Great lyrics/video above

(Flipsyde)
Happy Birthday
Make a wish

Please accept my apologies, I wonder what would have been.
Would you have been a little angel or an angel of sin?
Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys.
Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes.
I paid for the murder before they determined the sex,
choosing our life over your life meant your death.
And you never got a chance to even open your eyes,
sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you fought for your life.
Would you have been a little genius? In love with math?
Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?
Would you have been a little rapper like your poppa The Piper?
Would you have made me quit smoking by finding one of my lighters?
I wonder about your skin tone and shape of your nose,
and the way you would've laughed and talked fast or slow.
I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen.
Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would've been.

(t.A.T.u.)
Happy Birthday
What I thought was a dream
Make a wish
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake

(Flipsyde)
I got a million excuses, as to why you died.
And other people got their own reasons for homicide.
Who's to say it would've worked and who's to say I wouldn't have
I was young and struggling, but old enough to be a dad.
The fear of being my father has never disappeared,
I ponder it frequently while I'm sippin' on my beer.
My vision of a family was artificial and fake
so when it came time to create, I made a mistake.
But now you got a little brother, maybe it's really you.
Maybe you really forgave us knowing we were confused.
Maybe, every time that he smiles it's you proudly
knowing that your father's doing the right thing now.
I'll never tell a woman what to do with her body,
but if she don't love children, then we can't party.
I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen.
Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would've been.
Happy birthday

(t.A.T.u.)
Happy Birthday
What I thought was a dream
Make a wish
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake

(Flipsyde)
And from the Heavens to the womb to the Heavens again.
From the ending to the ending, never got to begin.
Maybe one day we can meet face to face,
in a place without time and space.
Happy birthday.

(t.A.T.u.)
Happy Birthday
What I thought was a dream
Make a wish
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake

This is what the numbers say!!

WHO HAS ABORTIONS?
At least 80% of all abortions are performed on unmarried women (CDC).
The abortion ratio for unmarried women is 510 abortions for every 1,000 live births. For married women it is 61 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).
Women between the ages of 20-24 obtained 33% of all abortions (CDC).
50% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25; women aged 20-24 obtain 33% of all U.S. abortions and teenagers obtain 17% (AGI).
Adolescents under 15 years obtained less than 1% of all abortions, but have the highest abortion ratio, 773 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).
47% of women who have abortions had at least one previous abortion (AGI).
Black women are more than 4.8 times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely (AGI).
43% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% identify themselves as Catholic (AGI).



http://www.abort73.com/?/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/


Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, by year

• At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45[4], and, at current rates, about one-third will have had an abortion.[5,6]
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?

• Fifty percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25: Women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 17%.[7]
• Thirty-seven percent of abortions occur to black women, 34% to non-Hispanic white women, 22% to Hispanic women and 8% to women of other races.**
• Forty-three percent of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% as Catholic.[3]
• Women who have never married obtain two-thirds of all abortions.[3]
• About 60% of abortions are obtained by women who have one or more children.[7]
• The abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level ($9,570 for a single woman with no children) is more than four times that of women above 300% of the poverty level (44 vs. 10 abortions per 1,000 women). This is partly because the rate of unintended pregnancies among poor women (below 100% of poverty) is nearly four times that of women above 200% of poverty* (112 vs. 29 per 1,000 women[3,1]



WORLDWIDE

Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000

Where abortions occur:
83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in developed countries.

© Copyright 1996-2008, The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (www.agi-usa.org)

UNITED STATES

Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

Who's having abortions (age)?
52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.

Who's having abortions (race)?
While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.

Who's having abortions (marital status)?
64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.

Who's having abortions (religion)?
Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical".

Who's having abortions (income)?
Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions; Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.


http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html





Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, by year

• At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45[4], and, at current rates, about one-third will have had an abortion.[5,6]
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?

• Fifty percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25: Women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 17%.[7]
• Thirty-seven percent of abortions occur to black women, 34% to non-Hispanic white women, 22% to Hispanic women and 8% to women of other races.**
• Forty-three percent of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% as Catholic.[3]
• Women who have never married obtain two-thirds of all abortions.[3]
• About 60% of abortions are obtained by women who have one or more children.[7]
• The abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level ($9,570 for a single woman with no children) is more than four times that of women above 300% of the poverty level (44 vs. 10 abortions per 1,000 women). This is partly because the rate of unintended pregnancies among poor women (below 100% of poverty) is nearly four times that of women above 200% of poverty* (112 vs. 29 per 1,000 women[3,1]

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

Prayers needed

Health Care Bill Promoting Abortion Will Get House Vote Next Week Despite Senate
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 24, 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Despite a move by Senate leaders to postpone any vote on a health care bill that could promote abortion funding and coverage until September, the House will likely vote next week. The measure it will consider probably won't have any limits on abortion that pro-life groups are requesting.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told NPR today that the House will likely vote on its government-run health plan before it breaks for its August recess.

After meeting with pro-abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Emanuel told NPR, "their intention is to go next week and she is working toward that goal."

Congress "can use the summer months to basically work out and iron out differences," he said.

"Having a deadline focuses the mind," he said.

Without abortion limits, a group of 40 pro-life Democrats are focused on defeating the bill. Combined with Republicans they would possibly have enough votes to stop either the rules for debate or the bill itself on the House floor.

President Barack Obama had been pushing for Congress to complete its work on a bill before its traditional August recess, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday that a vote will not take place until afterwards.

"It's better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through," Reid said.

Obama said he is fine with the Senate waiting to vote and expects a bill on his desk by the end of the year.

"We just heard today that, well, we may not be able to get the bill out of the Senate by the end of August, or the beginning of August," Obama said. "That's OK. I just want people to keep on working. Just keep working."

What pro-life advocates want Congress to work on is an addition of amendments that would stop taxpayer funding of abortion in the health care and mandates that insurance companies cover it in their plans.

Just this week, President Obama told CBS News he didn't want to "wade into" the debate over whether taxpayers should be forced to pay for abortions within his health care takeover.

But pro-life advocates say the president has already "waded in" and point to comments one of his top staffers made to Planned Parenthood last week urging the pro-abortion group to continue lobbying to keep abortion in the health care plan.

Without an explicit amendment making sure that the benefits advisory committee the bills would establish can't define abortion into the health care restructuring package.


My Thoughts:

Mr.Obama I realize your job is overflowing with duties and bills and basically trying to find a middle ground to appease all of the Americans, but from where I stand. You seem to be working towards a goal which is hindering, lowering,breaking down this countries foremost valued traditions. Mr. Obama our morale is broken and we are all concerned with where we are heading, I am sure you have a plan or you would not be where you are Today.. Please think about how Catholics feel when you tell us we may have to support abortion because we pay taxes. I can not speak for all Catholics, but I know I feel disgusted thinking about the day coming when I will be forced to pay for Abortions since I'm a taxpayer. My greatest wish is that you would somehow read this and it would touch your heart knowing how I feel. Although I know I am one of many millions, I think my voice matters.

Thanks for taking a Peek.

THANK YOU ALL WHO VISITED TODAY:

NETHERLANDS

ITALY

FRANCE

SPAIN

SWITZERLAND

ROMANIA

NORWAY

Friday Funnies

We all need to Laugh: So here it is: I really could not help myself.
I got the cartoons from TownHall.com

Sadness

I felt like crying when I listened closely to this.
I HAVE TO SAY THE END WAS THE ICING. I felt the tear come down..
Which I realized How Much I Love This Country.
I HOPE GOD HEARS MY PRAYERS AND ANYONE ELSES.

I choose Life.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Pro-life advocates in both political parties, as well as leading anti-abortion organizations, are calling for abortion coverage to be explicitly excluded from health-care reform legislation, with some warning the current proposals present the greatest threat to unborn children since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
President Obama has been pushing Congress to approve a massive overhaul of the country's health-care system before its month-long recess, which is scheduled to begin in early August. While critics have expressed opposition on a number of fronts to the measures introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives, protests about the potential for government-subsidized abortions under the plans have mounted recently.

Several Republican House members spoke out against the abortion implications in the health-care measures at a July 14 news conference on Capitol Hill, with some charging that abortion would be mandated in not only the government-run health-care option but the private insurance plans with which it would compete. On June 25, 19 pro-life Democrats wrote Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to say they would not support health-care reform "unless it explicitly excludes abortion" from any government-subsidized plan.

Pro-life organizations, meanwhile, have been sounding the alarm as well, sometimes using the name of the 1973 Supreme Court opinion that legalized abortion to demonstrate the potential repercussions of the proposals.

The versions of health-care reform approved by both Senate and House committees "would result in the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade," Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), said in a July 18 e-mail alert. "These bills, which President Obama is pushing hard, would result in federally mandated coverage of abortion by nearly all health plans, federally mandated recruitment of abortionists by local health networks and nullification of many state abortion laws. They would also result in federal funding of abortion on a massive scale. The pro-life movement needs to go to Condition Red on these bills, because they pose a mortal threat to the unborn and they are on a fast track to enactment."

The Southern Baptist Convention's public policy entity also has warned of the Senate bill's failure to protect unborn children or pro-life convictions.

The public plan in the Senate version "has no conscience protections for pro-life medical practitioners who cannot in good conscience perform or facilitate abortions," Richard Land, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission's president, said in a July 9 letter to the 16 U.S. senators in the Moderate Dems Working Group. "There isn't even any language in the bill to prevent abortion under practically any circumstance. The bill's failure to explicitly protect these pro-life values would become a twisted mandate to ignore them."

Pro-life foes of the reform proposals say abortion would be required in the public plan, as well as private ones.

The House bill, H.R. 3200, would authorize the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), currently abortion rights supporter Kathleen Sebelius, or an advisory committee to mandate abortion coverage as an "essential benefit," according to a NRLC examination released July 16. If the panel or the HHS secretary does not require such coverage, federal courts would, NRLC says.

Under the House bill, "there is no doubt that coverage of abortion will be mandated, unless Congress explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of federal authority to define 'essential benefit,'" according to NRLC.

Pro-lifers point to the experience of Medicaid funding of abortion in the mid-1970s to buttress their contention. There was no mention of abortion coverage in the legislation establishing Medicaid in 1973. Abortion was funded, however, under the law until 1976, when the Hyde Amendment took effect and prohibited money from being used for the procedure under the program.

The Obama administration has given pro-life advocates little reason to doubt their analysis.

The White House's budget director, Peter Orszag, refused July 19 to rule out abortion being underwritten by federal funds in a public insurance plan.

On "Fox News Sunday," Chris Wallace asked Orszag, "Are you prepared to say that in a government public-funded, taxpayer-funded public health insurance plan that no taxpayer money will go to pay for abortions?"

"I think that that will wind up being part of the debate," Orszag said. "I am not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's obviously a controversial issue, and it's one of the questions that is playing out in this debate."

Laugh it up.

different views

I realize I have not posted in a week or so, But family visiting. I am back and wanted to share the conversation I had with some friends and relatives. Even after having been warned by family not to talk politics and religion, what else is there. Enjoy the light reading...

I am trying to realize our government has our best interest at heart, Right.. I will pray for us. (says person one)



In reference to what? (says person two)



cap and trade, buying votes for cap n trade (ohio) supporting tyrants and dictators, mandated healthcare, wall street buyouts, retroactive taxes, in bed with ACORN, redistribution of wealth, congress not reading the bills they are passing, congress hiring speed readers to read bills they are passing,stealin GM from the bond holders(bond holders put in 25B, gov't 15B, bondholders get 15% of company, govt gets 51%,
allow china to tap our oil reserves in the gulf by slant drilling(don't worry they will be careful not to damage our environment), Europe's Bank and Auto buyouts have failed so what do we do, that and then some, i have to stop this at some point, but in short they are nationalizing everything, trying to overload the system so that the people will demand a new one, Socialism. The only people who will benefit will be the ones who are in power now which is why they don't care about the destruction of America as we know it. America, Land of Opportunity, Not!!! Land of entitlement. ( SAYS PERSON ONE IN RESPONSE)


Give it time! It's not going to happen overnight. Bush did some job getting this country to where it is now, and now Obama is fixing it, but it's not going to happen overnight. Give it time. ;-) It's a Democratic Thing! (says person Three)


Bush made it bad, Obama like him or not is making it worse. It is no longer a democrat-republican thing, its an American thing. Every Obama supporter always brings it back to Bush. I agree with you, now what, when are you going to allow Obama's gov't to take some responsibility. Bush tried a stimulus package, didn't work so what do we do, pass a bigger one! By the way, where do you think the money comes from? The gov't does not create wealth, they confiscate it and it give it to others. Redistribution of wealth plain and simple. But what happens when there is no longer anyone left to take money from, then what? Helping your family, your neighbors, your friends is something that as Americans we should do. However, having the gov't bail out people who have been irresponsible is something else entirely. This is what we are doing, rewarding bad behavior and punishing those who play by the rules.
And remember, all the money in Washington does not belong to gov't as politicians(dems/repubs) would have you believe. It is our money, and they work for us!!! That is why I will be voting out all incumbents regardless of party affiliation, career politicians are a huge part of the problem that we are facing.
And dont forget, it wasn't just Bush, How about Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. They are so deep in the mortgage crisis that they can't get away from it and the housing crash is what started all of this. (SAYS PERSON ONE in response)

As far as Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are concerned, they too are somewhat to blame for the housing crisis but not no where near the Republicans paint them to be. You've got to remember, the folks who took out mortgages to achieve the american dream are losing their homes at alarming rates because they're losing their jobs and paying more for gas , college tuition, health insurance and so on and so on. All these things are occuring because of the economy that was handed down to us by the Republican controlled congress and El Presidente himself, George W. Bush. To say these people are losing their homes because they can't budget their finances is not only wrong but downright mean spirited and you honestly don't have any merit to say otherwise. You are not them and you or any republican for that matter haven't lived one day in their shoes.
And when it comes to Obama and the Saudis you really ought to do your homework on the romance that took place between the Bushes and the Royal Saudi family before you villianize Obama. You have to remember that the Bushes and the Royal Saudi Family are great friends and business partners. They have made a lot of money together. Why is it we didn't involve ourselves with Saudi Arabia when we found out the nationality of several of the 9/11 highjackers were Saudi? Why didn't we go in there ourselves to investigate these ties or to look for Osama Bin Laden( in case you forgot he was the apparent mastermind of the 9/11 attacks which the Bush administration made us forget we were after) ? Yes the Saudi's claimed he was kicked out of the country some time ago but the man still has deep family ties within Saudi Arabia. But we'll never know since the Bush regime refused to crack the whip on the Saudis like they did every other country in the middle east... (person Three response)

Just for kicks.

I got this from the following website: ENJOY!!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

We're just fact-checking McCain's claim that Obama has more czars than the Romanovs. According to the World Book Encyclopedia , there were, as McCain said, 18 Romanov czars, starting with Michael Romanov in 1613 and ending with Nicholas II, who was killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

As for Obama's czars, we've got 28 who have been referred to as a czar ... somewhere. Undoubtedly some will take issue with some of the "czars" on our list, but we think McCain is on solid ground. He earns a True.



Name Czar Title Actual (boring) Title

Herb Allison TARP Czar Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability

Alan Bersin Border Czar Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs

Dennis Blair Intelligence Czar Director of National Intelligence

John Brennan Terrorism Czar Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security

Carol Browner Energy Czar Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change

Adolfo Carrion, Jr Urban Affairs Czar Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs

Ashton Carter Weapons Czar Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics

Aneesh Chopra Technology Czar Chief Technology Officer

Jeffrey Crowley AIDS Czar Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy

Cameron Davis Great Lakes Czar Special advisor to the U.S. EPA overseeing its Great Lakes restoration plan

Nancy-Ann DeParle Health Czar Director of the White House Office of Health Reform

Earl Devaney Stimulus Accountability Czar Chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board

Joshua DuBois Faith-based Czar Director of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Kenneth Feinberg Pay Czar Special Master on executive pay

Danny Fried Guantanamo Closure Czar Special envoy to oversee the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay

J. Scott Gration Sudan Czar Special Envoy to Sudan

Richard Holbrooke Afghanistan Czar Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

John Holdren Science Czar Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology

Van Jones Green Jobs Czar Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality

Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Vivek Kundra Information Czar Federal Chief Information Officer

George Mitchell Mideast Peace Czar Special Envoy to the Middle East

Ed Montgomery Car Czar Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers

Dennis Ross Mideast Policy Czar Special Adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia

Gary Samore WMD Czar Coordinator for the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism

Todd Stern Climate Czar Special Envoy for Climate Change

Cass Sunstein Regulatory Czar Director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Paul Volcker Economic Czar Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board

I think we need more!! What do you think??

very different post

Today I am going to speak about my life and how it has been effected by Homeschooling.
The most important thing I have gotten is knowing my children how a parent should.
The next is being able to know what your child is being taught and actively being responsible.
I also have the ability and honor to share my faith which has now become such a HUGE part of our life.
The high is feeling the accomplishment of a great test score or moving forward to the next grade.
The Best is that god blesses us each and everyday with a little more than the day before.
I share my heart with them and they share theirs.
We are a family, We can stand strong, We can conquer any obstacle, We stands for welcoming education.
I am truly more blessed than my children to have found Homeschooling.
My children make me better in everything I strive to achieve.

Just for laughs

Kids Are Quick
____________________________________
TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: Maria.
____________________________________
TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
__________________________________________
TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
(I Love this kid)
____________________________________________
TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
__________________________________
TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
__________________________________________
TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
_______________________________________
TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with 'I.'
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.
______________________________________
TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
______________________________
TEACHER: Clyde, your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE: No, sir. It's the same dog.
___________________________________
TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher
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PASS IT AROUND
AND MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH!
LAUGHTER IS THE SOUL'S MEDICINE!!

New Name

ACORN Changes Their Name...
Community organization INTL

Interesting how they decided to make this switch to their name also still they will have the same people in charge.
Hopefully they will still keep being investigated for the voter fraud in those 14 states.

I think this is clever on their part to re invent their selves , but I still know who you are, for real..

Whiz Kid.

When I hear this young man talk, I get so happy because I realize he is our future.. We need more of our children to understand things the way he does.. I have to say he will be one to watch, I always try to make sure I catch anytime he is speaking on Television. Have a great Monday.

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GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership: I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.

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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

He can do anything, I guess..

I realized this a bit late and long, but my point is to make you aware of how he uses his power.. I think we already are aware just need an awakening, something to knock us in our head. I know after we hit bottom we will all understand, But must we hit the bottom,can't we just stop where we are and say okay Mr. Obama just do your job, not any showboating or fancy words.. Just helps us the American People whom voted you in office.. I can say I had no part in that. Before I continue to rant on and on, I will stop here.

By ANN SANNER and PETE YOST, Associated Press Writers – Fri Jun 12, 7:06 pm ET


WASHINGTON – An inspector general fired by President Barack Obama said Friday he acted "with the highest integrity" in investigating AmeriCorps and other government-funded national service programs. Gerald Walpin said in an interview with The Associated Press that he reported facts and conclusions "in an honest and full way" while serving as inspector general at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
In a letter to Congress on Thursday, Obama said he had lost confidence in Walpin and was removing him from the position.
Walpin defended his work on Friday. "I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act," he said.
Obama's move follows an investigation by Walpin finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star. Johnson and a nonprofit education academy he founded ultimately agree to repay half of $847,000 in grants it had received from AmeriCorps.
Walpin was criticized by the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento for the way he handled the investigation of Johnson and St. HOPE Academy.
"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general," Obama said in the letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Joe Biden, who also serves as president of the Senate. "That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general."
The president didn't offer any more explanation, but White House Counsel Gregory Craig, in a letter late Thursday to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, cited the U.S. attorney's criticism of Walpin to an integrity committee for inspectors general.
"We are aware of the circumstances leading to that referral and of Mr. Walpin's conduct throughout his tenure and can assure you that the president's decision was carefully considered," Craig wrote.
Walpin said he gave the integrity committee "a full and complete response" that was also signed by several people who worked on the case. "I have no question but that we acted totally properly," he said in the interview.
Grassley had written Obama a letter pointing to a law requiring that Congress be given the reasons an inspector general is fired. He cited a Senate report saying the requirement is designed to ensure that inspectors general are not removed for political reasons.
Grassley said Walpin had identified millions of dollars in AmeriCorps funds that were wasted or misspent and "it appears he has been doing a good job."
The inspector general found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car.
In August 2008, Walpin referred the matter to the local U.S. attorney's office, which said the watchdog's conclusions seemed overstated and did not accurately reflect all the information gathered in the investigation.
"We also highlighted numerous questions and further investigation they needed to conduct, including the fact that they had not done an audit to establish how much AmeriCorps money was actually misspent," Acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown said in an April 29 letter to the federal counsel of inspectors general.
Walpin's office made repeated public comments just before the Sacramento mayoral election, prompting the U.S. attorney's office to inform the media that it did not intend to file any criminal charges.
In settling the case, the government agreed to lift its suspension of any future grants to the academy and Johnson agreed to immediately repay $73,000 in past grants. The academy was given 10 years to repay the remaining $350,000.
Brown said at the time of the settlement that prosecutors determined there was no fraud, but rather a culture of "sloppiness" in St. HOPE's record-keeping.
Kevin Hiestand, chairman of the board of St. HOPE Academy, said in a statement it was "about time" Walpin was removed. "Mr. Walpin's allegations were meritless and clearly motivated by matters beyond an honest assessment of our program," he said.
Ken Bach, who works in the inspector general's office at the national service corporation, will be acting inspector general until Obama appoints someone to the position.
Walpin, a New York attorney, was appointed by then-president George W. Bush and sworn into office in January 2007 after being confirmed by the Senate, according to a news release on AmeriCorps' Web site. Walpin graduated from College of the City of New York in 1952 and received a law degree in 1955 from Yale Law School. He was a partner with the New York City law firm Katten Muchin and Rosenman LLP for more than 40 years.
Alan Solomont, a Democrat and the board chairman of the government-run corporation, and Stephen Goldsmith, a Republican and the board's vice chair, said they strongly endorsed Obama's decision.

You thought you had seen it all.

You have not seen everything until you read this article from Peta.





Jun
17
Obama and the Fly
Posted at 03:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Well, I guess it can't be said that President Obama wouldn't hurt a fly. The commander in chief was recently pestered by a fly during an interview. He swatted at the insect and killed the little guy instantly.
Believe it or not, we've actually been contacted by multiple media outlets wanting to know PETA's official response to the executive insect execution.
In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.
If all this has you wondering how you can be a bigger person (figuratively, as well as literally) in your dealings with exoskeletal beings, check out our handy-dandy bug catcher—one of which we are sending to President Obama for future insect incidents. I can tell you from personal experience that it sure came in handy the other day, when one of my cats was chasing the World's Largest Palmetto Bug around the house.
Posted by Alisa Mullins

Oh my goodness.

This is just horrible, I can't even think of this happening much less having my Children exposed with such an issue.
I don't know all the details, so I can not pass judgment.
But Oh My Goodness. I will just let you figure out and decide for yourself.
I send my prayers to this family and I will pray harder for this Horrible Man.

It just Happened, Rethinking!

Morning,

The best way I can describe this is that now some people may be RETHINKING their choice.
Maybe the way they look at things, also maybe who they support.
But for the most part this says it best. The below video is interesting.

O'Reilly You are Great.

THIS IS WHAT JOAN WALSH WRITES ON HER BLOG ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW:

Sadly, Bill cut me off and derided that comparison as stupid, and went back to asking me his one apparent question: if late-term fetuses deserved any protection. I hemmed and hawed -- I hate that I did that, but as I said, though I'm ardently pro-choice, I'm Irish Catholic, and I was raised to think abortion was wrong -- but in the end, I support the law as it is. My overriding principle is that I believe this very tough choice can only belong to women. It might have been then he said, "You have blood on your hands!" Not sure; we'll watch the video.