The Collective Thinkers, Think Wrong!

I've been getting a bit of traffic to my website from the "great thinkers" of the left, telling me that my views are wrong and I'm stupid. How skewed their views are. Don't they realize that they are exercising one of their First Amendment rights, just as I am. Free Speech.

Our Constitution, founded on the principles of really enlightened men should be studied by every American citizen. It was written by men who believed in individual rights and not in the collective mentality that exists in the Left and Far Left in this country, at this time. The left has elite, pompous, high-sounding people who believe they and only they have the answers for society and all it's ills.

That is their problem. Belief that society is more important than the individual. That is how the arguments for and against the health care proposals are being postulated. The rights of the individual verses the collective. The supporters of the current health care legislation want a universal system, that covers everyone, just a little. They believe it is better to get limited, universal health care than to stay with a system that looks at a patient as an individual with needs for care that are unique to each human being.

America, is at it's core, is a generous Nation. It provides more opportunity and freedom to it's citizens than anywhere else in the world. Why do you think all those "Illegals" come here? American society has it's faults just like any living entity. Creating a group of citizens who believe they are entitled to be supported, without any effort on their part, is part of what's wrong with this health care debate.

I believe, basic health care should be afforded to every legal citizen but I don't believe the Government is the necessary purveyor of those services. The private sector can always provide services cheaper through competition. But Governments, Local, State and Federal always enact laws that are contrary to the free markets, limiting services with undue regulation and driving up prices for care.

The Private Sector has it's abuses for providing health care too. Where the laws need to be changed would be to require insurance companies to drop pre-existing condition clauses from their policies. Make coverage portable so that laid off workers could receive medical benefits along with their Unemployment. Local Governments could provide temporary coverage until other employment is found. Requiring every person in the country to be invested in their coverage so that health care doesn't become an entitlement.

Most of us, polls show as high as 80% of us, like our current health care, whether we receive it through private policies, medicare, medicaid, or co-ops. The debatable, 45% figure, the current Administration is using to drive its argument is a false number. No matter who runs health care, coverage should only be for legal U.S. citizens and people who pay a portion of their income for their coverage. If it's not broke don't destroy it.

Torte reform has to be included in any serious debate about health care costs. Doctors have to run extra medical tests rather than using their own expertise, to diagnose, to protect themselves from excessive abuse of class action law suits and mal-practice suits brought at the drop of a hat because of the mistaken belief that doctors can fix any medical problem. Insurance premiums for mal-practice needs to be brought down. They must be kept reasonable because we loose good Doctors every day because they can't afford their mal-practice premiums.

Costs can be brought down by competition in the private sector rather than the government limiting care, which is rationing. There are provisions in the bills now circulating in Congress and the Senate that require Government Boards to decide what kind of care you can receive, they aren't called "Death Panels" but their effect is the same.

Anytime a society places a value on an individual to limit what care or procedure they will be able to receive then that society is evil. Current provisions being proposed would prevent individuals from seeking additional care if the Government deemed their care unnecessary.

There are all kinds of imaginative programs and ideas for providing health care floating around this debate and that's the way it should be, a debate! Not just one side, the "I WON" side, shoving it's "progressive" ideas down the throats of the American people.

Run pilot programs on a small scale to determine which programs will work and which won't. The Government could provide a catastrophic insurance policy to provide for devastating illnesses much like flood insurance to help bring down the cost of private insurance. The needs of the people of one state are different than the needs of another state. Again, I say, "One size does not fit all".

I pray that sanity will erupt in the governing bodies of this free nation. Freedom and individual rights should be the driving force behind the policies that govern a free nation. We should aspire to the best possible care for our citizens and not a policy that "levels the playing field" and lowers our standards of health care and innovation in medical technology.

The current proposals in Congress and the Senate have little to do with health care and everything to do with control. People inside this government want to control every facet of our lives and they will use any means to do it. Stop this Health Care Legislation Now! Stop it before some government bureaucrat decides you are no longer a useful member of society. God should decide your fate, not the Government.

We hold these truths...

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!

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.

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.

An Important Message from Thomas Payne

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.