Washington Post in an article by Ellen Nakashima...

President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.

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The recommendations are based on a 60 day review of the next steps in Cyber-security and sources report members will be appointed to a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This independent executive branch agency was created by Congress in 2007.

It seemes the Administration will try to control all aspects of our lives whether we want them to or not. Obamacreep is the name I've coined to keep track of the ever expanding need for the Federal Government to control everything it can get it's hands on. Batten down your Broadband Boys and Girls, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Thomas Paine's Open Letter to President Obama

This video was posted a few days ago by "Thomas Paine", i.e. Bob Basso, the great American Character Actor, with an emphasis on "character". It is an answer to the internet rumor about Thomas Paine being summoned to the White House. The answer is...

These are words, that express better than I ever could, the feelings and anxiety that all of us, as Americans, are experiencing since the meltdown of the American Dream. I only hope that President Obama will listen to this man, this Thomas Paine of the current era.

Alas, I don't think he will. President Obama has shown little inclination to compromise on any subject. He seems to think he, and only he, has all the answers to America's problems. He refuses to see that actions taken by the Congress and initiated or approved by the White House have been the cause of our rapid decline. He is supremely confident that his actions have saved America. Any blame that Obama should accept as his own is aimed at the Bush Administration.

The President can only say things are getting better for so long without taking responsibility for the current mess that we are in. Reckless spending has been the hallmark of this very new Administration. You can't give away trillions of dollars and plan to spend billions more without consequences. Someone is going to notice, and somebody is.

His supporters are finally starting to understand the position Obama has put us in. His personal popularity is still high but it has sllowly fallen since the election. His policies are starting to be challened by his supporters. Ina new Zogby Poll his Policies in certain areas are starting to show loss of support in amazing areas. The poll was conducted using only people who voted for Obama.

On Gun Control 50% of his supporters say they want current gun laws enforced instead of enacting new lasws. 65 % of Obama voters think that Sailors and Merchant Marines should be armed when operating off the coast of Somalia.

48% of supporters want a Free Market Economy as opposed to only 28% want the Government to continue on it's current path towar Socilism. One of the largest number of Obama voters to go against an Administration idea of allowing President Obama to sieze control of the Internet in the event of an emergency. 70% of his supporters balked at this proposal that was introduced by four Senators last week. The bill dosen't specify what constitutes an emergency. As Rahm says, "never waist a good crisis".

The poll is a fascinating read. Six months from now, when the shit really hits the fan I wonder where those numbers will be?

I think this next video is worth seeing again... It is a Thank You from Thomas Paine to the Tea Party Patriots and a new call for a Million "We the People" March to Washington...

Be Proud of Your Efforts...We Are the New Patriots!
Stand Up for America!

Happy Memorial Day...

This greeting has always perplexed me. This is such a solemn Holiday. A remembrance of fallen heroes and family members that have passed away. It was always taken very seriously in our home when I was young and it had great meaning for our Family.

My family (years before I was born) was a three star family. That meant that three of my mother's brothers were in the service during the Second World War, Uncle Gene was a pilot in the Army Air Core, Uncle Chuck was in Patton's Army and died in France. My Uncle Pinkie was in the Navy and experienced the attack at Pearl Harbor. He was later killed in one of the Pacific battles near Guam in 1945.

Friends and family would arrive at our house early in the morning and we would all go to the various Cemeteries to visit our passed loved ones and then everyone would return to my Family's tiny four room house to visit and tell stories about our loved ones. That sounds like a somber day. But it wasn't...

My Aunts and Uncles and cousins would come back to the house and in no time flat we kids would run out to our orchard and plant flags under the old pear tree. It had really long, thick branches that spread out at odd angles, it was the oldest tree in the orchard and it was my climbing tree.

It was the first tree my Mother's parents planted when they purchased the five acres of gently sloping ground and built the small house where my family lived. I never knew my Grandparents but they were very alive to me because of all the stories my Parents, Aunts and Uncles told, not just on Memorial Day, but on every Holiday or visit.

My Grandparents had planted a medium sized Orchard and a Berry Patch at the back of our land. That's were all my cousins, friends and I played until it was time for "the feast".

My Dad and my Uncles would set out picnic tables and benches made out of concrete blocks for legs and planks for the tabletops and bench seats. Mom would break out all of her nicest tablecloths. I still remember helping her iron the tablecloths for days before any holiday. There were crisp white brocade ones, gingham ones that had red or blue and white checks. My favorite were the floral ones with cabbage roses and ivy.

My mother was a Caterer part-time for our Neighbors and Family. She did not disappoint the relatives with her picnic lunches. She would fry scrumptious chicken in her big cast iron skillets. We raised the Chicken's and my Uncle Jiggs, who was a Butcher, would dress them for us.

My Mom also made the worlds best potato salad. She would have molasses baked beans and pies and cakes of Devils Food and creamy white and whatever delights everyone else would bring. The Picnic tables were crowded with food, Relatives and good memories. We thanked God for the feast and the great abundance. This was America in the 1950's. We celebrated the day as a day of remembrance and a day of feast.

After the meal my Aunts and Uncles would take blankets down to the Pear Tree and get comfortably seated under it's protective branches around the flags. My Mother would bring down the family Bible as my Dad helped all the kids up into the Pear Tree.

We would sit straddle legged on the branches and listen as my Mother would read from the Bible. The front of the Bible had the Family history and as she read each name the others would start telling stories about them and so it went. The tapestry of my Family lives was laid out before us.

As kids those things seemed less important to us. The memories took second place to the pies and cakes, the playing and climbing. The climbing during the story time would bring quick reproach from the all the Moms who didn't want us to fall and break a leg or arm. We had a few of those over the years.

It seems odd to me today why my extended family doesn't hold to the traditions our Parents made for us. I don't remember when the gatherings stopped. I haven't heard from anyone in my family today or this weekend, except my husband and my sister-in-law, they live with me. In awhile I will pick up the phone and call some of them. Many won't be home. Many won't want to talk for long and I will be left...with my Memorial Day memories for another year.

Thank God for those memories. Thank God for my family. Thank God for our Nation and all the Heroes and Patriots that have died for her. I pray the the Lord keeps our Nation strong and safe but I feel like something is missing in America today.

I feel that God has called me for a higher purpose at this point in my life. I would never have become an activist if it were not for this President. He is a man who has different views and aspirations for this nation than I do. I pray for him everyday and I hope God lifts the cloud over his eyes so he can see the real damage he is doing to our country.

The Tea Parties and the 9-12 Project are a real asset to America. Maybe not to the people who were sent to represent us in Washington D.C. They aren't doing their jobs. They don't want to hear from us. But I bet they are getting our message. I, We will no longer accept the status quo. There is too much Government in too few hands with too many bureaucrats making too many decisions about how we live our lives.

I pray that these men and women in Washington D.C. won't trash the legacy of our War dead and our past Generations. We must not let the final chapter of America be written as an epitaph for another Memorial Day.

Stand Up! Remember what America was and is; a light in a very dark world, with liberty and justice for all.

God Bless all Patriots...living or dead.

Flood the Halls...Make the Calls against ACES (HR2454)

Please if you have time today or this weekend, e-mail and call your Senators and Congresspeople, to ask them to vote NO on the Bill, HR2454, or as it's called, ACES.

It is the largest transfer of American wealth in history and the money will go to a cabal of domestic and foreign investors and multi-national companies who stand to make Trillions of dollars off the back of the American people.

Please, before another fraud is perpetrated on the American people call your Congressmen and Senators and ask then to vote NO. This Bill affects all of us so I am providing Kansas & Missouri Residents with the following Contact information. Just click on the links to send e-mails or get phone numbers.

Nancy Pelosi

Harry Ried

Kansas Representatives

Dennis Moore

Jerry Moran

Lynn Jenkins

Todd Tihart

Missouri Representatives

Todd Akin

Roy Blunt

Russ Carnahan

Willian Lacy Clay

Emanuel Cleaver II

Jo Ann Emerson

Sam Graves

Blaine Luetkemeyer

Ike Skelton

Kansas Senators

Sam Brownback

Pat Roberts

Missouri Senators

Kit Bond

Claire McCaskill

This bill is part of, what may be, a world wide criminal enterprise (one might even say conspiracy) between people who financially supported Barak Obama during the election and who are now being financially rewarded. Part of this scheme was the necessary takeover, by this Administration, of General Motors and Chrysler. The government needs the the existing infrastructure of the automakers so they can be "quickly" retooled for green automobile production.

This is another huge tax increase on the American People in more ways than ANYONE understands even one of the Senators that wrote the bill HR2554 in the first place...



Even if you read the just the Summary of this bill, you realize it's all about electric cars, electric transmission lines, carbon credits (taxes), Grid 2.0, Smart Meters and Government control of our lives. This is a bill that must be passed to fulfill the agenda of Obama's masters, the money people, like GE's Jeffery Immelt and George Soros, who's ideas may be behind every piece of legislation the Democrats have put into law this year and for at least the last two years.

The bill will raise energy prices immediately by 6% to 20% over the next ten years and this is just the know consequences stated in black and white in the bill. The unintended consequences of this bill is not understood but it could destroy other's industries that Obama promised to "tax out of existence", the Coal Industry for one. It will hurt Farmers and drive up food prices. It will expand the Federal Governments immenient domaine rights over those of the States. It will render null, the ability of each State to determine what is best for it's people and resources.



This bill will regulate every facet of American life. This bill legislates climate theory as fact. It gives foreign entities influence over American energy use, manufacturing, daily life, monetary policy. It makes Global Warming a money making enterprise for the Al Gore's and George Soros' of this world.

This transfer of wealth from the American taxpayer is not just to benefit the poor in America but to transfer of the wealth of America to the Global Masters of a One World Government. This redistributive intent has been in Obama's plans since he was a State Senator in Illinois. This is from a Public Radio interview in Chicago in 2001. He didn't believe the time was right for Redistribution back then.



What changed his mind? As Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, said "Never waist a good crisis". There was looming housing crisis in 2007 and 2008 brought on by policies encouraged by Obama and the Democrats since their takeover of The House and Senate in 2006. The mortgage regulations were being manipulated to make it possible for poor, under-employed people and illegal immigrants to purchase homes with Federal money from Freddie and Fanny. Loans that in most cases couldn't be paid back. This led to the financial meltdown.

The oil crisis came at the critical moment in the Presidential election last August. McCain had just pulled ahead of Obama in the Presidential polls and at that exact moment the price of a barrel of oil shot up dramatically. Unknown "Commodity Speculators" drove the price of oil up to $140 a barrel. The Housing Crisis abruptly escalated about the same time and the election's results were a Fete de Compli.

At some future date historians will write about the corruption in the Presidential election of 2008. They will report about how the spiderweb of deceit, lies and corruption helped elect a President of the United States. One who would deliver the American people into unimaginable debt with the help of a manipulated crisis and corrupt organizations such as ACORN. These events usurped the rights of every man, woman and child in America.

For now, the Powers-that-be are rushing through Congress every possible bill , to become the laws that will control every thing we do in America. They will control what we eat, where we live, what kind of car we drive. They will control what kind of energy we will be allowed to use. If you smoke you will pay a heavy tax. If you use oil or gas you will pay a heavy tax. If you drink soda pop or eat a candy bar you will be taxed. If you are overweight you will pay a higher rate for your health insurance. If you are old, the Government will decide if you are valuable enough for the State to allow you to receive life saving medical procedures. The Government will control your life and death.

This is real and it's happening to your future now!

Are you content to just sit back and let the Genocide of America happen? We must stand up now and put a stop to this Administration's plans to make us all slaves to the Federal Government. Our very way of life is at stake. We must support State's Rights and the Sovereignty movements now, to protect the rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution, before it's too late.

Wake up! Stand Up! Take back our Country!

Time for Roto Rooter in Congress...

In Nancy Pelosi's words "We have to drain the Swamp". Ms. Pelosi is correct and she should go down the drain first!



Then Non-Representative Murtha...



90.000 Reasons Congressman William Jefferson needs to be flushed...



And Schumer should be scrubbed...



We need a bigger drain... Somebody get me a plunger...Anyone got Draino?
The list goes on and it's not just Democrats....

Keep the Flame Burning!

Fellow Patriots,
It's been a little over a month since the April 15th Tea Parties and I'm sure some of you are turning their thoughts to Springtime activities. Planting flowers and Victory Gardens and enjoying the newness of this time of year. I am too. We, however, need to keep focused on the next steps of our mission.

I hope you have become a member of a group close to you that has some relevance to you in your life as a Patriot. Groups like the 9-12 Project, Americans for Prosperity, and Fairtax are a good place to explore and discuss your issues with people who think more like you do. Government spending, corrupt Leaders, State Sovereignty or whatever issue rings you liberty bell, get involved.

Every once in awhile we need to be reminded of our rights and responsibilities as an American citizen. We want to live in a country where every man, women or child can reach their full potential without Government intrusion. We must protect our American way of life!

This is not done by sitting in your living rooms and watching others march and carry signs. This is not done by avoiding talking about issues with your friends and neighbors. This is not done by ignoring a different point of view just because the person has a D or an R after his or her name. This is not done by skipping the ballot box. If we want change, we must be the change.

Get active and involved in your communities and in issues that affect the way you want to live your life. Let your Legislators know your feelings, daily if necessary. E-mail is free and you can get your Senator's or Representative's e-mail address by clinking on the links I've provided you here.

It really boils down to to effort. Recently, I posted a report on my activist training at American Majority. Dennis Wilson as the President of the Kansas Chapter of American Majority is fond of saying "the most influential people are the ones that show up".

It an excellent slogan to live by. Sometimes we need to be reminded of our responsibilities. We can't see the problem if we wear blinders and we can't solve the problem if we don't show up.

This is just a little pep talk from an old friend, Thomas Paine. Listen to it and see if you can still ignore that little voice inside your head that says, "I am the solution if I choose to be the solution".




Happy Spring, Partiots!

Sober Sunday...

Sometimes We have to take a look at what's really going on. If this Administration keeps on with it's current direction of spending and hidden taxes there will be more families singing the Pink Slip blues. Please, we must WAKE UP America!

Happy Saturday

Writing the Obama Anti-America Legacy

The Legacy of the Obama Era in American politics and American history is being written, day by day, at such a rapid pace that I'm sure we are all missing something. The changes being brought about are devastating to huge segments of American Capitalism and the future of our very country is at stake. Obama is, as he says, remaking America.

The automobile industry in particular is being remade. Smaller cars, greener cars, cars nobody wants. This may be the most disastrous act in American manufacturing history. A headline this week asks: Could Obama's Economic Advisor Want American Car Companies to Fail? (Warren Buffett) This is a connect-the-dots kind of moment because Buffett has invested heavily in the Chinese electric car market and this week General Motors announced it will import thousands of Chinese made cars. Humm Quid Pro Quo?

As of March 2009, General Motors was taken over and is still being dismantled by the United States Government. President Obama fired Rick Wagoner, the GM, CEO in a fit of revolutionary fever of his Hope and Change theme for America. He appointed a new CEO and a new Board of Directors partly made up of Union officials. Even a 13 year old, like a young man named Alex Good, could understand the ramifications of Obama's actions.

A 13 Year Old's View on Government Intervention

In case you haven't heard, President Obama and the White House has fired the General Motors CEO, Rick Wagoner. I'm not going to go into details on why this happened, I am only here to voice my opinion on whether or not this was a good choice, and how I see it.

When Obama fired Wagoner, I immediately thought of the concerns voiced during the election about Obama being a socialist, or having a few socialist beliefs or interests. As far as I know, Socialism is up there with Communism.

General Motors has been one of the most iconic companies in American history. There have been songs written about GM's most popular cars.



On August 23, 2005 General Motors Fairfax plan t created it's 10 millionth automobile. Union workers in the in the UAW Lo cal 31 Shop and the General Motors were among the top 3 assembly plants in North & South America as of July 5, 2008 according to JD Power.

"The Fairfax Plant & UAW Local 31 members have consistently produced high quality
products.  They are a fine example of how UAW employees have answered the challenge
and build award winning vehicles for the global market place," said Cal Rapson,UAW vice president.

"The J.D. Power award is one of the most coveted awards in the automotive industry,
and for our plant to receive two in 2008 only highlights the excellence of the Malibu product,
the employees who build it, our engineers who designed it and our suppliers,"
said Michael Dulaney, Fairfax plant manager. "It should also be recognized that we achieved
these results in our launch year and beat both of our major competitors -
Toyota Camry and Honda Accord."

This was the heyday of the one of the iconic industries in American history. Automobile manufacturing once the life blood of communities across the nation is now reduced to anafterthought by the Obama Administration's handling of the economy. It was not always thus.

The Fairfax plant was immense, a 3,200,000 sq ft facility, sitting on a 700,000 Acre plot of of prime real estate on the fertile bottom land in Kansas City, next to the Missouri River, on the Kansas side of the river.

The site has been the home to airports, the B-25 Mitchell war plane m an ufacturers and General Motors in it's storied past. It was the hub of the Kansas/Missouri postal servic e airport in 1925 as well as the the main airport that President Harry Truman flew into whenever he came home from Washington D.C. General Motors had built cars on the site since just after World War II.

The future is here, now, in a literary déjà vu of sorts from George Orwell's p rophetic science fiction novel 1984. Condensed here from SparkNotes study guide:

Orwell portrays a state in which government monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that even having a disloyal thought is against the law. As the novel progresses, the timidly rebellious Winston Smith sets out to challenge the limits of the Party's power, only to discover that its ability to control and enslave its subjects dwarfs even his most paranoid conceptions of its reach. As the reader comes to understand through Winston's eyes, The Party uses a number of techniques to control its citizens, each of which is an important theme of its own in the novel.

• Psychological Manipulation - Purpose: to overwhelm the mind's capacity for independent thought.
• Physical Control - Controls the physical body.
• Control of Information and History - Control information, rewrite the content of all newspapers and histories.
• Technology - Telescreens and hidden microphones monitor people's every move.
• Language as Mind Control - Language has architectural form that can limit concepts. If you control of language you can make it impossible to have disobedient or rebellious thoughts, because there would be no words to form thought.

This is all seems very familiar. It sound like Obama is using 1984 as a template for Society and he has stunning ideas about the economy wich see to parrot a new book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. It reads like a blueprint for what Obama and his Administration are doing to engineer their new economy. They are tearing down the bastions of old Capitalism and replacing it with a theory.

Therein lies the problem. It is a theory and not all theories are proven. Obama's legacy may not be in remaking America but in bringing America to it knees under tyranny. His rhetoric may be high minded but his reality is frightening.

Obama: Contradiction in Truth

When President Obama promised to remake America I was automatically on my guard. America is by no means perfect but it definitely doesn't need to be remade. After his first few months in office there's not even a scant slice of American life this President hasn't remade in someway. All this change at such a rapid pace is dizzying and confusing. That's the way Obama is being successful. He and his comrades in the White House have at least one announcement a day. Sometimes more. This is by design.

Things are happening at such a fast pace that most people can't tell what is really going on. The current media love affair with this President is actually making the problem worse. The Press simply will not tell the truth. They spout Democratic talking points ad nauseum. The main stream press is acting as a buffer against any criticism of Obama. They attack anyone that questions any of Obama's actions. They have and will report or publish the truth when it fits the Obama template. They will print or report a half truth with full authority to further their cause and they will lie for this President.

During the Presidential campaign Candidate Obama made a gaffe in a speech:

"I have visited 57 States now and I still have 1 or 2 to go. My staff wouldn't let me go to Alaska Or Hawaii."

The words had barely left his lips and the media went into overdrive to explain how impossible Obama's schedule was and how tired he was. It could have been an amusing anecdote but the media had to protect their man.

He has talked like a Moderate and has preformed as something very different. Almost all of his "change" has been 180 degrees from from what he promised it would be but he's still very popular with the American people according to the polls. However, when he talks to his supporters about specific things that affect specific people negatively then he can run into some trouble.

Case in point; the Washington D.C. school system has a program called school the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a vouchers program, since 2007. Most of the families involved in the voucher program have children whose test scores have risen half a grade higher than students not in the program in rest of D.C.'s Public schools. A plea to save the voucher program published in the Washington Post began:

Better schools. Higher scores. And satisfied parents. That's the record of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. It is helping us keep our promise to leave no child behind in America. If Congress is thinking of breaking this promise, the nation deserves to know the story.
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Congress was poised to cut off funding for the voucher program because Obama wanted to kill the program. It was a successful George W. Bush, No Child Left Behind program and Democrats had to wreck any successful Republican ideas. After the Parents in the District fought back, Obama (surprise, surprise) offered a compromise. The 1,700 kids (K-12), enrolled in the program, will be allowed to finish their education but the program will still end leaving thousands of Children behind because of his arbitrary dislike of anything Republican. This is becoming a perverse habit of the President. Promise one thing then deliver another.

He has a distinct habit of letting his cronies in his Administration and Congress offer ideas or programs that aren't popular. News of the programs are met with anger and frustration by the public. Then Obama rides in on his trusty steed and appears to save the day. These are excerpts of a previous article on my blog: 10 Rules for a Radical President

We should have known, when candidate Obama reversed his promise to take public financing if McCain did and then blindsiding McCain by pulling out of that verbal challenge, that Obama couldn't keep his word. It is a definite trend in his Presidency. The old bait and switch.

In a decision that I hadn't heard of before researching this article, "Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It". Now I'm thrilled about this turn of events but I bet his supporters don't like it much.

This is from an article on this blog on January 28th called the The Pelosi Gambit

On the Sunday news show This Week with George Stephanopolis, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, uttered the now infamous statements about contraception being a stimulus to the economy, which led to the Drudge Report News Flash: "DRUDGE FLASH 2009© Pelosi says: Birth Control Will Help Economy". http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm

How did this particular subject come up? There weren't many details available on the actual content of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan". It would have been interesting to have been a "fifth party" to to the daily conference calls* between long time friends, Rahm Emanuel, JamesCarville, Paul Begala and George Stephanopolis, before George's show on Sunday, Jan 24th. I'm sure Nancy was probably in the loop too. Her comments set off a firestorm of conservative blow back over the "family planning" issue, just as the Administration knew it would.

On Monday January 26th, President Obama rode into the fray on his white horse to save the day! He withdrew the funding request. This was probably orchestrated to change public opinion about the bailout...and the Religious Right swooned... http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/148769293.html

Where is the truth? It lies somewhere deep inside the murkiness of big time liberal politics. Keeping the public weary and confused is Obama's goal. Say one thing, reverse the thing, then do what you set out to do in the first place, all the while, blaming someone else. This gives Obama cover. On March 13th...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The American economy is in turmoil but the Obama administration sent a $50 million check yesterday to the United Nations Population Fund. That's the pro-abortion group that has been accused of supporting and working in concert with Chinese family planning officials. continue reading

and then the Pièce de résistance The President's most recent betrayal of the left. On (4/23/2009) the headline was: Defense Department To Release Prisoner Abuse Photos By May 28 In Response To ACLU Lawsuit. It became on Wed May 13, 2009 Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release
I don't believe the final chapter has been written on the torture photos yet. Some Judge somewhere or some Bureaucrat somewhere will release the Photos. Obama will once again get what he wants without seeming to want what he gets.

A Meeting of the "Like" Minds

I attended the American Majority Activist Training Event on Saturday, May 9th, at the Shawnee Branch of the Johnson County Library along with my friend and neighbor, Sandy Simons. We both felt the event was enlightening, thought-provoking, fun and worth every penny of the small fee. It was defiantly a meeting of like-minded individuals.

Dennis Wilson, Board Chairman of American Majority in Kansas, greeted the large, lively group that threatened to spill out of the training room into the hall at the Shawnee branch of the Johnson County library. He spoke briefly about the mission of the organization and explained that their goal was training ordinary citizens to become more involved in their communities and public policies that affect everyone. He is a former Kansas State Senator, State Representative, Businessman, and the former Vice President of the City Union Mission.

His started his opening remarks by saying,

"the most influential people
are the ones that show up"

and it was more than a clever throw-away line at the beginning of a presentation. It was a call to action for ordinary citizens to get involved in their communities on the most basic levels such becoming a Committee Chairperson in your local political parties, running for local office or supporting someone who is running and shares your views of conservative values and free markets.

I think the thing I liked the most about the Event was the expertise and affability of the staff. Field Representatives Becka Romm and Elizabeth Patton did an excellent job of explaining and teaching the American Majority Training Program.

Becca opened with a general outline of the Program and the most impressive statement that I took away from this event. "No matter where I am in life, I can make a difference". She talked about building coalitions by starting with individuals who get involved in local political groups or charitable organization, starting small, setting goals and having a plan. Here is a list of "small steps" to creating a successful coalition.

• Identify a need or issue
• Grow your group
• Creat a vision for a solution
• Establish targets
• Plan a strategy
• Implement success

I was amused by Becca's use of "small steps" because anyone who has ever read my blog has seen my Small Steps Alert. It is just small news items (and sometimes big ones) that support conservative values. Small things that make a difference.

Elizabeth introduced the attendees to the use of the traditional media such as newspapers and journals as a tool to get your ideas and opinions out to other people. She explained the proper form for the Letters to the Editor and the longer Opinion Editorial. Holding our leaders accountable was also a recurring theme of the training. She introduced many at the training event to blogging and social networking.

One thing that surprised me was my introduction to Wiki-Projects and their importance. As long as I've been writing and researching on the internet I have avoided using Wiki-pedia as a source reference, believing that the entries found there were misleading at best, left-leaning in some instances and inaccurate. I was wrong.

Earl Glenn, AM's guest internet guru, introduced us to all sorts of Wiki tools such as Wiki-FOIA which is a source reference for requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act. Important and very useful sites Judge-pedia and Ballot-pedia. These are all wonderful reference sites and I'm sure I will visit them often.

There were just too many websites and social networks mentioned such as The Sam Adams Alliance, Sunshine Review, Facebook and Ning, to learn anything in depth about the ones I didn't already know. I am going to busy myself over the next few weeks and months to see what's out there. These sites and more will be explored by all of us who attended the training session.

If you want to know more about how to find and use the information I gleaned from this event you can clik on the links or you can attend the next American Majority Training Session. It is on June 19th at the Town and Country Bank located at 4707 West 135th Street in Leawood, KS. The cost for the event is $20 per person. Please visit AM's website for registration information.

All-in-all, the day was a complete success for me and my friend, Sandy. We couldn't stop talking on our way home about how excited we were with our new found knowledge. I guess you could say Sandy and I have already built our first coalition. Two neighbors who want to make a difference in their community.

Learning to Lead with American Majority

I will be attending American Majority Leadership Training this Saturday, May 9, at Johnson County Library Shawnee Branch located at 13811 Johnson Dr. in Shawnee from 10:00am to 3:00pm. This event is sold out but there is another on June 19. Use this link to register for this important event taking place at Town and Country Bank located at 4707 West 135th Street in Leawood, KS. The cost for the event is $20 per person.

This is a video that explains the vision of American Majority. Tea Parties are a great starting point but we need to move forward and take back our Country from the ground up.



It is important for all of us in the Tea Party Movement to become involved in Leadership Training. I am really excited to be taking this class because I really want to become more focused on helping to make a change in our local political system. Please, now is the time to become involved in helping turn our Communities and Country around.

Obama. Connect-the-Dots... part 1

I am a connect-the-dots kinda girl. As a child I couldn't wait for Saturday and my family's trip to McCellands, one of the popular five and dime stores that lined "the Avenue". It meant that my Mom would buy me a Giant Connect-the Dots coloring book. I would sit for hours connecting the numbered dots, one by one as the picture revealed itself to my happy amazement. Those days are gone.

I'm still a connect-the-dots girl, only now I'm connecting-the-dots - the points in Barak Obama's life and his rise to the Presidency and where they may lead and it scares me silly. I make no arguments about the facts stated here. They are for the reader to connect-the-dots and form their own opinions.

Obama had abandonment issues in his early teen years, not just because of his father, who left him as a baby. His mother ,Ann Dunham-Obama-Sorento, wanted a more exciting life than just raising a son and daughter in Hawaii. Barak objected to going back to Indonesia with his mother when she left Hawaii with his half-sister, Maya, and left him with his white Grandparents.

His early friendships and activities were that of a young man with an identity crisis. One of his strongest influences as a young man in Hawaii was a Communist, a poet, and an admitted pedophile, Frank Marshall Davis. Barak's white Grandfather introduced his grandson to Davis, who was black, when he[Barak] was 10 years old. Barak grew to think of Davis as a Father figure and mentor.

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, told the Associated Press recently that her grandfather had seen Mr Davis was “a point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother".

He may have been a bridge to other activities as well. As a teenager Barak tried drugs, basketball and older women. Obama admits that he smoked pot and did cocaine. He took up Basketball to better relate to other black teens and he cruised the campus of the University of Hawaii picking up "older college women" for sexual encounters.

His college records are the stuff of secondhand adulation. Little is known about his early college years. Paul Carpenter, now a Los Angeles lawyer, was one of Obama's room mates at Occidental College. Carpenter recalled Obama as "a good bodysurfer" who had "a funky red car, a Fiat" and who also played intramurals — flag football, tennis and water polo. "He was an athletic guy," said Carpenter. He also thought of Barak as a very self confident guy, to the point of him believing that Barak was arrogant and an elitist

humm "Obama had a Fiat and now he is forcing Fiat on Chrysler. Is this one the the places that we can connect the dots? Just asking. One dot in this Chrysler-Fiat mess that we should really pay attention to is the biggest winner in the forced partnership between Chrysler and Fiat is the Unions (both American and European).

While Chrysler's plants are closed, workers will still receive pay and benefits. Doug Rice, president of the United Auto Workers Local 122 in Twinsburg, Ohio, said workers should be fine as long as Chrysler emerges from bankruptcy within 60 days. If the process drags on longer, experts have said consumers could lose faith in the company's products, and Chrysler could crumble.

The other dot to notice is that President Obama plan to make American Companies more Global.

President Obama, in a noon speech at the White House, had to explain why he planned to save Chrysler and its workers by forcing the company into bankruptcy. A partnership with Fiat, he said, would give Chrysler "a chance not only to survive, but to thrive in a global auto industry."

Fiat will contribute no money to the alliance. It has committed what it says are billions of dollars in technologies and designs for fuel-efficient vehicles. The biggest loosers will be Stockholders, dealerships that sell Chrysler products and the parts suppliers.

All of this is happening at a time when the Nation's Banking intrigues are getting even murkier. Another dot that helps define Obama is, Tim Geithner, his wonder boy, the only person in the world who was "smart enough" to solve the Money Sector's problems. Geithner is hatching yet another plan to save the Banks from their bad assets. This seems to be another "smoke and mirrors" plan that doesn't solve the insolvency. Once again, he is hiding the bad assets on the Bank's balance sheets while making no progress in making their bad assets worth something.

Geithner's first Bailout plan was soundly panned by Banking experts and hated by Wallstreet.

Now to get to the punch line, let us turn to the New York Times. The headline "Geithner Said to Have Prevailed on Bailout," is already bad news, since as we have discussed, Geithner is a living, breathing example of cognitive regulatory capture. But here is the troubling bit:

In the end, Mr. Geithner largely prevailed in opposing tougher conditions on financial institutions that were sought by presidential aides, including David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, according to administration and Congressional officials.

Mr. Geithner, who will announce the broad outlines of the plan on Tuesday, successfully fought against more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid.

He resisted those who wanted to dictate how banks would spend their rescue money. And he prevailed over top administration aides who wanted to replace bank executives and wipe out shareholders at institutions receiving aid.

Because of the internal debate, some of the most contentious issues remain unresolved.

The real dot to watch here is the U.S. Governments march to Socialism. Every step taken by the Government on the Monetary System since Obama took office has shown a propensity for Government ownership of American Banking asset's. Every Company "saved" has paid a price for getting into bed with Obama. AIG, although it shot itself in the foot with the boneheaded bonuses, has had vast portions of it's assetts being "siezed" by the Government. This does not bode well for Freedom.

There are so many dots to connect with this President that it will take several blog posts to achieve the true picture of of this very left wing President. Everything that Obama has done since being elected is leading to one conclusion. This President, contrary to what he says, is leading this Country, as rapidly as possible, to Socialism or something worse.

When did we elect National Leaders of the Tea Party Movement?

I just posted this message on the 912Project Forum in the take action section. It is, I believe, a vitally important issue. I just want to know one thing. Who appointed, elected or choose the people who are the National Tea Party Leaders.

National Tea Party Leadership Team Accepts President Obama's Invitation,

This is the headline at the Parkbench website from an e-mail they sent me. Since when does the Tea Party Movement have National Leadership? Supposedly, President Obama invited Tea Party Leaders to Washington to meet with him when he spoke at the Arnold, MO town hall were he said

Quote:

"So, you know, when you see — those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular and you see folks waving tea bags around, 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're going to stabilize Social Security." "But let's not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the [$787 billion stimulus bill], because that's just a fraction of the overall problem that we've got."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...arty-movement/

This was posted at: http://www.parcbench.com/article_det...00&topic=front

Quote:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NATIONWIDE TEA PARTY LEADERS ACCEPT INVITATION TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA CONTACTS: Michael Patrick Leahy (615) 243-6869 Kellen Giuda (786) 525-6984 James Dickey (469)767-7728 New York, New York – April 29th, 2009 - The National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition (http://www.nationwideteapartycoalition.com) today accepted President Obama`s invitation "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.” The invitation was extended by the President at a Town Hall Meeting held in Arnold, Missouri today (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21870.html). The National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition includes 25 of the more than 900 local organizers of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Parties held across the country, which were attended by more than 1 million Americans. Members of the National Leadership Team includes Judson Phillips, organizer of the Nashville Tea Party attended by 10,000, James Dickey, organizer of the Dallas Tea Party, attended by 5,000, and JoAnn Abbot, organizer of the Washington, DC Tea Party attended by more than 3,000. The full list of the 25 members of the National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition can be found at http://www.nationwideteapartycoalition.com/about.php

I didn't vote for these people and they don't speak for me. We need to take action before some of Obama's moles take over our movement.

Their website reads more like an environmentalist site tha a tea party site.

this is their logo:Didn't know we had a Tea Party Movement Ecosystem.