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CALL TO ARMS - TEA PARTIES UNITE

CALL TO ARMS - TEA PARTIES UNITE

Someone is calling to take up guns!  I can hear it now.  From the Progressive Socialist Democrats that have no problem saying what ever it takes to gain or stay in power, how will they spin (lie) about it?  


          


The Democratic Party has been taken over in leadership by Progressive Socialist.  People with beliefs and thought processes that most real Democrats wouldn't agree with.  The Republican Party isn't much better.  Mostly they are moving slower but there are still a lot of Progressive members of the Republican Party.

Both parties are afraid of the Tea Party Movement.  The Democrats want to call members of the Tea Party Movement names and attempt to marginalize them.  A lot of Republicans want to try and bring them in, but if they did that would the movement cease?

Many on the Republican side will say that a third party such as the Tea Party Movement would only take away from Republicans and put Democrats in office.  Can either party be trusted?  I think not and Washington D.C. needs a shock and make over.

It is important to take EGO out of the picture.  Look at some of these elected officials that have been in office so long that they think the seat is THEIR seat.  They think they know best and that we are too dumb to understand what needs to be done.  Even though these same people vote for a bill they haven't even read.

I say to all Tea Parties get the EGO out and come together and wrap our arms together in a line that can't be broken.  We need a true National third party that isn't beholden to the old way of life in DC.  We need common men and women making the laws.  People who won't write 10 pages to say something that can be said in 1 page.  People who just want to go and try and get the country back to the way the founders intended then go home and live.

It is time we think out of the box and act outside of the box.  It is time for all Patriots to come together and form a party that is for the people and the constitution of the United States.  Where do we start?  Getting our EGO's out of the way.  We can't have this a a better Tea Party Group or that is a better Tea Party Group.  We all have good intentions and desires for our country.  We agree about so many things so if we can put the Ego in it's pen then we can and should work together.

Who will take the lead to start a National Tea Party?  But with that we also need local Tea Parties.  It is time and it is needed.

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Juan McCain On The Border Issue


Juan McCain On The Border Issue

Here is a post I put on the blog during the election of 08.  Since McCain is running to try and save his senate seat I thought maybe I should post it again.  Even though he may be talking different now, don't believe it.  He hasn't changed how he truly feels and his conservative talk of now is because of his fear of losing his bid for another 6 years in the senate.

Trust me, if he gets another 6 years you will start seeing him again not only reaching across the isle but pulling up a chair and sitting down.  As Patrick Henry said:
  
      "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." Patrick Henry






One of the issues that American's understand and care about is closing our borders.  Again I ask how can you really say we are fighting a war on terror and we REFUSE to close our borders.  Another way to slow the McCain Train is shine the light on one of his advisors.  Juan Hernandez.  If you watch any of the talk cable news shows you have seen this guy. 


http://www.juanhernandez.org/

Open borders advocate Juan Hernandez has joined the McCain campaign



GLENN: Here it is, here's John McCain.

VOICE: I wonder if you agree with those policies. If so, explain it to me. And if not, why is he on your staff.

McCAIN: He's on my staff because he supports my policies and my proposals and my legislative proposal to secure the borders first, that no one will receive Social Security benefits who is in this country illegally. I don't know what his previous positions are, other previous positions are but he supports mine. I have nothing to do with his. And he has volunteered to help me with outreach to our Hispanic citizenry as that is his reach as I outreach to every citizen in America. I've made very clear my position on immigration, made very clear on my position on Social Security and, of course, I am grateful that we have so many people who came from Ireland to the United States of America and anybody else who can come here legally under the right system and that's the only system that I would ever support and I have no idea but I will check into the information you've given me. But I want to promise you I will secure our borders. I will not allow anyone to come here illegally. I will not allow anyone to receive Social Security or any other benefit because they have come here illegally and broken our laws.

GLENN: Okay. That's John McCain. Now, it's so disingenuous to say he doesn't know who this man is or his policies. This is a guy who used to work for Vicente Fox. He is the most open border guy you could possibly imagine. Here's just one clip of Juan Hernandez, and we've got tons of them and we'll be playing them over the next few days. Here's just one clip of Juan Hernandez on TV.

HERNANDEZ: I don't think that we need to build walls to control immigration. We are the 21st century now and we're a country that has always broken down walls. Once again with regard to securing the borders, we need to work with Mexico. We're never going to have a secure border. We're not going to put a wall up for these hundreds and hundreds thousands of miles. We have to work with our neighbors. We need to think now for the future. Canada, the United States and Mexico as a block.

GLENN: Canada, Mexico and America as a block. That's who this guy is. Michelle?

MALKIN: A block, not a region. He said it many times. He also, when he worked for this Mexican bureaucracy called the presidential office for Mexican abroad, what he did was he spent his time traveling all across our country lobbying local, state and federal officials for driver's license for illegal aliens. He defended his operators who were carrying illegal aliens to the country and who promoted extending banking privileges here in the United States to illegal aliens, lobbied to get lower rates for them so that they could send home billions of dollars in remittances back to their country. The guy does not believe in borders. He is a senior fellow at something called the Reform Institute which is a think tank that John McCain founded and it has come under scrutiny by the mainstream media because it underscores John McCain's hypocrisy not just on open borders but also on campaign finance because he's used his supposedly nonpartisan, nonprofit thinking to solicit donations from big donors who he then goes and crusades for while he's sitting on Senate committees. At this reform institute which is in part funded with George Soros money, Juan Hernandez was in charge of leading the lobbying campaign for John McCain's amnesty effort last year. And this reform institute also sponsored an art contest for students where they spent their time demonizing the border. And you can go and look. I linked this on my website, to all of the art that compares the walls our borders and our border fences to the Berlin wall which keeps people in instead of walling people out to prevent invasion, to prevent undermining our sovereignty, to prevent encroaching of our laws. And for McCain to have the gall to stand there and tell that voter in Florida who, by the way, learned about this Juan Hernandez thing by looking at our research on the Internet, for him to say that he supports securing the border first when he's got a guy outreaching to illegal aliens to persuade them to make John McCain President? It's more than nauseating.

Thank you for this part Glenn Beck  www.glennbeck.com  and Michelle Malkin  www.michellemalkin.com .

So who in the Media will start asking John McCain about Juan Hernandez EVERYDAY????

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A NEW POLITICAL PARTY IS NEEDED

A New Political Party Is Needed
                                                                      
Both Political Parties have failed the American people.  They both have become so obsessed with power that they have lost complete sight of what their True duties are.  They are more concerned about keeping their power then doing what is right for this country and the citizens of this country.  With this mindset things that they do, bills that they pass, programs that they promote are mainly do with the thought of how it will help keep them in power.

There are numerous (3rd) third parties.  The Republicans and Democrats have purposely made it hard for another party to have any influence if it is started.  The difficulty of getting a candidate from a different party then the main two on a ballot is by design.   That is wrong and it is something that should be changed.

It is truly time that a national 3rd party be started.  The Republicans and Democrats have gotten so close about so many things that it doesn't make much difference who you vote for.  Just hold your nose, close your eyes and vote.  It is time to finally have a National Party that will represent the people and represent the foundation this country was built upon.

It will take many, many people to make this happen.  People that have common sense and that TRULY love this country and the principals upon which it was founded.  Many people with many ideas with a common goal of a true Patriot Party.

Who is ready to start this journey?

"Our hope will become the light that will shine the way to pave the road for our childen.  The road of our children has to be a road of freedom." Don Nicely

If not for ourselves for our children.

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Too Late To Apologize

Too Late To Apologize - A Declaration

Click the link above and watch the video at the top of the page it takes you to.  
    
    Do you feel like giving up yet?  Are you tired?  Do you just wish it would stop?  GOOD!  That is exactly how they are wanting you to feel.  They figure if they throw enough stuff at you that in time you will just throw your hands up and say what the use?
    If you fall into that trap then they win and everyone that loves freedom, the constitution and the reason this great country came into being will lose.  Most important our children, grand children and great grand children will lose.
    Congress has declared war on the American People and on the Constitution.  These people doing some of  this work are NOT Patriots.  I would say some shouldn't even be called Americans.  To ignore the Constitution like they are could be called an act of treason.  They are attempting to destroy this country as it was founded.
    What the people in congress are attempting to do to this country is nothing short of evil.  It is time to call these people the names they deserve.  They don't like it when someone questions them being a Patriot?  Then let them start acting like American Patriots instead of the Progressive Socialist Democrats that they are proving to be by their actions.
    Don't give up.  I know you are tired but it it the True American Patriots who will save this country from the Radical Progressive Socialist Party in control in DC at this time.  If we don't stand together against them, then they will win and Freedom and God will lose.
    The Radical Progressive Socialist Congress has declared WAR on America and her people.  They want us to be at each other.  They don't want us to talk with common sense with each other.  The more we are at each other the easier path they have to taking our freedom and country away from us.

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Time To Hand Out Pink Slips

Time To Hand Out Pink Slips

Watch This:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV84OBtGpSQ


My fellow Patriot Americans,
I have for years been saying that we need too and must wake up and take our country and government back before it is too late.  Sadly as I write this that call seems so ever more urgent.  Things have passed and are in the process of attempting to pass that could forever change the face of our country.  Not a good change for the Americans who believe in the constitution and the freedom it is suppose to bring to us.
 
I am sure most of you have seen the advertisements on TV for The Girls Gone Wild Video.  Someone should make a "The  Representatives Gone Wild" video.  Most of them are doing anything but representing us, their bosses.  Yes they do work for us, not that you could tell by the way they ignore our will and the way they talk about us when we dare stand up and express our will.
 
One of the first things we should do is join together and make sure something is put in effect to protect the Internet and access to it by Americans at a reasonable cost.  Aside from the 2nd Amendment and our Right To Bear Arms, nothing may be more important in our fight and struggle to keep our freedom and our country as our founders intended.  I think most would agree that the right to access to the Internet is something we should demand and expect.
 
I am sure that the people in DC who are trying to ram bills down our throats that no one has read including the people voting for them wishes right now that Al Gore hadn't of invented the Internet.
 
That aside this isn't about Democrats, this isn't about Republicans, it isn't about parties.  It is about principal and what this country was founded on.  both parties are more concerned about being or staying in power then they are about doing the right thing for the country.  We must put our ego aside and realize that there is very little difference in the two main political parties today.  The biggest difference is the way they spell their name.
 
It is time for a 3rd Main Party and maybe even a 4th.  There is a reason that it is so difficult for another party to form and get traction.  The two main parties have passed laws to make it so.  Why?  To make it easier for them to stay in power.  There are numerous Third Parties in this country but we Americans really need a 3rd and maybe 4th party that can and will compete with the two parties in power.
 
I don't have the means, knowledge or know how to do something like this.  But together we can and will have those means.
 
Remember in the fall of 2008 when the earth was going to stop spinning and the sun was going to stop shinning if they didn't pass the first bailout RIGHT NOW?  Remember how it didn't pass for a few days and during those days the earth was still turning and the sun was still shinning?  That was a mistake in passing and so is this other stuff that HAS to be passed right now.  It is SO urgent there is no time to even read the bill or give the American people time to read the bill.
 
One of the saddest things about this is that the burden these white haired men and women (yes they dye their hair) have passed on to our Children and Grand Children, a lot of these people will be dead and buried BEFORE our Children are old enough to even vote.  Yet these Children are still saddled with this debt given to them by people who won't be around to see them struggle with it.
 
It IS about our Children and our Grand Children and our Great Grand Children.  We must stand up for them.  We must unite for them, and we must protect their freedom that so many in DC is trying to take away from them.
 
We stand up to them and ask them questions and they (the elite) call us an angry mob.  The people in DC don't care what we think or what we want.  If they did then they would listen to us and stop this insanity they are doing in DC.  They have forgotten and the ones who haven't don't care who they are working for.  If we had an employee that wouldn't listen to how we wanted them to do their job that we gave them, we would fire them
 
It is time we start doing some firing while we are still able to do so.  In time if we wait too long, we won't be able to fire anyone, or say no to anything they may deem would be best for us.

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Do Democrats Really Want To Share Credit With Republicans On Good Ideas?

Do Democrats Really Want To Share Credit With Republicans On Good Ideas?




What is your honest answer to this question?  The Democrats don't need any help from Republicans in the House to get anything passed.  The Democrats in the Senate don't need any help from the Republicans to get a big majority of the votes.

The facts are that the Democrats have all the votes they need to pass ANY bill they want to pass.  After it is passed they have a Democrat President to sign that bill.

WHY then are Democrats working so hard to attempt to get Republicans on board?  They want their ideas.  Hardly?  Did Ms. Pelosi give the Republicans any chance to put their ideas into the bill?  You know the answer to that.

So if this Pork Package is such a good bill and will work so good, then why worry about getting Republicans on board?  Is it because the Democrats want to make sure the Republicans also get credit for this great bill?  You know the answer to that too.

The Democrats are afraid and aren't confident that this Pork Package will work.  They want Republicans on board so if it doesn't work they will be able to say it wasn't only them.

The facts are this.  If a few Republicans come on board and this Pork Package is a success the Republicans won't get credit for it.  If it isn't a success then they will get the blame for it.  So if a bad idea won't get you credit if it turns out good, then why put yourself up to take part of the blame?

It is time for Conservative Republicans to take a stand and it is time for Pretend Republicans like Arlan Specter and Ms. Collins to change parties or take a hike because they are Republicans in name ONLY.

Use a little common sense.  The Democrats DON'T need Republicans to get bills passed.  Then WHY if their ideas and bill is so good are they trying so hard to get Republicans on board?  It is for cover.

How smart are the Real Conservative Republicans?  I guess we will find out.

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Do Republicans Really Want To Be In Power?

Do Republicans Really Want To Be In Power?


What kind of question is this you may ask?  The problem was that they wanted to stay in power so bad that they stopped governing the way they were elected to govern.  They weren't thrown out of office because they governed with conservative values BUT because they didn't govern with those values.

It appeared that the republicans were more concerned about getting along and going along with democrats then to govern with the values that got them elected in the first place.  Now they want to change things yet the leadership is the same.  When the conservative republicans truly want to be back in power, then they will change their leadership.

Maybe then we can believe them when they say they learned their lesson and will govern with the conservative values they had campaigned on.  If conservative republicans want to regain power then they need to be conservative and not compromise those values to gain favor with the press or democrats.  Those groups don't want them in power anyway.

At least the House Republicans stood up for conservative values and the people when  everyone of them voted against the Pork Package Obama and Pelosi is trying to force down everyone's throats.

Now the Senate is trying to come to an agreement on the Pork Package.  Two so called Republicans have come on board.  Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter.  I believe Mr. Specter will be up for re-election soon.  The last time he had a tough battle to get his parties nomination.  Getting on board with this Pock Package may very well cost him his parties nomination.  I for one will not forget this.

Remember last fall when the TARP bill HAD to be passed.  When it finally passed look what has happened.  NOW this one really has to pass.

If Republicans really want to be in power again then they need to stand together and oppose this pork package.  This won't work and will only makes things worse.  Why put your name on it?

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Congratulations President-Elect Obama

A Chance To Be A Great President


Without a doubt history was made last night in our great country.  Great things can come from that night if only one person decides he WILL BE the President for all of us.  The power is in President-Elect Obama's hands.

If he makes the decision to be everyone's President, there are some people that he will have to go against.  The very same people that helped get him elected, but to truly be America's President he will have to do that.  With his margin of victory he has the power to do that if only he will take it.

Nancy Pelosi doesn't represent main street America.  She represents San Francisco.  San Francisco isn't main street America.  Harry Reid doesn't represent main street America.  Neither does Chris Dodd, Barney Frank or Charlie Rangle.

President-Elect Obama can not represent main street America or be a great President if he listens too and or follows their advice and lead.  Right now he has the power and he doesn't HAVE too.  It he does it is because he WANTS too.

People have asked for a change.  Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, and Rangle aren't change and aren't new.  They will attempt to drag him as far left as possible.  If he allows that, he can't and won't be President of all of the people.

The vicious way politics have become with attempting to destroy the opposition no matter what has gotten completely out of hand.  President-Elect Obama truly has the chance and the power to change that.  Not by attempting to destroy common citizens like Joe The Plumber, but by saying enough is enough.  By him demanding people in his party STOP it.  He has that power right now.  It will mean putting a leash on Pelosi and Reid and the like, but right now he has the power to do that.

President-Elect Obama has the chance to be a Great President, but only if he TRULY puts party politics aside and think and do what is TRULY best for the country and her people.  He has the power and we should give him the chance to prove himself.

As we give him that chance it is not too turn a blind eye to what he is doing or to whose advice he is taking.  Let us hope he does make a Great President, but let us not fear to speak out when he isn't preforming for Main Street America.

Good Luck President-Elect Obama, may your actions be as great as your words.  Don't forget you are representing the ones who didn't vote for you also.

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What Barack Obama Will Do To You!

The Truth Has Been Shown


It is less then 24 hours before the election of 2008 will take place.  If you love this country and if you love the freedom you have in this country, you may want to read this.

Everyone is caught up in this election and it's importance.   So many have picked sides and there is no changing their minds.  It is time for change and nothing less is acceptable.

Let us just for a while try to use a little common sense and actually think for a few minutes on our own, without being influenced by the media and such that are in the tank for a candidate.

First,  Change just for the sake of change is not always the best thing to happen.  Remember this.  Now remember Joe The Plumber.

Barack Obama always talks the words of helping the middle class and lower then middle class people.  Obama says the words about helping these people each and every day, many times a day.  Just Words?

Here is where the common sense comes in.  Obama speaks these words, but remember the saying "actions speak louder then words"?  What actions did Obama take with Joe The Plumber?

Barack Obama came to Joe The Plumber's neighborhood and his house as he was canvassing the neighborhood.  All Joe The Plumber did was ask Obama a question and followed up on Obama's answer.

This issue that came around because of Joe The Plumber's question had nothing to do with Joe The Plumber and everything to do with Barack Obama's answer.

Yet Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the people that speak for them attempted to make it about Joe The Plumber.  They made fun of him and tried to demean him.  Supporters of Obama have even run back ground checks on Joe The Plumber.  And Barack Obama ALLOWED it.

It wouldn't matter if Joe The Plumber was an ax murderer, that isn't the issue.  Yet Obama and his crew are and have tried to make that the issue.  Trying to discredit Joe The Plumber.  Yet all Joe did was ask a question in his neighborhood that Obama was visiting.  That is all he did.  The ISSUE was the ANSWER, or at least should have been.  Yet Obama and his supporters wanted to make Joe The Plumber the issue.  WHY?

So using common sense if Barack Obama will go after and ALLOW his people to go after a common middle class person that ONLY asked a question, then what will he do TO you?

The FACTS ARE Obama and his machine went after a TRUE middle class citizen that ONLY asked a question.  Is this the SAME Obama that will stand and fight for the middle class?  Is this the SAME Obama that will help the middle class.  Would you want the help he tried to give Joe The Plumber?  A true member of the middle class that has dreams of doing better.

Obama is a socialist and maybe worse.  Don't get so caught up in the words calling for change that you don't hear what he is really saying and not saying.  Use some common sense then just think for a minute what Obama and his machine did to a simple middle class person that only asked a question from his neighborhood that Obama was visiting.  Obama came to him, and after Obama's true thoughts came out in his answer, Obama and his machine attempted to destroy the middle class American citizen that only asked a question.

That is a fact and that IS an action, not just words.  Obama proved and showed what he would do to anyone that gets in his way.

All I can say is BEWARE and THINK before it is too late.

Remember Partial Birth and Remember Birth Certificate.

  And remember what Patrick Henry said;   "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

Also by Patrick Henry; "It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope"



"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men,
undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

-- Thomas Paine (The Crisis, no. 4, 11 September 1777)


"Our hope will become the light that will shine the way to pave the road for our children.  The road of our children has to be a road of freedom." Gideon Henry

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Socialist America

Socialist America - How Close Are We??

Socialist Democrats can now welcome the Socialist Republican to their ranks. 

In 2006 I told people if the Republicans give you headaches by not governing under the principals that they ran for office, then vote Democrat.  They might not govern the may you would like but at least you wouldn't be surprised.

Is it a coincidence that the economy had tanked in the last  20 months or so?  I don't believe in coincidences.  There is always a reason.

I have warned people over and over again that there is more then what is obvious to even the blindest of us.  (Is that a word?)  I have warned that we need to act while we still are able to make our voices heard.  I have warned that in time if we do nothing or ignore being ignored that it time we wouldn't be able to do anything.  That time may be closer then any of us think.

Always remember that there is MORE to it then what you can see.  Always remember people in power uses fear to keep power and to obtain more power.  Always remember the people in power want us at each others throats so we aren't paying attention to them.

Always remember that a good puppet master you will never see.

We made our desires known to congress with this bail out.  After the 777 dow drop all they talked about was the large loss.  No mention was made of the big gain the next day.  Only the big loss.  One representative stated that the opposition to the bail out went from 30 to 1 against to 10 to 1 against.  Acting like that was a sign he should support the bail out.  The fact is it was STILL 10 to 1 against the bail out.

The Senate and the House of Representatives decided they knew best what the  American people needed.  One made the statement they had to do what was best for us even if we didn't want or like it.

Now since Both houses of congress has refused to listen to our desires and passed this bill, even though all they could say was: "we hope it will work", "we don't know if it will work", "maybe it will work", "it may stop the bleeding, but we will have to do more", "it could work", "it might work", "if we do nothing it will only get worse", "action has too be taken now", blah, blah, blah.

THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE!!!!

They talked about the over 1,000,000,000,000 loss with the 777 dow drop but said nothing about the big rebound the next day.  But now it is over 2,000,000,000,000 losses and counting.  Now where are our so called Representatives.  If over $1,000,000,000,000 in losses was such a crisis that had to be taken care of then why isn't over $2,000,000,000,000 in losses even a bigger crisis?

Now the government is buying stock in banks?  When will they take over McDonald's other businesses the government wants to have their finger in?

Socialism is not good.  You have Socialist Democratic Leaders of Congress and now it appears you have Socialist Republican Leaders of Congress.  Pelosi and Reid DOESN'T speak for the majority of Americans.  For God's Sake she represents San Francisco and he is from a state that ranks 35th in population and is famous for gambling and hookers.  Don't get offended Nevada that is the truth.  Vegas is a great place to visit but ask 100, or 1,000 or 1,000,000,000,000 what is Nevada known for and see how many answers you get of Legal Gambling or Vegas and Prostitution.

These are the two people leading the congress?  Give me a break.  Democrats need to take their party back and put people in power with common sense.  But no you have the leaders mentions plus other so called Representatives like Give me a mortgage, C Dodd and  nothing is wrong with fannie or freddy, B Frank.

Remember a time when both parties seemed to be working for the good of the country instead of the good of their own personal pocketbooks?  The leaders need to go.  We need fresh blood on both sides.  People who WANT to represent the people not the money.

If you have read me you know I don't care for Juan McCain.  But I care less for a Pelosi - Reid led congress with a president called Obama.  If you are thinking what is happening right now seems or is socialist just wait.

What we as Americans that love our freedom and rights need to do is to concentrate on the House of Representatives and Senate.  We need to put people in that at least says they will stop some of this.  If this doesn't happen how can you as Americans have any hope of stopping the Socialist Express that is coming around the bend??

If we don't stop barking at each other and realize our attention should be focused on the Socialists (both parties) raiding our tax dollars then many that have never prayed to God may find themselves doing so when our rights and freedoms continue to disappear.

Wake up America, Wake up Patriots, Wake up Free People, the Socialists are coming, the Socialists are coming.  Make lite of it but think, get your ego out of the way and think.  If we are going to remain free we must work together.  If we don't we will suffer together.

Sometimes maybe we should go back and read what some of our founding fathers said.  We can STILL listen and learn from them.


"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." -- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 12 February 1779)

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