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Could it be many of our social ills are a result of having two working parents (partners, significant other, etc.) and nobody minding the home. 

Have we pursued happiness and caught plight?   We now have two jobs, two homes, two cars, a boat, a motorcycle and who is watching the two kids?  Are they are being raised by child care providers who make at or near minimum wage?  Are they taught by teachers not making much more than minimum wage?

Did we loose the generational link to our past by placing our parents in a “home” where they can be cared for without interrupting our routine and pleasure?

Are we now surprised by the behavior of our children?   Opps, it is our neighbors children?  Why would they be confused of their roles, responsibilities, sexual orientation and what to order at Jack in the Box?  Was anyone home to guide and coach them?

Where were your parents?  Where are you?  Where are your children?

By MIKE ALLEN | 8/1/08 9:38 AM EST

“Friday’s proposal says Obama ‘is proposing to offset the cost of his emergency energy rebates over the next five years by enacting a windfall profits tax on big oil companies.’”

“’Obama simply asks that big oil companies contribute a reasonable share of the windfall profits they receive from high oil prices over the next five years to pay for emergency assistance for families right now,’ the campaign says.’”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12237.html

How does this strike you?  Do you have more than your neighbor?  Will they soon be knocking at your door for a “contribution?”

This is a term that has haunted me for years and since I was once part of a committee to identify such an item as necessary amenity. 

So what is a necessary amenity?  I will define as best I can remember: an item or system which at one time was considered as unnecessary but nice to have now become essential. 

Shall I start?  Once a burro was an amenity; most people walked when they needed transportation. Soon, most people had a burro or horse and rode to destinations near and far.  Soon a carriage was an amenity until most people had one or a similar buck board.  The next transportation amenity was the Model.-T.  Now the automobile is a necessary amenity.

Now I question the necessity of the automobile can we not live without it? 

A necessary amenity merely seems to point in the direction of our perceived quality of life.

It seems that time is a qualifier.  Air, shelter, water and food are necessary dependant upon the time frame.  Air is necessary every few minutes.  Shelter is necessary within hours dependant upon the ambient climate.  Water is necessary within days and food only after weeks.  Does this make everything an amenity?

What of healthcare?

Which amenities do you find necessary?

What does this have to do with faith?

Paranoid Americans or Ignorant Immigrants

Could it be that Americans are overly fearful of loosing freedoms? 

As I stood across and from the long lines for the Democratic Primaries listening to the heavy accents and broken English (if they spoke English) it was my observation that many were first generation Americans.  Now, past these same primaries, I notice yard signs, bumper stickers and shirts with the Obama moniker are most often associated with these same first generation people.

This causes me to wonder if the Obama I see and hear on the television is the same socialist they see and hear?  Do they not remember the government programs of the socialist and communist regimes from where they come?  Why would they stand for Obama who would remove so many of the free processes which have created the society and technology we enjoy in the United States and replace them with government?

Could it be that I do not see what they see?  My forefathers have been in Texas since the mid- 1800’s let alone the generations before in other states.  Why am I concerned of gaining government sponsored or “free” healthcare, education, housing and jobs?  Surely they came to the USA for some reason?  What is it that I am missing? 

Yes, Obama as President concerns me.

Help me understand?   

U.S. government: We know
parenting better than you (abridged)

Posted: July 24, 2008 12:00 am Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling (WorldNetDaily)

HR 2343 is sponsored by Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., and cosponsored by 55 Democrats and 11 Republicans. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementing the Education Begins at Home Act would cost taxpayers $190 million for state home visiting, plus "such sums as may be necessary" for in-hospital parent education.

While the program may not be mandatory for low-income and military families, there is no wording in the Education Begins at Home Act requiring parental permission for treatment or ongoing care once the family is enrolled – a point that leads some to ask where parental rights end and the government takes over. Also, critics ask how agents of the government plan to acquire private medical and financial records to offer the home visiting program.

"There's no consent mentioned in the bill for any kind of screening – medical, health or developmental," Dr. Effrem said. "There are privacy concerns because when home visitors come into the home they assess everything about the family: Their financial situation, social situation, parenting practices, everything. All of that is put into a database."

"How free is someone who has been tagged as needing this program in the case of home visiting – like a military family or a poor family?" she asked. "How free are they to refuse? Even their refusal will be documented somewhere. There are plenty of instances where families have felt they can't refuse because they would lose benefits, be accused of not being good parents or potentially have their children taken away."

"Who decides how cultural tolerance is going to be manifested?" she asked. "There's some blather in the language of the bill about having cultural awareness of the differences in parenting practices, but it seems like that never applies to Christian parents."

Ron Paul will not be stopped and seeks to unite Americans at the Rally for the Republic to be held from August 31 to September 2 in Minneapolis amd will host a handful of events that will shake the political establishment. Everything will culminate on Tuesday with the official launch of the Campaign for Liberty.

The Campaign for Liberty will be the largest organization for peace, freedom, the Constitution, and sound money in American history. It will launch in grand fashion with lots of special guests and - if the early television and print inquiries we've received are any indication - plenty of media attention.

You and your family are invited to join Congressman Ron Paul and thousands of others in Minneapolis for these events and send a message to both major political parties.

http://www.rallyfortherepublic.com/

Abridged from http://www.campaignforliberty.com/mission/

Americans inherit from their ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression.  Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity – a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.

But many Americans today are frustrated.  The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all.  For all their talk of “change,” neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way.  Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt.  Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy.  Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands.  Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world.  Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.

This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years.  Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.

That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation. 

We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.

Our country is ailing.  That is the bad news.  The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us.  Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.

Will you join us?

Free republics are not known to have long life expectancies. At the ripe old age of two hundred and thirty-two, America is definitely showing her age. She is long past her prime, and some are predicting her demise. No, some are PLANNING her demise.

Thomas Jefferson and the other founders of this once-great country believed there was a controlling cabal that was crafting America’s servitude. With the assistance of Heaven, they decided to fight those forces. Pastors fought with fiery sermons from the pulpit; newsmen fought with the power of the pen; statesmen fought in the halls of Congress; and merchants fought with the sacrifice of their material gain. Together, they lifted Lady Liberty to her feet and defeated the powers of darkness.

It took the global elite a long time to recover, but they have reemerged with a vengeance. They are now on the precipice of accomplishing what their great granddaddies failed to do: bring the “Liberty or Death” colonists under their power and control.

Sadly, we no longer have the will to resist servitude. Our pulpits are too busy preaching a prosperity gospel; newsmen are in bed with the forces they once disdained; statesmen have been replaced with opportunistic, self-serving politicians; and merchants know no god but money. Hence, it is left to a small–and I mean very small–remnant to sound the clarion call for freedom and independence. Unfortunately, few seem to be listening to their cries.

2010 seems to be a banner year for these designers of despotism. That is the target year for the implementation of the North American Community, which will commercially unite the United States with Canada and Mexico. The global elite suffered a minor setback when the U.S. Senate failed to pass the Bush/McCain/Kennedy/Graham amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill. But if you think that John Mccain is going to let that bill lie on the floor of defeat, you don’t understand these people. Should McCain become President, He will do everything he can to implement some kind of amnesty law. Barack Obama will do the same. The reason? It is essential to the designers of despotism that our borders be eliminated.

Yes, I am saying it: George W. Bush, John McCain, and Barack Obama are part of the global elite that seeks America’s entrance into an international New World Order. In fact, neither Presidential candidate from the two major parties will offer any resistance to this obstinate and oppressive oligarchy.

Perhaps one day the American people will wake up and realize that they are being led as sheep to the slaughter. I’m just not sure that it will be soon enough, however. 2010 is just around the corner.

There seems to be only one obstacle standing in the way of the globalists: America’s citizens are the most heavily armed people in the world. That fact must surely stick in the throats of the globalists like a chicken bone.

Thank God that America’s founders put the Second Amendment in the Constitution. Without America’s deep-rooted commitment to the right of the people to keep and bear arms, we would have been sold into slavery decades ago.

Without the intellectual understanding of the principles of freedom and the moral resolve to maintain those principles, however, guns, by themselves, will only protect us for so long. In the end, our strength and protection come from God, and not too many people these days seem to be interested in His opinion.

Lady Liberty is walking very gingerly these days, and the path she treads is laden with traps and quicksand. The globalists have their handpicked puppets positioned to take up where The Three Amigos (George Bush I, Bill Clinton, and George Bush II) have left off. The pieces of the puzzle are almost all in place. 2010 just might be the year that Lady Liberty lowers her torch, folds her arms, and falls fast asleep.

For what it is worth, however, I pledge no loyalty to this emerging New World Order. Neither will I let Lady Liberty die without a fight. I will say it again: the battle today is not between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats. It is a battle between Americans and globalists. And, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am an American!

Kudos go to Oklahoma Legislators as they pass Joint House Resolution 1089 by an overwhelming 92-3.  The resolution states, "The State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States."

I have written my state representatives, Representative Charlie Howard and Senator Kyle Janek, and expressing my support of such a resolution for the Great State of Texas.  I have put my federal representatives, Representative Nick Lampson, Senator Kay Baily-Hutchison and John Cornyn, on notice that I support such a resolution as it appears to me those in Washington D.C. have forgotten The Constitution of the United States and the authorities and limitations there contained which they have solemnly sworn to uphold.

Why don't you do the same?

Remember Gonzales!

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Obama tells black fathers to engage their children

Jun 15, 3:31 PM (ET)

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS

CHICAGO (AP) - Barack Obama celebrated Father's Day by calling on black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes," to become active in raising their children.

"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it," the Democratic presidential candidate said Sunday at a largely black church in his hometown.

Reminding the congregation of his firsthand experience growing up without a father, Obama said he was lucky to have loving grandparents who helped his mother. He got support, second chances and scholarships that helped him get an education. Obama's father left when he was 2.

"A lot of children don't get those chances. There is no margin for error in their lives," said Obama, an Illinois senator.

"I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls," added Obama, whose daughters, Sasha and Malia, and his wife, Michelle, watched from the audience.

Accessed from http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080615/D91AMTT00.h
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Yes, Senator Obama, all fathers should step up to their responsibilities to their offspring.  I include all fathers of all colors and creeds.  I include all offspring from conception to death.

The first responsibility of a father is to love the mother of his children unconditionally. 

Are we still in agreement?

Mr. Santos, I cannot reply directly to your post and I notice I am not the only one with this problem; you might check your reply settings to encourage response.

My response to your post "Ignorant America."

Could be I misunderstand your intention.  I find no where in the Constitution of the U.S. any statement of this being a Christian establishment.  While I believe the founding fathers had great faith in God, and many were Christian, great effort was placed on freedom of thought.  This freedom reflects Christ and the freedoms granted by God.  Choice is the manner of expression of freedom.  As with many human institutions, founding philosophies are diluted as generations pass.

Is this country hypocritical?  Could be.  

I find this free country not unlike the free human, ever seeking its greatest potential.  I find this country developing as a youth.  Rebellion occurs as adolescents seek to become individuals.  This can be a hypocritical moment as the child rejects the ideals of the parents and the very ideals which gave them the station in life to rebel. 

Freedom is a delicate balance of liberties and responsibilities.  It is ever in jeopardy whilst we debate the meets and bounds of freedoms of thought, expression and behavior.  This juggling has occurred since the inception of man’s awakening to the realities of “good and evil.” I am free to do all things yet not all things are beneficial.

Certainly, in non-free society there appears less hypocrisy as individual growth is not allowed.  There can be no independent thought, no dissention and therefore no hypocrisy.  Here we find “true” hypocrisy of “do as I say and not as I do.”

Hypocrisy is often in the eye of the beholder.

Here is a thought for you.  If we elect a leader that will force “universal” health care out of our pocket books will we find that Katrina will hit our health.

Can you imagine healthcare brought to you by the same people that manage the ferderal budget, the IRS, FEMA and preveously the Post Office?

With FEMA managed healthcare you will need to be prepared to care for yourself for the first 72 years as the federal government is not in the business of first response.

Why do we forget so quickly?  How can we not see that government is one of the greatest examples of mis-management in history?

Did you notice that healthcare programs do not decrease the cost of healthcare but rather increase those covered costs? Have you never been asked if you are insured to find that there are two costs for a procedure with the uninsured cost being cheaper?

Did you notice that uncovered elective procedures become cheaper every year yet covered health costs increase? Have you ever asked yourself why? Think free market and free enterprise. Accountability to the consumer is the reason and government accountability is an oxymoron.

Please do not vote for government sponsored healthcare; I cannot afford it.