tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25099164835536804572012-01-11T07:40:55.945-06:00Standing on the Rampartsloriann12http://www.blogger.com/profile/14924502360263506443noreply@blogger.comBlogger1991100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509916483553680457.post-76774285168857514032012-01-06T06:13:00.002-06:002012-01-06T06:26:44.780-06:00

I've kept everyone who reads this blog caught up on my status, so I'll continue to do that. I will have the opportunity to see how Obamacare has effected the medical field. My remission is over and the cancer is back.I had a PET scan in mid-December and got the results on Jan. 3rd. They weren't good. I had my breast cancer come back last year (starting my chemo treatments in January, 2011). It

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I know I can't be the only one to see it. Our media, including Fox News, is doing everything in their power to "guide" us to the candidate they want elected. That would be Mitt Romney. I've see the ads. You know the ones, where Mitt Romney says he's pro-choice, he won't get in the way of a woman's decision about abortion. Then he turns around and suddenly he's pro-life. The footage where he says

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I've been wondering about the fact that people all across this nation attach some significance to the 5th of November. The far left have chosen that date to try and collapse our banking institutions. It's only 8:20 AM where I am, and banks don't open until around 9:00, so I don't know if they will succeed or not.So I did an Internet search for significant events that happened on November 5th to

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I guess that could go for the Presidential candidates as well...do you really want to get my attention? I want to know why no one is talking about lowering the salaries for members of Congress? I looked up some statistics. According to Ask.com:______________________•From 1789 to 1855, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 while in session, except for a period from

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I've seen a lot of support for Wall Street coming from celebrities. I have to wonder, why? I thought Wall Street protesters were protesting the rich? Why would celebrities support someone who is calling for THEM to pay more taxes? If they want to send more than the government taxes them, they are free to send in more money.I got a list from Celebrity Net Worth that lists the top 10 richest

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Don't speak for me, those of you who call yourselves the 99%. I'm not rich, so I'm not the top 1%. I don't agree with any statement I've seen come out of the 99% movement. I wish I was rich, or at least better off, but I'm not advocating taking from those who earned it so I can have more.I've been watching the Occupy Wall street thing. I see a bunch of rich trust fund babies who are having their

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I decided to check it out for myself. First, I didn't use Google to look up these stats. I found a new browser that says they don't track you. I also get different results when I use them versus Google or Yahoo. It's called IXQuick Web.So, here's what I found out. Mind you, this is from Wikipedia, a very left leaning source:"Poverty is defined as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially

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Why is the question constantly being asked, "Would you vote for (fill in the blank) over Obama?" Come on, get real. I'd vote for my dog over Obama, but why should I have to settle for a RINO when I want a conservative? Why would I want to get to the same place, only slower, when I can turn this country back on the right course, which at this point would be a 180 degree turn? Why is the media

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Isn't that what President Obama promised when they passed Obamacare in the middle of the night? I wondered why they had to bribe the people of each state with bennies in order to justify their representatives voting for it. You can keep your doctors and prices won't go up.Well, I have to dispute that. I have government health care. I have Tricare Prime, which is for military people. We opted for

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I haven't really decided who I'm voting for in the primaries. I know, I'm from Texas, so it's supposed to be either Rick Perry or Ron Paul, right? Well, I'm afraid of all the Ron Paul Zombies, even though I agree with about 80% of what Ron Paul says. I don't think I like his international ideas. I'm not sure how I feel about Rick Perry yet. I think the only way I'd vote for either of these

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I've been thinking a lot about modern medicine lately. I guess partly because of undergoing cancer treatment, and the fact that my husband just recently broke his leg. There's a controversy over aspirin vs Tylenol. I found this about aspirin:Hippocrates, a Greek physician, wrote in the fifth century B.C.E. about a bitter powder extracted from willow bark that could ease aches and pains and reduce

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Well, the hits keep coming. I wrote about losing a doctor to Obamacare, now we had another run-in.My husband bought a scooter (only something like 125cc's) because gas has gotten so expensive. He's well trained on a motorcycle/scooter. We had one in Bermuda. I had a 50cc scooter and he had a 100cc motorcycle. He was coming home from work Friday, when the lady in front of him braked suddenly and

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Remember the line, "you will get to keep your doctors?" Well, we just lost another one. We have Tricare Prime. My 12 year old son has migraines and is ADHD. He's on Intunive and Concerta. His neurologist wanted him on an ADHD med that didn't have a stimulant, so he lowered the Concerta dose and added Intunive. His pediatrician handles the concerta script, while he does the Intunive. I called to

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I've been wondering about the report that President Obama wants to list all Farm Equipment as commercial vehicles and anyone who drives it will be required to have a CDL (Commercial Driver's License). I just got an email that lists all the current taxes. Did you know there's a tax on getting a CDL? If this passes, he'll be able to tax the farmers out of one hand, while giving them subsidies out

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Well, I've discovered another consequence of Obamacare. I just went to get eye exams for me and my youngest son (actually back in July). The last time I got an eye exam, which was about three years ago, I could go anywhere, as long as I filed my own claim. I always went to Walmart. Walmart doesn't take Medicaid, which my oldest son is on. So I found an eye doctor that takes Medicaid. I thought,

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Hopefully this will go through. It seems my first attempt to post this must have hit a filter on Google blogs. It didn't post, and now I'll have to try to remember all I said.I wrote a critique of Barak H. Obama Sr.'s critique of Sessional Paper No. 10 a while back, but with all that's gone on in the last couple of years, I thought I'd revisit it. I've learned a lot about this administration in

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I've often wondered why Obama is against the Marriage Act, listing Marriage as a union between 1 man and 1 woman. I know a lot of people will disagree, but I believe he is a Muslim. You can twist words all you want, to justify anything. The Muslims are allowed to lie to the infidels. They're even allowed to make up stories to mislead. They aren't concerned with facts. They aren't supposed

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March Repost of Progressives in History Education is our best defense. I've committed to posting this every month, along with the names of all the progressive Congressmen. This is something we can not forget. We will not forget as long as I have breath in me. If the Progressives in office want America to forget, they will have to erase it from our minds, our print, our electronic media. In the

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OK, President Obama is not happy with the deal struck to bring down our debt, he now wants to get rid of subsidies for Oil companies, and raise the taxes on the most wealth Americans and corporations.I did a search on oil subsidies, and it may surprise you (or maybe not).Here are the tax expenditures the President has targeted: taken from http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/05/

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I've been thinking a lot lately about our tax code. I tried to research how many Americans don't pay taxes, or in other words either get back all they paid in or more, but it's very varied. You can see the political slant in everything I researched, except one. http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/25962.htmlThese are cold hard facts, which is what I wanted, and not some fairy tale that

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I'm afraid the Democrats scare tactics may be working. I first got as call from my mom (a life-long Democrat until this administration, when her and Dad started saying they were Independents) saying she was afraid she wouldn't get their social security checks. Of course, it will be the Republicans fault, even though they have put forth 2 bills, with Senator Reid flat out saying they would not

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I ended up buying compression sleeves for the lymphadema. They cost $91 EACH and I had to get two. I filed with my insurance (after getting a prescription from my oncologist), but haven't received any reimbursement yet.I'm slowly gaining strength, and was able to go home (from Texas to Missouri) for my parents 50th anniversary. I haven't had any more problems with the insurance company, though

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I'm getting a close up look at the "New" health care system. I've said before, I have Tricare Prime (military insurance, and therefore, government) because my husband gave 20 years to the United States Navy. We have it under him, but I also gave 4 years.I dealt with breast cancer 6 years ago and defeated it, but now it comes back with both feet. It came back in my lung and on my spine. After 4

loriann12http://www.blogger.com/profile/14924502360263506443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509916483553680457.post-50904666311993635502011-03-19T06:44:00.002-05:002011-03-19T07:31:05.221-05:00

I got to thinking as this terrible tragedy hit Japan...where are the riots? Where is the looting? I remember Katrina. I remember other tragedies that hit the United States, and the takers were taking to the streets to get what ever they could for free. I remember even riots over Rodney King turning into grab-fests. So, what is the difference?I decided to look up Japan's Welfare system. I found a

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First, here's the definition of Capitalism from Answers.com: Capitalism: An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.First, you have to wonder what a free market is. Here's Answers.com definition of a free market: Free Market: An

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I just did my taxes. No, I'm not the rich, and I am not poor enough to qualify for earned income credit. I fall right in the middle. The working class that unions are trying to incite. I decided to do a little research on the brackets and a few other things.Here are the tax brackets:Not over $16,750 ($8 an hour) 10% (single $8,375 which is $4 an hour)$16,750 - $68,000 ($8-32.69) 15% ($8,375-

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How many people (beyond watchers of Glenn Beck) have heard of Cloward and Piven, or the the Cloward-Piven strategy? Better yet, why are the other major talk radio hosts not talking about it? This is not a conspiracy theory. Francis Fox Piven is not some sweet little old lady that Glenn Beck is just picking on. When he says that she's the most dangerous woman in America, he doesn't mean she's

loriann12http://www.blogger.com/profile/14924502360263506443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509916483553680457.post-81042773051723315862011-03-01T07:20:00.001-06:002011-03-01T07:20:45.299-06:00

Reprint Progresistas en la historiaI have committed to reposted this as well, every month. Please help me get this out to our friends who still think best in their native language.(NOTE: This is a reprint of my Socialists in History, in Spanish.)Progresistas en la historia La educación es nuestra mejor defensa. Me he comprometido a publicar algo cada mes, junto con los nombres de los Congresistas

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March Repost of Progressives in History Education is our best defense. I've committed to posting this every month, along with the names of all the progressive Congressmen. This is something we can not forget. We will not forget as long as I have breath in me. If the Progressives in office want America to forget, they will have to erase it from our minds, our print, our electronic media. In the

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I've been trying to follow the goings on in Wisconsin. I have a friend who published the salaries of the teachers in Wisconsin. They make a lot more than my husband (I have to admit, I'm a stay home mom, only because he also gets a military retirement check), who puts together dust collector equipment. Maybe it's hazard pay? I don't know what the schools are like in Wisconsin, maybe they need

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I know everyone has heard of the troubles in Wisconsin. I have to admit, I've been a little distracted with my medical treatments, but I've been trying to follow it. At first, I heard from the lame stream media, and thought well, maybe they're right. Why would they need to cut everything if they're not really in financial distress? For those who only have network news, you have got to realize now

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First let me start off with a personal note from my own experience.I have had no balance on my discover card for over 10 years. I recently ran into a bit of need, and paid the minimum balance a couple months in a row. Now, you have to realize, we use our Discover card for EVERYTHING, so we routinely put on between $1500 to $3000 a month. The average is around $2000. We do it for the cash back.

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Well, as I hinted at in my previous post, I've been having some medical issues. I had been waiting on test results. But first, my run around with the health care system:I went to the doctor with a dry cough. She gave me antibiotics for broncitis. She said if it was still there in a month, to come back. I thought it had been 2 months (I get distracted easily with my kids), but when I went

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Sorry for the lack of activity on this blog. I've been undergoing a lot of tests. Waiting on results tomorrow, and then life can go on. The not knowing is the worst. Once you know what is going on, you can move on. Nothing, however, can stop me forever for fighting for my country.Lori Ann Smith

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I have an adult son on Medicaid (SSI), and I just received a letter that they will be changing his Medicaid. I got one earlier, but figured it didn't really apply to me, as I don't use the medical services. He is covered on our insurance (military Tricare Prime), and his pediatrician doesn't accept Medicaid...but he does Tricare Prime, which is odd, but that's another article.This sort of ties in

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I'm fairly new to politics. I have to admit I don't fully understand the process of how a bill becomes law, beyond Conjunction Junction shows when I was a kid. I always (with blind acceptance, I suppose), assumed a Congressman wrote the bill, and they voted on it. If he/she was from the House, they voted first, and then the Senate would make amendments and vote, then it went to the

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Reprint Progresistas en la historia - DecemberReprint Progresistas en la historiaI have committed to reposted this as well, every month. Please help me get this out to our friends who still think best in their native language.(NOTE: This is a reprint of my Socialists in History, in Spanish.)Progresistas en la historia La educación es nuestra mejor defensa. Me he comprometido a publicar algo cada

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December Repost of Progressives in History Education is our best defense. I've committed to posting this every month, along with the names of all the progressive Congressmen. This is something we can not forget. We will not forget as long as I have breath in me. If the Progressives in office want America to forget, they will have to erase it from our minds, our print, our electronic media. In the

loriann12http://www.blogger.com/profile/14924502360263506443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509916483553680457.post-13618752559704362942010-12-14T06:45:00.003-06:002010-12-14T08:11:52.910-06:00

I've decided to go over S510 just to see what's in it. I know I've read the horror stories, but I want to see for myself what the bill says. You know, they couldn't get the bill passed on it's own merit, so they tacked it in another bill so it would pass. Doesn't that just sound like the government?First off, most people skip the definitions, but I've learned that's where they get you. They can

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We as a country have seen the science of global warming debunked. The only people who still cling to it are the radical left. There are even environmentalists coming out and saying that even if we do everything they ask us to do, everyone on the planet, it will have no difference on planet Earth. There are warming and cooling periods. I personally remember back in the 1980's, may late 70's that

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In case you missed Glenn Beck, he had some really good suggestions for the pay and benefits of our elected officials. I don't have the transcript, but I did DVR that program.An average soldier (specialist) comes out of the Army after being paid $22,676 a year. The average American makes $50,462. The average Federal Employee makes $74,403. Members of Congress make $174,000 (not an average, that's

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I recently had a run-in with large government and wanted to share it.I don't know how taxes (property taxes, at least) are run in other states. Frankly, I didn't know how they went in my former state of Illinois. I've always had them escrowed out of my mortgage, and didn't need to bother with it. We recently refinanced our VA Loan, dropping from 5% to a 3% Hybrid loan. So, now I'm getting all the

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I recently watched a long You Tube video of the jet streams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K9rXydMmfw&feature=player_embeddedI'll summarize: Remember just a few years ago (they say two, but I say longer, even into the Bush administration) the con-trails of regular jets, when you look up in the skies? They are relatively small. They follow the jets a short distance and depending on whether it's a

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I have to admit, I don't really pay that much attention to the various flags. I see they're American, but I don't notice they have fringe on them. They've sneaked that one in on me. Apparently they're in all the courts in the land now except a court in Washington, DC. Do you know what the yellow fringe means? I didn't. I had to research it.Here is the regulation for our flag. I had to go back to

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I want you to take a walk through time with me with two families. They're basically the same make-up. Family of four, kids are 14-16 months apart, moms work outside the home for a while.The first family starts out in 1971 having just left a Union job for a non-Union job. He buys a house that he expects will be the last house he ever buys. He knows he's looking, but he isn't REALLY looking.

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Mr. President,I've been thinking lately about what you're asking of me, and it's a bit much. I just can't do it. Right now, I may just be a stay at home mom, and you may think of me as a "stupid American" that you need to tell me everything and protect me from everything, but that has not always been the case. You see, between the years of 1984 and 1988, I was protecting your butt while I served

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I had an interesting weekend. I spent it in the emergency room and the hospital. I've been pretty open about my medical history (probably more so than I should be). I have epilepsy - oh, excuse me, the politically correct term these days is "seizure disorder." I had an "incident" that didn't match up with a seizure on Friday. I had run an errand, and when I got home, my face went numb, my left

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Well Glenn Beck asked us to go to Ancestry.com and trace our roots. I got the free trial and did just that. I have found some really interesting things. First of all, if you listen to my mother-in-law, my mom is just an in-bred redneck from Arkansas. Now I can prove her wrong. My mom's dad has a direct line to the daughter of Samuel Adams' daughter, Rebbecca. The ancestor's name was John Waldo.

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I have to admit, I'm a people watcher. I had a great opportunity yesterday to do just that. I went to the drag races with my husband. I've been to NASCAR, but never NHRA before. I have to admit, they are very similar, and they both quite surprised me.Let me explain. When you listen to the media, you expect to find a certain thing when you go to a NASCAR or NHRA event. You expect to find beer

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Well, I can tell you it's definitely a buyer's market out there. We've been trying to sell a house for almost 18 months. It's not pretty. For a bit of background, never buy a house with your in-laws. When we came to Texas, I was weeks out of the strongest Chemo on the market and radiation treatment for breast cancer and a stage IV diagnosis. My in-laws said they ought to just sell their house and

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Well, the Lord is saving me and my small business contractor again. My husband works with someone who has a small business on the side. He is a contractor and paints and does small construction jobs on the side to earn extra money. We hired him to paint the master bedroom in the house we're trying to sell. He already painted the rest of the house for us last year. He and his brother did a

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I recently watched a video of then Senator Obama talking about the fairness doctrine. He supported it, saying that all voices should be heard. He said that it would be difficult to do that in today's society of 500 channels. He thought that Fox had a right to say what they wanted to say, but that all voices should be heard.Really, Mr. President? Then why do you not listen to the American public?

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I got this from Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace site. http://bigpeace.com/ndarwish/2010/08/26/sharia-for-dummies/. Posted by Nonie Darwish.1- Jihad defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion” is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state (Caliph). Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.2- A Caliph can hold office through seizure

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I got a disturbing email from a friend of mine. You won't see these pictures on American TV. They want to bury them, not show them, because this doesn't agree with their depiction of the Muslim religion, that they are a religion of peace. I have to warn you, it doesn't portray that image. It may disturb you. It was in her parents' home town of London, England. It may be coming to America next. I

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I said this a year ago, and I'm saying it again. This President is not a Democrat. I was raised a Democrat. Sure, Democrats want to rule this country a bit differently than Republicans do, but they still want America to be America. Democrats still are Americans. They do traditionally want a bigger government than do Republicans. They are for (traditionally) higher taxes and more spending than and

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I cry out to you from the empty halls of my heart. And I get echoes. "Be still and Know that I Am God."I have questions that long to be answered. Where have You been? "Be still and Know that I Am God.""I have always been here My child. It is you who has wandered. Be still and Know that I Am God."I cry out to You from the halls of my heart And the echoes are

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With Michelle Obama coming out and trying to nudge us into making healthy choices in our fast food eating, I wanted to remind everyone of a bill in congress that they tried to sneak in on us with the first health care bill. I just looked it up, and it's still there. It's sitting in committee, I suppose hoping everyone will forget about it. It was actually what got me into this fight. You see, I

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I was contemplating my own change in politics over the years. I have been pretty open on this forum. I was raised a Democrat. My parents still were Democrats, sometimes deviating and voting "split-ticket" but mostly Democrat in National politics, until this administration. Then they started correcting me and claiming Independent status.I was trying to figure out in a deep analysis of myself what

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It was bound to happen. I'm not a Muslim hater. I have casual contact with Muslim women in the grocery store all the time. I smile at them, they smile at me. It's not a big deal. It's the Dallas metroplex, you're bound to run into just about every culture you can think of. I ran into a Hari Krishna Monk the other day. You know, the orange robes, high pony tails? I think they're Hindu, right? He

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I was preparing a lesson plan for the Sunday School class I'm about to teach when I got my own lesson. Isn't that how it always works? Our teacher is in Costa Rico taking care of his ill father, so we're taking turns teaching ourselves. We're a unique class and apparently no one wants to take over our class. We're a bunch of misfits, maybe? Maybe they hope if left to our own devices we'll

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A while back I wrote a blog highlighting Barack Obama's Father's "Problems Facing Our Socialism" Article. I be lived that our President was using it as a platform for his policies. I want to re-post it to see just how correct I was. You be the judge.Highlights from "Problems Facing Our Socialism"This will basically be a critique of a paper published in 1965 in the East African Journal by Barak H.

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I have to include the following article, because Cape Girardeau, MO is my home town, I was born in 1963, and I used to live on Lorimier St. Too many coincidences, huh? Of course, I didn't live on Lorimier until the 1990's. I pray they find her, and that it was a case of she wandered off, and someone raised her in a loving home. Or at least that she was raised in a loving home, not knowing she

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Well, first let me contrast it with Rev. Sharpton's sound bites. I have to admit I only have the sound bites of the Rev. Sharpton's. I have not watched the whole thing. I have it recorded, but haven't had the time to watch the whole thing yet. I did watch the whole 8/28 rally of Glenn Beck, so I know for a fact there were no angry words spoken at his rally. But, the only words taken in a sound

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I went to Thomas Bills to search for a bill, and had an Epiphany. I was searching for bills on cap and trade, when I realized there were 8 bills introduced into Congress within a very short time, all between March and June of 2009, all just sitting there in various committees, doing nothing, just tabled. I was wondering, are they waiting until we don't remember they were submitted? Are is it

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I am growing weary of the fight. I've been in this fight for a year now, and now they have passed a bill with no name. It's XXXXXXXXXXXXAct of XXXXXXXXX. I'm not kidding. H.R. 1586. They call it the Teacher Bill, but when you look it up, it's called XXXXXXXXXActofXXXXXXX. Why is that? Because it's got so much puke in it that they didn't know what to put in the title, so they just didn't title

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You've heard all the "Conspiracy Theories" about the government taking over the Internet and making it a public utility so that they can regulate it, right? Well, I believe we've come one step closer to that being a reality. Let me tell you about a real life experience that happened to me last week.When we moved into this house last year, we set up our utilities, including the Internet, in my

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Reprint Progresistas en la historia I have committed to reposted this as well, every month. Please help me get this out to our friends who still think best in their native language.(NOTE: This is a reprint of my Socialists in History, in Spanish.)Progresistas en la historia La educación es nuestra mejor defensa. Me he comprometido a publicar algo cada mes, junto con los nombres de los

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Education is our best defense. I've committed to posting this every month, along with the names of all the progressive Congressmen. This is something we can not forget. We will not forget as long as I have breath in me. If the Progressives in office want America to forget, they will have to erase it from our minds, our print, our electronic media. In the old days, you could just burn the books.

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Well, it's not that I have a crystal ball, or anything, but I'm learning the tactics of my enemy. I'm going on record with a prediction.First, let me set it up for you, and you'll see how easy it was to predict. It's coming up on the beginning of the school season. It's also coming up on the beginning of flu season. I predict they'll be pushing 2 things: Flu shots and the HPV shots for boys and

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Presidential Documents Title 3--The PresidentExecutive Order 13547 of July 19, 2010Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great LakesBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological

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First, some background: Daniel had been fasting and had a vision that left him pale. It took the archangel Michael 21 days to help the angel that did get to Daniel to get there and explain the vision that Daniel had. The first part of Daniel explains the various kings involved, but starting with verse 20 is the beginning of the end of days.The Bible I use is a Precepts Bible that is used by Kay

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Yep. I decided to browse the bills put forward in the 111th Congress, and low and behold there it was. The Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2009, put forward by Congressman Roscoe Bartlett. He's naturally a Republican. I wanted to see where it was in congress right now, so I called that up. Bill Summary: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. I guess they are afraid

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I've been cleaning house and I found a blog I started a while back....amazing how that works. I'm not sure how old it is, but it's very applicable now, so I'm picking it up now and taking up where I left off.I don't know why I've never seen an article on these connections before (and I still haven't), but think about this for a minute. What does the Left, the Democrats (or Progressives or

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The Left is really trying to capture us. A couple weeks ago, we had a flyer left on our door. I'm sure it was a random thing, left on everyone's door based on the neighborhood I live in. It was offering a free cell phone to anyone who is in a government program. I've since shredded the offer, because I read the whole thing and it just sounded plain spooky to me. But get this, you got 200 free

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I've just about had enough. And I can guess my friends have just about had enough, too. I have friends of all colors. I have never in my life mistreated a person of a different race, at least not intentionally. My mother would beat me all the way home if I had. I have never spit on a black person. I have never spit on a white person, or a brown person. I find that extremely offensive. I have been

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I've got an easy economics lesson for you. Let's put this into a life lesson so people can understand it. Obama keeps saying that he wants to stimulate the economy by injecting the economy with stimulus money and is amazed when it doesn't work. He gives out money from his magical stash (which is our tax money, by the way, folks, but we won't get into that part about taking from one pocket to pay

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I've heard for a couple of sources now about our near future. No, not in a future telling sense. I mean in a headed to a depression sense. I've heard a couple times that we won't be able to deduct from our taxes our mortgage interest. Sure, it may be scare tactics, and it may not. I know one thing for sure. About a year and a half ago, I had a normal life. Things I believe now, I would have

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I sometimes feel as if I live in 2 Americas. Maybe our America is bi-polar. There is the America that I hear of on talk radio, and in the news. I know things are bad. I blog, I try to do my part. I have my patriot sites that I participate in. I do research on line on my computer for relevant topics that are in the news. I consider myself fairly informed on the current issues at hand. There are

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Whether people want to admit it or not, you can not erase from history the fact that America was founded on Religious freedom. People from other European countries came to America for something they didn't have: the right to worship freely any way they chose to as long as it didn't break someone's leg or pick their pocket. We also have something else here, or rather don't have something. We don't

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I decided to pull up all I could relating to Muslim children being allowed to pray in school. This is why our illustrious leader doesn't want this information on the Internet. Because the News people won't do their job and pull these individual articles together for you. So I will. They are attacking Christianity and not allowing prayer in school. Why are they allowing Muslim children to pray in

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I originally sent this just to my parents, but they've given me permission to post it on my blog. I never really thought much about what I post until recently, when my mom made the comment that her life was posted on my Face Book. I do that because I ask my friends for prayer requests, but her sister finds out and then calls her and asks for ALL the details and then chews her out for not telling

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I'm going to do something I never thought I'd ever do. I'm going to agree with Nancy Pelosi. Now hold on a minute...don't call out the guys with the I-love-me jackets - hear me out:Remember her little video where she talked about her favorite word being The Word? She meant the Word of God. Remember how she stumbled through that little speech because we all know she didn't mean a word of it? I've

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Can't you just smell chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Hear the fire crackling? Envision the tinsel on the tree? Thinking those thoughts roaming through your head of what to buy for your loved one....what? Is it too early? Well, I just got an email from an Aunt of mine who is geared up for a battle. Let me explain.I sort of agree with her, so let me lay out her battle plan first. To do her

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Well, now I've had it. I can understand the need for city ordinances, I suppose. Some are for safety reasons. I do believe they are getting out of hand. I blogged on this before. We had a 12 inch snow here in Garland, Texas and had an over-zealous city worker decide to go out and apparently hit everyone one in my neighborhood for city violations on that day. My hit was for not having my house

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Have you ever run into those people that just irritate the dookie out of you? I'm talking the ones that you try your hardest to get along with but there is no way on this side of heaven that you can. They seem to know every button to push on your irritation scale. They know exactly how to get a reaction out of you. They know exactly how to get you to blow your witness every single time.Maybe

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I'm still wading through Agenda 21. I'm in section 11, Combating Deforestation. It's an interesting section. There are several sections I found interesting, which tie in to how President Obama is treating America right now. You will have to read this, though, with a little background first.I want you to hold in the forefront of your memory the words of our President. I don't have his exact quote,

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So, according to President Obama, we are supposed to not be worried about the exact future America looks like for our children, just fight for it. I tried to find the exact quote, but apparently no one else was concerned with it. I heard it this morning on Bill Bennett.Umm, EXCUSE ME?!?! But isn't that sort of like jumping into a rescue boat knowing it has holes in it? I know what sort of America

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I've been reading Glenn Beck's Down-loadable STORM manual. You can get it off of his website. I'm sorry, I don't have the link, but you can google him, I think it's just glennbeck.com, but I'm not sure right now. I had to write this and get it out. I Down loaded the manual and printed myself a copy. I'm old school. I like to hold a copy in my hands. I have to warn you. It doesn't print all pretty

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I was watching a report on the News Blackout by ABC's Matt Gutman. He mentioned that he couldn't understand why the people weren't talking about it. He also mentioned that BP should want the good press because these people were picking up the most minute pieces of oil debris, and yet BP cleared out all the workers from behind him and wouldn't let them even appear on camera. There is still an

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I want you to imagine a scenario. There's a Tea party event. It's a peaceful event. There are senior citizens gathering to peacefully protest the amount of taxes being levied against us now adays. They are waving their American flags. They are singing patriotic songs, like the Star Spangled Banner, including the 4th verse that I've just recently heard, God Bless America, Onward Christian Soldiers

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If you follow my blogs, you know that I don't often post stuff from other people. I write my own stuff, do my own research. I'm going to make an exception here. I want to promote someone else's site:http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/05/amount-neurotoxin-pesticide-corexit-sprayed-bp-tops-1-million-gallons/Apparently there is a news black-out and this is the only reporter getting real

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I've heard a lot of bad things about this, but I've reserved my judgement because I've only heard analysis of it, never actually seen the document myself. Until now. I finally found the actual document on the United Nations site. Before I post the link, I have to give a disclaimer. 1). Apparently this was written in 1989. I don't know what has transpired since then and changed the UN's thinking

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Re-Post of Self-declared Socialists in Congress Here is a list of Self-Delcared Socialists in our Congress....memorize it...carry it with you. I got it from http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/gov_philosophy/dsa_members.htm(Updated June, 2010)Co-Chairs Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07) Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06) Vice Chairs Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33) Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18) Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)

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Reprint Progresistas en la historia I have committed to reposted this as well, every month. Please help me get this out to our friends who still think best in their native language.(NOTE: This is a reprint of my Socialists in History, in Spanish.)Progresistas en la historia La educación es nuestra mejor defensa. Me he comprometido a publicar algo cada mes, junto con los nombres de los

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Education is our best defense. I've committed to posting this every month, along with the names of all the progressive Congressmen. This is something we can not forget. We will not forget as long as I have breath in me. If the Progressives in office want America to forget, they will have to erase it from our minds, our print, our electronic media. In the old days, you could just burn the books.

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When I was talking to the WWII veteran the other day, he mentioned something that I didn't include in my Memorial Day blog. He also felt that part of the reason for our decline in patriotism is because women entered the work force and left the home. He said it broke up the family, because when the war was over, they never came back home. They liked the two paychecks and all the things it bought

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They say that during the Revolutionary War, 1/3 of the populace stood with the British and wanted no part of the war, actually being against American independence, 1/3 didn't care and just wanted to be left alone and 1/3 fought for everyone else's freedom. They are the reason we are free today.Today we face a constitutional crisis. Once again we face a crisis of thirds. One third stand with

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Today when you say conspiracy theory you conjure up a picture of a man in a camo jacket who has barricaded himself in his basement with a truck load of ammo and an arsenal of fire power and ain't gonna go peaceful. He's paranoid that his government is out to get him and will stop at nothing to destroy only him. A year ago, that's what I thought too. I had pictures in my head of those militias

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