For the past dozen years, my family has been constantly growing until we now number 15. But this year's addition isn't a new daughter-in-law or grandchild. At 87, my mother has finally come to live with me. It wasn't an easy move for her. And the timing, at the beginning of November, meant integrating her into daily life during the holidays, when most families experience additional stress as well as the joys of the season.
Since my father was killed in an automobile accident in 1978, my mother has lived on her own in a small apartment next to her sister-in-law in Albuquerque. My dad's family has treated her as one of their own for 30 years. When she could no longer drive because her eyesight was failing, my Aunt Elsie and Cousin Margaret drove her to buy groceries each week. And they included her in all family celebrations when she could no longer travel east to be with us on Thanksgiving or Christmas.
My mother's life has never been an easy one. She was nearly killed in a devastating car crash that broke her back and shoulder and left her with a hole in her skull and pins holding her ankle together. Three of her children have died: my younger sister of kidney disease when she was just 6 years old, my older half-brother in a car accident when he was barely 15, and another half-brother in his 50s. She has survived the loneliness of widowhood and the pain of breast cancer. Yet, despite tragedies that would have left others in despair, she has remained resilient and optimistic.
As independent as she has been, however, I've always known that one day she would live with me. I couldn't imagine shunting her off to live with strangers, even though I know this has become far more socially acceptable today than in the past when adult children assumed the responsibility of caring for their aged parents. But even as she began to lose her vision from macular degeneration and became frail with the aches of old age, she's resisted making the final move.
Finally I quit asking and told her it was time. My aunt was 87 and couldn't be expected to chauffeur my mother around much longer -- and even my cousin was now in retirement, with her own health problems. And I worried that if I waited until my mother's eyesight was completely gone or until she was too sick to care for herself, the move would be even harder on her.
Her first week was difficult. She worried about the new doctors I'd line up, fearing I might insist on going into the exam with her (of course, I didn't) or that they would tell her she needed to eat differently or make friends her own age, advice she'd ignored for years. But once she realized I'd let her buy her Milky Ways and shortbread cookies and wouldn't try to interest her in the local senior center, she settled in nicely.
The key has been allowing her the independence she so values. Yes, she is dependent on me for driving her on errands, but she wants to prepare her own meals and set her own schedule. She's invited to join us in family events -- grandkids' and great-grandkids' birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations -- but she's also free to retreat to her apartment when it gets too noisy or decline the invitation if it involves a long car ride or she's not feeling up to it.
Most days she spends lying on the couch in her sitting room listening to the Game Show Network or Fox News Channel. She keeps the shades down and the TV volume and heat up. She eats like a bird, taking only tiny portions of meat or vegetables, but she always has room for dessert. Her main exercise is pushing the cart through the grocery store once a week. But she remains trim and still beautiful after all these years -- and more important, happy.
I can't possibly know how long we'll have her with us or what new challenges the years ahead with her will bring. But I do know that bringing her to live with me was the right decision. In an age when the elderly are often seen more as a burden than a benefit, it is important to remember what our parents have done for us and what we owe them. Taking care of each other is what family is all about.
Due to arson, Sarah’s home church has suffered $1 million in damage.
Here is how we can show the church and Gov. Palin that Team Sarah members are here to support them in their time of need.
1. Please make your check payable to: Wasilla Bible Church
2. Mail your check to: Wasilla Bible Church 1651 W. Nicola Avenue Wasilla, Alaska 99654
Hudson Barton: 2008-12-11 14:04:33
The end of the Hajj and the celebration of Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha (http://en.wikipedia.org/…/Hari_Raya_Haji), or "Festival of Sacrifice", is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims (including the Druze) worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God. In the story, God provided a ram in place of his son once Ibrahim demonstrated his willingness to follow God's commands.
It marks the end of the Hajj (Pilgrimage) that some Muslims make to Mecca each year, and is a time during which Muslims are forbidden to make war. This year the Festival took place on December 8th.
Mecca is the place where, as the story is told, Allah gave Hagar and Ishmael a well in the desert in fulfillment of the promise to Ibrahim his father. As everyone knows, the story bears a remarkable resemblance to the story of Abraham and Isaac which is found in the Torah (Jewish Bible). Although the celebration of the story occurs at different times of the year for the two religious traditions, the story in both brings to remembrance the need to sacrifice for one's fellow man; so the festival is a time of gathering together of family and neighbors, and a sheep is typically roasted for the holiday meal.
Christians know the story as well. For them, the story of sacrifice explains the unanswered question, why God would ask a man to sacrifice his own son. The answer of course is that this is what God himself has done (or will do from Abraham's point of view) in the form of Jesus on the Cross.
In recent years, the end of the Hajj and the celebration of Eid al-Adha has meant a time when the non-Muslims must consider something else; the end of the Muslims' prohibition on making war. So this year, we must again ask ourselves the question, and ask our God to protect us from the scourge of Muslim radicals.
Hudson Barton: 2008-12-09 13:01:17
Oh Come Oh Come Oh Rahm Emanuel by Mark Russel (Tribune News Services)
Oh come, oh come, oh Rahm Emanuel. All hail Obama's chief of staff from h---. He'll rule the White House with an iron hand Obama's Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
Rejoice, rejoice The White House time will tell A combat zone with Rahm Emanuel.
Rahm's gentle touch from his Chicago home Of Jeremiah Wright and Al Capone. Four-letter words -- not Rahm, make no mistake He only uses them when he's awake.
No choice, no choice. Don't let him near where children dwell The air turns blue with Rahm Emanuel.
Hudson Barton: 2008-12-08 02:38:01
A documentary about the US Debt that you won't like. - 30 minutes
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Sir Winston Churchill
I believe in the shining city on the hill. I’m a Reagan Republican.
I believe in not asking what my country can do for me, but what can I do for my country. I’m a JFK Democrat.
I believe in the power of the individual. I believe that it is individuals that make a society great, not society that makes great individuals.
I believe that victim-hood robs a person and people of greatness. I believe that a person or a people who rise up from and conquer victim-hood are truly great.
I believe in the goodness of the American people. It’s the same goodness that brought billions in Tsunami aid to the people in Asia and Indonesia and who brought help and aid to the victims of disasters in our own backyard.
I believe in America’s greatness and I believe that without a great and strong America, the world will be a much more dangerous place.
I believe that the family is the basic unit of society and if society is to survive, society should work to strengthen the family but not to the point where the family is dependent upon Society.
I believe in God and more to the point, I believe in the Christian God. I believe, in America, you should be able to believe or not believe according to your conscience.
I believe that the responsibility of government should be limited. Its primary function is to preserve societal order and protect the citizenry from attack. That might mean we attack first before the other guy gets the chance.
I believe in an orderly society, but it's not government's job to tell me what to eat, where to live or what kind of car I must drive.
I believe in freedom and I believe that such freedom must come with a certain amount of responsibility and humility. You have the freedom to speak, you do not have the freedom to incite or cause harm.
In the end, we remember the builders -- those who get things done, not the naysayers and those who are full of doom and gloom.
Since Obama has said that he wants to keep his Blackberry http://www.chicagotribune.com/…/chi-talk_berrynov26,0,883418.story , I thought it might be appropriate to understand whether this would provide (another) excuse for his critics to say that he is a national security risk. Specifically, I want to challenge BlackBerry's claim that RIM provides a secure texting platform.
1. First, RIM claims to provide "end to end" encryption. This leads one to believe that encryption is applied from the point of origin to the point of delivery. In fact, the BlackBerry system only provides encryption between the BlackBerry handheld and the corporate e-mail account. BlackBerry provides no security whatsoever beyond the point of the corporate email system.
2. Triple DES (the encryption algorithm they employ) has been cracked. More recently, RIM began to use the AES algorithm which is better, but AES is not fully deployed.
3. Moreover, the BlackBerry system is closed. This means:
a. Details of the actual security implementation are unknown... not subjected to external review. We can rely only on RIM's description.
b. It is not possible for a BlackBerry user to make use of PGP or any other independent security mechanism.
So Blackberry has provided only a degree of psychological reassurance to the user - it is more of a security blanket than genuine security. Since we can presume that the communications of the President of the United States will be of some interest to her enemies, let's understand that Obama's intent to keep his Blackberry is unwise at best.
That being said, it must also be noted that many goverments throughout the world, including the UN and NATO, have "certified" Blackberry for secure communication. http://na.blackberry.com/…/certifications.jsp This just proves how powerful the crowd mentality is. The fact is that our world communicates without much security. This can and should change.
Silver Lining in American Economic Crisis: Our Enemies Have It Worse
The ability of America and its free allies to defend themselves from enemies, foreign and domestic, is jeapordized severely by the financial and economic crisis. That is the bad news.
The good news is this: The crisis is hitting worldwide and it is especially severe in controlled economies, and worse yet in economies that are highly dependent on exports to the consumerist West or on oil exports. The democratic free societies in the West are now in a relatively strengthened position. The following three news reports detail how frail are the economies of the most notable enemies.
The free world may hope for despots to suffer political losses as well as financial ones as their props of high oil prices and cheap labor disappear.
Hudson Barton: 2008-11-17 17:11:48
In California, supporters of traditional marriage are subject to harrassment, Intimidation, boycotts, and even domestic terrorism.
Hudson Barton: 2008-11-17 15:48:41
They already socialized the US Auto Industry, and now they want to nationalize it.
"Democrats are suggesting, however, an even more ambitious reason to nationalize [the auto industry]. Once the government owns Detroit, it can remake it. The euphemism here is 'retool' Detroit to make cars for the coming green economy. Liberals have always wanted the auto companies to produce the kind of cars they insist everyone should drive: small, light, green and cute. Now they will have the power to do it. In World War II, government had the auto companies turning out tanks. Now they would be made to turn out hybrids. The difference is that, in the middle of a world war, tanks have a buyer. Will hybrids? One of the reasons Detroit is in such difficulty is that consumers have been resisting the smaller, less powerful, less safe cars forced on the industry by fuel-efficiency mandates. Now Detroit would be forced to make even more of them. If you think we have economic troubles today, consider the effects of nationalizing an industry of this size, but now run by bureaucrats issuing production quotas to fit five-year plans to meet politically mandated fuel-efficiency standards -- to lift us to the sunny uplands of the coming green utopia." --columnist Charles Krauthammer
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams -
Cajuns sing to Obama: "No Merci, Beaucoup" (This song kicks it!)
Hudson Barton: 2008-10-25 09:17:47
Rebranding Obama
The other day, Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times wrote a piece called "Rebranding the U.S. with Obama". http://www.nytimes.com/…/23kristof.html?_r=1&… . American doesn't need re-branding. It just needs the truth to be told about it. The only re-branding going on is Obama's. Kristof's conclusion is this:
"Yet if this election goes as the polls suggest, we may find a path to restore America’s global influence — and thus to achieve some of our international objectives — in part because the world is concluding that Americans can, after all, see beyond a person’s epidermis. "
The author's conclusion is pure nonsense. Firstly, America's anti-black racism has not existed for more than a generation (20 years). When I moved from the north to the South 5 years ago, I expected to find lots of hatred for blacks. Even among rednecks, I found that it is just a memory. They've grown out of it. Class distinctions of course remain, but even that is disappearing. America is one big racially mixed middle class. The rich have middle class mores and so do the poor. I encourage you to read Thomas Sowell's book about the history and sociology of racism around the world, especially the USA, "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". Sowell is an historian at Stanford Univ... and he is black.
Secondly, it cannot be on America's list of responsibilities to teach foreigners the exact nature of America. A world trained in dogmas about America is expected to misunderstand its culture.
Thirdly, the danger with Obama is that his followers want him precisely for the color of his skin. They ignore his background, his ideology, his intentions, his friends, and his lack of experience. Fourthly, elites like Powell and Greenspan who have endorsed him in recent days think that they can control this man after he is in office.... that he will listen to them as mentors. I don't believe it will happen. In Germany of the 1930's, the elites believed they could control Hitler. Look what happened. The Democrat party will wake up on November 5th and slowly begin to realize that they have created a monster that is beyond their ability to control.
Alan Greenspan, one of the most conceited men alive, said today that he is in a "state of shocked disbelief" over the economic situation. This is the same Greenspan who served four presidents as Fed chief and thinks, according to his biography, that he is one of the smartest men alive when it comes to finance.
I hate to say it, but he's a Republican, not that this makes any difference. His friends are mostly liberal and he takes great pride in that. He's the kind of Republican you find on the Upper East Side of Manhattan... ones that are Republican in name only. He holds almost nothing in common with the heart of the Republican party, philosophically... he is completely tone-deaf to Republican ideals. In his biography, Greenspan brags about how was able to manipulate economic incentives with monetary policy...... all while thinking he is enlightened and serving a higher cause. Pure liberal elitism.
So now he comes down from his ivory tower to say how sorry he is that he did not see the economic meltdown coming. Incredible how he now says "he “made a mistake” in trusting that free markets could regulate themselves without government oversight." The problem is the opposite... that government incentivized and compelled bankers to accept poor credit borrowers. More than any other American, Greenspan is responsible for the mess. He abandoned ship just as it was starting to sink, and left the mess to Bernanke to clean up.
What is worse is that the line he's now giving is not the Republican line, but rather the Democrat line. Our problem was not financial derivatives and the regulation thereof, but rather the underlying loans themselves. Again, does anyone believe that Alan Greenspan is in "shocked disbelief" What a load ! Frankly, I had been ready to disccount Greenspan's errors as honest errors, but with statements like that, I'm nearly ready to buy into a conspiracy theory or two. All Americans should be really pissed at Alan Greenspan, but especially Republicans. He is a traitor to the Republican party and to conservatism generally.
On the other hand, let's ask ourselves whethe the NY Times has accurately reported that "Mr. Greenspan conceded a more serious flaw in his own philosophy that unfettered free markets sit at the root of a superior economy." It wouldn't be so shocking if the NY Times article could be read as a political hit piece designed to influence the election. Lord knows it wouldn't be the first time that newspaper has stepped over the line of objectivity.
Hudson Barton: 2008-10-23 13:43:13
It is time to rethink social media.
I don't understand how people can follow more than about 20 active Twitterers. For me, old guy that I am, when the # of twits goes above about 100 per day, I just can't follow it. The older ones scroll out of view and there is nothing that compels me to go looking for them. When I do scoll back, there is too much noise, and stuff that does not interest me is mixed randomly in the feed. I guess I"m suffering from information overload because of the dozens of information sources I try to monitor.
More and more, I'm drawn to aggregators, "rooms", and "feeds" where the people are known to me and the subject matter is known also. A Skype public chat for example.
With respect to Twitter and other social media, I'm learning that it's better to create multiple accounts if you twitter about more than one subject. People just don't want to read twitters that stray from the expected subject. I realize this defeats the whole purpose of social media, but my point is that I don't know of any social media that scale well. It's only going to get worse as Twitter and Facebook grow, and as commercial entities start to use them. It's time to rethink.
As Bill Clinton might have said "I want you to listen to me, and listen to me good; I did not... have... ideological relations with... that man... William Ayers"
It's interesting to note that it was a regular citizen who discovered this piece of history. It was NOT the MSM who we supposedly depend upon to ferret out the truth. Ha.
...but still the "undecided voter" just sits there saying "I don't know, I wish there were more debates. Maybe if I watched some more political ads or cable news talk shows... the campaign season just isn't long enough"
Let's also think about Obama and Ayers sharing an office for three years while working at CAC - down the hall from Michael Klonsky and his Small School Project, a recipient of several grants from CAC. So I wonder how Colin Powell feels about having just endorsed a man for president that likely was pals with people trying to kill our soilders, perhaps even while he was Secretary of State. http://en.wikipedia.org/…/Michael_Klonsky
but still the "undecided voter" just sits there saying "I don't know, I wish there were more debates. Maybe if I watched some more political ads or cable news talk shows... the campaign season just isn't long enough"
The 50% drop in oil prices is creating problems for oil producers.
Iran and Venezuela both need oil prices at $95 a barrel to balance their budgets, Russia needs $70 and Saudi Arabia needs $55 a barrel, according to Deutsche Bank estimates.
Obama Radical Revolution: Its Alinsky Root and Global Vision
October 15, 2008 By Kyle-Anne Shiver
"Radicalism is a cause whose utopian agendas result in an ethic where the ends outweigh and ultimately justify any means. Like the Salvationist agendas of jihad, the Left's apocalyptic goal of ‘social justice' is the equivalent of an earthly redemption. A planet saved, a world without poverty, racism, inequality, or war - what means would not be justified to achieve such millennial ends?" - David Horowitz, former 60s Radical -- Unholy Alliance; p. 127
Saul Alinsky was the father of community organizing. Before Alinsky devised his diabolical plan to bring the international socialist revolution to America -- working within the very liberal and free system upon which the U.S. was founded -- he was an older fellow traveler and advisor to student radicals of the 1960s.
Alinsky was a sort of father figure, to whom many radicals turned in the aftermath of the infamous DNC Convention of 1968 in Chicago. His advice?
"Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates." (emphasis in original) - Saul Alinsky; Rules for Radicals; p. xxiii
Calm down. Forget "burning the system down." Organize. Organize. Organize. Work within the system. Become the delegates.
To further empower his advice to the young militants, Alinsky quoted the radicals' hero, Lenin:
"Power comes out of the barrel of a gun! is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns. Lenin was a pragmatist; when he returned to what was then Petrograd from exile, he said that the Bolsheviks stood for getting power through the ballot but would reconsider after they got the guns. Militant mouthings? Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclear-powered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport?" - Saul Alinsky; Rules for Radicals; p. xxi
At the time, however, some of the young radicals were still too filled with rage to stop burning and bombing. These fiery revolutionaries continued to wreak havoc on college campuses and in American cities. But the end of the Vietnam War brought a welcome sigh of relief to greater America.
It was time for the radicals to change tactics, and follow Alinsky's advice. They remained convinced of their destiny to be the ones to bring the U.S.A. into the fold of the international socialist collective. They began to organize, go to law school, run for public office, whittle away at traditional American institutions, and in all ways prepare for "The One," their closer.
Dr. Krauthammer refers to Obama's associations as "tolerance of the obscene". Indeed. But I disagree when he says Obama "doesn't share Rev. Wright's poisonous views of race nor Ayers' views...about the evil that is American society." Not only are his writings and speeches strewn with assent to those views, his remaining in the pews of Wright's church, baptizing his children, etc., imply assent.
It becomes more difficult for me to write to you these days with a difficult time of dialysis as diabetes advances. Now I must write at least this one last time. Bodie and Brock are gracious and let my voice of warning be heard.
I was a young girl in Germany and lived through difficult times. We have since then had a wonderful life. The world, as difficult as it has been, at least for many years remembered what happened politically in Germany with the Depression in the 1930s. You remember how it began and thus progressed with the horrors of war which followed.
The battle was at the beginning a Spiritual battle. You have read some parts of my story in the Zion Covenant, from growing up in Germany in the days when evil men prevailed and TRUTH was turned upside down. White became black through a barrage of propaganda and constant repetition of lies against those who spoke the truth.
Here is my warning to all: Perhaps it will be my last warning. (I wake up each day surprised that I am still here and not in heaven with those who wait for me!)
America and the whole world hangs in the balance now. I believe that America will stand or fall depending on who is elected President this year.
Good Americans, like the good Germans of my youth, may think that the issues of their nation center around the economy. I tell you now that the fate of the greatest nation on earth does not depend on money. Every issue must only be judged worthy and true by the Word of God. Prosperity comes to a nation and a people who serves the Lord first. That is a basic spiritual principle which is seen in every book of Holy Scripture.
"If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)
This is where the healing of America begins: Friend, you must begin with examination of your own life first and the confession of your sins. Then pray for your nation. Ask yourself now: who supports the rights of the unborn babies and also of those who are handicapped? History tells us why this is critical:
In the Germany of my childhood, everyone worried about the economy. Paying bills. Buying bread. Money! And there were 1 million abortions in the year before Hitler came to power. (A drop in the bucket compared to America.) The excuse given for the murder of unborn babies was that economic times were hard. How could a family feed another mouth?
There followed the legalized forced sterilization of parents who had a handicapped child or who were judged "racially impure." Next came the legalized euthanasia of those who were handicapped. (An example of who would be killed is the Downs Syndrome child of Sarah Palin. He would have been killed immediately at birth.) Do we not see such choices carried out with tiny babies being strangled or left to die by abortionists today? Evil advances forward in America by law! This is done with the support of men and women in office who have sold their souls for power.
In those days in Germany all, who were, as I am now, elderly or ill, were gassed. These were all called "useless eaters." Christians and Jews who spoke out against this evil were labeled as radical "religious fanatics." A campaign of false accusation, slander and persecution began, targeting people of faith. It was "unpopular" to speak the TRUTH. (Were these persecuted Christians people like you?) Many were jailed and eventually killed. Some escaped with only their lives. Finally, by millions, Jews were hunted, imprisoned and killed. You know all this from the Zion Covenant books. I lived it.
Now, today, I hear the words and know the deeds of this Barack Obama and I know that he is a "gifted," convincing, fellow. He is telling you how bad > you have it and saying to Americans he is their messiah and the answer to all problems.
The propaganda machine loves Obama. The power of the media is much greater than in my childhood; a frightening thought. But here is TRUTH: of all men in the US government this Obama has most strongly encouraged and urged the on-going slaughter of the unborn"the useless mouths" of America. This slaughter is performed in the name of "A woman's reproductive rights."
In the land of my birth, the Holocaust all began with the first step of legalized abortion. Abortion was ENCOURAGED by a downturn in the world economics.
Scripture teaches us the survival of a nation is not about the economy. The only nation which will stand is the nation which follows the Lord and the true teachings of scripture.
I warn you, my dear American friends, with love in my heart and with my last breaths that no man or woman, Protestant or Catholic, can remain in God's favor or blessing if they vote for this Obama. This is a man who voted four times to leave tiny babies who survived abortions to die!
know many devout American Catholics in my life and many who have never voted for the Republicans because of tradition. Now I say that you who are Catholic must not follow after this man Obama who is gifted in his words but NOT speaking the TRUE WORDS OF OUR LORD OR THE CHURCH!
You cannot be a true Catholic Christian and vote for Obama. To vote for him is to vote for continued infanticide. To Protestant Christians, I say, you are not a Christian if you support the slaughter of the unborn!
Christianity and abortion are spiritually impossible companions. Protestants and Catholics MUST UNITE in this battle. The victory must be overwhelming! Do you feel you cannot vote for Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin, who are for the LIFE of the unborn and handicapped? If you cannot support these leaders, then for the sake of your soul, I, who have seen the spiritual destruction of many good people, Protestants and Catholics, urge you NOT TO VOTE for Obama or anyone who does not support protection of LIFE!
For all those American politicians who have the chance to change the course toward destruction, I who have been witness to national and worldwide tragedy, urge you protect those in your society who are the most helpless. Publicly deny your support of Obama. According to 2 Chronicles 7:14 you must turn your life around for the sake of your soul and your country!
To those politicians who use "FAITH" to get votes while they follow the path of destruction, I must speak this warning: "God will not be mocked."
If you, Christian, can vote, and if you can encourage others to vote, then you must VOTE FOR LIFE.
In the judgment of heaven, there is no other choice but LIFE and protection of the innocent for a Christian.
I am thankful to Bodie and Brock for letting me be heard once more. They agree with history and with the Truth of scripture. Most of my generation is gone now. You who are taking control of the world have a fight ahead of you as the memory of our peril dims. I have heard and listened closely to the voices of Sarah Palin and John McCain, and my spirit bears witness that they speak truth and are the true Hope-Bearers of your generation. Sarah is a true Deborah. Pray for her and her family and also for John McCain. You must all remember what happened to us and not repeat the same mistake of apathy.
If I cannot write to you again I pray we will meet in heaven and you will tell me I helped you encourage others to do the right thing for the sake of your soul and for the nation.
God bless you, Lori Kalner
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Hudson Barton: 2008-10-09 12:06:36
Everything you need to know about the financial crisis:
Hudson Barton: 2008-10-08 20:36:03
I'm not a Catholic, but I must say that this video really gets it.
“As president of the United States,” McCain announced, “I would order the secretary of the Treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes — at the diminished value of those homes and let people be able to make those — be able to make those payments and stay in their homes.”
Hudson Barton: 2008-10-06 17:05:14
Global Temperatures 2500BC to 2008AD
Hudson Barton: 2008-10-05 09:48:47
Sara Palin finds her voice
http://www.weeklystandard.com/…/TWSFPView.asp#9009 "There's been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today’s New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago. Turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.’These are the same guys who think patriotism is paying higher taxes. This is not a man who sees America as you and I do - as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country. This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change anyone can believe in - not my kids and not your kids. The only man who can take on Washington is John McCain."
Hudson Barton: 2008-10-01 13:42:57
Boo hiss. This entire election season is rigged. VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama book. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&… And to think that PBS/NPR is a tax exempt organization.... one that even gets government subsidies. This is a travesty of justice.
It's what you might expect in North Korea. Children singing to "Dear Leader"
Hudson Barton: 2008-09-30 10:49:19
Here is the author: http://www.jimainsworth.com Does that not say it all? If American Thinker is trying to be creative with alternative solutions, it might at least present something that appears more professional. That being said, I think the proposal has merit. It is very dangerous however because it diminishes the trustworthiness of our financial system. "Mark to Market" is not a bad tool, and to scrap it might not be wise.
