On the social medicine senate vote, here are the stats showing you how much each senator has gotten from the health industry. My own Portland senator, Wyden, got over 1.5 million dollars. I really don’t think someone paid that much by the health industry can represent my health concerns for any type of social medicine program. Same thing is true if you look at their cozy relations with Wall Street. Next fall is a wonderful opportunity to send all of these blokes (Republican and Democratic) home.
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What the senators got from the health industry
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Changes in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Get ready for massive changes in Washington, D.C. next fall.
Start getting ready for the November, 2010 elections. Remember the motto (unless you like being abused): If they’re “IN;” they’re “OUT.”
Remember this on the 2010 Election Day. . .
1. Your U.S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.
2. They voted to NOT give you a Social Security cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011.
3. Your Medicare premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years and you will not get the 3% COLA or $660/yr. Your total 2-year loss and cost is $1,600 or $3,200 for husband and wife. Plain enough?
4. Every member of Congress will get an added $10,000 which is putting them very close to $200,000 per year. They’ve exempted themselves from the healthcare changes they wish to enact on us. Sounds like an elite class to me. They should be on the same health and pension plan we are: Social security and Medicare – or they go home.
5. Do you feel taken advantaged of? They vote themselves a raise and better benefits. They only care about WE THE PEOPLE on election day, right? You never did anything about it in the past. The time for action is near!!!!
6. Do you really think that Nancy, Barbara, Patty, Harry, Chris, Charlie, Barney, John Murtha, et al, care about you? SEND THE MESSAGE — You’re FIRED.
7. Our present elected representatives are loyal to their party. They are bribable, do what is in their OWN best interest. They have completely ignored the massive debt this country is in and are increasing it without regard to the taxpayers who will have to pay for it all.
8. President Obama isn’t leading any more. Bernanke (with the help of Congress) shoved billions to Wall Street and corrupt corporations under the motto “they are too big to fail”. That statement is immoral and unethical. Once core values are sacrificed, there is no leadership or vision. As a result, Bernanke should be out of there. Meanwhile, a stimulus plan that was supposed to create jobs didn’t. Most of the money was wasted.
9. Both political parties have tried to build a social medicine plan when both of them are owned by the health industry. One of my senators has received over 1.5 million dollars from the health industry. I can’t trust him to put together a social medicine program for me.
*** THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICAL PARTIES!
IN 2010 YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET RID OF Up to 1/3 OF THE SENATE AND 100% OF THE HOUSE.
The election in 2010 will be a sea-change to the mindset of any member of Congress who may survive..
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. It is time for you to lead. Send ‘em home. Pass this post on to your friends. As them to stand up. Write to those representing them in Washington.
A President without a Country - from Pat Boone
Friday, January 15th, 2010Be sure to open the “Snopes” comments. Appears this is ALL TRUE!!!!!! When are we going to impeach this man?
Oh, how well put this is! Thank you, Pat Boone.
And Happy AMERICAN New Year ya’ll!
The President Without A Country
By Pat Boone
“We’re no longer a Christian nation.” - President Barack Obama, June 2009
” America has been arrogant.” - President Barack Obama
“After 9/11, America didn’t always live up to her ideals.”- President Barack Obama
“You might say that America is a Muslim nation.”- President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009
Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of President. I keep wondering what country he believes he’s president of.
In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale’s “The Man without a Country,” a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly exclaims, “Damn the United States ! I wish I might never hear of the United States again!”
The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: “You have just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another of this country’s naval vessels - under strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have just cursed.”
And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan’s dying hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears. And I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America , refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are.
But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our president - a young black man living the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I want to ask him, “Just what country do you think you’re president of?”
You surely can’t be referring to the United States of America , can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians. It’s because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her president.
You studied law at Harvard, didn’t you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago? Did you not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark “Federalist Papers”: “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians for their rulers”?
In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: “Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.”
Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900’s that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a “wall of separation between church and state” was used to deny some specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson’s intent with that statement?
Or, wait a minute. Were your ideas about America ’s Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that “America is no longer a Christian nation”? Is this where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief that “America has been arrogant”?
Even if that’s the understandable explanation of your damning of your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of “not always living up to her ideals,” how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be “considered a Muslim nation”?
Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us, by any rational definition, a “Muslim nation”?
Why are we not, then, a “Chinese nation”? A “Korean nation”? Even a “Vietnamese nation”? There are even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you’re trying to make is a religious one, why is America not “a Jewish nation”? There’s actually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers.
Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran? Even in Egypt? You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can’t you? You do recall Muhammad’s directives [Surah 9:5,73] to “break the cross” and “kill the infidel”?
It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspected. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are “no longer Christian,” who have “failed to live up to our ideals,” who “have been arrogant,” and might even be “considered Muslim” - you are president of a country most Americans don’t recognize.
Could it be you are a president without a country?
All who love their Christian belief’s and your country, forward this email to all in your address book.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/patboone.asp
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly, always be grateful, and leave the rest to God. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Oregon’s Measure 66 and 67
Friday, January 8th, 2010One hotly debated topic in Oregon right now is the vote in January on 26 regarding measures 66 and 67.
A vote FOR measure 66 will mean:
• Taxes for wealthy Oregonians (about $250,000 for households, $125,000 for individuals) will increase.
• No income taxes on the first $2400 of unemployment benefits received in 2009.
• The resulting estimated $472 million raised will provide funds for education, health care, public safety, and other services.
• The increases are permanent.
A vote FOR measure 67 will mean:
• The $10 minimum tax for corporations increases to $150.
• The tax rate for many corporations will increase, along with some filing fees.
• As with measure 66, the resulting estimated $472 million raised will provide funds for education, health care, public safety, and other services.
• The increases are permanent.
We urge a NO vote on both of these issues.
• People supporting the taxes say it will only tax the rich. They are wrong. The increase will be passed on to the customers, and you will pay more for gas, groceries, and services.
• It is estimated that the tax will cost Oregon 70,000 jobs, increasing unemployment.
• State spending is increased, not decreased as it should be.
• Small businesses will suffer major damage. If the tax passes, we will immediately increase business costs. Many small businesses will have to close, increasing unemployment. Some businesses will move to Vancouver and other places.
• Measure 66 will cause many small farms in Oregon to close. That means you pay a higher grocery bill and the farmers will be hurt, some losing their farm.
• Voting for these measures will give you the largest tax increase in the history of Oregon. It will give our state the second highest income tax in the nation. It is not a good idea to saddle Oregonians during the largest economic downturn in a generation with the largest tax increase in Oregon’s history.
• If the measures pass, the taxes are retroactive to the first of 2009. You probably didn’t have enough taxes taken out of your salary to cover it. If you are out of work now but worked some in 2009, you are probably going to owe money.
• The Portland Business Alliance urges a NO vote of these measures. So does many of
the Chamber of Commerces: Beaverton, North Clackamas County, Salam, Wilsonville, and many others.
• The Oregonian and many other newspapers in the state urge a NO vote on measures 66 and 67,
• The measures will delay economic recovery in Oregon.
• The legislature ignored tax advice and sided with special interests. Even this vote is riddled with special interest money. Don’t be deceived.
Don’t be fooled. Don’t let the special interests that bought the legislators buy your vote.
Vote on the measures and vote NO on both. Then vote the legislators out that even proposed this nonsense in our tough economic times.
Oregon can pay its bills by managing the money they have better and cutting those salary increases. Here’s an example of how the state can save - companies that are not involved with energy are buying energy tax credits at a profit, cutting into the state income. Wal-Mart, for example, paid 22.6 million last year to the right to clam in 33.6 million in energy tax credits. The state is out the full 33.6 million in tax revenues, money that would have gone through the general fund to schools and health services. And Wal-Mart isn’t alone. Other companies at the top of the list playing this game are Costco and U.S. Bank – two of America’s wealthiest businesses.
Be sure vote. In voting you lead, you make a statement. Encourage others to vote. On issues, be willing share your reasons for why you are voting for or against the measures. For more on real leadership, see http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/beyond.htm.
Social medicine - the problem with it in America - Urgent!
Friday, November 20th, 2009This Is Not A Drill. This Is the Real Thing.
Majority Leader Harry Reid is planning to ram through the massive government health care takeover bill with a crucial preliminary vote likely Saturday and a full Senate vote by next week.
More and more Americans oppose this 2,000-page fraudulent scheme, so House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reid and President Obama are trying to get it done quickly.
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
• Ask them to vote NO on cloture on the Motion to Proceed.
• Tell your senators you want them to vote against any advancement of the health care takeover.
A cloture vote on a Motion to Proceed will probably take place by Saturday.
Sixty votes are needed on this vote, so if all 40 Republican senators oppose it and only one Democrat or Independent joins them, the bill is dead.
Several Democrats are seriously considering voting against the motion.
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
Again, calls are needed now to your U.S. Senators! Especially in the following states where several Senators are wavering:
• Arkansas residents, must call:
Senator Pryor’s office (202) 224-2353
Senator Lincoln’s office (202) 224-4843
• Connecticut residents, must call:
Senator Lieberman’s office (202) 224-4041
• Indiana residents, must call:
Senator Bayh’s office (202) 224-5623
• Nebraska residents, must call:
Senator Nelson’s office (202) 224-6551
• West Virginia residents, must call:
Senator Byrd’s office (202) 224-3954
• North Dakota residents, must call:
Senator Dorgan’s office (202) 224-2551
Senator Conrad’s office (202) 224-2043
Call today!
Here’s What’s Wrong With the Bill
The Senate version will allegedly cost $849 billion. But that is a fraud, since it leaves out a quarter of a trillion dollar “fix” for Medicare payments to doctors over the next 10 years. The Senate already defeated that dishonest dodge, but Reid is right back trying it again. Also, every federal health care program has exceeded initial cost estimates by billions and billions of dollars. A full-scale takeover will bankrupt our nation.
The current bill is a chamber of horrors:
• New tax-supported subsidies to purchase private health plans that cover abortion on demand;
• Watered down abortion federal funding restrictions;
• Many new taxes, including taxes on medical device makers, a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgeries, and penalties on American households with incomes over $200,000; a government-run “public option” health insurance plan that will destroy private insurance;
• A mandate for all Americans to purchase a government-approved plan or go to jail;
• A mandate for employers to offer insurance or pay a fine, which will spur many to pay the fine and end employee insurance plans;
• $500 billion in Medicare cuts for older Americans, thus introducing rationing;
• Subsidies for “end-of-life” counseling.
President Obama said last week that he wanted a bill that would not be “restricting women’s insurance choices.” He has promised Planned Parenthood that he would force taxpayers to fund “reproductive care,” i.e., abortions. Reid and Pelosi also want taxpayers to fund abortions.
The health care takeover attempt is full of paybacks to various leftwing constituencies. The bill would also change Medicaid eligibility rules that could put nearly 21 percent of the U.S. population on Medicaid, the federal-state medical funding plan for the poor, according to a study cited by the Heritage Foundation.
A Plan to Turn Us Into Government Serfs
A prime goal of the Left is to make as many Americans as possible dependent on government until the private sector is overwhelmed and we all become subjects, not free citizens.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid want to force socialized medicine on the nation. This is about far more than medical costs. It’s a way to turn us into government serfs who will be afraid to speak out against government erosion of our freedoms lest we jeopardize our loved ones’ access to government-controlled health care.
In communist and socialist nations, the people who get first-class care are those who cooperate with government party officials. If this scheme succeeds, our children and grandchildren will not grow up in a free country. It is that serious.
Again, calls are needed now to your U.S. Senators.
Ask them to vote NO on cloture on the Motion to Proceed. Tell your senators you want them to vote against any advancement of the health care takeover.
ACTION
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
Thank you for making your voice heard!
Sincerely in Christ,
Robert Knight
Senior Writer and Washington, D.C. Correspondent
To learn more about the government health care takeover plan and its threat to freedom, please request our DVD The Health Care Lie!
Robert Knight is Senior Writer and Washington, D.C. Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and the author of Fighting For America’s Soul.
Here’s one example: Republican Senator Charles Grassley has taken two million dollars from the health care sector. How can he represent the health concerns of any constituents from Iowa? Why can’t other senators (such as our own Wyden and Wu) stand up and tell him that? Why is he even involved in this vote with that record?
Note: I’m not against social medicine. The social medicine system in Switzerland saved my life in 1989. What I am against is a medical system that doesn’t work run by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
FTC want to regulate your words on blogs and microblogs (think twitter)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Big brother is at it again. The FTC is planning to regulate the words that you use on any blog or microblog (think Twitter). If you make money through your blogs or Twitter, you are at risk. The new guidelines could be in effect by the end of the summer unless bloggers can stop it. This hits me - I review books and send my web site surfers to Amazon for purchasing all the time. And Amazon gives me a cut.
The FTC will soon be looking at reviews or endorsements published on blogs or microblogs and if they believe you are paid to review a product or service without sticking to their guidelines, you could face action from the Justice Department and/or have to pay restitution to consumers.
The guidelines mean you must provide full disclosure (who is paying you for what), you must be an expert, and you must be able to substantiate your claim. More information is in their 86-page document at: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2008/11/P034520endorsementguides.pdf.
Of course, I don’t see any way to respond to the document on the FTC website. The FTC website today runs slower than a 1980 computer on 300 baud.
Spread the news, then, to get Jon Leibowitz out of the FTC and this idiotic regulation never implemented. This post isn’t copyrighted. I also emailed the white house asking for an explanation of this nonsense.
Update on that pastor’s Bible Study in California:
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Here is the update on that pastor’s Bible Study in California:
http://www.10news.com/news/19606760/detail.html
Notice he only had about 15 people attending. Also notice the ACLU was supporting the pastor!
Here is something that happened in Pennsylvania where a mother tried to read from the Bible for show & Tell in a kindergartner’s class.
http://news.aol.com/article/bible-show-and-tell/507859?icid=main|hp-desktop|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fbible-show-and-tell%2F507859
Check out the vote results on the poll on this page.
(P.S. – They do teach a religion in our failing schools. It’s called humanism. Maybe we can’t read the Bible in our schools now; but we can refuse to fund the schools that teach this humanism. I vote against every single school funding issue unless a voucher system has been established. A very large number of parents now are sending their kids to Christian schools or home school them.)
We must be ever vigilant.
County is trying to stop a Bible Study in a pastor’s home
Friday, May 29th, 2009
San Diego, CA - Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told by the county that they can no long have a Bible Study in their home with friends unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a permit from the county. This interference is in direct violation of the First Admendment and their right of free speech.
Attorney Dean Broyles of The Western Center for Law and Policy was shocked at what is happening to the pastor and is now representing him. The pastor and wife throught the attorney plan to give a demand letter to the county this week. If the pastor and his wife are not released from obtaining the permit they will consider a lawsuit in a Federal Court.
Apparently it is fine for Wall Street CEOs, the Administration, and the leaders in Congress to rip the taxpayers off and make their own moral and ethical rules. But it is not ok for a pastor to hold a Bible Study in his home. Where have our freedoms gone? And the legal bills for this will go the county and its taxpayers as the taxpayers are trying to survive recession and unemployment.
Report in San Diego News: http://www.10news.com/news/19562217/detail.html
Report on Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522637,00.html?test=latestnews
Blog the info here to as many friends as possible. Write the county,
Is America a Christian Nation? - Part I
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Is America a Christain Nation? - Part I
The following is a mailing from Dutch Sheets and reprinted by permission. My purpose here is to raise some questions for dialog:
What is a Christian Nation?
Is America a Christian Nation?
Was America Ever a Christian Nation?
Pray for America!
“Your heart is free - have the courage to follow it.”
Braveheart’s dying father to Braveheart.
To read the message, go to: http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/dutchsheets.htm
Call your Senator today!! Stop Senate bill 909–Hate Crimes Bill criminalizing teaching Biblical Truth
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote any day on a federal “hate crimes” bill that will pave the way for persecuting Christians and threatening our freedoms of religion, speech, and association.
Dr. D. James Kennedy, and Coral Ridge Ministries have warned for many years against this threat to our way of life and our children’s freedom to live out their faith.
The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (S. 909) is the Senate version of a bill that passed the House in April. A cornerstone of the “gay” political agenda, it would raise “sexual orientation” to a legal status equivalent to that of real civil rights categories such as race or ethnicity, and it would introduce for the first time into federal law the radical concept of “gender identity.” Since “sexual orientation” is not clearly defined, it would afford special legal protections to pedophiles and other sexual deviants that ordinary Americans won’t get.
In addition, S. 909 would:
• Put pressure on police and prosecutors to devote more time and money to some victims’ cases and not others.
• Vastly expand the federal government’s power to intervene in criminal cases, whether local authorities want this or not.
• Create a taxpayer-funded slush fund for “education” programs that lump conservative Christians among “hate groups.”
• Have a chilling effect on free speech by making unpopular ideas a basis for harsher treatment in criminal proceedings.
• Add a layer of law that is utterly unnecessary. There is no evidence that “hate crime” victims receive less justice. Everyone deserves equal treatment under the law—no more, no less.
Widely known homosexual activist Andrew Sullivan recently said this:
The real reason for hate crimes is not the defense of human beings from crime. There are already laws against that-and Matthew Shepard’s murderers were successfully prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in a state with no hate crimes at the time. The real reason for the invention of hate crimes was a hard-left critique of conventional liberal justice and the emergence of special interest groups which need boutique legislation to raise funds for their large staffs and luxurious buildings.
Please call or email your senators now to voice opposition to this dangerous bill. The Senate switchboard is (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121. To identify your senators and reach them directly by phone or email, click here and then choose your state near the top.
Here are three key points to tell your senators:
This bill:
Is an Assault on Liberty of Conscience. In free countries, criminal acts are punished—not beliefs or views. The proposed hate crimes bill would result in two convictions—one for the criminal act, and another for the beliefs or thoughts behind it. This is a road to “thought crime” tyranny that is unfolding already in Europe and Canada.
Is not needed. Every state legal code already protects men and women, whatever their “actual or perceived … sexual orientation,” against criminal assault. There is no hate-crime “epidemic” in America. The FBI reports that so-called hate crimes, which are difficult to identify because only God can know the human heart, are a tiny fraction of all crimes.
Puts Pastors At Risk For Prosecution. Anyone, including pastors, can be accused of creating a “climate of hate” that leads to violence, merely for speaking biblical truth. Under Pennsylvania’s hate crimes law, 11 Christians were arrested and jailed in 2004 merely for preaching the gospel at a Philadelphia homosexual street festival. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a former judge, said that under this federal bill, clergymen and others could be charged with encouraging or inducing a “hate crime” if they preach against homosexuality.
Please call your senators now to respectfully request their position on this bill and to urge them to vote “No” on S. 909. Among other things, this bill is a giant step toward the criminalization of Christianity.
