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Thomas Jefferson On Role Of Government

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest ..."

Now then, how many years ago did elected officials forget this one?
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At Least 50 Cents A Gallon More? Why?

I just returned from a week trip to Southern California and found that regular gas was, at the lowest, $3.89 a gallon and as much as $4.25. Here in Texas it is from $3.38 a gallon and at Costco it is $3.26. I was wondering why such a difference between the two states. Both refine gas in local areas but it seems that the good old government of California GOUGES the people even more by adding extra taxes on the price. Have you seen the increase of traffic fines there now? Horrendous!!!
After a bit of research, I found that California has a 45.5% state tax on gas while the average of all the other states is only 28.6%. That is a whopping 59% higher tax. The liberals in Sacramento are trying to fix the disaster that they have created by strapping all their mistakes on the citizens of the state. It seems that most of the citizens like what they are doing since they CONTINUE to reelect these nut cases. The last straw seems to be that the majority elected Jerry Brown as governor. AMAZING!
Well, I am glad to live in Texas where the government leasers here have a little more sense and smarts in running the state. We have no billions of dollars in deficit spending and our Governor (deserves to have a capital letter) is doing a great job and now we have the super majority of conservatives in our house.
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How To Solve Lybia's Problem

"Libya wants a new Muslim leader: Solution: give them ours. This will solve two problems."   Author unknown
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Free Inquiry Magazine: The Rag Mag of Evolution

Richard Dawkins, James Haught, Christopher Hitchins, Nat Hentoff, Shandia Drury, David Koepsell and all the rest of the contributors of this rag mag all seem to be obsessed with attacking Christianity and trying to put it on a par with Islam. Why do atheists have to attack other people's religious beliefs? Don't they have anything worth talking about concerning their own beliefs? Is their position so weak that all they can do is attack others in order to prove they are right?
How sad to read their pathetic arguments. They lean on evolution as their main foundation and this position is so full of errors and holes that it looks more like expanded metal than a real position. I ask each of these illustrious writers to tell us all where all the so-called transitional forms are. THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FORMS found to date. Evolutionists have actually manufactured many since Darwin's time, all of which have been proven to be FAKES. What kind of position is defended by manufactured evidence? How can anyone in their right minds actually believe that evolution is still a viable THEORY? It was just a theory and yet it is taught in our public schools as a FACT. The FACT is, it is a LIE!
Have you ever considered how scientists arrive at millions or billions of years when dating things? They GUESS at it or simply, again, manufacture it! Have you ever wondered why there are so many ARTIST RENDERINGS of the so-called missing links between man and monkey? Did you know that Darwin believed that white men came from monkeys but black men came from gorillas? I wonder why our black Democrats don't throw a fit over this. Did you know that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, called Asians, blacks and other minority groups "HUMAN WEEDS" and she taught that they should be kept from BREEDING? She was in favor of ethnic cleansing, but there is little said about this today.
You see, all the Free Inquiry writers are a bunch of frauds masquerading as genuine scientists. Why is it that atheists do not have to PROVE their position? All they do is challenge those THEISTS to prove their position. If we just look at creation, we can see that a brilliant mind was behind everything that we have seen or examined under a microscope or telescope.
Have you ever considered how the so-called Big Bang could have created our universe? How did an explosion expand into the vast recesses of the known universe and create so many stars, planets and other galaxies?
Sounds more like science fiction than real science to me.
Did you know that the first cell could never have arisen on its own. It is IMPOSSIBLE! If you believe that it could have, you have been reading the wrong stuff! You see, the first cell, in order to have survived, had to have what is called an absolute minimum parts to live. The number of these parts could NEVER have come together at the same time by CHANCE AND MUTATIONS, since NOTHING existed from which to manufacture it in the first place.
Well, this is a lot to process, so I will put it to rest for now.

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Why Don't Conservatives Stop This Insanity?

I am now sixty-four years old, an Air Force veteran and a conservative politically. I have seen a lot of presidents come and go and make big promises, mostly not kept, but I have never seen such a blatant attempt to fundamentally change our form of government and transform our Republic into a Socialist state like I see today.
Do you remember reading about or living through the search for REDS in Hollywood after WWII. I have read of it and studied this time thoroughly, but I was not born until after the BIG WAR. It seemed that the whole of the USA was concerned with the potential take over of the American government by Communist/Socialist infiltrators. This got out of hand and went a bit nuts, but it reminds us that they were very concerned by the threat to our way of life.
Today, especially in the media, with a few exceptions, we see the wholesale sell out of this cherished way of life in favor of Socialism. Mr. Obama made the statement that his favorite hero was Karl Marx. I wonder if these folks have enough sense to come in out of the rain? Most of them have never served our nation in its military, so they do not understand that it took the blood of multiplied thousands to make this nation free from just this sort of evil system. 415,000 in WWII, over 50,000 in Korea, 58,000 in the Vietnam War and this is just a few of the wars this nation has fought to stop the Communist/Socialist take over of the USA.
We have a few voices of reason still boldly speaking out on this issue, but they are demonized by the liberal media as racist, bigots, hate mongers, liars and a multitude of other names. The patriotic citizens who got fed up with the direction of our country and banded together in the Tea Party movement were also demonized and called Nazis, racist etc. etc. etc. ad nausium.
Folks, we are up to our necks in politicians and power brokers who prefer the redistribution of wealth, which was the basic foundation of Socialism, and the numbers back this up as things stand today. Did you know that a full 35% of American receive some form of support from the Federal Government? 35% is a staggering number! The current population of America is 110,000,000, so this gives us an approximate number, off the top of my head, of over 3,000,000 people who don't or can't work for a living. Those who paid into Social Security are getting what they have coming, but a large number of immigrants, legal and illegal, are getting S/S or S.S.I. payments today. On top of this is the protracted unemployment compensation which has become another form of welfare and then there is outright welfare. How many of this number are honest folks who can no longer support themselves and how many of them are outright lazy gluttons who WILL NOT work for a living? These folks do not realize that they are robbing themselves of living a rewarding life. I have dealt with many who said outright that the government OWES them a living. I heard this from the lips of a brother and sister in California who were strong and healthy yet living on welfare with their mother. They were both over 18 at the time and could have been contributing to our economy.
This is too long already, so I will sigh off for now. I hope that these words will stimulate your thinking to do something now to stop this madness before we lose the freedoms we now enjoy.

"I never took my freedoms seriously until I lost them." Unknown
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Obama On Behavior Modification

I was listening to Rush a few days ago and he played a clip of a Democrat, cannot remember who it was, who was talking about the high gas prices. I am sure my jaw dropped when he said that at $4.00 per gallon is where we begin to change our behavior. I could not believe how boldly he said what their agenda really is. They are letting gas prices rise to FORCE us to buy electric cars or hybrids. This is nothing more than BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. This is taking our CHOICE away by force. Liberals love the term CHOICE when it comes to killing the unborn baby, but when it comes to other choices, all they want to do is FORCE their Socialist agenda on the rest of us.
How sick our government and its leaders have become.

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Questions Evolutionists Can't Answer

Just a few questions for evolutionists:

1. Where are the expected millions of fossils of the transitional forms?
2. Where did dinosaurs come from and where are the transitional forms for them?
3. How did evolution created the nervous system which runs on electrical stimulation?
4. How did chance and mutations create something so complex as DNA and RNA?
5. How did the first cell come into being? The cell is so complex that it boggles the mind and we still are discovering more complexity.
6. Mr. Darwin said that if we do not find significant transitional forms and if we discover increasing complexity then his theory is wrong. Since this is true, why do you still hold on to a bogus theory?
7. A logical question is if man evolved from apes then why are there still apes? One would think that all apes would be men by now, wouldn’t you?
8. Given the fact that mutations are almost always negative or neutral, how on earth did evolution design something as complex as the human body?
9. How did an explosion, the big bang, create something as complex as the earth, the sun, the moon, the whole universe? That must have been one BIG explosion. How can an explosion create ANYTHING? All the explosions that I have seen created nothing but destruction.
10. How do you arrive at the BILLIONS of years date since NO METHOD of dating can get back past a few thousand years?

Well, this should keep you guessing for some time. If you have suggestions, I would love to dialogue with you.

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San Francisco STINKS, Literally!

San Francisco is many things to many people, but recently, because of their insane push to SAVE THE WORLD by installing low GPF toilets, the city has become a stinker because of sludge buildup in the sewers. They have spent $100 million dollars in the past five years to try and fix the stink and not much has changed. Now, they are dumping bleach down the drains to treat the sewage before it is dumped into the bay.
I wonder if they should not just bite the bullet and return to NORMAL toilets to solve their problem. Wait, that would mean that they had to admit that the low GPF toilets were a mistake.
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Free Inquiry Magazine: A Pack Of Lies From Cover To Cover!

Richard Dawkins, James Haught, Christopher Hitchins, Nat Hentoff, Shandia Drury, David Koepsell and all the rest of the contributors of this rag mag all seem to be obsessed with attacking Christianity and trying to put it on a par with Islam. Why do atheists have to attack other people's religious beliefs? Don't they have anything worth talking about concerning their own beliefs? Is their position so weak that all they can do is attack others in order to prove they are right?
How sad to read their pathetic arguments. They lean on evolution as their main foundation and this position is so full of errors and holes that it looks more like expanded metal than a real position. I ask each of these illustrious writers to tell us all where all the so-called transitional forms are. THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FORMS found to date. Evolutionists have actually manufactured many since Darwin's time, all of which have been proven to be FAKES. What kind of position is defended by manufactured evidence? How can anyone in their right minds actually believe that evolution is still a viable THEORY? It was just a theory and yet it is taught in our public schools as a FACT. The FACT is, it is a LIE!
Have you ever considered how scientists arrive at millions or billions of years when dating things? They GUESS at it or simply, again, manufacture it! Have you ever wondered why there are so many ARTIST RENDERINGS of the so-called missing links between man and monkey? Did you know that Darwin believed that white men came from monkeys but black men came from gorillas? I wonder why our black Democrats don't throw a fit over this. Did you know that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, called Asians, blacks and other minority groups "HUMAN WEEDS" and she taught that they should be kept from BREEDING? She was in favor of ethnic cleansing, but there is little said about this today.
You see, all the Free Inquiry writers are a bunch of frauds masquerading as genuine scientists. Why is it that atheists do not have to PROVE their position? All they do is challenge those THEISTS to prove their position. If we just look at creation, we can see that a brilliant mind was behind everything that we have seen or examined under a microscope or telescope.
Have you ever considered how the so-called Big Bang could have created our universe? How did an explosion expand into the vast recesses of the known universe and create so many stars, planets and other galaxies?
Sounds more like science fiction than real science to me.
Did you know that the first cell could never have arisen on its own. It is IMPOSSIBLE! If you believe that it could have, you have been reading the wrong stuff! You see, the first cell, in order to have survived, had to have what is called an absolute minimum parts to live. The number of these parts could NEVER have come together at the same time by CHANCE AND MUTATIONS, since NOTHING existed from which to manufacture it in the first place.
Well, this is a lot to process, so I will put it to rest for now.

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Texas Students Forced To Learn Arabic?

A few days ago we learned of a plan for Fort Worth I.S.D. to not just OFFER Arabic but to make it a REQUIREMENT for all students. I wonder who's idea this was since someone had to apply to the FEDS for a $1.3 million grant to study Arabic language and culture in some of its schools.
Well, as protest gets things done, the parents have let the ISD know that they do not want this forced on their kids. The I.S.D.states that Arabic is the language of the future. SAY WHAT? I though ENGLISH was the language of the USA. Are they planning on Sharia Law to take over Texas and for us to be forced to convert to Islam in the near future? You say, "FORCED." Yes! In the Middle East there are actual reports of children in Africa where they are kidnapped, chained up and beaten if they do not learn the language and convert to Islam. Check this out on the web and you can see the video for yourself. It has been going on for decades.
I think it is time to return to what the LAW states, that all immigrants are to learn ENGLISH, it never states that we are a multicultural nation and no one should be forced to learn any language except the prescribed language of America: ENGLISH.
Thank goodness, the district has reconsidered the forced program and is starting over from ground zero on this idea.

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Why I Love South Texas

While most of the Midwest lies under a blanket of snow, we here in South Texas are experiencing a minor heat wave. It is in the low 80's and high 70's this week and I actually planted flowers and tomato plants today. Wow, what a great place to live!
Thank you God for creating Texas and for giving us this beautiful weather!
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We're Working To Fund The Government!

You know, when we sit down and take the time to really think taxes through, we realize that tax freedom day is getting further and further forward each year. This year it will be on April 9 and this means that we work 99 days or 26.89% of the year JUST to pay our taxes. I am sure this does not cover the incidentals like buying a car etc. This means that Americans will pay MORE in taxes for 2010 than for food, clothing and shelter COMBINED!
Isn't it TIME to reform our tax system? Each election cycle we hear all the high flying speeches about LOWERING YOUR TAXES, but in reality they seem to do just the opposite and raise them even more.
When we stop to consider how much WASTE there is in government, it makes me want to scream REFORM to the whole of government. Just this last week we found out that congressmen and women have arranged for their staff to be exempt from repaying college government loans. Now, who else in society has this perk built in? NO ONE! The whole PERK system in congress needs to be scrapped and they should have no more than the average citizen has in his or her package.
There is an idea floating around these days for another constitutional amendment stating that whatever congress passes that they too would be under its controls.
On this President's day 2011, I got to thinking, when I got no mail today, of just how unfair it is for workers in government jobs to get paid MORE for the same job as in the public sector and then to get all these LITTLE holidays off with pay. You see, the rest of Americans are WORKING to pay them excessive salaries and multiple days off for the government workers.

DOES THIS BUG YOU AS MUCH AS IT DOES ME???
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California vs. Texas

In California                                                            In Texas
Diverse or Lifestyle choice                                         Sinful and perverted
Arsenal of weapons                                                   Gun collection
Delicate wetlands                                                       Swamp
Undocumented worker                                               Illegal alien
Cruelty-free materials                                                 Synthetic fiber
Heavily armed                                                            Well protected
Narrow minded                                                          Righteous
Taxes or your fair share                                              Coerced theft
Commonsense gun control                                          Gun confiscation plot
Illegal hazardous explosives                                         Fireworks or stump removal
Nonviable tissue mass                                                 Unborn baby
Equal access to opportunity                                         Socialism
Multicultural community                                               High crime area
Fairness or social progress                                           Marxism
Upper class or "The Rich"                                            Self-employed
Progressive, change                                                     Big government scheme
Homeless or disadvantaged                                         Bums or welfare state
Sniper rifle                                                                  Scoped deer rifle
Investment for the future                                              Higher taxes
Health care reform                                                      Socialized medicine
Extremist, judgmental or hater                                     Conservative
Truants                                                                       Home schooled students
Victim or oppressed                                                   Criminal or lazy good for nothing
High capacity magazine                                               Standard capacity magazine
Religious zealot                                                           Church goer
Reintroduced wolves                                                   Sheep and elk killers
Fair trade coffee                                                          Overpriced Yuppie coffee
Exploiters or "The Rich"                                               Employed or land owner
The gun lobby                                                              NRA member
Assault weapon                                                           Semi-auto (Grandpa's M1 carbine)
Fiscal stimulus                                                             New taxes or higher taxes
Same sex marriage                                                      Legalized perversion
Mandated eco-friendly lighting                                     Chinese mercury laden light bulbs

author unknown but makes pretty good sense


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Pull A Reagan In Wisconsin

Do you remember the air traffic controller's strike while Mr. Reagan was President and what he did to end it? He FIRED all of them who refused to go back to work. Maybe, if these teachers continue to call in sick, which they are not, maybe it is time to replace them with teachers who are willing to work. It is a fact that these teachers are paid above the national average and what the governor is asking them to do is MINOR cuts. The unions are pushing this as they do not want to lose all the money that these teachers pay them. Unions have ceased to be just an instrument to help workers but a major political instrument for those on the LEFT. It is time to return to sanity in public employees salaries and benefits, ESPECIALLY IN CONGRESS. Just this week Fox News revealed that the staffs of congress people do not have to repay government student loans like the rest of us.
I believe that it is time to completely overhaul the way congress conducts itself. To be able to retire after just one term in office with full salary is ludicrous and completely out of touch with what WE THE PEOPLE want for our elected officials. Reform 2011 is a good theme for this year and new congress.
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Way To Go House Leadership!

Atta boy and atta girls to all who voted in the House to defund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood. Just think, PP will not be paid by taxpayers to murder innocent babies and we the taxpayers will save over $330,000,000 this year. Wow! You folks are actually stating to act like you care about public opinion, the majority that is. 
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