the Tea Party in Chicago today (or anywhere else). Instead, am taking all four kids to the dentist for checkups. But hey, they'll have beautiful, healthy teeth, and that's a good thing!
the CPAC convention in D.C. Instead, I'm at home teaching my children religion, math, history, Latin. Overall, probably a better use of my time, and, honestly? I'd rather be home. I love our homeschool days.
the Women of Christ conference this weekend. So many people I know will be there and I think it will be a fantastic event! I had to tell myself very firmly that I could not go. I need to focus all my spare time this weekend working on our own homeschool conference.
Anyway, I'm happy to be where I am. "Bloom where you are planted," as my aunt always used to say.
Obama spoke in code last night, but if you listened carefully, knowing his political leanings, you could translate it pretty easily.
For example:
Getting rid of Cold War weaponry that we don't need anymore = Unilateral disarmament.
Saving money on Medicare by getting rid of procedures that don't make our seniors any healthier = Federal government control over doctors and health care rationing.
Education from early childhood through college = Another federal power grab and intrusion into education.
Then there were the outright lies, leading me to believe that Obama is the most skillful user of the "Big Lie" technique of anyone we've seen in our lifetime.
Bush spent billions on defense and the Global War on Terror, and government spending on entitlements is out of control, leading to a huge deficit. But what does Obama say? "A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future." A big lie and class warfare as a little bonus.
The current stock market and banking crisis was caused mostly by the government. Obama blames it on energy, health care, and education, so that he can cram his radical environment and social policies down our throats. (As my husband says, he's using the Rahm Emmanuel play card: "Never let a crisis go to waste.")
He triples the deficit by rushing through a 1000 page stimulus bill that nobody even read, and then lies through his teeth by saying there were "no earmarks" in it, and by blaming Bush, at least twice, for the deficit he "inherited".
He blames us for "piling up debt", then says he has to spend billions to get credit flowing again.
The speech was a point-by-point destruction of the principle of subsidiarity. No longer will local governments and the citizens themselves have control and oversight. The federal government will be in charge of everything.
That's all I can stomach right now.
Where were you when the Revolution was completed?
And where will you be when the Resistance really begins?
I am becoming more hopeful by the moment! The unintended consequence of Obama's election -- that nobody could have anticipated but already is starting to look like an inevitability -- is the emergence of an incredibly powerful counter-force.
So, be not afraid! I was driving around town yesterday on errands, worrying a bit ... well, a lot ... about the state of the economy and the country, and then saw a bumper sticker on the van in front of me: "Fear Not!" If that's not a message from above, I don't know what is!
Now, for that video:
This is the kind of pro-life message we need: engaging, dynamic, appealing to the young. We're going to start seeing lots more of this as the Millennials (the generation born between 1976 and 2001) grow into adulthood and begin to realize that they are survivors of the holocaust.
These young people are just now waking up to the fact that their generation has been decimated. They've lost siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews, potential friends and spouses, because 45 million Americans have been denied their very existence. They know that their own lives could have been legally snuffed out before birth, had their mothers, for whatever reason, chosen to abort them.
"Obama is a radical communist. He's going to destroy this country and we're either going to stop him, or the United States of America is going to cease to exist."
It's exactly what we need: Open revolt against the idiocy coming out of Washington these days.
Just because a slim majority of Americans were hoodwinked into electing a radical, America-hating, Socialist president doesn't mean we actually have to go down that horrible path.
Note: I'm not calling for anything approaching revolution. Just rebellion and dissent, which we were told for eight years was "patriotic".
I say, let's be really patriotic and engage in some very emphatic dissent.
And did you catch number... uh... well, whatever, but the one where he talks about "old people" on Facebook... yeah. I'm nobody's Grandma and really I'm NOT even old enough to be. No, seriously! Not in my own mind, anyway. Unless I'd been a child bride. Which I wasn't.
But still, I'm old enough to be their aunt. And in fact, quite a few of my in-law nieces and nephews are on Facebook, and it just got to be weird to see these half-conversations and snippets of their lives when it really just felt like eavesdropping. I mean, I love them, they're great people! But how do I fit into their Facebook lives, exactly? Seriously. It was just weird.
I kept asking the question "Why am I on Facebook?" and couldn't give myself a decent answer.
My original answer was simple: To find out what it was all about. My kids were thinking about getting accounts and I just wanted to see what it was like out there.
OK, so I did, and it was fine, and sort of fun for awhile, but you know what? Not for me. Fine for you, just not for me. I think it's great for anyone who likes it, really! But, not me.
I asked my SIL the other day, hey, do you still see my profile? I deleted it a few weeks ago, and they said if I didn't log in within two weeks, it would disappear.
Yep, you're gone, she said. Like you never existed. Every comment you wrote on my wall, every link to your account: gone. Down the memory hole.
So that's good... although I do admit to a slight twinge of regret when I hear about cool Facebook groups I might like to join.... but still.
It's someone else's birthday, today, too. But I'm not saying whose it is, or how old that person is. I don't have to put everything on this blog, do I?
Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new financial-sector bailout project, according to people who were in the room.
The laughter was at its height when Obama officials explained that the White House planned to guarantee a wide swath of toxic assets -- which they referred to as "legacy assets" -- but wouldn't be asking Congress for money. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), a bailout opponent in the fall, asked the officials to give Congress the total dollar figure for which they were on the hook. The officials said that they couldn't provide a number, a response met by chuckling that was bipartisan, but tilted toward the GOP side. By guaranteeing the assets, Geithner hopes he can persuade the private sector to purchase a portion of them.
Wow. I venture to say that once Congress starts laughing at you, your presidency is in big trouble.
Morning Bell: Yesterday’s Top 5 Most Audacious Obama Statements
No Earmarks: “What it does not contain, however, is a single pet project, not a single earmark, and it has been stripped of the projects members of both parties found most objectionable.” - This is a clever semantic ploy by Obama. While it is true that no individual Congressman stuffed a Bridge to Nowhere in the bill’s conference report, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. David Obey (D-WI) wrote the bill, they included billions of line-item spending elements to payoff leftist interest groups, including: $450 million for NASA “climate-research missions”, $600 million for NOAA “climate modeling”, $2 billion for a single power plant in Obama’s home state of Illinois, and on and on.
4 Million Jobs: “My bottom line is to make sure that we are saving or creating 4 million jobs.” -Obama is not creating 4 million jobs. According to the Congressional Budget Office, under the most optimistic models Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan would create only 3.6 million jobs and could produce only 1.2 million jobs. And one in five of these jobs will be a government job. Spending: “Look, I would love not to have to spend money right now. This notion that somehow I came in here just ginned up to spend $800 billion, that wasn’t — that wasn’t how I envisioned my presidency beginning.” - Obama’s chief of staff exposed this lie when he said;” Never allow a crisis to go to waste…They are opportunities to do big things.” But the bill itself is all the proof you need the Obama and his leftist allies thoroughly love their chance to blow a trillion dollars. The Obama Trillion Dollar Debt Plan doubles the size of the Department of Education and creates 32 brand new government programs. Worse it sneaks in a major down payment on Obama’s health care plan creating the bureaucracy and tracking systems necessary to force socialized medicine on the American people.
Free Lunches: “Once the economy stabilizes and people are less fearful, then I do think that we’re going to have to start thinking about how do we operate more prudently, because there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” - Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan is founded on the belief that government’s can provide endless free lunches to the American people. Does Obama believe the trillions he wants to spend grows on trees? Nobel laureate Gary Becker writes: “There are no free lunches in spending, public or private. The increased federal debt caused by this stimulus package has to be paid for eventually by higher taxes on households and businesses. … The burden from higher taxes down the road has to be deducted both from any short-term stimulus provided by the spending program, and from its long-run effects on the economy.”
Japan: “We saw this happen in Japan in the 1990s, where they did not act boldly and swiftly enough, and as a consequence they suffered what was called the “lost decade” where essentially for the entire ’90s they did not see any significant economic growth.” - This statement is audacity defined. Since 1992 Japan has spent $6.3 trillion in stimulus spending, racking up the largest public debt in the developed world — totaling 180 percent of its $5.5 trillion economy. And this massive borrow-and-spend splurge did nothing to help the economy. And Obama thinks this is evidence in support of his Trillion Dollar Debt Plan?
No wonder support for Obama's economic stimulus plan is sinking like a rock. (Emphases above are mine.)
This spending plan will mean the destruction of our economy first, and our freedom second.
Keep calling your Senators and Congressmen; keep writing those emails. It's not much but at least you'll know you tried.
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