Your Moral Compass

The Mom Song

2009-01-05T17:24:00.001-06:00

In appreciation for Mom's everywhere.

Panicked Travolta Pleads With Son, Jett, To Wake Up

2009-01-05T16:15:00.003-06:00

I decided to post this article and comment on it, because it is told from the perspective of the EMT. I was kind of surprised to find the EMT commenting on any call because of privacy issues, but maybe privacy isn't as big a deal in the Bahama's as it is in the United States.

This is a key example of how you should treat every person on every call equally and with the professionalism and thoroughness due every patient, because you never know who a patient is or how public a patient can become. Chief EMT Marcus Garvey said he had no idea who he was working on; even with Travolta right beside him.

I don't know John Travolta. The only thing negative that I know for sure about him, is that he is a member of the Church of Scientology. I've seen him in various interviews and watched stories about his generosity. So, it was no surprise when I read that even in the midst of his despair and grief he took a moment to praise the EMT who worked on his son. Garvey related that Travolta tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Good job, good job."

Unfortunate tragedy is something that we in the prehospital medical world have to deal with on an almost daily basis. We do the best we can and often with little or no appreciation. My deepest sympathy goes out to the Travolta family.

Sick of Racism Claims

2009-01-02T10:16:00.010-06:00

So, my family and I are vacationing in Indiana for a long weekend with my side of the family. I woke up this morning and caught the news. I was disgusted to read that profiling or racism was discussed as a possibility in the removal of a Muslim family from an Airtran flight after passengers heard them discussing security issues at the airport.

Given the FACT that Muslims are the leading perpetrators of terrorism in the world, a Muslim family discussing airport security on a flight warrants their removal. Airline officials are being bedeviled for taking action even after the FBI cleared them. Why isn't the Muslim family being judged for being stupid enough to bring up such a topic in that setting? How moronic of them! Shame on them!

I was equally outraged at how Blago's attempted replacement of Obama is playing the race card. Burris, on a Today show interview, repeated comments made earlier in the week by Democrat Bobby Rush. Burris is quoted as saying, “It is a fact there are no African-Americans in the United States Senate. Is it racism that is taking place? That's a question that someone may raise."

HELLO!? This has nothing do with racism. This is solely an issue of a corrupt Governor, who has lost the ability to govern, appointing ANYONE to replace Obama. It is absolutely nothing to do with racism.

I'm so tired of racism always being the go to when an African American or some other perceived minority can't get their way. Even if Blago could appoint this man in spite of his present legal circumstances, after comments like this I would make every attempt to have him disqualified and/or vote against him.

African Americans are not the oppressed people they once were and are barely the minority. According to the Washington Times and other media sources, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that by 2042 caucasions will be the minority. While I'm confident that racism still exists in America (represented by every race on earth), I am not convinced that racism plays a significant role in most majority decisions.

For instance, Obama was elected despite being severely unqualified and inexperienced and despite his terribly failed efforts to be a community organizer. IF racism ruled American policy or attitudes, do you think he would have been elected? It is doubtful, despite America’s desperation to escape GW Bush’s inexcusable lack of conservative leadership.

I’m sick of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson alarmists. The American people are sick of them. We’re sick of political correctness doctrine. We're sick of organizations like the Anti-Christain Law Union (click link to see their logo) twisting our laws to strong arm our liberties away from us. Enough is enough. Crawl back into the hole you came from.

Happy New Year

2008-12-31T10:03:00.001-06:00

Gabriel, The Fallen vs The Arcs

2008-12-29T06:59:00.004-06:00

Two of my favorite books of all time were written by Frank Peretti. Piercing the Darkness and In This Present Darkness thrilled me with fictional accounts of spiritual warfare based off the authors (and my) Biblical interpretations. Those brought to life for me the angelic and demonic competition that occurs for the human soul. So when I saw the movie Gabriel and read on the DVD box that it was a movie about angels and demons, I decided to watch it.

IMDBs website summarizes the movie as follows:

In the tradition of Underworld, Garbriel reveals the battle between good and evil and the fight for the human soul. Set in purgatory, there is a struggle between Arc and Fallen angels for control over the city and its population of re-born souls. At present, darkness rules and Garbriel, the last of seven Arcs sent to return light, must assume a human form for the first time. In the darkest places of the human soul, this lone arc angel's battle with his human feelings and emotions will prove as perilous as facing the Fallen.

This movie has a very Goth look and feel to it. It vividly depicts the dark and despair of a world without Christ. However, the movie never mentions Christ or God. Instead, they simply refer to the good force as “The Light.”

In the slums of some major city, a drug riddled, prostitution infested, decaying world barely exists. The scales of power have clearly tipped in favor of the Fallen and Gabriel is the last of the seven Arcs sent to wage war for human souls.

The acting in this movie was maybe a B or B-. There was one Fallen female actress that was terrible and one male Arc that wasn’t great either, but beyond that, the acting was acceptable. I was a little put off by some of the vulgarity, but I think that at least part of it was necessary to drive home the despondency of the darkened existence. The fight sequences were unimpressive to me; and the fact that angels and demons would do battle with guns really turned me off. There is one sex scene in the movie (no nudity) that I found offensive as a Christian. It wouldn't have hurt the movie without the sex scene. In addition, I hated the revelation of the main character’s true identity near the end of the movie.

What I loved about this movie, however, was the stark parallel between light and darkness, decay/despair and the absence of goodness and/or light. The battle that takes place in the spiritual world for the human to be able to choose freely how he/she will live and if he/she will accept the full grace of God or reject salvation and be doomed to an eternity in Hell. Many things in this movie are questionable or just plain off Biblically, but if you watch this movie solely from the perspective of how a life without the Light of the World decays, withers, and dies a slow and tormented death, it can have a powerful message.

With all the news that floods our media about terrorism, moral depravity, corrupt politicians, starving nations, senseless violent acts against others, lives that have been destroyed because of sinful choices, weather related disasters, economic crisis, wars and rumors of wars, and the list goes on and on, it is easy to feel hopeless and be full of inner strife and despair. There is no clear line for what is morally acceptable and/or reprehensible anymore. I watched this movie and was easily able to channel some of my own despair, strife and hopelessness into the theme and relate that to the world around me in real life.

More and more the world seems hopeless to me, lately. I picked up a small child from a home overnight to transport for vomiting. All the people in the house with this young boy was intoxicated or stoned. My heart broke for this innocent child who will in all likelihood become a product of his environment. I see things like this every single day.

Friends, the Fallen and the darkness are gaining in strength and strategy. Christians can no longer freely exercise our beliefs and traditions. We are giving those rights away, that has emboldened the darkness and perpetuates the decay. We have to bring the Light back into this world by doing battle against the Fallen.

We have got to learn to do the right thing, because it is the right thing to do, instead of doing the politically correct thing just to appease everyone. We must introduce people to the Light of the World and restore their hope. The best way to do that is for those people to see the Light of the World in us; our witness, our walk, our encounters with people, our attitudes, our postures, our words, our care, our concern, our reaching out.

Al Gore; A Friend to OPEC

2008-12-28T12:48:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas From The Kids

2008-12-25T14:29:00.000-06:00

Blago - Obama Connection II

2008-12-19T14:48:00.003-06:00

Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Obama's chief of staff, had direct discussions with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about Obama's vacant Senate seat, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Sources with knowledge of the conversations told the Sun- Times Emanuel spoke with the governor and pushed for the appointment of Valerie Jarrett in the days after the presidential election and asked that it be done by a certain date.

The sources said Blagojevich told aides about conversations with Emanuel and sometimes gave them directions afterward. Some conversations between Blagojevich and Emanuel were likely caught on tape, the sources said.

Source

I told you this was going to come out. How much damning evidence does one person need before the world sees him for the fraud and man of ill repute that he is? Why does Obama seem bullet proof? Nothing sticks to him, because everyone always looks the other way. Can you really believe for a minute, that Obama was not in discussions with the man who would appoint his replacement?

NKU M.S. Program Graduates First Class

2008-12-17T16:15:00.005-06:00

Northern Kentucky University will graduate its inaugural class from the Executive Leadership and Organizational Change master's program on Dec. 20 at the Bank of Kentucky Center.

The inaugural class consists of 25 students who completed the program at the end of the 2008 summer term.

The Executive Leadership and Organizational Change program is offered through the NKU Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./US Bank Foundation College of Business.

Currently the program has 45 highly talented and motivated students and 25 alumni from diverse professional fields and geographic locations including Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Tennessee and Florida.

Press Article

Congratulations to the NKU ELOC graduating class of 2008 and especially to my lovely, talented and motivated wife (who graduated with a 4.0 GPA). The sacrifice, commitment, and effort that you have given to this pusuit of excellence is great cause for celebration. Your families are exceedingly proud of your distinguished accomplishment. Always remember the words of the late great Eleanor Roosevelt, "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Lest we also not forget Henry Ford's great life lesson, "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

Congratulations! May you always have fair winds and following seas.

AP Report on GloBuLL Warming Deemed 'Propaganda' by Scientists

2008-12-16T20:41:00.014-06:00

They say the report, which was published on Monday, contained sweeping scientific errors and was a one-sided portrayal of a complicated issue.

"If the issues weren't so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it," said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue.

"The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."

"Reporters, as I understand reporters, are supposed to report facts,"Deming said. "What he's doing here is he's writing a polemic and reporting it as fact, and that's not right. It's not reporting. It's propaganda.

Excerpts taken from this article.

Finally, the scientists are speaking out. In the 1970s and 1980s news magazines and science journals were scaring people to death with notions of a second life ending ice age. Now we have wacko's scaring people to death with global warming.

The fact is that the earth has always gone through natural warming and cooling cycles. That, of course, means varying levels of ice, ocean currents, and tidal patterns. "carbon footprints" have nothing to do with humans. It is a NATURAL phenomenon. So, please everyone...get off your global whining.

Now, let the record state that I am not in opposition of being good stewards of the gift that God has given us in our planet. We should keep it clean, healthy, and pollution free and I endorse all activity to do that. I deeply oppose the notion of climate change caused by human beings. The science behind it is pseudo and deeply flawed. The environmental alarmists, led by their false savior Gore.

I'm very happy to hear that the scientific community is finally starting to speak out!

Blago - Obama Connection

2008-12-16T12:41:00.002-06:00

Deny! Deny! Deny! That is the Democrat’s chief strategy.

No one can convince me that the snake Obama and his political team did nothing wrong in the replacement for Obama’s vacant Senate seat. A couple of things stick out in my mind.

First, Blago states, apparently unaware that he is being recorded, that if Obama isn’t willing to deal in how and who replaces him that he (Blago) will give it to someone who Obama hasn’t endorsed. That implies that Blago had spoken to Obama or someone high on his staff about this.

Second, why wouldn’t Obama be extremely interested in who replaces him in the Senate? He’s going to want to have someone in there that he can work with in the Senate, plus he wants someone in there who will continue his legacy of corruption and questionable associations.

Obama thinks, and largely he is right since he was elected, that the American people are stupid enough to follow him without questioning his character and/or motivation. Rham Emanuel is in this neck deep as well. I predict that he will never become Obama’s Chief of Staff or that if he does he won’t be there long. His internal review shows …. Who the hell cares what his internal review shows? We all know it is a review, if one even took place at all, to cover up any links to Obama.

Blago is for sure going down. I hope he takes Obama with him!

Controversy Erupts Over School Proposal to Teach Kids to Fight Back Against Gunmen

2008-12-10T23:28:00.005-06:00

A proposal to teach children as young as 10 years old to fight back against a classroom gunman is causing quite a stir in a small town in Massachusetts.

Georgetown Police Chief James E. Mulligan told FOXNews.com the proposed technique was intended to be a "last ditch" thing to be used in cases where a gunman has been able to thwart police and get inside a classroom alone with students.

But others think the last thing you want to teach young kids is how to fight off an intruder with a gun.

"To put that expectation on young, emotional, scared, frightened children is really a slippery slope," says Kenneth Trump, the president of National School Safety and Security Services. "It has a high risk and higher probability of escalating a situation than it would to neutralize the situation."

Source

I have to confess as a parent of two elementary aged children, I am torn. I absolutely can appreciate the points of both sides of this argument. I have said many times that the public school system is the number one most dangerous place in America for a child to be in these days.

We have taught our children since the time they were able to understand us, that if anyone they do not know or even if they do know them tries to make them or take them and they know that's not right, that they are to scream at the top of their lungs, "that man/woman is not my mom/dad, please someone help me." I want them to fight in an environment like that. I want them to make as much noise to draw attention to themselves.

A man with a gun in their school, well I'm just not sure about that. If a man with a gun has entered the school and made it through the ridiculously inadequate security provided, I think I'd rather my child find a safe place to hide and be quiet. It just isn't the same as a group of adults being held hostage on an airplane. Adults are capable of fighting; their capable of reasoning out what the odds are and how best to play them. Children just aren't strong enough or developed enough in their ability to reason out their next move. They can reason, "I need to run from here to there," but they would have trouble with more complex decision making items. "If I have to make contact with this guy, where should I hit/kick him and what should I use as a weapon?"

I guess I lean more on the side of just biding your time and following directions until a rescue plan can be devised and implemented by experts. I just don't think the average child has the capability to make wise choices in such a high stress environment.

Illinois Governor's; A Culture of Corruption

2008-12-09T12:37:00.006-06:00

It seems corruption has become a major problem in politics and there is no end to it sight. Congressmen/women, Senators, President-elects, and most recently Governor's.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D), was arrested early this morning at his home on corruption charges related to allegedly auctioning off Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder for personal gain. The investigators seem to have overwhelming and indisputable evidence of the Governor's intent and his corruption.

He is, of course, presumed innocent until proven otherwise, but in my opinion he will join the ranks of his predessor's, former Illinois Governors' George Ryan and Dan Walker. For the record, Governor Dan Walker was convicted on charges unrelated to his Governorship. George Ryan, like Rod Blagojevich, was arrested for using their elected office as a catlyst for personal gain.

It's important to note, no charges have been filed nor any links to President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama, despite the level of corruption that we witnessed in Obama funded groups like ACORN in promotion of voter fraud. I'm certain that the Obama camp is doing everything possible to distance themselves from Blagojevich and his alleged crimes.

Republican Identity Crisis

2008-12-08T16:17:00.004-06:00

With the Census Bureau projecting minorities will one day be the majority, some Republicans believe they have a branding problem. As if things couldn't get any worse for the GOP, the Pew Research Center claims White voters are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party. The numbers of White voters calling themselves Republicans have been dropping for the past four years. And there are some Republicans who believe the party needs its own Barack Obama, a political star who can transcend race and party lines.

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The GOP has a problem. I'm not sure I would call it a branding problem, exactly. I'm equally uncertain the resolution lies in finding the perfect African American candidate as the text taken from and Essence.com article implies. I maintain that politics shouldn't be about race, but more about the qualifications for the position. Obviously, many people disagree with me since we elected the most under qualified and liberal candidate in US history.

The problem with the GOP isn't about the lack of minority representation. The problem is the GOP does not stand for anything anymore. They can't decide whether they're going to be conservative, moderate or as in John McCain's case, liberal. I believe that there are far more Conservatives in the country than Liberals, but the Liberals have learned to make more noise than the Conservatives do. The Liberal strategy has been brilliant in making people so afraid of being politically incorrect that Conservatives are petrified to stand for anything that was once considered a core value.

The GOP has to do a better job of reaching out to their base. John McCain did not represent their base. His campaign was stale and lifeless until he named Sarah Palin as his running mate. Governor Palin breathed new life into the GOP and it would serve the GOP to take notice of her characteristics, her values, and her message which resurrected and energized a fallen party.

The article from Essence.com goes on to talk about another rising star in the GOP, Michael S. Steele. He is the former Lt. Governor of Maryland. I don’t know much about him, except that he is a conservative. I have seen him many times as a commentator on Fox News, and I like the message I’ve heard from him. He is seeking the leadership of the Republican National Committee. For sure, anyone who receives this coveted position must clearly define the core principles, values, and the mission of the Republican party or there will be no future for the party. The Republican party is not going to prevail by seeing which candidate is the blackest African American and I hope they don’t use race as a determining factor in appointing leadership for this monumental task of defining what the Republican party is and will be.

I’m the author of Your Moral Compass and I approved this message.

Another Major Victory in 'Right To Die' Case

2008-12-07T10:47:00.005-06:00

HELENA, Montana — A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state argues that the Legislature, not the court, should decide whether terminally ill patients have the right to take their own life.

Judge Dorothy McCarter issued the ruling late Friday in the case of a Billings man with terminal cancer, who had sued the state with four physicians that treat terminally ill patients and a nonprofit patients' rights group.

"The Montana constitutional rights of individual privacy and human dignity, taken together, encompass the right of a competent terminally (ill) patient to die with dignity," McCarter said in the ruling.

It also said that those patients had the right to obtain self-administered medications to hasten death if they find their suffering to be unbearable, and that physicians can prescribe such medication without fear of prosecution.

"The patient's right to die with dignity includes protection of the patient's physician from liability under the state's homicide statutes," the judge wrote.

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I'm certainly no proponent of rogue judges making law from the bench, but if this judge is interpreting existing law correctly then this is a major victory for terminally ill patients.

As a staunch pro-life supporter, I am often taken to task on my support of end of life decision making and capital punishment. Capital punishment is a discussion for a different time. In so much as the decision to die was made by the person who will die, my pro-life stance ends there. There is no innocent person being killed, like an unborn baby. I am a Christian, having spent most of my Christian life in a Southern Baptist setting. Southern Baptists and many other denominations do not share their support of a right to die mentality. Their case is made in explaining how God will call us home when it's our time and until then our life could be ministering to someone (that's the really dumbed down version of it).

I am in and out of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and private residences regularly. I see firsthand the degradation of the quality of life, the unbearable pain, the humiliation of not being able to care for oneself, the misery of knowing the toll one is taking on ones family, and being trapped in a body that doesn't work and never will again. As a human-being, I never want to be alive under those conditions. I would beg my family, my doctors, my nurses and anyone else who would listen to end my suffering. Am I playing the role of God? Maybe!

I'm not advocating that anyone and everyone should be allowed to run out to clinics of suicide. I am advocating right to die laws for the terminally ill, the person who will be in a vegetative state (if they've declared their intent previously in a living will or other legal document), and/or people who have tragically had their lives forever altered into a state that requires others to care for them. To deny a person the right to die under these circumstances is to enact cruel and unusual punishment, even torture, and in a civilized society such as the United Socialist States of America we're above these types of punishments.

Kudos to Montana. I hope the rest of the country will follow suit.

Happy Holidays From Us To You

2008-12-06T15:52:00.002-06:00

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Fatigue in the Medical Field

2008-12-04T17:50:00.006-06:00

PEORIA — Traditionally viewed as a baptism by fire for future physicians, a new report said the lengthy, grueling schedules of medical residents may be hurting patients and doctors-to-be - instead of helping them...

...To trim the number of fatigue-related mistakes, the 480-page report recommended residents working the maximum 30-hour shift should have a five-hour break for sleep. Moreover, it stated shift changes at hospitals should overlap to allow for a smooth transition between residents, and doctors-in-training should be prohibited from moonlighting at other jobs.

"This is not a trivial issue," said Dr. Thomas Santoro, associate dean for graduate medical education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, which administers 10 residency programs. "A fatigued physician is not practicing optimal medicine..."

Complete Article

They print this report like it is going to be some kind of epiphany. Isn't this pure common sense? Standards have changed for truck drivers and airline pilots, yet the medical profession refuses to change.

Consider that you or your loved one might be rushed into surgery or some other medical procedure, to be performed by someone who has been working on the job for 28-hours. Would you allow this to happen?

This isn't unique to residents and medical students though. It happens with RNs and prehospital providers. As a paramedic, I can attest to the grueling pace that our employers task us with. There is never enough staff to go around and/or the budget won't allow for a different schedule. Just yesterday in a 12-hour shift my partner and I drove a patient 200 miles (one way) to their residence, was asked on the way back to take a patient to a VA hospital which was another 150 miles away after we got back to town to pick him up. I was so tired of driving, that when we got back from the trips and while waiting at a stop light to turn left, I saw a light change on the stop light and assumed it was our green light (I was watching a couple of cars across the street that looked like they may have had a fender-bender)... Guess what, it wasn't our light and I pulled into the intersection to make my turn before I realized that our light was still red. It seems trivial, I know, but considering that we're entrusted with some of the most powerful medications in the world and/or tasked with advanced life saving techniques and skills, it would seem natural that our industry would better police the stress, fatigue and pace at which people in the medical field are subjected to.

Next time you're in the hospital and you or your loved one has to be worked on, be consciences and inquire about the physician who will be treating and ask them about how long they've been working without sleep or food. Why wouldn't you? When you buy an automobile, you try to get as much information and history about your purchase. This is no different! You're the consumer purchasing medical expertise and treatment - at least you're the consumer until Obama's regime takes over and socializes medicine.

Mormon Temple's Being Targeted by Hate-Filled Homosexuals

2008-12-01T23:16:00.007-06:00

In the nearly four weeks since Election Day, gay activists and thousands of their supporters have rallied outside Mormon temples around the country, protesting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' support for California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to make same-sex marriage illegal in the Golden State.

There have been calls to boycott the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; some activists have called for a boycott of the entire state of Utah. Protesters have defaced some church buildings, and in Arapaho County, Colo., the Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible hate crime — the torcSo why is the Mormon Church the only target?

It's because of the money, says Evan Wolfe, executive director of Freedom to Marry, a New York-based group that supports same-sex marriage.

"The Mormon Church hierarchy led the way on this attack on gay families and the California constitution," Wolfe said. "They provided more than half of the funding. They provided the ground troops and were a major political force in a way that no other group was.

"It's not like there's one centralized voice telling everyone whom to protest. People have their own reactions to what they see with their own eyes, and what they saw here was a $40 million deceptive campaign to take away rights, led by the Mormon Church hierarchy."hing of the Book of Mormon on a church's doorstep.

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My reaction to this is very simple. Where were these protester's hiding out when Obama and his minions of fraudulent organizing ACORN workers were trying to and succeeding in fraudulently electing Barrack Hussein Obama? Well, that kind of organizing is Okay to the groups who want to go against the majority balance of the American people and live a lifestyle that many consider deviant and would like to protect their young families from having to experience.

I know little about the Mormon, involvement supporting the proposition. There are many many things I disagree with the Mormon faith on, but this is not one of them. They did what any good Christian, Jewish, or most any other faith should have been more active in, and that is upholding the fundamentals of God's Law against such lifestyles or perversion. The majority has ruled by the taking of a secret ballot and the vore should be upheld.

The hypocrisy by which they try to advance their cause, at the risk of the damned damning persons of opposing opinions is telling and an act of desperation. Obama and the demon spawn of leadership in the House and Senate are probably the best friends the homosexuals have ever had in a position to really advance their pathetic cause. Now, more than ever before, it is important for Evangelicals, Catholics, and any other form of religion that speaks the absolute truth of God's Word on this subject be shouted from every corner and off of every roof top.

1984

2008-11-29T03:15:00.007-06:00

I have recently started reading the book 1984, by George Orwell. This book, apparently, was required reading for many in high school, but I had never heard of it until recently. I'm not much of a reader, so getting me to read anything is big news. However, this is one of those books you just can't put down.

I'm only about sixty pages into the book, but this man, Orwell, had extraordinary insight into socialism early in history. This book was first published in 1949, long before the present threat of socialism in the United States. We're far from the level of socialism in his book, but the first steps have been taken by our present government which really is in control with no means of checks and balance (since they run the POTUS, the House and the Senate).

The democrats have always been about gaining as much federal control over anything they can by labeling it as aid or regulations for whatever the cause of the week is. They're about a hand out, instead of a leg up. When you dole out charity with no emphasis on getting out into the real world and making something of yourself, you eventually subjugate your base into mind numbed puppets.

Forced socialized health care, which promises to bankrupt our nation and destroy the present level of care that most American's enjoy is but the first step. Our right to bear arms are almost certainly going to be in jeopardy. We're watching key political races being stolen by corrupt failed comedians turned to politics (Al Franken). The Presidential race itself was bought and paid for with record levels of KNOWN fraud (ACORN ring any bells). Obama's tax increase to 95% of the American public, will wreak havoc on our recessioned nations political recovery. Basic economics says don't raise taxes when the people already have no money.

Yes, Change has come. Wait, has it? Where is the change? Obama has basically reinstated the entire Clinton cabinet. That's not change...that's more of the same.

But I digress, this is about 1984...

I can tell this is one of those books that are going to give me a lot to blog about. Following this book, I will be reading a book titled, The Legacy of Secrecy, which is a very long book on the JFK assassination.

Stay tuned for more...If you have never read the book 1984, please read it. It will scare you. I am literally frightened (no pun intended). But it will also hopefully stir deep with in you to begin to let your voice be heard so we can take back our Constitution and our Conservative base and restore the faith that the Moderates have robbed from all of Conservatives who feel left without a party any longer. Believe me, there are far more conservatives than moderates and even liberals for that matter. Liberals just do a better job of being heard and advancing their cause than we conservatives do. Hopefully, for you, this book will change your whole outlook on life make you want to engage yourself in holding our elected officials accountable, rather than the day coming where the "thought police" come to round us all up, because we're no longer controllable.

It's late, but you can bet, I'll be doing a whole sermon series on this book alone in future blogs as time permits.

Obese Have Right to Two Airline Seats

2008-11-27T13:49:00.003-06:00

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare.

The airlines had lost an appeal at the Federal Court of Appeal in May and had sought to launch a fresh appeal at the Supreme Court. The court's decision not to hear a new appeal means the one-person-one-fare policy stands.

The appeal had been launched by Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and WestJet.

This is a dangerous road we're embarking upon. Obese people are functionally disabled, so!? People with social phobia's are functionally disabled, so we should give them a whole plane to themselves, right? There are a whole host of things that make people functionally disabled, but giving people the bonus of two seats does nothing to help curve the obesity or other functional problems. I have no problem with a person buying an extra seat, or a whole row for that matter, but I do take issue with rewarding them for becoming obese to begin with. I am also not in favor of removing a person's right to most things and especially not because their obese, but rewarding them....come on!

Woman Sells Virginity to Highest Bidder

2008-11-21T09:07:00.000-06:00

Forget the record number of foreclosures and the escalating rate of unemployment.

Here's the best example yet of the current economic climate: Natalie Dylan is selling her virginity to the highest bidder

"I don't think auctioning my virginity will solve all my problems, but it will create some financial stability," the 22-year-old Sacramento State graduate said. "I'm ready for the controversy... I'm ready to do this."

Dylan says she'll undergo a medical exam in order to prove her purity.

The virgin's goal? To earn one million dollars from the auction, which will take place in Nevada at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch.

"Through this process I'm not just looking for the highest bidder," she said. "I'm looking for someone who is a genuine, overall nice person."

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2008/09/...inity-for-sale/

Another fine example of our moral demise in America. When a woman can sell, to the highest bidder, the most precious gift she can give to a future mate, it indicates a huge red flag in our worlds present state of moral health. I am not naive enough to miss the fact that almost no one is a virgin anymore at their wedding, but come on, selling your virtue publicly to the highest bidder!? The worst part is, that she is studying to be a marriage and family counselor. Sounds like the perfect career move for her in light of her foolish and unhealthy decision to sell herself. Just the kind of counselor I'd want my family to see.

Dear Mr. Obama,

2008-11-14T15:26:00.002-06:00

Dear Mr. Obama:

On October 24, 2008, a federal judge granted your request to dismiss a lawsuit by Citizen Philip Berg, who challenged your eligibility under the “Natural Born Citizen” clause of the U.S. Constitution to legally hold the office of President of the United States of America.

Mr. Berg presented factual evidence to the Court in support of his claim that you are either a citizen of your father’s native Kenya by birth, or that you became a citizen of Indonesia, relinquishing your prior citizenship when you moved there with your mother in 1967.

In your response to the lawsuit, you neither denied Mr. Berg’s claims nor submitted any evidence which would refute his assertions. Instead, you argued that the Court lacked the jurisdiction to determine the question of your legal eligibility because Mr. Berg lacked “standing.”

Astonishingly, the judge agreed, simply saying, “[Mr. Berg] would have us derail the democratic process by invalidating a candidate for whom millions of people voted and underwent excessive vetting during what was one of the most hotly contested presidential primary [sic] in living memory.”

Unfortunately, your response to the legal claim was clearly evasive and strikingly out of character, suggesting you may, in fact, lack a critical Constitutional eligibility necessary to assume the Office of President: i.e., that you are not a “natural born” citizen of the United States or one who has relinquished his American citizenship.

Before you can exercise any of the powers of the United States, you must prove that you have fully satisfied each and every eligibility requirement that the Constitution mandates for any individual’s exercise of those powers.

Regardless of the tactics chosen in defending yourself against the Berg lawsuit, significant questions regarding your legal capacity to hold this nation’s highest office have been put forth publicly, and you have failed to directly refute them with documentary evidence that is routinely available to any bona fide, natural born U.S. Citizen.

As one who has ventured into the fray of public service of his own volition, seeking to possess the vast powers of the Office of President, you should expect to produce evidence of your citizenship to answer the questions and allay the concerns of the People. Indeed, as the one seeking the office, you are under a moral, legal, and fiduciary duty to proffer such evidence to establish your eligibility as explicitly mandated by Article II of the Constitution.

Should you proceed to assume the office of the President of the United States as anything but a bona fide natural born citizen of the United States that has not relinquished that citizenship, you would be inviting a national disaster, placing our Republic at great risk from untold consequences. For example:

· Neither the Electoral College on December 15, nor the House of Representatives on January 6 would be able to elect you, except as a poseur - a usurper;

· As a usurper, you would be unable to take the required “Oath or Affirmation” of office on January 20 without committing the crime of perjury or false swearing, for being ineligible for the Office of the President you cannot faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States;

· Your every act in the usurped Office of the President would be a criminal offense as an act under color of law that would subject the People to the deprivation of their constitutional rights, and entitling you to no obedience whatsoever from the People;

· as a usurper acting in the guise of the President you could not function as the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy and of the militia of the several states, as such forces would be under no legal obligation to remain obedient to you;

· No one in any civilian agency in the Executive Branch would be required to obey any of your proclamations, executive orders or directives, as such orders would be legally VOID;

· Your appointment of Ambassadors and Judges to the Supreme Court would be VOID ab initio (i.e., from the beginning), no matter what subsequent actions the Senate might take as well as rendering any such acts by such appointed officials void as well;

· Congress would not be able to pass any new laws because they would not be able to acquire the signature of a bona fide President, rendering all such legislation legally VOID;

· As a usurper, Congress would be unable to remove you from the Office of the President on Impeachment, inviting certain political chaos including a potential for armed conflicts within the General Government or among the States and the People to effect the removal of such a usurper.

As an attorney and sitting U.S. Senator, I’m sure you agree that our Constitution is the cornerstone of our system of governance. It is the very foundation of our system of Law and Order – indeed, it is the supreme law of the land. I’m sure you also agree that its precise language was no accident and cannot be ignored if Individual, unalienable, natural Rights, Freedoms and Liberties are to be protected and preserved.

As our next potential President, you have a high-order obligation to the Constitution (and to those who have fought and died for our Freedom) that extends far beyond that of securing a majority of the votes of the Electoral College. No matter your promises of change and prosperity, your heartfelt intent or the widespread support you have garnered in seeking the highest Office of the Land, the integrity of the Republic and Rule of Law cannot, -- must not -- be put at risk, by allowing a constitutionally ineligible person to sit, as a usurper, in the Office of the President.

No matter the level of practical difficulty, embarrassment or disruption of the nation’s business, we must -- above all -- honor and protect the Constitution and the divine, unalienable, Individual Rights it guarantees, including the Right to a President who is a natural born citizen of the United States of America that has not relinquished his American citizenship. Our nation has endured similar disruptions in the past, and will weather this crisis as well. Indeed, it is both yours and the People’s mutual respect for, and commitment to, the Constitution and Rule of Law that insures the perpetuation of Liberty.

As a long time defender of my state and federal Constitutions, and in consideration of the lack of sufficient evidence needed to establish your credentials as President, I am compelled to lodge this Petition for Redress of Grievances and public challenge to you.

Make no mistake: This issue IS a Constitutional crisis. Although it will not be easy for you, your family or our Republic, you have it within your ability to halt this escalating crisis by either producing the certified documents establishing beyond question your eligibility to hold the Office of President, or by immediately withdrawing yourself from the Electoral College process.

With due respect, I hereby request that you deliver the following documents to Mr. Berg and myself at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at noon on Monday, November 17, 2008:

(a) a certified copy of your “vault” (original long version) birth certificate;
(b) certified copies of all reissued and sealed birth certificates in the names
Barack Hussein Obama, Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama, Barack Dunham
and Barry Dunham;
(c) a certified copy of your Certification of Citizenship;
(d) a certified copy of your Oath of Allegiance taken upon age of maturity;
(e) certified copies of your admission forms for Occidental College, Columbia
University and Harvard Law School; and
(f) certified copies of any court orders or legal documents changing your name
from Barry Soetoro.

In the alternative, in defense of the Constitution, and in honor of the Republic and that for which it stands, please announce before such time your withdrawal from the 2008 Presidential election process.

“In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 469-471.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,
Robert L. Schulz,
Founder and Chairman, We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc.

A Sad Death

2008-11-07T23:52:00.001-06:00

Interesting and sadly true - Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, 'Common Sense', who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouth wash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust. His wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility, his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights; I Want It Now; Someone Else Is To Blame; I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

Author Unknown

One Vote

2008-11-02T14:58:00.001-06:00

Securing Our Borders Is Still The Highest Priority For Me

2008-11-01T11:44:00.007-05:00

(CNN) -- Seven members of the Mexican military were found inside the United States on Friday, telling border agents they had become disoriented while on patrol and accidentally crossed into the country, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said.

"This is not an uncommon occurrence," Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, told CNN. "Often times, it is the result of the Mexican military providing cover essentially for drug transportation across into our country, and/or creating a diversion so it will draw our people away from the place where the drugs are coming across."

In August, the Border Patrol said Mexican troops had crossed the border illegally 42 times since October 2007.

Tancredo said the U.S. State Department lodged a complaint with the Mexican government for the first time over the military incursions a few weeks ago. Attempts by CNN to contact the State Department and the Mexican government Friday were unsuccessful.

These excerpts from a CNN article today concern me greatly. If you can ACCIDENTALLY cross our border and enter our country, then our national security and our sovereignty as a nation remain in jeopardy.

In this time of global conflict, shoring up our porous borders should be among the highest priorities. This is dangerous, reckless, and poor leadership. Equally concerning to me, is the fact that neither one of the presidential candidates will take this issue seriously or do anything to shore up the fence, despite the American public speaking so loudly about it. When we leave Iraq prematurely and take the pressure off, they will surely bring the fight to us. I promise you, they will use our open borders to enter our country and afflict great harm on our own soil. It's not a question of "if," It's a question of "when?"