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"Daily Motivations"

Think of each member of your work group as a high jumper. Celebrate the reaching of new heights…then "raise the bar" together. But don't forget, as you're raising the bar, so is your competition. -- Eric Harvey



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11)

Jim was an executive with a telephone company. He worked hard and built a good reputation, right up to the day that his division closed. The company offered him a transfer to a branch in another state. For extra incentive, he could look forward to a promotion and a hefty pay raise.

Jim faced one of those agonizing decisions in life. He was a leader at a church where the family had grown in their love for Christ. His wife had many friends and activities. Then there were the children. Pulling them out of school in the middle of the academic year would be a lot to ask.

Still, that promotion was worth considering. Jim decided to accept the offer. He and his wife began making all the busy preparations involved in a cross-country move, but as the move date approached, the couple's nagging feeling only intensified.

"That's when we started praying," Jim said with a slightly embarrassed laugh. "Here I was a church leader, and I had forgotten to ask God what He wanted." Jim and his wife soon came to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit did not want them to make the move.

Several months later, Jim heard that the phone company had closed the division in the other state.

God knows the future already; it is not one of chance and chaos, but one defined by His perfect plan, lovingly worked out with our welfare in mind.



"The Patriot Post"

"As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature." -- Alexander Hamilton



ACORN: Organizing the community one prostitute at a timeACORN -- A Tough Nut to Crack

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) bills itself as "the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people." Its mission is typical leftist activism -- anything from advocating for a higher minimum wage and the type of home loans that precipitated the housing crisis to ballot initiatives and voter registration. We know that ACORN has also submitted fraudulent voter registration forms filled out by "Mickey Mouse" and other fictional characters. But, hey, "get out the vote" knows no bounds. Also, Barack Obama worked alongside ACORN during his own "community organizing" days.

This week, news broke that the Census Bureau, which had planned to partner with ACORN in next year's census, severed all ties with the organization. Then the U.S. House and Senate each voted to deny the group access to further federal housing funds (though who knows what will happen in Conference Committee). Even the Obama White House "distanced" itself from this taxpayer-funded organization.

So why all the fuss? If inquiring minds read only The New York Times, they might be in the same blissfully ignorant boat as ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, who, when asked about the ACORN scandal, claimed, "I don't even know about it."

The story began when two young conservative activists, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking advice on obtaining a loan for a home to use as a brothel, evading income tax on the young woman's income and claiming as dependents underage El Salvadoran girls they wanted to employ. In five different ACORN offices (Baltimore, DC, New York, and San Diego and San Bernardino, California), workers bit on the story, hooker, line and sinker, freely giving pointers without so much as batting an eye on how to get illegal loans and evade taxes. The videos are posted on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com. None showed concern for the obvious implication of child abuse.

The Times, however, with the motto "All the News That's Fit to Print," didn't find anything fit to print until days later, and then only with the laughable headline, "Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn." As Charlie Gibson condescended, "[M]aybe this is just one you leave to the cables."

The truly unfortunate thing is that ACORN has received more than $50 million in taxpayer dollars since 1994 and was set to receive $8.5 billion in "stimulus" cash. Most Democrats are feverishly turning off the funding spigot before this scandal drags their own political skeletons out of the closet. For the record, however, seven senators voted to continue funding this criminal enterprise, and, not surprisingly, they're all Democrats: Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Dick Durbin (IL), Roland Burris (IL), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Bob Casey Jr. (PA), Patrick Leahy (VT) and self-proclaimed socialist independent Bernie Sanders (VT). In addition, 75 (yes, seventy-five) House Democrats voted to continue throwing our money at the group. Space doesn't permit us to list the names of these disgraceful twits, but BigGovernment.com has them for all to see.

One of the ACORN workers did tell O'Keefe, "Honesty is not going to get you the house." Perhaps she meant "House" with a capital "H." In any case, O'Keefe and Giles deserve a medal.



On Cross-Examination

"Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN: 'W.H. distances from activist group.' Choking. Up. With. Laughter. Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow. He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. The 'accountability' that White House flack Robert Gibbs says they take 'extremely seriously' doesn't extend to Team Obama itself -- and the accountability they have evaded for pouring more than $800,000 into an ACORN front group for campaign advance work that was mysteriously re-classified as 'get-out-the-vote' work. As for the ACORN 'advisory committee' that will 'audit' the group's illicit activities, I repeat: Choking. Up. With. Laughter." -- columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin



NATIONAL SECURITY -- Choosing Hope Over Experience

Patriot readers will recall that one of the many reasons we opposed Barack Obama's candidacy for president last year was his spectacular lack of experience in international affairs (not to mention everything else). As expected, the results of that inexperience, combined with Obama's far-left bent, can be seen in several of the most important foreign policy issues facing the United States today, particularly what to do about Iran's nuclear program.

Obama thought he could simply extend his hand in peace to the lunatics in Iran and bring them around, as though the mullahs didn't really mean it all those hundreds of times when they said they would never give up their cherished nuclear program. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also thought they could simply "reset" relations with Russia through the sheer force of their personalities.

Yet, Iran has repeatedly dismissed Obama's overtures, and the rogue state yawned at his latest deadline for nuclear talks by submitting its own proposal that virtually ignores the nuclear issue. Meanwhile, Israel is watching with growing concern as Iran moves closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon. How long can Israel afford to wait? How will Iran react when -- increasingly a matter of when, not if -- Israel takes military action against Tehran's nuclear program?

As for the Russians, they finally convinced Obama to betray our Polish allies on missile defense. In a bitter irony that is a hallmark of this administration, the decision was announced on Thursday, Sept. 17, the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. In "return," the erstwhile Soviets now indicate that they will not support any additional sanctions on Iran -- a threat they can back up with UN Security Council veto power. Why offer any concessions when Obama so readily gives up? (Incidentally, Obama claims that by quitting on missile defense, he is actually going to "strengthen America's defenses against ballistic-missile attack." Up is down, black is white...)

In the end, the heart of Obama's presidency is this: Instead of actually being something, Obama thinks it's sufficient to merely project something. That might convince the ACORN crowd, but the nuts in charge of Iran (and a nascent USSR) will only laugh.



Warfront With Jihadistan: ROE Cost Lives

It's a scene that has been repeated too many times in recent U.S. conflicts and has cost far too many American soldiers' lives. We send our best and bravest off to fight the enemies of liberty while our politicians tie one hand behind the troops' back, essentially giving aid and comfort to the enemy. That aid and comfort, of course, are the Rules of Engagement (ROE) that define when, where and how our soldiers can fight and kill the enemy. The enemy has no such rules, which all too often leaves our troops unnecessarily exposed to enemy fire on the one hand, or exposed to prosecution by U.S. lawyers on the other, a choice that leads to uncertainty and, therefore, death on the battlefield.

Last week, when four U.S. Marines were killed in an ambush while training Afghan soldiers, the ROE were to blame. Eight Afghan troops and the Marine commander's Afghan interpreter also died in the ambush and the subsequent battle that took place in the village of Ganjgal, near the Pakistan border. The Marines came under heavy fire from jihadis hidden in the hills near the village, where women and children were helping to replenish the insurgents' ammunition. Citing the new ROE implemented by the Obama regime, designed to minimize Afghan civilian casualties, U.S. commanders repeatedly rejected calls from the Marines for artillery and air support aimed at the jihadis, who were dug into the slopes around the village but not in the village proper. The lack of air support led to a fierce firefight and directly contributed to the Marines' deaths. This is nothing short of criminal.

While minimizing civilian casualties is proper, we are at war, and defeating the enemy is priority one. War-fighting decisions must be made by the troops who are actually in battle, not by cynical, agenda-driven politicians safely ensconced in their posh DC offices.



Income Redistribution: A Tale of Two Americas

We in our humble shop have discovered that John Edwards was right after all: There are two Americas. However, we don't believe this story was quite what he had in mind.

An analysis by Chris Edwards (no relation to the former senator) of the Cato Institute found that federal civilian employees are a group not exactly hit hard by the recession. They now have an average compensation package (wages plus benefits) that doubles the average compensation package found in the private sector. Furthermore, it's an overall disparity that's increased over the last eight years.

In relating his findings, Edwards notes, "The result [of a lack of fiscal restraint during the Bush administration] has been an increasingly overpaid elite of government workers, who are insulated from the economic reality of recessions and from the tough competitive climate of the private sector." While federal employees tend to complain about their pay scale -- which is "only" about 60 percent higher than the private sector's -- it's telling that they quit their jobs much less often than do those in the private sector. Obviously few are forced out because the federal government never shrinks in size, and, as the data show, federal employees are loath to give up their gold-plated benefit packages.

It's a trend that will only increase with the proclivity of Barack Obama to expand the highly unionized government workforce and create additional bureaucracy. After all, someone has to push pencils for the dozens of czars Obama has appointed to supplement the already burgeoning workforce in place under those Cabinet department heads.

However, there is a chance this difference may be erased soon. With the proposed addition of thousands more workers to referee cap-n-tax and ration our health care, our growing government may finally leave no private sector jobs to be compared. That seems to be the desired result of this administration's policies.



CULTURE & POLICY -- Around the Nation: Guns, Crime and Prison Population

According to new data released by the FBI, violent crime in America continued its downward trend in 2008, proving once again that criminals -- not more guns -- are the problem. While murder, manslaughter and rape have all been on the decline since an all-time high in the early '90s, killings dropped 3.9 percent between 2007 and 2008 alone, even with millions of guns purchased during that time -- especially those scary "assault rifles" that give liberals such heartburn. "These are rates we haven't seen since the 1960's, even though the change from year to year has been rather small," said Alfred Blumstein, a criminal justice professor at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Of course, despite the drop in crime (or the fact that none of these crimes even require a gun), liberals continue to push for stricter gun control laws in the interests of our "safety," and the Leftmedia (expectantly) points out that crime usually rises during recessions and that the bulk of this data was gathered before the height of the economic crisis.

While government is trying to deprive us of our Second Amendment rights, courts are advancing the rights of criminals. When presented with a class-action suit brought by California inmates, a three-judge district court panel found that prison overcrowding is robbing them of their constitutional rights and decided to free 46,000 criminals in order to make incarceration more comfortable. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay on the ruling, arguing that the safety of Californians would be at risk if the prisoners are released, but the Supremes refused.

So, if the Left has its way, we should all turn in our firearms and pray that Big Brother will protect us from the thousands of newly released criminals prowling the streets. Another attempt to pay lip service to the Constitution while trampling it.



Judicial Benchmarks: Court Weighs in on Surgery

From the "Court Jesters" File, the Associated Press reports, "An Indiana court has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for a 340-pound employee's weight-loss surgery to ensure the success of another operation for a back injury he suffered at work." The worker was hurt in March 2007 when struck in the back by a freezer door. Doctors advised that back surgery was needed, but that it wouldn't do much good unless he first lost weight -- he hit 380 pounds after the accident. His employer agreed to pay for the back surgery but claimed no obligation to pay for weight-loss surgery, which would cost between $20,000 and $25,000.

The Indiana workers' compensation board said that his weight and the accident combined to form a single injury. The court agreed. Score a jackpot for the legal lotto. Of course, this decision will have unintended consequences detrimental to other employers and potential employees.. The AP notes, "The Indiana Court of Appeals decision, coupled with a recent Oregon court ruling [that the state workers' compensation insurance must pay for gastric bypass surgery to ensure that a man's knee replacement surgery was effective], could make employers think twice before hiring workers with health conditions that might cost their companies thousands of dollars ... down the road." In other words, thinner employment, but not in the intended fashion.



Faith and Family: Murder in Michigan

A 63-year-old disabled man was shot and killed last Friday near a high school in Owosso, Michigan. This murder was particularly noteworthy because of the protest that James Pouillon was engaged in at the time of his death. CNS News reports, "Known as 'the sign man,' Pouillon, who had leg braces and required oxygen, was a pro-life activist for many years and well-known by other pro-life advocates around the country." Pouillon's death received some media coverage, though it was nothing compared to the media storm over the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller in May. What little coverage of Pouillon there was included such descriptions of him as an "anti-abortion protester" with an "in-your-face" style. George Tiller, on the other hand, was a hero to the media. For his part, Barack Obama said two days after the shooting that the murder was "deplorable" and that "whichever side of a public debate you're on, violence is never the right answer." Tell that to the unborn babies Pouillon was defending.



And Last...

It appears that nothing is sacred in the Era of Hope and Change™ -- especially when it comes to advocating for ObamaCare. A trio of thugs knocked on the door of a home in Huntington, New York, claiming to have information supporting Barack Obama's proposed takeover of the health care system. A man dressed as a doctor with a stethoscope around his neck and a woman with a clipboard full of pamphlets forced their way into the home followed by a third perpetrator who had been hiding outside. That man shot the woman's boyfriend several times, shot the woman in the foot while she sat next to her two-year-old daughter and pistol-whipped the woman's mother. The three then fled with $4,000 cash in a getaway car driven by a fourth thug. A fifth suspect remains at large. Michelle Malkin observed, "Imagine the national uproar that would be occurring right now if these home invaders had posed as Tea Party activists." That would take quite an imagination, however, since Tea Party folks are calling on government to stop stealing our money.



"The Web"

ORIGINAL - UPDATED VERSION! - DID JESUS GIVE US THE NAME OF THE ANTICHRIST?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHUZXgNAWo



SHOCKING REVELATION! Are THESE Really The FINAL Days of Man? THREE minutes of a REALITY check!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9vMI6m1og&feature=related



Bachmann: U.S. Faces One-World Currency, End of U.S. Sovereignty (Video)

Rep. Michele Bachmann Speaks at 'How to Take Back America Conference'
By David Weigel

http://washingtonindependent.com/61253/bachmann-obama-policies-could-bring-about-one-world-currency-end-of-sovereignty-video

On Saturday, I mentioned that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)

http://washingtonindependent.com/61037/bachmann-in-st-louis-defund-the-left-beware-one-world-currency

had warned the How to Take Back America crowd of one-world currency in her luncheon speech. The crack team at TWI has uploaded a short video of Bachmann’s remarks (after the jump).



The ' L I T T L E ' Things~

As you might remember, the head of a company survived 9/11 because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was His turn to bring donuts.

One woman was late because her Alarm clock didn't go off in time.

One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike Because of an auto accident.

One of them Missed his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take Time to change.

One's Car wouldn't start.

One couldn't Get a taxi.

The one that struck me was the man -- Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, Took the various means to get to work
But before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot.

He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. -- That is why he is alive today..

Now when I am Stuck in traffic, Miss an elevator, Turn back to answer a ringing telephone...

All the little things that annoy me. I think to myself, This is exactly where God wants me to be At this very moment..

Next time your morning seems to be Going wrong,

The children are slow getting dressed, You can't seem to find the car keys, You hit every traffic light, Don't get mad or frustrated; It May be just that God is at work watching over you.

May God continue to bless you With all those annoying little things And may you remember their possible purpose.

God's Love Is Not Dependent On E-Mail!!
(that's the cool part)

A M E N



A Personal Response - Subject: RE: Another Failed Presidency

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/another_failed_presidency.html

By Tom McDonald

I wish I could agree with this assessment of "O" not knowing what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is trying to achieve. One "proof" of this is that he is demonizing anyone who "dares" to disagree with him on anything he is doing - so that he can, in effect, marginalize his opposition - so that he can carry on as though they do not exist and do precisely what he intends doing. Another "proof" is that he is racing to get all the pieces of his fascist/ socialist agenda in place so that when the 2010 elections turn the US Congress back to the conservatives (or maybe only to the Republicans) it will be too late - or at least very difficult for the changed Congress to unwind his destructive folly - or that the nation may have by then already collapsed.

I continue to pray that God will save BHO and Michelle. I continue to pray that God will remove the dark cloud of evil that hangs like a pall over the US Capitol. I continue to pray that God will cause the citizens of this country to vote in the largest numbers ever in history in the 2010 elections. I continue to pray that God will give us new, godly men and women to lead us back to righteous behavior. I continue to pray that God will withhold His hand of Final Judgment on America. I continue to pray that God will Revive His Church - and crush the apostate bodies that call themselves Christian churches.

I continue to pray that God will keep me praying what I hear Him wanting me to pray. In short, I continue to pray that God's Will be Done in America, AMEN!!!

iHsay, tom



SEND CONGRESS A PINK SLIP

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Historic! 700,000 'pink slips' to Congress – in 3 days!

Goal of 5 million likely be exceeded, say organizers

WASHINGTON – An innovative new campaign to alert Congress of widespread grass-roots opposition to massive new spending plans as well as other objectionable and intrusive legislation is already responsible – in the first 72 hours – for the distribution of 700,000 "pink slip" notices to members of the House and Senate.

Send an urgent warning to every member of Congress to let them know you're watching.

WND announced the "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign Friday and it has already reached one-seventh of its stated goal of 5 million notices, individually addressed, personalized with senders name and address and delivered to all members of Congress by Fed Ex. Already, 700,000 of the "pink slips" are on their way to Washington.

"This looks like a historic effort – comparable to the massive march in Washington, the tea party rallies and the town hall actions," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND. "I'm quite sure nothing like this has ever before been undertaken."

The idea was conceived by Janet Porter of Faith2Action and a WND weekly columnist.

"We set a goal of 5 million pink slips to members of Congress," she said. "We might even surpass that goal."

Porter said the highest priority of members of Congress is re-election. The campaign is designed to put them on notice their hopes of staying in Washington are fading fast.

"There is a revolution brewing across this country," she said. "People are angry about losing their country and they are ready for action. This campaign is just the latest evidence."

The "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign ensures that a brief but poignant message will be delivered by Fed Ex to all 535 members of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate – all for a remarkably low price based on economies of scale.



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"We encourage citizens to take individual actions," said Farah. "But when we act as a group, it's more cost-effective and the results more dramatic. Just try Fed Exing members of Congress yourself and see what it costs. We have learned from past experience that Fed Ex actually ensures delivery to members. What they do with them at that point is their choice."

The program is based on several other successful programs of the past, including one last summer that delivered 705,000 letters to senators protesting a "hate crimes" bill dubbed by critics as "the Pedophile Protection Act."

"I believe this has the potential to be the most successful grass-roots effort in history," said Porter. "After all the town halls and tea parties and the massive demonstration in Washington, Congress still hasn't gotten the message. Now it's time to show them just how serious we are with a message aimed at what they most care about – getting re-elected."

The "pink slip" each official will get is a reminder that they work for the taxpayers. Each is individually printed with the sender's contact information under the closing salutation "Signed, Your Employer:"

The warning lists four key issues that are deemed unacceptable to program participants:

A previous WND FedEx campaign blanketed Congress with over 705,000 personalized letters.
government health care cap and trade "hate crimes" any more spending "If you vote for any of these, your real pink slip will be issued in the next election," it warns.

To send individual notices to all 535 members of Congress through the Postal Service would cost you $235 in stamps alone.

The "Send Congress a Pink Slip" program permits participants to Fed Ex 535 individually addressed pink slips to members of Congress, each one with the name and address of the sender for just $29.95.

"This is a program that only works with massive numbers of participants that bring paper and printing and shipping costs way down," explains Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, which has conducted similar programs in the past - this one being the largest and most ambitious.



Glenn Beck: The Letter

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

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

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

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

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

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

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



THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different..... Two Different Versions! ................. Two Different Morals!

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

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

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself.

MODERN VERSION:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant 's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group curse God for the grasshopper's sake.

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

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

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

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

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

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

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.



Grown Women

Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans.
Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits.

Girls want to control the man in their life.
Grown women know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.

Girls check you for not calling them.
Grown women are too busy to realize you hadn't.

Girls are afraid to be alone.
Grown women revel in it-using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls ignore the good guys.
Grown women ignore the bad guys.

Girls make you come home.
Grown women make you want to come home.

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man.
Grown women know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.

Girls try to monopolize all their man's time (i.e., don't want him hanging with his friends).
Grown women realize that a lil' bit of space makes the 'together time' even more special-and goes to kick it with her own friends.

Girls think a guy crying is weak.
Grown women offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls want to be spoiled and 'tell' their man so.
Grown women 'show' him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate without fear of losing his 'manhood'.

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it.
Grown women know that that was just one man.

Girls fall in love and chase aimlessly after the object of their affection, ignoring all 'signs'.
Grown women know that sometimes the one you love, don't always love you back-and move on, without bitterness.

Girls will read this and get an attitude.
Grown women will read this and pass it on to other Grown women and their male friends.

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"The e-mail Bag"

Why buy the cow? WE MEN CAN TAKE IT

For all those men who say, "Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free." Here's an update for you: Nowadays, 80% of women are against marriage, WHY? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.

Men are like....

1. Men are like Laxatives. They irritate the crap out of you.
2 Men are like Bananas . The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like Weather .. Nothing can be done to change them.
4. Men are like Blenders You need one, but you're not quite sure why.
5. Men are like Chocolate Bars .. Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.
6. Men are like Commercials . You can't believe a word they say.
7. Men are like Department Stores ... Their clothes are always 1/2 off!
8. Men are like .. Government Bonds .... They take soooooooo long to mature.
9. Men are like .. Mascara . They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
10. Men are like Popcorn . They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
11.. Men are like Snowstorms .. You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.
12! . Men are like Lava Lamps . Fun to look at, but not very bright.
13. Men are like Parking Spots All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

Now send this to all the remarkable women you know, as well as to any understanding good-natured, fun kinda guys you might be lucky enough to know !!!!!!!!!!