Halloween is just around the corner and this year it's just not about costumes and candy.
It's an opportunity to reach others with the truth that you may not otherwise have!
So while you treat the kids with candy, consider treating their parents with the Truth about the so called "health care" plan that is a nail in the coffin of our Republic (coffin image is a perfect fit for Halloween, conjures up images of a creative display for the porch :) AND common sense alternative with an easy action plan to boot!
Below are two fliers that you can PRINT OUT or DOWNLOAD right from this post (Print out one or both) Fold and put in number 10 envelope and when the kids come to your door, you give a treat to the parents!
Copies are 17 cents per copy at Office Max Folding is just 3 cents more and color paper is the same color as white, how about a nice Halloween orange?
Word: PLEASE DO NOT PLACE FLIERS IN THE KIDS CANDY BAG The bag is for CANDY ONLY and it not appropriate for anything else
The parents who you are trying to reach with the truth will NOT appreciate it and you will lose those whom you are trying to win.
If you are taking your kids trick or treating, take stuffed envelopes along and hand one out at the homes you visit. Once again, please DO NOT HAVE THE KIDS PASS OUT The kids job is to acquire as much candy as possbile :)
Just in..COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ALL TAX HIKES IN HOUSE GOVERNMENT HEALTH BILL102909pr-housetaxhikes
Pelosi Health Care Plan
The bill is 1,990 pages long and contains a separate 13-page bill to repeal the sustainable growth rate caps on Medicare spending. The Bill will cost more than $200 billion and is not paid for, which will break Obama’s promise to Congress during his speech.
The bill contains the word “shall” 3,425 times. Though Steny Hoyer just said the bill was open and transparent, they prevented the American people from attending their publicity rally by checking IDs and keeping people out.
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There is a battle going on right there in Michigan that many know have not heard of but the results in just a mere 8 DAYS could very well affect everyone in Michigan.
The battle is over special rights for homosexuals in Kalamazoo, Ordinance 1865
Basically it is another attempt by homosexual activists for special rights… to FORCE BY LAW, EVERYONE else to accept, approve, and endorse their choices. And since the ordinance, includes 'gender identity', this legally recognizes an individual defining himself as the opposite sex, in this case male transgendered could "legally" use woman's bathrooms, locker rooms and showers.
And they are well funded by Kalamazoo billionaire homosexual activist Jon Stryker and other out of state groups.
By Kathy Jessup | Kalamazoo Gazette October 24, 2009, 9:10AM
KALAMAZOO — A political interest group supporting an anti-discrimination (notice that they call it anti-discrimination when its not) ordinance on the city’s Nov. 3 ballot has raised a possible record campaign war chest for a Kalamazoo County election.
Based on pre-election campaign-finance reports filed Friday with the Kalamazoo County Clerk’s Office, One Kalamazoo has raised nearly $350,000 in cash and in-kind contributions, more than 10 times the $34,000 reported by Kalamazoo Citizens Voting NO to Special Rights Discrimination, a group opposing the proposed ordinance.
“If it’s not a record, it’s certainly right up there,” said Kalamazoo County Clerk Tim Snow….
While Hoadley said 77 percent of the group’s donations were for $50 or less, One Kalamazoo’s report shows some five-figure contributions, most from donors with addresses outside Michigan.
For example, the Washington, D.C.-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force made the largest, single in-kind contribution, spending nearly $75,000 on behalf of the Kalamazoo campaign for “donated labor” and “travel, lodging and printing.”
A South Dakota gay-rights activist sent a check for $35,000. A Colorado-based organization chipped in $5,000.
Kalamazoo philanthropist(code for radical homosexual agenda) and gay (homosexual)-rights supporter Jon Stryker also has had a substantial imprint on One Kalamazoo’s financing.
The financial reports show that Stryker made a $30,000 cash contribution to the group and paid for nearly $23,000 in polling services as an in-kind donation.
Locally, the Kalamazoo County Democratic Party contributed $10,200 to the pro-ordinance effort.
One Kalamazoo says its spent about $122,000, much of that on professional campaign firms in the Lansing and Washington, D.C., areas.
Both groups may continue to raise and spend money on their campaigns. Final spending totals are not due to be reported until Dec. 3.
Bottom line: Help is needed in Kalamazoo. If this passes expect to be fighting it in your backyard
Ever see the movie "All About Eve"? Great cast, great movie and one of the memorable lines from star Bette Davis was" " Fasten your seatbelts, its going to be a bumpy night!"
For some reading this, you may want to fasten your seatbelts...
A friend contacted me yesterday and with no preamble said, “Have you been following the New York District 23 race? You can say I told you so.”
About thirty seconds later when my brain finally kicked into gear I responded with, “Ok, I told you so.”
The friend was referring to New York’s November 2 Special Election for Congressional District 23, and the fact that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is backing Dede Scozzafava, the “Republican” in the race. The word “Republican” is in quotes because she isn’t really a Republican…oh, wait a minute…I guess the voting record of Scozzafava is basically in line with most Republicans today…so never mind the quotes.
As yesterday’s Wall Street Journal editorial piece pointed out, Scozzafava’s voting record has allowed the Democrat in the race to accuse her of raising taxes too much as a member of the New York State Assembly.
And Scozzafava’s voting record is plenty good reason to run screaming in the other direction IF you give a good gosh darn about limited government, fiscal restraint, or…dare I say it…the Constitution…but there are apparently a whole truckload of other questions about the GOP’s choice, ranging from her connections to ACORN front Working Families Party and, from what I can glean, pro-choice position.
Yeah, Republican…she fits RIGHT in.
Does the fact that the New York GOP is backing such a loser come as any surprise? Of course not!
Is it a surprise that Newt Gingrich would back her?
NO…and yes.
On principle, it’s not a surprise at all. Yes, I repeat, on principle, not a surprise.
It is only a surprise from a point of view of political savvy. I think Gingrich has exposed himself far too early on. I’m actually a bit stunned. Maybe Newt Gingrich is not as smart as I thought.
Why did he do this? Who really knows? He didn’t need to. Even though the candidate is a stinker – a real stinker – he had to go step into it. Apparently he and more importantly the RNC and the GOP of New York think that if they take a currently very popular figure “from the right” and have him endorse this stinker, the people of New York are going to continue to be stupid enough to look the other way and vote for her.
Clearly, there are some people who think Newt Gingrich has a lot of political capital to spend. Maybe they are testing the waters on the Gingrich endorsement power…early.
The RNC is still playing the game. And they are counting on the American people to play along…as they have been doing for years.
I wonder if they will.
How in the hell did Gingrich manage to re-invent himself in such a manner that anyone was listening to him in the first place?
Newt Gingrich should have never again graced the political stage based on personal conduct alone. Anyone attempting to lead who leaves his wife in the manner Gingrich did ought to go gently (or otherwise) into that good night.
Even if we could lay that aside, Newt Gingrich is not someone anyone with a love of the Constitution or “conservative values” should be listening to. For confirmation, all one has to do is listen to him over a period of time – closely – and he will reveal that himself.
Gingrich believes that government should solve every problem.
After having my own eyebrows raised one too many times in listening to speeches and TV appearances, I discovered a 1996 video on Google that detailed things about Gingrich that are more than bothersome. Related, a series of articles that includes quotes from Gingrich himself on “The Third Way”, his affinity with “Conservative Futurism”, etc. Again, these gems were discovered after I saw red flags on my own.
As usual, when push comes to shove, as in New York’s District 23, Newt is backing the Republican. The stinker Republican.
Why was I granted one of those rare opportunities to tell someone “I told you so”? I’d talked to the friend months ago when I was tearing my hair out over the fact that Gingrich had official endorsed the Tea Party movement and the brain trust that was the “National Tea Party Coalition” in control of “Tax Day Tea Party” sent out an email blast crowing about it.
The decision was so popular with Tea Party organizers that the idea was quickly swept under the rug and Gingrich proceeded to co-opt from the sidelines. I wonder how many Tea Party “packs” American Solutions ultimately sold?
In any case, Gingrich has been touted around for a while now as the next GOP-Messiah and it’s just plain disturbing. Mr. Gingrich is a fixture on Fox News Channel these days. He’s giving speeches every other day it seems.
I and others have gone several rounds with people over the whole subject of Gingrich. The reaction to any statements that Newt Gingrich is not the answer? Kill the messenger usually proceeded by lectures about not attacking “our own side”. Newt Gingrich is not on my side because he’s not on the side of the Constitution.
One of the most helpful things that could happen is for everyone to wake up and realize that it is “our own side” that is doing more damage to us than the other. The Leftists are easy to figure out, easy to spot. Their agenda is clear – to most of us. If we don’t clean house on “our side”, we’re dead in the water.
But people don’t want to hear about it. Or at least they don’t want to hear about it until someone with some “cred” says it. Trouble is, the people with “cred” don’t speak up at all or until things are pretty far down the pike.
Take for instance, Michelle Malkin. She is an excellent writer, extremely witty and often hits very hard where it counts. While I in some ways do appreciate her piece on Gingrich, I must ask…where has she been all these months? Where was she in March and April of this year? Where was she when the Tax Day Tea Party leadership team announced Gingrich’s endorsement of the Tea Party? Michelle was one of the four original “sponsors”, from March 2 going forward.
Gingrich’s history is available for anyone to see. The travels with Al Sharpton and cuddling on the couch with Nancy Pelosi are not NEWS. The “We Care” (buying into the global warming nonsense) comfy couch commercial ran in 2007. Why write an article about it in October, 2009?
Is Gingrich’s endorsement of Scozzafava really the worst sin he’s committed?
Or was it finally safe to call Newt out…under cover of all of the other articles? And why didn’t Malkin’s article spell out more facts about Gingrich?
This whole little drama makes me want to ask a lot of questions. Who on earth are we listening to? Who are we following? Why have we all succumbed so much to the culture of celebrity that we will only listen to the recognizable…regardless of their prior history? Why doesn’t plain good sense and fact have any appeal anymore? Why aren’t we all using more discerning judgment on our own or asking more questions?
Furthermore, why is it a cardinal sin to point out the bad boys within our midst? Why must we all walk in lock step?
The same friend who offered me the I-told- you-so opportunity gets really hot under the collar every time we talk politics and I point out what’s wrong with so many Republicans.
It’s not my fault that there is so much wrong to talk about. And it is really the worst kind of nonsense to state that by calling out Republicans you’re driving people to the Democrats.
How about driving away from all of these dunderheads who are leading us all off of a cliff?
I’ve had a couple of theories for a while now. Like my opinion on Gingrich, they’re not a bit popular, but I have them just the same. The first one is that as a country that is rather dangling on the edge of a precipice it’s clear that it’s taken us a while to get to this state. It’s taken a lot of people in power to get us to this point. The leadership in Washington and in most states, the political parties that have been in existence, BOTH of them, and long-standing alphabet soup groups…all have helped to drive us to the edge of that cliff. We the people, we’ve helped drive to the edge of the cliff, too.
It might be time to step away and rethink a lot of things. And most of the establishment is worthy of more than a passing amount of suspicion.
It might be time to start over.
Again, I know it is an unpopular theory. I take a lot of heat for it.
I can call out Democrats and Leftists all day long. But I should hush up about Republicans, alphabet soup groups, or even other activists who propose to retread all of the tried and true tactics used so “effectively” in the past.
I have another theory. This one has to do with going along to get along and bi-partisanship. In other words, working with people who are not on your side. Compromising.
And this one takes us full circle back to Newt Gingrich. Again, Gingrich has been blathering about bi-partisanship for the last few years. He’s spoken of it in defending the company he keeps. And he defends his own compromising. Compromising on standards.
Gingrich is very fond of Reagan these days. He’s been successful of late in painting himself as a Reagan-like figure. He even quoted him in defense of his Scozzafava endorsement:
“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”
Bi-partisanship, compromise, wiggle room on standards, they all strike me as about effective as the former policy of detente in breaking the back of Communism. And we can harken back to Reagan for how smart an idea that was:
“Detente – isn’t that what a farmer has with his turkey until Thanksgiving Day?” - September, 1978
I don’t know about anyone else, but I think we’re at war at this point. I’m not interested in detente, bi-partisanship, or compromise. I want my country back. Back to the way the Founders intended.
I don’t want to be the turkey.
Nor do I, nor do I .....however there is another candidate running in the New York’s District 23 race...Take a look, decide for yourself if you may want to add your supportDoug Hoffman
SIDEBAR: Michigan House-Senate Conference Committee, which is looking for ways to erase a $2.8 billion budget deficit for fiscal 2010, is considering imposing a 3 percent Gross provider tax on more than 15,000 physicians who practice in the state.
The possible physician tax, known as a Quality Assurance Assessment Program fee, would be used to increase federal matching share dollars for the state’s Medicaid program. For every $1 the state raises, the federal government matches with another $1.72.
If this tax is implemented the affect will be many doctors leaving the state and result in a reduced quality of care for Michigan citizens. How many have we lost in recent years? Something close to 500,000 of our best educated and most skilled people. "Taxed to Death" takes on an ominous meaning here..
This has already passed the House (HB 5386) and will be headed for the Senate as SB 0854
Grassroots in Michigan organized and was joined by Tea Party of West MichiganSouthwest MI Tea Party Patriots and other patriots from across Michigan to protest and deliver a Pink Slip to liberal tool Debbie Stabenow with a message, "we will do everything in our power to make sure Sen. Stabenow does not return to office in 2012" Debbie Stabenow is a lock step liberal who was on the Senate Finance Committee that voted the Baucus Amendment out. Please take a minute to read the most egregious parts of the Baucus Amendment AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST because you won't hear the truth from Debbie!
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.Samuel Adams
Finance committee vote on Baucus bill scheduled for this coming Tuesday.... This is crunch time folks. We need to flood the Finance Committee members with faxes, phones, call and e-mails (least effective)
Here is a link to all members of the Finance Committee and their contact information
Debbie Stabenow is on the Committee. She needs to be flooded with e-mails and faxes and pink slips! Turn you e-mail or fax into apink slip! YOU’RE DONE DEBBIE!
What happens when the Baucus bill gets out of committee?
“Whatever the content of the Baucus bill once it is voted out of the finance committee, it will disappear into a legislative black hole as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and their key aides do what they did on the economic stimulus package back in February -- huddle together behind closed doors to write the final bill, which will then be presented as a fait accompli in the form of a conference report. Everything else is mere sound and fury signifying nothing until Harry and Nancy do their thing in the dark.”
Nicholas Ballasy reports “a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told CNSNews.com that it is ‘likely’ that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions—as a ‘shell’ for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting.”
This procedure is the same unconstitutional procedure they used to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) back in November to give Hank Paulson his ‘$700 Billion Bazooka.’
Article I, Sec. 7: ALL bills for raising revenue will originate in the House.
They are doing exactly what they did with EESA/TARP – by passing the house by putting the HC bill on a revenue bill. This results in the Senate originating a revenue bill!
Washington DC must be shut down now. We are about to lose our country entirely.
Stephanie S. Jasky, Founder, Director
I agree with Stephanie, we must call/fax AND we need to include top Republicans/Conservatives. They SHOULD be shouting this from the roof tops and planning a Senate filibuster Why aren’t they????
…the principled devise for is for a small group of Senators to get con troll of the floor and talk in tandem for long periods of time. The whole object is a delaying action”
In 1935, Huey Long of LA (Democrat) held the Senate floor for 15 hours while he read form the telephone book, a mail order catalog and the newspaper. The longest filibuster on record is that of Strom Thurmond of SC (when he was a Democrat) He held the Senate floor in 1957 for twenty-four hours
Obviously, a filibuster has the greatest impact on the Senate when a 60-vote majority cannot be assembled to invoke cloture. In that case, the measure or other matter that is being filibustered is doomed unless its opponents relent and allow the Senate to vote on it. Even if cloture is invoked, however, a filibuster can significantly affect how, when, and even whether the Senate conducts its legislative and executive business. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that filibusters and the prospect of filibusters shape much of the way in which the Senate does its work on the floor
Why shouldn’t Republicans/Conservatives filibuster now? Is there less at stake then in the past? Wouldn’t that get press and therefore give them an opportunity to expose the plan to more Americans?
So the Democrats/Liberal/Fascists can use cloture to stop the filibuster but it takes 60% of the Senate, every Democrat and both Independents and.... time
“The votes of only 51 Senators are needed to pass a bill on the floor. It can, however, require the votes of 60 Senators to invoke cloture on the bill in order to overcome a filibuster and enable the Senate to reach that vote on final passage.”
Conservatives can use the filibuster to our country’s benefit, to tell the American people why they are doing it. The Democrats/Liberal/Fascists can counter with the "Nuclear Option"
But would they? They want bi-partisan, or at least the illusion of it and if they do go ahead with a Nuclear Option, Republican/Conservatives can counter...Democrats/Liberal/Fascists squashed debate again, rammed through another massive government control spending bill. They wanted this thing; we didn’t want any part of it!
Either way this bill is going to get passed because the “usual suspect” RINOS will defect (think Olympia Snowe) but it could be in lesser form and with the Republicans/Conservatives showing that they did everything to stop another massive spending bill of over a trillion dollars coupled with a government take over of our liberties! In other words, their job.
Lets’ face it what do they have to lose? Republicans/Conservatives have been shut out, disregarded and disrespected 37 ways to Sunday by this administration, especially by Pelosi and Reid. Remember Pelosi hissed, “We Won” and then proceeded (excuse my language) to bitch slap the Republicans/Conservatives around.
We have had tea parties, calls/faxes e-mails, taken to the streets, counter-protested, gave and went to Town Halls, blogged, YouTubed, we have went toe-to toe and sometimes face-to-face with the opposition. And worked over time because we know it takes ACTION!
I want to see some courageous forget-about-my-career action from The Hill!
Where is our William Wallace?
Instead of focusing on the opposition entirely, perhaps we need to focus and demand that those on our side have a tea party of their own!!
The very future of our country is at stake…TEA PARTY ON THE HILL!
I issue a challenge to everyone reading this...I challenge you to send in postcards I have provided here (they can be downloaded and/or printed out. Or use the postcard and pick up the phone or send a fax that and then come back leave a Comment
"My name is _____ and I live ______ and I send postcards, fax, phoned"
Encourgage others by your actions to TAKE ACTIONthemselves. We are at a crossroads here, the very future of our country hangs in the balance, socialized medicine is a nail in the coffin of our Republic and our very liberties. Cap-N-Trade is the other. Everyone needs to be in the fight, we can all play a part.
I challenge YOU to take action and come back and leave a Comment!
Is the Tea Party Movement experiencing post-partum psychosis?
Posted by Dr. Larry Hunter on October 07, 2009, 09:41 AM
Has the grass-roots Tea Party Movement run out of steam? Many Washington insiders seem to think so. The buzz around the nation’s capital is that opponents of ObamaCare pretty much shot their wad on September 12 when two million of them travelled from every corner of America to show up on the National Mall in protest of out-of-control government, of which ObamaCare is indicative.
Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) expressed this fear yesterday to The Hill newspaper: “Crapo said that he credited the August recess protests with having created enough of an impression among his colleagues for them to have voted down public option amendments in the Senate Finance Committee, but he worried the protests haven't had enough of an impact as the debate moves forward.
‘I'm concerned that that impact is not as deep as they thought it would be,’ he said.”
Some Senators go further according to conversations with several Hill staffers. Many Democrats and Republicans looking to vote in favor of some version of ObamaCare Lite we call it RHINOCare, are telling themselves they have weathered the storm and can go back to business as usual, cutting deals in the back room to expand Washington’s reach into the lives of individuals and feather the nests of their friends and cronies who feast like parasites on American taxpayers.
Unfortunately, evidence that this attitude may be warranted is everywhere to be seen by anyone monitoring the email traffic among grass-roots organizers. Soon after 9/12, one prominent Tea Party organization had a very public nervous breakdown on the Internet as they fought over ownership of intellectual property and purged their board of directors. Astro-turf groups out of Washington, DC are using the residual glow of 9/12 to raise gobs of money over the Internet but there is no evidence of real, follow-up grass-roots actions to put a stake through the heart of ObamaCare.
Much of the discussion among activists has wandered off into rancorous bickering over the wisdom of convening an Article V constitutional convention while the primary focus of the overall movement seems to be obsessing over Barrack Obama the man rather than the disastrous policies he is trying to jam down America’s throat, especially a government takeover of healthcare. Many email scribes in the various Google Groups of the movement seem more interested in re-running the 2008 presidential election than defeating the policies the winner of that election wants to impose on the country. Some of the rhetoric is absolutely demented not only delegitimizing the Liberty Movement before it finds its legs but actually scaring the hell out of many conservatives and libertarians who want nothing to do with the kind of personal invective and hate being spewed all over the Internet.
Even more troublesome than the tangible evidence of lethargy and disarray among the grass roots is the resounding silence of the dog that isn’t barking: The demonstrations at Senators’ Capitol Hill offices that are not occurring; the Senate telephone system that has not become overloaded; the mailbags of cards and letters opposing ObamaCare that are not arriving in the Senate mail room; the fax machines that sit idle in Senate offices; the gazebos in town squares across America that are not occupied by gatherings of citizens opposed to a government takeover of healthcare; the YouTube videos not being posted of boisterous gatherings outside local Senators’ offices demanding to meet with Senators when they are home on weekends; the demands for town hall meetings that are not being made by local citizens.
The Tea-Party Movement gave birth to a baby Liberty Movement September 12, which with care and nurturing could grow up to be a formidable force for freedom and prosperity. But since then the Liberty Movement’s parent has gone into a deep post-partum depression that in some cases verges on post-partum psychosis.
If Mama Movement doesn’t get her head straight and her act together soon, she will end up killing her offspring in a fit of self-obsessed abuse and neglect. Or, perhaps worse, the organized Republican Party, agent of the state, and their various Astro-Turf organizations will kidnap the infant movement from its neglectful and abusive parent and give it a foster home in the DC Establishment where it will be showered with money and attention, indoctrinated into practical politics and taught to mind its manners and vote for the lesser of two evils for the rest of its life.
The House is expected to vote on five revenue bills during Tuesday's session.
House Democrats are expected to caucus for several hours before the vote. If all five revenue proposals were to become law they would raise an estimated $345.8 million.
The revenue proposals are: •a 15 percent reduction in Michigan Business Tax credits, equal to $116.1 million •raising the state's other tobacco products tax by $41 million •an extended hours liquor license fee to raise $13.7 million, •freezing some personal exemptions to the income tax to save $55 million, •and raising the earned income tax credit by less than the scheduled level to save $120 million.
A sixth proposal to launch a tax on physicians at 3 percent is not expected to come up for a vote today. To contact your House Rep
A long range acoustic device capable of permanently damaging human hearing was used for the first time to break up protesters at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Our party must be based on the kind of leadership that grows and takes its strength from the people. Any organization is in actuality only the lengthened shadow of its members. A political party is a mechanical structure created to further a cause.
The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together. And our cause must be to rediscover, reassert and reapply America’s spiritual heritage to our national affairs. Then with God’s help we shall indeed be as a city upon a hill with the eyes of all people upon us.
Ronald Reagan, 1977 40th President of the United States
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