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Saturday, November 30, 2013

A concerned patriot calls for 'withdrawal of consent'

The U.S. government is increasingly showing its deep-set, abiding fear of free citizens who are armed. This fear is expressed in the paranoia that is noted on a continuing basis in the halls of federal and state governments, which seek to rob citizens of their firearms and restrict their ability to live in liberty.
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Why you likely won't keep your doctor under Obamacare

One of the reasons medical care in the United States has been so successful is that the system has a long history of guarding the sacred relationship between patients and doctors. Doctors were integral members of the community who knew and intermingled with their patients and their families.

A sacred trust was built wherein a community respected and depended upon the local doctor who would provide needed care any time they needed it, day or night. The doctors knew their communities and residents so well that they were driven to give freely of their time, effort, and expertise. They cared for these people. They were like part of the family.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Thanksgiving, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving to my much-appreciated friends and readers.

I wish I could say that Thanksgiving this year is a happy one for the country and for us as individual citizens, but I cannot. That would be a lie.

While I have much to be thankful for, this year there is very little to have any gratitude about when it comes to the nation. We have been bombarded with one of the worst attacks on our liberties since our founding.

Our freedom to make our own choices about our own healthcare has been severely restricted. Our freedom to self-defense with firearms is being attacked as never before. Our freedom to private property has been restricted by an EPA that takes the attitude that they have ultimate authority over your own houses and lands, implementing edicts, orders, and regulations that were never approved by our elected representatives. Our freedom to live in a land where there are no dictators who are unaccountable has been extremely hampered by a president and an executive branch, and a Supreme Court, that thinks they are above the law. Obama rules by executive fiat, executive orders that were never intended by our Framers to be used as a substitute for actions of the legislative branch of government.

Criminal behavior on the part of government officials has been rewarded. Cold blooded murder has been excused in the Fast and Furious fiasco and the Benghazi debacle.

So no, I am NOT thankful to my country this year. I am ashamed it has taken a turn toward tyranny. A few more years of this, and we will be where Castro took Cuba, where Chairman Mao took China, and where Hitler took Germany.

But I AM thankful for what few freedoms we have left. I am thankful for patriots who realize that the country is not synonymous with those who occupy its government. I deplore Obama and the leadership in Congress, and the Supreme Court. This does not mean I do not love my country. I love my country as it was intended to be by our Framers. What we now have is a rogue government that routinely engages in illegal behavior. It is increasingly dangerous to any citizen who wishes to live free.

I am thankful to God for His ultimate power and authority. That no government is to be obeyed if that obedience requires us to disobey HIS principles, which begin with freedom. Jesus said, "If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." Think about ALL of the ramifications of that statement spiritually, psychologically, socially, and politically. Any government or entity that seeks to enslave human beings and remove their rights, their freedoms, etc, is rebelling against God Himself, who intended that ALL of his creation be FREE. That makes the current purveyors of more and more gov't restrictions and limitations on our rights are PURE EVIL. I am not thankful for a single one of them.

But I AM thankful for our heritage, for a time when America as a whole had some rationality and intelligence rather than the current brainwashed bilge that permeates the country. I am thankful that patriots will stand firm against tyranny no matter who or what seeks to spread it.

And I am thankful for my Mother, God rest her soul, for all she taught me, my grandparents, great-grandparents, and others in my family. And I am thankful that even at my age, I still have my Dad.

This only scratches the surface, but these are the things that are on my mind this Thanksgiving. I do hope your Thanksgiving is a meaningful one as you meditate on important matters. Our future as a country depends on it.

Visit my ministry site for a very brief meditation on Thanksgiving.

Anti-gun politician resigns abruptly: the good news and the bad news

It's over. In a flash, just like that, an anti-gun politician who was facing a recall election sent a letter today stating that she was resigning from her seat. She did not even attend a scheduled news conference that she herself had called to address the recall election.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

White House knew Obamacare is but a scheme months prior to approval by Congress

In another major revelation that poses a serious setback for the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress, sources that are verified and identified by journalists have admitted that months prior to its passage by Congress, the White House and others knew that the Obamacare law was but a scheme.
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It's music time!

I will be sending you all a special Thanksgiving greeting and a brief message either Wednesday or Thursday. But I thought I would give you a special gift as well.

This really has nothing at all to do with Thanksgiving, other than to let our hearts be filled with gratitude for great music that thrills us, soothes us, captures our emotions, and draws forth from us the deepest feelings we all share as human beings.

Tchaikovsky is known for writing some of the finest music the world has ever known. He is no doubt known best for his widely-acclaimed 1812 Overture, which has been performed perhaps by every known orchestra and ensemble in the world.

But Tchaikovsky wrote a lot of wonderful music. An example is Romeo and Juliette.

This is the overture from the piece, and it lasts roughly 20 minutes. But if you will do me a favor and allow yourself some down time to just sit and listen, and watch, I think you may discover why I consider this piece to be a gift. I take it as a gift to me. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

I know, I say that about all of the pieces I post here. But that is my intent -- to post only the best of the best, the music that moves me and captivates me. This is one of them on my list.

Here you will see Eugene Ormandy conduct the piece at the age of 80 in 1979. This would be one of his last performances as conductor and music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1980 he would step down and become "Conductor Laureate" due to a health condition that began to dog him increasingly as he got older. He had already hand picked his successor to take over when he felt he needed to step down.

But as you will see here, the Maestro was still in complete control, conducting the music from memory, and still able to pull out of the musicians the finest sounds you will ever hear from a symphony orchestra. He could be very calm and tenderly emotional while at the same time quickly changing to a vigorous, focused, dramatic, and highly charged man on a mission to draw out from his musicians the high-volume crescendos and fortes, and fortissimos, with an intensity that was not to be outmatched by any orchestra on earth.

This piece also showcases what the Philadelphia Orchestra was known for -- the glorious strings, woodwinds, flutes, French horns, English horns, and even when the brass section was at the forefront, they played with a finesse and tone that was distinctive in its quality, and easy on the ears. And everything fit together as if these particular musicians were meant to be, that they had somehow been destined to play together in order to produce that sound. And it was Ormandy who chose them. He had hired every one of them by the late 1960s and beyond.

Don't let the intro fool you though. At roughly 4 minutes and 15 seconds, and again at 5 minutes and 30 seconds into the piece, the mood changes quickly, and the music comes alive with the two main themes of Tchaikovsky's wonderful work...and everything builds up to a dramatic finish, with Ormandy displaying his characteristic vigor, his hands shaking to indicate he wants more volume, and a slight frown and clinched teeth to indicate he wants it played to the hilt. And they hit it out of the ballpark. Enjoy...

Monday, November 25, 2013

DOJ refuses to turn over documents in new lawsuit

The Examiner has learned that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has once again  engaged in one of its familiar tactics in response to various lawsuits brought against it -- the refusal to turn over documents that are considered key evidence.

The lawsuit was filed by the top technology corporations in the nation, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and Linkedin, which are seeking the legal right to make public the number of requests they receive from the NSA and the FISA court to turn over private information, along with the number of citizens who are impacted by these requests.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Top communication corporations help super-secret agency spy on Americans

Excerpt:
But law enforcement officials told FP that there is a top secret liaison organization that falls within the organizational structure of the FBI. It is called the Data Intercept Technology Unit, or DITU. This agency is charged with the task of domestic spying on citizens and clandestine data collection.

DITU works directly with the top U.S. communications corporations, such as Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint, along with the nation's top technology companies -- such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Apple -- to gather information on multimillions of Americans.

This is how the big communications and technology corporations can get away with telling their customers that they do not send their personal, private information to the NSA. That information is instead sent to directly to DITU, which then funnels the information to its umbrella organization, the FBI, and then the NSA.
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