A Letter to any Candidate who hasn't Taken the 9/12 Pledge

The following letter was written to Dr. Joe Heck (Heck4Nevada on Twitter) to urge him to sign the 9/12 Candidates Pledge and commit to being more than a RINO. Feel free to use it to send to your own candidates as they start to emerge for the 2010 elections.

Dear Dr. Heck, Several times I have asked you, via Twitter, if you were willing to support the 9/12 movement and sign the 9/12 Candidates Pledge. Considering the limitations of Twitter, I am now asking you via this medium. The 9/12 pledge is very simple: there are 9 principles and 12 values that a candidate might pledge to uphold. Many candidates, deciding that we've had enough of "more of the same", have taken the pledge and are being endorsed more readily on radio and TV then their counterparts who are afraid to. Dr. Heck, I believe you are a good person and a good candidate to defeat Dina Titus; however, if you will not take the bold stance of pledging to stand by your word it will be impossible to support you and I will work towards finding a candidate who will be the Right candidate, not the Sort-of Right candidate. Please consider my words carefully. I have many local contacts who are following the 9/12 movement closely. Do not be a RINO - we will not let more of the same continue.

Respectfully,

John Galt

Insight into the Minds of Liberals

Michael Savage has said that "liberalism is a mental disorder" and has even written a book titled the same. I thought that was an intriguing title, designed to sell books.

I've read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand many times, beginning first when I was 17. It changed my life and created a foundation of Objectivism on which I've based my existence. I don't think I've ever really believed that the looters (villains) of the story were actually based on real-world characters. How could they be? They are over-the-top! There's no way anyone can be THAT insane without being...well...insane.

And then, in a fit of boredom, I decided to see what the liberals on Twitter had to say about themselves. I give you the Mind of the Liberal:

• Liberal-Mother of 2-Animal rights-Politics-Marriage equality-Legalize marijuana-Coffee-Save the planet-Polar Bears-Healthcare 4 all!
  
  
• Progressive, Pantheist, Pro-Choice, Sex-Positive EcoFem. Loves LGBTI Rights, Leglzng Drugs, Nonviolence, Anti-Racism, Justc & Eqlty 4 All
  
  
• I'm 42, bisexual/queer, and happily childless. I'm a Mental Health Advocate, Progressive Political Activist, and Marketing Specialist
  
  
• Progressive always hoping that people will care for each other and the earth more
  
  
• Writer, blogger, vegan abolitionist, therapist, advocate for animals, human rights, earth, art and music

Not being able to keep my opinions to myself, the commentary began:

• Writer, geek, godless liberal. // short, sweet...still an idiot
  
  
• Son is a Gitmo attorney seeking to spread truth and find justice for Fayiz Al-Kandari who is being held without charges in Gitmo. // nice. mommy of a war criminal who will probably get off because we didn't read him his Miranda rights on the battlefield. I'm sure Hitler's mommy was proud, too.
  
  
• YES WE CAN, We're Fired Up and Ready To Go!!! // I'm sure your fearless leader would give you a big SHOUT OUT, too. Jerk.
  
  
• Smart Girl // still trying to convince herself, I guess
  
  
• take'n road even less traveled than that one, it's where the gold is // WTF does that mean?

At this point I decided to start grading the posts, ala maddox and his grading of school-children's artwork. My maturity level regressed at this point and isn't much better than maddox's. But hey, it's all in fun, right?

• Key-Note Speaker/Rainmakerologist // "rainmakerologist? ummm...F for Failologist
  
  
• I'm a human potential developer with a serendipitous approach, a single-mompreneur w/a... gift of teaching L.O.V.E. with EFT and LOA. Make yours a sparkling day! // "Single mompreneur"? Is that another word for "unemployed." I'm going to have a seizure. F your sparkles
  
  
• Street Theater // F for having no courage to describe your true profession: unemployed puppeteer with fantasies of living in John Malcovich's body.
  
  
• Wanna play televangelist? If u know what I mean. // I have no idea what you mean, Oral Roberts; do tell! F for cryptic liberal bullshit.
  
  
• From the land of Minosaurs // Okay Barney. Go home. F
  
  
• Politics, social issues,and all around Winger assassin // F for not being able to write a complete a sentence
  
  
• ms. motivation: "not really" // A+ (not really...F!)
  
  
• The utopia we advocate is first created in the mind // I sense another seizure...F- for not being able to create a utopia through work and effort.
  
  
• Murdering fear mongering republicans since 1989 // That might be true if you were more than 15. F until you graduate 9th grade, then we'll talk.
  
  
• Law, social justice, nature, human & animal rights, arts, ecology, indie music & film. // we're all equal, yayyy. F
  
  
• 53 yr old Vet, Married, 5 kids. I block teabaggers faster than they can pull their heads out of their ASSSS!!!!!!!!!! // FFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
• Publish UK Progressive, social media change leader, freelance journalist, BBC and HuffPost contributor / You forgot F for FASCIST, fool
  
  
• Feminism: equality for all! // F to you Miss "I need someone to make rules for me because I really believe in the glass ceiling!"
  
  
• Liberal activist, professional webby, friend, wife, OFA'er, and Hopemonger. // "Hopemonger"? "OFA'er"? F for making up words that don't exist.
  
  
• And I give you barbiesnow - "Obama Rapid Responder: who Loves this Country and our wonderful President, living in a RED state is not easy, but we blues bloom where we are planted." // First of all, what is an "Obama Rapid Responder"? And when she says "planted" does she mean like a flower or a political plant?
  
  I gotta tell you, this last one truly put me over the edge. Are they really out there? Must be...and I'm sure, more to come.

Take Action to Defend a Legitimate Audit

The following letter is from the Audit The Fed Coalition. You can view their website @ www.auditthefed.com.

To follow this bill, go to www.opencongress.org.

Dear Supporter of Transparency,
On Tuesday, Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Bob Corker (R-TN) introduced "The Federal Reserve Accountability Act," an attempt to derail HR 1207/S 604 by passing a bill that prevents a full audit and full transparency from America's secretive central bank.
While language in this bill would permit a limited audit of the Fed's actions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and similar high profile bailouts, it would not allow an audit to review the Fed's inflation of the money supply or its agreements with foreign central banks, among other shortcomings.
Additionally, the names of the institutions who received the funds would not be available until one year after each "emergency" program ended, which is nowhere in sight.
Seventy-five percent of the American people, over two thirds of the House of Representatives, and over a quarter of the Senate support Ron Paul's Audit the Fed legislation.
With those historic levels of support, there is no excuse for settling for anything less than a full Audit the Fed bill. Anything less is merely an attempt to stop our efforts as we get closer to passage of a real bill.
Let your senators know you expect them to support the American people's demand for full transparency, not some watered down measure designed to stop a full audit!

11 Reasons Why the Elections in 2010 Will Be the Most Important in the History of the United States

1. What if I had told you in October 2008, before the last presidential election, that before Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, the federal government would be in control of both the mortgage and the banking industries? That 19 of America 's largest banks would be forced to undergo stress tests by the federal government which would determine if they were insufficiently capitalized, so they must be supervised by the government?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America ."

2. What if I had told you that within Barack Obama's first 100 days in office the federal government would be the largest shareholder in the US Big-Three automakers: GM, and Chrysler? That the government would kick out the CEO's of these companies and appoint hand-picked executives with zero experience in the auto industry and that executive compensation would be determined, not by a Board of Directors, but by the government?
Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

3. What if I had told you that Barack Obama would appoint 21 Czars, without congressional approval, accountable only to him, not to the voters, who would have control over a wide range of US policy decisions. That there would be a Stimulus Accountability Czar, an Urban Czar, a Compensation Czar, an Iran Czar, an Auto Industry Czar, a Cyber Security Czar, an Energy Czar, a Bank Bailout Czar, and more than a dozen other government bureaucrats with unchecked regulatory powers over US domestic and foreign policy.
Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

4. What if I had told you that the federal deficit would be $915 billion in the first six months of the Obama presidency - with a projected annual deficit of $1.75 trillion - triple the $454.8 billion in 2008, for which the previous administration was highly criticized by Obama and his fellow Democrats. That congress would pass Obama's $3.53 trillion federal budget for fiscal 2010... That the projected deficit over the next ten years would be greater than $10 trillion.
Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

5. What if I had told you that the Obama Justice Department would order FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high-value detainees captured on the battlefield and held at US military detention facilities in Afghanistan . That Obama would order the closing of the Guantanamo detention facility with no plan for the disposition of the 200-plus individuals held there. That several of the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo would be sent to live in freedom in Bermuda at the expense of the US government. That our returning US veterans would be labeled terrorists and put on a watch list.
Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

6. What if I had told you that the federal government would seek powers to seize key companies whose failures could jeopardize the financial system. That a new regulatory agency would be proposed by Obama to control loans, credit cards, mortgage-backed securities, and other financial products offered to the public.
Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!"

7. What if I had told you that Obama would travel to the Middle East, bow before the Saudi king, and repeatedly apologize for America 's past actions. That he would travel to Latin America where he would warmly greet Venezuela 's strongman Hugo Chavez and sit passively in the audience while Nicaraguan Marxist thug Daniel Ortega charged America with terrorist aggression in Central America .
Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!"

8. Okay, now what if I were to tell you that Obama wants to dismantle conservative talk radio through the imposition of a new "Fairness Doctrine." That he wants to curtail the First Amendment rights of those who may disagree with his policies via internet blogs, cable news networks, or advocacy ads. That most major network television and most newspapers will only sing his phrases like state-run media in communist countries?
Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!!"

9. What if I were to tell you that the Obama Justice Department is doing everything it can to limit your Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. That the federal government wants to reinstate the so-called assault weapons20ban which would prohibit the sale of any type of firearm that doesn't require the shooter to pull the trigger every time a round is fired. That Obama's Attorney General wants to eliminate the sale of virtually all handguns and ammunition, which most citizens choose for self-defense.
Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !!!"

10. What if I were to tell you that the Obama plan is to eliminate states rights guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment and give the federal government sweeping new powers over policies currently under the province of local and state governments and voted on by the people. That Obama plans to control the schools, energy production, the environment, health care, and the wealth of every US citizen.
Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America !"

11. What if I were to tell you that the president, the courts, and the federal government have ignored the US Constitution and have seized powers which the founders of our country fought to restrict. That our last presidential election may have been our last truly free election for some time to come.

I know, I know what you will say. "That will never happen in America !"

received in an email from a friend

Oath Keepers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx1_yo1i_eg

OATH KEEPERS is an association of Military, Veterans, and peace officers who will honor their oaths to defend the Constitution, will NOT just follow orders, will stand for liberty, and will save the Republic, so help us God. Our motto is:

"Not on Our Watch!"

SUMMARY LIST OF ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY:

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control.

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Read the full declaration at http://oathkeepers.org