The Official Pace Car - Tea Party Express

Freedom loving Americans - I am praying for each of you and I am so proud to see so many using their fearless voices and peaceful hearts to March on DC. I love it.

Closer to my heart is this "Official Pace Car" heading out on the Tea Party Express. The National 9.12 Project has got the right stuff goin' on. Education, Unification -----> leading to that ever important Ballot Access. It is so fitting that the "pace" car is The National 9.12 Project. For more information on The National 9.12 Project, please visit their site: http://www.thenational912project.org/

I am so happy to see that Americans are not buying the progressive smelling crap from the Administration that the day of Nine Eleven should be a day of "service". Every day of our lives we should find some small way to serve - the absolute last thing we need is a progressive way to forget about Nine Eleven.

Nine Eleven is the day our homeland came under fire. Nine Eleven is the day our resolve was tested. Nine Eleven is the day men and women left their homes kissing their families goodby because each of them - like the rest of us - had "somedays". Someday, I will pay off this mortgage, someday little Johnny is going to college, someday little Jane wants to be a doctor, someday my spouse and I will retire... Someday - Someday - Someday - poof

**no days left**

Perhaps "someday" Mr. Obama will understand that.

We will not forget and most importantly we will NOT let our children or our grandchildren forget. Our "service" on Nine Eleven is reserved for rememberance and celebration of our great Republic and the lives that were lost. We will celebrate those brave men and women who lost their own lives helping to save others, we will celebrate those brave men and women who for days following Nine Eleven volunteered their time, their money, their businesses, and some who volunteered their lives. We will celebrate and honor our military who everyday do more than 10 of us combined to keep our country great.

Mr. Obama will just have to find another day to do his radical community organizing.

Man, I love America. I love this country. Thank you God - thank you so much.

Like him or not... Not the Issue - Common Sense is the issue and finally we are seeing some!

American Thinker: The U.N.'s Shocking Sexuality Guidelines

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Just Wondering

I “wonder” aimlessly (it seems) why more Americans do not look at the record of the government.

Most recently, we can examine Cash for Clunkers – this program began in 2009 and ended in 2009 – broke
The TARP bill was trillions of dollars in 2009 and we see that things have progressively become worse
Freddie Mac is broke – sister Fannie Mae is broke
Medicare is broke Medicaid is broke
For the last 46 years, each and every year over 1,000,000,000,000 (12 zeros is 1 trillion) is taken from citizens and distributed to the poor – somehow the “poor” rolls keep growing
Social Security is broke
The Postal Service is broke

And those are just financial failures…

We can examine some other well known but "kept to a quiet roar" failures…

The FEC is supposed to enforce the nation’s federal campaign finance laws – tell me, would anyone other than the government appoint 6 members to a committee 3 repubs & 3 dems – sounds like a lot of gridlock- I know I know… we just added 5 more members “right” – NO meaningful reform has been birthed from any committee in the Senate – somehow – magically any meaningful reform gets buried.

There has been an assertion, no – scrap the word assertion- there has been all out theft of our liberties by the Executive Branch. This power grab started many many decades ago – and at this point in time with all the czar’s (including some self avowed communists and terrorists), our stately Whitehouse is looking more like a Jihad camp run by Karl Marx.

The Census Bureau – wow – where do we even start? Well perhaps we should start at the over $600 million spent to upgrade the technology ("hand helds" - as in computers not coom bi ya). Upgrade??? Was there any technology other than paper in the last census? The "hand helds" are not even going to be used in 2010 because all that money spent “fixing” the technology (gulp), did NOT fix the technology problem – ahhhh who cares- bury it– it is just the taxpayers money. Cost estimates for the census were at $11.5 billion and just like everything else the government touches… it somehow goes up. We are now hovering at / around $14.5 billion.

Our borders are a mess. The border fence has been one government agency tripping over another (how many agencies does it really take to contract out 6000 or so miles of fence). Testifying before Congress in September, Randolph C. Hite, the GAO’s director of information technology architecture and systems, put the problem bluntly: “Important aspects of SBInet remain ambiguous and in a continued state of flux, making it unclear and uncertain what technology capabilities will be delivered and when, where, and how they will be delivered.” – wow – this is TOTALLY a government official answer to a question. I am not certain we can expect any more or any better from “agencies” when our Legislators cannot even stand tall and proud to create a cohesive plan for border security and immigration. In La-La Land (D.C.) border security and immigration is all politics (fluff) and no policy.

We should also mention Health and Human Services and their dirty little secret known as Department of Social Services, aka, Child Protective Services. What a train wreck. Most complaints against the agency are centered on the randomness of DSS action, abuse of social worker authority, and failure of judicial leadership to take responsibility – wow. Not to mention all the cases where the children DSS was supposed to protect - somehow died under their care. It has been shown that this agency operates with closed courtrooms, confidential files, and total statutory immunity. Hmmm, I do recall one Lord Acton, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. We as citizens, in our cities and states need to take a look at what is being done in the “Service and Protection of Our Children”. There are countless families who have come forward to state that the Juvenile Court is not fulfilling its role as an effective check on DSS, which should be viewed as only a party in the proceeding, with no greater standing or credibility than any other party. The court is responsible for providing the ultimate check within the system. Judges must never suspend their independent role as fact-finder and choose to “defer” any decision. And what about withholding exculpatory evidence… nah…the courts would never allow that. Would they? Nahhhh not in America. No way. Would they?

Alrighty then. This has been fun – Let’s do it again tomorrow. Together we will look at more failures inside our government and together ask ourselves "why" we would let the government take over any more plans, programs and initiatives or allow them to begin any new ones.

I predict we will have a good conversation and we will unify our voices and begin to talk about taking back all the UNconstitutional activities of our government and fortify our strategy to put the power back to where it needs to be (that would be with you and me).

Here is a letter from a friend and great person who like the rest of us - has her eyes and ears on and is paying attention:

I teach a Speech Communications 101 course. I have been using the textbook, per my department's advice, The Art of Public Speaking by Stephen Lucas (McGraw-Hill). This book is a $115 soft-cover, 400+ page textbook. This year, I adopted the newest 10th Edition. I didn't know who Van Jones was until watching a recent show. This is THE FIRST SECTION of the FIRST CHAPTER:

“The Tradition of Public Speaking"

"Growing up in rural Tennessee, Van Jones had no intention of becoming a public speaker. Studying journalism at the University of Tennessee at Martin, he hoped one day to report the new, not to make it. Nevertheless, he soon found himself drawn to campus politics, and he became a vocal member of the student body.

After attending law school, Jones joined the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights to work on problems confronting inner-city communities. A few years later he established the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting opportunity to urban America.

But Jones didn't stop there. Over the years, he combined human rights initiatives with his interest in environmental justice. Today, he is president of Green for All, which focuses on creating green-collar jobs throughout America. In 2007 he worked with members of the US House of Representatives to pass the Green Jobs Act, which approved $125 million to train environmentally conscious workers.

How has Jones achieved all this? Partly through his legal training and dauntless spirit. But just as important is his ability to communicate with people through public speaking which has been the primary vehicle for spreading his message. He as been described as 'one of the most powerful and inspiring prophetic voices of our time'. Audiences are moved 'by his heart, inspired by his commitment, and rocked by his eloquence' . [There is no reference for these quotes - or if they are even from the same source]

If you had asked Van Jones early in his life, 'Do you see yourself as a major public speaker?' he probably would have laughed at the idea. Yet today he gives more than 100 presentations a year. Along the way, he has lectured at Harvard and Columbia and has addressed the US Conference of Mayors, the National Symposium of Climate Change, and the World Economic Forum. More than a few pundits have suggested that elective office might be in his future." (Page 4)


Lucas, Stephen, 10th Edition. The Art of Public Speaking. New York: McGraw Hill. 2009
ISBN: 978-0-07-338515-0

Online resources to accompany text available at http://www.connectlucas.com/

It made me sick. I wanted to take a shower after reading that! This is how students are being indoctrinated, not educated. I will no longer be using this textbook. In fact, on the ConnectLucas web site to accompany this text there is even a short video example of Van Jones speaking.


I have been teaching this course for five years now. And yesterday - on the first day of class - I gave my "1st Day General Knowledge Pop Quiz”. The first question I ask the students is: "Which rights are protected under the 1st Amendment?" Out of my 78 students this semester, only four students correctly answered the question.

I am spending the rest of this semester teaching this course by giving examples of speeches by our Founding Fathers, talking about our 1st Amendment rights, the U.S.Constitution, and by sharing meaningful, traditional speech communications history.

Thank you for all that you do.

With deep respect, a much more awakened teacher,

C.G.

Adjunct Professor of Speech Communications

More Staged Healthcare Events

This was sent to me by a friend in Bozeman, MT who was there.

Hello All,

By now you have probably heard that President Obama came to Montana last Friday. However, there are many things that the major news has not covered. I feel that since Bill and I live here and we were at the airport on Friday I should share some facts with you. Whatever you decide to do with the information is up to you. If you chose to share this email with others I do ask that you DELETE my email address before you forward this on.

On Wednesday, August 5th it was announced locally that the President would be coming here. There are many groups here that are against his healthcare and huge spending so those groups began talking and deciding on what they were going to do. The White House would not release ANY details other than the date.

On about Tuesday Bill found out that they would be holding the "Town Hall" at the airport. (This is only because Bill knows EVERYONE at the airport) Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade (tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely located hangar. You could not pick a more remote location, and you can not get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public.

FYI: We have many areas in Belgrade and Bozeman which could have held a large amount of folks with sufficient parking. (gymnasiums/auditoriums). All of which have chairs and tables, and would not have to be SHIPPED IN!! $$$$$

During the week, cargo by the TONS was being shipped in constantly. Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our President coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession. $$$$$

Late Tuesday/early Wednesday the 12th, they said that tickets would be handed out on Thursday 9am at two locations and the president would be arriving around 12:30 Friday.

Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out. However, 1500 were printed at a Local printing shop per White House request. Hmmmm......900 tickets just DISAPPEARED. This same morning someone called into the radio from the local UPS branch and said that THOUSANDS of Dollars of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation!!! And it would have been really wonderful to help out the local economy. Anyone heard of the Recession?? Just think...with all of the traveling the White House is doing. $$$$$ One can only imagine what else we are paying for.

On Friday Bill and I got out to the airport about 10:45am. The groups that wanted to protest Obama's spending and healthcare had gotten a permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be. A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal)and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man but they said they did not have the manpower to remove the SEIU crowd.

The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30 and they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY made signs. Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and Planned Parenthood folks were with them.....professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs. (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area)

Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man.

So we had Montana folks from ALL OVER the state with their homemade signs and their DOGS with homemade signs. We had cowboys, nurses, doctors you name it. There was even a guy from Texas who had been driving through. He found out about the occasion, went to the store, made a sign, and came to protest.

If you are wondering about the press.....Well, all of the major networks were over by that remote hangar I mentioned. They were conveniently parked on the other side of the buildings FAR away. None of these crowds were even visible to them. I have my doubts that they knew anything about the crowds.

We did have some local news media around us from this state and Idaho. Speaking of the local media...they were invited. However, all questions were to be turned into the White House in advance of the event. Wouldn't want anyone to have to think off the top of their head.

It was very obvious that it was meant to be totally controlled by the White House. Everything was orchestrated down to the last detail to make it appear that Montana is just crazy for Obama and government healthcare. Even those people that talked about their insurance woes........the White House called our local HRDC (Human Resource and Development Committee) and asked for names. Then the White House asked those folks to come. Smoke and mirrors...EVERYTHING was staged!!!!!!!!!!!

I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I was physically nauseous. Bill and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country. America needs your prayers and your voices. If you care about our country please get involved. Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!! If they are willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY a small town one can only imagine what is going on in Washington DC. Scary!!

Kathy
Bozeman, Montana

Celebrating and Restoring Liberty, One Community at a Time…

In the latter part of 1765 the Sons of Liberty hung a large brass sign on an Elm tree that had stood in Boston Square for over a hundred years. The sign read “The Tree of Liberty” and there under the shade of its branches they held regular meetings to discuss the virtues of true liberty and the evils of tyranny. That grand old Elm was cut down by Loyalists in 1775 but the eternal principles it had come to symbolize had already taken root in the hearts and minds of many would be Americans.

After the Revolution was fought and won, virtually every locale in the colonies established some form of memorial to that spot in Boston that had become widely known as the “Birthplace of America”. Two hundred thirty three years later those principles of Natural Law which our Founders declared to the world are still alive and well. A reverence for their sacrifice still exists in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. Many though, are not even conscience of the principles that constitute true liberty although they’ve spent their lives enjoying the blessings that accompany them. Whether by design or natural tendency, we as a people have become ignorant of our history and by doing so have put freedom in jeopardy.

Our political class is overrun with men and women who have no concept or understanding of the eternal principles of Natural Law. They have no moral compass, no sense of ethics and no honor. They throw the word compromise around as if it were a badge of honor.

At the National 912 Project we are proposing a long term solution for the systemic problems that threaten our nation. As long as the political class can keep us busy chasing issues and crises which they dictate and often contrive themselves, then we won’t have the time, energy or inclination to pursue and implement real and permanent solutions to the underlying problems of ignorance, corruption and plain old anti-American sentiment that now plague our governing institutions.

Our solution is quite simple. Through education, unity and election in every community across the country, one community at a time, we will re-establish the principles of Natural Law. All politics are local right? Imagine what would happen if most of the communities in your state filled their school boards with good and virtuous men and women who were well versed in and held dear the same principles on which our Constitution is based. Then each one of those school boards decided to exercise their rights under our Constitution and make their own decisions as to the curriculum they choose for their children. Whether or not they think its ok for their children to pray or say the pledge. These decisions and many more, are decisions that should be made at a local level by the people they affect the most.

Now and in the coming months we will be encouraging members of the National 912 Project all over the country to begin holding Liberty Parties in their communities to plant or designate a Liberty Tree or similar memorial and to celebrate our freedom, promote unity and to help spread the word about this simple yet effective plan to locate, educate and elect statesmen, honorable men and women to all local offices.

The original Liberty Tree was an Elm and in my opinion, any new tree memorial should be an Elm, but I have written about and compared our liberty to a mighty oak and recently have been considering a species of tree that many consider to be one of the largest organisms on earth. It’s the Aspen tree and here is an excerpt from Wikipedia.“The Aspen tree forms large stands of trees connected by a single underground root system. These trees form through root sprouts coming off an original parent tree”. America itself may be best symbolized by these Aspens. We are one large organism connected by our underground roots system…our communities.

If you’re interested in working toward a real, permanent solution, so that your children and grandchildren don’t end up fighting these same battles all over again, join us at the National 912 Project by going to http://www.thenational912project.org/

Then and Now

I find this an interesting observation comparing the words from the men who wrote our constitution to the words of our current national leaders who have pledged to preserve and protect our constitution.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.
George Washington

I think when you spread the wealth around its good for everybody.
Barack Obama

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
Thomas Jefferson

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama

It is not necessary to enumerate the many advantages, that arise from this custom of early marriages. They comprehend all the society can receive from this source; from the preservation, and increase of the human race. Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favourable, in the highest degree, to society. In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage.
Samuel Williams

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi

Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.
John Adams

As I read the words of our founders and then read the words those who today we have charged to represent us, I find a stark and shocking degradation of moral and virtuous standards. Our leaders speak of liberty but have no alignment with the principles of liberty.

Are we all so blind with politics and health care and bailouts and stimulus to miss the fundamental misalignment of our leaders with our Constitution and founding principles? We are all focused on the wrong issues!

Consider we as Americans have spent too much time in the pursuit of happiness and not enough time in the business of self governing, or are we all too busy or simply say “someone else will do it, I just don’t’ have time to get involved. And besides what can I do?”

I say, “Look at what we have done! Nothing!” It is we who must preserve and protect our liberty. It is our duty to this country and to all those who have bled and died for it. Our economy is healthy compared to the immoral and ill-virtuous condition of our leaders. I submit that should be our focus.

Patrick Jenkins

Patrick is a 47 year old father of 5; grandfather of 6; married 27 years small business owner and founder of The National 912 Project.

Patrick’s musings may be read at www.national912project.blogspot.com

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Some Context Please... Pt. 1 of 3

The Constitution was not written in disappearing ink. Our framers knew that a decentralized but democratic means of making decisions in our government would preserve the government. Most citizens today cannot talk about with certainty the articles in the Constitution, most cannot talk about the Bill of Rights. Most of us can only express outrage that the mass media has relinquished their responsibility. Yet, we find that when we talk to people their “belief” in the Constitution is absolutely present though somewhat intangible.

People equate that belief with the love of one's country. All Americans were reminded after the events of September 11, 2001 that the love of our country, that indescribable feeling is not obtained through a rational exploration but rather through emotion. Let us look together at an example. The following four Constitutional points sound good when first reading them – when reading, we as humans get an initial good feeling, a feeling of “safeness”:

1. Citizens are guaranteed freedom of conscience (that is the right to profess or not to profess any religion; the church is separated from the state and the school from the church)…

2. Citizens are guaranteed inviolability of the persons. No one may be arrested except by a court decision or on the warrant…Citizens are guaranteed inviolability of the home. No one may, without lawful grounds, enter a home against the will of those residing in it…

3. The privacy of citizens and of their correspondence, telephone conversations, and telegraphic communications, is protected by law.

4. Respect for the individual and protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens are the duty of all state bodies, public organizations, and officials. Citizens have the right to protection by the courts against encroachments on their honor and reputation, life and health, personal freedom and property.

There are many more of these exact types of points that can be found. For illustration purposes and in no specific measure or order of importance, four were taken to use here. These four points or articles were taken from the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This Constitution is the most recent constitution and is the current governing version. It was adopted in 1977.

This illustration should demonstrate the importance of not taking words out of context. Understanding what the words mean and of course why were those words ever written to begin with. We as Americans have our suspicions about how the citizens in Russia really live and how those same citizens really want to live.