<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031</id><updated>2012-02-16T21:02:07.005-05:00</updated><category term='Patriotism'/><category term='Conservatism'/><category term='Obama'/><category term='Opinion'/><category term='Freedom'/><category term='Rants'/><category term='Socialism'/><category term='Independance Day'/><category term='Statism'/><category term='Healthcare'/><category term='Memorial Day'/><category term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Butcher the Patriot</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>154</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1204402468444961828</id><published>2011-10-31T11:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T11:55:36.921-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Snowstorm, Cold Makes Living In Zuccotti Park Hard For OWS Protesters « CBS New York</title><content type='html'>Here's a concept, get a job, go to work, and start providing for yourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/30/snowstorm-cold-makes-living-in-zuccotti-park-hard-for-ows-protesters/#.Tq7Eqx7Lzew.blogger"&gt;Snowstorm, Cold Makes Living In Zuccotti Park Hard For OWS Protesters « CBS New York&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1204402468444961828?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/30/snowstorm-cold-makes-living-in-zuccotti-park-hard-for-ows-protesters/#.Tq7Eqx7Lzew.blogger' title='Snowstorm, Cold Makes Living In Zuccotti Park Hard For OWS Protesters « CBS New York'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1204402468444961828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/snowstorm-cold-makes-living-in-zuccotti.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1204402468444961828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1204402468444961828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/snowstorm-cold-makes-living-in-zuccotti.html' title='Snowstorm, Cold Makes Living In Zuccotti Park Hard For OWS Protesters « CBS New York'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-274067484400514271</id><published>2011-10-02T09:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-02T09:01:10.471-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Breadwinner</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lsn8Vw3sKnY/TohgFho8iDI/AAAAAAAAAKo/EEexL6rUfX4/s1600/Breadwinner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="219" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lsn8Vw3sKnY/TohgFho8iDI/AAAAAAAAAKo/EEexL6rUfX4/s320/Breadwinner.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;&lt;v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"&gt;  &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;  &lt;v:formulas&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;  &lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:formulas&gt;  &lt;v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"&gt;  &lt;o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"&gt; &lt;/o:lock&gt;&lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;This is preposterous! An emergency room physician told me that a woman in her late 20's came to the ER today with her&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background: yellow;"&gt;8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;pregnancy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;She told the first doctor she saw: "My Mama told me that&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;I am the breadwinner for the family.&lt;/b&gt;" He asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money from the State for the family. It goes like this:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Grandma calls the Department of Child &amp;amp; Family Services, and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for all of her kids. DCFS agrees, and tells her the&lt;br /&gt;children will need to go into foster care.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow;"&gt;The Grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and receives a check for $1500&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;per child&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;each month in Illinois ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: fuchsia; color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Total yearly income:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: fuchsia; color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;$144,000 tax-free and nobody&lt;br /&gt;has to go to work!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: fuchsia; color: white; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;In fact, they get more if there is&lt;br /&gt;no husband/father/man in the home!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background: aqua; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Not to mention free healthcare (Medicaid), plus a monthly card entitling them to free groceries and a voucher for 250 free Obamaphone minutes each month. This does not include WIC and other welfare benefits...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Indeed, Grandma was correct that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner" for the family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how the liberal politicians spend our tax dollars. When this generous program was invented in the '60s, the Great Society architects forgot to craft an end date... and now we are hopelessly overrun with people who vote only for those who will continue to keep them on the dole....&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;No wonder our country is broke! Worse, the Muslims have been paying attention, and by mandating that each Muslim family have eleven children, they will soon replace the voting bloc above and can be running this country within 50 years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Are we alarmed yet?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Is anybody listening?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Is this a GREAT COUNTRY or what...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Don't forget to pay your taxes!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;There are a lot of “breadwinners” depending on you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-274067484400514271?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/274067484400514271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-breadwinner.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/274067484400514271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/274067484400514271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-breadwinner.html' title='The New Breadwinner'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lsn8Vw3sKnY/TohgFho8iDI/AAAAAAAAAKo/EEexL6rUfX4/s72-c/Breadwinner.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8992632696677408130</id><published>2011-08-14T10:45:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-14T10:46:28.529-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Government and Jobs.</title><content type='html'>  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The Liberals in their infantile wisdom believe that it is up to government to create jobs.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;However, they fail to understand that the Federal Government cannot create jobs, other than government jobs.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It takes the private sector and it’s might to create jobs.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The Federal Government has been doing everything it can to destroy jobs.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;With massive regulation and taxes, they have crippled our once great country, allowing third world countries to surpass us in production.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If the Government truly wants to create jobs, they can start by reducing the amount of un-necessary regulations and taxes on business.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They can lift the moratorium on oil exploration on our own soil; they can allow the drilling of oil in &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:state w:st="on"&gt;Alaska&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;By doing so they will create the greatest boom this country has seen in decades.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;This is just a dream.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The Liberals believe that Americans are not smart enough to do things on our own.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They have to have their hands in everything that we do.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They have to regulate every aspect of our lives.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They may not have taken our private property rights away, yet, but everything else they have done for the past seventy years reeks of Fascism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Until ‘We the People’ get persons in government with the wherewithal to do what needs to be done, and not worry about what a few think and worry what the many think, this country will never return to the greatness we once knew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-8992632696677408130?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/8992632696677408130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8992632696677408130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8992632696677408130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post.html' title='Government and Jobs.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-3984686201639213704</id><published>2011-07-03T12:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-03T12:33:04.280-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More truth than fiction ... Cuba/United States comparison...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;*Here's something to think about. More truth than fiction.*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;I remember asking dad about Castro when I was about 9 years old. I asked, &amp;quot;Is Castro a good guy or bad?&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dad said he couldn't tell! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana at the time. Dad was in the army there.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question!&amp;nbsp; Ike was president.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba. &amp;nbsp;Our dinner conversation was starkly&lt;br&gt;different than most.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960s. His family was more fortunate than most as they were able to bring a suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary paradise.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn. This is a menu&lt;br&gt;shared with family and friends nationwide, while celebrating the birth of our beloved America on the Fourth of July.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We began with a simple discussion about our country and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared&lt;br&gt;the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the rulers in Washington .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was unplanned. But, it carried the weight of a freight train. &amp;quot;You&lt;br&gt;know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We sat stunned. He continued, &amp;quot;Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, &amp;quot;You mean just like Barack Obama?&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He responded; &amp;quot;Yes, just like Barack Obama.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He continued, &amp;quot;We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so&lt;br&gt;please turn in your guns. We all complied.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;I remember my uncle saying after it started; 'Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries, he will never come and take our family hardware store.' But that is exactly what happened; Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And that nice, large four-bedroom home you own, it is now our property also, and you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house because others are moving in with you.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their&lt;br&gt;agenda and once in office they can take totally unexpected turns.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could&lt;br&gt;never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society would be evaporating&lt;br&gt;just like it did in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960s.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers are not charged with wrongdoing by the U.S. Department of Justice&lt;br&gt;because their crimes are against whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their assets without due process by the government.&lt;br&gt;Governmental leaders are bribed in full daylight only to have all investigation of the crimes stifled by the Attorney General. The&lt;br&gt;U.S. borders are overrun with crime and illegal activity and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers&lt;br&gt;while the innocent are killed and overrun. When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed and threatened as&lt;br&gt;racists and bigots. They are sued by the very administration entrusted with enforcing the law.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:mediumblue'&gt;Without the rule of law the U.S. Constitution is a sham. Without the rule of law our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book,&amp;nbsp; culture of corruption has replaced honest government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;The only way this problem will be fixed is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens that want to be treated equally must come together and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law end now. And yes, it can happen here.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW ... And may God save the United States of America !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-3984686201639213704?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/3984686201639213704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-truth-than-fiction-cubaunited.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/3984686201639213704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/3984686201639213704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-truth-than-fiction-cubaunited.html' title='More truth than fiction ... Cuba/United States comparison...'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-9218230903741804782</id><published>2011-06-18T07:28:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-18T07:28:33.742-04:00</updated><title type='text'>NATURAL BORN CITIZENS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#0060BF'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'&gt;You, who worry about democrats versus republicans--relax, here is our real problem. In a Florida State University classroom, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty simple.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 2.0pt;margin-left:4.7pt'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;background:#F3F3F3'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'&gt;The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=apple-converted-space&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president. The class was taking it in and letting her rant &lt;u&gt;and &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt; many jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:firebrick'&gt;&amp;quot;What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=apple-converted-space&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:firebrick'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:firebrick'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue'&gt;Yep, these are the same kinds of 18-year-olds that are now voting in our elections!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:darkgreen'&gt;They breed and they walk amongst us!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-9218230903741804782?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/9218230903741804782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/natural-born-citizens.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/9218230903741804782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/9218230903741804782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/natural-born-citizens.html' title='NATURAL BORN CITIZENS'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-6868361837699288714</id><published>2011-06-12T17:55:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T17:55:07.892-04:00</updated><title type='text'>'Catching wild pigs' - great analogy of the here and now in America</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;The professor asked the young man what was the matter.&lt;br&gt;The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back.&lt;br&gt;He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;He asked:&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Do you know how to catch wild pigs?&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;&amp;quot;You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.&lt;br&gt;They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, , tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;One should always remember two truths:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it &lt;br&gt;2) and when you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you've also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-6868361837699288714?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/6868361837699288714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/catching-wild-pigs-great-analogy-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6868361837699288714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6868361837699288714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/catching-wild-pigs-great-analogy-of.html' title='&apos;Catching wild pigs&apos; - great analogy of the here and now in America'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1930945562016763522</id><published>2011-06-11T18:45:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T18:45:11.476-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama's Own Words</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_1_a443c612-4a07-40a0-b5bb-5f07af9b9719"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt'&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:mediumblue'&gt;He is pathetic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;OBAMA'S OWN WORDS TRAP HIM: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;2008: &lt;span style='background:yellow'&gt;&amp;quot;Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;2011: &amp;quot;I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden.&amp;quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;2008: &lt;span style='background:yellow'&gt;&amp;quot;Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;2011: &amp;quot;I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden.&amp;quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;2008: &lt;span style='background:yellow'&gt;&amp;quot; Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;2011: &amp;quot;Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden.&amp;quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1930945562016763522?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1930945562016763522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamas-own-words.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1930945562016763522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1930945562016763522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamas-own-words.html' title='Obama&apos;s Own Words'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-3471432433544043185</id><published>2011-05-27T11:19:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T11:49:03.183-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Memorial Day'/><title type='text'>To our Veterans</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IAKVxmFwHAw/Td_HaVDqaqI/AAAAAAAAAE0/wXBlofh1y4U/s1600/Memorial+Day+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IAKVxmFwHAw/Td_HaVDqaqI/AAAAAAAAAE0/wXBlofh1y4U/s320/Memorial+Day+7.jpg" width="317" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;It is the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;not the preacher,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;who has given us freedom of religion.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is&amp;nbsp;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;not the reporter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;who has given us freedom of the press.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is&amp;nbsp;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;not the poet,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;who has given us freedom of speech.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is&amp;nbsp;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;not the campus organizer,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who has given us freedom to assemble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is&lt;br /&gt;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;not the lawyer,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;who has given us the right to a fair trial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is&amp;nbsp;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;not the politician,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Who has given us the right to vote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;It is the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;VETERAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;who&amp;nbsp;salutes the Flag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-FQEJL-aMw/Td_HiaiC3WI/AAAAAAAAAE4/l1QvPbpWonM/s1600/Memorial+Day+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-FQEJL-aMw/Td_HiaiC3WI/AAAAAAAAAE4/l1QvPbpWonM/s320/Memorial+Day+6.jpg" width="219" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;;"&gt;It is&amp;nbsp;the&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;VETERAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;who serves&amp;nbsp;under the Flag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fK6e12tP2rE/Td_HkIPj-iI/AAAAAAAAAE8/PBQgqtZwTRI/s1600/Memorial+Day+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="261" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fK6e12tP2rE/Td_HkIPj-iI/AAAAAAAAAE8/PBQgqtZwTRI/s320/Memorial+Day+5.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: 7.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ETERNAL&lt;br /&gt;REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON&lt;br /&gt;THEM.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-3471432433544043185?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/3471432433544043185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/3471432433544043185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/3471432433544043185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day.html' title='To our Veterans'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IAKVxmFwHAw/Td_HaVDqaqI/AAAAAAAAAE0/wXBlofh1y4U/s72-c/Memorial+Day+7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5879280886995851257</id><published>2011-05-22T07:53:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T07:52:40.654-04:00</updated><title type='text'>We saw this coming.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;Well, he did it.&amp;nbsp; Obama threw Israel under the bus.&amp;nbsp; His true colors are shining now.&amp;nbsp; I truly feel sorry for the American Jews that fell for his &amp;#8216;Hope And Change&amp;#8217; mantra, and donated money to his election campaign.&amp;nbsp; I hope that there is not as many Socialists in this country that there appears to be at this time, and that the Sheeple wake from the trance put on them by this Pied Piper living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;From the &amp;#8216;Washington Examiner&amp;#8217;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black'&gt;President Obama throws Israel under the Palestinian bus&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=bodycopydropcapnews&gt;&lt;span lang=EN style='color:black'&gt;President Obama stirred up a hornets' nest when he declared during his highly anticipated Middle East speech Thursday that Israel's borders should be based on the pre-1967 lines. He added enough caveats to render his demand unattainable from a practical standpoint, but, as a matter of political and strategic perception, Obama has inflicted a serious wound on America's most reliable ally. For that reason, it's important to understand what Obama is demanding of Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011/05/president-obama-throws-israel-under-palestinian-bus#ixzz1N4vsg6Zh"&gt;Continue reading here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5879280886995851257?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5879280886995851257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-saw-this-coming.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5879280886995851257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5879280886995851257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-saw-this-coming.html' title='We saw this coming.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-900248665032230801</id><published>2011-05-22T07:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T07:52:40.028-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Are these events now happening - or what?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="desc_2600775Comment3909361"&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'&gt;Let us ask ourselves what our President would do about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'&gt;Israel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'&gt; if he were a marxist Muslim from Kenya:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;1) He would support Arab &amp;quot;democracy&amp;quot; movements in Tunisia, &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Algeria&lt;/span&gt;, Libya, &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Egypt&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Yemen&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp; Bahrain, in the hope of these countries falling into the hands of jihadi governments - which is happening by the way, step by step;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;2) He would do nothing about protesting civilians in &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Syria&lt;/span&gt; which supports the &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Hezbollah&lt;/span&gt; terrorists in &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Lebanon&lt;/span&gt; who are now the government there;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;3) He would do nothing about the jihadi/mullah government in &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Iran&lt;/span&gt;, which is building &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;nuclear bombs&lt;/span&gt; in order &amp;quot;to wipe off Israel from the map of the world&amp;quot;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;4) He would counsel the Palestinian Authority to accept the &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Hamas&lt;/span&gt; jihadi terrorists into the West Bank government;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;5) He would then instruct his Secretary of State to remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organizations;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;6) Finally he would order Israel to start &amp;quot;negotiating&amp;quot; with the new and enlarged Palestinian Authority on the basis of the pre-1967 borders, thus eliminating some 500,000 &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;Israelis&lt;/span&gt; from their homes and reducing Israel into a totally indefensible position; and finally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;7) He would then accept the United Nations decision to recognize a new member state - The &lt;span class=yshortcuts&gt;State of Palestine&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'&gt;Are these events now happening - or what?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-900248665032230801?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/900248665032230801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/are-these-events-now-happening-or-what.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/900248665032230801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/900248665032230801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/are-these-events-now-happening-or-what.html' title='Are these events now happening - or what?'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8760366498681189842</id><published>2011-02-26T10:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T10:54:45.916-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Drill Here, drill Now, re-due.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;The recent events in the Middle East have made it even more imperative that we break our ties from foreign oil.&amp;nbsp; The United States has plenty of oil on our own soil that we can access rather easily, yet the government has the special interest groups so far up their posterior region that they can&amp;#8217;t think straight.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;Ten years ago some idiot in Congress made a statement saying it would take ten years to see any results from ANWAR if we started drilling.&amp;nbsp; Well guess what, it&amp;#8217;s been ten years and we are not better off.&amp;nbsp; If we had started drilling then we would not be in the predicament that we are in now, facing possible $5 a gallon gasoline.&amp;nbsp; The puppet of a president can give Brazil financial backing for offshore drilling along their county, yet bans it along ours.&amp;nbsp; And the money he is giving Brazil is our money, not his.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;The writing was on the wall during his campaign, yet most people ignored that he was a Socialist.&amp;nbsp; For the past two years he and his cronies have been shoving his Socialist agenda down our throats.&amp;nbsp; And things have not got better, rather they have gotten worse.&amp;nbsp; He can no longer blame the previous administration for what is happening to the country, it is all on him now.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;Last November &amp;#8216;we the people&amp;#8221; spoke and we spoke loud.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately we fell short of our goal.&amp;nbsp; We must keep pressure on those we elected to keep this might ship afloat.&amp;nbsp; We must remind them of last November and let them know if they fail to follow the will of the people, they too can become unemployed in 2012.&amp;nbsp; They must do everything in their power to stop and or stall the President and his cronies from destroying this great country.&amp;nbsp; If he is allowed to continue on the path he has laid out we may never recover.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;This is just my opinion I could be wrong.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-8760366498681189842?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/8760366498681189842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/drill-here-drill-now-re-due.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8760366498681189842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8760366498681189842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/drill-here-drill-now-re-due.html' title='Drill Here, drill Now, re-due.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-2417871001336371321</id><published>2011-02-26T08:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T08:55:28.029-05:00</updated><title type='text'>... put me in charge ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:darkgreen;"&gt;This was in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco , TX on 11/18/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:darkgreen;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;"Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;away.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;and piercings.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;or get tats and piercings, then get a job&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;Put me in charge of government housing.  Ever live in a military &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;repair.  Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;possessions will be inventoried.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;then get a job and your own place&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;or you will report to a "government" job.  It may be cleaning the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;find for you.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;your blasting stereo and speakers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;and put that money toward the "common &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;good."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;realize that all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;of the above is voluntary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:13;color:firebrick;"&gt;If you want our money, accept our rules.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:13;color:firebrick;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:13;color:firebrick;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;self esteem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices.  The current &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;And, while you are on Government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;Yes, that is correct.  For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;receiving a Government welfare check.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;If you want to vote, then get a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;job."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:mediumblue;"&gt;Alfred W. Evans, Gatesville , TX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-2417871001336371321?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/2417871001336371321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/put-me-in-charge.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2417871001336371321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2417871001336371321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/put-me-in-charge.html' title='... put me in charge ...'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-4539922610633284171</id><published>2011-01-12T18:33:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T18:33:28.425-05:00</updated><title type='text'>George Soros (a lot of food for thought here)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;div id=yiv82585263&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="yiv82585263AOLMsgPart_2_01f73eb3-ae31-4350-8bdb-8f0f55420e62"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="yiv82585263AOLMsgPart_1_3d90bd69-06b3-40fe-b6cb-bd7ed42d5cb7"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="yiv82585263AOLMsgPart_1_42ca82cb-8fea-44bf-8ade-90680d615dbf"&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;It seems to me that all of human history has been plagued by the misdeeds of mad men who want to rule the world.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;A George Soro's biography.&amp;nbsp; Pick up a copy of &amp;quot;&lt;u&gt;The Shadow Party&amp;quot;&lt;/u&gt; by Richard Poe and David Horowitz &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;It shows the association with Soros, the Clintons and the 60's radicals that have taken over the Democratic Party. It is all documented and you can research it yourself. Frightening! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'&gt;Tom Steele Director &amp;quot;We the People of PV&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;hr size=3 width="100%" align=center&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;ONE EVIL Son of Satan&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;FROM STEVE KROFT (60 Minutes)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;This is very interesting material. Glen Beck has been developing material to show all the ties that Soros has through the nation and world along with his goals. This article is written by Steve Kroft from 60 Minutes.&amp;nbsp; It begins to piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in leading the nation along with many members of Congress (in particular the Democrats, such as the election of Pelosi as the minority leader in&amp;nbsp; Congress) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Interesting read on George Soros &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved from obscurity to President, or why the media is &amp;quot;selective&amp;quot; in what we are told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible. He &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;controls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; President Obama's every move. Think this is absurd?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Invest a few minutes and read this. You won't regret it.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Who is Obama? Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or demon that pulls his strings. It's not by chance that Obama can manipulate the world. I don't think he knows how to tie his shoe laces. After reading this and Obama's reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US ?&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.&amp;quot;/ Franklin Delano Roosevelt &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Who Is George Soros? He brought the market down in 2 days. Here is what CBS' Mr. Steve Kroft's research has turned up. It's a bit of a read, and it took 4 months to put it together. &amp;quot;The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States . &amp;quot;George Soros&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;George Soros is an evil man.&amp;nbsp; He's anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-good.&amp;quot; He killed and robbed his own Jewish people. What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath's lack of conscience. He considers himself to be an elitist World class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social engineering and change cultures.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born&amp;nbsp;August 12, 1930 in Hungary. Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz's, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate&amp;nbsp; assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;When Hitler's henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary, to oversee the murder of that&amp;nbsp; country's Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on his rounds.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Soros has repeatedly called 1944&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;the best year of his life.&amp;quot; 70% of Mr. Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect&amp;quot; During an interview with &amp;quot;Sixty Minute's&amp;quot; Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about&amp;nbsp; his &amp;quot;best year.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;KROFT: My understanding is that&amp;nbsp; you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SOROS: Yes.&amp;nbsp; Yes.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; SOROS: Yes. That's right.&amp;nbsp; Yes.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that&amp;nbsp; would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years. Was it difficult?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I&amp;nbsp; rather enjoyed it.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;KROFT: No feelings of&amp;nbsp; guilt?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute&amp;nbsp; power.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros&amp;nbsp; has admitted to having carried some rather &amp;quot;potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.&amp;quot; Be that as it may. After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell&amp;nbsp; under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper,&amp;nbsp; one of his professors. Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper's&amp;nbsp; death in 1994. Two of Popper's most influential teachings concerned&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;the open society,&amp;quot; and Fallibilism.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Fallibilism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. (Then again, I could be wrong about that.)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The &amp;quot;open society&amp;quot; basically refers to a &amp;quot;test and evaluate&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; approach to social engineering. Regarding &amp;quot;open society&amp;quot; Roy Childs writes, &amp;quot;Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper's advice about piecemeal social&amp;nbsp; engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;In 1956 Soros moved to New York City, where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his&amp;nbsp; fortune. He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation.&amp;nbsp; Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune. By the 1980s he was well on&amp;nbsp;his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for &amp;quot;The American Thinker&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting&amp;nbsp; the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England . He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;In 1994 Soros crowed in &amp;quot;The New Republic ,&amp;quot; that &amp;quot;the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.&amp;quot; The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be &amp;quot;one of the greatest social robberies in human history. &amp;quot;The &amp;quot;Soros Empire&amp;quot; indeed. In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia.&amp;nbsp; At the time, Malaysia 's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called&amp;nbsp; Soros &amp;quot;a villain, and a moron.&amp;quot; Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, &amp;quot;We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula. He sucks the&amp;nbsp; blood from the people.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;The website Greek National&amp;nbsp; Pride reports, &amp;quot;Soros was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia, Ukraine and Myanmar [Burma] Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;France has upheld an earlier conviction&amp;nbsp; against Soros, for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;felony insider trading&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars. Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2&amp;nbsp; million dollars for &amp;quot;illegal market manipulation.&amp;quot; Elizabeth Crum&amp;nbsp; writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. Soros deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary's economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach.&amp;nbsp; But what about America? Soros told Australia's&amp;nbsp;national newspaper &amp;quot;The Australian.&amp;quot; "America, as the centre of&amp;nbsp;the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This is now over. The game is out,&amp;quot; he said, adding that the time has come for &amp;quot;a very serious adjustment&amp;quot; in American's consumption habits.&amp;nbsp; He implied that he was the one with the&amp;nbsp; power to bring this about.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Soros: &amp;quot;World financial crisis was &amp;quot;stimulating&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;in a way, the culmination of my life's work.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil, in order to give them a leg-up in&amp;nbsp; expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama's largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Pet rob ras).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;Tait Trussel writes, &amp;quot;The Pet rob ras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil , but it is a bad deal for the U. S. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch. com. Their mission: &amp;quot;This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial&amp;nbsp; pursuits of George Soros. Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same: the destructive power of greed without&amp;nbsp; conscience. We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop&amp;nbsp; preying upon the world's poor, that justice will be served.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Back to America. Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now. People have been warning us. Two years ago, news sources reported that &amp;quot;Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on. This is off-the-chart dangerous.&amp;quot;\\ In 1997 Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, &amp;quot;Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the&amp;nbsp; Western world, and particularly of the American people. His &amp;quot;open society&amp;quot; is not about freedom; it is about license. His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Perhaps the most important of these &amp;quot;whistle blowers&amp;quot; are David Horowitz and Richard Poe. Their book &amp;quot;The Shadow Party&amp;quot; outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel. Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years. The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Discover The Networks.org&amp;nbsp; (another good source) writes, &amp;quot;By his [Soros'] own admission, he&amp;nbsp; helped engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and&amp;nbsp; Yugoslavia. When Soros targets a country for &amp;quot;regime change,&amp;quot; he begins by creating a&amp;nbsp; shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to&amp;nbsp; assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other&amp;nbsp; countries prior to instigating a coup.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;November&amp;nbsp; 2008 edition of the German magazine &amp;quot;Der Spiegel,&amp;quot; in which Soros&amp;nbsp; gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S. )&amp;nbsp; should do after taking office. &amp;quot;I think we need a large stimulus package.&amp;quot; Soros thought that around 600 billion would be about right. Soros also said that &amp;quot;I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence.&amp;nbsp; The U. S. needs a cap and trade system with&amp;nbsp; auctioning of licenses for emissions rights.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Although Soros doesn't (yet) own&amp;nbsp; the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars. According to an article by &amp;quot;The Baltimore Chronicle's&amp;quot; Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlye&amp;nbsp; Group is run by &amp;quot;a veritable who's who of former Republican leaders,&amp;quot; from CIA man Frank Carlucci, to CIA head and ex-President George Bush, Sr.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;In late 2006, Soros&amp;nbsp; bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old stomping grounds. When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same&amp;nbsp;cities, at the same time. In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 ( that's Five Billion ) to the&amp;nbsp; Democratic National Committee, DNC, to insure Obama's win and wins&amp;nbsp; for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules Anti-American&amp;nbsp; Socialist. George has been contributing a $ billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me. And if that weren't&amp;nbsp; bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA. And I mustn't forget to mention&amp;nbsp; Soros' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the&amp;nbsp; entertainment industry (e. g. he owns 2.6 million shares of Time&amp;nbsp; Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he&amp;nbsp; funnels millions to. In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM.&amp;nbsp; Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soro's NEMESIS.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;As Matthew Vadum writes, &amp;quot;The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media&amp;nbsp; properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Richard Poe writes, &amp;quot;Soros' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America 's traditional Western&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; values. His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism,&amp;nbsp;drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control,&amp;nbsp;globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are: MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance, Media Matters for America, the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America), La Raza, and many more. For a more complete list, with&amp;nbsp;brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Poe continues, &amp;quot;Through his global web of&amp;nbsp;Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has&amp;nbsp; spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a&amp;nbsp; network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and&amp;nbsp; academia.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Without Soros' money, would the Saul Alinsky's Chicago machine still be rolling? Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities? Would Big Money and lobbyists still be corrupting government? Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros. Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;The words of Patrick Henry are apropos: &amp;quot;Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;--------------&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Above information researched by CBS Steve Kroft&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p 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href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/01/george-soros-lot-of-food-for-thought.html' title='George Soros (a lot of food for thought here)'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8506957727207994805</id><published>2010-11-24T16:33:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-24T16:33:28.088-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wal-Mart vs the Morons.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_2_b85b1823-9d1d-4dff-a840-99bf1833e589"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 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.75pt .75pt;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:50%'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to &amp;quot;the poor&amp;quot; and they only want more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;You have FAILED in every &amp;quot;government service&amp;quot; you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue'&gt;AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue'&gt;?? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue'&gt;MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WAL MART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT ???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue'&gt;WAL MART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS.......WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our &amp;quot;duly elected' (they never read anything)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt'&gt;and their staff &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;will clue them in on how Americans feel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-8506957727207994805?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/8506957727207994805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/wal-mart-vs-morons.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8506957727207994805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8506957727207994805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/wal-mart-vs-morons.html' title='Wal-Mart vs the Morons.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-997640484390916767</id><published>2010-11-17T19:33:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T19:33:08.179-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Shocking read ....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'&gt;For what it's worth.  As always check it out and draw your own conclusion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Wayne Madsen is pretty accurate in his reporting..historically!&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;President Obama was urged by the few White House insiders from whom he still takes advice to leave the country on his ten-day Asian trip, his longest trip abroad since becoming president, in order to not inflict any more damage to the Democratic Party in the wake of one of the worst electoral defeats for the party of an incumbent president in recent history. According to sources close to the White House, who put themselves in great danger by even talking to members of the media, the plans to have Obama leave for a visit to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan are an attempt to get Obama out of the country while top Democrats can sort through the political disaster created for the party by Obama's increasingly detached-from-reality presidency.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Virtual political guerrilla warfare has broken out between Obama's inner circle on one hand and senior Democratic officials, including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party strategist James Carville, former Demcratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and, behind-the-scenes, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton, on the other.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Top Democrats are still reeling from Obama's bizarre behavior at a $7500-a-plate fundraiser at a stately mansion at Brown University in Rhode Island on October 25. The fundraiser, organized by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was supposed to highlight Democratic Party unity. However, while Obama endorsed Democratic House candidate David Cicilline for outgoing Representative Patrick Kennedy's seat, the president failed to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio over Republican-turned-independent former Senator Lincoln Chafee. Obama's lack of an endorsement for a Democrat over a former Republican prompted Caprio to tell a radio show host that Obama &amp;quot;could take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I'm concerned.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Later that day, Obama briefly appeared at the fundraiser at Brown University, where Democratic loyalists paid $7500 to hear Obama speak, but departed after only twenty minutes, telling the assembled guests that he had to go back to the White House to &amp;quot;tuck in my daughters, walk the dog, and 'scoop the poop.'&amp;quot; The Democratic faithful were appalled and shocked at Obama's quick departure and one of the three reasons he gave for it: to scoop up dog turds as if the President of the United States actually performs such tasks with a phalanx of White House staff and Secret Service agents at his disposal.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Vice President Biden knows too well about Obama's lack of attention to his daily tasks of being president. The details of the fiasco at Brown soon were conveyed to Biden by his two old Democratic Senate colleagues from Rhode Island : Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse. Biden was not amused about Obama's dissing of the Democrats in Rhode Island . A week later, Chafee defeated Caprio for the Rhode Island governorship, thanks largely to Obama's less-than-neutral stance in cutting a secret deal to support Chafee against Caprio.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;White House leaks about the ineffectiveness of Obama's presidency are expandng beyond the revelations attributed to a former high-level Obama administration insider and which have been reported by a blogger named &amp;quot;Ulsterman.&amp;quot; Some White House staffers have described a &amp;quot;reign of terror&amp;quot; in the White House over continued leaks and a troika of leadership that is making decisions without any input from the president. The troika reportedly consists of First Lady Michelle Obama, presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, and the president's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, who resides in the White House.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Not to be deterred, some White House staffers have sought out journalists and have arranged to meet them at nearby Starbuck's cafes to discretely convey to them inside information about the current disarray within the Obama administration. Some staffers have personally born the brunt of Obama's temper and witnessed his extreme narcissistic behavior. WMR has also learned from White House sources that Obama is taking presciption anxiety medication.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Vice President Biden, under intense pressure from some Democratic Party officials and Cabinet members to invoke Article 25, Section 4 of the Constitution and have Obama temporarily or permanently removed as president because of his mental incapacity to fulfill his constitutional oath as president is reluctant to take such drastic action. Biden feels that the country would &amp;quot;become unglued&amp;quot; after such action and he doesn't want to be the one who would be responsible for &amp;quot;picking up the pieces,&amp;quot; according to a source who works within Biden's office.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Some staffers have said on deep background that the revelations by the ex-White House official to &amp;quot;Ulsterman&amp;quot; are not even half of the story about what is actually occurring in the White House. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, Biden and other Democratic and adminstration do believe that if Obama were to display some of the same reckless behavior publicly as many White House personnel have witnessed privately, there may be wide support for enactment of the provisions of the 25th Amendment.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Such a public display by Obama that could trigger succession action might involve a public outburst, including the use of foul language or a statement that Obama believes there is a conspiracy against him.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;On October 5, Obama was addressing Fortune magazine's "Most Powerful Women" summit in Washington , DC . During the middle of Obama's speech, the presidential seal fell off the podium. Publicly, Obama took the incident as a joke, but WMR has learned from White House insiders that Obama went on a tirade after the incident, accusing White House staffers of purposely not anchoring the seal to the podium. The White House supplies all the podiums and seals at all presidential addresses and the seal is usually well-anchored with four screws affixed to the podium. Obama reportedly &amp;quot;freaked out&amp;quot; and accused White House staffers of engaging in a conspiracy against him. The presidential tirade over such a trivial matter was not lost on senior administration officials who have witnessed Obama's lackadaisical behavior during the consideration of much weightier issues, for example, the war in Afghanistan .&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Although some observers believe African-Americans would react negatively to the invocation of the 25th Amendment, WMR has learned that members of the Congressional Black Caucus would reluctantly go along with such a move. Many in their ranks, including outgoing House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) were outraged over Obama's lack of interest in Haiti after that nation's devastating earthquake. For many black caucus members, it was their first indication that there was something very wrong with Obama and his grasp of reality.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;With Obama intent on running for re-election and seriously considering sending White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to replace former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, the potential Democratic challengers to Obama in 2012 are beginning to stir. WMR has learned that former DNC chairman Howard Dean is seriously considering a challenge to Obama as is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will reportedly depart Foggy Bottom after Defense Secretary Robert Gates leaves his position, possibly in January. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Several top Democrats consider Obama's chances to keep the White House in 2012 as slim and they find it fanciful that White House policy adviser David Axelrod is moving back to Chicago to work on Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, an effort many Democratic officials find a &amp;quot;fool's errand.&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama also is disengaged from the plight of his former Senate Democratic colleagues in the wake of their near loss of the Senate with a much-reduced majority. There is pressure on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down as Majority Leader. However, Charles Schumer (D-NY), who has been mentioned as a replacement, reportedly has let it be known that he will not carry Obama's water as Majority Leader and may not want the job after all. The Majority Whip is Dick Durbin (D-IL) but he is seen as part of the Obama Chicago Mafia and almost every Democratic senator agrees on one thing: they do not want Durbin as their Majority Leader. Obama, the titular head of the Democratic Party, has refused to weigh in with any effective leadership as congressional Democrats pick up the pieces and lick their wounds.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, a team of ex-CIA officers are traveling the globe assembling a dossier of documents on Obama's past, including his education, passport, travel, and residency records. The team has scoured Kenya , Indonesia , Pakistan , and other countries collecting documents that are not already mantained in the CIA's own files on Obama's past. There is a possibility, according to WMR's sources, that any &amp;quot;smoking gun&amp;quot; documents may be released while Obama is in Asia in order to elicit a public and, perhaps, irrational enough response from the president to prompt the public to begin raising questions about Obama's suitability for office. Such an incident would make it easier for Biden to begin the succession process that was previously considered when President Richard Nixon was drinking heavily and taking prescription medication during the final days of his administration, twice during the Ronald Reagan administration -- after the attempted assassination and in 1987 when he demonstrated early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and during the Bill Clinton administration, when Clinton's self-destructive sexual antics had Vice President Al Gore considering taking similar steps. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/"&gt;http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;a href="http://waynemadsenreport.com/" target="_blank" title="http://waynemadsenreport.com/"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Wayne Madsen ( Washington )&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-997640484390916767?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/997640484390916767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/shocking-read.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/997640484390916767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/997640484390916767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/shocking-read.html' title='Shocking read ....'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-52948271807495061</id><published>2010-11-14T12:21:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T12:21:15.867-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Smart Man..</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;No virus found in this incoming message.&lt;br&gt;Checked by AVG - www.avg.com &lt;br&gt;Version: 8.5.448 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3253 - Release Date: 11/12/10 10:40:00&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_4_69b9d0ce-cec8-453e-bbd8-78dd5ef7f2e5"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'&gt;Take a moment to read below. Very profound. We just might feel uneasy too. I do. Have heard segments of many of these statements in the past. Pretty overwhelming when they are all put together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='margin-left:.1in'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;AN AWESOME REMINDER TO EVERY PERSON WHO CONSIDERS HIM/HERSELF AN &amp;quot;AMERI&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;CAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=center&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;How did Jefferson know?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 5, began studying under his cousins' tutor. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 23, started his own law practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 31, wrote the widely circulated &amp;quot;Summary View of the Rights of British America&amp;quot; and retired from his law practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 33, took three years to revise Virginia 's legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 40, served in Congress for two years. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 57, was elected the third president of the United States . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 61, was elected to a second term as President. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 65, retired to Monticello . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Thomas Jefferson knew what he was talking about because he-himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;That happens to be waaay more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;A voice from the past to lead us in the future: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: &amp;quot;This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.&amp;quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;&lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109181.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109181.html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from tho&lt;span style='color:#1F497D'&gt;se &lt;/span&gt;who are willing to work and give to those who would not. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff122881.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff122881.html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. &lt;br&gt;A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff136389.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff136389.html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff136410..html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff136410..html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www..brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff157220.html" target="_blank" title="http://www..brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff157220.html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff125076..html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff125076..html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves &lt;br&gt;against tyranny in government. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff100991..html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff100991..html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109180.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109180.html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff157246..html" target="_blank" title="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff157246..html"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thomas Jefferson said in &lt;u&gt;1802&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;"I believe that banking institutions are &lt;u&gt;more dangerous to our liberties&lt;/u&gt; than standing armies..&lt;br&gt;If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;then by &lt;br&gt;deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property -&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;until their children wake-up homeless &lt;span style='color:blue'&gt;on the continent their fathers conquered."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='color:blue'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#953735'&gt;I wish we could get this out to everyone!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#953735'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#953735'&gt;I'm doing my part. Please do yours…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#953735'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-52948271807495061?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/52948271807495061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/smart-man.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/52948271807495061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/52948271807495061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/smart-man.html' title='A Smart Man..'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-207693203161592401</id><published>2010-11-08T06:34:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-08T06:34:45.993-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A little "Civics Lesson"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Progressives are killing this country, and we need to change course, but let's make sure we are dealing with a full deck.&amp;nbsp; Don't believe everything you hear.&amp;nbsp; Check it out before making up your mind.&amp;nbsp; We will be deciding this country's&amp;nbsp;financial future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#010101'&gt;The&amp;nbsp;   Washington &amp;nbsp;Post babbles about Obama 'inheriting a huge deficit from   Bush.' &amp;nbsp;Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this nonsense.&amp;nbsp;So   once more, a short civics lesson.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#010101'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#010101'&gt;Budgets do not come from the White House.&amp;nbsp;They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the&amp;nbsp;Democrat Party.&amp;nbsp;They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.&amp;nbsp;In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#010101'&gt;For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office.&amp;nbsp;At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#010101'&gt;And where was Barack Obama during this time?&amp;nbsp;He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.&amp;nbsp;Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#010101'&gt;If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.&amp;nbsp; That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.&amp;nbsp;After that, Democrats in&amp;nbsp;Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.&amp;nbsp;If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#010101'&gt;In a nutshell,&amp;nbsp;what&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#010101'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Obama is saying is &amp;quot;I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th,&amp;nbsp;2009.&amp;quot;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-207693203161592401?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/207693203161592401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/little-civics-lesson.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/207693203161592401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/207693203161592401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/11/little-civics-lesson.html' title='A little &quot;Civics Lesson&quot;'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5195836887926999498</id><published>2010-10-31T09:23:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-31T09:23:17.622-04:00</updated><title type='text'>10 signs you might be a Taliban</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:green'&gt;10 signs you might be a Taliban&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; 10.You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.&lt;br&gt; 9.You own a $1,500 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but you &lt;br&gt; can't afford shoes.&lt;br&gt; 8.You have more wives than teeth.&lt;br&gt; 7.You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.&lt;br&gt; 6.You can't think of anyone you HAVEN'T declared Jihad against.&lt;br&gt; 5.You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry ammunition in &lt;br&gt; your robe.&lt;br&gt; 4.You've never &amp;nbsp;asked, 'Does this burka make my ass look big?'&lt;br&gt; 3.You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than &lt;br&gt; setting off roadside bombs.&lt;br&gt; 2.A common compliment is, 'I love what you've done with your cave.'&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; And, the &lt;strong&gt;NUMBER ONE SIGN&lt;/strong&gt; you might be a member of the Taliban:&lt;br&gt; 1.You wipe your ass with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5195836887926999498?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5195836887926999498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/10-signs-you-might-be-taliban.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5195836887926999498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5195836887926999498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/10-signs-you-might-be-taliban.html' title='10 signs you might be a Taliban'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8564403779481605925</id><published>2010-10-09T14:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T14:05:35.765-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Matt Spalding on American Exceptionalism</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;At an event in Florida last week, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Marco Rubio &lt;a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/republican-candidate-marco-rubio-casts-u-s-senate-950519.html"&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[2]&lt;/sup&gt; a crowd:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;This race is not your traditional race. It is a referendum on our identity. This race forces us to answer a very simple question: Do we want our country to continue to be exceptional, or are we prepared for it to become just like everybody else?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;The debate on American exceptionalism has garnered widespread attention this season. It has been a Tea Party rallying cry and an object of liberals&amp;#8217; sneers. But what is American exceptionalism?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/08/heritage-in-focus-matt-spalding-on-american-exceptionalism/print/"&gt;Continue reading here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-8564403779481605925?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/8564403779481605925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/matt-spalding-on-american.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8564403779481605925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8564403779481605925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/matt-spalding-on-american.html' title='Matt Spalding on American Exceptionalism'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8771003976137351249</id><published>2010-10-09T13:39:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T13:39:37.772-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A Father Daughter Conversation.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;A young woman was about to finish her first year of college.&amp;nbsp; Like so many others her age,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;she considered herself to be&amp;nbsp;very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;favor&amp;nbsp;of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;redistribution of wealth.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;she openly expressed. &amp;nbsp;Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years&amp;nbsp;harbored&amp;nbsp;an evil,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the need for more government programs.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;she indicated so to her father. &amp;nbsp;He responded by asking how she was doing in school.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;she knew. &amp;nbsp;She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;college friends because she spent all her time studying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Her father listened and then asked, &amp;#8220;How is your friend Audrey doing?&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;She replied, &amp;#8220;Audrey is barely getting by. &amp;nbsp;All she takes are easy classes, she never&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA.&amp;nbsp; She is so popular on campus; college for her is a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;blast.&amp;nbsp; She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;for classes because she's too hung over.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Her wise father asked his daughter, &amp;#8220;Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. &amp;nbsp;That way you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.&amp;#8221;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, &amp;#8220;That's a crazy idea,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;how would that be fair! &amp;nbsp;I've worked really hard for my grades! &amp;nbsp;I've invested a lot of time,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a lot of hard work! &amp;nbsp;Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;She played while I worked my tail off!&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, &amp;#8220;Welcome to the conservative side of the fence.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; If anyone has a better explanation of the difference between conservative&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;liberal or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;progressive or&amp;nbsp;neocon&amp;nbsp;I'm all ears.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-8771003976137351249?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/8771003976137351249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/father-daughter-conversation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8771003976137351249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8771003976137351249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/father-daughter-conversation.html' title='A Father Daughter Conversation.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-7154145218964891082</id><published>2010-10-09T13:17:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T13:17:51.202-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am 63 and I am tired!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_4_e2a355c9-33a9-46c3-a977-cce9534dac86"&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0  style='margin-left:21.0pt'&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;   &lt;div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;img width=66 height=78 id=MA1.1286241592 src="cid:X.MA1.1286241592@aol.com"&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;   color:black'&gt;Robert A. Hall is the actor who plays the coroner on CSI. He is   much more than an actor. This is an article he wrote last year. Read to the   end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#C00000'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:navy'&gt;This should be   required reading for every man, woman and child in the United States of   America. Google this man and you will see he is a man of great character.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";   color:black'&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;&amp;quot;I'm 63   and I'm Tired&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#1F497D'&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;by Robert A.   Hall&lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt;&lt;img width=231   height=346 id=MA2.1286241592 src="cid:X.MA2.1286241592@aol.com"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm 63&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;. Except for one semester in college   when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but   job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;   color:blue'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;since I was   18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't   called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't   inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the   economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told that I have to   &amp;quot;spread the wealth&amp;quot; to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm   tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if   necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told that I have to pay more   taxes to &amp;quot;keep people in their homes.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;Sure, if they lost   their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:blue'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;   color:black'&gt;they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off,   $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing   Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community   Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told how bad America is by   left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood   Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers.   In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the   economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and   violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the   freedom of speech of Venezuela.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;   color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told that Islam is a   &amp;quot;Religion of Peace,&amp;quot; when every day I can read dozens of stories of   Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family   &amp;quot;honor&amp;quot;; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims   murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't &amp;quot;believers&amp;quot;; of   Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to   death for &amp;quot;adultery&amp;quot;; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little   girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells   them to. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told that &amp;quot;race doesn't   matter&amp;quot; in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in   affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for   minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance   for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts   minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:blue'&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;   color:black'&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:blue'&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; Senators from Illinois. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I think&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; it's very cool that we have a black   president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where   Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president   was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual   and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of a news media that thinks Bush's   fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at   triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a   waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the   public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's   military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed   Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but   touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president   ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox   News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry   drove me to his camp in 2004. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;   color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told that out of   &amp;quot;tolerance for other cultures&amp;quot; we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil   money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in   America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or   religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told I must lower my living   standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife   and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our   jobs. We also own a &amp;nbsp;three-bedroom condo where our daughter and   granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if   you're greener than Gore, you're green enough. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of being told that drug addicts have a   disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they   do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white   powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I damn sure think   druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people   treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of illegal aliens being called   &amp;quot;undocumented workers,&amp;quot; especially the ones who aren't working, but   are living on welfare or crime. What's next? &amp;nbsp;Calling drug dealers,   &amp;quot;Undocumented Pharmacists&amp;quot;? &amp;nbsp;And, no, &amp;nbsp;I'm not against   Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since   Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. &amp;nbsp;I'm willing to fast track   for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a   criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who   serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens   we need. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of latte liberals and journalists, who   would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their   entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our   military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make   split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth   better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our   troops sometimes misbehave? &amp;nbsp;Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities   that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?   Not even close. &amp;nbsp;So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all   the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or   Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the   Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims   who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the   Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found   in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia,   because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and   American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for   help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of people telling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:blue'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;   color:black'&gt;me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party   has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm   tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in &amp;nbsp;Illinois ,   where the &amp;quot;Illinois Combine&amp;quot; of Democrats has worked to loot the   public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of hearing wealthy athletes,   entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes,   stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only   mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement,   rich or poor. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;Speaking of poor,   I'm tired &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;of hearing   people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The   majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were   &amp;quot;poor.&amp;quot; The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of   poor to keep the dollars flowing. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;   color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;I'm real tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt; of people who don't take responsibility   for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government,   or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;Yes, I'm damn   tired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;. But I'm also   glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these   people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'&gt;Robert &amp;nbsp;A.   Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts   &amp;nbsp;State &amp;nbsp;Senate.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:blue'&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends   it on!&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;This is your chance to make a difference.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-7154145218964891082?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/7154145218964891082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-am-63-and-i-am-tired.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7154145218964891082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7154145218964891082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-am-63-and-i-am-tired.html' title='I am 63 and I am tired!'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1688165065279577193</id><published>2010-10-09T13:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T13:07:34.087-04:00</updated><title type='text'>MyHeritage.org: Advancing First Principles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.org/issues/first-principles.html"&gt;MyHeritage.org: Advancing First Principles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1688165065279577193?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.myheritage.org/issues/first-principles.html' title='MyHeritage.org: Advancing First Principles'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1688165065279577193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/myheritageorg-advancing-first.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1688165065279577193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1688165065279577193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/myheritageorg-advancing-first.html' title='MyHeritage.org: Advancing First Principles'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1835894868722992382</id><published>2010-10-03T06:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T06:33:46.479-04:00</updated><title type='text'>McDonald's meets ObamaCare.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p style='background:white'&gt;&lt;span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;Among President Obama's core health-care promises was that Americans can keep their current coverage if they like it. Among the reasons that a new ObamaCare squall blows in every other day is that this claim simply is not true, as people are discovering. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style='background:white'&gt;&lt;span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;The latest fracas was incited by Janet Adamy's scoop in the Journal this week that McDonald's Corp. may be forced to cancel its current coverage for 29,500 employees as a result of ObamaCare. McDonald's told Health and Human Services regulators that new mandates will make its plans &amp;quot;economically prohibitive&amp;quot; and cause &amp;quot;a huge disruption&amp;quot; unless it gets a waiver.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575523980464573518.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion"&gt;Continued here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1835894868722992382?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1835894868722992382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/mcdonalds-meets-obamacare.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1835894868722992382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1835894868722992382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/mcdonalds-meets-obamacare.html' title='McDonald&apos;s meets ObamaCare.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1114042566270692252</id><published>2010-10-03T06:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T06:06:59.565-04:00</updated><title type='text'>: The Promised Land ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;President Obama is my shepherd, I shall not want.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; He leadeth me beside still factories and abandoned farms.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; He restoreth my doubt about the Democratic Party.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; He anointeth my wage with taxes and inflation so my expenses runneth over my income.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; Surely poverty and hard living shall follow this Democratic Party and I shall work&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; on a rented farm and live in a rented house forever.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 5000 years ago Moses said, &amp;quot;Pack up your camel, pick up your shovel, move your ass&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and I will lead you to the Promised Land.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 5000 years later FDR said, &amp;quot;lay down your shovel, sit on you ass, and light up a camel, &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; this IS the Promised Land.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; This year, President Obama will take your shovel, sell your camel, kick your ass, &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and tell you he gave away the Promised Land for this now is the Land of the Dependent&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and lazy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1114042566270692252?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1114042566270692252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/promised-land.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1114042566270692252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1114042566270692252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/promised-land.html' title=': The Promised Land ...'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-6515751900811354732</id><published>2010-09-17T18:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T18:13:43.541-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The long arm of the Strong-arm.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;Well, it appears to me that the Obamanation has WJLA-TV in their pocket.&amp;nbsp; WJLA-TV fired long time anchor Doug McKelway for speaking the truth about the Obamanation and their campaign contributions received from BP during the 2008 campaign.&amp;nbsp; Granted WJLA-TV is a Corporation and is not bound by the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; amendment, it is clear to me that McKelway was fired for speaking the truth.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091606645.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and see what you think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-6515751900811354732?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/6515751900811354732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/long-arm-of-strong-arm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6515751900811354732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6515751900811354732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/long-arm-of-strong-arm.html' title='The long arm of the Strong-arm.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-2170985740483978831</id><published>2010-09-08T19:17:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T19:18:01.566-04:00</updated><title type='text'>FW: All paychecks WILL BE taxed ad's $150-$250 beginning January 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_2_9c93c5a2-c59b-4f0e-b37a-cc3becedc00c"&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_1_34e3c21c-e41b-4329-b636-1f65f1b5d244"&gt;  &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;   &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;   margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;   &lt;div id=yiv688329921&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;    &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;     &lt;div&gt;     &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:     0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;     &lt;div&gt;     &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;       &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;       padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:       5.0pt'&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;I&amp;nbsp;understand the       vast majority of my email list is more or less in agreement with the       spirit of my own political, socio-economic beliefs, however, just a       thought...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/blockquote&gt;       &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;       padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:       5.0pt'&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;For everyone who plans to vote in November I       sincerely hope you read what you will be getting to pay out of EVERY PAY       CHECK you receive for the rest of your life. &amp;nbsp;be sure to check the       links so you, too, can erase any doubts that this is true.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;Of course this is just ONE of the cute little things       you voted for FOR ALL OF US when you voted for nancy pelosi, harry reid       or barrack WEALTH REDISTRIBUTOR obama&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;and This is IN ADDITION TO all of the increases in       health care premiums your employer will be forced to charge you for the       decreases in services they are now able to provide. &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;I sincerely hope all of you so called 'non-political'       types decide you might want to actually GET INVOLVED with what is REALLY       GOING ON and stop 'going along to get along' by casting votes in order to       fit in with your most popular friends.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;it might be too late to repeal this monstrosity but it       isn't too late to get rid of the idiots who voted for this crap.       &amp;nbsp;not yet, anyway.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;         &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;         padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;         margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;         &lt;div&gt;         &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:         0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;         &lt;div&gt;         &lt;blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;         &lt;div&gt;         &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;br&gt;         &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;/blockquote&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;/blockquote&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;/blockquote&gt;         &lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;       &lt;/table&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Be       sure to open the two (2) hyperlinks&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/blockquote&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;    &lt;/table&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";    color:#0023E9'&gt;&lt;a    href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/26/little-known-long-termhealth-care-provision-budget-buster-say-critics/"    target="_blank"    title="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/26/little-known-long-termhealth-care-provision-budget-buster-say-critics/"&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/26/little-known-long-termhealth-care-provision-budget-buster-say-critics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Another    little detail of the health care bill 150-250 of add'l monthly taxes    starting Jan of 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:    "Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;$1,800    to $3,000 a year and no one knew about it. Pass this around and remember    who's representatives voted for this crap in November.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Hey!!!    There's a surprise in the Reconciliation Bill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:    10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;We    will all be taxed $150-$250 PER MONTH beginning in January 2011 for the NEW    &amp;quot;Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act&amp;quot; (CLASS    Act)&amp;nbsp;which was added to the Reconciliation Bill on Friday night, Mar 19,    2010,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;before    Congress voted on Sunday, Mar. 21, 2010. It will help pay for long-term    home-care for the elderly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;    font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Beginning    in January of 2011, the government will start taking between $150-$250 out    of our paychecks every month. ALL of us will be taxed on this one, rich or    poor.&amp;nbsp;Everyone except people who don't have a job, is included. If you    have a job and get a pay check, the government will take this tax from    you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;    &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;And    there's more to this surprise! The&amp;nbsp;benefits won't begin for five years,    and they don't expect to pay out anything for at least 10&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;years.    So we get a head start on paying for it. Isn't that great? The government    will take our money and put it in their savings account for at least 10    years, and then they will start giving it to other people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;The&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;CLASS    ACT,&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(isn't that a great name for it?) was apparently a pet project    of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who was never able to get support for it    because&amp;nbsp;it was just to costly. What a wonderful&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;tribute to    Senator Kennedy! I know he would be so proud of Nancy for getting this done    for him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;    &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Source:    The Washington Times click the link below&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;    font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";    color:#0023E9'&gt;&lt;a    href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/01/robbing-peter-to-pay-pauls-health-care/"    target="_blank"    title="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/01/robbing-peter-to-pay-pauls-health-care/"&gt;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/01/robbing-peter-to-pay-pauls-health-care/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;I    think there will be a firestorm when worker's checks come up short by a    couple of hundred bucks. That's a car payment, or a couple of days in Day    Care, or a month's worth of Starbuck's vente latte's. There will be hell to    pay. Blame&amp;nbsp;Nancy Pelosi&amp;nbsp;and her CLASS Act. That's &amp;quot;Community    Living Assistance Services and Support Act&amp;quot;. The only more unfortunate    thing about it is that the deductions will start after the November    elections, and not before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:    "Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;Unless    anyone can find to the contrary, it looks like it is on track.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'&gt;The    Washington Times and confirmed the story. This tax will begin on every    American in January, but no benefit payments of any kind will be paid for at    least ten years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'&gt;    &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-2170985740483978831?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/2170985740483978831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/fw-all-paychecks-will-be-taxed-ads-150.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2170985740483978831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2170985740483978831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/fw-all-paychecks-will-be-taxed-ads-150.html' title='FW: All paychecks WILL BE taxed ad&apos;s $150-$250 beginning January 2011'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-4687989311956844287</id><published>2010-09-08T19:17:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T19:17:39.053-04:00</updated><title type='text'>FW: CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_3_aaec5523-539a-421f-8c78-c3d114940457"&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_2_ed8965e3-8652-4f4f-9ea4-fa7a76fa7e33"&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_2_77803567-b7b8-4765-9878-d00182c62770"&gt;  &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'&gt;   &lt;blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;   margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'&gt;&lt;br&gt;   CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS? This is certainly 'food-for-thought'.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish And&lt;br&gt;   send it on to everyone. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet&lt;br&gt;   and not speaking out about any atrocities. Can a good Muslim be a good&lt;br&gt;   American?&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20&lt;br&gt;   years.The following is his reply:&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Theologically - no. . . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon God&lt;br&gt;   of Arabia .&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Religiously - no.. . . Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah&lt;br&gt;   except Islam (Quran, 2:256)(Koran)&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Scripturally - no. . . Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of&lt;br&gt;   Islam and the Quran.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Geographically - no . Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns&lt;br&gt;   in prayer five times a day.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Socially - no. . . Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make&lt;br&gt;   Friends with Christians or Jews .&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Politically - no.. . . Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual&lt;br&gt;   Leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America , the&lt;br&gt;   great Satan.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Domestically - no. .. . Because he is instructed to marry four Women and&lt;br&gt;   beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34 )&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Intellectually - no. . Because he cannot accept the American Constitution&lt;br&gt;   since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be&lt;br&gt;   corrupt.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Philosophically - no. . . . Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not&lt;br&gt;   allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot&lt;br&gt;   co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Spiritually - no.. . . Because when we declare 'one nation under God,'&lt;br&gt;   the Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as&lt;br&gt;   Heavenly Father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent&lt;br&gt;   names.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Therefore, after much study and deliberation.... Perhaps we should be very&lt;br&gt;   suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. - - - They obviously cannot be&lt;br&gt;   both 'good' Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish, it's still&lt;br&gt;   the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the&lt;br&gt;   better it will be for our country and our future.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   The religious war is bigger than we know or understand. ....&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Footnote: The Muslims have said they will destroy us from within.&lt;br&gt;   SO FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   THE MARINES WANT THIS TO ROLL ALL OVER THE U.S.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   Please don't delete this until you send it on.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/blockquote&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-4687989311956844287?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/4687989311956844287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/fw-can-muslims-be-good-americans.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/4687989311956844287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/4687989311956844287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/fw-can-muslims-be-good-americans.html' title='FW: CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS?'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8541747943834143012</id><published>2010-09-05T08:09:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T08:09:46.943-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like this teacher...PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=WordSection1&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%"  style='width:100.0%'&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'&gt;   &lt;div id="INCREDI_TEXT_AREA"&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'&gt;&lt;span   style='color:#1F497D'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div id=IncrediOriginalFontSize&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:   12.0pt;margin-left:0in'&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";   color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'&gt;&lt;span   style='color:black'&gt;Very well done.... &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   Congratulations to this teacher.........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";   color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'&gt;&lt;span   style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div&gt;   &lt;p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'&gt;&lt;span   style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'&gt;A lesson   that should be taught in all schools .... And colleges! &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'&gt;Back in   September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a&lt;br&gt;   social studies school teacher at &amp;nbsp;Robinson High School &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;in   Little Rock ,&lt;br&gt;   did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the&lt;br&gt;   permission of the School Superintendent, the Principal and the Building&lt;br&gt;   Supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were&lt;br&gt;   no desks. &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   'Ms.. Cothren, where are our desks?' &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right&lt;br&gt;   to sit at a desk.' &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   'No,' she said. &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   'Maybe it's our behavior.' &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   She told&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;them, 'No, it's not&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;even your&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;behavior.' &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period...&lt;br&gt;   Still no desks in the classroom. &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in&lt;br&gt;   Ms.Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all&lt;br&gt;   the desks out of her room. &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on&lt;br&gt;   the floor of the desk less classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the&lt;br&gt;   day no one has been able to tell me just&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;what he/she has done to earn the&lt;br&gt;   right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I&lt;br&gt;   am going to tell you.' &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and&lt;br&gt;   opened it. &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms,&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;walked into that&lt;br&gt;   classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the&lt;br&gt;   school desks in rows, and&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;then they would walk over and stand alongside the&lt;br&gt;   wall.... By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those&lt;br&gt;   kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just&lt;br&gt;   how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.. &lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'&gt;Martha said,   'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes&lt;br&gt;   did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to&lt;br&gt;   sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be&lt;br&gt;   good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get&lt;br&gt;   an education. Don't ever forget it.' &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   By the&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;way, this is a true story. &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   Please consider passing this along so others won't forget that the freedoms&lt;br&gt;   we have in this great country were earned by U. S. Veterans.&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;SGM David Carmel US Army Ret.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:"Times","serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'&gt;America   will never be destroyed from the outside. 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She gives us a whole new slant on the amazing job Obama is doing:*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*That is right - I will say it, THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine* - Driving a stake through the heart of Hillary's Presidential aspirations - something that no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty* - No more Kennedys trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Dennis Moore had never lost a race - quit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Evan Bayh had never lost a race - quit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Byron Dorgan had never lost a race - quit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Harry Reid - soon to be GONE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010, dozens more will be gone.&amp;nbsp; In December of 2008, the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles, they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the House, if not the Senate, back to the Republicans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*4. He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are.**&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*Every Generation seems to need to re-learn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Liberals tax, borrow and spend - check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Liberals won't bring themselves to protect America - check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Liberals want to take over the economy - check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Liberals think they know what is best for everyone - check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;Liberals aren't happy till they are running YOUR life - check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*5. He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan.* In one year, he has rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans. Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*6. His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen.* Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a stimulus to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded or moved off-shore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*7. In all honesty, one year ago I was more afraid than I have been in my life.* Not of the economy, but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends and strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*8. When the American People wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans! Again, I want to say, Thank You Barack Obama!*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;*This is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately needed!*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:mediumblue'&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Plus, he's actually caused a lot of&amp;nbsp;apathetic Americans&amp;nbsp;to learn a bit about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, politics, freedoms,&amp;nbsp;and that&amp;nbsp;these things actually matter.&amp;nbsp; Had ya'll goin' there for a minute - didn't I?&amp;nbsp; LOL)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-2061643901612972993?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/2061643901612972993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/thank-god-for-president-no-seriously.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2061643901612972993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2061643901612972993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/thank-god-for-president-no-seriously.html' title='THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT (no, seriously!)'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5193616615325905005</id><published>2010-08-06T19:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-06T19:21:49.298-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What the??????????</title><content type='html'>The Brown Shirts are harassing kids now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html"&gt;Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate  OregonLive.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5193616615325905005?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html' title='What the??????????'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5193616615325905005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5193616615325905005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5193616615325905005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what.html' title='What the??????????'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-6943014422477987485</id><published>2010-08-05T19:26:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-05T19:26:33.760-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Brigitte Gabriel -every American needs to read this</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/TFtIqUS_uDI/AAAAAAAAADM/SwlRo4inzR4/s1600/ATT1-793760.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/TFtIqUS_uDI/AAAAAAAAADM/SwlRo4inzR4/s320/ATT1-793760.jpg"  border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502071261603280946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p 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&lt;DIV&gt; &lt;BLOCKQUOTE  style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;WAKE UP, AMERICA!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; These are the fanatics who    have VOWED to torture/kill&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ALL infidels which Obama WELCOMES into    our country....and who want to build a Mosque at the 9/11 terrorist attack    Ground Zero as the ultimate show on contempt for the innocent victims they    massacred!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;PLEASE continue strongly OPPOSING this&amp;nbsp;- NY City Hall, New    York, NY 10007 - (212) 788-3000.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;BC&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;   &lt;BLOCKQUOTE    style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px 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MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;             &lt;DIV&gt;             &lt;DIV&gt;             &lt;BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;               &lt;DIV&gt;               &lt;DIV&gt;               &lt;TABLE class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellSpacing=0                  cellPadding=0&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;                 &lt;TR&gt;                   &lt;TD                    style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                    vAlign=top&gt;                     &lt;DIV id=yiv537050716ecxecxyiv917797667&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV                      id=yiv537050716ecxecxyiv917797667AOLMsgPart_4_a49f6656-42a2-458f-a559-a6a7fd5945c1&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.25in"&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;She                      gave this speech at Duke University                      also.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=4                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT                      color=black size=5 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;EVERY                      AMERICAN NEEDS TO READ THIS!&lt;BR&gt;Editor's Note: Below are                      selected excerpts from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered                      at the Intelligence Summit in Washington                      DC&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#b0 size=2                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;IMG                      id=MA1.1280872350                      src="cid:776D004D4DC24310A2519D7FFD5B5BAA@ButcherLatop"                      width=217 height=312&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT                      color=black size=5 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;We                      gather here today to share information and knowledge.                      Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical                      strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The                      most important element of intelligence has to be                      understanding the mindset and intention of the enemy. The                      West has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial                      for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil                      against innocent victims in the name of                      Allah.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I                      was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying                      me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to                      survive, as the perpetrators shouted, 'Allah Akbar!' My only                      crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town.                      At 10 years old, I learned the meaning of the word                      'infidel.'&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I                      had a crash course in survival. Not in the Girl Scouts, but                      in a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch                      darkness, freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating                      grass to live. At the age of 13, I&amp;nbsp;dressed in my burial                      clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By                      the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends--killed by                      Muslims. We were not Americans living in New York , or                      Britons in London . We were Arab Christians living in                      Lebanon.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;As                      a victim of Islamic terror, I was amazed when I saw                      Americans waking up on September 12, 2001, and asking                      themselves 'Why do they hate us?' The psychoanalyst experts                      were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do                      to offend the Muslim World. But if America and the West were                      paying attention to the Middle East they would not have had                      to ask the question. Simply put, they hate us because we are                      defined in their eyes by one simple word:                      'infidels.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3                      face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Under                      the banner of Islam 'la, ilaha illa Allah, muhammad rasoulu                      Allah,' (None is god except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger                      of Allah) they murdered Jewish children in Israel, massacred                      Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in                      Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews                      from Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price                      then. Now infidels worldwide are paying the price for                      indifference and                      shortsightedness.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Tolerating                      evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn't buy protection.                      It earns one disrespect and loathing in the enemy's eyes.                      Yet apathy is the weapon by which the West is committing                      suicide. Political correctness forms the shackles around our                      ankles, by which Islamist's are leading us to our                      demise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3                      face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;America&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT                      color=black size=5 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;                      and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless they                      stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam. You hear about                      Cahaba and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam.                      All the other Muslims, supposedly, are wonderful moderates.                      Closer to the truth are the pictures of the irrational                      eruption of violence in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed                      printed by a Danish newspaper. From burning embassies, to                      calls to butcher those who mock Islam, to warnings that the                      West be prepared for another holocaust, those pictures have                      given us a gli mpse into the real face of the enemy. News                      pictures and video of these events represent a canvas of                      hate decorated by different nationalities who share one                      common ideology of hate, bigotry and intolerance derived                      from one source: authentic Islam. An Islam that is awakening                      from centuries of slumber to re-ignite its wrath against the                      infidel and dominate the world. An Islam which has declared                      'Intifada' on the West.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;America and the West can no                      longer afford to lay in their lazy state of overweight                      ignorance. The consequences of this mental disease are                      starting to attack the body, and if they don't take the                      necessary steps now to control it, death will be knocking                      soon. If you want to understand the nature of the enemy we                      face, visualize a tapestry of snakes. They slither and they                      hiss, and they would eat each other alive, but they will                      unite in a hideous mass to achieve their common g oal of                      imposing Islam on the                      world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3                      face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;This                      is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are                      fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering                      basic human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother                      into a launching pad of death. A perfect example is a                      recently elected Hamas official in the Palestinian                      Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her                      three sons to death and offering the ones who are still                      alive for the cause. It is an ideology that is capable of                      offering highly educated individuals such as doctors and                      lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and                      stature life in society is ever capable of giving                      them.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;The                      United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic                      hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East                      ring with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling                      death, destruction and damnation down on America and its                      people. The radical Islamist deeds have been as vile as                      their words. Since the Iran hostage crisis, more than three                      thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost                      unprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands                      of other citizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn                      their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at                      their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This                      intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of innocent                      American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of                      Islam.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;America cannot effectively defend itself in                      this war unless and until the American people understand the                      nature of the enemy that we face. Even after 9/11 there are                      those who say that we must engage our terrorist enemies,                      that we must address their grievances. Their grievance is                      our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of                      speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the                      rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just                      one prophet. It is the respect we instill in our children                      towards all religions. It is the equality we grant each                      other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make                      the world a better place for all humanity. Their grievance                      is the kindness an d respect a man shows a woman, the                      justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy                      we grant our enemy. Their grievance cannot be answered by an                      apology for who or what we                      are.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Our                      mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of                      bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in                      the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened our enemy                      to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we                      cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of                      life on our                      civilization.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;If                      we don't wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take                      action against the terrorists within it, if we don't believe                      in ourselves as Americans and in the standards we should                      hold every patriotic American to, we are going to pay a                      price for our delusion. For the sake of our children and our                      country, we must wake up and take action. In the face of a                      torrent of hateful invective and terrorist murder, America                      's learning curve since the Iran hostage crisis is so                      shallow that it is almost flat. The longer we lay supine,                      the more difficult it will be to stand                      erect.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=4                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c00000 size=5                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #c00000; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;This                      is all coming true. A non-patriot pro-Muslim&amp;nbsp;is                      President of this great country. How can this happen??                      APATHY, that's how!!! Send this                      around.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV&gt;                     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=4                      face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                      style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Brigitte                      Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict and                      lectures nationally and internationally on the subject.                      She's the former news anchor of World News for Middle East                      television and the founder of&amp;nbsp;&lt;A                      title=http://americancongressfortruth.com/                      href="http://americancongressfortruth.com/"                      target=_blank&gt;AmericanCongressforTruth.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;               &lt;DIV&gt;               &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN                style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DIV&gt;             &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN              style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;           &lt;DIV&gt;           &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN            style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;           &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN            style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;     &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN      style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;!-- end of AOLMsgPart_4_060c1288-28ec-4331-b506-8ccb1397e5d9 --&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-6943014422477987485?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/6943014422477987485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/brigitte-gabriel-every-american-needs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6943014422477987485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6943014422477987485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/brigitte-gabriel-every-american-needs.html' title='Brigitte Gabriel -every American needs to read this'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/TFtIqUS_uDI/AAAAAAAAADM/SwlRo4inzR4/s72-c/ATT1-793760.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5558221869652068436</id><published>2010-08-03T18:34:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T18:39:27.197-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What Stimulas</title><content type='html'>At least a couple of Senators are standing up for the people. They have put tpogether this list of worst stimulas jobs out there. What a waste of our money. When I read this it made me sick to my stomach. This is an outrage, and yet the sheeple go quietly about thir lives.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5558221869652068436?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&amp;File_id=e1e0624e-d02a-42d4-9dbb-f5b9f21b3572' title='What Stimulas'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&amp;File_id=e1e0624e-d02a-42d4-9dbb-f5b9f21b3572' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5558221869652068436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-stimulas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5558221869652068436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5558221869652068436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-stimulas.html' title='What Stimulas'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-2000673589551057566</id><published>2010-07-30T18:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T18:41:31.312-04:00</updated><title type='text'>White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity</title><content type='html'>I tell ya, before long the 'Brown Shirts' will be walking the streets, pounding on the doors of Patriots, doing every thing they can to stifle us.  From my reading list I know I am not the only one that feels this way.  It seems to me though that a lot of Americans are still asleep at the wheel.  What is it going to take for the fence riders to realize we are on a fast track to Totalitarionism? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806141.html"&gt;White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-2000673589551057566?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806141.html' title='White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/2000673589551057566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/white-house-proposal-would-ease-fbi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2000673589551057566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/2000673589551057566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/white-house-proposal-would-ease-fbi.html' title='White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-4792108468608077465</id><published>2010-07-26T19:28:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T19:28:31.439-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't forget to vote ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=arial&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; &lt;DIV style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Professor  &amp;nbsp;Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law &amp;nbsp;in St. Paul ,  Minnesota , points out some &amp;nbsp;interesting facts concerning the Presidential  election:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;UL type=disc&gt;   &lt;LI style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: black"    class=yiv81738497MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4    face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Number &amp;nbsp;of    States won by: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;Obama: &amp;nbsp;19&lt;/U&gt;    &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;McCain:    29&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2    face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;   &lt;LI style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: black"    class=yiv81738497MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4    face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Square &amp;nbsp;miles    of land won by: &lt;U&gt;Obama: 580,000&lt;/U&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;McCain:    &amp;nbsp;2,427,000&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2    face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;   &lt;LI style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: black"    class=yiv81738497MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4    face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Population &amp;nbsp;of    counties won by: &lt;U&gt;Obama: 127 million&lt;/U&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT    size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;    &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;McCain:    &amp;nbsp;143 million&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2    face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;   &lt;LI style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: black"    class=yiv81738497MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4    face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Murder &amp;nbsp;rate    per 100,000 residents in counties won by: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;Obama: 13.2&lt;/U&gt;    &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;McCain: &amp;nbsp;2.1&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT size=2    face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;    &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT    size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp;    &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=yiv81738497MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;FONT  color=black size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Professor  &amp;nbsp;Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the &amp;nbsp;territory McCain won was  &amp;nbsp;mostly&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;the  &amp;nbsp;land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the  &amp;nbsp;country.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Obama territory  &amp;nbsp;mostly&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;encompassed  &amp;nbsp;those citizens living in &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=maroon  size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;low  &amp;nbsp;income&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;tenements and living off various forms of &amp;nbsp;government  welfare..."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp;  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=yiv81738497MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=3  face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=yiv81738497MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=4 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Olson  believes the United States is now &amp;nbsp;somewhere between the "complacency and  apathy" &amp;nbsp;phase of Professor Tyler's definition of &amp;nbsp;democracy, with  some forty percent of the &amp;nbsp;nation's population already having reached the  &amp;nbsp;"governmental dependency" &amp;nbsp;phase.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black  size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt; &amp;nbsp;  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=yiv81738497MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;FONT  color=black size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#c20000 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #c20000; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;If  &amp;nbsp;Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to &amp;nbsp;twenty million criminal  invaders called illegal's &amp;nbsp;- and they vote - then we can say goodbye to  &amp;nbsp;the&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=navy size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#c20000 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #c20000; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;USA&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#c20000 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #c20000; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;in fewer than five &amp;nbsp;years.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=#620012  size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=navy size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;If  &amp;nbsp;you are in favor of this, then by all means, &amp;nbsp;delete this  &amp;nbsp;message.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=yiv81738497MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=5 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;If  &amp;nbsp;you are not, then &lt;U&gt;pass this along to help &amp;nbsp;everyone realize just  how much is at stake&lt;/U&gt;, &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=1  face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#620012 size=5 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #620012; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;knowing  &amp;nbsp;that &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;FONT  color=red size=5 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;apathy  &amp;nbsp;is the greatest danger to our &amp;nbsp;freedom.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=black size=1 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=yiv81738497MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  color=black size=4 face=Arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;We  &amp;nbsp;can't change the winds...but we can adjust our  &amp;nbsp;sails&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-4792108468608077465?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/4792108468608077465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-forget-to-vote.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/4792108468608077465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/4792108468608077465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-forget-to-vote.html' title='Don&apos;t forget to vote ...'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5062498022438729103</id><published>2010-07-25T11:44:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T11:44:52.896-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Babbling Idiot Speaks Again.</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;It should be illegal for him to open his mouth.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; COLOR: #000000; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; TEXT-DECORATION: none"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT  size=3&gt;Biden calls Republicans 'wildly out of step' during N.C.  fundraiser&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; &lt;DIV  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; COLOR: #000000; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; TEXT-DECORATION: none"&gt;Vice  President Joe Biden told those attending a Democratic fundraiser Thursday that  his party's midterm election prospects would brighten when voters realize the  stark differences between the two parties. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; &lt;DIV  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; COLOR: #000000; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; TEXT-DECORATION: none"&gt;Appearing  at a high-dollar reception at the historic Carolina Inn, Biden said Democrats  had a story to tell voters, a story of how they helped bring a badly wounded  economy they inherited back from the cliff, helped clean up the abuses of Wall  Street and extended health care insurance.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; COLOR: #000000; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; TEXT-DECORATION: none"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; COLOR: #000000; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; TEXT-DECORATION: none"&gt;&lt;A  title="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/23/98014/biden-calls-republicans-wildly.html&amp;#10;CTRL + Click to follow link"  href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/23/98014/biden-calls-republicans-wildly.html"&gt;Continued  here:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5062498022438729103?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5062498022438729103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/babbling-idiot-speaks-again.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5062498022438729103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5062498022438729103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/babbling-idiot-speaks-again.html' title='The Babbling Idiot Speaks Again.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-952664604386570650</id><published>2010-07-23T18:52:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T18:52:06.698-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What the???????????????</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;That's all I have to say.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A  title="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gold-coin-dealers-decry-tax-law/story?id=11211611&amp;#10;CTRL + Click to follow link"  href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gold-coin-dealers-decry-tax-law/story?id=11211611"&gt;Amendment  Slipped Into Health Care Legislation Would Track, Tax Coin and Bullion  Transactions.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-952664604386570650?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/952664604386570650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/what.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/952664604386570650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/952664604386570650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/what.html' title='What the???????????????'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-6602548535214021408</id><published>2010-07-23T18:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T18:48:04.607-04:00</updated><title type='text'>With leadership like this, who needs enemies to destroy our country.</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;Harry Reid just keeps on making stuff up as he goes along.&amp;nbsp; The  problem is though, the Sheeple listen to every word he says as it where the  Bible.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A  href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/21/harry_reid_auto_bailout_probably_saved_ford.html"&gt;Check  this out.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-6602548535214021408?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/6602548535214021408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/with-leadership-like-this-who-needs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6602548535214021408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6602548535214021408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/with-leadership-like-this-who-needs.html' title='With leadership like this, who needs enemies to destroy our country.'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5263614009351061308</id><published>2010-07-23T18:39:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T18:39:42.253-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Tax Tsunami On The Horizon</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the  country back on the right track. But unless something's done soon, the new year  will also come with a raft of tax hikes  including a return of the death tax   that will be real killers&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero  thanks  to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush pushed through to get  the economy going earlier in the decade.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;P&gt;But as of midnight Dec. 31, the death tax returns  at a rate of 55% on  estates of $1 million or more. The effect this will have on hospital  life-support systems is already a matter of conjecture&lt;/P&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;A  href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/541131/201007211841/The-Tax-Tsunami-On-The-Horizon.aspx"&gt;Continued  here:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5263614009351061308?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5263614009351061308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/tax-tsunami-on-horizon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5263614009351061308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5263614009351061308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/tax-tsunami-on-horizon.html' title='The Tax Tsunami On The Horizon'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5341563017867530873</id><published>2010-07-17T07:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T07:43:33.469-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Congress acts, but bank bill has work ahead - Yahoo! News</title><content type='html'>The heavy hand of the Progressives stikes again.  Good job Congress, what do you say you stiffle the economy a little more.  Your not destoying the country fast enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100716/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul"&gt;Congress acts, but bank bill has work ahead - Yahoo! News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5341563017867530873?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100716/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul' title='Congress acts, but bank bill has work ahead - Yahoo! 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Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home&lt;br&gt;with some guy and stay with him all night for money.&amp;#39;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;The teacher,&lt;br&gt;obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on&lt;br&gt;some exercises and then took little Kevin aside to ask him, &amp;#39;Is that really&lt;br&gt;true about your father?&amp;#39;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;#39;No&amp;#39;, the boy&lt;br&gt;said, &amp;#39;He actually works for the Democratic National Committee and helped get&lt;br&gt;Barack Obama elected President last year, but I was too embarrassed to say that&lt;br&gt;in front of the class.&amp;#39;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p class=MsoPlainText&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;#39;font-family:&amp;quot;Comic Sans MS&amp;quot;&amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;--Boundary_(ID_nZHcXkbM78pAmvU0fZUAXw)--&lt;br&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face="Knights Templar"&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%"&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD style="POSITION: relative; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"      id=INCREDITEXTREGION width="100%"&gt;       &lt;DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 2px" id=INCREDI_TEXT_AREA&gt;       &lt;DIV&gt;       &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;       &lt;STYLE&gt;.hmmessage P { 	PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { 	FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 10pt } &lt;/STYLE&gt;       &lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"&gt;One day a&lt;BR&gt;fourth-grade        teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.&lt;BR&gt;All the        typical answers came up -- fireman, mechanic, businessman,        salesman,&lt;BR&gt;doctor, lawyer, and so forth.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;       &lt;DIV&gt;       &lt;DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" dir=ltr        id=IncrediOriginalFontSize&gt;       &lt;DIV        style="FONT-FAMILY: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;       &lt;DIV        style="FONT-FAMILY: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;       &lt;DIV        style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;       &lt;DIV class=ecxWordSection1&gt;       &lt;P class=ecxMsoPlainText&gt;&lt;SPAN        style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;       &lt;P class=ecxMsoPlainText&gt;&lt;SPAN        style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"&gt;However, little Kevin was being        uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him&lt;BR&gt;about his        father, he finally replied, 'Okay...my father's an exotic dancer in a gay        cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men and they put        money in his underwear. 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House &amp;amp; Senate                                  have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.                                  &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;They voted &lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt;NOT&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&amp;nbsp; to give                                  you a S.S. Cost of living raise in 2010 and                                  2011.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Your Medicare premiums                                  will go up $285.60 for the next 2-years&lt;/STRONG&gt;                                   &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;You will &lt;U&gt;not &lt;/U&gt;get                                  the 3% COLA: $660/yr. &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Your total 2-yr loss and                                  cost is -$1,600 or -$3,200 for husband and                                  wife.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Over these same 2-years                                  each Congress person will get a $10,000                                  raise.&lt;/STRONG&gt;                                  &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt;Do you feel                                  used?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;                                 &lt;OL type=1 start=8&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Will they have your cost                                  of drugs - doctor fees - local taxes - food,                                  etc., decrease? &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt;NO                                  WAY.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;                                  &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;                                 &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Congress received a                                  raise and has better health and retirement                                  benefits than you or I. &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;UL type=disc&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Why should they care                                  about you?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt;You never did anything about                                  it in the                                  past.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/STRONG&gt;                                 &lt;LI                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Charlie, Barney et&amp;nbsp;                                  al&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;care about you?                                  &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Send the message to                                  these individuals --- &lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: maroon"&gt;"YOU'RE FIRED!"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;                                  &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;In 2010 you will                                  have a chance to get rid of the sitting                                  Congress: up to 1/3 of the Senate and 100% of                                  the House!&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Make sure you're                                  still mad in November 2010 and &lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt;remind their replacements not                                  to screw-up.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: red"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;It is ok to                                  forward this to your sphere of influence if you                                  are finally tired of the abuse.&amp;nbsp; &lt;SPAN                                  style="BACKGROUND: yellow"&gt;Maybe it's time for                                  Amendment 28 to the                                  Constitution.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="BACKGROUND: yellow"&gt;"Congress shall make                                  no law that applies to the citizens of the                                  United States that does not apply equally to the                                  Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall                                  make no law that applies to the Senators or                                  Representatives that does not apply equally to                                  the citizens of the United States ."                                  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"                                  class=MsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Let's get this                                  passed around, folks - these people in                                  Washington have brought this upon                                  themselves!&amp;nbsp; It's time for                                  retribution.&amp;nbsp; Let's take back America .                                  &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal                                  align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;If&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;WE&lt;/U&gt;                                  don't forward this to all&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;OUR&lt;/U&gt;                                  friends &lt;U&gt;WE'RE&lt;/U&gt; just part of the problem                                  of&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;                                  &lt;STRONG&gt;national&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps; 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Glad to see some in the main stream are starting to see the light.  Tyranny is just around the corner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=537967"&gt;Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? - Investors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-827324018004947983?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=537967' title='Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? - Investors.com'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/827324018004947983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-us-now-on-slippery-slope-to-tyranny.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/827324018004947983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/827324018004947983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-us-now-on-slippery-slope-to-tyranny.html' title='Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? - Investors.com'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-7620398498377148641</id><published>2010-05-22T16:52:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T16:52:44.176-04:00</updated><title type='text'>MAY GOD BLESS THIS AIRLINE  CAPTAIN:</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face=Verdana&gt;This was sent to me by my wife,  and I couldn't help but share.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=3 face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=3 face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;GOD Bless  America&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=arial&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;He &amp;nbsp;writes: My lead flight attendant came to me and said, "We  &amp;nbsp;have an H.R. on this flight." (H.R. stands for human remains.) "Are they  military?" I &amp;nbsp;asked. &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Yes', &amp;nbsp;she said. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Is there  an escort?' I asked. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Yes, I already assigned him a seat'.  &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Would you please tell him to come to the flight deck. You can  board him early," I said.. &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A short while later, a young army  sergeant entered the flight deck. &amp;nbsp;He was the image of the &amp;nbsp;perfectly  &amp;nbsp;dressed soldier. &amp;nbsp;He introduced himself and I asked him about his  soldier. The escorts of &amp;nbsp;these fallen soldiers talk about them as if they  are still alive and still with us. &amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'My soldier is on his way back  to Virginia ,' &amp;nbsp;he said. &amp;nbsp;He proceeded to answer my questions,  &amp;nbsp;but offered no words.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I asked him if there was anything I could do  for him and he said no. &amp;nbsp;I told him that he had the toughest &amp;nbsp;job in  the military and that I appreciated the &amp;nbsp;work that he does for the families  of our fallen soldiers. The first officer and I got up out of our seats to shake  his hand. &amp;nbsp;He left the flight deck to find his seat. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;We completed  our preflight checks, pushed back and performed an uneventful departure.  &amp;nbsp;About &amp;nbsp;30 minutes into our flight I received a call from the lead  flight attendant in the cabin. 'I &amp;nbsp;just found out &amp;nbsp;the family of the  soldier we are carrying, is on board', she said. &amp;nbsp;She then proceeded to  tell me that the father, mother, wife and 2-year old daughter were escorting  their son, husband, and father home. &amp;nbsp;The family was upset &amp;nbsp;because  they were unable to see the container that the soldier was in before we left.  &amp;nbsp;We were on our way to a major hub at which the family was going to wait  four hours for the connecting flight home to Virginia &amp;nbsp;. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The father  of the soldier told the flight attendant that &amp;nbsp;knowing his son was below  him in the cargo compartment &amp;nbsp;and being unable to see him was too much for  him and the family to bear. &amp;nbsp;He had &amp;nbsp;asked the flight attendant if  there was anything that could be done to allow them to see him upon our arrival.  The family wanted to be outside by the cargo door to watch the soldier being  taken off the airplane.. I could hear &amp;nbsp;the desperation in the flight  attendants voice when she &amp;nbsp;asked me if there was anything I could do.. 'I'm  on &amp;nbsp;it', I said. I told her that I would get back to her.  &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Airborne communication with my company normally occurs in the  &amp;nbsp;form of &amp;nbsp;e-mail like messages. &amp;nbsp;I decided to bypass this system  and contact my flight dispatcher directly on a secondary radio. There is a radio  operator in the operations control center who connects you to the telephone of  the dispatcher. I was in direct contact with the dispatcher.. &amp;nbsp;I  &amp;nbsp;explained the situation I had on board with the family and what it was the  family wanted. &amp;nbsp;He said he understood and that he would get back to me.  &amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Two hours went by and I had not heard from the dispatcher.  &amp;nbsp;We were going to get busy soon and I needed to know what to tell the  family. &amp;nbsp;I sent a text &amp;nbsp;message asking for an update. &amp;nbsp;I  &amp;nbsp;saved the return &amp;nbsp;message from the dispatcher and the following is  the text: &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Captain, sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. There  &amp;nbsp;is policy on this now and I had to check on a few &amp;nbsp;things. Upon your  arrival a dedicated escort team will &amp;nbsp;meet the aircraft. &amp;nbsp;The team  will &amp;nbsp;escort the family to the ramp and plane side. &amp;nbsp;A van will be  used to load the remains with a secondary van for the family. &amp;nbsp;The family  will be taken to their departure area and escorted into the terminal where the  remains can be seen on the ramp. &amp;nbsp;It is a private area for the family only.  &amp;nbsp;When the connecting aircraft arrives, the family will be escorted onto the  ramp and plane side to watch the remains being loaded for the final leg home.  &amp;nbsp;Captain, most of us here in flight control are veterans. &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;Please pass our condolences on to the family. &amp;nbsp;Thanks.' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I  sent a message back telling flight control thanks for a good job. &amp;nbsp; I  printed out the message and gave it to the lead flight &amp;nbsp;attendant to pass  on to the father. &amp;nbsp;The lead flight &amp;nbsp;attendant was very thankful and  told me, 'You have no idea how much this will mean to them.' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Things  started getting busy for the descent, approach and &amp;nbsp;landing. &amp;nbsp; After  landing, we cleared the runway &amp;nbsp;and taxied to the ramp area. &amp;nbsp;The ramp  is huge with 15 gates on either side of the alleyway. &amp;nbsp;It &amp;nbsp;is always a  busy area with aircraft maneuvering every which way to enter and exit.  &amp;nbsp;When we entered the ramp and checked in with the ramp controller, &amp;nbsp;we  were told that &amp;nbsp;all traffic was being held for us. &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'There is  a team in place to meet the &amp;nbsp;aircraft', we were told. &amp;nbsp;It looked like  it was all coming &amp;nbsp;together, then I &amp;nbsp;realized that once we turned the  &amp;nbsp;seat belt sign off, &amp;nbsp;everyone would stand up at &amp;nbsp;once and delay  the family from &amp;nbsp;getting off the airplane. As we approached our gate, I  asked the &amp;nbsp;copilot to tell the ramp controller we were going to stop  &amp;nbsp;short of the gate to make an &amp;nbsp;announcement to the passengers. &amp;nbsp;  He did that and &amp;nbsp;the ramp controller said, 'Take your time.' &amp;nbsp;  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I &amp;nbsp;stopped the aircraft and set the parking brake. &amp;nbsp; I pushed  the &amp;nbsp;public address button and said, &amp;nbsp;'Ladies and gentleman, this is  &amp;nbsp;your Captain speaking I &amp;nbsp;have stopped short of our gate to make a  &amp;nbsp;special &amp;nbsp;announcement. &amp;nbsp;We have a passenger on board who  deserves our honor and respect. &amp;nbsp;His Name is &amp;nbsp;Private XXXXXX, &amp;nbsp;a  soldier who recently lost his life. &amp;nbsp; Private XXXXXX is &amp;nbsp;under your  feet in the cargo hold. &amp;nbsp;Escorting him today is &amp;nbsp;Army Sergeant  &amp;nbsp;XXXXXXX. &amp;nbsp;Also, on board are his father, &amp;nbsp;mother, &amp;nbsp;wife,  and daughter. &amp;nbsp;Your entire &amp;nbsp;flight crew is &amp;nbsp;asking for all  passengers to remain in their seats to &amp;nbsp;allow the &amp;nbsp;family to exit the  aircraft first. Thank you.' &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;We continued the turn to the gate,  came to a stop and &amp;nbsp;started our &amp;nbsp;shutdown procedures. &amp;nbsp;A couple  of &amp;nbsp;minutes later I opened the cockpit door. &amp;nbsp;I &amp;nbsp;found the two  forward flight &amp;nbsp;attendants crying, &amp;nbsp;something you just do not see.  &amp;nbsp;I was told &amp;nbsp;that &amp;nbsp;after we came to a stop, every passenger on  the aircraft &amp;nbsp;stayed in their seats, waiting for the family to exit  &amp;nbsp;the &amp;nbsp;aircraft. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;When the family got up and gathered their  things, a &amp;nbsp;passenger slowly &amp;nbsp;started to clap his hands. &amp;nbsp; Moments  later more passengers &amp;nbsp;joined in and soon &amp;nbsp;the entire aircraft was  clapping. &amp;nbsp;Words &amp;nbsp;of 'God &amp;nbsp;Bless You', I'm sorry, thank you, be  proud, and other kind &amp;nbsp; words were uttered to the family as they made their  &amp;nbsp;way down the &amp;nbsp;aisle and out of the airplane. &amp;nbsp;They &amp;nbsp;were  escorted down to &amp;nbsp;the ramp to finally be with &amp;nbsp;their loved one.  &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Many of the passengers disembarking thanked me for the  &amp;nbsp;announcement I &amp;nbsp;had made. &amp;nbsp;They were just words, I &amp;nbsp;told  them, &amp;nbsp;I could &amp;nbsp;say them over and over again, &amp;nbsp;but nothing I say  will bring back &amp;nbsp;that brave soldier. &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I &amp;nbsp;respectfully ask  that all of you reflect on this event &amp;nbsp;and the &amp;nbsp;sacrifices that  millions of our men and women &amp;nbsp;have made to ensure &amp;nbsp;our freedom and  safety in these &amp;nbsp; United &amp;nbsp;States of AMERICA . &amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Foot note:  &lt;BR&gt;As a Viet Nam Veteran I can only think of all the veterans &amp;nbsp;including  the ones that rode below the deck on their way home and how they were treated.  When I read things like this I am proud &amp;nbsp;that our country has not turned  their backs on our soldiers returning from the various war zones today and give  them the respect they so deserve. &lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;I know every one who has served  their country who reads this will have tears in their eyes, including  &amp;nbsp;me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-7620398498377148641?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/7620398498377148641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-god-bless-this-airline-captain.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7620398498377148641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7620398498377148641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-god-bless-this-airline-captain.html' title='MAY GOD BLESS THIS AIRLINE  CAPTAIN:'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1436092542052929272</id><published>2010-05-22T16:40:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T16:40:10.723-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;It's amazing how the Sheeple will sit idly as more and more freedoms are  stripped from us.&amp;nbsp; The Obamanation keeps on a lying and yet the Sheeple  still follow him around like rats following the Pied Piper.&amp;nbsp; Too many are  afraid to question the actions of the Regime, this also happened in Germany in  the early 1930's and look what it got them.&amp;nbsp; An how&amp;nbsp;about Russia  during the Bolshevik Revolution?&amp;nbsp; Look where that got them.&amp;nbsp; I tell  you if we keep heading the direction we are going, it won't be long until the  Brown shirts come marching down a street near you.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Obama's Media Blackout at the White  House&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;By: David Limbaugh&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;The "most open and transparent" president in American history is still  playing hide-and-seek with the press, and even the liberal New York Times has  begun to notice it, as indicated by this headline: "Obama Turns His Back On the  Press."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If the mainstream media were not so ideologically wedded to  Obama's big-government agenda, they would be doing more than pointing out his  secrecy and hypocrisy with the occasional headline. They'd be skewering him  daily for his marked inaccessibility.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Not having a genuine news  conference since July would be remarkable for the least transparent  administration, let alone one that made openness a signature campaign  issue.&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A  href="http://www.newsmax.com/Limbaugh/Limbaugh-Obama-Press-dodging/2010/05/21/id/359744"&gt;Continue  reading here:&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1436092542052929272?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1436092542052929272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-amazing-how-sheeple-will-sit-idly.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1436092542052929272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1436092542052929272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-amazing-how-sheeple-will-sit-idly.html' title=''/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-1827177760270877302</id><published>2010-05-22T15:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T15:51:03.692-04:00</updated><title type='text'>YouTube - Soldiers Surprising Their Loved Ones: The "Best of" Mix</title><content type='html'>If this doesn't get to you, you're heartless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hkGzqpGx1KU"&gt;YouTube - Soldiers Surprising Their Loved Ones: The "Best of" Mix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-1827177760270877302?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hkGzqpGx1KU' title='YouTube - Soldiers Surprising Their Loved Ones: The &quot;Best of&quot; Mix'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/1827177760270877302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/youtube-soldiers-surprising-their-loved.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1827177760270877302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/1827177760270877302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/youtube-soldiers-surprising-their-loved.html' title='YouTube - Soldiers Surprising Their Loved Ones: The &quot;Best of&quot; Mix'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5407816360808317781</id><published>2010-05-15T19:20:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T19:20:26.965-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Suicide of America</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=arial&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="CLEAR: both"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;First, to destroy America, turn America  into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural  country.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;History shows that no nation can  survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages  and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is  a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset ,  put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do  not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' &lt;SPAN  id=lw_1273762819_4 class=yshortcuts&gt;Canada&lt;/SPAN&gt;, &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_5 class=yshortcuts&gt;Belgium&lt;/SPAN&gt;, &lt;SPAN id=lw_1273762819_6  class=yshortcuts&gt;Malaysia&lt;/SPAN&gt;, and Lebanon all face crises of national  existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_7 class=yshortcuts&gt;Pakistan&lt;/SPAN&gt; and &lt;SPAN id=lw_1273762819_8  class=yshortcuts&gt;Cyprus&lt;/SPAN&gt; have divided. &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1273762819_9  class=yshortcuts&gt;Nigeria&lt;/SPAN&gt; suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces  difficulties with Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and  Muslims."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;Second, to destroy America , invent  'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their  culture.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;Make  it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural  differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and &lt;SPAN  id=lw_1273762819_10 class=yshortcuts&gt;Hispanic dropout rates&lt;/SPAN&gt; are due  solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation  is out of bounds."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;Third, we could make the United States an  'HispanicQuebec' without much effort.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;The key is to celebrate diversity  rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_11 class=yshortcuts&gt;Atlantic Monthly&lt;/SPAN&gt; recently: 'The  apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have  been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once  dictated ethnocentrcity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with  only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.' Lamm said, "I would encourage  all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the  melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ens ure  that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their  differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their  similarities."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing  demographic group the least educated.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;I would add a second underclass,  unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have  this second underclass have a 50% &lt;SPAN id=lw_1273762819_12  class=yshortcuts&gt;dropout rate&lt;/SPAN&gt; from high  school."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;My fifth point for destroying America  would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of  money.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;I would invest in ethnic identity, and  I would establish the cult of '&lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1273762819_13  class=yshortcuts&gt;Victimology&lt;/SPAN&gt;.' I would get all minorities to think that  their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance  industry blaming all minority failure on the majority  placation."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;My sixth plan for America's downfall would  include &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_14 class=yshortcuts&gt;dual citizenship&lt;/SPAN&gt;, and promote  divided loyalties.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;I would celebrate diversity over  unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people  worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not  killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most  historical precet. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation  together. Look at the &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_15 class=yshortcuts&gt;ancient Greeks&lt;/SPAN&gt;. The Greeks believed  that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and  literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All &lt;SPAN id=lw_1273762819_16  class=yshortcuts&gt;Greece&lt;/SPAN&gt; took part in the Olympicgames. A common enemy,  Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to  overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured  political divisions. Greece fell."E. Pluribus Unum" -- &amp;gt;From many, one. In  that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the  'Unum,' we will&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #003300; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;Ba&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;lkanize&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;America as surely as &lt;SPAN  id=lw_1273762819_17 class=yshortcuts&gt;Kosovo&lt;/SPAN&gt;."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;Next to last, I would place all subjects  off limits. Make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of  'diversity.'&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;I would find a word similar to  'heretic' in the &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_18 class=yshortcuts&gt;16th century&lt;/SPAN&gt; - that stopped  discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt  discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country,  having established multi-cultum, having the large foundations fund the doctrine  of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our &lt;SPAN  id=lw_1273762819_19 class=yshortcuts&gt;immigration laws&lt;/SPAN&gt;. I would develop a  mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be  good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the  cumulative impact of millions of them."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;I would censor  &lt;SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_20 class=yshortcuts&gt;Victor Hanson&lt;/SPAN&gt; Davis's book  'Mexifornia.' His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If  you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that  book."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Discussion is being suppressed.  Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and  national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital  mutilationare growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing  into the &lt;SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand"  id=lw_1273762819_21 class=yshortcuts&gt;Third World&lt;/SPAN&gt; as corporations create a  Third World in America. Take note of &lt;SPAN id=lw_1273762819_22  class=yshortcuts&gt;California&lt;/SPAN&gt; and other states. To date, ten million  illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of &lt;SPAN id=lw_1273762819_23  class=yshortcuts&gt;George Orwell&lt;/SPAN&gt;'s book "1984." In that story, three  slogans are engraved in the &lt;SPAN  style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1273762819_24  class=yshortcuts&gt;Ministry of Truth&lt;/SPAN&gt; building: "War is peace," "Freedom is  slavery," and " Ignorance is strength."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #004000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5407816360808317781?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5407816360808317781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/suicide-of-america.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5407816360808317781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5407816360808317781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/suicide-of-america.html' title='Suicide of America'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-7033042485453945283</id><published>2010-05-15T19:00:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T19:00:25.193-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You really need to read this - it starts next year</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=arial&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face=Verdana&gt;Here comes  the Ropes and Chains.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt; &lt;DIV id=AOLMsgPart_2_7a0285e9-00d9-4441-9225-5c10d184805b&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000000  size=2 face=Arial&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;   &lt;TBODY&gt;   &lt;TR&gt;     &lt;TD vAlign=top&gt;       &lt;BLOCKQUOTE        style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"&gt;         &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;You really need to read this..starts next year          &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;BLOCKQUOTE class=cite type="cite"&gt;           &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;           &lt;DL&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;Subject: Your Taxes Next Year &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;This is part of the new Health Care Bill. &lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;I contacted my Congressman about House bill HR3590              the health care bill that passed. &lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;I asked for a summary of changes.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;The aid directed me to go to www: &lt;A              title=http://thomas.gov/ href="http://thomas.gov/" rel=nofollow              target=_blank&gt;thomas.gov&lt;/A&gt; ; enter HR3590 in the search&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;Box and look for summaries and scroll down to              Title IX &lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV align=center&gt;or&amp;nbsp; (you can try this direct link but              sometimes the long ones don't work &lt;/DIV&gt;             &lt;DD&gt;             &lt;DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;A              title=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR03590:@@@D&amp;amp;summ2=m              href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR03590:@@@D&amp;amp;summ2=m"              rel=nofollow              target=_blank&gt;http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR03590:@@@D&amp;amp;summ2=m&lt;/A&gt;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;              )&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DD&gt;&lt;/DL&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;         &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;Starting in 2011 (next year folks) your W 2 tax          form sent by your employer&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;Will be increased to show the value of what ever          health insurance you are&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;given by the company. It does not matter if          that's a private concern or &lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DIV align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;Governmental body of some sort. If you're          retired ? So what; your gross Will go up by the amount of insurance you          get. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;&amp;nbsp; You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money          that you have never seen.&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or          $20,000&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next          year.&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;For many it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even          worse.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;This is how the government is going to buy insurance for 15 % that          don't&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Not believing this I researched the summaries and here's what I'm          reading:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;On page 25 of 29 :&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET          PROVISIONS-(sec .&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;9001 , as modified by sec. 10901)&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Sec.9002.&amp;nbsp; "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of          each employee&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;The aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health          coverage&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;That is excludable from the employees gross income."          &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;Long form deductions:&lt;/FONT&gt;          &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;         &lt;DIV&gt;(Sec. 9012) Eliminates the tax deduction for expenses for          determining the subsidy for employers who maintain prescription drug          plans for Medicare Part D eligible retirees.&lt;/DIV&gt;         &lt;DIV&gt;(Sec. 9013) Increases the adjusted gross income threshold for          claiming the itemized deduction for medical expenses from 7.5% to 10%          beginning after 2012. Retains the 7.5% threshold through 2016 for          individual taxpayers who have attained age 65 before the close of an          applicable taxable year.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters. Go          to&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you.          Number 3 is&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;What I just told you about.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Why am I sending you this ?. The same reason I hope you forward this          to&lt;BR&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;every single person in your address book. People have the right to          know the truth because an election is coming in November.          &lt;DD&gt;         &lt;DD&gt;Personally I am supporting Florida Health Care Freedom HJR37 and          SJR72 at FlFreedom.org&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/DD&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;B&gt;Be &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff  size=2 face=Arial&gt;@&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2  face=Arial&gt;¿&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial&gt;@&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial&gt;ing you my friend&lt;BR&gt;Gary aka  ssgtnam&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 color=#ff0000 size=3 face=Verdana&gt;When One  American is not worth the effort to be Found-- Then we as Americans have LOST!  &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 color=#ff0000 size=3 face=Arial&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0  color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=3  face=Verdana&gt;&lt;B&gt;THE NATION WHICH FORGETS ITS DEFENDERS WILL ITSELF BE  FORGOTTEN"&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"LIBERTY AND FREEDOM ARE THE RESULTS OF ETERNAL  VIGILANCE"&lt;BR&gt;"FREEDOM&amp;nbsp; IS&amp;nbsp; NOT&amp;nbsp; FREE"&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0  color=#000000 size=3 face=Arial&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;!-- end of AOLMsgPart_2_7a0285e9-00d9-4441-9225-5c10d184805b --&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-7033042485453945283?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/7033042485453945283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/you-really-need-to-read-this-it-starts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7033042485453945283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7033042485453945283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/you-really-need-to-read-this-it-starts.html' title='You really need to read this - it starts next year'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-7425150508009580464</id><published>2010-05-15T18:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T18:48:31.850-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guns in Australia</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;FONT color=black size=2 face=arial&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000000 size=2  face=Arial&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2  face=Arial&gt;&lt;FONT face=arial,helvetica&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000000 size=2  face=Arial&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Please read the following because it's an important  lesson!&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;I know what you are going to say, "This would never happen  here," but I assure you, that's exactly what the people on the list below  thought too. The thing is, most of the are dead now by the hand of their own  government!&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;We must draw the line in the sand now! Please take this  lesson to  heart!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;==============================================================&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT  color=#000000 size=3 face=Arial&gt;&lt;B&gt;In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun  control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend  themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;In 1911, Turkey  established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to  defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Germany  established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million  Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and  exterminated.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to  1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded  up and exterminated&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From  1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded  up and exterminated.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Uganda established gun control in 1970. From  1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up  and exterminated.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From  1975 to 1977, one million educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were  rounded up and exterminated&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Defenseless people rounded up and  exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56  million.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia  were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by  their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500  million dollars. The first year results are now in:&lt;BR&gt;List of 7 items:  Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6  percent Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44  percent)!&lt;BR&gt;In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up  300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the  criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!&lt;BR&gt;While figures over  the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms,  this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now  are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed&lt;BR&gt;There has also been a dramatic  increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at  a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort  and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The  Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove  it.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear  politicians disseminating this information.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Guns in the hands of  honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely  affect only the law-abiding citizens.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;Take note my fellow  Americans, before it's too late!&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;The next time someone talks in  favor of gun control, please remind them of this history  lesson.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are  'subjects'.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America  because they knew most Americans were ARMED!&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;If you value your  freedom, Please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your  friends.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;!-- end of AOLMsgPart_2_ee0ed889-fc55-4757-b801-3dddd75641b0 --&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-7425150508009580464?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/7425150508009580464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/guns-in-australia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7425150508009580464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/7425150508009580464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/guns-in-australia.html' title='Guns in Australia'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-6625017563531795980</id><published>2010-05-15T17:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T17:21:03.403-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Komrade Kagan - Alexander's Essays - PatriotPost.US</title><content type='html'>The Obmanation is showing it's true colors each and every day, yet the sheeple just don't seem to care.  Everyone wants a hand out these days.  do they not see what is happening in Europe?  Are they not paying attention?  I ask you this, will we survive until November 2012?  There best be some serious changes come November 2nd, or we are all screwed.  I appologize for the harsh language but I'm pissed and I can't take it any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please read the article below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/05/13/komrade-kagan/"&gt;Komrade Kagan - Alexander's Essays - PatriotPost.US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-6625017563531795980?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/05/13/komrade-kagan/' title='Komrade Kagan - Alexander&apos;s Essays - PatriotPost.US'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/6625017563531795980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/komrade-kagan-alexanders-essays.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6625017563531795980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/6625017563531795980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/komrade-kagan-alexanders-essays.html' title='Komrade Kagan - Alexander&apos;s Essays - PatriotPost.US'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-5738746604103590381</id><published>2010-05-15T17:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T17:08:21.231-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Student: Teacher Called Flag Pic Offensive - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast</title><content type='html'>This is just outrageous.  What in the world is this country coming too.  This is outright Socialist indoctrination at it's very core.  the people of America should be disgusted by this, yet I'm sure most are too busy watching American Idol to care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sheeple are letting this once great nation slip away more and more each and every day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know about you but I am highly offended by this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ksbw.com/news/23512008/detail.html?treets=mty&amp;amp;tid=26510299719813&amp;amp;tml=mty_12pm&amp;amp;tmi=mty_12pm_1_02000105112010&amp;amp;ts=H"&gt;Student: Teacher Called Flag Pic Offensive - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-5738746604103590381?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ksbw.com/news/23512008/detail.html?treets=mty&amp;tid=26510299719813&amp;tml=mty_12pm&amp;tmi=mty_12pm_1_02000105112010&amp;ts=H' title='Student: Teacher Called Flag Pic Offensive - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/5738746604103590381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/student-teacher-called-flag-pic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5738746604103590381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/5738746604103590381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/student-teacher-called-flag-pic.html' title='Student: Teacher Called Flag Pic Offensive - Central Coast News Story - KSBW The Central Coast'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-4753217673111970444</id><published>2010-05-09T10:34:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T10:34:49.248-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out !</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;Another great e-mail sent to me that I just had to  share.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;FONT size=4  face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;This venerable  and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;for his  seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the  country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken  out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this letter  &amp;nbsp;to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the  president.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Dear President Obama, &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;My name is  Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. &amp;nbsp;People meeting  me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and  pretty much mentally alert.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I enlisted in the U.S.  Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a  Master Chief Bos'n Mate. &amp;nbsp;Now I live in a "rest home" located on the  western end of Pearl Harbor , allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years  of service to my country.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;One of the benefits of  my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the  head man.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;So here  goes.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I am amazed, angry and determined  not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me  that wish.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I can't figure out what country you  are the president of.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;You fly around the world telling  our friends and enemies despicable lies  like:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;" We're no longer a Christian  nation"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;" America is arrogant" - (Your wife  even&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;announced to the world," America is  mean-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;spirited. " Please tell her to try  preaching&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;that nonsense to 23 generations of  our&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;war dead buried all over the globe  who&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;died for no other reason than to free  a&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;whole lot of strangers from tyranny  and&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;hopelessness.)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I'd say shame on the  both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of  gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given  you. &amp;nbsp;To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man  sitting in the White House.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;After 9/11 you said,"  America hasn't lived up to her  ideals."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Which ones did you mean? Was it the  notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win  independence from the British? &amp;nbsp;Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a  slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? &amp;nbsp;I hope  you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of  fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about  not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for  freedom.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;I don't think you mean the ideal  that says equality is better than discrimination. &amp;nbsp;You know the one that a  whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you  elected.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Take a little advice from a very  old geezer, young man.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Shape up and start  acting like an American. &amp;nbsp;If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get  shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue . &amp;nbsp;You were elected  to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt  leaders who still treat their people like  slaves.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;And just who do you think you are  telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim  major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you  don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that  black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? &amp;nbsp;You  don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to  offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are,  terrorists.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;One more thing. &amp;nbsp;I realize you  never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your  life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. &amp;nbsp;Do your job. &amp;nbsp;When  your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete  the mission, give them to him. &amp;nbsp;But if you're not in this fight to win,  then get out. &amp;nbsp;The life of one American soldier is not worth the best  political strategy you're thinking  of.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;You could be our greatest president  because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.  &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;You're not going to restore  American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. &amp;nbsp;That's not our  greatest threat. &amp;nbsp;Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is  our big fight now.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;And I sure as hell don't want to  think my president is the enemy in this final  battle...&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Harold B.  Estes&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT color=blue&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: blue"&gt;Snopes confirms as true:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT color=blue size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;A  title=http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/haroldestes.asp  href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/haroldestes.asp" rel=nofollow  target=_blank&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/haroldestes.asp&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center&gt;&lt;FONT size=3  face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;FONT  size=5&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;When a 95 year old hero  of the "the Greatest Generation" stands up and speaks out like this, I think we  owe it to him to send his words to as many Americans as we can. Please pass it  on.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-4753217673111970444?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/4753217673111970444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/ww-ii-battleship-sailor-tells-obama-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/4753217673111970444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/4753217673111970444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/ww-ii-battleship-sailor-tells-obama-to.html' title='WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out !'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-8322503121095747203</id><published>2010-05-07T06:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T06:00:23.561-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rep. Andre Carson: Protesters are "One of the Largest Threats to our Int...</title><content type='html'>&lt;object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/fz_Qm3FuX_I/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fz_Qm3FuX_I&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fz_Qm3FuX_I&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4477222179758296031-8322503121095747203?l=butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/feeds/8322503121095747203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/rep-andre-carson-protesters-are-one-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8322503121095747203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4477222179758296031/posts/default/8322503121095747203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://butcher-the-patriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/rep-andre-carson-protesters-are-one-of.html' title='Rep. Andre Carson: Protesters are &quot;One of the Largest Threats to our Int...'/><author><name>Timothy Butcher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10570198251879312179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_TI3L8fyCo/ShAl-E5H36I/AAAAAAAAAB8/yc5zHOV-HXA/S220/DSCF0003a.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4477222179758296031.post-3913206700160100159</id><published>2010-05-02T20:09:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-02T20:09:12.807-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric</title><content type='html'>&lt;DIV&gt;President Barack Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who  denigrate government as "inherently bad" and said their off-base line of attack  ignores the fact that in a democracy, "government is us."  &lt;P&gt;Obama used his commencement speech at the University of Michigan to respond  to foes who portray government as oppressive and tyrannical - and to warn that  overheated language can signal extremists that "perhaps violence is ...  justifiable."  &lt;P&gt;Just 45 miles from the immense Michigan Stadium, capacity 106,201, the GOP's  2008 vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, told an anti-tax gathering Obama's  policies are "big government" recipes that are "intrusive" in the lives of  average Americans.&lt;/P&gt; 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Buffalo ,                                  NY&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 122px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="21%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;29.9%&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 440px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="77%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;3. Cincinnati ,                                  OH&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 122px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="21%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;27.8%&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 440px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="77%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;4. Cleveland ,                                  OH&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 123px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="21%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;27.0%&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 440px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="77%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;5. Miami ,                                  FL&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 122px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="21%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;26.9%&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 440px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="77%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;5. 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Philadelphia ,                                  PA&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 122px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="21%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;25.1%&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 440px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="77%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;10. Newark ,                                  NJ&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 122px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt"                                  vAlign=top width="21%"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;24.2%&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black"&gt;U.S.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;Census                                  Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August                                  2007&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,99,18); FONT-SIZE: 36pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What                                  do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the                                  highest poverty rate all have in                                  common?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 36pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Detroit                                  , MI (1st on the poverty rate list)&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;U&gt;hasn't                                  &lt;/U&gt;elected a&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;U&gt;Republican                                  &lt;/U&gt;mayor since 1961;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 36pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Buffalo                                  , NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since                                  1954;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since                                  1984;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Cleveland , OH (4th)...since                                  1989;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Miami , FL (5th) has&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;U&gt;never&lt;/U&gt;had                                  a Republican mayor;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;St. Louis , MO                                  (6th).....since 1949;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;El Paso , TX (7th)                                  has&lt;U&gt;never&lt;/U&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;had                                  a Republican mayor;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Milwaukee , WI                                  (8th)...since 1908;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Philadelphia , PA                                  (9th)...since 1952;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Newark , NJ                                  (10th)...since 1907.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 36pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Einstein                                  once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing                                  the same thing over and over again and expecting                                  different results.'&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 36pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It                                  is the&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 36pt"&gt;poor                                  who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are                                  still&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;POOR&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;                                  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 24pt"&gt;"You                                  cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You                                  cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the                                  strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by                                  discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage                                  earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You                                  cannot further the brotherhood of man by                                  inciting class hatred. You cannot build                                  character and courage by taking away people's                                  initiative and independence. You cannot help                                  people permanently by doing for them, what they                                  could and should do for themselves."&lt;BR&gt;Abraham                                  Lincoln&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 24pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;...........&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;                                  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 24pt"&gt;.....and                                  Mr. Obama,&lt;SPAN                                  class=ecxecxecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;U&gt;you                                  are no Abe                                  Lincoln!!!&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV                        style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV                        style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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&lt;DIV style="CLEAR: both"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;President  Obama:&lt;BR&gt;Today I read of your administrations' plan to re-define September 11  as &lt;BR&gt;a National Service Day. Sir, it's time we had a  talk.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;During  your campaign, Americans watched as you&amp;nbsp; made mockery of our &lt;BR&gt;tradition  of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance &lt;BR&gt;was  spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not &lt;BR&gt;honoring  our tradition.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;  &lt;BR&gt;During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that&amp;nbsp; you  &lt;BR&gt;intended to visit all 57 states. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;&lt;FONT  size=5&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;We all know that Islam, not America has 57  states.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;When  President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently&amp;nbsp; placed a &lt;BR&gt;flower  on the memorial, &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;while you nonchalantly&amp;nbsp; tossed your flower  onto &lt;BR&gt;the pile without leaning&amp;nbsp;  over&lt;/EM&gt;.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;Every  time you apologized to other countries for America 's position on &lt;BR&gt;an issue  we have wondered why you don't share our&amp;nbsp; pride in this great &lt;BR&gt;country..  When you have heard foreign leaders&amp;nbsp; berate our country and &lt;BR&gt;our  beliefs, you have not defended us. In&amp;nbsp; fact, you insulted the &lt;BR&gt;British  Crown beyond belief.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;When  your pastor of 20 years, "God-damned America " and said&amp;nbsp; that &lt;BR&gt;9/11 was  " America 's chickens coming home to roost"&amp;nbsp; and you denied &lt;BR&gt;having  heard recriminations of that nature, we&amp;nbsp; wondered how that could &lt;BR&gt;be.  You later disassociated yourself&amp;nbsp; from that church and Pastor &lt;BR&gt;Wright  because it was politically expedient to do so.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;When  you announced that you would transform America ,&amp;nbsp; we wondered &lt;BR&gt;why. With  all her faults, America is the&amp;nbsp; greatest country on earth. &lt;BR&gt;Sir, KEEP  THIS IN MIND, "if not for&amp;nbsp; America and the people who built &lt;BR&gt;her, you  wouldn't be sitting in&amp;nbsp; the White House now." Prior to your &lt;BR&gt;election to  the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from &lt;BR&gt;Illinois  and&amp;nbsp; from what we can glean from the records available, not a &lt;BR&gt;very  remarkable one.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;All  through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;yourself with  individuals who are basically unqualified for&amp;nbsp; the &lt;BR&gt;positions for which  you appointed them. Worse than that, the&amp;nbsp; majority &lt;BR&gt;of them are people  who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or &lt;BR&gt;affection for this  country and her traditions.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You  are&amp;nbsp;14 months into your term and every morning millions&amp;nbsp; of  &lt;BR&gt;Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek&amp;nbsp; to  &lt;BR&gt;saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance&amp;nbsp; reform package  &lt;BR&gt;that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this  nation.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;We  seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not &lt;BR&gt;in  favor of these crippling expenditures and we are&amp;nbsp; labeled  &lt;BR&gt;"un-American","racist", "mob". We wonder how we are supposed&amp;nbsp; to let  &lt;BR&gt;you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem  &lt;BR&gt;isolated and insignificant. &lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Until your appointment, Americans  had the right &lt;BR&gt;to speak out.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;On  September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only &lt;BR&gt;Americans.  And we all grieved together and&amp;nbsp; helped each other in &lt;BR&gt;whatever way we  could. &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are  &lt;BR&gt;Americans. &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;And  YES, "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;  &lt;BR&gt;There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could  &lt;BR&gt;help unite this nation. In six months you have done&amp;nbsp; more to destroy  &lt;BR&gt;this nation than the attack on 9/11. &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;You have failed  us&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;September 11 is a day of remembrance for  all&amp;nbsp; Americans. You &lt;BR&gt;propose to make 9/11 a "National Service  Day".&amp;nbsp; &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;While we know that you &lt;BR&gt;don't share our reverence for  9/11, we&amp;nbsp; pray that history will report &lt;BR&gt;your proposal as what it is, a  disgrace.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;You have made a mockery  of&amp;nbsp; our Constitution and the office that &lt;BR&gt;you hold. You have&amp;nbsp;  embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;and  policy&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;YES,  "We noticed."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN  style="COLOR: #008080; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;We have noticed all  these things. We will deal with you. &lt;U&gt;&lt;FONT color=crimson&gt;When Americans  &lt;BR&gt;come together again, it will be to remove you from  office&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/U&gt;.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;DIV class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=crimson&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT size=6&gt;TAKE  NOTICE!&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=crimson&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=crimson&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=crimson&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=crimson&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; 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 Too good not to pass along.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;BLOCKQUOTE  style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"&gt;   &lt;DIV class=ecxecxSection1&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;   &lt;DIV&gt;   &lt;P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;I    don't know if all the facts are right in reference to Wal-Mart, but the part    about the morons sounds right.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN    style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;   &lt;DIV id=ecxecxAOLMsgPart_3_4be5dc75-64f9-4faa-90c3-6b5123a0671a&gt;   &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;     &lt;TBODY&gt;     &lt;TR&gt;       &lt;TD        style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"        vAlign=top&gt;         &lt;BLOCKQUOTE          style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 1.5pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 3.75pt; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in"&gt;           &lt;P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;           &lt;DIV id=ecxecxyiv1139790279&gt;           &lt;TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0            cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;             &lt;TBODY&gt;             &lt;TR&gt;               &lt;TD                style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1.5pt; PADDING-LEFT: 1.5pt; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 1.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 1.5pt"                width="100%"&gt;                 &lt;DIV&gt;                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                 &lt;DIV&gt;                 &lt;DIV&gt;                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                 &lt;DIV&gt;                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                 &lt;DIV&gt;                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                 &lt;DIV&gt;                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0 cellSpacing=0                  cellPadding=0&gt;                   &lt;TBODY&gt;                   &lt;TR&gt;                     &lt;TD                      style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                      width="100%"&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;1&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;. Americans spend                        $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;2.. This works out                        to $20,928 profit every minute!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;3. Wal-Mart will                        sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th)                        than Target sells all year.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;4. Wal-Mart is                        bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco                        + K-Mart combined.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;5. Wal-Mart                        employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private                        Employer, and most speak English.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;6. Wal-Mart is the                        largest company in the history of the World.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;7. Wal-Mart now                        sells more food than Kroger &amp;amp; Safeway combined, and                        keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;8. During this                        same period, 31 supermarket chains sought                        bankruptcy.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;9. Wal-Mart now                        sells more food than any other store in the                        world.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: blue"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;10. Wal-Mart has                        approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super                        Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 Years                        ago.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;11. This year 7.2                        billion different purchasing experiences will occur At a                        Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5                        Billion.) &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;12. 90% of all                        Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                       &lt;DIV&gt;                       &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="FONT-FAMILY: '@Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;You                        may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying                        the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire                        the guys who run Wal-Mart to Fix the economy.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                        style="FONT-FAMILY: '@Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;                        &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;                   &lt;TR&gt;                     &lt;TD                      style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                      width="100%"&gt;                       &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0 cellSpacing=0                        cellPadding=0&gt;                         &lt;TBODY&gt;                         &lt;TR&gt;                           &lt;TD                            style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                            width="100%"&gt;                             &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                              cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                               &lt;TBODY&gt;                               &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  width="100%"&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  vAlign=top&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  vAlign=top&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  vAlign=top&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="FONT-FAMILY: '@Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;This                                  should be read and understood by all                                  Americans&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: blue"&gt;                                  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  width="100%"&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  width="100%"&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  vAlign=top&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  vAlign=top&gt;                                 &lt;TABLE class=ecxecxMsoNormalTable border=0                                  cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0&gt;                                 &lt;TBODY&gt;                                 &lt;TR&gt;                                 &lt;TD                                  style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in"                                  vAlign=top&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;To                                  President Obama&amp;nbsp;&lt;U&gt;and all&amp;nbsp;&lt;/U&gt;535                                  voting members of the Legislature,&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;                                  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;DIV&gt;                                 &lt;P class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: blue"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;                                  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;It is now                                  official&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt; you are                                  ALL corrupt morons:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: blue"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;                                 &lt;UL type=square&gt;                                 &lt;LI class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;The U.S.                                  Post Service was established in 1775. You have                                  had 234 years to get it right and it is                                  broke.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: blue"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;                                 &lt;LI class=ecxecxMsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;Social                                  Security&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"&gt;                                  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN                                  style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE:
