How BIG is BILLION?

As our national debt is raising at an ALARMING rate, I thought this little bit of information that I received in an email may make it easier for you to understand the REAL issues and help you make sense of it all.  Here you go:

So, the next time you hear a politician use the word 'BILLION' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.

Health Care Reform - Rep. Mike Rogers

Here is Representative Mike Rogers from Michigan giving his opening statement on the Health Care reform that is going on in Washington DC.  He is making valid points that need to be heard. The sad thing is that because Congress has it's majority they are not listening.  WAKE UP AMERICA!

Glenn Beck with David Barton (Faith, Hope and Charity)

Faith, Hope and Charity.  David Barton was a guest on the Glen Beck show on March 17, 2010.  This is a four or five part series on You Tube (depends on what links you view) but the segment I enjoy the most was the last one.  This was the one where David was addressed and share the most.  It is incredibly the information that David has and has been researching for years.  My oldest son volunteered as a intern for David years ago and saw first-hand these documents David speaks of and shares.  David has come under quite intense character assassination by some in the media but David doesn't back down.  He is called to share what he has studied and found.  I hope you enjoy the clip.

Glenn Beck, David Barton & More (1/4)
Glenn Beck, David Barton & More (2/4)
Glenn Beck, David Barton & More (3/4)
Glenn Beck, David Barton & More (4/4)

Obama Health Reform - Visualization

I have heard a few of this guys videos and he seems to have a knack for taking the impossibly large and complex issues that are in front of us and  boiling them down to pieces that we can digest.  If you don't understand all the ins-and-outs of this Health Care Reform Bill, this should give you something to chew on.

CNN - Secret Health Care Negotiations

This is more of the same troubling information that is coming out of Washington DC.  What is interesting to me in this is that this clip is from CNN and Jack Cafferty is letting his voice be heard.  CNN has been so on-board of what the Obama agenda has been and now they too are sounding the alarm.  Hello, Washington!  Are you listening?

Let us NOT forget the quote of candidate Obama regarding openness when he said as president he would "broadcast negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are."

So this is openness?  I hope you all are remembering this when it comes time vote in the upcoming elections this year!

Exposing Planned Parenthood

The Mona Lisa Project, Exposing Planned Parenthood is a girl with an undercover camera talking to a Planned Parenthood staffer in Tucson, Arizona.  The question the would be patient is asking has to do with images she has seen in circulation.  She wants to know if the images are real.  Are those images really of aborted babies.  The staffer assures her and out-right lies to her that the images are NOT real.  The video clip will then show some images of different aborted babies.  The photos are intense but we have to realize that abortion is murder.  We are killing innocent babies.  When we realize how intense this is, maybe we as a country will out-law this atrocity.

As I have stated before, I understand that many girls are in great fear when they find out they have an untimely pregnancy.  I have comforted many women who have walked through this procedure.  The one thing I know is that the pregnancy may end but the memory and pain never do.  God can heal the guilt and shame but many of these women carry the sorrow.

Nancy Pelosi - Pass the Bill...

So this is who is our speaker of the house.  God have mercy on us and save us from this woman.  Nancy Pelosi seems to make no sense and to think that people actually elected her...unbelievable.!

This is in the least, nauseating!

Lt. Colonel Allen West at CPAC

This is a phenomenal speech by Lt. Colonel Allen West who spoke at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) on February 19, 2010.  It will take about 20 minutes for you to listen to the entire speech but it is SO worth your time.  He is clearly educated on the subject of the War on Terror and talks about the battle that has been ensuing since 622 AD in the seventh century that started after Muhammad made his Hijra leaving Mecca going out to Medina and this battle has been violent ever since. This ideology is called Islam and it is what's at the root of the War.  It is not about Muslims.  He gives a great speech that will encourage you and enlighten you.

Join the Virtual March for Life

Don't miss the opportunity to JOIN THE MARCH for Life.  You can scroll to the bottom of my blog as well to JOIN THE MARCH.  What is this March for Life that I am asking you to join? A VIRTUAL March for LIFE.  In other words, via the Internet thousands of people are signing up to join those who will be marching in Washington DC to protest abortion.

For over 35 years, on the anniversary of Roe V. Wade, hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans participate in the March for Life.  The first March was held in 1974 on the West Steps of the Capitol and the numbers have gradually risen through the years. These growing numbers of people joining this move give testimony to the increasing ranks of pro-life Americans and to the importance of the March's work. Widely considered the most attended annual march in Washington, DC, the March for Life has become the pro-life movement's signature event.

Now you can participate as well, by joining the virtual March for Life!  Be sure to share this information with your friends as well!

Massachusetts Miracle

April 19, 1775 is where it all began in Massachusetts.  Against all odds, the American people prevailed and many called it a miracle.

Today our liberty is again needing to be fought for but this time it is in the ballot box.  A vote for Scott Brown is a vote for liberty.  Many say a Republican cannot be elected in  Massachusetts.  On January 19, they were calling for another miracle and they got it!

Kay Bailey Hutchison is Pro-Choice

So, to all my Republican friends out there that keep telling me that Kay Bailey Hutchison is the candidate to back because she is pro-life.  Here her in her OWN words.

She is NOT pro-life as a candidate....she is pro-choice.  She has become a very good politiian in all her years in Washington DC and it is time for her to step aside and let someone else lead.  She is the candidate of  "choice" alright but NOT the choice for me!

the Manhattan Declaration

The Manhattan Declaration is a a call of Christian Conscience. Recently Chuck Colson*, Dr. Robert George (a professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University) and Dr. Timothy George (a professor at Beeson Divinity School at Samford University) joined forces to create a declaration of their faith known as the Manhattan Declaration.


This document is signed by 150 leaders from the orthodox church, the Roman Catholic church (including many bishops, arch-bishops and a cardinal) and from leaders of the Evangelical world. All of these signers are agreeing and saying they want to affirm 1) the sanctity of human life and 2) the sanctity of the family and 3) if the leaders of this nation continue to assault the family, life and our liberties we will render unto "Caesar what is Caesar's" but under NO circumstance will we render to "Caesar what is God's!" This is a time for true Christian's to stand up and defend what we believe.

For a great clip on the principals of this document you can hear Chuck Colson in his own words as he talks about it on the Mike Huckabee Show. How prepared are you to pay the price for the cause of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Many are willing to give up their tax exempt status, some have put their careers in jeopardy and a pastor in Sweden gave up his freedom over these basic human principals.

*Who is Chuck Colson?
Founder of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, founder of Prison Fellowship and former presidential aide to President Richard Nixon. He was "incapable of humanitarian thought" according to the media in the 1970's until his conversion to Christianity in August of 1973 when the Boston Globe reported, "If Mr. Colson can repent of his sins, there just has to be hope for everybody." In 1974 Colson entered a plea of guilty of obstruction of justice to Watergate-related charges. Colson was not implicated in the Watergate burglary itself but he would do almost anything for the cause of his party and his president.
 
He served in Alabama's Maxwell Prison in 1974 and was the first member of the Nixon administration to go to prison for Watergate-related charges. He served seven months of a one-to-three year sentence.


Colson is an author of over 20 books to date including: Born Again, Loving God, Being the Body and How Now Shall We Live? Click on link for other articles on Chuck Colson

Red Skelton - 1969

Red Skelton was a comedian who started as a circus clown, moved to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, nightclubs and casinos all while he was pursuing a career as a painter.  I remember seeing him on random television shows like the Tonight Show and similar type of formats periodically as a child.  He had a television show in the 1960's and it was cancelled in 1970.

He was known for comedic sketches and so, it was no suprise when he made the Pledge of Aligence his monologue as Skelton performed on his 1969 television show.  He comments on the meaning of each phrase of the Pledge as was done on the Amos and Andy Show in the 1930's as Amos tells his daughter Arbadella about the Lord's Prayer.  Red also did a recitation of the Candian National Anthem.

 

At the end of his Pledge of Alligence rendition, he added: "Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?"   Some say this was Red's way of targeting the political winds that were arguing that the inclusion of "under God" in a pledge recited daily in U.S. public schools violated the First Amendment separation of church and state.  Because of  Skelton's rendition he suddenly regained popularity among religious conservatives who wanted the phrase to remain.

Here are the words to the Pledge of Alligence as Red's teacher, Mr. Laswell recited it to the class:

I, me, an individual, a committee of one.
Pledge, dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self pity.
Allegiance, my love and my devotion.
To the flag, our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job!
United, that means that we have all come together.
States, individual communities that have united into 48 great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose; all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that's love for country.
And to the republic, a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
For which it stands, one nation, one nation, meaning "so blessed by God" Indivisible incapable of being divided.
With liberty, which is freedom -- the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear or some sort of retaliation.
And Justice, the principle or quality of dealing fairly with others.
For all, which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.

***~~**~~***

Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance...
UNDER GOD, Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?

10 Questions for Obama - TEA Party

I too would like to hear the answers to these questions!  The national leadership team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition announced the results of the nationwide poll conducted recently at the website: http://www.toptenhealthcarequestions.com/.

For those of you who bought into the notion that candidate Obama would hold true to his promises, maybe you will reconsider who you cast your valuable vote for in the next election.  It is easy for politicians to create promises, but if we, THE PEOPLE would just look at their record, we can find out a lot about the character of a said candidate.

Mr. Obama had a record of being secretive and "present" without giving his vote on many occasions before he came to Washington.  Let's WAKE UP AMERICA!  The mid-term elections are just a year away and we need some HOPE and CHANGE!  Let's NOT forget how this administration has broken promise after campaign promise.  They have had their own agenda ever since they entered the White House and they have forgotten WHO sent them to Washington and who they work for - WE THE PEOPLE!

Partial Birth Abortion

I am amazed at how many people, including Christians, who don't know or don't want to know the details that are involved in what doctor's are calling the partial birth abortion procedure.  This is a very tasteful demonstration of a doctor showing the process of this procedure using a doll and a curtain set-up.  It is very discrete and informative.  I post this link because people need to understand how barbaric this procedure is in order to speak against this atrocity.  There is NO reason we are conducting such an evil to a living child.  We hear all about the rights of the mother, but I want to know why the innocent child in the procedure has no rights.  Again, this procedure must be stopped and our current president was the only congressman to vote for the legislation to kill a child who was born alive after a botched abortion.  This is just sickening in the least and tragic that we in this culture are allowing this to continue under the guise of a medical procedure.

GI Joe and Lillie - Oak Ridge Boys

This is a really special song, by the Oak Ridge Boys called, G.I. Joe and Lillie. 

Nothing better than hearing the clear and perfect harmony of the Oak Ridge Boys...but my favorite is the bass.  INCREDIBLE!  You may want to have a Kleenex ready for this one...it is REALLY good!

Remembering ALL those who have, who are and who will fight for the FREEDOM of the great nation!  God Bless America and I am praying for her!

Andrew Klavan on the Culture

Andrew Klavan could be one of the best authors of psychological suspense writing today.  Here you will see his opinions regarding the strategy used to silence the criticism and ideas of the conservative thinkers.  "Whatever you do, don't shut up." - Andrew Klavan

American Exceptionalism - David Barton

This video linked called American Exceptionalism/American Heritage Series is a three part series on You-Tube that is INCREDIBLE.  David Barton is the founder and President of Wallbuilders which just happens to be very near my home and I personally know of David and his teachings.

Bake in the early 1990's my mother first told me about Wallbuilders. As I have mentioned to anyone that knows me, my mother was very into History; American, European and Biblical.  She was an immigrant from Vienna, Austria and lived under the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler.  She was constantly seeking out information on our history and she always told me that the reason we study our past is to prevent the repeating of bad history in our future.

David Barton published one of his early writings and he failed to check references (he used other people's published works as his sources) and because of this, ONE of his EARLY publications had errors that he sited as fact.  He has since RE-PUBLISHED the book in question and replaced it with it, Original Intent.   An excellent book that talks about the life and character of our founding father's and our early American history.

In these video clips I have linked you to, David joins the hosts of the Trinity Broadcast Network, Matt and Laurie Crouch as David takes them through our founding father's and the history of our nation.

Am. Exceptionalism/Am. Heritage Series by David Barton - 1 of 3
Am. Exceptionalism/Am. Heritage Series by David Barton - 2 of 3
Am. Exceptionalism/Am. Heritage Series by David Barton - 3 of 3

Obama Denies Flyover

Obama denied a military flyover at the annual “God and Country” rally in Idaho , where new military recruits were inducted and all military were honored. This is the first time in 42 years that there has not been a military flyover in formation, and organizers were stunned that Obama refused to allow this.  Fox news covered this news story about Obama Denying Flyover so I am posting their video for you to see for yourself.

The woman who was organizing the event contacted the Pentagon to ask why this was not allowed, as it had occurred every year for 42 years, she was told it was because of the event’s “Christian nature.”

The video also mentions that when Obama made a recent speech, a cross and a Christian symbol for Jesus had to be covered first.

Greed - Milton Friedman

This is an old clip but the message is SO good I wanted to share it.  Milton Friedman appears here as a guest on the old Phil Donahue show.  Millton Friedman died in 2006 as is best known as an American economist, statistician and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.  He is best known among scholars is for this theoretical research focusing mainly on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.
So many people are critical these days of capitalism and are seeming to press for a society in America that would lean more toward socialism and even some are far as communism.  This is a great piece and it should make you re-think some of the rhetoric that is blowing around in our news media and culture today.