Honoring All Who Served on Veterans Day 2009

God Bless our Troops, today and everyday.
The Patriot Messenger 11 Nov 2009

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Happy Birthday USMC!
10 Nov 2009

No pity for Ft. Hood killer!

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From: tpm
Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:44 AM
Subject: No pity for killer!
To: mikebroomhead @ kfyi.com
Cc:

I am sorry I have become the skeptic I have, but I just do not believe the muslim killer at Ft Hood is any more than exactly that!  Its because, again, you have to accept that muslims are committed to their beliefs FIRST!  And if he was born a muslim, he was ONLY here to train and learn--and live his life the American way--until he had to make this 'life's choice".  HE WOULD NOT TURN ON HIS MUSLIM BROTHERS TO SERVE OUT MILITARY ORDERS BECAUSE HE DOES NOT PLEDGE ANY ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! 

These soldiers died!  I have NO PITY for this killer, who, as the news unfolds (see FOXNEWS.COM) carefully planned his killing on these soldiers at Ft. Hood. God Bless them all.

From: tpm
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:23 PM
To: afellowpatriot1, afellowpatriot2 
Subject: Tested

Regarding the FT Hood incident, I think that prediction from Biden, that O would be "tested …", is something O should take heed of. 

Funny thing about (surprise) tests, you never know what to expect…

regarding STING

Obama "...was sent by God..."  ??!   Come on Sting!

Just shows, the celebrities really need to stop trying to be "political leaders".  But Sting shows immediately, he could care less about GOD ('...if the people would stop worrrying about.... and God...') ??!

You know Mike, the celebrities opinion really means SQUAT to most of us with common sense.  Yet they (SEAN PENN!!, Madonna, Danny Glover, ...Sting!) continue to think because 51.5 percent DO value their opinion, we ALL value their opinion--and that means we ALL must.  All while they benefit from  "evil capitalism", with our purchasing of their music, movies, et al... 

Like Obama, "popularity" is all they are concerned with, and since Sting finds Obama's popularity is all that matters in running the greatest country on earth...

shut up Sting, just go somewhere and shut up!

TPM

Why is Goldberg criticizing the efforts of others who are trying?

Why is Bernard Goldberg attacking Beck and Hannity—saying they are "not journalists", and not telling the truth about the demographics of the 9/12 Tea Party?  What does the media—or Goldberg—expect to see when a camera pans a crowd of (they are still estimating) 1.7 million; to notice the approximate "3%" of Blacks or other minorities--approx 51,000???--by a cursory view of the crowd?  Come on Bernie!  I was insulted he didn't give credit where credit is due!  The Republicans and Neo-Cons like Goldberg continue to keep our side confused by this kind of back-biting.  We need to support each other the way they do, when they never seem to have a bad word to utter about their own party members. 

Fwd: HEADLINES

 

!HEADLINES!

 

 

John Kerry has TAKEN ("earmarked") $20 million ($25M?) out of the DEFENSE budget—and has earmarked it such that it can't be line-item veto'ed—to use towards building THE TED KENNEDY LIBRARY on the University of Mass.  THE ONLY WAY TO OBJECT TO IT IS TO VOTE DOWN THE BILL—WHICH VOTES DOWN THE REST OF THE DEFENSE EXPENDITURE!!!!

 

OUR REPRESENTATIVES AT THEIR FINEST MOST CLEVER!

 

(I'VE STARTED AN "OVERWHELM-HIS-EMAIL CAMPAIGN", AND HOPE YOU WILL TRY ALONG WITH ME.

  WE CANNOT LET THIS BE THE END OF THIS.)

 

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THIS IS NOW (SEE BELOW—WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LOCAL FUNDRAISING??):

 

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/25/watchdog_groups_rap_20m_earmark_for_kennedy_institute/?s_campaign=8315

Kerry asks $20m for Kennedy institute

Fiscal groups criticize military bill earmark

By Bryan Bender

Globe Staff / September 25, 2009

WASHINGTON - A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an educational institute honoring late Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

The earmark, tucked into the defense bill at the request of Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, requires US taxpayers to help the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate realize its goal of building a repository for Kennedy's papers and an accompanying civic learning center on the University of Massachusetts at Boston campus in Dorchester, next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.

The item is drawing fire from fiscal watchdog groups, who assert that military funds should not be raided to pay for an institution that has nothing to do with improving military readiness.

"Whatever beneficial value civic education may have, it's hard to see why the Defense Department should pay for it,'' said Laura Peterson, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense in Washington. "It would seem the location of this hefty earmark has more to do with the powerful position of its sponsor than [the Defense Department's] responsibility to educate elementary school children.''

Kerry strongly defended the insertion of the $20 million earmark yesterday. He requested that it be included in the $360 billion defense budget, he said, to recognize Kennedy's long tenure on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The institute will serve as a focal point for the late Massachusetts senator's legacy, much as presidential libraries do. It will house Kennedy's official papers and oral histories from the nearly half-century he served in the Senate. With a museum and exhibit space, it also will be dedicated to educating the general public, students, teachers, new US senators, and Senate staff about the role and importance of the Senate in American political life. The institute plans to host an annual "Summer Senate'' for high school students from across the nation.

The $20 million earmark would cover as much as 40 percent of the institute's initial fund-raising goal.

Beyond raising questions about the practice of slipping earmarks into bills in Congress, the provision also presents a potential ethical question for Paul Kirk, the longtime Kennedy aide Governor Deval Patrick appointed to fill the late senator's seat yesterday.

Kirk, who stepped down yesterday as chairman of the JFK Library Foundation, has also served as a member of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute board and has played a key role in helping plan and raise funds for the new center. If he casts a vote in favor of the defense bill, he also will be voting in favor of an institute to which he has had close personal and professional connections.Continued...

A spokeswoman for Kirk, Stephanie Cutter, said yesterday that he does not see his roles as conflicting.

"Mr. Kirk expects to vote on every issue important to the people of Massachusetts. He resigned from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute board at 8 a.m. this morning, so we don't expect a conflict to exist, but of course he'll comply fully with the ethics rules of the Senate,'' Cutter said in an e-mailed statement. She did not respond to a question about what role, if any, he played in securing the $20 million earmark.

Kirk is not running in the January special election for a new senator to fill out the remainder of Kennedy's term. He has not yet said whether he intends to return to the JFK Library Foundation once his interim Senate appointment expires.

At Kerry's request, Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, added the $20 million earmark to the defense bill, congressional aides said. The funding would come on top of $5 million secured with Kerry's help earlier this year in a Labor Department spending bill, which provided money for the institute's planning and design.

The center had raised an additional $20 million in private donations earlier this year, and more money has been contributed by members of the public since Kennedy's death last month from brain cancer, said Joe Ganley, an institute spokesman. Ultimately, Ganley said, the majority of the center's funding will come from private donors, not taxpayers. He said many of Boston's most influential civic leaders, including businessman Jack Connors, are helping to raise funds.

The institute's president, and it's only staff member so far, is Peter Meade, a former Blue Cross-Blue Shield executive who also serves on the board of the JFK Library Foundation. Meade was unavailable for comment yesterday, Ganley said.

Using the national defense budget for such earmarks is considered a particular affront by those advocating for fiscal discipline in the midst of two wars that are straining Pentagon coffers. Overall, the Senate version of the bill includes 778 earmarks worth $2.65 billion, including a number that have little or nothing to do with military matters.

A major concern is what gets cut from the Pentagon budget to make room for things like the Kennedy institute, said Winslow Wheeler, director of the Strauss Military Reform Project at the left-leaning Center for Defense Information in Washington.

"The committee did not add money to the bill to pay for its billions of dollars in pork,'' Wheeler said.

A spokesman for Inouye declined to explain why the Kennedy institute earmark was inserted into the Pentagon budget, rather than into an education bill or other piece of legislation. In a statement released by his office, Inouye said, "It is my sincere hope that many of these students will be inspired to seek a life of public service, with the same spirit of patriotism and love of country that I saw each and every day from Senator Kennedy.''

While Kerry said using the defense budget to fund Kennedy's institute was a tribute to his "leadership on military technology, weapons systems, and safety equipment for our troops,'' Wheeler said he believes there is a more practical reason.

"It's a natural for Kerry to go to Inouye on this,'' Wheeler said. "If it's in the defense bill it must be a good idea. And the defense bill is sure to pass. He wanted a fast vehicle to get it enacted.''

Bryan Bender can be reached at bender@globe.com

© Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company.

 

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THIS WAS THEN:

 

Feds spending millions on Kennedy legacy in Mass.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press Writer

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BOSTON —  More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.

The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.

The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Kennedy, who at 77 is battling brain cancer, said he hadn't requested the money for the library and institute, and that there are dozens of other earmarks in the spending bill for homeless services and community health centers.

The $22 million JFK library earmark was sponsored by fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, who is also a top sponsor for the money for the Kennedy Senate Institute. Kerry defended the library project, which he said is needed to upgrade the facility.

"This National Archives project will eliminate the worst archival storage space problem in the presidential library system and it will facilitate six years of work to expand the library," Kerry said in a statement. "This shovel-ready project will also bring much-needed jobs to the area."

A proposal to build a national institute on the U.S. Senate and to name it after Kennedy has been under discussion since 2003, but accelerated after Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer.

Local officials last year announced they were seeking up to $100 million to build the institute, which they said would focus on the Senate in general and Kennedy's more than four decades of service to the body. The facility will be located in Boston on a four-acre plot near the JFK library.

About $20 million has already been raised for the institute, including contributions from drug companies, insurance companies and hospitals. Tentative plans called for a replica of the Senate chamber itself, as well as programs to train new senators.

The list of earmarks provided by Kennedy, Kerry and the state's all-Democratic congressional delegation highlights programs throughout the state, including $3 million to preserve New England fisheries; $1.7 million for land acquisition at Cape Cod National Seashore; and $333,000 to study any links between environmental pollutants and breast cancer.

"These funds will create jobs that are desperately needed, and will provide lasting benefits for all our citizens long into the future," Kennedy said in statement accompanying a list of earmarks.

The billions in earmarks in the federal spending bill have been a source of contention.

President Barack Obama signed the bill which he described as imperfect. He said it must signal an "end to the old way of doing business."

Critics led by Republican Sen. John McCain have denounced the 8,000 pet project contained in the bill as pork.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE


Obama, with only 11 days of credible "legacy"--in terms of the timeframe for which the candidates are recongnized for contributions for the 2009 decision-- wins the famed Nobel Peace Prize, by unanimous decision.

TPM doubts the value and worth of the Nobel Peace Prize. The prestige and honor began to diminish even more with the honoring of Al Gore for "Global Warming" activism; now highly discredited, as facts and renown scientists presented counter evidence of 'warming' (causing Gore to change his campaign to affecting "Climate Change.")

Obama could have declined the award, but according to FOXNEWS, Robert Gibbs of the Whitehouse reported Obama as saying *"The president was humbled to be selected by the committee" He will accept the $1.4 million dollar award in Oslo, Germany in December. He plans to give some or all to charity.

TPM 100909

You missed the point on the girls dancing instead of cheerleading

Bill,

you and your two female panelists are out of touch: the Liberals stopped allowing "tumbling, jumps, and flips"--in 7th grade!  So says my 9th grader, former cheerleader.

 

All they can do is dance. 

 

Its really sad that those school districts that ban and limit high-energy sports; challenging and competitive sports; can't seem to figure out why their children's behavior changes.  With no physical outlet, they thrive on cell phones, "play" on the computer, overeat junk foods, --then have bad attitudes. When do they get to release energy?

 

Some like to exercise to their fullest. But now many don't get to exert themselves, through team or individual sports; or if so, can't enjoy the thrill and high of striving to be the winner. It does release endorphins to feel that good about yourself. 

 

Some want to see if they can toss a teammate high in the air--their teammate quite willing to come out the team star: broken arm and all!  Have their been deaths and major injuries? Unfortunately. If my child I'd never recover...  But how many--of the masses--ever really push that far?  Heart-felt competitors.  But the Liberals have successfully limited the joy of even those few. 

 

So the girls must dance on!  What else can they do to cheer the teams?

And when they are ridiculed for it, thank the Liberals.

 

Angela Peters

ThePatriotMessenger.blogspot

 

To Michael Moore (Comments on Michael's interview with Sean Hannity)

 Michael Moore,


I am wondering if we should begin to feel sorry for types like you. You try to appear as if you really understand what you are saying, and that it is the end-all of understanding. When instead, you misunderstand so much… I am beginning to feel sorry for you.

Your type always likes to quote Matthew 19. And you continue to misunderstand it and misquote it.

The Pastor I finally learned to understand this from, explained; this ‘teachable moment’ was exactly for persons like you who think “doing deeds” will get you into heaven, versus who you are in the depths of your heart; the “content of your character”.

And while you try to show you are of such superiority, your type always falls to these seemingly classic giveaways that you are not as sincere as you (try to) appear:

You put down the very people you claim to be in defense of (“…a few hundred people on monkey bars…”);

You talk over your host; attempt to dominate the conversation; change the ‘point’ of the discussion away from how it exposes you; try to ‘put’ the question back on the questioner—instead of answer it yourself;

You have to “declare” you are of high religious character, then demand a comparative example of the same—or better—from your challenger;

You never answer a yes-no question with a “yes” or “no”;

You deny major portions of yourself are just like those you demonize, immediately followed by being incapable of committing to ‘giving up your share’ or a slightly larger portion of what you possess (so as NOT to be perceived, like “them”);

Michael, it would be OK that you have your opinion of life, this country, our leaders—given this American right thereto, based on our founding—but you should learn to turn your “Christian” thinking and “religious fanatic” role-modeling into truly Spirit-filled action; and DO positive deeds from your heart—with your money God helped you “reap” because you “sow(ed)” your talent into something worthy(?)—rather than bash, bash, bash …making the money ill-earned. You are otherwise a hypocrite.

So when the youth are being uninventive, rally against your environmentalist friends who have turned every childs' 6th grade laboratory experiment, every backyard or vacant lot, every home kitchen into a legal challenge by their neighboring Greenpeace or Sierra Club activist…

And when these young adults are ready to market some invention, rally against your new anti-capitalist friends who want to over-regulate goods going out—but not put tariffs on goods coming in. Then rally against taxing this young inventor and producer “carbon” taxes for having to experiment with the product until it is perfected… and “health care penalty” taxes just for starting into business and hiring employees…

So when the young inventor succeeds, and goes to buy his first home… but the bail-out loans that are taken by the 80% of Borrowers, who fall in the category of “sub-prime” Borrowers”, who ARE literate, and NOT as you implied—“poor” and incapable of reading…* [those who used ALL the equity in their older-almost-paid-off home to over-invest or “buy up” to a bigger, gotta’-have-it-to-be-cool, new or speculation home; (that they KNEW began as a 1% balloon for which they were advised WOULD increase in 1/3/5 years… —but hoped their acceptance of this falsity would not be shattered by the truth]; who speculated that their equity in their new home would immediately increase based on the false home values they decided to accept as truth… ] *--when they leave NO ROOM FOR THE BANKS TO MAKE NEW LOANS TO MORE QUALIFIED PERSONS; YOU tell the young inventor, Mr. Moore, to learn to live within his means… so you ensure he feels his hard work and inventiveness are all in vain…

Michael Moore, people like you with all your proclaimed greatness—so much better than me, and people ‘like me’ :… are you going to ‘do what Jesus would do’ and sponsor 30 families, with your $30 million dollars… so you can get your camel through the eye of the needle?

Angela Peters
The PatriotMessenger@blogspot.com

Recrimination?

Why that word, Professor Gates?

Recrimination:  1.  the act of recriminating; the meeting of one accusation with another.  2.  in law, an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a countercharge.  (Websters New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd Edition, latest copyright 1983.)

Might be that Gates is feeling a bit leary over the undying (and hopefully not!) backlash from those he has vehemently insulted--i.e. a whole segment of America?!  Well I do hope the fervor is kept alive until racism and the REAL racists are forced to admit that is themselves reflected in their own mirror! 

This nonsense has got to stop, and it could in our time if those like Gates--and Obama--with influence and a constant audience of new thinkers, would only make it so.  But instead they choose to thrive on the negative, making that platform Mr. Obama campainged on of being "post-racial" very weak indeed.  To tout yourself as from the highest levels ("don't you know who I am?")--and be accomplished--no doubt, through mandated programs you support which encourage your inclusion--but then to talk to a police officer doing his job as if you have never left "the hood" (their term of endearment for where they came from--not mine!):  how sad.  How pathetic your display of "progress", Mr. Gates and Barack Obama. 

So you say 'no need for recrimination...'  Mr. Gates, since you have yet to apologize for your accusation that Officer Crowley arrested you because he was being racist towards you, is this suggestion of no recrimination your way, then, of admitting your accusations to be false and regrettable? 

Gates and Obama, how about a real apology? ...to us all.

Angela Peters

The Patriot Messenger @ blogspot

Founder, The 3% Foundation  3%:W.A.R. (We'll Abolish Racism)

Your discredit of Lou Dobbs position on the Birth Certificate issue is unfair to Orliz Taitz and others

Your discredit of Lou Dobbs position on the Birth Certificate issue is unfair to Orliz Taitz and others

Bill O'Reilly - I love your show, but... you discredit the quest for proof of Obama’s legitimate proof of citizenship in such a defaming manner, as if your opinion on this trumps the truth. And the truth is, Orly Taitz, Alan Keyes, Philip Berg, Leo Donofiro, active military men, and now Lou Dobbs are risking much emerging as leaders in this determination—a determination that could help move the use of the Office of President of the United States to end faster if it indeed has been ill-earned and is being ill-used. It is sad and wrong to see you so awfully discredit the efforts of these persons, to appease CNN or whomever you were appealing to on July 27, 2009, as I watched you lamb-baste Lou Dobbs for being a lone man among those wolves at CNN. I am appalled with you for doing this, and you Bill, owe these persons an apology.

There is enough doubt about the ‘proof of citizenship’ question—and the question is not if he is a citizen by other right. But to hold the highest position of THIS land requires a certain claim to this fatherland that many of us would still like respected. It would be nice if, with you influence, you desired the same; but since you don’t, could you at least not conclude Dobbs intentions as if a fame-seeking hack, because YOU choose to cave to this very legitimate concern? I thank you for your time and consideration of the extension of that aopolgy…

If this truth is finally revealed, I do hope you will be “fair and balanced”, and report it—despite the possibility of having to retract the strong objections and outright derogatory implications you placed on the reputations of those you discredited.

The Patriot

NEW WORD FOR YOUR VOCABULARY

NEW WORD FOR YOUR VOCABULARY

Years ago when I sometimes used unsavory language, I often used the
expression "Bull Sh**." As I grew up a bit and discovered it was not
necessary to use such crude language, that expression became "BS" or, in the
military, "Bravo Sierra"

Q. What did I really mean when I used those expressions?

A. I meant that something was ridiculous, idiotic, a half-truth, or just
stupid. It covered any number of negative formats. The dictionary defines it
as: nonsense; especially foolish insolent talk.

I have decided that I will no longer use either of those expressions in the
future. When I have the need to express those feelings, I will use the word
"Pelosi".

Let me use it in a sentence. "That's just a bunch of Pelosi." I encourage
you to do the same. It is such a good word. It really packs a lot of punch.
We are no longer being vulgar but it clearly expresses our feelings. If
enough of us use it, it's possible we can get the word in the dictionary.
That would be an excellent legacy for the Speaker of the House.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO AT LEAST 1000 PEOPLE...

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WOW! History repeats itself - Looks just like today

Do you think we can teach the young to want to learn from the past...  and what NOT to do?

Cartoon from 1934 Chicago Tribune: The circle of history continues:

(Why do these themes all sound so familiar?)

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Anne Wortham Speaks for Many

Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas. Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality. Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004 she was awarded tenure.

No He Can't
by Anne Wortham
Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America .

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good.

There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

You Really Don't Mind Your Children Will Pay For This?

"Free Enterprise classes taught us 'eliminate your (credit card) debt' , so why would you want to put your whole country in this kind of debt? 

You really don't mind having your children pay for your bailment?  You can sleep at night knowing they had nothing to do with the mess you are having them pay for out of their first earnings out of college? 

Ten years from now you will be back on your feet--if you've looked at the proper historical teachings from successful and proven economic errors; and quickly reverse some of the ill- and mis-guided financial and social decisions that you didn't understand were being made; just completely misunderstood...  ...you'll realize you participated in approving, instituting, and further paying even more of your needed earnings into unproven programs 'during the Obama era', at a time when ensuring financial stability in America was regained was utterly important!  And you'll realize you looked at his/their methodology and it was the wrong one.

This is what puts me ill-at-ease with so many who are supposedly profoundly educated, are in education, or have been a part of the proven success like the rich and hollywood:  their quest was for 'change'.  Change from what Bush supposedly started (not!) then left us with. 
Change from top executives taking the pensions of the workers and leaving their--our--parents without a retirement to live on.  Change to overpriced hospital stays for common human conditions that just require typical, but price-councisoue maintenance; and change to overpriced specialty and surgical procedures that save lives!  Change to imbalanced educational opportunities where children aren't getting a quality education...though what this entails differs in a variety of ways.  A stop to the banking fees that only set you back further; and profit-driven lending practices that Countrywide and others promoted and for which I have first-hand knowledge (and quickly sought other employment); that ruin the balance in the housing market and frenziee buyers into ill-informed, money-driven, unwise decisions... 

I was part of how the consumer was influenced, and I saw the excitement from the customer as they secured excesses of dollars on their homes, as the mortgage industry forced unsustainable equity values on homes during appraisals; the theory was to 'use your home and it's equity line as your own "bank"'--a great theory when the scales are balanced, as they still are for so many who didn't fall for the scheme and didn't over borrow on home equity lines, roll home construction upgrades, cars, or pricey vacations and purchases into 30 year home loans--things that should be short-term payments just as they are short term pleasures.

But the lenders were pocketing big bonuses, and structuring the loans in their favors--earning a piece of the loan sell all the way to the top including those in Congress with ties to the industry; they who are still benefitting.  Well they haven't given the bonuses back, have they?

No, the taxes we'll pay for all the bail-outs will help them not to have to give any of it back.  And will help them keep all their homes, cars, and other assets.  Does...  that... make you feel like a "patriotic American"?

So now allow them to grow an even bigger, I mean-- HUGE government, to supposedly "fix" the far smaller mess that Obama "inherited" (which includes the $800 billion President Bush approved right before exiting office in 2008)!  That's change?!

I find you can line out a historical timeline and still this current Congress and New Administration are bolstered up by their unrelenting fan base.  Not even the facts matter to them.

OK, I'll state some:  Reagan did pull us out of Carters disastous and socialist economic schemes, and re-enstilled pride in America.  Whether you like that or not it is a documented truth. 

His economic theories worked for an era of Americans that took pride in their successes.  They were a wide span of ages, just like today with the Obama support shown.  And they were given huge opportunities to "produce".  And those inventions and creations they had been planning while in school in the 60's and 70's and becoming professionals in their trades began to be implemented in the 70's and 80's, and they were proud of what they acheived, and that which other countries envied.

Envied and later began to purchase, spurring more and more capital driven industry. 

The government paid for what it was supposed to, like defense and national security, education, and health-care, --more than you ever would realize because you don't research the facts, and journalists no longer report them!

It was a truth... but this new "era" of Americans seem to be willing to disregard it; to have their way paid through the government as a "the government owes me for allowing Enron to rob my parents" holdover in their psychy.  Why work hard to fix this, "the rich" caused it?!

And--documented and factually--those "rich" are the very ones they have elected into office to run our country (majority of top rich are Democrats), and who--since 2006--could have "changed" any thing bad about 'Bush's policies' they thought could better the country; but they've done nothing of the sort!

They won't hear the recommendations of we, the opposition, to just leave us, the markets, the industries, alone (!) to self-manage; with proper government oversight and even regulations.  There can be some that support fairness in the industry, not the government.

Yes--use your "trainings" and "eco-classes" to teach men at the top with greed in their hearts not to rob from those who feed them, working hard at the bottom.  Start with your own "leadership"!

Ask them to be there in a disaster and missions or recovery; but let the churches and social agencies manage the manners of men and faith and religion and marriage--not the government whatsoever no matter the genders.

But pay the trillions and trillions in tax money that, as a matter of fact, has to be paid from we tac payers, to "close the loop".  Even if we borrow the money from a foreign country, it-has-to-be-paid-back-somehow; if not earned from those countries via tarriffs, sales of our products, investment in our industries...  all that which requires hard workers to want to keep that "American way" of existing going. 

But instead we will pass this on to our children, and more than likely their children...

You really, really... don't mind... do you?

Posted to "The Patriot Messenger" 2-25-2009
by "The Patriot"
A. Peters

Did you see this on your TV?

I AM SO PROUD OF US!!!

BRUCE! JD! 

HATS OFF TO YOU--HOORAH HOORAH FOR THE VICTORY OUR--YOUR--PRESENCE SHOWED TODAY IN ARIZONA!  WE STAND UP AND SPEAK, AND DO A FINE AND SOPHISTICATED JOB OF IT!

I SAY IT LIKE I WAS THERE; BUT I WASN'T, HAVEN BEEN SCHEDULED FOR AN OFFSITE (COMPANY PAID) TRAINING TOO FAR FROM CHANDLER TO RISK MULTI-TASKING; BUT I KEPT IN TOUCH VIA MY HUSBAND AND FRIENDS AND KNOW YOU BOTH, ALONG WITH STRONG, SUPPORTIVE, LIKE-MINDED ARIZONANS MADE A SUCCESS OF THIS EVENT AND SHOWED AMERICA HOW TO STAND UP FOR FREE AND OPEN DEBATE.

I ENVY YOU ALL--THE THOUSANDS OF YOU (I COUNT) ON THE PICTURES HERE ON YOUR SITE.

"EXCELLENT!"

"THE PATRIOT"  'ANGELA FROM CHANDLER'

ANGELA PETERS

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"to a chess game from a boxing match." ...and we (the U.S.) are the Pawns.

Iran pretty much just told Obama 'where to go' if he thinks a cordial talk will make them change their inherint idealisms, and the plans they have for gaining power and control. The opening statement says it all.

Iran recently tested their satellite and rocket launch technology. Working in this industry I can inform you this is very crucial to what their intent is. According to the article, Iran doesn't intend to let the 'pain' go..., of what the beleive is harsh American policy. The new administration recently issued Executive Orders which forced charges to be dropped against an al quaeda leader, now detained. He will be freed to continue his relationship with other extreme leaders, like in Iran. This is what we all now face where we are now going...

Elections have consequences.

Posted by "The Patriot"

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Iran: US must rethink policies for reconciliation

By GEORGE JAHN and DAVID RISING – 20 hours ago

MUNICH (AP) — Iran sternly dismissed decades of U.S. policies targeting Tehran and declared Friday that the new American administration had to admit past wrongs before it could hope for reconciliation.
The comments by Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani at an international security conference in Munich appeared to be the most detailed outline yet of Tehran's expectations from President Barack Obama's administration.
"The old carrot and stick policy must be discarded," he said, alluding to Western threats and offers of rewards to coax Iran to give up nuclear activities the West views as threatening. "This is a golden opportunity for the United States."
Obama has said the U.S. is ready for direct talks with Iran in efforts to overcome concerns that its nuclear program could be used to develop atomic weapons. Tehran denies that and insists its aims are peaceful. The former U.S. administration refused one-on-one negotiations with Tehran on the issue unless it made significant nuclear concessions beforehand.
There was no immediate U.S. reaction to Larijani's comments.
Vice President Joe Biden was due the conference Saturday and was expected to try to muster more European troops for Afghanistan. But there is no sign that general European favor for the new U.S. administration has overcome the reluctance of some allies to contribute more soldiers.
The U.S. plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, roughly doubling its presence. But coming into the conference, German officials have reiterated that they do not want to commit to more forces. Still, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said before the meetings that did not mean the door to such discussions was closed.
Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to push allies at the conference for a greater share of the diplomatic, military and economic burdens confronting the Obama administration in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Larijani evaded a question on whether he planned to meet with Biden, but said Washington needed to change its tactics in engaging Iran, "to a chess game from a boxing match."
Senior Iranian officials have cautiously welcomed the new U.S. proposal of direct talks. But on Friday, Larijani, his country's former chief nuclear negotiator, delivered a blistering condemnation of what he described as failed and evil U.S. actions against his country and in the region. He declared the U.S. had to own up to the past before it could hope for a better future with Iran.
"In the past years, the U.S. has burned many bridges but the new White House can rebuild them" if it "accepts its mistakes and changes its policies," Larijani said.
He condemned Washington's backing for Iraq in its 1980s war against Iran and its support of Israel. Larijani said those policies and others in the region failed in their declared purpose of rooting out terrorism and finding hidden weapons of mass destruction.
On the nuclear standoff, he said, Washington "has tried to sabotage any diplomatic solution." Without U.S. acknowledgment of failure and wrongdoing, "do you expect this pain to go away?" he asked.
Outside the conference, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband criticized Tehran's decision to launch a satellite this week, while Germany's foreign minister urged Iran to engage in direct diplomacy with the U.S.
Iran launched a satellite Monday — touching off concerns among experts in Europe, the U.S. and Israel about the potential for links between Iran's satellite program and its work with missiles and nuclear technology.
Speaking outside the gathering of a dozen world leaders and more than 50 top ministers, Miliband said that even if the launch was for civilian purposes as Iran claims, it sent the wrong signal, considering Obama's offer to talk directly to defuse the nuclear crisis.
"Given that President Obama said that he was stretching out a hand if Iran would unclench its fist, I don't think that this was an unclenching of a fist," Miliband told AP Television News.
He also urged Iran to work with the IAEA to disprove suspicions that its nuclear activities were geared toward producing weapons — and warned of new penalties if it does not.
"The commitment of the new American administration to engage with Iran is right and important, but if Iran defies international opinion then there inevitably have to be stronger and tougher sanctions," he said, referring to the possibility of new U.N. Security Council measures.
Larijani dismissed Miliband's concerns about the launch. "What possible causes for concern can that satellite be?" he asked. "This satellite is not a weapon of mass destruction."

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How hypocritical...

How can Obama call the Wall Street bonuses "shameful", knowing they are the earnings of his friends! Now come on. if you don't think some of that bonus money is going to employees of George Soros, or Nancy Pelosi? Then you are still hypnotized…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28930103#28930103

I will give him credit that he asked them to at least wait and take their bonuses another time. He knows not to bite the hand that feeds him.

I Hope "He Fails" Too!

Rush,
SAY IT OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER AGAIN!

"I HOPE HE FAILS", TOO!!
...Because if he succeeds at socialism, America--as it has been and we know it can be--is done with.

WE ARE WITH YOU, Rush!

"The Patriot Messenger"

The Liberal Media - What a difference 4 years makes!

Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:

"Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops die in unarmored Humvees"

"Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times"

"Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft"


Headlines Today:

"Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million"

"Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party"

"Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate"

"Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration"

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005 ~~~

Obama Puts America First?

With Obama's decision to chose an Arab media outlet as his first official press conference, I question what position American holds in it's new leader's eyes.

Obama is moving quickly to befriend Arab nations, before knowing "their design".

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/27/pub-obama-administration-tests-new-approach-muslim-world/

Oprah, eh?

Ah! The reason for the "Oprah Love" for Barack Obama is now brought to light. A Senate seat. Wonder what he promised Kanye...

THANK YOU, JD!

JD,

I can't thank you enough for inviting me on our show to talk with you more in-depth about some of the issues I've been confronting with family, friends, and loved ones, surrounding the election of Barack Obama!

I hope it helps anyone who might read this Blog to read the details behind what prompted you to ask me to call in, when they read the story below (entitled "Confronted").

So sorry my blog was so full of old posts. I just couldn't put forth the words while I watched the circus alreaady start to take shape... but that confrontation rattled me right back into shape and ready to take on the next 4 years' challenges!

Now is NOT the time to give up fighting for America. The time is now more than ever.

It gave me peace of mind and encouragement to talk to you and all your listeners, JD; and I'll retain the "hope" that we can overwhelm the next generation of voters with the truth so they will do what is RIGHT and seek a Conservative mindset for the way to keep America great.

Thanks again, JD!
Always proud to have been born an American.
"The Patriot"

Confronted

Dear JD...

I just had our company security guard--who is Black--challenge me in our lobby (in front of an HR representative!) on why I am not in agreement with the election of our new President, and why I ever was a Bush supporter!!

He wouldn't back down, as eloquently as I tried to defend my decisions and opinions without lambasting him with the opinions of him that were coming to the forefront of my mind... (I held back. You'd all be proud. My teammates were.)

He loudly carried on and on about his dislike and disdain for President Bush and his brother Jeb. He declared this "Happy no more Bush day" right in front of 3 of my co-workers (which included the HR rep)--and was shocked I disagreed! I felt a bit bullied.

Claiming to have have an unfavorable military experience while Bush was Commander in Chief, either he knows I am one of the few (3%) Black Americans who is Conservative and republican-leaning--so he openly taunted me to get my reaction; or he truly supports his own point of view and was willing to take the risk of offending me in front of Human Resources, our supposed first line of defense for personnel conflicts.

But will what he did to me be considered a "reprimandable offense", as I've seen so many of 'us' (often labeled the "politically incorrect" crowd) remaining cautious of--watching every word, gesture, or joke we make, to ensure we are not "offending" someone? Or am I to just "let it slide...", "take it as a joke"..., or worse--be made to feel I deserved that because my views differ?

AND 'WE' ARE SUPPOSE TO START PLAYING NICE TO THIS CROWD THAT NEVER HAS BEEN SO THEMSELVES?!

I started a new Blog last year. It was pretty coarse. I wasn't nice to Black Americans like him...all 97% of them; nor White apologists for that matter. I was pretty poignant about my stand on Illegal immigration, and the Hispanic opinion of Barack Obama... And now I don't regret it.

This kind of ridicule coming from liberal leftists and Blacks is only going to continue--not end--just because Obama was elected. I know I should be "nice", but I am just not ready.

I am going to revamp my Blog--and will find a way to stay "above them" and confrontations like this. It is publicly and openly known I am a Conservative, Black American who has challenged the Black status quo for years, to the exclusion of friends, family, pastor and fellow parishioners, teachers, and anyone else who wishes to continue pushing these old, tired, negative opinions of the USA, all Whites as evil, and decrying anyone else not liberal like they are to be mad, bad, or crazy--as was done to me.

Their direction (liberalism, socialism) is not going to solve any problems in this country; it is not going to solve the self-esteem problem I declare is the root-cause of Black and Hispanic dependence on big government, as they look to the government to legislate how to create a happy life for themselves!

As the callers on JD's show last night noted (including myself), so many Blacks and Whites just must be "stuck in the '60s..." continuing to look back rather than look current at how far race-relations have come over just the past 50 years; long before Barack Obama--and in spite thereof.

Well, despite it's historical strife I remain positive-minded and absolutely in-love with America; and give credit to see the amazing works and progress of true leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., my parent;s generation--who fought the fight with him, and the 50% of us who know America is truly a great country despite what the media, liberals, and Democratic Congress and Senate continue to say.

I happened to have always loved this country, Honorable First Lady Michelle...

And no one will bully me into changing my opinion.

"The Patriot Messenger"

I WAS VERY ANGRY, AND I ADMIT IT

But no matter how I felt on November 5th, it did not stop Barack Obama from becoming our President. I have no choice but maturely to accept the fact, and move onward.

My fight has just begun, though.

Though still angry, I know that I would do no less than treat any and all Presidents of this United States with utter respect. I love this country too much to do anything but.

But first I love myself enough not to show such disdain; especially as I did in my blog entitled “He Will Not Be My President”. I apologize to you, my reader.

“The Patriot”
God Bless America
God Bless our Troops

MISTAKES... ??

(Regarding Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary...)

Sure is amazing how all the moral and ethical wrongs with Obama's Cabinet and administrative picks are only "mistakes"...

When my business was audited it didn't matter whether is was a mistake or not--we had to pay our taxes no matter!!!

Must be nice to be friends with this President-Elect....

I watch this circus called "the new Administration" with utter amazement over the next 4(!) years.