About 'WE THE PEOPLE'

 garysworld

Whether we are left, right, or in the middle, some things in America should always be constant.  One of them is supporting our young men and women who keep our country safe from the evil forces in the world.  Yeah this ol hillbilly knows, America is not always right, and we have made alot of enemies throughout our history.  But dang it we should support our troops, because see what would happen to us without their service and sacrifice.
Nuff said!

 amanda80

 
Email From:  Townhall
To:  GarysWorld

 
The deficit and national debt are already at historic levels…and they’re continuing to climb.
Medicare’s on its way to broke and Social Security will take in less than it pays out next year.

Unemployment levels are at highs we haven’t seen for a quarter of a century – despite Washington’s promises that spending over a trillion of your hard-earned tax dollars would create jobs and get the economy moving again.

The response from Washington? How about a second stimulus package?!

And, Nancy Pelosi has also signaled an interest in a Value Added Tax (VAT) that would pinch from your pockets for every good and service you purchase.

Plus, only in Washington could they consider an $829-billion health package a bargain!

When will they hear your cries that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH???

Help me send a message they can’t miss, go to www.michelebachmann.com today and make a contribution in our fight to be heard!

I have become Public Enemy #1 to the Left. Only Sarah Palin seems to send them into wilder convulsions of hate and arrogance and condescension. By contributing today to my one-day-only fundraising blitz, they are sure to hear our message.

It doesn’t take much time or much money. Is $25 worth it to you to send Washington and the Liberal Left Media a message?
Sean Hannity and Bill O’ Reilly have both remarked at how the Left just goes crazy whenever I speak up for you. The Financial Times even recently wrote:

Ms. Bachmann, whose mere name can provoke apoplexy in some liberal quarters….

I don’t know what it is – I’m merely speaking up for the millions of Americans who believe in American exceptionalism in the world, who want to see Washington’s spending spree stop, who value the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness guaranteed by our Constitution.

But, they just can’t stand it. And, that’s why when we all join together today and say that we stand together for these all-American principles of liberty, trust me: they’ll notice.

You made your case in town hall meetings across the nation, only to be dismissed by the Left.

Barney Frank (D-MA) told one constituent that having a conversation with her was like having a discussion with a piece of furniture. Pete Stark (D-CA) said he wouldn’t waste his urine to pee on a constituent who made his case on health care reform. Baron Hill (D-IN) told a young journalism student, “I set the rules….And, you are not going to tell me how to run my Congressional office.”

That’s funny? I thought the town halls were for You, the People to speak your peace! I thought that We, the Congressmen work for you! That’s the way it works at my town halls and in my office.

Millions of you have participated in tea parties across the nation – including marching on Washington just last month. The Left just turned the other way and pretended not to see!

Let me tell you: I recently spoke at a tea party in my district. You are Patriots! The Left wants to wish you away because they know that your message of freedom and fiscal responsibility is resonating with millions more who haven’t yet raised their voices.

Make no mistake about it: Every day, people who haven’t been involved before are signing up to be tea party patriots, are writing letters to the editor, are calling their Congressmen. Like you, their message is simple: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Please go to www.michelebachmann.com today and make your most generous donation and enlist even just five of your friends to help me stop this Gangster Government from trampling your liberty and stealing your children’s future.

Sincerely,

Michele Bachmann

Congresswoman, MN-06

Prepared and paid for by Bachmann for Congress, P.O. Box 25950, Woodbury, MN 55125

 garysworld

From Jonathan Garthwaite to me

Ann Coulter: Natural Born Losers
The question of whether President Obama should send more troops to Afghanistan misses the point. The most important part of warfare is picking your battlefield, and President Bush picked Iraq for a reason.
 

	Michael Barone: The Trouble With Health Care Is Paying For It The legislative process can also be a learning process, and as Congress considers health care legislation -- the latest act being the Senate Finance Committee's vote in favor of Chairman Max Baucus' bill, or "conceptual language" -- we have been learning something useful.
	George Will: Could a Wave be Building? Candidate-recruitment successes make it reasonable for Republicans to hope that in January 2011 the Senate will contain fewer than 60 Democrats.
	Emmett Tyrrell: Another Clinton Scandal I have been defamed by Taylor Branch, and he will not reply to my repeated calls for clarification. The defamation takes place in his new book, "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President."
	Mike Adams: Environmental Swine Trouble started a few years ago. Grain prices, which account for 75 % of the cost of raising a pig, began to skyrocket. They had been around $2.00 a bushel for over ten years. Then, in the summer of 2008, they hit $8.00 a bushel. This was despite two of the largest corn crops in U.S. History.
	Jillian Bandes: Political Sex Scandals: Are Women To Blame? The explanations of many political scandals that involve sexual affairs invariably involve men – rather than women – committing a breach of marriage, morals, common decency, or some combination thereof.

		Ken Blackwell: Obama's $900m Mess
	The ruling (barely) Palestinian party on the West Bank has just about lost patience with President Obama. That didn't take long.
		Douglas MacKinnon: What Is Happening to Rush Limbaugh Matters
	It appears that the purveyors of political correctness and the ignorant or hate-filled on the far-left are about to exact their revenge against Rush Limbaugh.
		Larry Elder: Health Care 'Reform' -- Getting Less for More
	The Democratic-controlled Congress reached another hurdle in achieving health care "reform." The Senate Finance Committee passed a version, 14-9, with one Republican vote. At last, "bipartisanship"!
		Steve Chapman: Mortgage Madness, Again
	Watching Washington policymakers in action, I sometimes think they make mistakes because of unrealistic goals, flawed thinking, blind obedience to party or dubious information.
		Paul Driessen: None Dare Call It Fraud
	What if we applied corporate standards to the “science” that is driving global warming policy?
		Jillian Bandes: Chat Wrap: Political Races, Health Care and More
	Townhall.com's Jillian Bandes joined readers today to discuss any and all subjects that met their fancy. Find out her thoughts on upcoming governors' races, Ricky Rubio, tea party protests and more!
		Michelle Malkin: Who's Behind the White House War on Fox News?
	Debates about the blurred lines between opinion and journalism are all well and good. But don't the talking-points crafters in the Oval Office have something better to do than carp about the talking points they don't like hearing on the one cable network that hasn't been completely overrun by Obama sycophants?
		Marvin Olasky: Opportunity Knocks Twice
	Let's look at the other citadel of secular liberalism, media, and see how the recent cracking of ACORN shows why outsiders, including Christians, have the best opportunity in almost two centuries to become journalistic leaders.
		Janice Shaw Crouse: Liberty First, Security Second
	We know that the colonists were deeply divided between those who vowed to have “liberty or death” and the loyalists who did everything within their power — despite his tyranny — to keep the colonies under the security provided by the rule of King George.
		Matt Barber: Here He Comes: Mr. Universe
	OK, this is just too easy. You have to ask: Did the Norwegian Nobel Committee devise a secret plot to completely marginalize President Obama in the international community (I mean, beyond that which he’s already managed on his own)?

 katieshowme

Well Gary it sure is a small world.  I ran into a teacher yesterday that actually knew you from 2000-2001 when you were living in Kansas City.  They told me you were a consultant for the Kansas City school district there for 2 years.  In fact, he told me that you evaluated teachers throughout the district as part of their education reform movement at the time.  He sure thinks the world of you.  His first name is Paul if that rings a bell.  I told him about this forum and your websites, and he said he would for sure join and to say 'HOWDY' to you.
 
I am going to love this series for sure.  You and the other administrators do such great work here and at your 2 blogs.  This is what America needs, and i feel you are providing a tremendous service.  I have talked to Amanda on email and she explained to me a little bit of your vision for the internet in the future.  I certainly have to agree with her that you are someone who cares deeply about our country and the direction it seems to be headed in. 
 
That is a beautiful pic of your mom.  So sorry for the loss.  You have a beautiful family.
 
Well have a great week friend.
Luv ya,
Katie

 garysworld

Thanks for the kind comments Katie.  You are a sweetheart.  Amanda told me you and her have talked on email. 

I don't recall the name Paul right off hand, but this ol hillbilly never was real good with names anyhow lol.  I am pretty good with faces, and would probably remember him if i saw him again.  Yes it is a small world.

Thanks for your posts my dear.
Have a great week
Gary

 garysworld

Townhall Spotlight to me

Take the survey | http://www.nagr.org/hr45survey1.aspx?pid=t2

Dear Concerned American,

The great pay-back has begun, and it's going to be ugly.
The gun grabbers in Congress are paying back the anti-gun extremists who put them and Barack Obama in office.
Hi, this is Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia.  I wish I had better news, but you and I are facing an assault on our gun rights like we’ve never seen before.
You see, H.R. 45 is Barack Obama’s gun control package, and it includes the most vile anti-gun measures he’s supported over the years.
It's only the first step...
...but it's a HUGE step.
H.R. 45 establishes a NATIONAL gun registry database of every gun and its owner -- for the whole county! Your private information and every gun you own would be in the system.
But that’s only if you succeed in buying a gun in the first place!
And since H.R. 45 dramatically increases requirements for firearms purchases far beyond those ever proposed, you just might find youself incapable of buying a firearm once this bill takes effect.
And it gets worse too.
The National Association for Gun Rights has a survey ready for you to complete, but I want you to understand just how dangerous this bill is before I give you the link.  Please bear with me for a moment.
You see, H.R. 45 would establish a national gun registry database which would:
Increase requirements for firearms purchases, far beyond those ever proposed.

Create a national firearms registry overseen by the Federal Government.

Invoke Draconian penalties for bookkeeping errors related to the Federal Firearms Database.
It gets worse though.
Sarah Brady and her allies in Congress want to force you to take a written exam to prove that you are "fit" to exercise your Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
I'm outraged by this, and I know you are too.

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that gun registration has historically laid the groundwork for total firearm confiscation. Citizen disarmament is the watchword of tyrants everywhere.
In fact, the most brutal dictators of the last century were famous for their gun registration and confiscation schemes.
But H.R. 45, Obama's National Gun Registry and Citizen Disarmament Act, is more than just a forced registration of all firearms in America.
The bill also makes it increasingly difficult to buy a gun in the first place.

Taken right out of Sarah Brady's Christmas wish list, H.R. 45 includes a laundry list of new restrictions on firearms purchases.
In addition to the outrageous national gun registration requirement, H.R. 45 also requires you to:
Pass a written examination to purchase a firearm.

Release your medical records -- including confidential mental health records -- to the government to get your "fitness" to own a firearm approved.

Observe a two-day waiting period before all firearms purchases.

Pay a gun tax of $25 or more on all firearm purchases.
Moreover, H.R. 45 bans all private firearms sales and maximizes penalties for minor clerical errors in dealing with the national gun registry.
The list goes on and on.  It's enough to turn your stomach.
I know I don't have to tell you, but these restrictions make a mockery of the Constitution.  "The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" might as well say: "You have no rights."
If a two-day waiting period, a written exam and a gun tax aren't infringing our rights, I don't know what is!

Even the Supreme Court’s recent Heller decision guaranteeing an individual’s right to own a firearm doesn’t hamper Barack Obama’s agenda one bit.
In fact, it emboldens gun grabbers to pass legislation taxing ammunition, increasing registration requirements, and drastically limiting when, how and where you can use your firearm.
That’s why I’ve decided to stand with the National Association for Gun Rights fight back against this radical scheme. They're fully committed to stopping the efforts of the gun grabbers, but they need the help of grassroots gun owners like you.
With liberals calling the shots in Washington, all supporters of the Second Amendment must join together, draw a line in the sand, and fight this battle to the end.
We must make this gun-grab expensive and politically painful for the enemies of freedom.  If we do, they'll flinch ... and LOSE.
By mobilizing hundreds of thousands of grassroots gun owners across the country, the National Association for Gun Rights can put anti-gun politicians on the hot seat.
Are you opposed to national gun registration?
Are you opposed to a written examination to buy a gun?
Are you opposed to a new $25 gun tax?
Are you opposed to a total ban on private firearm sales?
If you said "Yes" to these questions, click here http://www.nagr.org/hr45survey1.aspx?pid=t2  to fill out a special survey the National Association for Gun Rights has prepared for you.
Your survey will put you squarely on the record AGAINST Barack Obama’s gun control package.
Stopping un-Constitutional gun control bills like H.R. 45 may be NAGR’s top priority, but they need your help.
Along with your signed survey, please send the National Association for Gun Rights a generous contribution to help finance this battle.  You will have the opportunity to donate right after you fill out the survey.

The truth is, H.R. 45 is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sarah Brady and her cohorts in Congress now have the support of a willing White House and won't stop until they've reached their ultimate goal: A virtual ban on private, individual firearm ownership.
That is why NAGR simply must hear from you immediately.
Please take a moment to fill out NAGR's H.R. 45 survey, and, if at all possible, send a contribution of $200, $150, $100 or maybe just $25 to help the National Association for Gun Rights fight H.R. 45 and Sarah Brady's gun control wish list.
I know this is a lot to ask, but inaction could very well lead to defeat and the loss of our right to keep and bear arms.
Whether you can afford $200 or a lesser amount of $50 or $25, please contribute what you can.

It's critical we do all we can.
Thank you in advance for contributing your time and money towards defending our Second Amendment rights.

For Freedom and Liberty,
Paul Broun
U.S. Congressman (R-GA)
National Association for Gun Rights

P.S. The anti-gun extremists who helped put Obama in power are itching for pay-back -- and here it comes.
H.R. 45 is the most sweeping gun control proposal ever offered in America.  And under this administration, it might just pass -- so please act today!

 kcgirl

From  http://www.teapartyexpress.org/

It is our pleasure to announce the “Tea Party Express: Countdown to Judgment Day” which will cross the nation from coast-to-coast, border-to-border October 25th – November 11th — 1 year ahead of the November 2010 congressional elections… or as our Czarina of the tea party movement, Amy Kremer, likes to refer to as “Judgment Day.” The Tea Party Express will kick-off the tour with a rally in San Diego, California on October 25th and wind up the tour with a rally in Orlando, Florida on November 11th (Veteran’s Day). We’ve just posted the new tour map and itinerary (with the dates of rallies in each city) at our website: http://www.teapartyexpress.org/

OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 11

 rhonda85

From Townhall

No Alibi Oliver North: President Barack Obama's problem with the fight in Afghanistan is that he hasn't been willing or able to pull the trigger on a decision about what to do, and now he's running out of alibis. full story

 garysworld

From: CoonerJB
The Houston Herald newspaper
MARCH 5th, 2009

True story
Last Thursday night around midnight, a woman from Houston, Texas was arrested, jailed and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man six times in the back as he was running away with her purse.
The following Monday morning, the woman was called In front of the arraignment judge, sworn in, and asked to explain her actions.
The woman replied, "I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15 minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work.  I am a waitress at a local cafe.
I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol that was in my purse that was hung over my left shoulder.
All of a sudden I was being spun around hard to my left.  As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away from me with my purse.
I looked down at my hand, and I saw that my fingers were wrapped tightly around my pistol.  The next thing I remember is saying, "No way punk!  You're not stealing my paycheck and tips."
I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man and squeezed the trigger six times!
When asked by the judge, "Why did you shoot the man six times?
The woman replied under oath, "Because, when I pulled the trigger the 7th time, it only went 'Click.' "
The Woman Was Acquitted Of All Charges and she Was Back At Work, at The Cafe, The Next Day!

Gary you are a friend and i am so glad i met you this summer.  Yes i believe in this forum and yes i believe in America.  I had a hard time growing up, and i still got through school.  I don't believe in our government handouts unless it is needed.  I do believe that when money is tight we tighten our belts and survive it.  Honestly i look forward to some liberals getting on here and voicing their views.  As you have told me, "Ain't nothing like a good argument on the net lol". 
 
For those who haven't met this Kentucky hillbilly ( Gary ) wake up America he is for real and so am i.
Sarah ( Mizzou )

 kcgirl

Read the full text of the House Healthcare Bill!

Read the full text in PDF | http://thehill.com/images/stories/whitepapers/pdf/house%20_healthcare_bill.pdf

 suzanne

BARACK OBAMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — 1-31-2009
 
These videos are SCARY.  I suggest you watch all of them
 

The video below isn’t of students singing but of a woman named Janelle Kirton performing the school song. The song doesn’t mention Obama, it just relies heavily on his platitudes, but pay special attention to the school decorations inter-cut throughout the video.

If that doesn’t creep you out enough, check out this slide-show from the school’s website.

Video Title: “Barack Obama School Song, Do You Hear The Sound, Janelle Kirton, Barack Obama Song.”

Video Note: Barack Obama Elementary School Song, Written by Janelle Kirton, arranged by Alex Kirton…