Narcissism and Tyranny -- The Consequence of Executive Egocentrism

Self Service Masquerading as Public Service

By Mark Alexander

May 31, 2012

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." --Benjamin Franklin, 1758

Narcissism and Tyranny -- The Consequence of Executive Egocentrism — The Patriot Post

2016

An extremely important movie is coming this summer - - It is called simply "2016".

The speaker here is Dinesh D'Souza, college president in New York and author of many New York Times best sellers. The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award winning Schindler's List, Jurrasic Park , Brave Heart.

It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.

Watch this short informative video preview of this movie which came out only yesterday and share it with others. The preview has already been seen by over 18,000 people. Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions! After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama. Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.

JFK and the Death of Liberalism

May 29th of this week marked John F. Kennedy's 95thbirthday.

Had he never gone to Dallas, had he the blessings of long yearslike his 105 year old mother Rose, the man immutably fixed in theAmerican memory as a vigorous 40-something surely would be seen inan entirely different light.

If JFK were alive today?

Presuming his 1964 re-election, we would know for afact what he did in Vietnam. We would know for a fact what asecond-term Kennedy domestic program produced. And yes, yes, allthose torrent of womanizing tales that finally gushed intoheadlines in the post-Watergate era (and still keep coming, thetale of White House intern Mimi Alford recently added to the long list) would surely havehad a more scathing effect on his historical reputation had he beenalive to answer them.

But he wasn't.

As the world knows, those fateful few seconds in Dallas onNovember 22, 1963 not only transformed American and world history.They transformed JFK himself into an iconic American martyr,forever young, handsome and idealistic. Next year will mark the50th anniversary of his assassination--and in spite of all thewomanizing tales, in spite of the passage of now almost half acentury--John F. Kennedy is still repeatedly ranked by Americans as among the country's greatest presidents.In the American imagination, JFK is historicaectlly invincible

Sex Selection Abortions in America?

Babies are not "entitlements." They are precious gifts given to us from God; and to "abort" this gift, is to say to God, I don't like the gift you gave me.

We do indeed have a "war on women" in our nation, and it is not the Republican party that is responsible. It is the liberals in our government (who all seem to be Democrats) who are in bed with the largest threat to mankind (in my opinion), Planned Parenthood.

Time for all of us to take a stand. Planned Parenthood had drawn a bloody line in the sand and we have to decide which side we will take.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gendercide-anti-abortion-group-releases-undercover-expose-purportedly-showing-planned-parenthoods-complicity-in-sex-selection-abortion/

Flat Tire Leads Man to Find Kitten During 12 Mile Walk Home

The day started out like any other day. Got up, went to work, got my paycheck, started on my way home. I was low on funds so I wanted to stop at my bank to get my check into my account. Unfortunately, it was Saturday and my bank was closed. The ATM was open, but with my luck, no pen to fill out the deposit slip. So I figured I’d stop in the convenience store to grab a coffee.
As I was pulling in, another car started to pull out, so I swerved to avoid a collision, and I hit the curb. I knew my tire was punctured, so I grabbed a coffee. I came out and just double checked my tire, and my assumption was correct. I also hadn’t noticed a spare tire in my car, as it was bought used, and couldn’t think of where they would have stuck one in an ’86 Firebird. Great! I pulled out my cell phone, and it was almost dead. I memorized a few numbers, and made a quick call to my mom, but no luck. My phone died shortly after that.
So I walked. It wasn’t that bad of an evening out, but I was on a four lane road, and I had about a 12 mile walk ahead of me. I started walking. Stopped at a few places, trying to get a hold of any one I could by pay phone, but no one picked up. I even left messages, saying that I would call back. Still no luck. With no change left, I set out again.
About a mile and a half down the road, at about exit 11, I saw ahead of me what I thought to be some landscaping fabric getting blown by the breeze. As I got closer, two little blue eyes turned to me and went “mew.” My heart melted immediately. A little ball of fluff was one the side of the road. I picked her up and I could tell she was scared and cold.
This was in late October, so it was cool, but not cold. I carried her in my hands (I could fit her in one of my hands, but I was trying to protect her and keep her warm) for about another three and a half miles with her clawing and squirming, trying to get down. I stopped in a store to grab a coffee to wake up a bit, and to get the chill off. I put her in my lunch bag so I would be able to go into the store with no problems. She meowed, and the girl behind the counter gave me a look, and I told her the story up to that point. The girl wanted to see the kitten, so I brought her out. We tried to give the kitten some milk, but with no luck. I left with my coffee and kitten, and continued on my way home.
She Didn’t Want to Be Carried Anymore
After about two hours, and about seven miles, I was tired from walking and working. The kitten was really trying to get down, I’m stressed out and having a hard time trying to hold on to the kitten. I wasn’t going to drop her off on the side of the road, so I put her in the hood of my sweatshirt. I should have done that in the first place. She passed out. I was able to walk the rest of the way with her in there. Five more miles until I was able to get to a store where I knew the people, and I was able to use the phone to get a hold of my girlfriend, and was able to get a ride home. She fell in love with the kitten also.

Our first night home - both tired after the long walk.

I get home and then realized I had another problem. I already had two other cats at home who were littermates. My male cat, Diablo Bob, was a little unsure at first, but after about 24 hours, he was fine. My female cat, Jezebel, well, she’s a LOT more territorial. She hissed and was pretty pissed off for a few weeks.
Bob and 11 (the kitten’s name due to the location where she was found) hung out for the next few weeks, and Jezebel finally came around to 11. About a month or so after I brought 11 home, Jezebel’s eyes got infected. I brought her to the vet and got some meds. While I was worrying about Jez, I didn’t realize Bob’s health (which was never the best) was taking a drastic turn for the worse. I brought all three to the vet, first check up for 11, a recheck on Jez for her eyes, and to see what could be done for Bob. 11 was fine, Jez got a refill on her meds, and the cancer in Bob had spread too far for surgery. I had to say good bye to my first cat that day.
11 had learned a lot by hanging out with Bob. Liitle things that Bob had done for years, 11 does. She runs to the door when I come home from work, follows me around and lays on my sholders, makes sure I’m cooking the proper way and adding the right ingredients. She also sometimes gets on Jez’s last nerve just like Bob would. But Jez and 11 are getting along now, for the most part.
A Surprise Twist….

Here is 11 today

Back to the story of my walk now. I got a tire and put it on my car and brought my car home. A few weeks after, I was cleaning out my car, and found a spare tire behind the panels in the hatch. I didn’t need to walk that day in late October, but I’m so glad I did.
Brought to you by The Great Animal Rescue Chase

Boy with disability runs most inspiring field-day race ever

Matt has Spastic Cerebral Palsy, but opted to run in Field Day at Colonial Hills Elementary School despite being given the option to sit it out and despite the incredible challenge of his disability. What transpires is a boy who is filled with determination and a school of children who spontaneously come together and inspire Matt and everyone of us to do and be better.

You can't keep a good man down -- especially not Matt W., who just single-handedly made us vow to never say we're too tired for the gym again. The determined student, who has spastic cerebral palsy, was given the option to sit out field day at Worthington, Ohio's Colonial Hills Elementary School, but he chose to run in an event instead, despite the challenges of his severe disability. Matt starts to slow down about halfway through his own personal mini-marathon, but he pushes on as his supportive classmates and gym teacher cheer "Let's go, Matt, let's go!" and run right behind him until the end of his two laps. Have you seen anything more inspiring this week? Nope, didn't think so.

An Update From Sheriff Joe’s Cold Case Posse

Mark Gillar talks to Mike Zullo, lead investigator of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse.

Petition Opposing Obama's NewFast-Track Amnesty Waivers

The Obama Administration has once again created a "backdoor" amnesty that allows illegal immigrants to gain a "Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver" that puts them on a fast track to legal status.

This latest amnesty initiative was published quietly by the Obama team in the Federal Register as a "Proposed Rule." Under the new rule, illegal aliens with legal relatives (spouse, parent or child) in this country can claim "extreme hardship" and thus file for the Amnesty Waiver without having to leave the country.

The end result is that illegal aliens who could otherwise be subject to a 3- or 10-year ban on re-entry into the U.S. can apply for their waiver while remaining in the United States and only have to leave the U.S. for as little as one week instead of months or years.

Tell Obama You Oppose The New Amnesty Waiver
The Department of Homeland Security has opened up a formal comment period on this rule change through June 1, 2012. Grassfire Nation is collecting petitions from citizens who oppose this new Amnesty Waiver and will deliver petitions to DHS prior to the comments deadline. Please sign the petition below.

The Petition States:
As a concerned citizen, I am writing in opposition to the new proposed Department of Homeland Security Proposed Rule regarding "Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers" (published 4/2/12). This new Provisional Waiver actually grants illegal aliens temporary legal status in this country while their "provisional waiver" application is being processed and then puts the illegal alien on a fast-track to legal status. This is a reward for those who break our laws. It is expected that 1 million illegal aliens can gain a fast-track to legal status through this new provisional waiver. I oppose this and other efforts by the Obama Administration to weaken our immigration law and create a fast-track to legal status for lawbreaking illegal aliens.

Grassfire Nation

A FOREIGN COMPANY WILL PROCESS OUR VOTES IN NOVEMBER ?

April 9, 2012 By Nice Deb

A Spanish Company, SCYTL, has acquired SOE, the leading vote processing company in the United States. This means votes will now be transferred to a central server overseas, where they will be counted, rather than being counted at the local precinct level. This is not verified yet, although Snopes denies it. See below for updated information directly from SCYTL website.
This news was reported on the Market Watch website, back in January and received scant attention in the MSM:
SCYTL is the global leader in online voting solutions with a presence in over twenty countries
– SOE Software is the leading software company for election management solutions in the United States

SOE Software, based in Tampa, has developed Clarity, a suite of 8 software modules that allow election authorities to be more efficient and transparent in their management of elections and in their communications with citizens and media. Over 900 jurisdictions in 26 states across the United States, including 14 state-wide customers, currently use SOE Software solutions in their electoral processes. More information is available at www.soesoftware.com .

– The combination of the two companies creates the industry leader in election software with a strong market presence worldwide
SCYTL, the global leader in secure electronic voting technologies, announced today the acquisition of 100% of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States. The integration of these two software companies creates the industry leader in the election software market with a full range of solutions covering from Internet voting to election night reporting and online pollworker training, and a strong market presence worldwide.
SCYTL is currently the worldwide leader in the Internet voting space and the acquisition of SOE Software, with its Clarity election management software suite, significantly expands SCYTL’s product portfolio beyond electronic voting. Furthermore, SOE Software’s strong US presence with 900 jurisdictions as customers in 26 states, including 14 state-wide customers, complements very effectively SCYTL’s customer base in the United States and internationally with customers in over 20 different countries across 5 continents, including France, Spain, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, India and Australia.
Um…Is this reason for concern?
Open letter to the Congress of the United States
SCYTL, the global leader in secure electronic voting technologies, announced today the acquisition of 100% of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States.
Why is a software company based in Barcelona Spain(SCYTL) now in charge of counting our votes in the upcoming General Election on November 6th.
Did the Federal Elections Commission approve of this ? (FEC)
Did the Congress of the United States approve of this ?
Was this done by an Executive Order from the White House?
Is this the final step in Obama’s rigging of the 2012 election and the formation of a global government. Why is the AP not covering this ? Why is Fox news not covering this ? What we now have is a Socialist CEO running the worlds voting and election counts. Talk about a UN / Marxist / Communist dream come true. !
Does this explain why President Obama is so sure of being reelected as he speaks of his reelection as if it were in the present. This includes his conversation with the President of Russia which was recorded on a hot microphone ?
Who in the Congress / Senate authorized a global software company owned by a Spanish Socialist to be put in charge of counting our votes ?
Why is a company based in Spain who counts votes in Athens Greece now teaming up with the Commonwealth of Virginia to count the overseas ballots of our military members. ? Who in the DOD and the FEC and the Congress approved this ?
Who authorized a foreign company access to our vote count ? I want a Congressional investigation and I want this foreign company REMOVED from the vote count authority in our General Election on Nov 6th 2012. Mr.. Congressman get off your backsides and do your job !
Laura J Alcorn
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The current information available indicates that SCYTL is teaming up with Virginia State Board of Election, Georgia and other states to do advanced research on overseas military and overseas voters. You can find this in SCYTL website and you can believe this more than Snopes.

A news report from SCYTL
March 26, 2012 Scytl teams up with the Virginia State Board of Elections on Advanced Research Project for Military and Overseas Voters Scytl and Election Systems & Software (ES&S) have been selected by the Virginia State Board of Elections to work jointly on a research project aimed at identifying technologies that can increase voting participation across all military circumstances including disabilities, distance and location. The Commonwealth of Virginia is the only State slated to receive funding specifically to study the special needs of deployed and wounded service members. Within this framework, Scytl and ES&S joined the Virginia State Board of Elections last February to showcase currently available accessible voting technology specifically for military and overseas voters. During the next phase of this project, the Virginia State Board of Elections, Scytl and ES&S plan to work with Virginia-based military units to study the feasibility of mobile voting technology and plan to work with local military hospitals and other organizations to conduct a mock election that will allow the study of special accessibility needs for wounded service members returning from combat operations. In addition to voting technology, other election solutions that will be reviewed as part of the research project are mobile voting technologies for deploying military units. Click here to view our press release.

ForgeryGate

Wolf Blitzer’s Interview Meltdown With Donald Trump

Breakdown of Demographics Shows Obama In Trouble

Barack Obama is not winning any voting bloc he lost in 2008, and he is not doing better with any bloc he did win four years ago.
Nevertheless, the “experts” keep telling us that this race is tied or that Obama is leading. The only way to explain these “expert’” pronouncements is that Obama has captured the coveted Power Ranger vote. Hey, if dead people and illegal aliens can’t vote anymore, toy dummies must be filling in the gaps for the real ones! As to real people, here’s the truth of where they stand on Obama.
Catholics

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Outed Again in Massachusetts

Elizabeth Warren who is running against Scott Brown Republican Senator from Massachusetts may have lied again about her checkered past. Two weeks ago she was outed as not being a minority Native American. This week she’s been outed again for claiming something that could never be substantiated. She claims to be the first women in New Jersey to have taken the Bar Exam while nursing a child. It seems there are no records kept since 1895 when women started taking the Bar in New Jersey, convenient, huh?? This woman is one big fraud, sound familiar????

What Happens to the Supreme Court if Obama Gets Re-Elected?

There’s a lot at stake in this year’s election. I suspect that most people reading this column do not believe we have the ideal candidate. We don’t. Many are hoping against hope that Ron Paul is going to secure the nomination at the Republican convention since delegates are not legally committed to any particular candidate. That will go over big.
As a result of much dissatisfaction, many otherwise activist conservatives and libertarians will stay home this November. I can understand the sentiment. “Frustrated” is my middle name. With what I’m seeing in state-wide races, the Tea Party is alive and well. So-called moderates are scared. The defeat of long-time senator Richard Lugar has sent shock waves through the Republican Party.

The pill kills common sense

Most of America sits in reverence to the manufacturers of the birth control pill. They see the pill as liberating for women, as something that makes women's lives easier, even as a right. Yet they are being duped — duped by a selfish society that tells them repeatedly how a child is a burden, how reproduction is a woman's "choice," or how one little pill can make a woman happy. But this is not the truth. The truth is that the pill kills. Today's commentary addresses this and explains how you can be a part of spreading this truth. It's time the truth be told.

By Judie Brown

This says it all folks

Letter From An Ohio Farmer

Liberty or Soft Despotism

To My Fellow Citizens:
In an earlier letter, I remarked that Alexander Hamilton's view of a commercial republic has, for the most part, prevailed in the United States. Hamilton believed that such a commercial republic was the best means of protecting the natural rights of its citizens to their lives, liberty, and property, which constitute the very basis of prosperity.
Hamilton's view was largely adopted by the Whig Party in the 1830s and was the cornerstone of the economic program advocated by Henry Clay, whom Abraham Lincoln, an ardent Whig during his early political career, called his "beau ideal of a statesman" (on a forthcoming anniversary, we will reflect on the statesmanship of Clay in his many years as an American legislator). For Hamilton, Clay, and Lincoln, the key to prosperity is freedom. In his eulogy on Clay, Lincoln observed that:

Mr. Clay's predominant sentiment, from first to last, was a deep devotion to the cause of human liberty—a strong sympathy with the oppressed everywhere, and an ardent wish for their elevation. With him, this was a primary and all controlling passion. Subsidiary to this was the conduct of his whole life. He loved his country partly because it was his own country, but mostly because it was a free country; and he burned with a zeal for its advancement, prosperity and glory, because he saw in such, the advancement, prosperity and glory, of human liberty, human right and human nature. He desired the prosperity of his countrymen partly because they were his countrymen, but chiefly to show to the world that free men could be prosperous.

The basis of the commercial republic that Hamilton, Clay, and Lincoln envisioned was a just, generous, and prosperous system of free labor that "opens the way for all — gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all." The genius of free labor, Lincoln held, was that "when one starts poor, as most do in the race of life ... he knows he can better his condition."
Lincoln conceded that not all individuals are able to improve their lot in a commercial republic. But "if any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune." The fact is that a system of free labor "allow[s] the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else" and "leave[s] each man free to acquire property as fast as he can."
Such a system has a place for government action but one that is limited in scope. "The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities," e.g., national defense and the maintenance of good domestic order (the military and police functions); the administration of justice, including protection of property rights and enforcement of contracts (the court system); and limited investment in and maintenance of "public goods." Such a government leaves to individuals "the sacred right to regulate their own family affairs" and to "communities ... [the right to] arrange their own internal matters to suit themselves" without undue government interference. "The proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own" was for Lincoln the very foundation of justice.
Lincoln saw free labor as the antidote to the great problem of the time: slavery. While a system of free labor was based on the assumption that industrious, honest, and sober men would freely pursue their own interests, slavery was based on the assumption that the vast majority of laborers were indolent and without ambition, "that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor."
Contrast the view of republican independence advanced by Hamilton, Clay, and Lincoln with the story of "Julia," a cartoon figure made famous in the country in recent weeks to demonstrate what a female citizen today—if we can call her that instead of "subject"—owes to the benevolent policies of the modern American government. "Julia" represents what Alexis de Tocqueville called "soft despotism." Tocqueville understood that democracy is susceptible to a certain form of tyranny: the rule of a "benevolent" government, catering to the public's needs and whims in exchange for their freedom, which creates a servile people dependent on the largesse of government, happily acquiescing in the loss of liberty as long as the government fulfills their material desires.
The United States stands at a crossroads. Will we choose the path to prosperity represented by the commercial republic based on a just, generous, and prosperous system of free labor? Or will we succumb to Tocqueville's "soft despotism" and the servility it entails?

Ohio Farmer

Fukushima radiation now detected in the U.S. food supply

Radiation now detected in the U.S. food supply

Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan's Fukushima complex has made it into the seafood chain off the coast of America.

Small amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134, both radioactive elements released after a major earthquake-caused tsunami damaged at least three reactors at the site along Japan's northeastern coast in March 2011, have been found in at least 15 tuna that were recently caught off the coast of California, scientists have said.

You can read more

Sources for this article include:

http://www.reuters.com

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/fukushima_accident_inf129.html

http://www.sfgate.com

I Stand With the Catholic Church

In light of the growing friction between the Catholic Church and the Obama Administration, our friends over at St. Peter’s List have created several media designs to help those who are standing in defense of the Church. A few of the pictures deal directly with the current HHS mandate turmoil, but most are strong basic statements of fidelity that ring with a boldness akin to Bl. Pope John Paul II’s “do not be afraid.”

They are encouraging Catholics to take these pictures and share them throughout the social media platforms – make them your profile pictures, share them on your twitter, and post them to your blogs and parish websites.

The gallery can be found at St. Peter’s List

Senator Tom Coburn on the “Debt Bomb”

“The problem isn’t that we haven’t agreed, the problem is that we’ve agreed way too much,” explained Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) in a recent interview with The Heritage Foundation. “Otherwise we wouldn’t have trillion dollar deficits, $16 trillion in debt, and unfunded liabiltiies of $113-131 trillion.”
Senator Coburn visited The Heritage Foundation this week to discuss his new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America which makes the case that the biggest threat America faces is “Washington politicians who refuse to relinquish the intoxicating power to borrow and spend.”
When asked about his infamous nickname (“Dr. No”), Coburn had a quick response:

“The reason I’m known as ‘Dr. No’ is because I actually believe in the Constitution. I believe in the enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8. I believe the Constitution was filled with nos for us in Washington and yesses for everybody else in America.”

During the interview, Coburn discussed his ideal replacement for Obamacare should it be repealed or struck down by the Court this summer. He also spoke at length about the urgent need to reform our entitlements system and the disappointing lack of results towards this goal by Congress and the President.
A strong believer in term limits, Coburn announced in 2010 that he will retire in 2016 when his term expires.
“Long term service tends to distort why you came here in the first place,” he explained. “Changing of the guard in Washington is healthy for America. It’s healthy for the country and for us financially.”

How meritorious are the Catholic lawsuits? Part Two

Several of us, Scott in particular, have written about the lawsuits filed by dozens of Catholic organizations, in 12 different actions, challenging Department of Health and Human Services regulations implemented under Obamacare that would require most health insurance plans to include in the preventive services they cover all FDA-approved forms of contraception, including contraceptives that sometimes operate as abortifacients. The lawsuit alleges that the regulations violate both the First Amendment and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

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Cardinal Wuerl is Right

The media has all but ignored the fact that dozens of Catholic institutions, including dioceses, are suing for their religious liberty.

But they've certainly found a Catholic story they like as Cardinal Donald Wuerl noticed.

As of right now, there are 120,000 mentions in Google News of the Pope's butler leaking the Pope's papers but only a little over 3,000 mentions of the 43 lawsuits against the HHS mandate filed by 43 Catholic dioceses and institutions including Notre Dame.

"Well, it is puzzling, particularly since they’re focusing so much attention right now on the Pope’s butler," said Cardinal Wuerl. "It seems to me that somehow they’ve missed the boat. They’ve missed the story."

Cardinal Wuerl got this right.

The Church gets the double whammy because not only is the media committed to protecting Obama, they also despise the Catholic Church.

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Memorial Day 2012: Will You Remember Them Tomorrow?

As always, on Memorial Day in Washington DC, it was hot and humid. At Arlington National Cemetery, the men and women in dress uniforms stood solemnly saluting their fallen comrades. Two young Marines opened a beer and saluted their Lieutenant’s grave while a young widow hugged the stone with her husband’s name and cried softly; mothers and fathers decorated the stones of their sons and daughters. The sound of helicopters flying low, bringing the officials for the ceremonies at the Amphitheater, caused a few to flinch and glance upwards; and the multi-gun salute marked the end of the official observances up the hill.

Bible vs. Cell Phone

VS.

I never thought of it this way, but its an eye opener.

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several times a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you go....hmm...where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing.

Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being
disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities? And no dropped calls!

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!

If you are one of the 7% who will stand up for Him, forward this.

Memories of Freedom

What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than the reality of the present?

What if the federal government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, no matter what the Constitution authorized? What if the majority in Congress rejects the idea of limited government and views the Constitution as granting it blanket power to do whatever it can get away with? What if the constitutional prohibition on the government’s taking of life, liberty or property without due process of law is only for show and is not for real?

What if the House of Representatives seriously considered letting the military lock up whatever Americans the president ordered the troops to arrest, without charges filed or lawyers present or a judge presiding? What if the House seriously debated this idea of indefinite military detention of Americans in America and actually voted in favor of it? What if this unconstitutional monstrosity becomes the law and your right to due process depends on whether you remain with the majority, stay silent or behave properly? What if the Constitution’s guarantees are not guarantees at all, but are subject to the whims of whoever is in power?

What if the Declaration of Independence, which articulated the moral authority for the revolution against Great Britain, recognized that our rights come from our Creator and are inalienable? What if very few in government recognize the divine origin of human freedom and its natural integrity to our humanity?

What if the government only permitted freedom so long as it was exercised as the government pleases? What if the government rejected the basic values of every person’s right to life and liberty and property in favor of some collective good, where the government could arrest you without evidence, ration your freedom to suit the general welfare and take your property from you and sell it at a profit?

What if the government could hire thugs to keep you safe? What if it gave the thugs uniforms and badges and sent them to airports? What if it gave them rubber gloves to wear and told them they could touch you and your children and your parents however and wherever they wished? What if these thugs touched the private parts of little babies and old ladies and intentionally restrained those who have criticized them while the rest of us just watched and let this happen?

What if the airlines did a better job of keeping their customers happy and their property safe than the thugs did? What if the government spent millions of your tax dollars to advertise what a great job it’s doing? What if the government charged the airlines millions of their dollars for the illusory services these thugs are rendering? What if the government’s thugs never caught a single bad guy intent on harming a flight in America? What if the government’s thugs actually let weapons and bad guys onto planes because the thugs are dopes who have no competition, who can’t be sued and who won’t be fired?

What if the government found more dopes and dupes and convinced them that they should conspire to commit acts of terrorism? What if the idea for terrorist acts and the means for committing them came from the government? What if no real threats were involved in these games and no real weapons were used, just fake threats and fake weapons, fomented and provided by the government? What if the government created these phony crimes just so that it could solve them? What if no one was ever in danger from these government-created crimes, except those the government tricked? What if the government did this again and again and then boasted that it was keeping us safe from its own creations? What if Congress and the media and even the courts fell for this?

What if, on Memorial Day, we remember times that were more free than today? What if, on Memorial Day, when we think of those who died for our freedom, we end up recognizing that the freedom they died for is dying? What if it becomes fashionable for the government to ignore the Constitution? What if the Constitution dies because the government stops following it? What if, next Memorial Day, freedom is just a memory?

by Andrew Napolitano

God bless America’s warriors

Ted Nugent reminds us that freedom isn’t free this Memorial Day weekend.

Find the Memorial Day service at the Tomb of Unknowns on television and watch it with your children. Tell your children that many heroes have paid for their freedom with their lives. Remember U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Eric MacRae, who left behind a wife and children. Say a prayer for his family. Say a prayer for all the fallen warriors and the families they left behind.

Teach your children freedom isn’t free

Voter Fraud

Accuracy in Media's Center for Investigative Journalism released a report detailing the strategies, ongoing efforts and results of systematic vote fraud and intimidation in American elections. From Cloward Piven and ACORN to the host of Soros-funded foundations bent on "fundamental transformation," AIM sheds light on electoral rigging - unlike the mainstream press.

Read the report: http://bit.ly/Jsesai

We Remember ~ Memorial Day, A Sacred Day

Please watch this remember the fallen. heroes and loved ones Memorial Day 2009 Dedicated to my Uncle I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG! song- Amazing Grace: Bagpipes in...

2 Soldiers – Memorial Day 2012

http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2012/05/27/2-soldiers-memorial-day-2012/

Judge strikes down NDAA, rules Obama must obey Constitution

In a considerable setback for a president eager to ravage the due process rights of the American people, Federal Judge Kathleen Forrest granted a preliminary injunction on Wednesday, striking down those sections of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 which sought to provide Barack Obama the power to indefinitely detain citizens without benefit of their 5^th Amendment rights.
Signed very quietly into law on New Year’s Eve, the controversial Act has been roundly criticized as unconstitutional by groups on both the political left and right. Of greatest concern was Section 1021, which grants the United States military authority to exercise police powers on American soil. Upon order of the president and at his sole discretion, agents of the military are empowered to detain “until the end of hostilities” anyone the president believes to have “substantially supported” al Qaeda, the Taliban, or “associated forces.”

Gay Marriage: The Hidden Agenda

Yes indeed, it has nothing to do with "gay rights".
Excerpt | "Marx's loyal cohort Friedrich Engels, in his influential work, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the States, disclosed the game plan in a single, succinct proposition: change the concept of matrimony, and the traditional family will cease to exist. And once the family is gone, society will fall apart. Knock out the cornerstone, and the whole edifice will crumble, which is precisely the ultimate goal of the revolutionary movement."

It is the iron law of "progressive" movements that having achieved their goals, they refuse to fade away. Rather than disbanding upon completion of their mission, these movements, now fully institutionalized, keep chugging along, and the farther they go, the more they resemble their sworn enemies, ...

Articles: Gay Marriage: The Hidden Agenda

www.americanthinker.com

15,000 gather to apply Shariah in U.S.

Shariah law is famous for making headlines in the West over its penalties, such as beheadings and amputations; its treatment of women and the violence that is allowed, and its relegation to those who follow other faiths to a subservient status.
Now, it seems, there’s a new move to expand its influence in the United States, with a weekend conference in Hartford, Conn., on “Understanding Shariah” and “how to apply Shariah in a society where most people are not of the same faith.”

15,000 gather to apply Shariah in U.S.

Have We stood silently by while corrupt politicians have looted our posterity of opportunity and hope ?

The No Growth Zero Sum Pie

Has America reached the stage where we all stand in a circle and take turns holding a constantly shrinking dollar?

If our Dear Leader and the Daley led Outfit wins re-election next year perhaps a few more people will see the hand writing on the wall. Though the Constitution is undeniably the greatest work to come from the hand of man, though it provided the safe haven of freedom for generations it is today a dead letter. If after the coming November election the Democrats tax storm sweeps us down the economic drain and inflation kicks in those dazed by the success of the Chicago system in re-electing the first anti-American president then the silent majority will be ready to hear the watchmen on the walls.

We have sold our birthright for a bowl of entitlements. We have stood silently by while corrupt politicians have looted our posterity of opportunity and hope. We have allowed our Federal Government to assume powers never delegated to them by the Constitution. We have spent the revenues of the future for a present that no longer resembles the last best hope of mankind. We have followed the pipers from the Land of the free and the home of the brave onto the road to serfdom and we are about to learn that he who pays the piper calls the tune.

While our nation wallows in the Great Recession which our Progressive leaders and their water boys in the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media keep trying to tell us is over China keeps eating our lunch. Starting with NAFTA both Democrats and Republicans have agreed to free trade deals that aren’t free and have suppressed our trade. For these economic geniuses who think they can centrally plan the largest economy in the history of the world let me spell this out slowly and clearly:

If you buy more than you sell you have a negative balance of trade
If you spend more than you make you eventually go bankrupt

AND…..

Everyone else except you seems to know these two simple truths.

Maybe our economic geniuses should try Economics 101. They want us to accept that America has become a no growth zero sum pie. It doesn’t fit their game plan to take their foot off the throat of the economy. If they did it would roar to life as the liberty and opportunity which is our heritage, and once again prove that free people making free choices is the best way to grow the pie and enrich the people.

A new book calls President Obama an amateur, and at first glance he may appear to be one. However he does not stand alone. He is the front man for a triumphant Progressive Movement which has successfully implemented a strategy that has taken more than a century to mature. Starting in the 1890s they set their sights on education capturing the universities and then training generations of teachers, journalists, and lawyers. These people have infiltrated every aspect of our lives dumbing down successive generations while Progressive politicians have worked at getting a majority of the voters addicted to government handouts. Then in the1960s the Cloward and Piven Strategy was embraced as a way to spend the country into oblivion so that it could be remade in a Progressive image. Step by step, inch by inch, line upon line these webs have been woven, and as the average American twists and turns trying to find some avenue of escape from the shabby future these want to be commissars have planned, all they see is the party line on the major networks telling them everything is coming up roses.

It is time to WAKE UP! It is time to prepare as if the world we have known will end and expect major dislocations in every aspect of life. Even an overwhelming defeat for President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the rest of their fellow travelers will only mean this train wreck is slowing down. The so-called draconian Ryan Budget never gets to a balanced budget for 40 or 50 years. More than 30 years out the national debt is still growing. Projections show that by 2025 the interest on the debt alone will begin to consume any hope of getting out of the trick bag they have spent us in to. Our elected leaders have no plan to reverse the decline. They merely want to manage it in a more orderly fashion.

Each of us must decide what is most important. Each of us must either prepare for the coming contraction or hit the wall like a crash dummy.

Personally I have decided that family is more important than career, food is more important than convenience, and honor is more important than status. I have left the tenured halls and headed for the hills. I have abandoned friends of many years to be surrounded by family. I have embraced the soil to grow my own food. In other words, I believe I have been to the top of the mountain, I have seen what is coming, and I have taken my own advice.

When I was the Dean of a School of Christian Ministries I used to tell my students to prepare as if there was no Holy Spirit and preach as if there were no notes. Today I advise my readers, prepare as if the America we have known and loved is about to be transformed before our eyes into a social democracy of European proportions, and live as if there is still hope.

For as long as we believe there is still hope we will not be hopeless.

So we come to the ultimate message: hope in Christ and you will never be disappointed. All things must pass and only those things done in Christ will last. All empires fall. It is our place in History to watch the slow motion fall of a mighty empire: Western Civilization. But if we hold on to what is true, if we stand for what we believe, though a thousand fall on our right and ten thousand fall on our left it will not come upon us.

by Dr. Robert owens

The Power of Prayer

I have been asked on occasion who or what I thought is the most powerful influence in our world today and also who I thought is our greatest enemy. As I review the things that have happened in our world in the last few decades, I would have to say that the answer to both questions is Satan. I know most will be shocked by this statement; however, if we look at the course our country and world have taken, it is the logical conclusion. The wars, the immorality which includes pre-marital sex, homosexuality, the killing of our unborn, and in some places euthanasia & physician assisted suicide, are all signs that Satan is alive and well and not only living in our world, but controlling it.

We have allowed a few individuals to convince the majority of us to take God out of our public lives and our schools so as not to “offend” those who don’t wish to have a relationship with Him. It is even becoming a crime to mention God publicly in certain places and a “hate crime” to speak out against the evil we encounter on a daily basis. God fearing individuals are having their rights taken away a little bit at a time and they don’t seem to realize that we need to stand up and fight back in a spiritual way.

What can we do about this? The good news is that we have a very powerful weapon which we often overlook in fighting this enemy; and it has been given to us by God Himself. It is prayer! Unless we all turn back to God and pray for His Divine Mercy, we cannot expect Him to intervene on our behalf. And prayer is the only defense we have against the most powerful of God’s fallen angels, Satan!