Dreams From WHOSE Father?

From MJC.  This is worth reading and passing on!

I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child.

I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me.  Read more.

The “Arab Spring” Bonanza

Why is it that most of the newly elected and established so called CONSERVATIVES continue to allow billions of our dollars to be spent in foreign aid, and even worse, for the Arab Spring?

Constitutionally, the House of Representatives controls the dollars, and as such should stop the wasteful spending of our hard earned money. Yes I know, “it’s complicated” but really. Easy to spend other peoples money. What part of  WE ARE BROKE don’t you understand?
Of the $58 billion spent last year here are a few notables:
Egypt receives $1.6 billion
Russia- $505 million
China- $130 million
Venezuela- $19 million

Click on the link below for an article from Reuters about the President’s new budget proposal.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-usa-budget-foreign-idUSTRE81C1C920120213

FreedomWatch, Judge Napolitano’s Final Show Tonight! 8:00 PM, Fox Business Channel

 
Judge Napolitano’s final FreedomWatch show is on Monday night on the usual channel (Fox Business) at the usual time (8:00 P.M. EST)!  

From the Judge….

“As many of you no doubt have heard, FreedomWatch will end next week. The good folks who own these studios and these cameras have other uses for them. We have had a marvelous ride together, and I know from the thousands of emails that have come our way, that you have been faithful to the message of freedom and to your Night Watchman as its temporary messenger. Your Night Watchman is not going anywhere. I will be all over the Fox News Channel, just as I was before FreedomWatch, and I might even have some surprises in store for you; not the least of which will be a grand finale sometime next week. The angels and the saints who close doors also open them.

PLEASE BE SURE TO WATCH THE FINAL FreedomWatch SHOW ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 13TH, ON FOX BUSINESS AT 8:00 PM, EASTERN TIME.

 

The Judge at his best:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Tjbo57pcc&feature=share

Citizens Depending More on Government Handouts

An excellent article from Investors.com (Investors Business Daily) showing the alarming trend of more and more citizens relying on government handouts. Unfortunately we will eventually have to face what former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher so eloquently described: “the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”. You owe it to yourself to read this entire article and shudder with fear should our country continue its present suicidal course. 

“The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.”

“The two-year increase under Obama is the biggest two-year jump since Jimmy Carter was president, the data show”.

“The report also found that spending on “dependence programs” accounts for more than 70% of the federal budget. That, too, is up dramatically. In 1990, for example, the figure stood at 48.5%, and in 1962 just over a quarter of federal spending went to dependence programs.”

“The lingering high jobless rate during the slow economic recovery under Obama could also explain dependency’s rise. It’s also possible that the growth in federal dependency programs is partly to blame for the ongoing jobs recession, not just the result of it.

As the chart above shows, the time it’s taken for employment to reach its pre-recession peak has climbed the past four decades, right along with the growth in federal dependency. The current jobs recession hit a post-World War II record of 48 months in January, with payrolls still 5.6 million below their January 2008 high.

Research seems to validate this connection. Various studies have shown that extending unemployment benefits can keep unemployment rates higher than they would otherwise have been.”

Full article…http://news.investors.com/Article/600452/201202080802/government-dependence-jumps-under-president-obama.htm

Roots of Liberty: KrisAnne Hall Seminar, Sat, March 3

 An excellent presentation from KrisAnne Hall, Constitutional attorney and speaker, most recently featured on the Tea Party Express bus tour through Florida. Two years ago Ms. Hall was dismissed from her Florida States’ Attorney postion because she was speaking to tea party groups about how our Constitution is being lost to the progressive ideals that dominate our government today. Since then she has made it her mission to speak out even louder and more often about how we have lost our freedoms and are perilously close to losing all of our liberties. Ms. Hall is a true patriot and we are fortunate to have the opportunity to attend this enlightening seminar. It is being held in Lake City at 1:00 PM; there is no admission fee, donations appreciated.

Make it your business to attend! We must get to work if we are to succeed in taking back our country! See details in the attached flyer.

 KrisAnne Hall Seminar

Join Tea Party Express and Gainesville Tea Party

Sunday, January 29th  – Stein Mart Parking Lot

Newberry Road beside the Oaks Mall

4:00 to 5:30 PM

TEA PARTY EXPRESS BUS IS ROLLING THROUGH FLORIDA

Gainesville is one of only 7 cities statewide chosen to participate in this landmark event.

“Rallying for Victory” Tour to Bring Tea Party Issues to the Forefront

Speakers include (others to be determined):

Amy Kremer, Chairman Tea Party Express
Judson Phillips, Founder Tea Party Nation
Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party Express Entertainer, American Tea Party Anthem
Diana Nagy, Tea Party Express Performer and Entertainer
Andrea Shea King, Radio Patriot and Vice President of the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama
Jeniffer Horn, Mitt Romney Campaign
Susan Baird, Alachua County Commissioner
Laurie Newsom, President Gainesville Tea Party
Alan Berkelhammer, Leader Gainesville Tea Party
Paula Helton, Leader Gainesville Tea Party

 

 

Jacksonville, FL - Tea Party Express, the nation’s largest tea party political action committee, is excited to announce the launch of its “Rallying for Victory” bus tour through Florida. The tour will start this Saturday, January 28th and will make seven stops up and down the Sunshine State.

Amy Kremer, Chairman of the Tea Party Express, said, “The Tea Party Express is here rallying for victory against the policies of Barack Obama and the Harry Reid-led Senate. The current Administration has showed zero leadership and interest in listening to the voice of the American people. Our ‘Rallying for Victory’ tour through Florida will be an exhibition of the Tea Party’s strength and determination in pursuing and promoting Tea Party values.

“Florida is a key state in the presidential election campaign and one in which the future direction of the country could be determined.  This will be the place to reject the Obama policies of promoting his big government, liberal policies that have killed job growth and added trillions of dollars of debt. It is critical to have an energized and engaged Tea Party electorate, just like we saw in 2010 as the Tea Party movement elected more Republican state legislators since 1928 and more Republican congressional representatives since 1948.

“Our ‘Rallying for Victory’ bus tour will bring together local and national Tea Party activist to raise awareness of the Tea Party movement and the conservative principles that will put this nation back on the path to prosperity. It is an opportunity to inform the American people that there is a free-market solution to get the economy on the right track and that the president’s actions have not accomplished what he has promised,” Kremer concluded.

The Tea Party Express plans to make stops in Jacksonville, Winter Park, West Palm Beach, The Villages, Gainesville, Panama City and Pensacola. The Tea Party Express will be joined by conservative leaders from across the country and will provide a platform for Presidential candidates to present their Tea Party qualifications. The organization is directing the public to its website (www.TeaPartyExpress.org) for the details of the stops.

 

Boston Bruins Goaltender Passes on White House Visit

Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas offered an explanation Monday night for why he chose to not meet President Barack Obama.

Thomas, who took a pass on the team’s White House visit in honor of their 2011 Stanley Cup championship, posted his reasons on his Facebook page Monday evening.

“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People,” Thomas wrote. “This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.  Continue reading at:  chicagotribune.com.

 

Ronald Reagan – A Time for Choosing

A TIME FOR CHOOSING (The Speech – October 27, 1964) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn’t been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.

I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.”

The complete video of speech:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY

The full text of his speech:
http://gainesvilleteaparty.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/A-TIME-FOR-CHOOSING.pdf

Obama to Congress: I’ll decide what’s constitutional

Are You Seventy? Want to be Seventy Someday?

“Some of us are nearing 70, over 70, or know and love someone who is.   The articles in the Health Care Bill that are alarming are coming to light thanks to Physicians who are being prepared for the change.   This bill takes us back a century in the medical field.   Help is there and will be denied.  Restructure? – The quality of life and care [will be] in the hands of bureaucrats rather physicians.” – Hat tip: Tea Party Tribune

Rubio: “We Are A Nation Of Haves And Soon-To-Haves”

Friday, December 16, 2011                                                      Contact: Alex Conant (202) 224-3041

Rubio: “We have never been a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that’s who we need to remain.”

Washington, D.C. – During a Senate floor speech this afternoon, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio offered his perspectives on his first year in office and the challenges that remain unsolved going into 2012. Below are excerpts from the speech.

RUBIO: DIVIDING AMERICANS IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY

“There is another thing I’d like to talk about which is a troubling emergence in the last year of politics, and it’s really this rhetoric that in my opinion seeks to divide Americans against each other. …

“There’s this theme out there by some, including, quite frankly, many in our political leadership and from time to time even the White House, that is saying to people, ‘The reason why you’re worse off is because there is a handful of people out there that are doing too well. That the reason why you’ve lost your job is because someone else is being too greedy. That the reason why you’re losing your home is because someone else owns too many homes. That the reason why you’re making less money is because someone else is making too much money.’

“And I’m troubled by that rhetoric that pits people against each other. Because the second part of that argument, by the way, is: ‘Give the government more power. Give us, government, more power so we can step in and right this wrong, so we can take away from the people that have too much and give to those people that do not have enough.’ And let me tell you why I’m troubled by that. The first reason why I’m troubled by that is because it is absolutely not the kind of country we have been for two hundred some odd years. It’s not in our nature.

“Americans have never been a people to drive through a nice neighborhood and say, ‘Oh, I hate the people that live in these nice houses.’ Americans have been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, ‘Congratulations on your nice house. Guess what? We will be joining you soon.’ We’ve never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, ‘We hate you. We envy you because of how well you’re doing.’ Americans have celebrated their success and say, ‘Guess what? We’re going to be successful soon as well.’ …

“My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life. My mom was a maid, and a cashier, and a stock clerk at K-Mart. We were not people of financial means. … I always had what I needed. I didn’t always have what I wanted, but I always had what I needed. My parents always provided that. I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder. On the contrary, what they would do is hold up these examples of success and inspire in us the hope that one day we could be there as well financially, in our career, what have you. We are a people that have always celebrated other people’s success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves.

“That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I’m afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. And I’m really concerned that there are those in America’s political leadership that are advocating that we abandon that in favor something else. And I think it’s wrong because it doesn’t work. That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats, people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process. People flee countries that do that because it doesn’t work. It never has. And it will not work here. And the proof is in the numbers.”

RUBIO: THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE. THE PRESIDENT HAS FAILED

“Let’s put aside partisan political rhetoric for a moment and look at the numbers. In January of 2009, when the President was sworn in, he inherited a very bad economy. …He inherited an economy, for example, that had 12 million people out of a job, an economy where gas was $1.85 a gallon, where the debt was at $10.6 trillion, where there were 39 million Americans living in poverty in January of 2009. …

“But for the first two years of his presidency, for at least one of his first two years, he had 60 votes here in the Senate, which I quickly learned is the way everything seems to happen around here, by 60 votes. He had a majority in the House. He could have anything he wanted. … He wanted a stimulus package, and he got it. He wanted his health care package, and he got it. He wanted financial services reform, and he got it. So, what happened? …

“Well, now there are 13.3 million people unemployed. Gas is now at $3.27 a gallon, on average. The debt is now up to $15 trillion. And people in poverty, 39 million when he took office, 46 million people now. So put aside partisan rhetoric just for a moment, just the numbers. He became President, he got everything he wanted, and everything got worse. Those are the facts. …

“His view of government and politics is wrong and those who share it are wrong. They’re not un-American. They’re not bad people. But the proof is it doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked anywhere else in the world to approach it this way and it isn’t going to work here. … So I hope in this new year, we’ll reverse course on these things and instead embrace and take up the things that do work in America. What makes America become more prosperous? It isn’t that complicated, guys. … What makes us different is that, here, a worker can become an owner. An employee can become an employer. …”

RUBIO: THREE MAIN THINGS STAND IN THE WAY OF OUR PROSPERITY

“And what stands in the way of that are three things above everything else. The first is a tax code that’s crazy. It’s not complicated. It’s not burdensome. It’s crazy. … You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we’ve got to simplify our tax code. … The second is regulations. Look, we need to have regulations. There’s a glass of water. I don’t want this thing to have poison in it. I want our air to be clean. We all want things, and government has a role to play in those things. But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. … It kills the people trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. … And finally, this debt. The debt is a problem because there’s no plan in place to do anything about it. And people are afraid. They are concerned. They are worried and rightfully so about investing money in an economy that doesn’t have a plan to pay its bills. And so I hope we’ll reverse course on all those things because, if we do, it will lead to prosperity.”

RUBIO: WE ARE A NATION OF HAVES AND SOON-TO-HAVES

“And let me tell you what prosperity will lead to. It will lead to more jobs. More jobs will lead to more taxpayers. More taxpayers will lead to more revenue. And more revenue means we have money to pay down our debt and do the things that government should do – like our national defense, like invest in infrastructure and in our people, like provide a safety net to help those who cannot help themselves.

“But to do that, it all starts with embracing the fundamental principle of America’s prosperity. And that is that we have never been a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that’s who we need to remain.

“If we desire to provide our children what we had, an American century – which is what the 21st century can be, should be and will be, if in 2012 this body and our leadership reverses course from the direction we are headed and places us on a path that’s true to our heritage as a people and embraces for our children and grandchildren the future they deserve. A prosperous and growing America, where all things are possible. Where anyone from anywhere can accomplish anything, or the son of a bartender and a maid can be a U.S. Senator. And where anyone watching, no matter where you start out in life, can accomplish anything and be anything you want to accomplish if you’re willing to work hard, play by the rules, and have the ability to do it.”

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If This Wasn’t From Bill Nelson, I’d Say it was Unbeliavable

A Letter To Bill Nelson; Help Protect Our Most Fundamental Right?

Many of us are on Senator Bill Nelson’s mailing list and receive his outrageous “e-newsletter”.  Most of them are self-promoting and are merely thinly veined campaign messages.  This is what a lot of politicians do.  At least Cliff Sterns sends them through his campaign email address.  Nelson’s emails often slam Republicans, but the one he sent out on Tuesday takes the cake.  It was so egregious and shameful, it reminds me of the ones I get from the infamous “My (former) Congressman is Nuts” Alan Grayson.

 

So please read Senator Nelson’s letter here: http://email.capitolhillnewsonline.com/q/DA3pzGH_A3VUaCx5VhWn0MqNQfM4qiQQmhtWxKG6P5M3ze5QI7Fb3960_

Now read this fantastic reply from Patriot, Ed Riordan of Winter Springs, FL. at:  FloridaPoliticalPress.com

 

Showing ID to Vote: Big Problem, To Buy Beer: No Problem

According to Jesse Jackson, Senator Bill Nelson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Eric Holder, and many other democrats, having to show ID in order to vote is discrimination and disenfranchisement. Then by the same token why are they not complaining and marching against having to show your ID in these situations?

And oh yeah, we had to produce a certified copy of my grandson’s birth certificate before the Alachua County school system would register him for school.

GOP Presidential Pageant

From a fellow Alachua county resident Lloyd Bailey – Have Americans completely forgotten the other two branches of our Republic?  You would think we had a monarchy, with all the daily discussion of the president, and the people are going to be fooled again, if they do not study and learn the constitution. Following is a short article that I hope you will enjoy and share.

GOP Presidential Pageant

While many citizens are captivated by the ongoing GOP Presidential Pageant, the congress is ignored and not held accountable for the debt limit increase which was recently passed by a neoconservative republican congress. The founding fathers understood man’s nature by creating a constitutional republic with checks and balances. They granted the greatest power to the legislative branch. The Senators were given six year terms to represent the states, and the House of Representatives was granted two year terms to represent the people. The more powerful House was limited by two year terms and granted the sole power of impeachment and appropriations. According to original intent, the president was to be elected by the state’s Electoral College.

Of the original 91 electoral positions, 26 electors (28.5%) were granted to the small and large states for the Senate and all electors were representatives of the states. A popular democratic presidential election was never intended. The founders understood that democracy was dangerous and that the people could be easily fooled by misleading demagogic rhetoric. This concern has been validated in past US elections. The balance of powers has been egregiously modified by the pernicious Seventeenth Amendment and partisan tampering with the state’s Electoral College.

Today there is another attack on our constitution, called the National Popular Vote, which if passed by the states will violate Article I, Section 10 of the constitution and will further disenfranchise the states. All of the electors will be usurped by the national popular vote. Rural areas will be ignored while candidates will focus on large population centers that have been known for voter fraud. The presidential popularity contest will choose an audience that can be easily manipulated.

Further understanding can be gleaned by reading Federalist #10, on the flaws of Democracy, and Federalist # 68, on the importance of the Electoral College.

Lloyd W. Bailey, Jr.

“Occupy” Is No Tea Party

Here’s another great article that my friend (and our friend), Billie Tucker co-authored with Dr. Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation.  Billie is the co-founder of First Coast Tea Party and one of the “original” tea partiers:

We understand that the President is in a dilemma. He sympathizes with the protesters because many if not most of their goals are also Mr. Obama’s. He thus wants to associate the Occupiers with the Tea Party, a movement that has resonated with the American people.

But there’s the rub. Barack Obama identifies with the Occupiers because, as pollster Doug Schoen put it this week, they reflect “values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people … and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies.”

That’s not the Tea Party. That’s the opposite.  Continue reading at:  realclearpolitics.com.

 

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