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The Mirkin Report: Telomeric length can be altered!
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2013-01-03T18:05:01.000Z
2013-01-03T18:05:01.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<div>Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health e-Zine
January 6, 2013
How Endurance Exercise in Later Life May Prolong Lives
Competitive long distance skiers, ages 66 to 77, have
longer muscle telomeres and maximal ability to take in and use
oxygen (VO2max) than other active people of the same age (PLoS
One, Online December 26, 2012). Telomere length is a marker of
aging. The older you are, the shorter your telomeres. If your
telomeres are longer than those of your age group, you are
younger than your chronological age and therefore can expect
to live longer.
Many studies show that endurance exercise is associated with
* greater ability to take in and use oxygen
* living longer,
* less cancer,
* less diabetes,
* fewer heart attacks and strokes
The authors state: "Our results suggest that endurance
exercise training may . . . result in slowing of aging process by
maintaining telomere length. The positive association of VO2max
and telomere length underscores the importance of aerobic fitness
for healthy aging."
HOW TELOMERES PROTECT GENES: Genes govern your health,
physical characteristics, susceptibility to disease and how long
you live. They are located in chromosomes inside the cells in
your body. At the ends of chromosomes are small caps, called
telomeres, that protect chromosomes like the plastic tips on
shoelaces. They keep the ends of chromosomes from sticking
together and losing their ability to tell your cells what to do.
Each time a cell divides, parts of the telomeres break off.
Eventually the telomeres become so short that they cannot protect
chromosomes from sticking together. This causes aging, certain
diseases such as cancers, and eventually death.
HOW EXERCISE PROTECTS TELOMERES: The more intensely you
exercise, the more oxygen you need to help convert food to fuel
your muscles. When you exercise so intensely that you have to
breathe hard and fast, you increase your needs for oxygen. It is
this markedly increased need for oxygen brought on by intense
exercise that helps to slow down the rate that telomeres shorten
with aging (Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2010;20: 39-48).
SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS STUDY: In this study and several
others, the level of fitness was associated with the length of
telomeres. Fitness is measured by VO2max, the maximal ability of
your muscles to take in and use oxygen. The higher the VO2max,
the greater the length of telomeres in the older competitive
athletes.
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Why Obesity and Diabetes Have Become an Epidemic
The January 2, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association has an article with an answer for the obesity
and diabetes epidemic that has increased in North America over the
last thirty years, even while heart attack rates and deaths from
heart attacks have decreased. Dietary sugars, particularly
sugared drinks, appear to be responsible for this frightening and
life shortening epidemic.
Dietary sugar contains mostly two sugars, glucose and
fructose, either bound together as the double sugar sucrose, or
separately as individual glucose and fructose. The article shows
that glucose makes you feel full so you stop eating, but FRUCTOSE
DOES NOT MAKE YOU FEEL FULL SO YOU KEEP ON EATING to become fatter
and fatter.
THE STUDY: The authors used brain magnetic resonance
imaging to show that eating or drinking glucose, but not fructose,
reduced blood flow and activity to the hypothalamus (insula, and
striatum), the parts of the brain that tell you when you are full.
That means that glucose makes you feel full so you stop eating.
Fructose does not suppress appetite, so no matter how much
fructose you eat or drink, you can still be hungry.
MECHANISM: Eating glucose causes your pancreas to release
large amounts of insulin that suppresses hunger. On the other
hand, fructose does not cause your pancreas to release insulin, so
you lose the appetite suppressing effect of that hormone.
Before any sugar can be absorbed into your bloodstream,
it must first be reduced to a single sugar. Your body never
allows double sugars to be absorbed into your bloodstream. Table
sugar is a double sugar called sucrose that is made up of single
molecules of glucose and fructose bound together, so when you eat
table sugar, you get equal amounts of glucose and fructose.
Most sugared, soft drinks contain high fructose corn
syrup, a mixture of slightly more than fifty percent fructose and
slightly less than fifty percent glucose. This small difference
in concentration of glucose and fructose is probably irrelevant.
The reason that soft drinks are so fastening is that they are in
liquid form.
SUGARED DRINKS ARE MOST FATTENING AND SUGARED FOODS ARE
LESS FATTENING, while whole fruits (with their natural sugar) are
not very fattening at all. When food enters your stomach, the
pyloric valve at the end of your stomach closes and allows only
a liquid soup to pass into your intestines. Sugared drinks enter
your intestines almost immediately and are absorbed very rapidly,
causing a high rise in blood sugar.
Sugared foods must be broken down before they can pass into
your intestines to be absorbed. A sugary cookie, made with flour,
has tiny particles that are broken down relatively rapidly to
cause a high rise in blood sugar, but the rise is not as steep as
that from sugared drinks.
Fruits are full of fiber, so the particle sizes are
larger and take longer to slip through the pyloric sphincter.
Thus orange juice passes immediately into your intestines, while
an orange can sit in your stomach for more than five hours. That
is why sugared drinks are more fattening than cookies, and fruit
is far less fattening because of its delayed passage into your
intestines.
HOW SUGAR-ADDED DRINKS AND FOODS LEAD TO DIABETES: Anything
that makes you fatter increases your risk for becoming diabetic.
Before insulin can do its job of driving sugar into cells, it must
first attach to insulin receptors, special hooks on the outer
walls of cells. Fat inside a cell prevents insulin from attaching
to its receptors and doing its job of driving sugar into cells, so
blood sugar levels rise higher and higher as you become fatter and
fatter.
HOW HIGH BLOOD SUGAR DAMAGES YOUR BODY: A high rise in
blood sugar causes sugar to stick permanently to the outer membranes
of cells. This destroys the cells to cause every known side effect
of diabetes: blindness, deafness, heart attacks, strokes, dementia,
impotence, infertility, nerve damage, lack of feeling, diffuse body
pain, and so forth.
WHEN IS IT SAFE TO TAKE SUGAR? I recommend that you take
sugared foods or drinks only when you are exercising or shortly
after you finish. Resting muscles draw no sugar from the
bloodstream to help prevent a high rise in blood sugar. On the
other hand, contracting muscles draw sugar rapidly from the
bloodstream to prevent a high rise in blood sugar. The more
vigorously you contract your muscles, the greater the effect of
muscles drawing sugar from your bloodstream. Contracting muscles
can draw sugar from your bloodstream without even needing insulin.
Seventeen hours after you finish exercising, muscles lose their
ability completely to take any sugar from the bloodstream without
insulin
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Death of the President Zachary Taylor
"Ol' Rough n' Ready" Zachary Taylor was the twelfth
president of the United States. He was a brave and tough man who
fought many battles from the War of 1812 to the Mexican War.
On the Fourth of July, 1850, President Taylor was in good
health and attended a Sunday school program, where he ate a couple
of green apples. After that, he attended a groundbreaking
ceremony for construction of the Washington Monument. Then he went
back to the White House and ate a large bowl of cherries, and
drank cold water and milk.
SYMPTOMS: That night he started to feel sick, he vomited a
few times and his belly started to hurt. The next day he
developed bloody diarrhea, and when his temperature rose very
high, he called his doctor. The doctor told him he must have
cholera, gave him calomel, opium and quinine, and drew blood. He
did not send it off to a laboratory as we do nowadays. He drew
blood because doctors treated almost every disease with blood-
letting.
In spite of this treatment he continued vomiting, his
belly cramps worsened, and his bloody diarrhea become explosive.
He cried out when the doctors tried to touch his belly. His
temperature kept rising higher and higher and he died in his bed
on the evening of July 9th, the fifth day of his illness, at age
64.
DIAGNOSES AT THAT TIME: The doctors diagnosed food poisoning
from eating too many cherries and drinking too much unpasteurized
milk and water. They had to be wrong because food poisoning
doesn't cause a fever that keeps on rising to very high levels.
Other people claimed that he died of malaria, because he
was very sick with malaria when he fought in Mexico, but malaria
is not characterized by vomiting and diarrhea.
Many people thought that he had been poisoned by
Southerners who were angered by Taylor's moderate stance on
slavery. The most common chemical used to poison people of that
period was arsenic. However, arsenic poisoning does not cause
high fever, diarrhea and vomiting.
To put the poisoning theory to rest almost 150 years later,
in 1991, Taylor's descendants had his body removed from its
Kentucky grave and sent samples of his hair and fingernails to Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Arsenic levels were well
below levels that could have killed him. He couldn't possibly
have been killed by arsenic poisoning.
THE REAL DIAGNOSIS: The only tenable diagnosis has to be
based on the fact that he was well, on a hot day, ate a lot of
food that could have been contaminated with some germ, and then
developed diarrhea and vomiting and fever that had to be caused by
an infection. High fever is a hallmark for infection with
intestinal bacteria called salmonella typhosa.
The extremely painful belly that hurt so much when
doctors touched it was probably caused by a rupture of his
intestines that leaked intestinal contents into his belly.
He died from a food-borne infection that was common in
those days called typhoid fever. Today, he would be cured by
taking antibiotics.
SIMILAR DISEASES IN OTHER PRESIDENTS: The previous
president, James K. Polk, died of cholera and "debilitating
diarrhea". Thomas Jefferson probably died of amoebic dysentery.
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Art Kelly's, My60SecondScoop's- Lessons Learned from the Mitt Romney Presidential Loss! 60 Second Scoop!
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2012-12-01T23:20:29.000Z
2012-12-01T23:20:29.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<div>Mitt Romney
What's Happening with Conservatives and the Tea Party
Lessons Learned in the Election
by Art Kelly | 11/29/2012
If conservatives learn the right lessons from Mitt Romney’s loss, they may win the presidency in 2016 and beyond.
1. Believe the polls. Know exactly where you are in the race. Don’t delude yourself with false optimism.
The September 27 issue of this newsletter observed, “One thing the Romney campaign has got to do immediately is stop kidding themselves about the state of the race. They are behind nationwide. But even more importantly, they are way behind in the critical battleground states.
"The pollsters make their living by conducting surveys. That is their profession. Their future depends on being right most of the time. They know what they are doing."
An earlier September 13 issue of this newsletter looked at seven national polls. The average of the polls showed an Obama lead of 3.5 points. The state polls indicated Obama was ahead in the Electoral College vote 319 to 219.
Obama ended up winning the popular vote by 3.53 points and the Electoral College 332 to 206.
If the Romney campaign had understood the state of the race, they may have utilized better strategies.
2. After winning the nomination, treat your primary opponents--and all elements of the Party--like royalty.
The August 30 issue of this newsletter reported how Romney damaged his election prospects by needlessly antagonizing Ron Paul and conservative delegates on matters of credentials, rules, and the roll call of states at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
“It is incredible that Romney would alienate Paul and his supporters, along with many other conservatives, over what are, in the big picture, inconsequential matters. That calls into serious question Romney's priorities.
“As the winner of the Republican presidential nomination, Romney should have been magnanimous to his vanquished opponents. All of them should have been given recognition and respect--including prime time speeches to the Convention.
“For that matter, Sarah Palin, a charismatic personality and hero to grassroots conservatives, should have been a featured speaker. Instead, she wasn't even invited to the Convention.
“If a million less conservatives than otherwise cast ballots on November 6, Romney will have only himself to blame.”
As it turned out, there were 3,462,120 fewer votes cast for president in 2012 than there were in 2008.
3. Don’t run a content free campaign.
The Romney strategists appeared to be under the impression that Obama was so unpopular, all that was required is for the Republican candidate to be a credible alternative. They clearly didn’t understand that it is necessary to give voters a reason to vote for Romney.
The September 6 issue of this newsletter reported: “Romney gave an unusual acceptance speech, largely content free. With very little editing, the speech could have been given by almost any Democrat.”
“It is likely Romney's consultants told him that polls and focus groups of undecided voters didn't approve of Obama's performance in office but were not yet sold on Romney as president. So, the acceptance speech was designed to sell Romney the man, rather than Romney's positions on the issues. However, that doesn't seem to have worked too well.
“The 38% who rated the speech as excellent or good is the lowest rating of any of the eight speeches Gallup has tested since Bob Dole's acceptance speech in 1996.”
The September 27 issue of this newsletter further complained about the lack of substance to the Romney campaign. Richard Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, observed, "Governor Romney and his campaign team risk losing the election because they are mired in the establishment Republican folly of trying to win by standing for nothing."
And Peggy Noonan, the legendary speech writer for President Reagan, wrote "The Romney campaign has to get turned around. This week, I called it incompetent, but only because I was being polite. I really meant rolling calamity."
4. Quickly respond to attacks. This is especially true if the attacks are largely false, which most of the Democratic TV ads were.
Last week’s issue of this newsletter noted, “There is a school of thought that a candidate should ignore attacks from his or her opponent so as not to elevate them in public awareness. That is probably correct when your opponent is not well known and under-financed. But in a presidential campaign, untrue attacks must be promptly answered.”
The problem was that many of the negative ads that were run against Romney came at a time when he apparently had little money to fire back.
At the least, Romney could have directly refuted the lies that were being told about him in his campaign speeches, which would have been reported by the news media. But his consultants may have told him that would appear too “defensive” and that it would be better to stay on “offense” against the high unemployment in the Obama economy.
The website Mediaite and the New Republic both said that during Thanksgiving, the Democrats should be grateful for Romney.
"Sure, on print, President Obama won the election. But face it: Mitt Romney lost the election. Be thankful for him and one of the most bungled presidential campaigns in recent memory," Mediaite wrote.
Romney was “a clumsy candidate in a year when a more agile one might have knocked off Obama,” the New Republic concluded.
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Calling a Spade a Spade
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2012-11-17T19:11:32.000Z
2012-11-17T19:11:32.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>The recent re-election of our Glorious Leader Barack Husain Obama has sent shock waves through the patriotic and conservative communities. Everyone from Libertarians to fervently Pro-Life activists from Log cabin Conservatives to those advocating traditional values have accepted the narrative force-fed to a waiting public by the media. Day after day on the one network all conservatives watch we have swallowed the intellectual gruel ladled out by the select group of anointed talking heads whose opinions Fox must believe are the only ones we ever want to hear. From the Liberal Juan to the Neo-Con Charles from the Libertarian John to the funny Dennis we have been told that demographics defeated us. </p><p>Yes there has been a massive demographic shift in the make-up of our country since the suicidal adoption of the <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/803937/posts">Kennedy Immigration Act</a> in 1965. Pat Buchannan has warned us for years that this was a demographic time bomb implanted by the Progressives in the very heart of America. Yes the massive amnesty which is soon to turn tens of millions of illegal immigrants into citizens and loyal democratic voters will effectively spell the end of any possibility for a supporter of limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom to win the White House. </p><p>Our newly re-elected rule-by-decree president will use executive orders to incorporate a new voting majority if he can’t get the perpetually re-elected leaders of the Republicans to join him in driving this final nail into the coffin of the Constitution. Mr. Buchannan warned us, crying out like a prophet in the wilderness, it is impossible to incorporate millions of people from the third world who have never known anything except authoritarian rule and expect them to become born-again supporters of Enlightenment political theory. All they have ever known was oppressive central-planning and all powerful leaders wielding vast bureaucracies, in other words ideal Democrat voters.</p><p>This is all true. This last gear is about to be installed in the Democrat re-election machine but this is not what happened in the pivotal election of 2012 However, there is another story that no one on Fox is telling us. Instead they parrot the conventional wisdom of the Democrat controlled media. We hear the same thing whether we tune to Fox or MSNBC: unless the Republican party embraces amnesty and softens its stance on certain social issues they will never have a chance to win the white House again. The diagnosis may be correct but the prescription will kill the façade that the Republican Party supports constitutionally limited government.</p><p>The real story behind the defeat of the media chosen Romney isn’t that this Northeast big government father of Romneycare couldn’t beat the worst president in American History riding the worst economy since FDR. It isn’t even the fact that millions of self-identified Republicans stayed home or that millions of liberty loving constitutionalists followed their conscious and voted third party. Even with these handicaps I believe Mr. Romney would have defeated Mr. Obama except for the one factor no one seems willing to voice: massive and systemic voter fraud. </p><p>The Democrats in general and their professional civil rights hucksters in particular have spent endless hours howling about voter suppression finally pointing to the <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/11/waiting_in_the_long_lines_toward_democracy.html">long lines</a> of millions of new voters as proof that their vote had been suppressed. That’s like <a href="http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml">saying</a>, “<em>Nobody goes there anymore</em> because it's too crowded.”</p><p>In this column over the last four years I have pointed out the Progressive ways of Chicago-on-the-Potomac. I have pointed out that Mr. Obama was the representative of the <a href="http://nalert.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicago-democrats-and-chicago-mob.html">Chicago Outfit</a> and that everything he was doing had already been field tested for generations in the <a href="http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20090903.php">City that Works</a> for the Outfit. I have also pointed out that the Chicago political machine doesn’t lose elections. With the Obama campaign headquartered in the Windy City and run by professional Chicago operatives, to this writer it was a forgone conclusion: they would steal the vote.</p><p>The massive political machines the democrats have constructed in major cities act as vote faucets that swing their states predictably into the blue column. The irregularities with voting machines, the hundreds of precincts that went 99 to 100 % for Obama, and the legions of voters who couldn’t even speak let alone read English all point to the arrival of third world elections to the greatest democracy ever known.</p><p>At a recent gathering I heard two progressives irately attacking the audacity of the Republicans for seeking voter ID laws. They saw this as an attempt to stop poor and elderly voters, who all have IDs, from voting. They also bemoaned the fact that the voter ID supporters claimed they wanted to stop voter fraud. To this claim they wailed, “What voter fraud? Where is it? There is no voter fraud!”</p><p>Knowing that my earlier statements will elicit the same wail let me respond with some facts gleaned from the post-election observations as chronicled in the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/?cat_orig=politics">Worldnet Daily</a>:</p><p>Chicago elections worker Steve Pickrum, an equipment manager for the elections system, told Worldnet Daily (WND) he was called when a voting machine malfunctioned. “On early voting when I did work on the floor when voters needed help using the equipment, I was able to see the preference of the voter, and every time that I saw [a] voter voted for Romney a ‘voter save failure’ message came up on the screen,’” he reported. Then when he went on election day to vote himself, he picked Romney and experienced the same error message. He reported he never experienced the error message when the voter was choosing Barack Obama.</p><p>Another poll worker assigned at the University of Michigan reported to WND a list of irregularities including that the precinct captain told her at one point, “You go sit down, you are bothering me,” when she was trying to observe the proceedings. “I was only standing there and looking at voter documents,” she told WND. “It was clear that what bothered him was my very presence.” She said a short time later a young man arrived and identified himself as a Democrat poll challenger. “The first time he said anything was to object to my challenge of a voter. He tried to anger the voter by telling her ‘She does not believe you are who you say you are.’ He was trying to create a scene. It then happened again and I told him ‘You are not here to challenge me!’ His reply was a very loud ‘Yes I am! You are a Republican and you are here to prevent people from voting. You are holding up the line and creating obstructions,’” she reported. She told WND in fact no one waited more than about fifteen minutes to vote the entire day, and there were no obstructions.</p><p><a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-broward-election-votes-found-20121112,0,4281740.story">And in Florida,</a> the Sun Sentinel reported that election workers a week after the election said they found 963 unaccounted-for ballots – in a warehouse. “How can you lose them? This is terrible,” candidate Chickie Brandimarte told officials. Election supervisor Brenda Snipes, however, said it’s routine for various vote totals to be adjusted up until the Nov. 18 final certification.</p><p><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/voting-made-hard-frustrated-floridians-search-for-/nS5KX/">Also in Florida,</a> residents began demanding changes in the electoral system that handed voters chaos, frustration, and delays at polling stations. The Florida League of Women Voters and other groups are demanding from Gov. Rick Scott a plan to draft reforms for the state’s elections.</p><p><a href="http://wnd.com/?p=306911">A poll watcher told WND up to 10 percent of the ballots cast at a polling station in Pennsylvania reverted to a default, which gave Barack Obama a vote no matter who the voter had selected. The incident took place in the state</a> <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20121112_In_59_Philadelphia_voting_wards__Mitt_Romney_got_zero_votes.html">where officials claimed</a> Obama got a total of 19,605 votes in 59 voting divisions to zero for Mitt Romney and not far from the <a href="http://marketdailynews.com/2012/11/12/election-fraud-barack-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts/">100 precincts in Ohio where Obama got 99 percent of the vote,</a> a feat not even achieved by third-world dictators. It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the selection back to default – to Obama.”</p><p><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/2012-VOTER-FRAUD-CHALLENGE"><i>Stand up to fight against voter fraud right now!</i></a></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/">Fox News</a> reported that voters in Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Ohio also said they had pushed a button on a touch-screen voting machine for Romney, but the machines recorded their vote for Obama.</p><p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/citing-voter-fraud-petition-at-white-house-web-site-demands-recount-of-election">At the White House website</a>, a report in the Examiner explains, there was a petition posted seeking a recount of the race. “In one county alone in Ohio, which was a battleground state, President Obama received 106,258 votes … but there were only 98,213 eligible voters. It’s not humanly possible to get 108 percent of the vote,” the petition claims.</p><p><a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/11/07/voter-fraud-watch-two-election-judges-replaced-after-illegal-activity-in-ohio/">Fox News reported</a> that two election judges were replaced after illegally allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots.</p><p><a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/voter-rolls-in-ohio-are-bloated-experts-say.html">The Columbus Dispatch estimated</a> that more than twenty percent of registered Ohio voters aren’t eligible. “In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population,” the report said. And, it said, in 31 other counties, registrations are above 90 percent of the population, “a rate regarded as unrealistic by most voting experts.”</p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/06/have-to-vote-for-dems-nyc-poll-worker-tells-gop-senate-candidate/?test=latestnews">Fox News also documented</a> how Senate candidate Wendy Long, an attorney who was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recounted her voting experience. “A poll worker who was at the scanner studied my private ballot and proceeded to tell me that it was rejected because I did not ‘fill in every space.’ She then proceeded to indicate that I should mark the Democratic line all the way down.”</p><p><a href="http://marketdailynews.com/2012/11/12/election-fraud-barack-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts/">The Market Daily News</a> reported on those 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that on election day gave Romney zero votes, and Obama got 99 percent. “In more than 50 different precincts, Romney received two votes or less,” the report said. “One would think that such improbable results would get the attention of somebody out there.”</p><p><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20121112_In_59_Philadelphia_voting_wards__Mitt_Romney_got_zero_votes.html">According to Philly.com,</a> 59 voting divisions in Philadelphia produced a “head-spinning figure,” not one vote for Romney. “The unanimous support for Obama in these Philadelphia neighborhoods – clustered in almost exclusively black sections of West and North Philadelphia – fertilizes fears of fraud, despite little hard evidence,” the newspaper said.</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/nov/10/florida-vote-twist-more-ballots-voters/">The Washington Times</a> reported that officials in Florida banned observers from seeing the absentee ballots being opened and “there was no way to know whether the absentee ballots that were produced were the same ones that were opened, or if all the ballots were produced.”</p><p><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/">Human Events</a> claimed Ohio voters who are native to Somalia were being given a slate card saying, “Vote Brown all the way down” – an apparent reference to the Democratic senator.</p><p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/forums/report-vote-fraud-2"><i>WND’s newest forum is your opportunity to report voter fraud</i></a></p><p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-conservative/2012/nov/6/voter-fraud-pennsylvania-black-panthers-return-gop/">The Washington Times</a> reported its suspicions of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, including that “in Philadelphia, the [New] Black Panthers are currently standing outside polling booths, intimidating voters just like they did in 2008.” It said, too, that seventy Republican polling inspectors were blocked from access.</p><p><a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/in-florida-obama-got-over-99-in-broward.html">A blog, Punditpress, reported “In Florida: Obama Got Over 99% in Broward County Precincts”</a></p><p><a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/what-luck-obama-won-dozens-of-cleveland.html">The same site reported: “What Luck! Obama Won Dozens of Cleveland Districts with 100% of the Vote”</a></p><p><a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/good-news-obama-won-county-in-ohio-with.html">There also was the report about “Good News: Obama Won County in Ohio with 108% Voter Registration”</a></p><p><a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/breaking-st-lucie-county-florida-had.html">And Punditpress also reported: “BREAKING: St. Lucie County, Florida Had 141.1% Turnout; Obama Won County”</a></p><p><a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/fraud-in-pa-obama-got-over-99-of-vote.html">Further, it said: “Fraud in PA: Obama Got Over 99% of Vote at Polls Where GOP Inspectors Were Removed; Turnout Somehow ’30%’ Above Gov’t Numbers”</a></p><p><a href="http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf" target="_blank">“Out of 175,554 registered voters, 247,713 vote cards were cast in St. Lucie County, Florida, on Tuesday”</a></p><p>To the Progressives who fight voter ID I want say, “This voter fraud. Here it is? There was massive and systemic voter fraud!” To those who refuse to call a spade a spade, hiding their heads in the sand and pretending this election was the result of a demographic shift, the power of negative advertising, or anything else besides Chicago style politics as usual I want to ask, “Why are you so quiet about something that is so obvious?” What’s to be gained by lending our silence to endorse the legitimacy of a stolen election? If you are afraid to be called a conspiracy theorist let me quote a man who has ended up being right many times when everyone thought he was wrong, “It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you.”</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
Go west young man! Now we all hear the cry! It is time to go to West and give him a hand!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/go-west-young-man-now-we-all-hear-the-cry-it-is-time-to-go-to-wes
2012-11-11T17:52:47.000Z
2012-11-11T17:52:47.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div>Go west young man! Now we all hear the cry! It is time to go to West and give him a hand!
Allen West need volunteers as observers of re-counting. You can go to this site: <a href="http://allenwestrepublic.com/2012/11/10/st-lucie-issues-decision-to-recount-votes-earlier-sunday-700am/#comment-3993">http://allenwestrepublic.com/2012/11/10/st-lucie-issues-decision-to-recount-votes-earlier-sunday-700am/#comment-3993</a>
His campaign staff is there, and he specifically stated ask for Melinda or Ellen and tell them you are here to volunteer.They start at 7AM.
Some big is happening , Especially in their St.Lucie County see site: <a href="http://www.slcelections.com/">http://www.slcelections.com/</a>
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The Joy of the Lord is My Strength
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-joy-of-the-lord-is-my-strength
2012-11-07T19:09:25.000Z
2012-11-07T19:09:25.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>As predicted numerous times in the History of the Future, the Progressive Republican could not defeat the Progressive Democrat. Why would people want a shadow when they can have the real thing? </p><p>It was a hard choice to endorse the Progressive Romney, but I felt that the stakes were so high it was worth the effort. As I said repeatedly he might have driven us to the poor house a little bit slower. Instead we have a triumphant President Obama and the Chicago Outfit he represents sitting astride the prostrate body politic. The last four years will be but a prelude to the horrendous destruction these looters will do to the American Experiment in the next four. And given their obvious ability to lead their army of useful idiots, takers, and corrupt city political machines to electoral victory we should probably brace ourselves for President Biden in 2016.</p><p>The perpetually re-elected establishment rigidly controls the entrenched two party system, which conveniently calls itself Democrat and Republican. They are two sides of the same coin, and two wings on the same bird of prey. They both represent the Progressive central-planners who believe government is the answer when we know it is the problem. No matter which side wins the government grows and devours more of the nation’s output and its wealth. The election results ratify the electoral majorities’ union with the statists. It also points to:</p><ul><li>the permanent establishment of Obamacare</li><li>the probable capture of the Supreme Court</li><li>the loss through re-interpretation of our rights</li><li>the full implementation of the Cloward/Piven Strategy with massive debt , borrowing, and inflation</li><li>the expansion of rule by decree</li><li>the continued and expanded humiliation of America in international affairs</li><li>the end of the American experiment in limited government, personal liberty and economic freedom as we have known it</li></ul><p>As alarming as all this sounds do not despair, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews%2013:5&version=NKJV">God did not leave us nor forsake us</a>. First of all He gave us plenty of warning. This author and many others repeatedly predicted an Obama win. As I stated numerous times, the Chicago Machine doesn’t lose elections. Also our hope is not in the hand of man. Man didn’t give us the peace that passes all understanding and he can’t take it away. God gave us His Word which is always our refuge and our fortress. </p><p>He told us:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091&version=NKJV">A thousand</a> may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; b<i>ut</i> it shall not come near you.</li><li><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%208:10&version=NKJV">Do not</a>sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength<ul><li><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Phillipians%204&version=NKJV">Rejoice in</a> the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! <sup> </sup>Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord <i>is</i> at hand. <sup> </sup>Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;<sup> </sup>and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.</li><li><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2046&version=NKJV">God <i>is</i></a> our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear…</li><li><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Roamns%2010:9-13&version=NKJV">If you</a> confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. <sup> </sup>For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. <sup> </sup>For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”</li></ul></li></ul><p>That is why I can face this morning with joy in my heart and hope in my spirit for I know who my Savior is and I know what He has promised me. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%207:24-27&version=NKJV">Build your life</a> upon the Rock that doesn’t roll and when the wind and waves beat against you, you shall not fall. </p><p>God’s Word <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%20146&version=NKJV">tells us</a> not to put our trust in leaders whose plans are of this world. Don’t look for utopia here. Don’t <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%206:19-20&version=NKJV">keep your treasure</a> in the world where rust destroys and time forgets instead keep your treasure with God. He <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james%204&version=NKJV">promises us</a> that if we draw near to Him He will draw near to us, and that if we humble ourselves before Him He will lift us up.</p><p>So don’t despair. Don’t let the passing victory of the evil steal your joy because if the devil <a href="http://www.ministryhelps.com/if-satan-cant-steal-your-joy-jerry-savelle-p-415.html">can’t steal</a> your joy he can’t keep your stuff. And remember, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2030&version=NKJV">weeping may</a> endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Trust God, praise Jesus, and remember: the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%2010:28&version=NKJV">hope of the righteous</a> will be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked will perish. The plans of the wicked may <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2092:7&version=NKJV">flourish</a> but they will also <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james%201&version=NKJV">wither like the flower</a> in the field. Trials and tribulations come upon us <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james%201&version=NKJV">so that we may grow</a> and persecution was also <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2010:16-23&version=NKJV">promised</a> to those who believe along with a way of <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2010:16-23&version=NKJV">escape</a>.</p><p>May <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2015:13&version=NKJV">the God of hope</a> fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.</p><p>Keep the faith, keep the peace, we shall overcome.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
Election Day: November 6, 2012!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/election-day-november-6-2012
2012-11-06T13:02:15.000Z
2012-11-06T13:02:15.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div>The Day which has been so long awaited is finally here!
We have battled for fiscal conservatism, and the end of Crony Corruption.
It is November 6, 2012. Election day!
Today is the day to vote for Free Markets!
Today is the day to vote for Jobs!
For a balanced Budget!
And Energy independence
and affordable energy!
It is time to vote for Limited government.
It is time to vote to create a Federal budget!
It is time! We can wait no longer!
This is Free!
There is no bus trip for you!
There is no Fee!
But, this election will decide,
who you send to Washington
to represent yourself
and all of us.
Who will represent The United States, We the People, in Washington
Who will represent us To the World,
to our Allies,
and to our potential Allies,
And to our potential enemies
And our Foes!
Against those that have harmed and killed us
and plot to harm us.
the Terrorists!
The Communists,
the Anarchists,
and the Islamic Jihadists!
Send those who support a strong National Defense for Liberty!
Send the Fiscal & Values Conservatives to Washington!
Vote!
Let us begin the rebirth of our great Nation!
Let us vote to revitalize our industrial base with a tax code which promotes entrepreneurship!
One which promotes exports.
Let us vote to support a strong military defense,
while eliminating the bloated defense bureaucracy.
Let us vote for Human dignity
and Jobs!
Let us end the insidious Welfare system
that kills personal growth and opportunity.
Let's get Husbands, Dads back in the Family!
Let's put Families and children first
with a strong education system
that includes vouchers and charter schools
which ends the Department of Education.
Let is stand for Traditional Values!
Traditional Marriage!
The right of Children
to not be strapped with debt at birth!
Let us vote for the right
of every new Person
to come on to earth unscathed.
With out the risk of being killed.
Let's vote for limited government
and unlimited liberty!
Please vote, today.
It is the most important right you have!
It is that which eliminates coups
and civil wars.
But you must vote to begin the healing!
To begin our rebirth!
To renew your freedom!
To renew the compact
that God has bestowed!
To renew your individual sovereignty!
May God Bless you and your Family And your friends! May God bless this great country, the United States of America!
In Triumph of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
Sincerely,
Dave Wallace
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History Holds Its Breath
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/history-holds-its-breath
2012-11-01T22:39:12.000Z
2012-11-01T22:39:12.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Anyone who has read this column for any appreciable amount of time should have no doubt as to this author’s opinion of Progressivism and its agenda for America. I have tried over the years to connect the Progressives to their roots and their objectives. I have attempted to expose their nefarious tactics and strategies. I have dedicated myself to highlighting the differences between the utopia the Progressives display as their goal and the collectivist quagmire that lies behind the facade. </p><p>In this election season I have pointed out that those who wish to foist a living constitution on an unwilling nation seek in reality not a framework for national life but instead a straightjacket of centralized regulations leading to the death of our Federal Republic. I began the primary season expounding on the many laudable qualities of Ron Paul. I stated unequivocally that I believed he was the only candidate on the scene who correctly framed the debate and offered a direct path back to limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom.</p><p>The Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media along with all of the cable outlets made sure no one ever heard of Dr. Paul’s deep thoughts, true agenda, or accurate election results. His candidacy was sabotaged by the supporters of the Status Quo.</p><p>Since the disappointing days of the primaries I have consistently pointed out that one candidate wanted to lead us to the Progressive gulag of class warfare, redistribution, and stagnation. I have also pointed out that the other candidate, while not a paragon of small government or an avid supporter of Tea Party values, would at least slow this express to the poor house and perhaps give liberty loving Americans an opportunity to rally round the flag.</p><p>The hour is too late and the outcome too important to use the subtle innuendo of the professional objectivity all Historians are trained to present. I am pleading with my fellow patriots to reject the Manchurian Candidate and vote for the square jawed President-in-waiting from central casting.</p><p>If that tongue-in-cheek recitation of manufactured verbal camouflage fails to convey the message perhaps this will seal the deal. Vote for Romney!</p><p>Yes, I know he’s a big government guy. Yes, I know he is an interventionist waiting for an opportunity to intervene. However, he is also a venture capitalist who says he wants to make the social and political space that would allow we the people to once again venture to be capitalists. </p><p>He says the right things. Even his statement about the 47% was correct in its essence. Those who are riding on the gravy train will never vote to turn their pleasure cruise into a bus trip to work. His so-called gaffs reflect the thinking of conservative America more than the highest flying rhetoric of Mr. Obama. </p><p>The Progressive’s champion, who has presided over the largest four year expansion of the National Debt in History, says he will stop the hemorrhaging of red ink by cutting programs and taxing the rich. In reality the budgets he has submitted project trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. The President presents us with a divisive campaign about small things. He follows the standard Liberal Playbook and tries to divide the nation into voting blocks for use in building a winning coalition. </p><p>Governor Romney speaks the language of inclusion, addressing all Americans and holding out the promise of <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/jobs">growing the pie</a> instead of the Progressive’s zero sum game of economic musical chairs. Last time America voted for change and what we got was a man who promised to fundamentally change America. And that was the only promise he has kept. Four more years and this wave of fundamental change will be solidified in legislation and habit and we will awake to find we aren’t in Kansas anymore Toto.</p><p>Reject the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/25/obamas-politics-of-envy/?page=all">hyperbole of envy</a> and turn away from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHeTwoy5vI">claptrap</a> of collectivist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqI5PSRcXM">redistribution</a> and vote for a return to Constitutional government. Urge your neighbors, call your friends, influence anyone you can to turn out and vote to turn over the regime. Vote to send Mr. Obama back to community organizing. Vote to send the Czars back to the teacher’s lounge. </p><p>There are moments when the entire world trembles on the cusp of a great decision. America held its breath as the Framers debated in Constitution Hall what sort of a government we would have. Millions of citizens on both sides and millions of slaves held their breath as Mr. Lincoln and his Republicans battled the Confederate Democrats to see <a href="http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm">whether or not</a>, “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” In the 1950s and 60s America following <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/300432/party-civil-rights-kevin-d-williamson">Eisenhower’s lead</a> and building upon <a href="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/13/194350.shtml">traditional</a> Republican support and votes for Civil Rights held its breath to learn if the last vestiges of the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/07/10/democrats-should-know-jim-crow-they-created-him/">Democrat’s Jim Crow Laws</a> could be exorcised from our land.</p><p>Today History holds its breath to see if the descendants of the pioneers, the children of the Revolution have become so addicted to the Progressive’s entitlement culture that they will vote to abandon the freedom which is their heritage and forge their own chains of dependency. We wait to see if the New Deal Democrat <a href="http://tolfa.us/L7.htm">slogan</a>, "Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect!" has finally born the fruit of a permanent electoral majority committed to cradle-to-grave government support in exchange for Liberty?</p><p>Reject the siren song of free stuff and vote for freedom. In 2008, America voted for Obama and change. In 2012, vote for Mitt Romney and change it back!</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
Choose This Day Who You Will Serve
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/choose-this-day-who-you-will-serve
2012-10-26T15:29:45.000Z
2012-10-26T15:29:45.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>In our current confrontation with Radical Islam the battle lines are portrayed as those between a secular society, us and a religious society, them. I reject this portrayal as a betrayal of the faith of our Founders and of those patriotic Americans who still hold fast to Jesus as God and Savior, we too are a religious people.</p><p>America was founded as a Christian country. Anyone who denies that has not studied enough History or has been sadly misled. Columbus accentuated his desire to spread the Christian faith to his patrons the King and Queen of Spain and in his log. The first thing the English did upon landing at Jamestown was set up a cross to dedicate their endeavor to Jesus their Savior. Were these early explorers and colonists always true to their faith? Did they always operate under principles derived from God’s Word? Sadly they did not. However, to say that the Christian faith was not an integral part of their motivation and worldview is simply not true.</p><p>In the latter part of the twentieth century Progressive leaders pushing a collectivist agenda decided to declare us a <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_Pluralistic_society">pluralistic society</a>. They sought to detach the heavily Bible influenced Constitution into the dustbin of History by substituting what they call a living constitution for the rock-solid one the Framers bequeathed us. Mr. Obama, the quintessential Progressive in his speech to the Muslims of Egypt, Turkey, and many places spices up his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAXA0WVwxiE">apology tours</a> by asserting that America is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik">not a Christian country</a>. This statement of his belief and goal does not make it true.</p><p>All of these recent changes aside, most Americans still <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/147887/americans-continue-believe-god.aspx">believe in God</a> and the <a href="http://religions.pewforum.org/reports">majority</a> consider themselves Christians. As a Christian, an Historian, and a Political Scientist in response to numerous questions I would like to share my beliefs concerning government, economies, and the rights of man.</p><p>As far as a government goes the only Biblically correct one is that God is God and we are His people. He is the King and we are the sheep of His pasture. As concerning an economic system God’s economy knows no lack and is exceedingly abundantly provisioned by the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills.</p><p>This being true I do not believe that God mandates any type of human government or economic system as pre-ordained, sanctified, or holy. However, I do believe that humanity as God has created it does require certain governmental and economic conditions to develop and thrive as God intended.</p><p>God <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A27&version=NKJV">created us</a> in His own image. He gave us the power to create and to <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+24%3A15&version=NKJV">choose</a>. He gave us a mind open to learning and ever eager to improvise. He also gave us what I believe is the most crucial aspect of our make-up: our free will or the power to choose. We can choose to follow Him and do what He desires, or we can choose to follow the leadings not only of our thoughts but of our emotions also. In other words we can dwell within the Kingdom of God wherein He is our King and we are His people or we can choose to live in the Kingdom of man and become the subjects of either our own designs or of whoever manages to gain control of the physical world around us.</p><p>If God wanted slaves or robots He could have created slaves or robots. Instead He created us and gave us a mind to think and a will to choose because He wanted us to decide to love Him and follow Him freely without compulsion. Therefore I believe that since free thought and free choice are the foundation of man’s nature freedom is necessary if man is to live as God designed. This being the case I believe that any governmental or economic system that denies man’s freedom interferes with and attempts to supplant God’s plan, which is the definition of evil.</p><p>There are of course limits to freedom as expressed in the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20&version=NKJV">Ten Commandments</a>. Beyond this we should be free to choose our own way. Will we follow God or will we follow man. Within these limits and building on the moral framework the Bible provides I believe that a republic based upon the commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness using democratic principles is the governmental structure which most closely matches man’s God-given nature. I also believe that free market capitalism is the economic system which best allows man to develop and live as God intended. Conversely, when man rejects God and seeks to create his own utopia he builds some sort of centrally-planned command economy and the intrusive government needed to impose it upon others.</p><p>A free economy and the free government it requires allows the independent choices of many to produce the greatest prosperity for all as everyone seeks to do the best they can because they reap the rewards. In a socialist or any type of hybrid economy between capitalism and socialism bureaucrats make the decisions and stagnation is the inevitable result. As Gary North, a Christian economist <a href="http://www.garynorth.com/public/department57.cfm">expresses</a> it, “The essence of democratic socialism is this re-written version of God's commandment: ‘Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.’” Or as Winston Churchill <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu164131.html">observed</a>, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” And that is not life as God intended.</p><p>If we look at History it is an outworking of the initial fall of man. In the beginning God created the world including man and it was all good. Then at the dawn of our existence we choose to go our own way instead of following God. We chose to follow the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A5&version=NKJV">siren song</a> of “You shall be like God” and ever since we have attempted to create heaven on earth. All we have succeeded in doing is to open the gates of Hell instead. A case in point would be the age-old question, if God is good why is there evil in the world followed by the age-old answer God gave us free choice and we chose evil.</p><p>With the help and guidance of those who seek to play god themselves humanity has often been convinced to surrender their freedom for security, to bargain away their God-given nature and assume the subservient nature of slaves. </p><p>In America the purveyors of socialism cloak their designs in the language of populism. They loudly proclaim that they seek a fair deal for everyone, except of course for the people they intend to loot. They want fair elections as long as nothing is done to stop fraudulent voting. They want equality enforced by unequal treatment. In other words they seek to build the kingdom of man where they can be king.</p><p>We have a mind to think and the capacity to make a free choice. As the day of reckoning draws near all I can recommend is, think and choose. We can choose to follow the path of redistribution, class warfare, and collectivist dependency or we can choose to at least attempt a return to limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom. Don’t be fooled by the progressive media and their obvious bias. To be free is God’s design. For us to be a slave to dependency is man’s.</p><p>One of America’s most beloved troubadours <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/paul+simon/sounds+of+silence_20559740.html">told</a> us, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls” and one of those secular prophets he was referring to <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/gottaservesomebody.html">reminded</a> us “You're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You're gonna have to serve somebody, Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody.”</p><p>Or as my favorite book <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2024:15&version=NKJV">says</a> it, “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that <i>were</i> on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
Why Does Affirmative Action End at the Gridiron?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/why-does-affirmative-action-end-at-the-gridiron
2012-10-18T20:25:10.000Z
2012-10-18T20:25:10.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>Have you ever pondered the fact that everyone being endowed with equal rights by our creator works out so naturally while the equality of outcome that our Progressive would-b-masters seek to impose is impossible to achieve without treating people differently? Have you ever noticed that whenever the government wishes to give anyone anything they have to first take it from someone else?</p><p>Since everyone obviously has different skills, talents, and ambitions people inevitably perform and produce at different levels. Therefore to make everyone end up in the same place it is necessary to hold some back and artificially advance others. </p><p>For example if we wanted to treat everyone equally with regard to taxes we would have a flat tax with no deductions as in everyone pays 10%. If you make one million dollars or one thousand dollars you pay 10%. That would be equal treatment before the law and in my opinion that would be fair. However in the Progressives version of a fair tax system designed to promote equality, people who earn different amounts are taxed at different rates. If you earn more you pay more. That may sound good to some, but how is it fair?</p><p>In education if equality was really the desired result everyone would be judged by the same standards for admission regardless of race, creed, color or any other mitigating factor. Everyone would take the same tests and everyone would be graded exactly the same with admission based upon the score. In the world of American Academia as administrated by the Progressives categories of people are judged by different standards and they call this fairness.</p><p>Look at the bewildering array of social programs that have been implemented to ensure equality and fairness in the Progressive utopia. From food stamps and free cell phones to state subsidized education in criminal justice for convicted felons, these ill-conceived and often abused programs turn the safety net into a hammock that beg the question <a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=arc_ayn_rand_man_rights">Ayn Rand</a> was known to ask, “At whose expense?” If someone gets free food, free education; free anything the question we should ask is, at whose expense? The next question should be, do those who are paying the freight for this pleasure cruise do so voluntarily or are they being coerced? If they are being coerced into paying for someone else’s benefits what makes this any different than theft?</p><p>It’s as if the Progressives have tried to change our original national motto from” E Pluribus Unum” to “Stand and Deliver” or have they changed our present national motto “In God We Trust” to “You Can’t Fight City Hall.” Or as if the new national anthem should be, “Happy Days Are Here Again – Unless You Work For a Living.”</p><p>One of the most often quoted and misquoted statements concerning History tells us, those who do not learn from History are doomed to repeat it and today we are seeing the fruits of this truism. The two great revolutions of the eighteenth century, the American and the French, were mirror images of each other in several important ways. The American Revolution made a <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">declaration</a> to the entire world that the rights they sought were endowed upon all men by their creator. The French in the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp">Declaration of the Rights of Man</a> placed government as the source of these rights. The American Revolution sought to rid themselves of an all-powerful government with a limited government so that individuals could be free to prosper on their own. The French sought to replace an all-powerful government based upon birth with an all-powerful government based on merit believing that where the former one wanted to maintain the status quo with elites on top while the latter one would promote equality with elites on top. </p><p>The American experiment created the freest, richest, most powerful country in the History of the world. In France after the <a href="http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/a/hfr7.htm">Terror</a>, after the <a href="http://www.historywiz.com/consul.htm">Triumvirate</a>, and after the <a href="http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/p/ovfrenchrev.htm">Empire</a> the people saw that they had merely replaced one elite group with another. Then the Kings <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/86/55.html">came back</a>.</p><p>In America today our federally controlled education has led to generations of people who have never learned History or Civics. Now the progressive Pied Pipers are leading the uninformed to exchange the equality of opportunity our Founders established for the equality of outcome Europe has chased after since the French Revolution. With a public not knowing enough to know the difference these bait and switch tactics seem to be working, and after one hundred years of a living constitution the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Failed-PH-D-Robert-Owens/dp/1609579615/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350471788&sr=8-1&keywords=the+constitution+failed+owens">Constitution is nearly dead</a>. </p><p>We have one more election to stem the tide as we look for a chance to reverse the flow and return America to limited government, individual freedom, and economic opportunity. If we miss this opportunity we may soon experience the equality of mediocrity as we descend into the collectivist pit of self-immolation. This pit is typified by big government programs meant to redress some perceived inequality. Redressing inequality sounds good. The problem lies in the fact that to do so you need a big enough government to enforce the desired result, and governments are made up of fallible people who all have their own prejudices and desires.</p><p>James Madison, in Federalist 51 <a href="http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm">reflected</a> that, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Men aren’t angels. Which is why he <a href="http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm">continued</a>, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”</p><p>One program which serves as a fitting example of the impossibility of living a consistent life when trained, framed and constrained by the attempts to impose an artificial man-made, government enforced equality is <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/enough_with_affirmative_action_presidents.html">Affirmative Action</a>. Which some may argue has now reached the White House.</p><p>Why Does Affirmative Action End at the Gridiron?</p><p>Even the Colleges that are the most rapid in their interpretation and enforcement of Affirmative Action seem to forget these artificial standards when it comes to their sports teams. Have you ever wondered why that is so? Because they want the best players on the field no matter what the ratios of black, white, yellow, red, straight, gay or other.</p><p>Don’t fall for the siren song of something for nothing, for affirmative this, and equality that. Don’t let the perpetually re-elected hucksters fool you with their promise of a fair shot, a square deal, or of making someone else pay their fair share. When everything is put in one pot and it is supposed to be divided equally it always seems that those who do the dividing get the fairest share of all.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
We have a great event coming up! Please join us!
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2012-10-16T03:07:57.000Z
2012-10-16T03:07:57.000Z
Dave Wallace
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Without Hope You’re Hopeless
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/without-hope-you-re-hopeless
2012-10-12T12:46:43.000Z
2012-10-12T12:46:43.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>Listening to the lies of the politicians as presented by the prattle of the biased it is easy to lose hope in a secular sense. My hope in an eternal sense is founded on the rock of an unshakable faith in Jesus, and so it cannot be shaken. However, in the secular resting, as it must upon the shifting sands of man in America today, hope as a measured commodity is all too often hopeless. Seeking for hope in current events, a diamond among the discards and a point of light in a sea of darkness, is seeking something positive among the gathering gloom of an empire in eclipse.</p><p>I don’t know about you, but I cannot focus on the negative trends of our current situation for long without at least contemplating depression and I don’t mean the economic kind. I am thankful I have a peace that passes all understanding and a hope that cannot be taken away, and I am also glad that I have a sense of History which gives me a context to frame the Now. For if all we have is the Now it can always be changed with the next headline, the next news bulletin, or the next press release. Having a historical context brings things into focus fitting the events of today into flow of time from yesterday to tomorrow.</p><p>Truth often becomes the victim of expediency. For what seems true at the moment may end up as the lie of the hour. Politicians bend truth like gravity bends light: the heavier the perceived need the greater the unperceived distortion. Lies can become so widely believed that truth is swallowed in truism. Lies become the accepted wisdom of professional pundits chattering endlessly, supporting that which ultimately must fall for those who seek to surf a tsunami into a safe harbor. The news is filled with half-truths and as my second favorite philosopher, Anonymous, once said, “Beware of half-truths, you may have gotten the wrong half.”</p><p>We live in a twilight time. Twilight by definition is a time when two sources of light pierce the gloom. It is that quivering moment when both the sun and the moon hold back the darkness. The darkness of confusion is dispelled by the brightness of the sun of truth, but it is disputed by refracted light of the moon of opinion masquerading as truth.</p><p>Casting about for something solid in the midst of the swirling fog of conflicting facts, shifting observations, and contradictory visions in the secular sense I must focus on one thing: the people. I trust the American people. I trust them to make the right choice when presented with unvarnished reality. I trust them to do what must be done to preserve the bequest of our forefathers for the inheritance of our posterity.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">Declaration of Independence</a> was written to proclaim the righteousness of the actions of “One people” with the courage to declare to a world sold into bondage that our liberty was founded upon truth. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”</p><p>We the People wrote the <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt">Constitution</a> in order to perfect that which had been founded upon the truth. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”</p><p>It is to this one people, this “We the people” that I look for secular hope, political peace, and the eventual solution to our current cultural conundrum. The popular definition of a conundrum is a problem without a solution. However it also has another <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conundrum">meaning</a>: a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun. Since I am referring to the second meaning I will present the riddle, “How is liberalism the solution to the problem of liberalism?”</p><p>In our through-the-looking-glass world, politicians use actual truth to obscure the obvious truth. Congressman Joe Early (D-Mass) at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal <a href="http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~lkozar/Famous_Quotes.html">said</a>, “They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.” While I’m sure it is true he was given a book of checks, obviously one needs to make deposits if one is to honestly write checks. In this same manner the leaders of our free country promote socialism as the solution to the problems socialism has caused knowing that you cannot honestly write checks if you don’t make deposits. Capitalism makes the deposits and socialism wants to write the checks. As Churchill <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu111291.html">said</a> “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”</p><p>We are awash in polls. Every campaign and every major news source constantly trumpet polls many of which contradict each other. No matter what the polls say I believe that the American people still believe in freedom. I believe they still believe in the equality of opportunity and the opportunity of equality. We all aren’t the same. Each of us is born with a particular set of talents and each of us uses those talents in a certain way. It is my belief, that given the level playing field of individual liberty and economic freedom, the vast majority of Americans will work hard to earn what they deserve. This is my secular hope. Heaven on earth is not possible but given individual liberty and economic freedom inherently promised in the perfect union we the people sought to create we can at least avoid remaining in the hell of socialism the Progressives are currently foisting upon us, as Churchill also <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu111291.html">said</a> “If you're going through hell, keep going.”</p><p>Oh, by the way, the answer to the riddle is that Classical Liberalism promotes the general welfare by promoting the limitation of government and the liberty of the individual in order to better serve the whole. Welfare Liberalism erodes the general welfare by expanding the government at the expense of the individual in order to better serve the individual. Thus Classical Liberalism is the solution to the problems caused by Welfare Liberalism. And that’s the truth which brings me to one last Churchill <a href="http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/bulldog.html">quote</a> for the day, “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is.”</p><p>Hope and change may have convinced our fellow citizens to sell their birthright of freedom for the savory red stew of give me more; however, November is coming and things may change. At least we can hope. For without hope we are hopeless and we are a hopeful people.</p><p>Don’t be discouraged by the blather of the pontificating politicians or confused by the conflicting ruminations of the professional talkers. When all is said and done we can trust us. We the people will eventually come down on the side of truth, justice, and the American way.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the author of the History of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com/">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens. Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#%21/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens You can contact Dr. Owens at <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> </p><p class="paragraph"> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
The Sad truth about our Unemployment rate reported this October 2012
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-sad-truth-about-our-unemployment-rate-reported-this-october-2
2012-10-06T20:11:08.000Z
2012-10-06T20:11:08.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<div>Mike Master reports:
Since 175,000 new people enter the job market each month, all economists forecasted that the unemployment rate would increase to 8.2% from 8.1% for September, 2012 with about 120,000 new jobs being created. Instead, the Labor Department decreased the unemployment rate to 7.8% even though only 114,000 new jobs were created ... which "surprised" the economist community.
For the unemployment rate to decrease by .3 to 7.8, 600,000 new jobs were needed. 114,000 is a far cry from 600,000.
If the same number of people was used to calculate the unemployment rate as were available in the work force in January, 2009, then the unemployment rate would be more than 11%. And that does not consider that 11 million people (6 to 7 million workers) have been added to the population since January, 2009. If 6 million people are added to the available work force of Jan, 2009, then the unemployment rate is close to 14%. Instead, the Labor Department reduced the available work force from what was available in January, 2009 to calculate the rate for the months prior to September.
How did the unemployment rate decrease for September with only 114,000 new jobs? The Department of Labor reports to the president. The Department of Labor changed how it measures unemployment again.
Read and listen to this video as to how the unemployment rate was "cooked" by the Labor Department by how it changed to measuring "samples" from household surveys when it was previously measuring "actual" hiring information that was provided directly from businesses from payroll tax/social security forms as new employees were hired. And most of the media is complicit in allowing this to happen.
This is a huge scandal that is being ignored by the complicit media. When you add this to the lies told about the attacks in Libya, lies told about Fast and Furious, lies told about White House security leaks, lies told about executive orders, lies told about the START treaty, lies told about 17 new taxes in Obamacare with a 2.6 trillion dollar deficit, lies told about why Obama's performance in the first presidential debate was horrible, and lies told about how Romney cheated in that debate ..... then it is easy to see that this is the most corrupt government in the history of the USA .... and that is what Americans should be rejecting to save America.
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/jack-welch-fox-news_n_1943311.html?1349468117&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl13%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D216419">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/jack-welch-fox-news_n_1943311.html?1349468117&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl13%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D216419</a></div>
Did He Do What Needed to be Done
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/did-he-do-what-needed-to-be-done
2012-10-04T19:12:34.000Z
2012-10-04T19:12:34.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>In last night’s first presidential debate of 2012 nothing had the dramatic impact of Ronald Reagan’s spontaneous and memorable quips, “There you go again!” when attacked by Jimmy Carter in 1980 and in 1984, when asked about his age by an obviously mature and experienced Walter Mondale, he replied naturally, “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Nothing had the visual impact of a haggard looking Nixon with poor makeup next to the Hollywood good looks of John Kennedy. And neither politician made a mistake as bad as Ford forgetting that Eastern Europe was under Soviet domination.</p><p>Nothing as dramatic as in these game changing debates however, Mitt Romney did do what needed to be done. He came out swinging and he didn’t stop until the bell rang.</p><p>Immediately after the debate Neil Cavuto, in my opinion one of the best anchors on TV, called it a draw and quipped that draws always go to the champ, meaning that Obama came off with a TKO. </p><p>On the Networks usually devoted to advancing the agenda of the Democratic Party however it was different story. The Progressive media was wringing its hands over Mr. Obama’s lackluster performance. And a <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/03/cnn-poll-romney-wins-debate-by-big-margin/?hpt=hp_t2">CNN poll</a> conducted Wednesday night found that 75% of people thought Romney had won the debate. Even in California, the bluest of blue states <a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/10/03/californians-watch-as-obama-romney-clash-on-economy-in-1st-debate/">the plurality</a> of those watching thought Romney won. Most telling of all Chris Matthews, the MSNBC anchor who is famous for the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9fpKVXxCc">thrill running up his leg</a> when he listens to Obama said, "I don't know what he was doing out there. He had his head down, he was enduring the debate rather than fighting it. Romney, on the other hand, came in with a campaign. He had a plan, he was going to dominate the time, he was going to be aggressive, he was going to push the moderator around, which he did effectively, he was going to relish the evening, enjoying it,"</p><p>When your opponents say they believe they lost you might as well claim it as a win. Romney may not have convinced conservatives that he is the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan and they may still have to close their eyes or hold their nose when they vote for him at least he might have opened a window to defeat the Progressives’ fearless leader and at least slow down America’s bullet train to bankruptcy. With a delay we may be able to turn this train around and head back to limited government, individual liberty and economic freedom.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
Don’t Surrender Without a Fight
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/don-t-surrender-without-a-fight
2012-09-30T23:32:32.000Z
2012-09-30T23:32:32.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>With the economy staggering on the edge of a cliff, our foreign policy collapsing, our empire crumbling, and our embassies under attack the big question is why isn’t Romney up by 25 points in the polls?</p><p>The Republican side of the Washington-based perpetually re-elected party of power has a habit of nominating candidates whose main qualification is that “It’s my turn.” Look at Dole, McCain, and now Romney. These three may have slugged it out in the trenches and proven themselves to be reliable workhorses and adequate fund raisers, but they don’t inspire anyone.</p><p>The most memorable speech Dole gave was in a Viagra commercial. McCain spends more time reaching across the aisle to his Progressive comrades then he does trying to do anything even vaguely conservative. The best move he made was to nominate Sarah Palin, and then his team spent all their time trying to put a muzzle on a momma bear intent on going rogue. The most memorable event in his campaign was when he theatrically suspended his campaign to fly to Washington to deal with the financial collapse. Once there he blended into the background and whispered a meek, “Me too.”</p><p>Now along comes Romney.</p><p>By nominating him the Republicans threw away one of the most potent differences they had between themselves and Mr. Obama: Obamacare. During the rough and tumble of the primaries and immediately thereafter Governor Romney proclaimed he would end Obamacare on <a href="http://thehill.com/video/campaign/235499-romney-campaign-day-one-job-one-repeal-obamacare">Day One</a>. Now he says he <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfjyv-zQFjJ5VATL_48iTEiuxwMQ">likes parts of it</a> and will only get rid of the parts he disagrees with. Coming from the man who passed and not only defends, but also says he’s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-romneycare-andrea-saul-health-care-obamacare-conservatives-2012-8">proud</a> of the mandatory program known as Romneycare, how will he credibly attack Obamacare in the debates when all his opponent has to say is your plan was the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxXZGQekJoY">template</a> for mine?</p><p>In the primaries the former governor from Massachusetts who has been running for President since he was elected Governor in 2003 was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/us/politics/romney-embraces-attack-style-against-gingrich.html?_r=0">relentless</a> in his <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/romney-attacks-santorum-as-insider-after-three-state-wipeout.html">negative</a> attacks against his more conservative rivals. In the general election against the hard hitting Chicago machine bent on doing whatever it takes to retain power Mr. Romney seems to have <a href="http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/jack-kerwick/item/romney-the-vaunted-death-star-byron-york-s-analysis-reconsidered">lost his edge</a>. It’s like watching a boxer with oversized gloves constrained by the <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366079/Marquess-of-Queensberry-rules">Marquis of Queensberry Rules</a> fighting a gang banger from the South side in a cage match.</p><p>With the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media solidly in the Obama camp and using every opportunity to boost one side to the detriment of the other, Romney has to depend solely on paid advertising to counteract ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. Everyday every network except FOX masquerades as news outlets as they work tirelessly to re-elect their Fearless Leader. The thrill running up and down their leg energizes them enough to advance their agenda day and night turning the worst debacle in American Foreign policy since the hostage crisis into Romney’s gaff or Obama raiding Social Security for hundreds of Billions into Romney wants to throw Grandma off the cliff and starve her dog.</p><p>This is like watching a slow motion train wreck. Wake up Mr. Romney! If you want to win this thing you are going to have to win this thing. They may be starting to vote in many places but in Chicago they’re already counting the pre-marked ballots. The Republicans are starting out with the cards stacked against them, and if Romney doesn’t come out swinging in the debates he may join the ranks of also rans even if he has been running for ten years.</p><p>A little free advice. Instead of running away from your 47% comment embrace it. You were correct. You don’t have a chance to gain the vote of those who are dependent on government. However, unless this express to the poorhouse is turned around soon this might be the last election before the dependent class becomes the majority. And if that ever happens, the Democrats will never lose a presidential election again. Mr. Romney don’t equivocate about your wealth and your personal success. Hold it up as something anyone has a chance to achieve in a free society. Lead the way back to capitalism before we totter over the entitlement cliff into a nanny state nightmare of cradle-to-grave regulations guaranteeing a mediocre future.</p><p>Come on! You fought like a brawler to get this opportunity don’t through it away because you’re afraid of being called a racist, a vulture capitalist, or a tool of the elite. You’re being called those things anyway. In that first debate you had better punch Mr. Obama’s ticket back to Chi-Town or this train is going to leave the station and you’ll miss the boat.</p><p>If Mr. Obama is re-elected on his platform of using executive orders to take everything from the producers and give it to the non-producers everyone who votes for him should remember elections have consequences and every once in a while you get what you vote for. And as sweet as the “I told you so” might be it doesn’t have to happen. Anyone who will stand up and offer to lead America back to America should be able to beat the worst president in living memory. Don’t equivocate. Don’t pander. Make a straight forward case for limited government, personal freedom, and economic opportunity.</p><p>This may be the last chance we have to turn this thing around before we hit the dustbin of History. The 47% are going to vote for “Give me more!” no matter what you say, so you might as well say what might motivate the undecided to finally decide and vote for freedom.</p><p>Mr. Romney could say that after spending trillions of dollars to revive the economy, recession is the new normal. He could point out that after years of apologizing and bowing to others, Mr. Obama has succeeded in changing us from the world’s sole superpower to the world’s punching bag. His campaign spots could remind everyone the workforce is shrinking, the lines for food stamps, welfare and disability are growing, and all the opposition offers is more of the same.</p><p>Since anyone who has lived in the Obama nation knows all these things, what should be the most effective campaign slogan Mr. Romney could use is “I’m not Obama.” He’s already using that; however, to win he needs to appeal to the hearts and the minds of those whose votes haven’t been put on layaway by the federal benefits machine. This election will be won or lost in the debates. If Mitt Romney will stand up and say what he means and mean what he says, and if he will make a case for returning to Constitutional government he will win. If he soft pedals for fear of making a mistake or offending someone he will deliver the Republic to the fate of all past republics: financial collapse and ruin.</p><p>Mr. Romney you need to show the people of this country that you are in it to win it. Show some passion and fight the good fight for truth, justice and the American way. And whatever you do, don’t surrender without a fight!</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
No One Wins
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/no-one-wins
2012-09-21T20:00:11.000Z
2012-09-21T20:00:11.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>Sometimes the unknown can be turned to good. </p><p>In <a href="http://www.pbcc.org/sermons/media/1269.html">Athens</a> Paul of Tarsus the Apostle to the Gentiles encountered the altar to an unknown god. In a city of 10,000 with approximately 30,000 alters, temples, and statues to gods this only made sense. As people obsessed with making sure they didn’t insult their temperamental and vengeful gods they had to cover all their bases just in case they’d left one out. To a man dedicated to spreading the Good News that the one true God of all creation had come to Earth as a man and paid the price for our sins, this flock of gods and their multitude of altars culminating in an altar to an unknown god could have been the cause of anxiety. </p><p>Instead Paul saw it for what it was: the emblem of a people who did not know God. And he used it as a launching pad for a teaching moment. He stood in the market place of ideas and expounded upon the salvation <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A24-25&version=NKJV">message</a>, “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.” Thus an unknown was turned to good.</p><p>In Arlington National Cemetery stands <a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tombofun.htm">the Tomb of the Unknowns</a>. This monument to heroes holds the remains of American soldiers who gave their lives and the last full measure of those lives, their identity, to protect our nation from foreign enemies. These unknown sons, brothers, and husbands stand forever as the anonymous symbol of American bravery and self-sacrifice. In their loss we have gained much: freedom, independence and inspiration. The unknown heroes still guard and protect the last best hope of man. Thus the unknown is turned to good.</p><p>On December 7, 1941 airplanes from the navy of the Japanese Empire struck without warning against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day an enraged America cheered as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked and received a declaration of war against Japan. Please note that he did not ask for a declaration of war against sneak attacks.</p><p>On September 11, 2001 the World Trade Towers in New York City were hit by two hijacked jets in what has been and will hopefully remain the largest and most deadly attack against the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave by a foreign enemy on American soil. The next day was there a declaration of war sought by our president? Was the enemy ever determined? Has a declaration of war ever been sought by our leaders or passed by our Congress?</p><p>President G. W. Bush did not ask for a declaration of war. Of the <a href="http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/16/bush-admits-majority-of-911-hijackers-were-saudis/">19 hijackers</a> fifteen were citizens of Saudi Arabia while the rest were one Egyptian, one Lebanese, and two from the Union of Arab Emirates. All of them were followers of Osama bin Laden the founder of al-Qaeda. All of them were radical fundamentalist Muslims. No declaration of war was ever sought against al-Qaeda. Instead we were told that America was no in a War on Terror. </p><p> Yes, President Bush did seek and obtain the <a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com1109t.asp">Authorization for Use of Military Force</a> (<a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ40/html/PLAW-107publ40.htm">AUMF</a>) from Congress which was passed on September 14, 2001. While this gave the president the <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ40/html/PLAW-107publ40.htm">authority</a> “to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons” it was not a declaration of war.</p><p>According to <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html">Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution</a>, only Congress has the power to declare war. It also has the power to pass laws and the AUMF is a law and thus it is valid and binding yet after eleven years perhaps we should ask ourselves why hasn’t a war ever been declared? And if it was who should we declare war upon?</p><p>America has not declared war since December 8, 1941, and yet we have fought the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the First Gulf War, and now the War on Terror. We are also fighting a <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/08/04/158141728/how-americas-losing-the-war-on-poverty">War on Poverty</a>, a <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-31/politics/29968614_1_drug-cartels-drug-lords-elasticity">War on Drugs</a>, a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-176927.html">War on Illiteracy</a>, and even a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-tactic-in-war-on-obesity-attack-portion-size/2012/06/02/gJQA4wzi9U_story.html">War on Obesity</a>. Ask yourself, are we winning any of these wars?</p><p>When you fight against a general opposed to a specific enemy it is like trying to herd snakes or nail jello to the wall. You might expend quite a bit of effort and you might feel like your accomplishing something; however, in the end the snakes go where they want and the jello ends up on the floor.</p><p>Everyone in America knows who attacked us on 9-11, and everyone knows who we are at war with: radical fundamentalist Islam. Not the religion of Islam but one virulent branch of it that has declared war on us and is straining every resource to bring about our destruction. Some may say this is a broad-brush statement; however, it can be easily made more specific. Our perennial negotiation partners, the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared war on America in <a href="http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/iran-declared-war-on-the-u-s-israel-in-1979-when-will-we-respond-decisively/">1979</a> and has been at war with us ever since even if we haven’t bothered to notice. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda declared war on America <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/projects/enemy-detention/al-qaeda-declarations">twice</a>, once in <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/military/july-dec96/fatwa_1996.html">1996</a> and again in <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/military/jan-june98/fatwa_1998.html">1998</a>. And our new friends and allies the Muslim Brotherhood declared war on America in <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2010/10/muslim-brotherhood-declares-war-on-america/">2010</a>. </p><p>If everyone knows who we are at war with why can’t our leaders say so? Why doesn’t our government declare war and marshal the vast power of the United States and its people to win?</p><p>The Bible <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+22%3A7&version=NKJV">tells us</a> “The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender.” America under the rule of the Progressives and their Environmental Religion have decreed that we cannot use our own energy and so we are eternally destined to stand in line for the oil of the Mideast. Saudi Arabia is one of our largest suppliers of oil so we couldn’t blame the Saudis just because the founder of al-Qaeda, the majority of the hijackers, and most of their funding are Saudi in origin. We can’t blame the Afghans even though they harbored bin Laden and provided him with a base to launch his attacks.</p><p>President Bush couldn’t bring himself to name our attackers or declare war on our enemies. Instead he followed in the footsteps of Truman who called the Korean War a police action and Johnson who said we could have <a href="http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/domestic.htm">guns and butter</a> as he sent hundreds of thousands of America’s finest to fight a war based on a <a href="http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=98">resolution</a> not a declaration. </p><p>Then along came Barack Obama. He began the foreign policy of his administration with a ritual prostration before Islam in his <a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/walid-shoebat-the-domino-effect-in-the-middle-east-began-with-obamas-cairo-speech/">Cairo speech</a> which began the process of our surrender in a war against no one. He followed up by going to Turkey, an Islamic nation, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4X9Be-wwA">declaring</a> America is not a Christian nation. Then he went to Saudi Arabia where he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/obama-bow-to-saudis-cnn-r_n_185281.html">bowed</a> to their king. Although this is just one in a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/obama-bowing-to-the-world/?page=all">series of bows</a> he regularly makes to world leaders it is significant because we are supposedly at war with the very people the Saudis support.</p><p>After Navy seals killed Osama bib Laden the Obama Administration did make a declaration. They declared that the War on Terror is <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/war-terror-over_640620.html">over</a>. Of course they hadn’t been able to see acts of Islamic Terrorism since arriving in Washington. His Secretary of Homeland Security wasn’t even able to say the word terrorism instead she replaced the word with <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/19/obama-speak-homeland-security-secretary-replaces-terrorism-term-man-caus">man-caused disaster</a>. And although he calls the murders in Aurora, Colorado terrorism when Army Maj. Nidal Hasan climbs on a table and shouts “Allah Akbar!” as he methodically killed thirteen people and wounded forty three, Mr. Obama instead says Hasan <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/10/obama_suggests_still_possible_hasan_may_have_cracked_under_stress.html">cracked under stress</a>. He <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/10/obama_suggests_still_possible_hasan_may_have_cracked_under_stress.html">explained</a>, “everybody understands how outstanding the young men and women in uniform are under the most severe stress. There are going to be instances in which an individual cracks.” At the memorial speech at Fort Hood he refused to call this obvious terrorist attack what it was <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/190024/still-willfully-blind-andrew-c-mccarthy">saying</a>, instead, “hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy.”</p><p>Now the attacks on our <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/2012920134020247511.html">embassies</a> and <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PROPHET_FILM_PROTEST_GLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-20-10-21-14">consulates</a> throughout the Islamic world are not terrorism they are instead a vocal movie review. The preplanned and coordinated <a href="http://fox4kc.com/2012/09/12/u-s-ambassador-to-libya-killed-in-terror-attack/">attack</a> that killed our Ambassador and three others in Libya is spontaneous. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fugitive-vp-says-iraq-letting-iran-ferry-arms-141912834--finance.html">Iraq</a> has been liberated and it now funnels Iranian men and material to support the Syrian regime. <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PROPHET_FILM_PROTEST_GLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-20-10-21-14">Afghanistan</a> has also been liberated and hundreds chant anti-American slogans in the street, as their U. S. trained military use our soldiers for target practice and everyone in the world knows they will kick out the corruptocracy of Kahrzai and welcome back the Taliban the day we leave.</p><p>Unless and until you admit you have a problem there is no hope for a solution. You can’t wrestle the fog. If we fight a war against no one we expend our most precious treasure: the lives of our heroes chasing rumors and killing time. And if we aren’t careful, if we don’t call our so-called leaders to account, this might end up as a war no one wins.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
China drops US currency, Russia jumps on board, and so much more...
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/china-drops-us-currency-russia-jumps-on-board-and-so-much-more
2012-09-15T16:40:38.000Z
2012-09-15T16:40:38.000Z
Dave Wallace
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<div>Thanks to Don Bender
Embassies – One killed at Sudan embassy, 28 wounded at Tunisia, 25 wounded in Lebanon, Marines sent to Yemen as a precaution. In Egypt police stopping protestors and firing tear gas. German and British embassies also stormed. Obummer Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood friends are at it. Starting to think Obummer knew this would happen. Muslims are so peaceful aren't they. They criticize all other religions as not being true but say something about their religion and boom violence.
Western embassies stormed in Sudan, Tunisia as anti-U.S. protests spread
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4281556,00.html">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4281556,00.html</a>
Hezbollah - An aide to Iran's supreme leader said Israel's military threats had "put Israeli citizens one step away from the cemetery" and that Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah was ready to hit back. Hezbollah has said any attack on Iran would be met by strikes against Israeli and US targets in the region, even if American forces played no role in the attack. So Lebanon intends to get into the fracas.
Hezbollah will 'easily' defend Iran against Israel
China and Yuan for Oil - "On Thursday, Sept. 6, just a few days ago, China made the official announcement. China said on that day, our banking system is ready, all of our communication systems are ready, all of the transfer systems are ready, and as of that day, Thursday, Sept. 6, any nation in the world that wishes from this point on, to buy, sell, or trade crude oil, can do so using the Chinese currency, not the American dollar. Do you think the USD may be circling the drain? Now along comes Russia.
"On Friday, Sept. 7, Russia announced, that as of today, we will supply China with all of the crude oil that they need, no matter how much they want, there is no limit. And Russia will not sell or trade this crude oil to China using the American dollar." So Russia maybe using China to sell their oil for the Yuan.
So in retaliation for Iran they have a system running to trade oil for the Yuan. This will take it's toll on the USD.
Obummer Islam Honoring White House Dinners – A must watch. Obummer holds an dinner to honor Ramadan every year in the White House. He says stuff like look at the Koran we have that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. See he is a narcisistic psychopath. He says Thomas Jefferson held a muslim honoring dinner in the White House, not true. Jefferson was indeed studying the Koran because he was worried about muslim barbary coast pirates terrorizing American shipping. Know thy enemy was the deal here, not any respect for them. Then Obummer goes on to praise a woman with deep ties to the muslim brotherhood that works in the US Government. Should watch.
Two US Destroyers Moved Off of Libya Coast - Appears to be a response to the killing of the US Ambassador there. Saber rattling.
Unlimited Detention Act Struck Down by Federal Judge – Katherine Forrest a NY Federal judge issued the ruling on Wednesday, which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. The suit was brought by activists and journalists, including former New York Times columnist Chris Hedges, who argued that the law was unconstitutional because it could see journalists abducted and detained merely for speaking their minds.
A DAY LATER THE OBUMMER ADMINISTRATION FILED AN APPEAL.
This JACKASS wants the unlimited detention and rest assured he doesn't intend to use it on the muslim brotherhood. Would you ever move to a country where their government could detain you forever as a citizen of that nation without any lawyers, judges, trials etc. I do not think so, yet most will not leave.
Obama Appeals Against Court Ruling That Strikes Down Indefinite Detention of American Citizens
Interesting Iran War Scenario – This one involves the US waiting for Israel to attack Iran. This would be a stuxnet type attack and an EMP strike, although he says EMP only. Then as Israel does the mop up attacks, after the Iranian offensive and defensive capabilities are gone and are returning back to Israel the US attacks their aircraft. This leads to a fight with disastrous outcomes. Obummer the muslim is capable of this. Good read. Don't think it is so far fetched. We thank Senor 4X for this article.
<a href="http://www.panamalaw.org/getting_out_of_dodge_09-14-12.html">http://www.panamalaw.org/getting_out_of_dodge_09-14-12.html</a></div>
Reap the Whirlwind
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/reap-the-whirlwind
2012-09-14T16:45:21.000Z
2012-09-14T16:45:21.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>In 1219 the Shah of the Islamic <a href="http://mongoliad.com/wiki/Khwarezmid%20Empire">Khwarezmid Empire</a> (present day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan), Ala ad-Din Muhammad had the ambassadors of Genghis Khan <a href="http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b3kahngenghis.htm">killed</a>. This affront to diplomatic convention led to a devastating invasion and the total destruction of the Khwarezmid Empire. </p><p>No-one would advocate the slash and burn/take no prisoner response of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. However, to allow the first murder of an American ambassador since the Carter debacle to go unanswered is beyond the pale of poor leadership straying towards the realm of either complete ineptitude or dereliction of duty. </p><p>President Obama reminds us at every turn that Islam is the religion of peace. He also goes out of his way to teach us about the many contributions Muslims have made to world civilization. He even <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/">told</a> NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that his most important mission as the head of America's space agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. There is a pattern here. Mr. Obama is using the Bully Pulpit and every avenue available to him as the most powerful man in the world to sow the wind with the seeds of Islam’s rise and America’s decline.</p><p>Being a Christian I obviously have an opinion concerning the <a href="http://www.bibleprobe.com/muhammad.htm">theological</a> truth of Muhammad’s answer to the need all people feel for God. I confess Jesus as my Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead. That is enough to say I believe the fundamental tenets of Islam do not match reality as I perceive it.</p><p>Being a Historian I have an opinion on the peaceful History of Islam. It is fiction. Islam has been a <a href="http://answering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv2.html">religion of war</a> since its invention. Over and over Islamic powers and movements have attacked those who choose not to follow their prophet. They also forbid the free exercise of religion in any land unfortunate enough to fall under their power. They deny human rights, political rights, and economic rights. They <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,185647,00.html">oppress women</a> making them possessions of their fathers, husbands, or brothers in a legal code based upon the very foundation of the religion: the Koran. </p><p>Have Christians done things wrong? Yes. Every Christian Historian, Theologian, and Preacher has branded the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the <a href="http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?action=read&artid=633">Encomienda System</a> of forced labor and conversion in Spanish America as aberrations and a blight upon the faith. Were these horrendous crimes as terrible as those of Islam? Yes. The difference is that they were all clearly contrary to the Bible which forms the basis for Christian faith while the depredations of Islam are the logical expressions of the Koran.</p><p>According to his <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/claim-absolute-proof-obama-was-indonesian-citizen/">school records</a> in Indonesia Mr. Obama was listed as a <a href="http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_5020.html">Muslim</a>. He <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/claim-absolute-proof-obama-was-indonesian-citizen/">attended</a> Islamic education during the six years he lived there which was mandatory in all schools in Indonesia at that time. He <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/claim-absolute-proof-obama-was-indonesian-citizen/">tells us</a> that the morning call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth. A <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/obama-muslim_n_1706522.html">Pew Research study</a> finds that 17% of registered voters believe Barak Hussein Obama (the name he used when he was sworn in to be our president) is a Muslim. Thirty one percent said they weren’t sure. What <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY">evidence</a> has not been sealed by presidential order is conflicting and confusing. He says he isn’t. He says he is a Christian, and I cannot know his heart. We can judge his actions. For over twenties years he was a member of the church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright whose brand of racist <a href="http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology">Black Liberation Theology</a> is a branch of the worldwide Liberation Theology movement which has been <a href="http://truedsicernment.com/2010/12/30/its-called-liberation-theology-and-its-a-hate-filled-heresy/">branded as a heresy</a> by the <a href="http://nacla.org/node/4619">Catholic Church</a> where it was born as well as by leaders of most other denominations. It is widely regarded as the <a href="http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology">Christianized version of Marxism</a>.</p><p>In the past three + years Barak Obama has done everything imaginable <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/obama%E2%80%99s-new-islamic-world-order/">to advance the cause</a> of radical Islam by giving major speeches in <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23334.html">Egypt</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23334.html">Turkey</a> where he assured the world America is not a Christian nation, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/president-obama-supports-building-mosque-ground/story?id=11401964">Supporting</a> a Mosque at Ground Zero, <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2012/09/15702-as-president-obama-praises-arab-spring-on-911-u-s-embassy-stormed-in-egypt/">approving and supporting</a> the so-called Arab Spring that toppled regimes supportive of America and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/congressman-allen-west/the-muslim-bhood-takeover-in-egypt-shows-arab-spring-is-radical-islamic-nightmar/376111592441874">installed</a> Islamist ones. Now paraphrasing his pastor, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1#.UFI2CVFbL2I">Reverend Jeremiah Wright</a> who was quoting <a href="http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_120463.htm">Malcolm X</a>, Barack’s chickens are coming home to roost. Only it is our brave Foreign Service workers and representatives who are paying the price.</p><p>As Americans are shocked by the violence in the Mideast because of a movie, does anyone in the media reflect on the fact that American Christians don’t behave this way when their religion is insulted and denigrated even when it is done at <a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Apostasy/nea.htm">taxpayers’ expense</a>? No, the Corporations Once Called the Mainstream Media drank too much Kool-Aide and are too far in the tank for the Progressives to mention anything like that. Instead they defend an administration whose well-worn <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/">socialist slogan</a>, “Forward” should be, “Obama – Biden Hey! It Could Be Worse” and whose answer for everything is “<a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-reads-the-obama-blames-diaries/">It’s somebody else’s fault</a>.” </p><p>One day after radical Islamists in a country Mr. Obama sent America to war to free kill an American ambassador all the Media can <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_media_lash_out_HNPkdtmODaHZG4n6roFo4H">talk</a> about is that Mitt Romney reacted poorly. </p><p>How does Obama’s failure to protect America, its prestige, and its interests become Romney’s gaff? It is through the <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/09/13/journalists_collaborate_on_romney_attack_289983.html">collusion</a> of a complicit media that is nothing more than the communication arm of the DNC. No matter how the communication commissars seek to <a href="http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=119078&article=10413935">deny</a> that they are purveyors of a tainted product the obvious bias and advocacy of the Progressive agenda is visible for all to see as reporters unaware of an open microphone <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/open-mic-catches-reporters-coordinating-questions-ahead-of-romney-press-conference/">coordinate</a> what questions to ask Romney to steer a question and answer session in the direction that fits their play book. They fall over themselves to accuse Mr. Romney of politicizing events and undermining American foreign policy as they conveniently forget that Mr. Obama <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/barack-obama-used-troop-deaths-to-ding-bush-mccai">used</a> the deaths of American servicemen to attack McCain and Bush in 2008.</p><p>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Ottoman Empire which had once ruled from India to Morocco and from Arabia to Vienna was known as the <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860176.html">Sick Man of Europe</a>. It was still vast in extent, rich in trade and natural resources, but its economy was in a shambles and consequently it was no longer able to maintain its military power and was now the victim of continuous attacks and invasions by neighbors who wanted a little plunder or territory. Britain took Egypt. Spain took Morocco. Italy took Libya. Serbia, Greece, and Romania first gained their independence and then started chewing off piece after piece as the Turks blustered and pretended that they were still a great power long after the national will to do what was necessary to remain a power had vanished.</p><p>Under the pro Islamist, anti-colonial leadership of Barack Obama America is careening towards a foreign policy of defeat and shame. His domestic agenda is spending us into oblivion and the poor house.</p><p>The recent tragic events in Egypt and Libya, the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-protests-idUSBRE88C0J320120913">on-going</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/world/middleeast/mideast-turmoil-spreads-to-us-embassy-in-yemen.html?_r=2">turmoil</a> throughout the Islamic world and its violence against Americans all ostensibly over a movie shows the religion of peace for what it really is: a religion of intolerance, hatred, and war. These same events and our reaction to them show the Obama administration for what it is too: the Sick Man of American History.</p><p>This November let’s take the cure and let America be America again or we will learn that if you sow the wind you <a href="http://bible.cc/hosea/8-7.htm">reap the whirlwind</a>.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
Is There Any Hope of Change?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/is-there-any-hope-of-change
2012-09-07T19:43:50.000Z
2012-09-07T19:43:50.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>The two major political parties have a lock on power in the United States. The election laws, the media and family voting patterns all collude to make the election of a third party candidate to the Presidency a near impossibility. The closest in the lifetime of anyone reading this happened in 1992 when Ross Perot <a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1992">garnered</a> 18.91% of the vote and not one electoral vote. He has long been blamed for causing the defeat of Bush the Elder and the election of Clinton the Last. Whether Mr. Perot did have such a dramatic effect on the presidential election is still debated. Just as in most theological debates <a href="http://race42012.com/2011/04/20/did-ross-perot-elect-bill-clinton/">both</a> <a href="http://www.leinsdorf.com/perot.htm">sides</a> offer well-constructed arguments supported by what they consider irrefutable scripture references or in this case, the life’s blood of political statements: statistics.</p><p>One certainty that cannot be debated is that Perot did not have an honest man’s chance in Washington to be elected.</p><p>Consequently either Barak Obama will continue as America’s president or he will be unseated and Mitt Romney will replace him. There may be others running. There may be better qualified people. There may be someone who could inspire and lead us all into a second century of American ascendance; however, despite whomever else there may be it will be either the Democrat Obama or the Republican Romney. Life may not be fair but it usually is predictable, and this is as predictable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West. One of the two parties of power will win.</p><p>Given this preordained outcome is there really any hope of change? Or will we continue to watch helplessly as the perpetually re-elected parties continue to spend us into oblivion?</p><p>With Mr. Obama’s second term there is no doubt that all we can expect is more of the same, on steroids. Mr. Obama has <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-in-my-second-term-republicans-will-have-to-agree-with-me/article/2506675#.UESyOqNbL2I">said</a>, “I think that after this election, we’ll be in a position to once again reach out to Republicans and say that the American people have rendered a judgment, and the positions we’re taking are well within what used to be considered bipartisan centrist approaches.”</p><p>A divided government, if the Republicans maintain control of the House, might slow things down, however Mr. Obama has shown he is ready, willing and with the silence of Congress able to rule by decree. If Congress won’t pass the Dream Act he imposes it. If Congress won’t pass Cap-N-Trade he regulates it into being. So we know that if he wins a second term it will be his way or the highway. His agenda will continue to be the national agenda and four more years might be enough to sink the ship of state in a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theclowardpivenstrategypoe.html">Cloward–Piven Strategy</a> overwhelming the system scenario.</p><p>Four more years of the Obama led Democrat Progressives and we may be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4">fundamentally transformed</a> beyond recognition. The heritage of our Founding Fathers may become the lost cause of a failed experiment in individual liberty and economic freedom as America descends into the morass of a welfare state based on re-distribution and political correctness. In other words, the dream of Obama’s father.</p><p>That is one side of the coin. What about the other?</p><p>If we get Tweedledee <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tweedledee">instead</a> of Tweedledum will it be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY">morning in America</a> again? Will the ghost of the <a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/win-one-for-the-gipper.html">Gipper</a> lead us from the government’s shovel-never-ready Great Recession into a new era where things are made in America again and everything’s coming up roses?</p><p>There is no way from where we are: 16 trillion in debt, a decimated industrial base and a large proportion of our population addicted to government handouts, back to being the largest creditor in the world, the largest manufacturer, a land of self-reliant patriots without major dislocations, and dare I say it, austerity.</p><p>Mr. Romney’s <a href="http://libertybullhorn.com/romneys-59-point-plan/">fifty nine point plan</a> to save the economy is a well-crafted and well-presented plan to revitalize America’s economy through a pro-capitalist free market approach. It is however not as easy to explain or present as tax the rich and give everyone else free stuff. Since it is better known and has been more widely and perhaps more eloquently presented the Republicans appear to be fronting with Paul Ryan’s plan to save America. Both the Romney and the Ryan plan are a clear step away from the plunder policies of Mr. Obama and his Progressive shock troops. </p><p>However, neither Republican plans adequately addresses the entitlement time bomb. Neither projects a <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/mitt-romney-balance-budget.php">balanced</a> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012/08/14/paul-ryans-real-goal-its-not-a-balanced-budget/">budget</a> in any timely fashion and neither proposes any way to ensure that future Congresses live by any restraints imposed. Both promise to preserve our imperial <a href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/01/13612739-romney-ryan-vow-not-to-cut-military-budget?lite">defense</a> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203604577395912231544568.html">spending</a> needed to support two wars and more than 100 foreign bases. Both rattle sabers in the direction of <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0725/What-would-President-Romney-do-about-Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Republican_Party_War_+_Peace.htm">Iran</a>. What we have is an effort to slow the growth of the debt by reducing the yearly deficits. </p><p>Slowing the growth is decidedly better than accelerating but the debt keeps growing and the abyss that looms ahead of us is the unsustainability of the debt. A future rise in interest rates will sink the ship as the service on the debt wipes out the government’s ability to keep its promises or meet its obligations. This is the very scenario the Progressives have been progressing towards. The people who tell us <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow">never to let a crisis go to waste</a> have long worked incrementally to lead us to the crisis at the end of the Constitution. A final crisis when limited government will be completely unshackled and the central planners will triumph. </p><p>If Romney wins he and his administration may put a speed bump on the expressway to the poor house, but unless they are ready to shut down the gravy train and turn off the spigot of re-distribution we will merely postpone the day of reckoning. Slower is better than faster when it comes to assuming room temperature; however, unless we turn this ship around we’re headed for the shoals of bankruptcy and the reefs of insolvency either way.</p><p>Even though Mr. Obama makes the Carter Administration look like the good old days don’t count out the machines ability to pull an election out of their hat. From no <a href="http://gaanderson.hubpages.com/hub/Fight-Against-Voter-ID-Card-Requirement-Exposed">voter IDs</a> and <a href="../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/LHB3CSNB/Black%20Panthers%20patrolling%20the%20polls">Black Panthers patrolling the polls</a>, from polling places in <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dead_voters_dying_democracy_mZiteqXrMHygrJhVFYOTxL">cemeteries</a>, to every obstacle imaginable in the way of people in our <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Ohio-military-vote-Democrats/2012/08/03/id/447552">armed forces voting</a> this will be a no-holds-barred Chicago-style campaign by the Democrats. The Progressives know this is the one they need. This is the election that will seal the deal and finally transform America into a re-distribution center with them picking all the winners and losers. They win…America loses.</p><p>As one example of how the institutions the Progressives have built over the years will line up to re-elect Barack Obama, look at the recent moves of the Federal Reserve.</p><p>The Federal Reserve is <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-03/fed-moves-toward-open-ended-bond-purchases-to-satisfy-bernanke.html">moving</a> to inject massive amounts of money into the economy, while keeping interest rates near zero, before the election in a clear move to help re-elect President Obama. How are they going to do this? Will they just print more money? No, they wouldn’t do anything so crude or easy to see as that. Instead, they will announce an open ended mandate to purchase Treasury Bonds and mortgage backed securities. This is QE (Quantitative Easing) 3 in all but name. In QE1 the Fed bought $2.3 trillion of securities and in QE2 $600 billion of Treasuries. How big will this round of pump priming be? <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-03/fed-moves-toward-open-ended-bond-purchases-to-satisfy-bernanke.html">According</a> to San Francisco Fed President <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/john-williams/">John Williams</a>, since this is an open ended authorization it could eventually be, “at least as large as QE2 or arguably even larger again.” The casino stock market will soar, and the Fed, through its Chairman, will continue to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-14/watch-bernanke-s-little-inflation-capsize-u-s-amity-shlaes.html">assure</a> us inflation is small, negligible, and nothing we won’t be able to handle. Then again, what’s a little inflation if it helps re-elect a president whose goal is to swamp the system. </p><p>Expect an October surprise such as action against Iran or Syria. Expect an encouraging jobs report right before the election that will be revised lower later. Expect the Obama Administration to do whatever it takes to win.</p><p>Romney’s road may still lead to the poor house but Obama’s is a bullet train to nowhere. Is there any hope for change? Not with what we’ve heard so far. Maybe there is a chance to switch from the certainty of near term collapse to the promise of at least a few more stations and a few more track changes before we hit the wall. Who knows with enough time maybe enough people will get up off the couch, turn off the game, and pay attention to make a difference. At least that would be a change we could all hope for.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
Socialism is as Socialism Does
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/socialism-is-as-socialism-does
2012-08-31T18:50:21.000Z
2012-08-31T18:50:21.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Ronald Reagan <a href="http://www.thinking-catholic-strategic-center.com/anti-american-quotes.html">taught</a> us, “How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” </p><p>Barack Obama’s mentor as a young man was communist party member <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-communist-frank-marshall-davis-the-untold-story-of-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-mentor/">Frank Marshall Davis</a>. As a community organizer he was a <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/03/29/obama039s_affinity_for_saul_alinsky_276330.html">follower and promoter</a> of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314">communist fellow-traveler</a> Saul Alinsky’s methods and goals. As a professional in Hyde Park he associated with socialist radicals such as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/06/04/Obama-Ayers">Bill Ayers</a>. As an up-and-coming Chicago Politician he attended the church of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMZHQsQJ6Y">Reverend Jeremiah Wright</a>, an outspoken proponent of the <a href="http://thepartyofknow.com/2011/03/16/rev-wright-admits-black-liberation-theology-and-socialism-even-marxism-sound-the-same-capitalism-is-a-demon/">socialist</a> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html">Black Liberation Theology</a>. As president he appointed communist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otM3pWOBWWk">Van Jones</a> to be one of his many Czars. Mr. Obama says he is not a socialist. However, simple logic tells us if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck you can be relatively certain it’s a duck.</p><p>Mr. Obama has told us that he seeks to be a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2009-04-16-raasch-column-04162009_N.htm">transformational president</a> like his idol FDR. He was bold enough to tell us just days before the election in 2008 that he would <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4">fundamentally transform America</a>. In just one term he has accomplished much along the way to changing us from what we have always been into what the Progressives have always wanted us to be.</p><p>How has Barak Obama transformed us? Into what is he transforming us? A look at his impressive *list of firsts as president of these United States points in the direction he is herding us:</p><ul><li>First President to have a Social Security number <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/obamas-conn-social-security-number-hits-rush/">from a state where he has never lived</a></li><li>First President to preside over a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-05/egan-jones-cuts-u-s-rating-one-step-to-aa-citing-growing-debt.html">cut to the credit-rating</a> of the United States</li><li>First President to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/15/kucinich-obama-war-powers-act-libya_n_877396.html">violate the War Powers Act</a></li><li>First President to be <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-03/u-s-administration-in-contempt-over-gulf-drill-ban-judge-rules.html">held in contempt of court</a> for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico</li><li>First President to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/affordable_care_act/index.html">require that all Americans purchase a product</a> from a third party as a condition of citizenship</li><li>First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and then <a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/obama-jokes-about-shovel-ready-jobs/">joke</a> that shovel ready wasn’t quite as shovel ready as he thought </li><li>First President to <a href="http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/05/20/chrysler-bondholders-may-challenge-obama.php">abrogate bankruptcy law</a> to <a href="http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/11/bailout-of-gm-was-a-boon-for-the-union-old-bondholders-still-suffer/">turn over control of companies</a> to his union supporters</li><li>First President to by-pass Congress and implement laws such as the <a href="http://americaswatchtower.com/2012/06/15/barack-obama-implements-the-dream-act-through-executive-order/">Dream Act</a> and <a href="http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=8471">Cap-n-Trade</a> through executive fiat</li><li>First President to demand a <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obamas-creepy-dictatorial-20-billion-dollar-ultimatum-to-bp/">company hand-over $20 billion</a> to one of his political appointees</li><li>First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (GM) <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-501563_162-4901352.html">to resign</a></li><li>First President to terminate America's ability to <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011072214112/editorial/us-opinion-and-editorial/obama-end-of-nasa-space-shuttle-program-and-his-muslim-agenda.html">put a man in space</a></li><li>First President to <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/obama-cancels-national-day-prayer-service-3277520.html">cancel the National Day of Prayer</a> and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation</li><li>First President to have a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/us/politics/28sign.html">law signed by an auto-pen</a> without being present</li><li>First President to send the families of fallen service members a <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/obama-honored-fallen-seals-by-sending-their-parents-a-form-letter-signed-by-electric-pen/">form letter signed with an auto-pen</a></li><li>First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and <a href="http://lawriot.com/2011/02/obama-refuses-to-enforce-doma/">refuse to enforce</a> it (DOMA)</li><li>First President to <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2010/09/09/hhs-explicitly-threatens-the-insurance-lobby/">threaten insurance companies</a> if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases</li><li>First President to tell a major manufacturing company in <a href="http://www.disclose.tv/forum/government-tells-boeing-it-can-t-open-a-new-plan-in-sc-t51448.html">which state</a> it is allowed to locate a factory</li><li>First President to file lawsuits against the <a href="http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/49767/will-the-doj-end-up-suing-half-the-country/">states</a> he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)</li><li>First President to actively try to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/22/obamas-war-on-coal-hits-your-electric-bill/">bankrupt</a> an American industry (coal)</li><li>First President to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html">fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps</a> for catching one of his friends in a corruption case</li><li>First President to appoint <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-comprehensive-special-report-on-president-obama-s-45-czars/">45 czars</a> to his office</li><li>First President to golf <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/14/obamas-100th-golf-round/">more than 100 times</a> separate times in his first three and a half years in office</li><li>First President to <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/exclusive-investigative-reports/the-mystery-of-barack-obama-continues/">hide his medical, educational and travel records</a></li><li>First President to win a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/obama-wins-nobel-peace-pr_n_314907.html">Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing</a> to earn it</li><li>First President to go on multiple global “<a href="http://thehill.com/video/house/215103-obama-apology-tour-ridiculed-by-house-republican-in-floor-speech">apology tours</a>” and concurrent “<a href="http://drewmusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/the-obama-insult-tour/">insult our friends</a>” tours</li><li>First President to go on <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/michelles-ski-trip-marks-16-obama-vacations/article/294051">16 lavish vacations</a>, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer</li><li>First President to have <a href="http://votingamerican.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/michelle-obamas-1591200-white-house-staff-of-22-twenty-two/">22 personal servants</a> (taxpayer funded) for his wife</li><li>First President to keep a <a href="http://www.dcjunkies.com/showthread.php?32165-Obama-s-dog-trainer-earns-102-000-at-taxpayer-expense">dog trainer on retainer</a> for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense</li><li>First President to publicly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoQkMHg_oWg">read from</a> the Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=2parewanted=print&">most beautiful sound on earth</a></li><li>First President to recite the Muslim call to prayer in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuXxtg4M_z8">perfect Arabic</a></li><li>First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-10/politics/veterans.health.insurance_1_disabled-american-veterans-veterans-of-foreign-wars-service-related-injuries?_s=PM:POLITICS">private insurance</a></li><li>First President to <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/immigration-arizona-mexico-calderon/2010/05/19/id/359570">side with a foreign nation</a> over one of America’s 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona)</li></ul><p>Mr. Obama is leading us from being the first among nations to being just another vote in the United Nations. Now there’s a level playing field for you. And now it’s time for another election, some say our most important, some say perhaps our last.</p><p>In many ways this election cycle is refreshing. For generations the Progressives have pretended to be something they are not to win elections. They have pretended to be dedicated to the American dream of personal liberty, economic freedom and the belief that America was different from other nations, that as the world’s first and most enduring modern experiment in a republic based on limited government we were exceptional. Although the policies of the Progressives have always been at odds with this assumed identity at least every election cycle they would tip their hat to the America of our fathers and portray themselves as a Thomas Jefferson or an Andrew Jackson. </p><p>Therefore, 2012 is shaping up to be the election where the Progressives cast aside their mask and run as who they are: the American version of socialism promising to tax the rich and spread the wealth around, from each according to their ability to each according to their need. </p><p>If Mr. Obama wins re-election on this platform the Progressives will finally have their chance to give Americans the same kind of cradle-to-grave utopia the happy people of Russia, China, North Korea, and Hitler’s Germany have had the fortune to endure. If Mr. Obama wins re-election espousing the true intentions of the Progressives, to change the constitution from a rock solid foundation for freedom into a living document that is a dead letter, he will succeed at his vow to fundamentally transform America.</p><p>He will fundamentally transform the dreams of our fathers for a land of liberty and opportunity into the dreams of his <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_case_against_barack_obama_sr.html">father</a> who was <a href="http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/senior.htm">a pro-communist social engineer</a> and America will become just another country trying to build heaven on earth by plundering some to benefit others.</p><p>As to his <a href="http://exposingobama.wordpress.com/the-quotes/"> utopian</a> beliefs and aspirations President Obama has said, “I am confident we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth”</p><p>President Reagan also <a href="http://www.thinking-catholic-strategic-center.com/anti-american-quotes.html">told</a> us, “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it, and hell where they already have it.”</p><p>*Lists of Mr. Obama’s firsts are found numerous places. The sources referenced for each first are merely representative of the many available for each.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com/">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
The god Particle I Don’t Think So
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/the-god-particle-i-don-t-think-so
2012-08-23T20:16:04.000Z
2012-08-23T20:16:04.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Arrogance is a funny thing. Not Ha Ha funny, but funny none-the-less. I was watching one of America’s leading physicists the other day, <a href="http://mkaku.org/">a man</a> made famous by his co-authorship of String Theory and made popular by his ability to make people without a scientific education believe they understand what he’s talking about. He repeatedly made the statement that today physicists understand 99.9%of how the Universe works and that the .01% that was missing is the never before seen but previously postulated <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/05/elusive-particle-5-implications-finding-higgs-boson/">Higgs Boson</a> particle popularly known as the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/higgs-boson-evidence-god-particle-reported-fermilab-physicists/story?id=16695742#.UDP0O6NbL2I">god particle</a>.</p><p>The reason he was on a popular news show was because other scientists in Switzerland had announced that they had found the ever elusive <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-07-05/Higgs-boson-explanation-particle-physics/56045722/1">god particle</a> by producing a mini-Big Bang in the world’s largest cyclotron by smashing atoms together. The Big Bang is what atheist scientists have to call creation because all their evidence proves that the universe, just started. They have come to believe that at one moment there was nothing and then a split nano-second later there was everything. Since they find it impossible to believe that God merely said, “Let there be” and it was they instead have mentally manufactured the Big Bang Theory, which along with the Theory of Evolution is taught to every school child as if it were established fact. </p><p>The Big Bang Theory goes like this: once upon a time there was nothing except the tiniest of points that contained the essence of everything. They even say there was no time because time itself was nonexistent before the Big Bang. Then spontaneously this tiniest of points exploded and in a flash it expanded into gases and stars and planets and galaxies. Using rooms full of chalk boards these highly educated scientists prove that all of everything came from something: a teeny tiny point of compressed something. </p><p>They piously tell us all their observations prove this is so. All their chalk filled blackboards prove this is so. All their experiments prove this is so. And now after they have discovered 99.9% of the truth the production of the missing god particle absolutely <a href="http://www.moneylife.in/article/the-god-particle-unscientific-claims/27870.html">proves</a> it is so. Just give them a little more time and they will be able to tell us exactly how the universe created itself.</p><p>How nice.</p><p>Luckily there are these eloquent popularizers who are able to act as a verbal interface allowing the scientifically and mathematically challenged masses peek behind the curtain. It’s a good thing because it is our tax money that pays for all their orbiting telescopes, cyclotrons, and blackboards. And since the majority of us are Christians who believe God created the world it’s convenient to have someone to explain to us why all the money we spend proves we are actually deluded provincials with a quaint faith in an unseen Father who created and upholds everything with His word, wrote a book to tell us about it, and then sent His only Son to die at our hands for our redemption. </p><p>Now that is money well spent. Pay billions and billions to have scientific shamans to tell us that what we believe are fables and what they believe is fact. Maybe we should spend our billions on magic beans instead, and then we could climb up to heaven and find out what really happened. Or maybe we should build a tower that reaches into heaven so our priest-king-scientist could give God a physical, and then tell us all about why He isn’t there.</p><p>Our super smart highly educated and well financed scientists tell us they don’t operate on faith; instead they operate on logic and objective evidence. Yet when you examine their chain of thought and peer into their evidence it is a fabric of conjectures based upon one leap of faith after another. They have convinced themselves the air castles they have constructed are more than science fiction, but why should we believe them? They do sound sincere and they do act as if they know what they are talking about, but so does the flim-flam man who tries to sell us the Brooklyn Bridge or the politician who tells us they can manage the debt and give everyone everything.</p><p>For one thing their very confidence that they have the universe 100% or even 99.9% figured out ought to tell us these wizards aren’t ever going to really give us a heart, or courage, and certainly not a brain. They may give us a medal or a degree and then explain how they are just what they promised when they aren’t but they can’t deliver on the real thing. When Toto finally pulls the curtain back will we then realize we have spent billions upon billions to supposedly prove fantasies labeled as truth when we have had the truth all along: God created the universe, and we are here because of Him, in Him, and for Him. That may be too simplistic for the wizards to believe but their flights of fancy ought to be too fantastic for us to swallow.</p><p>For instance all these grand theories of everything never tell us where the incredibly compressed point comes from. They never tell us how long the point was in a state of perfect equilibrium just hanging there in the nothing. They never tell us what would have caused the point to explode. Yet they try to tell us they have it all figured out. Go figure.</p><p>I find it comical that believing in an all-knowing all-powerful God who created everything and everyone is too hard for people to believe but when a highly educated, highly financed, and media savvy spokes model tells us that everything created itself millions of people nod their heads and stand in line to give them more money for more experiments and blackboards so that we can expand our knowledge to what 110%?</p><p>This all reminds me of two things.</p><p>One:</p><p>There have been other times when societies and their wizards thought they knew everything.</p><p>A man named <a href="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Ptolemy.html">Ptolemy</a> once proved that the whole universe revolves around the earth. Eventually a <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/texts/ptolemy/ptolemy.html">complicated model</a> was constructed by dedicated mathematicians and philosophers to demonstrate and prove how it worked. Galileo among others was <a href="http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/galileo.html">arrested</a>, tried, and convicted for saying the Earth revolves around the Sun. Once the alchemists knew there was a <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/456733/philosophers-stone">philosopher’s stone</a> that would turn iron into gold. At one point the leading lights of science knew the world was flat while Columbus knew he could sail from Europe to Asia in a straight line. In the 1890s <a href="http://amperefitz.com/scalarwu.pdf">scientists assured us</a> we knew everything about everything. Now the Big Bang explains it all and the god particle is the key to understanding how nothing became everything.</p><p>Two:</p><p>All these theories of everything that eliminate God remind me of the story about a scientist who when asked where his computer came from didn’t know so he said, “There was a pile of parts laying in a junk yard for billions of years and one day they were struck by lightning and out popped this computer.” This scientist had a blackboard full of equations that proved he was right. He had spent billions of tax dollars conducting of experiments that proved he was right. And he sounded very convincing when he explained it all. His theory was accepted and taught in all the schools, so now our children can come home and tell us where computers come from.</p><p>And the cow jumped over the moon.</p><p>It also reminds me of the story about a scientist who said to God, “You’re not so much. I’ve figured out how to create life in my laboratory.”</p><p>“You have?” said God.</p><p>“Yes I have and I’m willing to have a competition to prove I can create life just like you,” said the scientist as he wrote two rooms full of equations to show God how much he knew.</p><p>“Okay,” said God as He stooped down picked up some dirt and started fashioning a man.</p><p>The scientist picked up some dirt and started pouring it from one test tube to another when God smiled and said, “Hey! Get your own dirt.”</p><p>Even if we can prove how something happened does that tell us why? Since every chain of events has to have a beginning our wizards have had to come face-to-face with “In the beginning.” However, without faith they can’t see the forest for the tree. So instead of giving God the glory for his creation they try to construct creation without a creator, which reminds me of the atheist who knows there is no heaven and prays there is no hell.</p><p>I love to listen to the wizards. I read their books and watch their shows. However, I march to the beat of a different drummer, “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that <i>were</i> on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
Is Same-Sex marriage a civil right?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/2845877-Topic-37051
2012-08-17T22:02:22.000Z
2012-08-17T22:02:22.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div>Marriage and Civil rights?
> The predicate.
> The Answer: No Moral wrong can ever be a civil right.
> It is as simple as the mathematical truth: 0 =1 is false.
> What elements create a moral wrong?
> What isn't moral? It isn't moral In benefiting one group of people where by you are stealing benefit or well being from another class of people.
> A family= two adults who create children. So in this case we have the Couple with the ability to create a child or group of children. So the dynamic is a couple on one hand and a child on the other.
> The couple: the child/children
> When we discuss this situation we must point out the obvious and The truth which is: you may not make physical violence to another human being, unless you or someone or some group are being attacked with physical violence by that same person or group of people. No one of sound mine believes that, advocates that or condones that, regardless of the manner in which it is being couched on the 5 o'clock local news.
> But for those advocates of same sex marriage, those that will destroy the fabric of society you don't have to embrace their arguments or their reality of same sex marriage which will bring about the destruction of that society. Additionally, You don't condone it either. As a matter of fact, And it is moral to do so, you resist it as the anathema of a Functional society which it is. The consequences whether intended or not would be devastating on Biological terms as well as on sociological and Psychological terms. The reasons are simple.
> On Biological terms it is especially simple. And for many the discussion could stop right here. The behavior would be a shunt to the continuation of the propagation of the species itself. It is a trait of all species to "go forth and multiply" that is a physical impossibility in the same sex marriage equation or paradigm. So on that element alone the argument of it being moral it fails.
>
> Also the psychological and sociological reasons against same-sex marriage go to the destruction of the well being of society and the individuals emotional well-being. When an individual is nurtured in a loving heterosexual family he is inculcated with the traits of a mother and a father who, they, by genetics, hormones, and learned behavior give him those traits which allow that child male and female to flourish. In the culture of mankind that was devised by nature and honed by evolution where both a man and a woman are required to create human life we have a natural order of both genders participating in the development of behavior of the person. The social interaction on all levels is developed. We remember the adage, that a child or any person will "do as i do", as well or more so than from "do as i say." Children learn by training on all levels. They see love between a man and a woman in a marriage and they emulate that behavior. We can not hide, disregard or eliminate this simple truth. Also each genders intrinsic nature is imparted into the individual allowing for proper social interactions in that male or female which will eventually create a person who in turn will be able to properly interact with a member of the opposite sex, Fall in love, and create children of their own, and thus repeating the cycle. That is what a species does, and on a thinking order of animal life a society supports.
> Societally Marriage is only for the proper up-bringing of children within what we call a Family, not insignificantly a loving family. Love is a strong stimuli, and it competes with the other basic instincts of survival of the species, even the need to eat and to drink and to the fundamental element of self-preservation. Love creates a need for union, both physical proximity and emotionally through harmony of the interactions of the couple. Love creates the secondary desire to do right, support and protect one another, and the unit that it creates, the Family. One can argue or say a same sex couple has the same traits except for one major and irreconcilable difference: It does not rise to the level of Marriage, as it is not created for the purpose or benefit of creating offspring where there is known occur, and is known to be in a loving family where there is a nurturing of Children. (This lends to the argument of celibacy before marriage as well but will be addressed at a different time) The Word for children in German is Kinder. In English we have the word Kind. We work hard as parents to create kind, loving, empathetic children who understand respect for righteous authority, and respect for the rights of others. marriage is for this purpose. It is not strictly to create a societal condonation of a life style which hurts one element of the equation of the family. Where the child is relegated to insubstantial, and only the Union of the couple has merit. So it is entirely unnecessary and actually destructive to the pure and never changing purpose of the Marriage which is to create structure to the Family and the edifice upon which the perpetuation of society depend and the offspring who create and build upon that society.</div>
Education is the Foundation of the Future
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/education-is-the-foundation-of-the-future
2012-08-17T00:42:11.000Z
2012-08-17T00:42:11.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Have you ever asked yourself, “How can Progressives like President Obama hate America? How can anyone who was raised in the most free and prosperous society in the History of the world believe America is an imperialistic power and the source of evil?”</p><p>If we can’t understand our adversary we may defeat them, but we will never know what it is that motivated them. This lack of understanding leaves us open to assault by the same forces in the future. If we wish not only to defeat Barack Obama and the forces of Progressivism in the November elections but also to set America on the path to restoration we must understand the root cause of the Progressive delusion and modern Liberalism which Michael Savage has correctly labeled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEwVcsHnf3o">a mental illness</a>, and I consider a Socially Transmitted Disease.</p><p>If you want to understand something it is necessary to learn where it came from and how it came to be. Even if President Obama was educated partially in his adopted country of Indonesia he is a prime example of the assembly-line progressive education that has become the norm in America today: bash America at every chance and cram the idea of a living constitution and the necessity for government intervention in every aspect of daily life. </p><p>We’ve all heard horror stories of the anti-American bilge being pumped into our youth in today’s schools, so the following personal experiences shouldn’t shock anyone too much.</p><p>As an educator I participated in a program that combined college and high school classes so that students could earn credit towards their high school diploma and at the same time work on an Associate Degree. I was happy to work in this program, and I helped many hard working students earn their Associates at the same time they earned their high school diploma giving them a decided advantage when they went on for their Bachelor degree. </p><p>During the course of my years in the trenches of blended education I was in control of the college side of the class; however, I had no authority to stop the blatant dissemination of Progressive propaganda that made up the totality of some teachers’ curriculum. While in the classroom I strive to present material in such a way as to lead students in the direction of critical thinking. I would present both sides and urge students to evaluate and come to their own conclusions. Many times after a semester of teaching Political Science students would come up and ask, “Now that the class is over tell us, which are you a conservative or a liberal?”</p><p>Many of my high school teacher colleagues were not so subtle. Here are two examples that were more the rule than the exception in many classes:</p><ol><li>One Political Science class had the following assignment; <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/11/9-propaganda-techniques-in-michael.php">watch</a> Fahrenheit 9/11by Michael Moore and then write an essay on how many ways President Bush lied to trick America into an unjust war.</li><li>In a History class the students were assigned to read Upton Sinclair’s <a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jungle/summary.html"><i>The Jungle</i></a> and then write an essay on the dehumanizing effects of capitalism.</li></ol><p>The list of such blatant and crude attempts to mold our children into good little Progressives that I witnessed would fill a book on how not to teach, but this is nothing new. I am sixty three years old and though not as out-in-the-open or in-your-face I was subjected to the same type of illiberal liberalism when I was a youngster in school. </p><p>In grade school I did encounter one History teacher who had been in the profession since before my father was born. She still thought it a good thing to teach American History as an objective subject instead of a vehicle for her own agenda. She inspired students to look at the evidence and think. She however was the exception. From Math to English, from Geography to History teachers were constantly extolling the benefits of government social programs and depicting America as a world-class bully marching around imposing its will on poor little nations that couldn’t protect themselves. </p><p>In high school I was suspended for accusing a Social Studies teacher of being a communist. Years later he admitted that he in fact had been a communist since the forties. Another teacher rejected any History paper that he felt was too patriotic which he dismissed as jingoism. A teacher of Russian spent more time in class extolling the virtues of the USSR than teaching the language. When I complained about this forty five minute daily propaganda session I was again suspended. All of this took place back in the 1960s. This isn’t a new problem.</p><p>The Progressives realized long ago that if they could take over the nation’s education system they could raise up generations of Americans with no conception of the uniqueness of America as the world’s bastion of freedom and liberty. Today we see the fruit of this campaign: legions of voters ready to throw away our heritage for a government check. The descendants of the Founders are willing to surrender their freedom to strive for the best in exchange for the security of just enough to get by.</p><p>So as the wisest woman I have ever known, my wife asks me, “What can we do now?”</p><p>Back in the early 90s we decided that what we needed to do was go to school so that we could become teachers. Neither of us wants to impose our ideas on others, but we do want to present the materials in an objective manner and help our students acquire the critical thinking skills necessary to be informed citizens. Whenever a student asks me to figure out what their grade is during a semester I tell them, “If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day. If you teach him to fish he can eat forever.” I then proceed to teach them how to find an average and how to translate that into a letter grade.</p><p>What can we do now? We can’t all become teachers but we can all become involved in our local school boards. We can all do our due diligence and find out what is being taught at our local schools, and we can follow the procedures to correct what is wrong and implement what is right. One thing is for sure if we do not regain control of our schools we will lose the future. Our leaders are leading us down the primrose path to collectivism. Our education establishment is conditioning America to accept it. Step-by-step, inch-by-inch we have strayed from a federal republic operating on democratic principles with liberty and justice for all to a centralized bureaucracy dispensing cradle-to-grave loot taken from producers and redistributed to non-producers. We may have gotten here step-by-step but we are not too many steps away from one step too many. Barack Obama has stated that his goal is to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4">fundamentally transform</a> America. From stimulus slush finds, shadow governments, and imperial edicts he is systematically remaking us into a centralized state based on social democracy and wealth redistribution. </p><p>In 1962 the leader of the socialist slave camp we knew as the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev, <a href="http://www.educatingus.com/">said</a> “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will raise it themselves. We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.”</p><p>Education has led the way to this precipice and only education can lead our way back. If we don’t learn from our mistakes and once again begin building up America through education we may learn that Khrushchev was right.</p><p>Did we win the Cold War defeating an enemy dedicated to our destruction to end up proving the <a href="http://www.igopogo.com/we_have_met.htm">wisdom</a> of a cartoon character, “We have met the enemy and he is us”?</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
If it isn’t Right it’s Wrong
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/if-it-isn-t-right-it-s-wrong
2012-08-10T22:01:57.000Z
2012-08-10T22:01:57.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Back in the nineties when Pat Buchanan was wise enough to label the Culture War for what it was some of us asked, “How can a moral wrong be a civil right?” This was back when those coming out of the closet were asking for freedom, and not trying to deny freedom to others. Today the radical homosexuals froth at the mouth and impose boycotts against anyone with the impudence to say they support traditional values and with the bad taste to say they are married to their first wife.</p><p>The Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media <a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/40772">joins</a> the radical homosexuals distorting what was initially said and fanning the flames of hate. Pandering politicians <a href="http://coffeewithcaesar.com/tag/chicago-mayor-against-chick-fil-a/">join</a> in the pile-on and use their offices and the power voters entrusted them with to punish a lawful business because their CEO exercised his first amendment rights and stated something that not too long ago was so widely accepted it never would have had to be said.</p><p>Culturally the majority of Americans now live in a nation controlled and subjugated by a vocal minority intent on forcing their values on the rest of us.</p><p>Back in the nineties after America had defeated the Evil Empire we stood unchallenged as the world’s sole superpower. Our industrial base was an 800 pound gorilla in everybody’s room. We were the largest creditor nation in the History of the world. Our science and our technology were the definition of cutting edge. Today China rises like the red dragon in the East. We are the largest debtor in the History of the world. The <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/39886462/Chinese_Computer_Trumps_US_One_as_World_s_Fastest">fastest computer</a>, <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/">the largest accelerator</a>, and the number one computer and smart phone manufacturers are all in Asia. Our manned space vehicle program is a memory, our astronauts have to hitchhike to a space station we paid for and built, and the Chinese have just announced they are going to the moon to replace the stars and stripes with communist red.</p><p>Technologically we are standing still at best while former third world nations lead the way to a brave new world.</p><p>Politically we are watching the Mideast go south. We are bogged down in a quagmire in Afghanistan where the ultimate winner won’t be the corruption we have installed as government. The Chinese control the <a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1999/nov99/psrnov99.html">Panama Canal</a> and the <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6378">Port of Los Angeles</a>. NATO had a hard time defeating the definition of a tin-pot dictator and his band of sub-Saharan mercenaries.</p><p>How did all this happen? How did it happen so fast? Is there anything we could do to reverse our slide into insignificance? Is there anything that will be done to lead the way back from the brink?</p><p>How did all this happen? How did it happen so fast? </p><p>The Culture War has been waged aggressively by its proponents: those who wanted an end to America’s traditional Judeo-Christian ethics and those who wished to profit politically by the end of the America we had known and loved. The coalition of social deviants, media boosters, and political panderers rolled over a live-and-let-live public as they achieved their dreams and changed moral wrongs into civil rights. It is now considered unacceptable to state your personal beliefs if they diverge from the culture of the lowest common denominator. Political correctness strangles freedom from college campuses to board rooms. The murder of unborn babies has made the womb the most dangerous place for an American child. Television, movies, and music are filled with vile hateful filth. Triple X superstores and legal gambling are now the trophies for the victors and tombstones for the vanquished in a war Mr. Buchanan was pilloried for having the courage to name.</p><p>What about the technology?</p><p>In their exuberance and hubris our leaders, Bush the First and Clinton the Last, decided that we could <a href="http://economyincrisis.org/content/america-aping-britains-decline-through-free-trade">make free trade work</a> for our advantage when it had killed every other empire that ever followed it to cheap consumer goods and industrial destruction. Ross Perot was ridiculed when he would <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhogWKlm-c0">ask</a>, “Do you hear that giant sucking sound?” That’s American jobs being sucked out by NAFTA.” But he was right. Our <a href="http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c2010.html">balance of trade with Mexico</a> went from more than a billion dollars a year surplus in 1994 to more than a 64 billion deficit in 2011. This was followed with so-called free trade agreements with country after country systematically turning a positive balance of trade into a negative. </p><p>Then when we combined free trade agreements with an American innovation, shipping with containers, we set the stage for our markets to be overwhelmed by Chinese imports. Today if the balance of trade and the content of that trade were examined it becomes apparent that America is fast becoming a <a href="http://prospect.org/article/plight-american-manufacturing">de-industrialized</a> colony of China as they have been a <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/13/china-american-financial-col">financial colony of ours</a>. We supply them with vast amounts of invisible credit via the pegged, undervalued, yuan-dollar exchange rate and raw materials while they supply us with cheap manufactured goods. Our own money is inflating a mercantilist predator poised to devour our industrial base. Even our military now relies on Chinese parts and our security may rest upon components that are designed to either <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/usa-defense-counterfeit-idUSL1E8GMMCV20120522">malfunction</a> or provide a <a href="http://news.techworld.com/security/3360617/cambridge-researchers-uncover-backdoor-in-military-chip/">backdoor</a> for hackers.</p><p>What about politics?</p><p>Bush the First crowed about creating a New World Order and couldn’t beat a womanizing bubba in a tux. Clinton the Last spent his Peace Dividend buying votes and gutting the military. Bush the Next led us into a war in Iraq we never should have fought and refused to leave a war in Afghanistan he didn’t notice we had won. Obama the Destroyer of Worlds leads from behind while following the UN, apologizes for American exceptionalism, and bows to foreign leaders. When you fight a war against an enemy you won’t name how will you know if you have won?</p><p>Is there anything we could do to reverse our slide into insignificance? </p><p>How do you end the degradation of our society into an open sewer of licentiousness? Values are taught in the home or they are picked up in the street. Ethics are passed on by people who believe there are absolutes and who live consistently as if those absolutes actually matter. Telling our children to do as we say not as we do has produced generations of people who do whatever they want. Hedonism and conspicuous consumption have combined to give us a world where getting what you want is prized above getting what you deserve. Let those who live right be salt and light in this world and those who seek the day instead of the night will follow. <a href="http://www.billygraham.org/">Billy Graham</a>, <a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/column/">Phyllis Schlafly</a>, and the Bible are right <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/larry_flynt.html">Larry Flint</a>, <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/hugh_hefner.html">Hugh Heffner</a>, and Bill Clinton are wrong. And if it isn’t right it’s wrong.</p><p>Take the steel boot of regulations off the throat of industry and innovation. Allow economic freedom and the invisible hand of entrepreneurship will once again transform America into the powerhouse of industry and technology. Adam Smith and Milton Friedman had it right; Keynes and the Progressives have it wrong. And if it isn’t right it’s wrong. </p><p>End the so-called free trade, and insist upon equitable trade. If someone uses tricks to add fees to our products add the same fees to their products. If someone restricts our products in their markets put the same restrictions on their products. Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan had it right; our progressive politicians have it wrong. And if it isn’t right it’s wrong. </p><p> Return to what was once traditional American policy: a friend to all and entangled with none. Why are American troops still garrisoned in Europe, Japan, and Korea? Why are America’s finest <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/14/ron-paul/ron-paul-says-us-has-military-personnel-130-nation/">stationed</a> in hundreds of bases in over 100 nations? Bring our troops home. Let them guard our own borders from the hordes that now walk across them every day. Let their bases provide an economic stimulus to American towns and cities instead of those of foreigners. Washington, Hamilton, and Monroe had it right. The Bush dynasty, Clinton, and Obama have it wrong. And if it isn’t right it’s wrong.</p><p>What’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong. How do we restore what’s wrong with America? We do what’s right.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
Is the Inertia Greater Than the Momentum?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/is-the-inertia-greater-than-the-momentum
2012-08-03T00:42:41.000Z
2012-08-03T00:42:41.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>The causes of our problems are not hard to see. Americans aren’t obese because evil restauranteers are forcing them to eat fried butter on a stick. We are bulging at the seams because we eat too much and exercise too little. Americans aren’t trapped in upside down mortgages because evil bankers waylaid us and forced us to sign up for a house that was too big and cost too much. We’re living in homes we can’t afford because we wanted them and thought we deserved them even though we didn’t have an income that could support them. Americans aren’t buried in personal debt because credit card companies mailed us credit cards. We carry an <a href="http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/average-credit-card-debt-household/">average of $14,517 household debt</a> because we wanted what we wanted when we wanted it and couldn’t wait until we could pay for it. And America isn’t drowning in <a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/4">national debt</a> because we did anything more difficult to understand than electing people who bought our votes with entitlements we didn’t need and couldn’t afford.</p><p>The problem isn’t that we don’t know the answers. Instead it’s that we don’t want to face up to the fact that the free ride has to stop if we’re going to get off before we land in Athens. America’s economy is beginning to resemble one of those increasingly ridiculous action movies where the hero gets blown up, shot, stabbed, and hit with a brick only to jump up ready to roll. Every time a bubble bursts instead of allowing the economy to bottom out and correct itself the Government spends as it <a href="http://nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/borrowing-and-federal-debt/">borrows</a> from <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-30/markets/30338432_1_tax-rates-higher-taxes-consumption-taxes">foreign countries</a> and the <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul740.html">Fed creates money</a> out of thin air to pay for it. It’s time our leaders learn we have learned that blowing up a bubble to take the place of the last burst bubble is not building an economy.</p><p>As boom and bust turned into boom to boom to boom we have inevitably made our way to KABOOM!!!</p><p>The coming crash in this double dip dilemma is going to be a double whammy. We are currently blowing up a new financial bubble providing Fed funds at <a href="http://www.deadlinenews.com/2012/02/24/two-more-years-of-4-interest-rates/">near zero %</a> that the banks then loan out at 3-4% pumping more and more money into the system. And in a reprise of the <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/features/crashes/crashes8.asp#axzz22PItNZAS">2000 dot.com crash</a> the <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-real-crash-is-dead-ahead-as-2008-is-forgotten-2012-07-31">social media bubble</a> is once again giving us billion dollar companies that aren’t making any money for anyone except the gamblers in the stock market casino. </p><p>The Federal Government keeps inflating bubbles to avoid the real crash so they can continue to buy votes with entitlements and pay for them with funny money. This postpones paying the piper, but it increase the bill when it finally comes.</p><p>Today the government Leviathan is <a href="http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_2011USpt_88ps5n">devouring</a> America’s income. In 2012 it’s estimated that the central government will consume 24 % of GDP kicking back 4% to the States and localities, the States will swallow 10% of GDP, and the local entities will inhale 11%. Subtracting the 4% Federal to State shell game and the governance of America is today costing us 40% of America’s production. On top of that the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/20/the-growing-regulatory-state/">regulatory burden</a> grows heavier every day until everyone everywhere is in violation of something. And we wonder why industry isn’t expanding? When you eat your seed corn and make impossible to follow guidelines for planting you can’t expect a bumper crop.</p><p>With money pouring out of a 5” hose how can anyone take the politicians promises to cut the deficit and reduce the debt seriously? The most draconian plans suggested so far, such as Representative Ryan’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-for-some-conservatives-even-ryan-does-not-go-far-enough/2012/03/22/gIQAMIuSTS_blog.html">doesn’t balance until 2040</a> and that is only if future politicians decide to play nice and not buy votes with free goodies which is about as likely as a dog with fleas not scratching.</p><p>That’s the problem: a dysfunctional government made up of kleptomaniacs writing phony checks on the future and a population addicted to easy money and unfunded entitlements.</p><p>What’s the solution? We as a people must kick the entitlement habit. Like any addiction our national addiction to freebees has debilitated us. It has made us dependent on the outside stimulus. Where once families and churches took care of the needy we have been taught for generations that Uncle Sugar will do it, so we have let Uncle Sugar do it. How has that worked out? Ever since the government bureaucrats have stepped between the givers and the receivers welfare hasn’t been well and it isn’t fair. Many of us know people who need help who are denied and people who should be helping themselves who are riding in their Cadillacs to spend their food stamps.</p><p>After more than <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/all_the_dependency_pieces_are_falling_into_place.html">15 trillion dollars and four decades</a> of a war on poverty the percentage of Americans below the poverty line is higher than it was when we started. There are more people on food stamps, more on disability and more that have just dropped out of the work force than ever before, and the only answer Washington seems to have is we haven’t spent enough yet. That’s like telling the heroin addict who almost died last night of an overdose that the problem was he didn’t shoot up enough junk.</p><p>How do we stop spending? How do we balance the budget? This is like the question the backslider always asks, “How do I get back to God?” The answer to the backslider is, “You get back to God.” The answer for the nation is, “we stop spending more than we bring in.” The politicians have a way to make that solution work: raise taxes until income matches outgo. This brings up another problem: we can’t eat the goose that lays the golden egg and expect to collect more eggs tomorrow. In any country that robs Peter to pay Paul eventually everyone changes their name to Paul. <a href="http://tbrickert.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/more-americans-joining-disability-than-finding-jobs/">Case in point</a>, we now have more people qualifying for disability each month than people finding jobs. </p><p>Yes, this is a call for austerity. Yes, this will cause major dislocations. Yes, when drug addicts quit taking the poison their bodies have come to crave they get sick. In time drug addicts recover and once again becomes normal people able to stand on their own without the chemical prop of a debilitating drug. In time if we as a nation will kick the habit of cheap money and government handouts we will once again learn to stand on our own two feet, hold our head up high, and proudly say, “This is America the land of the free and the home of the brave.”</p><p>If we will do this the last half of the twentieth century will be but a prelude to the American Century. If we don’t, the sun will set on the American dream as we devour ourselves in an orgy of hedonism and self-gratification.</p><p>The election is coming fast. Survey your choices and find people who have the courage to lead us in a return to fiscal responsibility before we face the coming collapse of the world we have known. For if we cast our bread upon the water it will return to us after many days, but if we sow the wind we will reap the whirlwind.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for <a href="http://www.southside.edu/">Southside Virginia Community College.</a> He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
No Joke
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/no-joke
2012-07-27T18:10:22.000Z
2012-07-27T18:10:22.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Fido, Casper the Friendly Ghost and Juan Valdez walk into a polling place. No this isn’t the beginning of a joke it is a key part of the Chicago Plan to re-elect the worst President in American History.</p><p>The <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/jul/25/13/tdmain01-romney-camp-asks-va-to-probe-voter-forms-ar-2081517/">Voter Participation Center</a> (VPC), a left wing organization whose work to register Democrat voters exemplifies the process used for generations in Chicago to ensure the <a href="http://www.gangresearch.net/ChicagoGangs/outfit/index.html">Outfit/Machine</a> maintains control of the government, the power, and the swag. The VPC is mass mailing pre-printed voter registration forms to selected voter blocks known to be part of the Democrat coalition, African-Americans, Latinos, young adults, and single women. In their effort to extend the Chicago system to the rest of the country VPC mailed nearly 200,000 third-party voter registration forms to Virginia residents in June. This has resulted in more than 15,000 new voters being registered.</p><p>However, there are a few problems with this exercise in Chicago-style democracy. They are violating rules set forth in the state code and the Virginia Constitution requiring that voters fill out their own form. The State Board of Elections, which the group says pre-approved their forms and their methods, has <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/jul/25/13/tdmain01-romney-camp-asks-va-to-probe-voter-forms-ar-2081517/">asked</a> the group to stop filling in the forms prior to sending them to the people, and <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/jul/25/13/tdmain01-romney-camp-asks-va-to-probe-voter-forms-ar-2081517/">pointing</a> to the errant forms they have also raised questions concerning how the group obtained lists of registered voters. In addition, <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/jul/25/13/tdmain01-romney-camp-asks-va-to-probe-voter-forms-ar-2081517/">according</a> to Justin Riemer, the Virginia State Board of Elections' deputy secretary, forms have been sent by the group to “deceased infants, out-of-state family members, and non-U.S. citizens, among others.” Given the fact that these forms can be mailed in and that the Federal Government will sue any State that has the chutzpah to require a photo ID to vote don’t be surprised if in this, the most crucial election of our lives Fido, Casper, or Juan cast their vote to continue the occupation of Washington by the Progressive Statists and their totalitarian plans.</p><p>The list of problems with Democrat voting procedures that have ensured their iron-fisted rule in the tottering hulks of our once great cities is as long as it is disturbing. There are the great Democrat machines that have used every form of voter fraud and intimidation to dominate the urban political scene in America for generations in places such as <a href="http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/101295/article009.shtml">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="http://michigancitizen.com/voter-fraud-in-detroit-p8183-1.htm">Detroit</a>, and of course the Mecca of corruption President Obama’s adopted hometown and political base, <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=331_1288233022">Chicago</a>. In <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/publius-forum/2011/04/east-st-louis-more-voters-registered-than-citizens-that-live-there/">East St. Louis</a> and <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/09/indiana-more-registered-vote-eligible-media-misses-story">Indianapolis</a> there are actually more registered voters than eligible citizens. </p><p>As the Obama <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/613434/201206011853/justice-department-promotes-voter-fraud-in-florida.htm?p=full">Justice Department</a> circles the country like a bird of prey waiting to pounce on any jurisdiction that attempts to purge the dead the illegal immigrants or felons from the voting lists, it is apparent that voter fraud has been elevated from a crime to a national policy. So far Attorney General Holder has sued <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/12/justice-department-sues-florida-over-purging-voter-rolls-as-expected/">Florida</a>, <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2012/06/27/justice-department-sues-georgia-over.html">Georgia</a>, and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/9/texas-justice-square-off-over-voter-id-law/">Texas</a> while investigating <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/366012/20120723/pennsylvania-voting-rights-act.htm">Pennsylvania</a>. Yet there is no time or resources spent on investigating sixteen counties in Texas with more voters on the rolls than in the census or sixteen jurisdictions in Illinois that also have more registered than eligible. There also was no interest in prosecuting the <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/21/the-new-black-panther-party-evidence-on-voter-intimidation/">clear case</a> of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party who <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU">patrolled</a> voting locations armed with clubs while making racist statements to voters. And the most reprehensible case of voter suppression of all is the campaign waged to limit the vote of our <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/24/suppressing-the-military-vote/">active duty military</a>.</p><p>Any attempt to slow the growth of phantom voters is met vigorously by the Federal Government with strident accusations of racism saying that anyone who requires a photo ID to vote might as well burn a cross on the White House lawn. This is patently absurd. It takes a photo ID to do many things people do every day. You need a photo ID to:</p><p>Get a Driver's license <br />Buy alcohol<br />Buy cigarettes<br />Apply for welfare<br />Apply for food stamps<br />Cash a check<br />Purchase a firearm <br />Make any large credit card purchase<br />Open a bank account <br />Rent an apartment <br />Be admitted to a hospital <br />Get a marriage license</p><p>And yet according to Attorney General Holder any jurisdiction that requires a photo ID to vote is placing an undue burden on minorities akin to a poll tax collected by a man in a white hood. But for security purposes you <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/07/10/naacp_requires_photo_id_to_see_holder_speak">needed a photo ID</a> to get into the NAACP meeting recently to hear Mr. Holder speak in a state he is currently suing over their requirement of a photo ID to vote. The irony never ends in a world that is fast becoming the theater of the absurd.</p><p>Add into the mix that most states offer free IDs and provisional ballots that are counted once ID is verified to anyone who shows up without an ID, and it’s easy to see the righteous battle against voter ID is really a reprehensible defense of voter fraud.</p><p>And just in case the actual living citizens of America show up to vote in great enough numbers to compete with Fido, Casper the Ghost, and Juan the Obama administration has retained the services of <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-thousands-of-campaign-lawyers-prepare-for-november/">thousands</a> of lawyers. These devil’s advocates will challenge the vote in any district that goes against them or to defend themselves in any jurisdiction with the gall to challenge their manufactured majority.</p><p>Passing over the debates of who is Barack Obama, where did he come from, and what motivates him we must deal now with the Fete Accompli. He has been legally sworn in and has run the country into the ground for almost four years. We cannot afford four more years of the Progressive’s spend us into oblivion with the <a href="http://www.theobamafile.com/_opinion/Cloward-Piven.html">Cloward–Piven Strategy</a> as national policy. We cannot afford another four years of international <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/why_is_obama_in_bed_with_the_muslim_brotherhood.html">support</a> for the Muslim Brotherhood’s march to power in Middle East and serial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAXA0WVwxiE">apology tours</a>. We cannot afford another four years of trillion dollar yearly deficits. We cannot afford another four years of Barack Obama if America is to have any chance to remain the land of the free and the home of the brave.</p><p>If we don’t end this soon the Progressives will end it later. </p><p>If we don’t reassert our devotion to constitutionally limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom we will sink into a quagmire of endless entitlements for the idlers paid for by plundering the productive. In four short months we will have an opportunity to choose. The opponents of liberty are lined up to steal the election, but we can overwhelm them if we will all show up and vote. Make sure every Patriot is registered, and do anything and everything you can to make sure everyone you know votes, because you can bet Fido, Casper the Friendly Ghost and Juan Valdez will. And that’s no joke.</p><p>Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for <a href="http://www.southside.edu/">Southside Virginia Community College.</a> He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
What’s A Patriot to Do?
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/what-s-a-patriot-to-do
2012-07-20T18:44:00.000Z
2012-07-20T18:44:00.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Mr. Obama may not be the only President we have ever elected who has little real world experience, but he may be the first who has none. And hopefully he will be our last.</p><p>President Obama’s latest insult to hardworking Americans has drawn massive press, at least in the portion of the Media that isn’t consumed with repeating and debating his false allegations concerning Romney’s business record. It isn’t hard to understand how a Marxist would consider the accomplishments of a capitalist to be <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/16/obama_no_apology_to_romney_for_felony_accusations.html">criminal</a>. It also isn’t hard to understand how a Marxist would believe that no one can <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/president-obama-if-youve-got-a-business-you-didnt-build-that-somebody-else-made-that-happen/">accomplish</a> something on their own; they do believe <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2007/05/31/it_takes_a_socialist_village/page/full/">it takes a village</a> to raise a child after all. What is hard to understand is how America was gullible enough to elect a Marxist president when the evidence of his beliefs, his associates, and his political activities were so easy to see.</p><p>What will be utterly beyond comprehension is a majority of our fellow voters drinking the kool-aide a second time when it is obvious from Mr. Obama’s rhetoric that he is selling a blatantly anti-capitalist and anti-American line of constitutional suicide.</p><p>With serial <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044156269345357.html">apology tours</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=obama+bows&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=EC3&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=mbMIUOT6OIvoqAGsmoGfCg&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=754">bowing</a> to foreign leaders, and abandoning our surrogates to help install the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg8fW1JQKGM">Muslim Brotherhood</a> throughout the Middle East, it is obvious Mr. Obama is a walking disaster for America’s foreign policy. It is also obvious from the recession he has managed to turn into the Great Recession that his spread around the wealth transfer policies are an unmitigated disaster on the domestic front. His record wouldn’t inspire anyone except a fellow American hating Marxist to vote for him, so his only viable tactic is to make the other guy totally unacceptable. In the coming months watch as the President, his fellow traveler mouth pieces, and the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media turn squeaky clean bland, boring Mitt Romney into a nefarious arch criminal who has built a massive criminal enterprise on the backs of exploited victims.</p><p>Even if President Obama really believes personal accomplishments, except his own of course, are merely the trophies of exploitation that doesn’t mean the rest of us should accept this as a legitimate premise for discussion. The Democrat Media may want to spend endless hours asking Mitt to explain why he threw grandma off the cliff after stealing her Social Security check, but that doesn’t mean any sane person should waste time considering it.</p><p>A better question might be if capitalists have claimed personal success unfairly while using roads and electric grids built by others why is it fair for Mr. Obama to claim as his own the fame for killing Osama when someone else started the campaign and someone else executed it? Why aren’t the failures of his forays into venture socialism such as <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/09/17/solyndra-yes-it-was-possible-to-see-this-failure-coming/">Solyndra</a>, the <a href="http://news.investors.com/article/550957/201010191855/volt-fraud-at-government-motors.htm?p=full">Volt</a>, or anything else his fault? Our Dear Leader is a walking example of socializing the costs while personalizing the profits. If it goes bad it was someone else’s fault, but if it goes right it was all him. He has <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-harry-truman-said-buck-stops-you_648541.html">changed</a> the famous Truman quote to “The Buck Stops with You” and since the teleprompter told him to say it he was able to do it with a straight face. The saddest thing of all is that the dumbed down crowds he wows probably don’t know he changed the quote at all.</p><p>All of this is shaping up as a surreal election cycle. We have a Democrat doing everything imaginable to lose. He is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067223/President-Obamas-2012-campaign-abandons-white-working-class-voters-favor-minorities-educated.html">abandoning</a> the white middle-class, attacking <a href="http://www.wrko.com/blog/todd/obama-attacks-capitalism-liberty-osawatomie">capitalism</a>, and lavishing insult after insult upon anything and everything Americans have always held dear including our <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/02/29/obama-attacks-america-s-founding-principles-detroit">founding principles</a>. We have a Republican who passed the template for Obamacare and can’t generate as much excitement as a Saturday night of rearranging your sock drawer. </p><p>America hangs in the balance. </p><p>If we re-elect a Marxist on a platform of class warfare and soak the rich, I imagine we will see class warfare and soak everybody. If we elect a middle of the road Massachusetts Republican with a veneer of conservatism who is enamored of the foreign affairs advice of John Bolton, the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1685063,00.html">angriest</a> of the <a href="http://the-classic-liberal.com/conservative-what-is-neocon/">neo-con</a> war hawks I imagine we might get a reprieve on the Marxism as the government grows to sustain more wars for peace.</p><p>What’s a patriot to do? Are we teetering on the edge, past the tipping point, or already careening into the Abyss? Do we throw away our vote on someone with no chance to win? Do we choose the lesser of two evils knowing that we will still be choosing evil? Do we do as one of my oldest friends is doing: sell everything and leave the country before all this progressivism hits the fan? Do we store food, bury guns, and wait for the zombie apocalypse?</p><p>The answers could be so simple. Domestically we could cut taxes, cut regulations, and let the economy surge. In foreign affairs we could follow the direction laid out by the founders: a friend to all and an enemy to none, withdraw our far flung international police precincts, make our homeland an impregnable fortress and let trade be our currency and peace be our policy.</p><p>Instead we face a future of austerity and contraction based upon a bloated government swallowing ever more of the American pie no matter who wins. We face endless interventions and undeclared wars in quagmires defending a status quo that is no longer tilted in our favor. China, the rising dragon of the East, is playing chess as our dithering Progressives moan about chickens coming home to roost, and political correctness prevents us from doing what we should do when we should do it.</p><p>We are truly between Barack and a hard place with every forward indicator pointing down.</p><p>These are times when I draw upon the true source and summit of my being and remember that the God of Heaven and Earth has not left us without understanding. We face these problems because we have forsaken Him, and the only way back is through Him. He <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+7%3A14&version=NKJV">told</a> us long ago, “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” That isn’t just an observation it is a promise. And unlike our fickle politicians who merely want to tickle our ears, God always keeps His promises.</p><p>Therefore as we turn to face the change don’t be discouraged, don’t be depressed, and don’t worry. God has our back if we will give him our faith. For He also <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+91%3A7-11&version=NKJV">told</a> us, “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.”</p><p>Keep the peace. Keep the faith. We shall overcome.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for <a href="http://www.southside.edu/">Southside Virginia Community College.</a> He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
A World Filled With Strangers Keeps Getting Stranger
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/a-world-filled-with-strangers-keeps-getting-stranger
2012-07-13T15:23:26.000Z
2012-07-13T15:23:26.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>Some people <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/six-degrees-of-separation/">believe</a> in the Six Degrees of Separation Theory: the idea that everyone in the world is separated from everyone else by six links. Some people believe all of us are in this thing together, and that diversity is our strength and <a href="http://letras.terra.com/the-beatles/184/">I am he</a> as you are he as you are me and we are all together. </p><p>Even if we are all connected in ways we cannot know I believe the world is filled with strangers. Take a ride and as you pass through country, town, and city you are constantly presented with the faces of people you will never know, and all of whom have lives and families that will never know you or your life or your family. Every day we see people we have never seen before and will never see again. They rise out of the mist beyond the pale of our personal knowledge and immediately are submerged again never to rise again. Our only connection will forever be that one fleeting moment when we moved through a single frame of the separate sagas which are our lives.</p><p>Unlike Cain I do believe we are our brother’s keeper, and unlike Scrooge I believe we should help our brothers in need instead of <a href="http://www.tvmoviequotes.com/achristmascarol/ebenezerscrooge.htm">seeing them</a> boiled with their own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through their hearts. However, unlike the rhetoric of Marx, Lenin, and President Obama I do not believe that life should operate on the <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/karlmarx136396.html">basis</a> of from each according to their ability to each according to their need, or as we <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqI5PSRcXM">say</a> in America today, spreading the wealth around. In other words, I am not a socialist. I believe in personal liberty, individual freedom, and economic opportunity. Sadly I find myself out of phase with the Progressive Clique which has successfully maneuvered its way to power using the education system, the media, and uninformed, uninvolved, and emotional voters.</p><p>Out of phase or not, I believe in the equality of opportunity which gives everyone a shot at success as opposed to the equality of outcome which our Leader and his fellow travelers wish to foist upon us, and which gives everyone the assurance of mediocrity. No matter the consequence, no matter the sacrifice we must stand up for what we believe or we will stand by while our nation is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4">transformed</a> into what we won’t be able to believe is still called the United States of America.</p><p>Day by day the bean counting pencil pushers who make up the nameless faceless bureaucracy grind out rule after rule and regulation after regulation. President Obama’s signature piece of legislation, Obamacare, is already churning out thousands upon thousands of pages of <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/obamacare/2012/02/29/obamacare-regulations-two-and-half-times-long-bible">federal requirements</a> all meant to fill in the blanks in a 2600 page bill that we had to pass to find out what was in it. </p><p>Hope and change has become bait and switch. Mr. Obama isn’t even trying to <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/285200/obama-abandons-working-class-michael-barone">win votes</a> from those who disagree with him. He isn’t trying to change minds. He is trying to buy votes. He is betting that generations of entitlements have finally birthed the <a href="http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/l/u.htm">lumpen proletariat</a> that his theories of government proclaim must exist for History to reach its summit. He is betting his second term on the belief that there are now enough people dependent upon the government that they will vote for a handout instead of voting for a hand up. He is betting that America has been dumbed down enough and bribed enough to trade our heritage of freedom for the yoke of a guaranteed something instead of the opportunity for everything.</p><p>Class warfare, penalizing success, dividing America into interest groups and voter blocks this is the strategy Mr. Obama thinks will win as he works to build a <a href="http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/">coalition</a> of leftist intellectuals and those convinced they are disenfranchised. Looking at the polls it appears he has the solid core of 40+% who will vote for a Democrat even if he is the devil himself. The question is will the unengaged and uninformed voters who should at least hope he will change when combined with the illegals and the dead who at least get to vote in Chicago be enough for him to win? </p><p>Can you imagine what a second Obama term will look like won on the basis of a promise to double down on <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/social+democracy">social democracy</a>, a complete <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/14/constitution-anyone-obama-promises-to-rule-without-congress/">disregard</a> for the balance of power, and a desire to totally transform America? What will be left of the America we have known? How would we ever get back to where we came from? No entitlement once enacted has ever been repealed. The size of government never shrinks. The power it usurps from the people and the States is never surrendered. </p><p>A world filled with strangers keeps getting stranger all the time. No matter how many degrees of separation we should never be as divided as our Dear Leader tries to portray us. We are Americans, and we can do better than this. Reject the siren song of free entitlements which are never free, and embrace the liberty our forefathers won for us. Let us renew the great experiment in human freedom and strive to see our nation rise again to be the last best hope of man that it is meant to be. The shining city on a hill that can light the way to a future worthy of free men and women held together by unity not united in our separation.</p><p>Even if it takes more than six degrees of separation to connect to others what does it matter how connected we are to people around the world if we are in terminal disagreement with our fellow Americans? As a nation we are divided between those who want to strive to achieve and those who thrive because they receive. The Progressives have bred generations of passive takers who believe they are entitled to the fruit of others’ labor. They pay no taxes so they don’t care how high taxes go. They have no conception of paying for what you have, so they don’t care about the national debt. They see America as a vending machine, so they don’t believe in our unique place in History. They desire a shabby world of bread and circuses based on equality of outcome, so they don’t long to be all they can be.. </p><p>Those of us who want America to be what America has been and what it should be, the home of the brave and the land of the free, can’t let divisions divide us anymore! We must unite to save liberty or we will stand alone at the end of the day. We may be strangers to one another. We may not know each other but if we are fellow believers in the personal liberty, individual freedom, and economic opportunity we must unite over what connects us to save what has always made us <a href="http://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/unum.html">E PLURIBUS UNUM</a>.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for <a href="http://www.southside.edu/">Southside Virginia Community College.</a> He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
How Chicago Plays Ball
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/how-chicago-plays-ball
2012-07-06T23:40:41.000Z
2012-07-06T23:40:41.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/DrRobertOwens
<div><p>In Chicago they play “<a href="http://www.chicagoball.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi">Chicago Ball</a>.” This is a form of soft ball that is as location specific to the Chicago area as <a href="http://www.hooverassociation.org/newsevents/hooverball/hooverball_rules.php">Hoover Ball</a> is to <a href="http://hoover.archives.gov/visiting/index2.html#Map">West Branch</a>, Iowa. In this game a sixteen inch softball that is as hard as a baseball is used with no gloves. If at least one or two fingers aren’t broke in each game it must have been in girl’s division. It is a rough sport, and everyone who plays it knows it. Catching a line drive is like catching a cannonball in the stomach and catching a high pop-up is like having an incoming meteorite land in your hands.</p><p>In Chicago they also play another kind of ball that is rough, and everyone knows the rules. They call it politics. In other places they call it organized crime.</p><p>Back in the Dream Time, elders were honored because of their accumulated knowledge. If Pops knew a better way to saddle horses, that knowledge helped Junior since he saddled horses. Today if Pops knows how to tune-up cars what good is that when cars don’t need to be tuned-up anymore? Now the old are relegated to extolling their own relevance while exclaiming, “I’ve never seen that before.” Doddering ancients who use their cell phones merely to talk wonder why their grandchildren never answer their emails as Gen Z tweet each other: “Don’t trust anyone over fifteen.” The world is moving so fast not only is today tomorrow’s yesterday the generations are living in different todays today. Gen X and Y parents with their once hip lap-tops under their arms stare in wonder as their pre-teen Gen Zs text with one hand while Wii skydiving in the backseat. For these new additions to middle-age who’re just old enough to remember Star Trek imagine Captain Kirk visiting Captain Picard pointing at Commander Data and saying, “What’s that?”</p><p>After years of being treated as if the Wisdom of the Ages were as relevant as Confucius in a fortune cookie, now that we have Chicago on the Potomac the wisdom gained in the City that Works is suddenly spot-on. Of course George the Second’s doctrine of pre-emptive war made one old saying make sense beyond the Southside, “Never start fights, but if you have to hit someone back first once in a while that’s all right.” Then again <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/15/gop-hints-at-vote-theft-with-acorn-scandal/">ACORN</a> has shown the everlasting relevance of Chicago’s best known adage, “<a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs070.200401/votequote.html">Vote early and vote often</a>” as well as eternal life or <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/similar-groups-acorns-place-republicans-foul/">ACORN by another name</a> is still the same corrupt mob of community organizers organizing their way to personal power and prosperity.</p><p>With President Obama and the Chi-Town hustlers large-and-in-charge, <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-win1.htm">Windy City</a> Proverbs may help many believe what kind of change we’ve stepped in. Such as “Everybody cheats so if you don’t cheat you’re a cheater,” or “What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is negotiable.” Maybe the taxman could use, “They must not have wanted it they didn’t have their hand on it.” Looking at our Congress, “If you’re going to get mad at thieves you’ll never have any friends” comes to mind. Thinking of the new <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-13430-Sarpy-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Cap-and-trade-allows-strangers-to-enter-your-home-do-you-meet-the-national-building-code-standards">Green Home Efficiency Inspectors</a> they want us to deal with when buying or selling a home is reminiscent of the Chicago Fire Marshal conscientiously telling a young business owner, “We’ll save the city some gas money if we just do the inspection right here in my office,” while patting his desk indicating where to place the money. </p><p>The Obama Administration started off with some Southside swag calling the <a href="http://porkulus.com/">biggest earmark in history</a> a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/04/millions-doled-questionable-jobs/">stimulus bill</a> aimed at shovel ready jobs. Then again as the President later <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/06/13/obama-jokes-jobs-council-shovel-ready-was-not-shovel-ready-we-expected">joked</a>, "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." After this predictable Southside of Chicago opening act the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4971897-503544.html">poster child</a> for a different kind of politics continued the virtuoso performance calling <a href="http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/WARDHEELER">ward-heelers</a> czars and followed a time-honored Second City tradition in the Minnesota recount by <a href="http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/12/08/more-ballots-found-in-minnesota-senate-recount/">finding a bag of votes</a> giving us a good laugh by installing <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2007/02/26/top-10-al-franken-quotes/">Al Franken</a> in the once revered United States Senate. </p><p>Who says you can’t go home again? They may turn the old neighborhood into <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yuppie">Yuppie</a> Heaven by knocking down the middleclass housing and putting up three-story imitation Victorians but right here right now the machine that gave <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080608082837AAhbGvY">no-show jobs</a> to half the wise-guys on the corner as well as <a href="http://bx.businessweek.com/u-of-chicago-business-school/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fneveryetmelted.com%2F2009%2F04%2F20%2Fmichelle-obama-earned-63k-last-year-from-no-show-job%2F">Michelle at the hospital</a> is in the process of not just fixing tickets but fixing everything else. The political descendants of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1533223/bio">Big Bill Thompson</a>, <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-j-daley">Richard the First</a> and <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theworks/090122/">Richard the Second</a> parlayed <a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2009/feb09/09-02-06.html">community organizing</a> into a national organization that should make the <a href="http://investigation.discovery.com/investigation/mobs-gangsters/five-families.html">Five Families</a> green with envy.</p><p>Having <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/11/obama-stimulus-working-as-planned/">fixed the economy</a> and with <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/obama_care_robbing_from_peter.html">health care</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/30/social-conservatives-blast-hate-crime-saying-limit-free-speech/">hate-crimes</a>, <a href="http://www.americasvoiceonline.org/blog/entry/new_york_times_obama_to_tackle_immigration_reform_in_year_one/?source=sourcegoogle&subsource=subsourceObama%20Immigration%20Reform&gclid=CKSisNmq2psCFQxM5Qod3iqbAg">immigration</a>, and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html">cap-and-trade</a> all queued up to flow through the system before the voters get a chance to register their disapproval, Don Barak also had the opportunity to begin fixing the highest court in the land. In the Chicago justice system ( an oxymoron) lawyers give out printed pricelists stating how much acquittals cost verses dismissals and the old saying concerning courthouses goes, “It may say justice on the outside but that doesn’t mean there’s any on the inside.” Since the Democratic Machine and their Me-To Republican allies rubber-stamped Mr. Obama’s first pick for the A-Team, how do the prospects for judicial restraint and the Constitution look? Fine if you fit the profile for the protected or promoted classes, but not too good if you naively look for that lady wearing the blindfold and holding the scales. </p><p>Joining the sisterhood on the bench, Ms. Sotomayor felt <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15judge.html">her gender and her race</a> made her uniquely qualified to reach wise decisions and believes <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124753085258335815.html">international law</a> should be consulted when weighing appeals. She should feel right at home with the former <a href="http://www.hollywoodcelebgossips.com/2009/02/05/ruth-bader-ginsburg-pancreatic-cancer-surgery/superme-courst-justiceruth-bader-ginsburg-photo/">chief counsel for the ACLU</a> who apparently believes American Citizenship is the right of all mankind. In one decision <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/ruth_bader_ginsburg/">she said</a>, “You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.” And now they have turned Chief Justice Roberts to the Dark Side. Ah justice, what is it good for? Or as they say in Chi-town, “How much justice can you afford?” The difference between Chicago Prime and Chicago on the Potomac is in the original version mayors serve for life followed by a power struggle. Vive la Différence!</p><p> </p><p>How does Chicago Ball fit into all these old sayings? There are multiple sayings associated with playing ball. Such as, You have to swing the bat to have a chance to hit the ball,” or “I ain’t cheating if they don’t catch me.” So how do our now nationalized Chicago Pols play ball. One recent example is in the financing problem faced by the owner of the Chicago Cubs. The plans to renovate the dilapidated Wrigley Field were being held up <a href="http://home.topnewstoday.org/home/article/2695304/">because</a> of the current owner’s political associations. And that’s how they play political ball in Chicago.</p><p> </p><p>And how does that translate to Chicago-on-the-Potomac? In 2009 the Obama Administration <a href="http://news.findlaw.com/apnews/6f0f1be7be8d4a77ae17b58e87bec05d">played Chicago Ball</a> with the Drug Industry to get their support for Obamacare. These types of tactics have become <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/LowellPonte/obama-pelosi-acorn/2009/12/12/id/341854">standard operating procedure</a> for the Obama Administration as <a href="http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obamas-labor-department-strong-arms-family-farmers-restricting-childrens-chores-big-government-go/question-2616271/">department</a> after <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/12/obamas-doj-strong-arms-sues-business-to-impose-sharia-company-forced-to-pay-50000-.html">department</a> make their wishes known and their power felt.</p><p> </p><p>And just recently the President <a href="http://www.nysun.com/editorials/ex-parte-obama/87772/">strong armed the Supreme Court</a> asserting any interference with his take-over of 1/6<sup>th</sup> of the economy would be unprecedented. What was unprecedented was his use of manipulation and brow beating to pressure a supposedly independent court to become another place where the fix is in, or as they say in Chicago Ball “When they send out their best hitter, aim for the head.”</p><p> </p><p>And if this article makes you feel politically as if you’ve had your fingers broken, well that’s just the way they play ball in Chicago.</p><p> </p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for <a href="http://www.southside.edu/">Southside Virginia Community College.</a> He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>
Let's meet the Democrats Challenge! We will not let this stand!
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/let-s-meet-the-democrats-challenge-we-will-not-let-this-stand
2012-07-04T02:00:04.000Z
2012-07-04T02:00:04.000Z
Dave Wallace
https://restoreamericasmission.com/members/RestoreAmericasMission
<div>Why is Nancy Pelosi gloating? Are we going to take this sitting down!
Here is what Nancy Pelosi and the HuffPooh is saying...
Huffington Post: House Democrats' Fundraising Sets Record After Health Care Ruling
“Nearly 65,000 Democratic supporters have contributed an average of $35 since the high court ruled on Thursday that President Barack Obama's signature health care law was constitutional.”
Concerned Democrats --
We can’t thank you enough.
You may have seen my email on Saturday saying that we were close to setting a record for the day. We didn’t just set the record, we shattered it. More than 30,000 of you helped us raise over $1 million on Saturday alone -- nearly twice our previous record.
Because of you, Democrats are on offense. We’re holding Republicans across the country accountable for threatening to drastically cut Medicare and repeal President Obama’s health care law.
Add your name to help us reach 500,000 strong saying: “I Support Obamacare” >>
We are truly humbled by your outpouring of support. Thank you for everything you do.
Nancy
Now we conservatives must end the terrorist lefts reign.
Support your Local candidates!</div>
Why the Congress Must Reign in the Supreme Court
https://restoreamericasmission.com/forum/topics/why-the-congress-must-reign-in-the-supreme-court
2012-06-29T16:48:24.000Z
2012-06-29T16:48:24.000Z
Dr. Robert Owens
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<div><p>“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Please notice that <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">this</a>, the foundational sentence of the American way of life does not say “endowed by the Supreme Court.” </p><p>Ever since the Supreme Court took unto itself the power to void laws passed by the representatives of the people in <a href="http://americanhistory.about.com/od/judicialbranch/p/marbury.htm">Marbury V. Madison</a> the black-robed Justices have acted, and Americans have accepted them as if they are the source and the summit of what is and what isn’t allowed in America. In most cases since the middle of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, the high court has sided with whatever the central government wanted to do in the way of extending its power and curtailing rights which any person who can read plainly sees protected in the document they are sworn to defend.</p><p>However, in Article Three of the Constitution, the one that outlines the judicial branch, after specifically enumerating which types of cases the Supreme Court shall try it <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html">says</a>, “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”</p><p>We often hear of obscure clauses of the Constitution which have been stretched and strained to sweep more power and authority into the never satisfied maw of the Federal Leviathan such as:</p><ul><li>The “Necessary and Proper Clause” which is found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 <a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Necessary+and+Proper+Clause">states</a>, “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the [enumerated] Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” This is also known as the “Elastic Clause” because Congress and Presidents have stretched it to give them powers the Founders never would have dreamed possible outside a tyranny.</li><li>The “Commerce Clause” found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 <a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Commerce+Clause+of+the+United+States+Constitution">states</a>, “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” This is the go-to clause for the Progressive’s conquest of America. This is the clause that was used in the 1930s by FDR to implement most of the New Deal. It was used by LBJ in the 1960s to impose the Great Society. And it is being used by BHO in the 21<sup>st</sup> century to shackle us with the social democracy brand of socialism which has devastated Europe and which has been repudiated by our former adversaries in the Cold War. </li></ul><p> </p><p> In the Supreme Court decision <a href="http://www.enotes.com/wickard-v-filburn-reference/wickard-v-filburn">Wickard v. Filburn</a> in 1942 it was handed down from on high that wheat farmer growing wheat on his own property for his own use can be legally regulated under the commerce clause because not selling your wheat and using it yourself is actually competing with wheat that is sold and is therefore commerce. This is the same clause the Obama Administration originally used as a defense to say they can fine people for not buying insurance arguing that not buying insurance is commerce.</p><p>Yes, these two clauses have been stretched and interpreted beyond any semblance of rationality to restrict and restrain Americans in the enjoyment of the freedom and liberty which should be our birthright, yet the clause which clearly states that Congress has the power to reign in the Court has been ignored.</p><p>Forget all the posturing about abortion by all the so-called conservatives in Congress. Has there ever been a concerted, protracted or sustained effort to remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court? No there hasn’t. And yet tomorrow, or even today Congress could pass a law stating that abortion is an exception to the court’s jurisdiction and with the signing of this law by the president Roe V. Wade would be null and void, and all state laws affecting abortion would once again be in effect. And this same procedure could be used for the representatives of the people to take back control of the law and the country from the Court.</p><p>The Congress is elected. The Supreme Court is appointed. Congress can be replaced. The Justices of the Supreme Court serve for life. They could be impeached and removed; however, none have ever been removed and the likelihood of that happening is remote. There are checks and balances in the process of passing laws. The Senate is a check on the House and the House on the Senate. The President is a check on Congress and Congress is a check on the President. There is a check designed to restrain the Supreme Court from becoming a black-robed committee of kings: Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2 giving Congress the power to create exceptions to the Court’s jurisdiction. However, tradition and the desire of professional politicians to demagogue about issues instead of solve them keeps the perpetually re-elected from reigning in these want-a-be demigods.</p><p>Thursday June 28, 2012 will live in the memory of all patriotic Americans as a day of infamy along with Pearl Harbor, and 9-11. This is the day the Supreme Court ruled that if the Central government can’t force American citizens to do what they want them to do one way they can do it another.</p><p>When the Obama Administration and their co-conspirators, the Progressive Democratic Party in Congress, rammed Obamacare through Congress they argued that the fines imposed under the individual mandate upon anyone who didn’t purchase health insurance <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/obama-mandate-is-not-a-tax/">wasn’t a tax</a>, but that it was penalty allowable under the Commerce Clause. According to the Constitution all tax bills <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec7.html">must begin in the House</a>. Obamacare <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35986022/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/health-care-timeline-overhaul-bills-passage/#.T-x3fvX-5p8">began in the Senate</a>; however, that was all right since the fines weren’t taxes they were penalties.</p><p>When the issue got to court and it became clear there wasn’t a majority ready to declare not buying insurance was commerce the Obama Administration argued there was no standing to litigate the individual mandate and the fine it imposed because it is a tax. Through the looking glass inside the beltway and behind the curtain it’s a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/health/policy/arguing-that-health-mandate-is-not-a-tax-except-when-it-is.html">penalty</a> when that argument works and it’s a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/health/policy/arguing-that-health-mandate-is-not-a-tax-except-when-it-is.html">tax</a> when that argument works.</p><p>Sophistry is <a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/Sophistry.htm">defined</a> as “Reasoning that appears sound but is misleading or fallacious. In Metaphysics, Aristotle defines sophistry as ‘wisdom in appearance only.’” When we look at that definition from now on it will be hard not to see the face of Chief Justice Roberts who today showed his true colors as the midwife of totalitarianism. While declaring unconstitutional the very arguments used to pass the law the majority declared the law constitutional based upon the very arguments its opponents used to try and defeat the bill. Up is down, right is wrong, and the government can do whatever it wants.</p><p>During the ratification debate when addressing the Supreme Court one of the leading Anti-Federalists <a href="http://historydelivered.blogspot.com/2011/03/anti-federalist-debate-about-supreme.html">wrote</a>, “There is no power above them to control any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controlled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel independent of heaven itself.”</p><p>The balance between the central government and the once free citizens it is attempting to turn into dumbed down helpless dependents has been significantly changed. As <a href="http://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus01.htm">predicted</a> by the Anti-Federalists, the courts have been used over and over to expand the power of the central government to the detriment of the States and the citizens. Today we crossed a threshold; we passed a tipping point and are no longer at the edge of the abyss. We are careening down the cliff into the fearful embrace of totalitarianism. An over the top Supreme Court has given the green light to an out of control Progressive Administration, and as of today there are no checks and there is no balance.</p><p>Those of us who love liberty and are dedicated to limited government must contact our representatives and demand that the Supreme Court be brought under control. Something must be done to preserve liberty or the United States we have loved will become the one we have dreaded. An all-powerful central government will continue to grow and bend all things to its will. We must return to the literal definition of constitutional government or this living document will be the death of freedom and the graveyard of liberty.</p><p>Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.</p><p>Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for <a href="http://www.southside.edu/">Southside Virginia Community College.</a> He is the Historian of the Future @ <a href="http://drrobertowens.com">http://drrobertowens.com</a> © 2012 Robert R. Owens <a href="mailto:drrobertowens@hotmail.com">drrobertowens@hotmail.com</a> Follow <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161?ref=sgm#!/pages/Dr-Robert-Owens/144620956161">Dr. Robert Owens</a> on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens</p><p> </p></div>