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09
The Squirreliness of Acorn
31
Aug
09
Dear Washington politician,
1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity, power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
If your politician doesn’t believe, support or reflect these beliefs in their actions (not the little words they say), then they aren’t supporting you. More importantly, they aren’t supporting, protecting or defending the Constitution and it’s time to vote the bums out.
Tammy – August 25, 2009 – 9:51 a.m
“The Perfect Storm, Parental Rights Threatened”
There is a storm on the horizon, and it is moving closer and closer. This storm seeks to strip parents of their parental rights, and give it into the hands of their children. It is stealthy and silent as it closes in thus making it the perfect storm. While most of us are busy fighting against cap and trade and healthcare reform our attention is being averted from this oncoming storm. Isn’t that the Obama way though? Ram it, slam it, and sneak it hurriedly through before anyone realizes what happened. “It’s tranparency we can all believe in.” It’s the Obama way.
This storm is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of a child. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, also referred to as CRC or UNCRC, looks and sounds good on the surface. But… Is it really?
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a nice idea, but this treaty like so many of our United States bills that come before Congress is loaded with a bunch of hooo dooo. One fly in the soup ruins the whole pot even if it was really yummy to start with. This Convention declares that children have basic rights, and who wouldn’t want that. Right? It seeks to protect children around the world from horrible atrocities. It sounds good, huh? It’s goal is to end child slavery, hunger, and prostitution. Yet, while ratifying this treaty sounds like a great idea to protect children it would instead give the UN inroads to dictate to American parents how best to raise their kids. It would also strip parents of their rights, and give them to their children.
”We need to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” (Olmstead v. United States) Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
What if it was deemed unconstitutional to discipline and spank an out of control rebellious child? What if the government gave them all the rights? It would be like handing them a loaded gun, and we know that is a good idea, not.
Governments of countries that have ratified the Convention are required to report to, and appear before, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child periodically. As of December 2008, 193 countries have ratified it, including every member of the United Nations except the United States and Somalia.
The Obama Administration is now pushing the United States to finally join the treaty, and there is no need for this. Yes, the protection of children should be our greatest priority, but in America we already have excellent laws in place to defend children. We dont need to ratify away our American rights to some foreign council that we must give account to. Listen to this.
What’s next? I ask myself that everyday. Everyday I await the next shoe to drop. We must be vigilant to stand and fight. We cannot allow our government to sign away our freedoms and rights at warp speed. For more information, and to sign the petition go to parental rights. org. A link has been provided.
http://www.parentalrights.org/
If you want to have your head explode then have a look at this.
Ten things you need to know about the substance of the CRC:
- Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.11.
- A murderer aged 17 years and 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.12.
- Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.13.
- The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent’s decision.14.
- A child’s “right to be heard” would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.15.
- According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children’s welfare.16.
- Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.17.
- Christian schools that refuse to teach “alternative worldviews” and teach that Christianity is the only true religion “fly in the face of article 29″ of the treaty.18.
- Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.19.
- Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.20.
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Aug
09
Dont Eat the Cats!!
Tammy – August 23, 2009 -
Dont Eat the Cats!!
It was the summer of 1918, and an unusually warm, humid day in Soviet Russia. The small Soviet run hospital was packed beyond capacity. Citizens from all walks of life crowded the tiny waiting room, many who had been waiting all day. Their ailments ranged from broken arms to cancer. The absence of soap and daily cleaning supplies made the filth and odor unbearable. The stench, overcrowding, and buzzing flies swarming around open, oozing, festering sores was enough to make the wait miserable at best. Not only were they lacking in soap and disinfectants, but medicine and medical staff were in short supply as well.
Many died in the waiting room before getting any help. One man who had just had brain surgery died trying to get to a sink. A drunken orderly stumbled down the hospital corrider, and kicked one of the many stray cats who wandered the halls. He then turned to an elderly gentlemen and screamed, “Dont eat the cats! They’re my pets. It was chaos and disordered everywhere they looked, but it was all they had.
“Anesthesia was usually “not available” for abortions or minor ear, nose, throat, and skin surgeries. This was used as a means of extortion by unscrupulous medical bureaucrats.”
How could they have known what socialized medicine would be like? They were the first to implement it after all. It looked and sounded good. It was suppose to cut cost, and eliminate waste. They thought it would be the answer to all their problems. It would be their salvation. Instead of being their answer it was widespread corruption, appalling quality of service, and extensive loss of life.
”According to official Russian estimates, 78 percent of all AIDS victims in Russia contracted the virus through dirty needles or HIV-tainted blood in the state-run hospitals.”
Bribes taken by medical apparatchiks, criminal negligence, drunken ambulance crews and staff, and food poisoning in hospitals and child-care facilities were the norm in these filth infested hospitals. If you wanted attention or anesthesia you had better be rich, and slip them some green. Because of this the poor died, and the rich got cared for. The very system meant to aid the poor actually did them a grave disservice.
Eventually a two tier system was set up. One for the “gray masses” and the other, with a completely different level of service, for the bureaucrats and their intellectual servants.
After seventy years of socialism, 57 percent of all Russian hospitals did not have running hot water, and 36 percent of hospitals located in rural areas of Russia did not have water or sewage at all. Isn’t it amazing that socialist government, while developing space exploration and sophisticated weapons, would completely ignore the basic human needs of its citizens?
The appalling quality of service is not simply characteristic of “barbarous” Russia and other Eastern European nations: it is a direct result of the government monopoly on healthcare and it can happen in any country. In “civilized” England, for example, the waiting list for surgeries is nearly 800,000 out of a population of 55 million. State-of-the-art equipment is nonexistent in most British hospitals. In England, only 10 percent of the healthcare spending is derived from private sources.
Age discrimination is inevitable in all government-run or heavily regulated systems of healthcare. In Russia, patients over 60 are considered worthless parasites and those over 70 are often denied even elementary forms of healthcare
In the United Kingdom, in the treatment of chronic kidney failure, those who are 55 years old are refused treatment at 35 percent of dialysis centers. Forty-five percent of 65-year-old patients at the centers are denied treatment, while patients 75 or older rarely receive any medical attention at these centers.
In Canada, the population is divided into three age groups in terms of their access to healthcare: those below 45, those 45–65, and those over 65. Needless to say, the first group, who could be called the “active taxpayers,” enjoys priority treatment.
Savings and cost cuts will only be achieved by denying care and squeezing providers. It will only be accomplished by making tough choices based on those deemed worthy of care. Who will make that decision?
Is this what we have to look forward to? Is this Ezekiel Emanuel’s idea of a grand ol healthcare system?
How could Soviet Russia have known? They were the first. In America we will have no excuse because history has gone before us. To ignore history would be like shooting ourselves in the foot, and watching it bleed. How often has our government controlled things, and ruined it (cash for clunkers was a huge success ( not!), medicare, social security….)? To blindly stumble down that road would be suicide, and we will have no excuse. We will answer for our children’s future. We know the truth, they didn’t.
Tammy – August 20, 2009 – 11:30 a.m
John Holdren, the Angel of Death?
Is John Holdren the Angel of Death, a crazed madman, or simply our Science Czar who is in control of all science policy for the United States? You be the judge.
This Czar answers solely to President Obama. His official title is Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Wow!! That’s a mouthful. Try saying that three times quickly.
His salary is unknown, hmm…… really? Why does that not surprise me? That’s transparency you can believe in.
John studied aerospace engineering and plasma physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — where he earned his BS and MS — and Stanford University, where he received his doctorate in 1970.
In 1977 Holdren co-authored a book with close colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich entitled Ecoscience: Population, Resource, and Environment. In this book our Science Czar wrote:
Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.
These things were written as a possible solution in the event of an apocalyptic crisis or maybe overpopulation. What kind of person would even consider these notions? Have a listen to this
On a little side note* I think I will write about our Communist Green Job’s Czar next. Omg, are we putting Communists in authority, and these nutballs answer only to Obama?
And.. if that were not enough to put John in the crazy tree with the babbling monkeys, he also has a great admiration for a man named Harrison Brown, a respected scientist from an earlier generation. Holdren has said on many occasions that it was Harrison’s book, The Challenge of a Man’s Future, that shaped and changed his personal philosophy. It also inspired him to set out on a career path in science and population policy. After reading this next excerpt you will see what a nut the man who shaped and changed John’s thinking was.
Here’s an excerpt from “The Challenge of a Man’s Future”-
“The feeble minded, the morons, the dull and backward, and the lower than average persons in our society are outbreeding the superior ones at the present time. Is there anything that can be done to prevent the long range degeneration of human stock? Unfortunately, at the present time there is little, other than to prevent breeding in persons who present glaring deficiencies clearly dangerous to society and which are known to be of a heriditary nature. Thus we could sterilize or in other ways discourage the mating of the feeble minded.
We could go further and systematically attempt to prune from society, by prohibiting them from breeding, persons suffering from serious inheritable forms of physical defects, such as congenital deafness, dumbness, blindness, or absence of limbs.
A broad Eugenics program would have to be formulated which would aid in the establishment of policies that would encourage able and healthy persons to have several offspring and discourage the unfit from breeding at excessive rates”
Harrison Brown, in the “Challenge of a Man’s Future”
The guy pictured above is our Science Czars hero. His book shaped and changed John’s philosphy. Does he believe in this mess? Is he a eugenicist? Has he looked in the mirror? I dont mean to be cruel or rude, but in some minds he could be considered an undesirable. It depends on who’s looking. Who would be making the decisions of who can breed, and who is worthy of life? God forbid if John were to lose a limb, get diabetis, or some other incurable disease, like alzheimers. He would then be consider an undesirable and unworthy of life.
So…. Is he crazy? You be the judge.
Tammy – August 17, 2009 -9:31 p.m
The Fire-Fight for Freedom of Speech
The fight became nasty when an army of spies and snitches were called upoun to flag all misinformation of Obamacare. Many were enraged by this blatant disregard for our first amendment rights. Make no mistake we are in a fire-fight for free speech.
Now they are trying to stop talk radio by crushing them with taxes (100% of budget),then give that tax money to public radio stations. Take a listen to this.
Are you kidding me, really? We have a new freedom of speech czar? What’s next? The left is hell bent on silencing any and all dissenting voices.
As if that was not enough, now there is an orchestrated campaign to shut Glenn Beck up. The fireball attacks are being organized by a black activist group, Color of Change. This group was co-founded by Obama’s green jobs Czar, Van Jones.
In recent weeks, Beck has done several critical segments about Van Jones. I guess someone is peeved. As a result of this organized effort about a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from Glenn Beck. A few of them are: SC Johnson, Petrell Ozbay, Progressive Insurance,Linda Harris, Advertising & Sponsorships,Geico, Chris Tasher, GEICO Media Relations.
According to World News Daily, Glenn Beck fans are not taking this lying down. They are fighting back. ”A husband and wife team of Beck fans has launched a website.This site lists the contact information for advertisers for Beck’s and other Fox News programs. It also provides users with information and suggestions to contact those companies to urge their continued sponsorship. The site also asks users to contact Beck’s current patrons to thank them for their loyalty to the Fox News star’s program” http://www.defendglenn.com/
Whether you like Glenn Beck or not this is about freedom of speech, and we are in a real battle. We need to take a stand against the fiery arrows being hurled at us. Today it is Glenn Beck, but tomorrow it may be you.
Here’s the full link to a PDF of the healthcare reform bill
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.pdf
Be patient the PDF takes a little while to load
tammy42
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