Denver had better get ready for some trouble

I really am convinced that Denver is going to be a mess during the Democrat National Convention this summer. I don't think I'd like to be there. You have millions of people in Michigan and Florida and an entire sex that is being ignored and disenfranchised. I bet the whole convention is going to be a train wreck.

Ted Kennedy--somethings up!--UPDATED!!!

WELL, THE NEWS HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED THAT SENATOR KENNEDY HAS A MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMOR THAT HAS CAUSED HIS SEIZURES--APPARENTLY IT IS A MALIGNANT GLIOMA AND THESE ARE TYPICALLY BAD NEWS BASED ON THE CELL MATURITY.
I COULDN'T DISAGREE MORE WITH A POLITICIAN'S BELIEFS BUT I WOULD ASK EVERYONE TO PRAY FOR THE SENATOR AND HIS FAMILY. PRAY FOR HEALING AND FOR PEACE FOR HIS FAMILY.
I POSTED THE MESSAGE BELOW PRIOR TO THIS INFORMATION!

OK I haven't posted as I was thinking I was just being a little too conspiracy oriented but let me give you my reason for thinking somethings up.
#1--On Saturday a picture was flashed over Fox News that showed a picture of Kennedy being transferred to the Lifeflight helicopter from the Cape Cod ER. It appeared that he was intubated and being bagged on the gurney. It was shortly after that that the picture was pulled and we were told he had a seizure and not a stroke.


#2--Everyone who has called the hospital--including the President of the United States--has spoken to his wife and not HIM....if he was sitting up eating clam chowder and watching the Red Sox, why can't he speak on the phone?

#3--EVERY time someone of his significance is hospitalized and is really doing ok, there is a picture taken and passed out to the Journalists for publication to reassure the public. That has not been done. Why?

I am not one to be overtaken by conspiracy theories but we all know how secretive the Kennedys are and we know that if he were to die right now the impact it might have on the Presidential race is unknown. I am just wondering what the real scoop is!!

Obama's officially claimed the Democrat Logo

OK, Senator Obama has officially claimed the Democrat Party logo. He's become a crybaby.

Whaaaaaaa...you can't call me an appeaser!!!!
Whaaaaaaa....you can't pick on my wife!!!
Whaaaaaa...you can't call me a liberal!!
Whaaaaaaa...you can't include all 50 states!!!
Whaaaaaa...you can't link me with my pastor!!!


Somebody call the whaaaaammmmmbulance and get this man some help!! Oh yeah, I can see it now if he becomes President. Can you imagine him crying to the UN? Can you imagine him crying to the Supreme Court? Can you imagine him crying to the President of Iran? Can you imagine him crying to Bin Laden?
If you picture that in your mind, are you sure you want to vote for him?

Soul Speak--Michael McDonald

I have always liked the music by Michael McDonald--even the Doobies had music I really liked. I just got his new album--Soul Speak--and am listening to it as I type. I'm sold!! I actually think this is one of his best and really like his choice of songs. He sings songs from Bob Marley to Stevie Wonder, Bob Morrison, Eddy Arnold and, of course, Michael McDonald.
Awesome album!!

Wow, did the President hit a button or what?

President Bush is in Israel celebrating the 60th birthday of Israel and he is recalling history and the desire to appease dictators in the past and the impact that had on history. Intended or not, he is referring to Senator Obama's plan to sit down and talk to Iran's dictator will defuse their desire to get nuclear weapons etc. Welllll.......that has ticked off the democrat party.

FORMER Senator Daschel came out lamblasting the President for saying this overseas.
FORMER Presidential candidate John Kerry has said this is beneath the presidency.
House Speaker Pelosi has slapped at the President for saying something like this.
Senator Joe Biden said that what the President said was "bull....."

You won't hear them criticize ANY Democrat who goes overseas and criticizes our country or the President. The double standard is amazing.

Think about the picture in Huckabee's Christmas greeting--there was a cross formed by a BOOKCASE no less and the left went nuts! They accused him of all sorts of things but have you heard ANY Democrat criticize the new Obama add standing in front of a neon-lighted cross and pipe-organ in one of his new ads?

Double standard again. Simply amazing that the stupidity of the Democrat Party can get away with this hypocrisy

Republican Party Doom

You cannot abandon the core values of your party and your core constituents and then act amazed when EVERY single special election for congress recently has gone for the Democrat. How stupid are the leaders of our party. I get letter after letter begging me to give to the Republican Party--I cannot, in good conscious, give to them this year. I am not the only one. I will try and help my congressman get elected but that is it.
An article at Hotair.com and Drudge says that the Republican leadership is now in panic mode. Hey, do you think that could be why your constituents AREN'T contributing to the Republican Party? Do you think that is why you just might find yourself unable to sustain any veto the President may use (should it be McCain) over the next 4 years. How stupid are you people at the top of the Party???
We have been trying to get your attention and tell you. If McCain wins it will ONLY be because a certain percentage of Democrats cross over. It will NOT be because the Republican Party elected him. I suspect there is going to be a bunch of Republicans who give up hope and just stay home instead of voting. If the country is going to get screwed up, just go ahead and let the Democrat Party do it and then in 4 or 8 years maybe we can get it back.
Amazing how so many 'smart' people can be so stupid. Simply amazing!!

Oh Yeah, this makes sence!!

THE ANT
A different spin on the old story.



Two Different Versions -- Two Different Morals!

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying
up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out
in the cold.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible!

____________________________________________________


MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up
supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing,
'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper' s sake.

Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and John Edwards exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity& Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having
nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant,
and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of
single-parent welfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while
the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote carefully.

Senator McCaskill with the DRIVE students et.al.

This was after our conversation discussing stem cell research....notice who ISN'T in the picture???

LET them screw the nation up...

and then in four years or eight years, maybe we could get it back? I am on the verge of making a prediction about the next 4 or 8 years. Part of it is out of my frustration with where we find ourselves as conservatives and part of it is out of what looks like the inevitable with regard to the House and Senate.
I am beginning to believe that, regardless if McCain is elected President, the House and Senate are going to be controlled by the Democrat Party. Here is what I believe they will try and push through....
.....1) Raise taxes on the middle/upper income families
.....2) Expand Embryonic Stem Cell Research
.....3) Take over the Health Care Industry in America
.....4) Expand entitlements and dependency on the Federal Government by the ordinary American.
....5) The continued advancement of the secular-humanist control of our nation.
....6) We will lose the war in Iraq and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's will die because of the genocide that will follow.
...7) Iran will get the bomb and destabilize the entirety of the Middle East.

If McCain gets elected President, our only hope is his promise to appoint strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court. That WILL have a lasting legacy in our favor.

You can disagree and not be disrespectful!

The team went to Senator McCaskill's office today. There was quite a group there for her Thursday coffee. I took the team to meet her because she is in need of our prayers EVEN when we strongly disagree with her. Another individual brought up "life sciences" and Senator McCaskill took the time to discuss Stem Cell research but in her intellectual deceptive move, she ignored the word that is so controversial--EMBRYONIC. I could not let that pass and told her that she was speaking about Embryonic Stem Cell research and not ALL stem cell research. I was not disrespectful but in the discussion to follow, it was evident that her view was NOT supported by everyone she represents. Anyway, we were quickly ushered in to have our pictures taken with her and the discussion was over. She tried to compare in-vitro fertilization with cloning. Totally different subjects but she has equated them in her mind and justifies the destruction of cloned embryos by drawing this analogy. Guess some will never get it!!

Justice House of Prayer--Praying for the overturn of Roe v Wade

The young woman and two guys in center joined in prayer with the Justice House of Prayer team in front of the Supreme Court. They are praying for an end to abortion and the overturn of Roe v Wade ending the infanticide that has gone on in this nation for 35 years. I was very proud of these young men and women and their willingness to take a stand!! Way to go guys!!

From DC with LLLLOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE

Well we're back in DC again. We are here this time with ministry students from DRIVE Academy from Riverside Church in St. Joe. When I get my pics downloaded, I will put a few of them up on the page.
They are some motivated young men and women who want to see God in every area of their life. It is good to see. Much more energetic than I am so I am pretty plastered each evening. Great feeling though, seeing them get a desire to pray for our nations capitol.
Interestingly my 7 yr old granddaughter has developed a love for this city. She wants to come every time we bring a team out. This time is no different. She is young and not nearly as energetic but is doing a great job.
Will post more later...headed out again.....aaagggghhhhhh---my feet hurt!!

Operation Chaos operational pause...

has been called by Rush Limbaugh with the freak out by Senator Obama today. The Senator has thrown his preacher Jeremiah Wright under the bus and pandered to the voter. I am here to tell you that if the Senator sat in the church of this preacher for 20 years and is just NOW finding out what he believes and who he is, then the Senator lacks both the wisdom and the intelligence to be President. It's pretty amazing that the Senator didn't do this the first month sitting in the pew at Wright's church.

United Nations

I can't believe the report I just heard on Fox News. Syria and Korea are in cahoots building a nuclear reactor to produce nuclear material that could be used militariliy which would totally destabalize the entirity of the Middle East and Israel destroys the plant with the United States tacit approval and perhaps assistance. The US doesn't reveal the truth for 9 months or so and when it does, the United Nations doesn't get mad at Syria or Korea, no...they get mad at Israel for carrying out an attack that prevented their confirmation and they were mad at the United States for not telling them the truth sooner.
Amazing, if I were the President I would tell the UN to kiss my.....posterior side and then to get out of the country because they were no longer welcome. They are anti-Israel and anti-US and have NO legitimacy any longer. Good riddance and good bye! Take the rest or your anti-semitic, anti-democratic, anti-Christian goobers with you and set up your little club in Somolia or elsewhere.
That really tics me off. The only countries in the whole world with the testicular fortitude to take on real challenges and the UN has the unmitigated gall to bad mouth us. What a useless waste of oxygen!

Voting Democrat? Post 3

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense. com/general75/niht.htm

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million>Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.co m/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

Voting Democrat? Post 2

Taxes...

Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.

www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

Voting Democrat? Post 1

In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

Quote of the Day........"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."(And his changes will screw the people of America and most of them can't see it.) -- Barack Obama

Elitism and Liberalism...

...are synonyms. I don't know how you can look at Obama or Clinton or Edwards and not see that. How they continue to get the vote of the poor and downcast is amazing to me. The view them with contempt and only want to show up for them when they need a vote. Oh they will try and make them as dependent on the government as possible so that they will be more likely to vote for the Democrat party but they could care less, deep down, about these people. What Obama said about small towns and the people of Pennsylvania is simply a reflection of the entire Democrat Party. The Democrats want a bigger government, more dependents on the government, more taxes etc. That is why...if they have more money, they can make more people dependent and make more programs that trap more people etc.
Why the average American can't see this I don't know but I guess we are in for a wild several years!!!

A liar is a liar is a liar....Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!

Well, it seems that the Democrat candidates for President can't seem to tell the truth about things they like to believe are true.

Senator Obama has the story of JFK bringing his father over even though he would be president for a year later. He tells the story of being born around the time of the Selma march and it was some 5 years before. He sat under a pastor's ministry for 20 years but never really knew his stands!!

Senator Clinton thinks she was under sniper fire and in actuality there was no sniper fire. Senator Clinton reportedly said her name was from the British Explorer and that wasn't true. Now she is using in her stump speech a story to implicate the health care industry without checking out the validity of the story!

The theme of the Democrat party should be "NEVER LET THE FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD STORY!" Especially if it advances the point you are trying to make!!

A Bad American

YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN

I Am the Liberal-Progressives' Worst Nightmare. I am an American.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican! I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, do it in English.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to. My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and whoever canceled Jerry Springer.
I don't hate the rich.
I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I've never owned a slave, or was a slave,
I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! So, shut up already.
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country! This is AMERICA .
If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.
I want to know which church is it exactly where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution.
Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry rear if you're running from them...I also think they have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my drivers license. I think it's good..... And I'm proud that "God" is written on my money.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making "donations" to their cause.
I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents, one of each sex.
I believe "illegal" is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.
I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !
If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American

Saudi, Muslims and Europe--I couldn't have said it better!!

This guy says it better than I've heard it said in a long time!!

Don't you agree!!

Obama's tries to distance himself from pastor

I am afraid that it isn't going to work though. If Senator Obama had only gone to the church a few times, we could accept the senators repudiation of the pastor. The problem is that 'Rev.' Wright WAS his spiritual adviser. He WAS the person who shaped the Senator's religious belief. He led the senator to Jesus, he married the senator and his wife, he baptized the children. It was NOT a loose association and for the Senator to repudiate a mentor and teacher is a tough thing and presents the dilemma of disloyalty and the senators judgment and this isn't good for the Senator. I'll say it again, this is THE issue that will bring down the candidacy of Mr. Obama!!

Barak Obama's Pastor WILL be the issue!!

You may not have heard the comments of Senator Obama's pastor but you can go here and get as offended as I was when I heard it.
He WILL be an issue in the campaign this fall if Obama gets the nod. The REASON he will be an issue is that the senator was a member--supporting and attending- the church for the past 20 years which indicates that HE--the Senator--is a believer of what this bigot is spewing.
He is no different than Fred Phelps in Topeka and the hatred his group vomits at the funerals of soldiers etc.
Mark this day--this has the potential to derail Obama's candidacy!!

ECHOES OF 1860: IS “LIFE“ A QUESTION OF STATE’S RIGHTS?

David Barton and Rick Green - 02/2008

ECHOES OF 1860: IS “LIFE“ A QUESTION OF STATE’S RIGHTS?

Much like the election of 1860, the 2008 presidential election has generated a spirited debate over the correct relationship between the state and federal governments. The former election debated the relationship of “states’ rights” to the issue of liberty; the current election has resurrected the issue of “states’ rights” but this time in the areas of life and family. Several current presidential candidates declare themselves to be pro-life and pro-marriage but, citing federalism and “states’ rights,” they oppose either a Human Life or Marriage Amendment to the federal Constitution, claiming that such issues are to be decided by the state rather than the federal government. Yet a candidate’s position on such issues actually identifies their understanding of inalienable rights rather than their commitment to federalism.

In the original governing principles set forth in the Declaration (and then subsequently incorporated into the Constitution through Article VII), the right to life is one of three specifically identified inalienable rights; additional inalienable rights were subsequently enumerated in the Bill of Rights. The original documents – both the Declaration and the Constitution – make clear that the primary purpose of government, at all times and in all situations, is to protect those few inalienable rights.

Some candidates believe that the right to life is inalienable only to the degree that a specific state agrees – that if a state does not believe that the right to life is inalienable, then the federal government should not force the state to protect that right. Yet protection for the few specifically enumerated inalienable rights must always surpass what any particular state wishes – and this is the proper constitutional position on all inalienable rights, whether of life, private property, the right to keep and bear arms, the right of religious expression, etc. It is the duty of all government – including state governments – to protect inalienable rights. In fact, if the philosophy originally set forth in the Declaration of Independence and subsequently secured in the Constitution is rejected – the belief that there is a God, that He gives inalienable rights to man, and that the purpose of government is to protect those rights at all times (even when the states refuse to do so) – then there is no longer a unique American philosophy of government that will distinguish us from the rest of the world.

Understanding this, voices across the nation therefore asserted that what the state of Connecticut did in weakening property rights vis a vi the Kelo decision was intolerable because our founding documents specifically protected the inalienable right of private property through the Fifth Amendment; and they likewise asserted that what Washington, D. C. was doing with gun bans was wrong because it similarly violated the inalienable right to keep and bear arms secured to the people through the Second Amendment. Why, then, do they now believe that it is improper for the federal government to tell states that they must observe the inalienable right to life and traditional family set forth with equal force in the very same documents?

Some candidates have even declared that because they are strict constructionists, they oppose amendments to the Constitution (a strict constructionist is one who supports interpreting the Constitution according to its original intent). Yet, since the Founders specifically included Article V in the Constitution to specify how the Constitution might be amended, then a strict constructionist must also support the part of the Constitution providing for its own amendment. In fact, refusing to consider a constitutional amendment does not reflect strict constructionism but rather a rejection of Article V of the Constitution.

The Founders wisely raised the bar so high as to make it is extremely difficult to pass any amendment, requiring a two-thirds approval of Congress and three-fourths approval of the states before any change could occur. Consequently, while there have been over 10,000 amendments to the Constitution proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have been able to meet the constitutional standard. Of those twenty-seven, twelve were passed by the Founders themselves (the original “strict constructionists”) in only twenty years; in the subsequent two-hundred years, the nation has made just fifteen changes.

Federal constitutional amendments should be rare, but that does not mean they should be non-existent. States cannot be allowed to pick and choose which inalienable rights they will protect (although under the Constitution they are completely competent to determine virtually all other issues). The Constitution was written to preserve American culture and society, not to cause citizens to stand idly by while the culture is destroyed – especially when they have in their hands the means to preserve it through a constitutional amendment in the manner prescribed by the Constitution itself.

Some voices naively assert that simply eradicating abortion at the federal level and returning the issue to the states will correct the problem, but they are completely wrong. When the federal courts get out of the abortion issue and return it to the states, 20 states (based on both pro-life and pro-abortion estimates) will continue their current abortion practices, and those states include many with the largest population (e.g., California, New York, Illinois, etc.). Citizens from the other 30 states will therefore travel to one of those 20 states to get an abortion; so while the number of abortions will undoubtedly go down when the issue is returned to the states, it will come nowhere close to ending. Additionally, stopping abortion at the federal level will do nothing to correct the legal rulings generated in the state courts over the past 35 years as those state courts infused federal court positions into their own state case law. State courts will remain hostile to state attempts to restrict abortion because state case law is now as infused with the broad “health” exceptions, etc., as were the federal decisions.

A parallel legal analogy to today’s life and marriage protection concerns is seen in the 1860 slavery issue. At that time, even though the right to liberty was an inalienable right guaranteed in the founding documents, slavery was so deeply imbedded in the nation that the mere federal removal of itself from that issue vis a vi several federal statutes passed from 1861-1865 did little or nothing to change the slave culture in any of the states, either North or South – and those federal statutes certainly did nothing to change the bad court rulings that had occurred at the state level over the previous century.

Historically, the only manner in which bad case law can be completely eradicated from the law books (and thus completely terminate a long-standing harmful national practice that has permeated the states) is through a constitutional amendment – and a number of constitutional amendments have been passed to do just that (13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, etc.). In fact, had there been no constitutional amendments to secure the inalienable right to liberty that had been so egregiously violated by so many states, then there likely would still be slavery in America today as one generation, or family, or judicial system transmitted its errant beliefs to the next. So, too, with abortion.

The federal government should never have intruded itself into the abortion issue through the multiple Supreme Court decisions that opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box; however, the federal government did intrude itself. As a result, the abortion culture is now deeply implanted in America, and there are those who are as committed to that practice today as there were those who were committed to slavery a century-and-a-half ago. And abortion (like slavery before it) has become one of the nation’s biggest economic businesses; it therefore will not be eradicated from the nation by mere statutory action at the state level (or vice versa).

The Founding Fathers established federalism to preserve states’ rights, but they also placed the protection of inalienable rights far above the level of states’ rights. Candidates who desire to lead the nation should follow the Framers’ example and conform to the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, protecting life and marriage through the constitutional process those early leaders wisely provided.

Senator Obama...not a theologian!

Like most Christians in America, Senator Obama revealed his tendency to pick and choose as to which passages in Scripture are pertinent and which are not in his response to a question on gay-marriage. His response to the question is exactly why we should not look to candidates OR Presidents to be theologians. Mr. Obama's reference to the 'obscure' passage in Romans is speaking about a major passage of scripture written to the Church in Rome and is really most applicable to doctrinal stances in America today. Yes the importance on Jesus' words are absolutely mandatory but you have to take the entirety of the Bible on every doctrinal stance. Again, I think Mr. Obama reveals the downfall of most Believers in America in that they will form an opinion with just part of the Bible they like and that fits their stance.

Nationalized Healthcare--Hillary/Barak--care!!

If you think that the Federal Government should take over health care and make it a one-payer system, you need to watch this film!!

The federal government has screwed up the postal system--something that you life ISN'T dependent on and you want to trust them with your health and life? I agree that there are problems but I sure hope we think again before taking this step!!

Global Warming....Global Cooling.............Al Gore Religion dead!!!

I have said it before and I'll say it again here and now--Global Warming and cooling is cyclical!!! It's not do, mainly, to man-made carbon emissions but to mother nature. This article seems to bear that out!!

In the 1970's Time magazine said the earth was cooling, in the late 90's and early 2000's it's warming, now it appears to be cooling again. IT'S CYCLICAL PEOPLE...stop drinking the kool-aid of those who are pushing this 'green' religion and start using your heads.

There is no such thing as scientific 'consensus'. There is such thing as scientific 'thought' or 'hypothesis' but not 'consensus'. You can either replicate it or you can't. If you can't replicate it the scientific method fails and therefore the hypothesis cannot be proven!! It remains hypothesis!!

HEY, America....WAKE UP!!!

This got my attention and made me think about how ungrateful we are as a nation!!

What I have to be thankful for...

•The mess to clean after a party because it means I have been
surrounded by friends.
• The taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.
• The clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have
enough to eat.
• My shadow who watches me work because it means I am out in the
sunshine.
• A lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters
that need fixing because it means I have a home.
• All the complaining I hear about our government because it means
we have freedom of speech.
• The space I find at the far end of the parking lot because it
means I am capable of walking.
• My huge heating bill because it means I am warm.
• The lady behind me in church who sings off key because it means
that I can hear.
• The piles of laundry and ironing because it means I have clothes
to wear.
• Weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it
means I have been productive.
• The alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it
means that I'm alive.

- Unknown

A Democrat I like...he'd be a Republican today though!!

Great American secular humanists — Harry S. Truman

First in a series:

"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in the right for anybody except the state."

— Harry S. Truman, thirty-third president of the United States and a Democrat.

Berkley--out of touch and needs to be brought to it's senses!!

I think every business and industry should remove their association with the city and county. I believe that every veteran should remove alumni support from the University and remove any family from the school.
Boycott the entire city and region until they change their tune.

Seperation of Church and State--Tell Abraham Lincoln that

Read this declaration from Abraham Lincoln and tell me he believed in Separation of Church and State!! If this declaration doesn't describe where we are right now as a nation, nothing does!

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

- Abraham Lincoln, in His Proclamation for
A National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, April30,1863