A Bit Of Me

QUOTE
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK
American Poet
1990-2004
A Bit of Me

The walk I took on Tuesday
Having may have been my last
Became a part of history
A figment of my past

The conversation with my mom
Though it was somewhat contrary
Will remain a piece of one day
Though it was quite ordinary

The poems I wrote the past few days
Might not mean much to most
But it is a part of me now
If that's all that I can boast

The love I've known still lingers
The hate I try to shed
As each day becomes my vivid past
When I retire to my bed

Marian
July 28, 2011

Who I Remember

I choose to remember the freckled face Little Leaguer & Cub Scout and not what became of him...
~~
QUOTE
SEEING PEOPLE CHANGE ISN'T WHAT HURTS. WHAT HURTS IS REMEMBERING WHAT THEY USED TO BE.
~Author Unknown~
Who I Remember
　
Squeaky wheels on a little trike
They never get the grease
Inward cries of the tortured types
Their pain will never ease
　
Freckled face and giddy smiles
Of the one I used to know
After years and many miles
Where did he ever go?
　
Little soldiers and simple games
Occupied his hours
Now alcohol and drugs of pain
Had his weak will overpowered
　
The man is gone, life took its toll
His soul he had to sell
The young man with such simple goals
Is who I'd rather remember well
　
His grave and marker are far away
But his memory with me is fresh
I see him in the better days
And in peace I hope he rests
　
Marian
July 29, 2011
Remembering my brother,
Donald Philip Dixon II
March 25, 1952-July 29, 2002

Don't Die With Sins Hanging Over Your Head

Don't Die With Sins Hanging Over Your Head

Put your life in order, you must
Make right the deeds that will tarnish your memory
Death may come before you've proven the trust
It is something that will live on for thee


They will mourn you for awhile, you see
Nothing you did will surface that day
But after you're buried under that prying tree
It will sit in judgement as in death you will pay


When your cold body has turned to dust
How you regarded people who befriended you
It will surface that you betrayed their trust
And manipulated through friendship what was never true


The mourners will have walked away
Your memory will fade in their hearts and minds
But the people you betrayed are here to stay
It is harder to forget the sins in time


Whispering voices tell of things you'd done
Of the ways you found to manipulate
Loving memories will come to none
And once adoring people shall not mourn your fate


Don't die with sins hanging over your head
You never know when the reaper is creeping
Make right the sins before you're dead
So for eternity you are not alone and sleeping


Marian
July 30, 2011

You Called Yourself A Friend

You Called Yourself A Friend?

Those smiles seemed so real
Now I am left with wounds that refuse to heal
Your friendship seemed so genuine
What was it about you that drew me in?

I had little to share, but I did
While your lying side remained well hid
My heart was open to the taking
How was I to know what you were faking

You are the lucky one to have left behind
The remnants of your devious mind
I am here to mourn the loss of a friend
And accept what you did, I'll never mend

Maybe it is true all sins are forgotten
But even when the deeds were oh so rotten?
It is accpetable to hurt your enemy
But to hurt a friend as you did to me?

Sadness is revealed in many ways
It comes in anger on some dreary days
I have to live with how I feel for awhile
Now you've moved on in Heavenly style

Marian
July 30, 2011

Broken Trust

Broken Trust

Death brings sadness and reverence
And temporaily all sins are forgotten
Though the life was filled with inconsistancy
Their heart not being one we would fully see

Decietful deeds of the past get buried that day
Those cheated must accept it as being that way
It is impossible to fight an onward spirit
When those who loved her refuse to hear it

Now stuck with pieces of a shattered life
I am left behid to deal with the strife
And what is due me is forever lost
Blind friendship is how I paid the cost

Left now are me and my suspicious mind
A once open heart, only good to find
But you can not fight the one who lied
She escaped it all the day she died

Marian
July 30, 2011

Collection of My Patriotic Poems Part One

QUOTE
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit and INTELLIGENCE of the citizens.
Joseph Story
1779-1845

Apathy's Door

Where has all the virtue gone
Since our Founders had their say?
Has it really, actually been that long
When Patriots owned the day?

Where is all the spirit now
To hold our country above all else?
Are we locked up in the lack of wow
With interest only in ourselves?

Where has all our knowledge been
Since the days they fought and prayed?
For the liberty that had come to them
In the Republic they had made?

Have we failed now our children
And sold their futures short?
Are we discouraged now in building
And have decided to abort?

Where is our Republic now?
Have we lost it forever more?
Is our spirit and our know how
Been checked at apathy's door?

Marian
May 28, 2011

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we should never choose, and that path is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy
Ask Not
　
Ask not that we shall surrender
The freedom and spirit in our souls
T'was a gift from early countrymen
And the liberty that they chose
　
Ask not that we submit to forces
That polarize our ideals
Just because they subsidize our lives
With welfare and free meals
　
Ask not to become menial people
Whose hopes and dreams are dashed
Just because there were dishonest men
Who made our economy crash
　
Ask not that we trust our unions
Who grew rich from our sweating brow
To use their cash to influence our lives
Through the politicians they own now
　
Ask not that those who made us strong
Sacrifice their own stability
To let those who seek a hand out
Won't work to their ability
　
Ask not that government props us up
Please leave that to our faith
For we are a charitable people
That is what made this country great
　
Ask not, our elected leaders
How to entagle and regulate
Because now it's We The People
Who have cause to speculate
　
No longer will the people
Look away as laws are made
Because our elected people
Have failed to make the grade
　
Marian
December 22, 2010


THE PEOPLE are the masters of both congress and the courts, not to OVERTHROW the constitution, but to overthrow the MEN WHO PERVERT IT

Abe Lincoln


Congress


Come ye people to see
This is congress, it works for me
It is for your bidding it exists
If they seek more power we must resist


When you see laws mangled to advance a cause
It is then The People must take pause
They must keep the congress always in line
It is up to The People, the laws we define


Come ye people and understand
Congress is there at our command
You are the keepers of this institution
To uphold our sacred Constitution


Marian
December 2, 2010

QUOTE
YIPPIES, HIPPIES, YAHOOS, BLACK PANTHERS, LIONS AND TIGERS ALIKE...I WOULD SWAP THE WHOLE DAMN ZOO FOR THE KIND OF YOUNG AMERICANS I SAW IN VIETNAM.
~Spiro Agnew
1918-1996
　
Dressed For War
Agree
Disagree
But you have to support them
Open your hearts
Don't desert them
　
Love
Hate
Conscientiously Object
They are the targets sticking out their necks
　
Support the wars
Loathe them
They'd rather be home
Than in bunkers alone
　
Camouflage
Dress blues
Green fatigues
Or sand tan
They are there for the women
Children and man
　
Understand them
Don't abandon them
They could have been you
Would you have gone?
Coming home are too few.
　
Marian
March 2, 2011


QUOTE

REMEMBER UPON THE CONDUCT OF EACH DEPENDS THE FATE OF ALL.

Alexander the Great

356 BC-323 BC

Earning Our Republic


It comes right along with freedom
Our responsibility
In fact the ultimate fate we face
Is our accountability


Liberty doesn't come easy
It's for all of us to bear
It takes us all to pull together
A majority to care


When outside influence infiltrates
We all must answer the call
It's the threat of losing our freedom
That pertains to one and all


We'll live and pursue our happiness
But when it comes to one demand
When it comes down to our liberty
We all must take a stand


In a free society
We can take, but we must give
Take heart that with our founders' gift
We must earn the life we live


Marian
January 27, 2011


QUOTE
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Edwin Markham
AMERICAN POET ( I seem to love the Poets and the Greeks Philosophers!)
1852-1940 (born in Oregon City, Oregon) Lived most of his life in Stanton Island, NY.
　
Finding the Ties That Bind
　
Let not the turmoil be the root of your power
Like a cyclone tearing against the sky
Let not wrath design your finest hour
Don't let rage be what drives your high
　
Be the calm that attracts a world of hope
So the people around you live free
Of senseless acts of violence
That derails our harmony
　
Let patience and love be a stepping stone
Put your guns and knives away
React in peace and dignified discussion
To hold the civil wars at bay

Let God be the center of your calm
And the pillar to brace your soul
Be the lamb that eats from upon his palm
For he's the spirit to help love grow
　
Find common causes in which to build
Set the differences aside for awhile
Then you'll come to know what other hearts yield
And you'll hand in hand walk that peaceful mile
Marian
February 1, 2011

"We have a natural right to make use of our pens, of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard."
Voltaire
Getting Back To Basics
　
When speaking of inalienable rights
Under the God of our own choosing
It never meant we bow to governments
One by one, our rights we're loosing
　
We were meant to be a republic
A nation of equal man
Laws were to protects our rights to be
All that we hope and can
　
Our government was never meant to bind,
Stifle, or restrain us
It was always meant to be our crutch
And never to refrain us
　
We can write the words of freedom
And shout liberty for ever more
Without fear of retribution
Or of lawmen at our door
　
As long as we are honorable
And can follow simple laws
Meant only to protect us
From others of evil cause　

Throw out the restrictive amendments
Restore our national trust
Let regulations that bind us
Be ashes in the dust
　
Re-read the words of our foundation
Don't re-write our Constitution
For if your hearts are for freedom pure
Our hope's our contribution
　
Marian
December 22, 2010

QUOTE
I am the people, the mob, the crowd, the mass. Do you know that all great work of the world is done through me?
Carl Sandburg
1878-1967
American Writer, Editor & Poet
It's Me
　
I am The People of this great land
I love my liberty, please understand
We are free to gather near and far
This country is who The People are
　
I am the mob that comes to gather
To have my say, work up a lather
When the mobs are present with their signs
This mob is me, for yours and mine
　
The greatness done throughout this land
Is done through me, we're hand in hand
We were built from scratch fueled by patriot blood
We're all flowers grown, an American bud
　
I am the crowd on election day
Free to vote the American way
We're all we know and who we'll be
I am the American and you are me.
　
Marian
March 7, 2011


I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
February 22,1861 @ Independence Hall.

Look To Abe

He revered the Declaration of Independence
As his political Bible
And all that he stood for
Was his country and its survival

He stood tall above his people
But it was on level ground
Freedom for all was his one true hope
In his Presidency it was found

He was a man who should be looked to
As our country begins to crumble
As The People blame each other
In ideology they rumble

Please look to Abe for guidence
He respected his fellow man
The Declaration of Independence
Held tightly in his hand

Marian
May 17, 2011


Abe Lincoln...a rare quote...

"Lets have faith that right makes might; and that faith lets us, to the end, dare do our duty as we understand it."

Our Duty

A husband has a duty
To be faithful to his wife
A mother's duty to her children
She has for all her life


A soldier does his duty
To protect us how he can
It is the duty of everyone
To have faith in fellow man


A country has a duty
To represent us to what end
They must uphold our laws
And be there to defend


If we understand our duty
Then we'll realize our cause
And hope that our morality
Is free from major flaws


Marian
December 17, 2010

QUOTE

The essential characteristics of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West from the age of the Greek polis down to the present day resistance to socialism is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachment of the office holder.

Ludwig Von Mises

1881-1973


Our Paper


Back in the days of Jefferson
And all the Fathers who wrote
Our beloved Constitution
And stood for freedom's vote


They stood to set the west apart
From a kingdom's stifling rule
And where best do our founders start
But to write this crowning jewel


It has thrived in our best interest
Putting liberty to the test
Stood clearly for its inference
There has been no need to guess


There are those who try to rewrite it
For more power they explore
But Patriots stand to decry it
It's ours for evermore


Marian
January 12, 2011

QUOTE

The essential characteristics of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West from the age of the Greek polis down to the present day resistance to socialism is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachment of the office holder.

Ludwig Von Mises

1881-1973


Our Paper


Back in the days of Jefferson
And all the Fathers who wrote
Our beloved Constitution
And stood for freedom's vote


They stood to set the west apart
From a kingdom's stifling rule
And where best do our founders start
But to write this crowning jewel


It has thrived in our best interest
Putting liberty to the test
Stood clearly for its inference
There has been no need to guess


There are those who try to rewrite it
For more power they explore
But Patriots stand to decry it
It's ours for evermore


Marian
January 12, 2011

from Daniel Webster...
　
"The contest for the ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power"
　
Storytime
　
Once upon a time there was
Freedom and that is because
Of what the faithful citizen does
In respect to not annoy the fuzz
　
Laws were to protect us from
Being the vicims of just anyone
We are allowed to own a gun
For protection or just target fun
　
Crooks that failed to step in line
Got jail or perhaps a fine
We're allowed to keep what's yours and mine
And post a private property sign
　
Then comes the progressives with their laws
To use the taxes as their claws
They succeeded and that was because
We failed to act like a patriot does
　
Little Red Riding hood looked away
And took the shortcut on that day
The big bad wolf then had his say
And feasted on a grand fillet
　
The legislators have set retrictions
On folks who never gave them friction
They subsize the ones with true addictions
Who working is their last intention
　
Then came the patriots on their horses
With a steadfast aim to set new courses
Get our reps from more honorable sources
No longer shall we have remorses
　
Amid the free and spirited laughter
The Americans lived for ever after
　
Marian
December 22, 2010

QUOTE

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists---to protect them and to promote their common welfare, all else is lost.

Barack Obama


Tell Me Your Plans


How does this president interpret the role
His Government was created to play?
It was not in place to save every soul
Micromanage their every waking day


It exists to protect us but not to neglect us
The People who contribute their part
It is not to enable those not willing to work
Who have taken entitlements to an art


It was meant to represent us, our will to proceed
Not to regulate our every waking hour
It was not to endebt us, and totally bind us
To the maximum of their taxable power


Dear Mr. Obama, I ask you this question
In all of my sincerity
Is it your idea that your hope for transformation
Is to collapse our capitalists society?


Do you want us encumbered, liberties now numbered
Like birds in a nest waiting to be fed?
Is you social justice that you want thrust upon us
Based on entitlements from birth til we're dead?


Do you see The Constituion as an ancient paper
Not worth the ink it was written?
Or will you as President continue to honor it
Along with the reps on The Hill that are sittin'?


Do you see us beholding to Chinese intervention
As our debt will continue to climb?
Do you see this country as yours and forgetting
It is also supposed to be mine?


Marian
May 19, 2011

QUOTE
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be unsupportable.
Samuel Johnson
　
The Comfort of Our Success
　
I have known the comfort of freedom
I have treasured it as well
Without this comfort, in poverty
I may have descended to hell
　
I have known the feeling of sickness
And liberty has cured my ills
For the freedom to choose my doctors
Is a comfort to me still
　
I have witnessed those in captivity
The innocents that should never be
But have comfort that in our society
We have possessed the right to be free
　
If misery shall befall our people
Our unalienable rights would prevail
We'll recover with the comfort in knowing
Our Republic is not one to fail
　
Marian
May 28, 2011


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of their life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

We Shall Survive


In the wake of terror we shuddered
Became victims to their murderous desires
But then their most hideous step had been taken
It renewed our patriotic fires


They shall never again cause our silence
And try to define our lives as their own
We have risen as a united nation
Their agendas like our buildings are blown


All we Americans have most in common
Is our will to live and thrive
At the cost of terrorists lives we'll continue
As a republic to survive


Marian
May 15, 2011

The next quote is also from Abe:
QUOTE
I have understood well that the duty of SELF PRESERVATION rests SOLELY with the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
January 19, 1863, from a letter to Working men of England.

What It Will Take

It will not be the politicians
It will not be the money
It will never be none other
Than The People for this country to survive

We will flounder as a country
If we remain at odds
It will take all The People
For this country to thrive

Marian
May 17, 2011


"It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each others pockets and somehow get rich."
Paul Harvey
Where?
　
Do you understand the class wars?
Are you privy to the cause?
I blame the politicians.
Who we trust to make our laws.
　
Are they in DC to serve us
Or line their pockets with gold?
Why do we sit so timidly
And refuse to question bold
　
Who has given others permission
To intrude into our savings
Whenever they have overspent
Or have come to have new cravings?
　
Who started this game of round table
Where you need no winning hand
To take the money from the pot
Just at someones rude demand
　
Where has the pride of accomplishment gone?
Why don't the people learn
That what a man's entitled to
Is the dollars he will earn?
　
Where has our view of Government gone
From when they would uphold the Constitution
They've grown to have more power
Than before the Revolution
　
Where will We The People stand
Over taxed and under control?
Where have all the Patriots gone
Who made this country whole?
　
Marian
May 2, 2011

QUOTE

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Mark Twain

Whose Who


Life is a party with costumes galore
Yesterday was tomorrow, once before
Confusion and indecison are the thought of the day
Everyone is insisting they will have their way


Breads are buttered on that side or this
Each way you turn it, it's about your own bliss
Some will like coffee, others like tea
Some will exist just pretending to be


There are good guys and bad guys, we all know it's true
Who is to say if it's that one or you?
Guns can be evil in the hands of the bad
There are people in asylums who aren't really mad


Patriots and traitors are living next door
In each row of houses there is always one more
Who fits the profile, you really can't see
Until that thief has taken what made us all free


Marian
March 30, 2011

Collection of My Political Poems Part One

"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than what we are free NOT to do."
Eric Hoffer 1902-1983
2008-2012 The Odyssey
　
It is a system of positive policies
Not supposed to be regulations galore
But politicians with agendas
Have more laws they are looking for
　
Taxes upon taxes are required
By a Republic now a caricature
Regulations upon regulations
How much more can patriots endure?
　
A simple thirteen pages
Meant to guide us through our lives
Now mountains of papers, not ever read
Have let our policies easy to despise
　
Tax laws bent and shaped in time
To favor some more than others
Success is rewarded with penalties
Twas not the wishes of our forefathers
　
Elections fixed by billionaires
A quest to feed their greed for power
It's no wonder We The People's taste
For our government has turned sour
　
Elected officials on golden strings
Held by a billionaire puppeteer
Have undermined our liberty
We are losing it, I fear
　
Unions strangling our economy
Manufacturers fleeing for capital gains
Why civil workers get higher benefits
Could someone please explain?
　
Pork for special interest groups
Bailouts for companies failing
While folks are fighting to save their homes
Amid white water they are flailing
　
Wars are fought half-heartedly
The generals have their hands tied
As we feed and clothe the enemies
Shooting from the other side
　
State side terror is increasing
Planes and buildings are no longer safe
Yet we stand on political correctness
Condoning the violent Jihad faith
　
DC is suing the states for laws
They have made to protect their own
As millions of illegals rip their economies
And it's obviously known
　
No reason should we profile
For feelings it may scar
Our police are labeled racist
If they stop an Hispanics car
　
Farmers on the borders
Are murdered by the thugs
Coming to our country
In the hope of selling their drugs
　
It took billions of good Americans
To elect our President was not hard
But if anyone questions his policies
They play the old race card
　
This poem could go on forever
Naming the mountains we've been asked to move
But if we asked for policies to be granted
The Administration would never approve
　
Marian
February 28, 2011


Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will to action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon
Apathy and Acceptance
　
Turn your back, release your mind
From any turmoil borne in time
Evil is as evil does
It's not your problem "just because!"
　
An apathetic soul can let you know
Why all this agony will come and go
It's here, there's nothing that can be done
Behind the strength of anyone
　
Let apathy control your journey
It'll drown out your righteous fury
They will meet in basements and complain
In contempteous groups they will remain
　
Never will there be a hero
Hope for revitalization zero
Apathetics hold no charm
Too frozen in now to even twist your arm
　
Acceptance Is an enemy
To anyone who had hoped would be
What happens now, had happened then
Just accept the fact we never win
　
Passed laws are loathed and critisized
Dirty politicans are most despised
Can acceptance be the fatal stake
Impaled into changes we refuse to make?
　
Marian
April 2, 2011

Hadith Al Bohkari vol 9:57 "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, KILL HIM."
From Surg 5:51 Koran "O ye believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors to each other. And he among you that turns to them for friendship is of them. This friendship makes ANY Muslim an enemy of their own and deserving the same fate as the unbeliever. This is because God (Allah) does not guide unjust people.
Mohammed said, "I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, none has the right to be worshipped but Allah. (Bukhari vol 4:196)
a quote from one of the leaders of the Taliban...
"Those youths who did what they did destroyed America with their airplanes, they have done a good deed. There are thousands of youth who look forward to death like the Americans look forward to living."
　
At Allah's Direction?
　
How can they say it was a good deed
That day on nine one one?
The only good that was done that day
Was to unite the Americans
　
People of all faiths and creed
Left their families forever
When can such terror be justified?
I am here to tell you "Never!"
　
Just because they look at death
In their faith as celebratory
The faith the westerners hold so close
Is by far another story
　
We hold close to our hearts our families
Our celebrate our creation
Who says it's right in an other's eyes
To terrorize entire nations
　
I will not stand to be victimized
And killed at their slightest whim
Because their Allah has proclaimed
It's their duty to do us in
　
Marian
February 6, 2011

Daniel Webster:

QUOTE

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Cash Control


Willing, we are, to pay our way
But we also wanted to have our say
Now the people elected and we thought were trusted
Have gone and gotten our economy busted


Spending more to try to get even
Redistributing all to folks who're grievin'
Putting brick upon brick on those who earned
Who now hold back 'cause they're concerned


Our economics tilt to the far left side
What our founders built is on the slide
Government now controls the old purse strings
And parasites wait in the wings


Marian
January 20, 2011

QUOTE

The press should not be only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Vladimir Lenin

1870-1924 (he died after a series of 3 strokes)


Corrupt The Media


Organize the masses
Use your beloved press passes
Be the arm of trumoil mixing
Agitating instead of fixing
Be the liar to the classes


Take your game, and stow it
Play the race card like you know it
Use your voice to spread the hate
In the media you infiltrate
Let loose and overflow it


Spread your propaganda well
Truth is something you won't sell
Be the arm of those in power
Command the newstime hour
Believe the lies in which you tell


Come forth with Meda Matters
George Soros and today's mad hatters
You know you own MSNBC
And for PBS you pay your fee
Your billions spent have made them fatter


Bring forth the teachings of Vladimir
The Socialists agendas are rising here
Corrupt the media and spread your word
It's the only way that you'll be heard
Hold this country at bay with fear


Once the media is totally corrupt
There is nowhere else for you than up
Feed the talking heads what you want them to say
Set the table the same old way
Then happily drink from your Socialist cup


Marian May 28, 2011


QUOTE
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men UNFIT to be trusted with unlimited power.
John Adams
1735-1826
Cowards
　
We look upon our leaders
To know they have the strength
Not just weak chest beaters
Who soon will lose our faith
　
They'll allow our enemies access
No courage to hold them back
They'll run before the facts are in
Their decision making lacks
　
Wicked men have been leaders
But are defeated and run aground
But weaker men can hide the truth
Until calamities come around
　
We cannot allow them power
Unlimited while we sleep
Be it wicked men or weaker men
They made promises they must keep
　
They must stand for our protection
Represent our country's power
Unfit for that which makes us bold
Is a leader who will cower
　
Marian
March 22, 2011

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorist. We invite terrorism by ignoring them."
George W. Bush

Don't Ignore Them!


As terror creeps across our land
And our fears are leading us by the hand
Under the covers he shiver and shake
Can this be the biggest mistake?


Burning buildings, crashing planes
Truley they must be insane!
Perhaps evil is a much better dipiction
A slanted source of their's faith's affliction


Strapping bombs to children and women
Growing new terrorists by hoards in Yemen
Peaceful vacations can be disrupted
By American youth by Islam corrupted


We all awoke on Nine One One
Something about terror must now be done
Ignoring them will only raise the bar
To see how devasting their people are


Marian
February 8, 2011


These entitlement programs soon self-destruct and at which point the people are no longer able to function on their own and we all become starving birds who have never learned to fly.
　Entitlement
　
Imagine life so stifling
If you can never leave your nest
Watching life going on around you
Because you never passed the test
　
Momma bird will feed you, true
As your beak is open wide
But you'll never have the freedom
Nor will you ever feel the pride
　
Someday will the winds prevail
And momma bird never returns?
You had never been taught to fly
Dependants have no chance to learn
　
Sitting in your cozy nests
You watch the world pass you by
But there's no one left to feed you
It is now your time to die
　
Marian
March 13, 2011

"Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of war that knows no border or seldom has a face.

Jacques Chirac

Evil Has No Face

They make Freddy Krueger look like a long lost friend
Their evil will never expire
We may awake to the sun and blessings of each day
Then wind up a part of a terroists fire

They can be the neighbor boy you watched grow
Gone to Yeman and returned to kill
Measures taken to keep us safe
Can be infiltrated and always will

The grocer you thought was a very fine fellow
A Middle Eastern man of dignity
Has drawn his gun to fire and kill
We never realized his true identity

A Radical Muslim in our military ranks
An Army Major with a Psyche degree
Through political correctness he was ignored
He shot servicemen one...two... three

Anthrax virus mailed to upstanding folks
Via our American postal delivery
Terror has no face to conceal
There's no bounds to their creativity

Bombs set afire in his underwear
On a Christmas flight he rode
Thanks to passengers being aware
No devastation would unfold

Planes were boarded on one fine fall day
In an act that was the final straw
Crashed into buildings killing loved ones
It united us against them all

Come the decision to build a mosque
In the shadow of the towers
They say it is a peaceful act
But inside it shows their powers

Bombs in shoes and carried by children
No one is ever really safe
It can be a shopping mall or hometown church
Evil has no face

Marian
February 8, 2011

Fool's World

Who is to know what is in a fool's heart?
Apathy, perhaps, does ignorance play a part?
Is it easier to turn a back than to face the way it goes?
Is a fool just afraid because what deep inside he knows?

Can one watch the daily news and show no reaction?
Is it much too difficult than to insist on satisfaction?
Having coffee in the serenity of a kitchen's morning light
Being oblivious to what has gone on while you're sleeping through the night

What is a fool, when all is said and done?
Are they locked in a reality not including everyone?
Do their stars line up because they only hope they do?
Is it foolish to think of others, or only just of you?

Children playing as they're growing is infinitely acceptabe
So is education that can make them more adaptable
Should we teach them only that amid the flowers we will thrive
Or that it takes some paricipation to even hope that we survive?

They say a fool and his money are parted way too soon
It must hold true to dignity of hapless far out loons
He won't give and she won't budge, we're obviously lost
While the fools will play their games at everybody's cost

Marian
April 2, 2011

"If you know your enemy and know yourself you need not FEAR the results of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu

For Peace


If you know your enemy and realize your power
Fear will not invade your finest hour
If you tend to walk softly and holster your gun
You'll find your retreat has already begun


When peace is your highest priority
You still must defend it with superiority
Sometimes peace in the truest sense
Is holding your power with a good defense


Marian
February 9, 2011

Bukhari v4b52n311 There is no immigration after the conquest of Mecca, but only jihad. When you are called by the Muslim ruler for jihad fighting, you should go forth immediately, responding to the call.
Muslim:c28bzon4631, Koran: Allah's apostle said: I heard Muhammad say: I would not stay behind when a raid for jihad was being mobilized unless it was going to be too hard on the believers. I love that I should be killed in Allah's cause, and they are slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.
　
From the Mouth of The Jihad
　
We know not peace, only retribution
Allah has ordered destruction to those
Not willing to Jihad, in absolution
Our hate forever grows
　
Come forth to battle and give your lives
For it is the words in the Koran
Be it guns and bombs and sometimes knives
To kill is our Allah's demand
　
Non believers shall live no more
Prepare to meet your fate
For the Jihad is knocking at your door
And our resolve is more than great
　
Marian
February 14, 2011

QUOTE
America will never be destroyed by the outside. If we falter and loose our freedoms, it will be because we've destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
From Within
　
Ride on the wagon sound asleep
Leave the journey to the beasts in harness
Are you so certain that the course they will keep
Will bring you home in earnest?

Leave the map, take no direction
Use your memory to find your way
What will happen if you don't ask questions?
With your liberty you might pay
　
Live your life in trust of others
Accept the laws they make at their will
Turn your back on your founding fathers
You'll find your enemies on Capitol Hill
　
Say what you must about the countries against us
But they are not the ones to fear
Your freedom will be lost by those you trust
You thought you'd never see it happening here
　
Marian
May 16, 2011

QUOTE
The main obstacle to the World Order is the United States.
George Soros
His Evil Plan
　
Comes the Spooky Dude with his power of money
Bent on souring our milk and honey
A new world order is his sole desire
Come on, Americans, raise your ire
　
Under our flag red, white, and blue
Soros is determined to now control you
He'll rally 'round dependent ne'er do wells
Who for entitlements their souls they sell
　
Socialism is his state of mind
His money empowers those of his kind
In a collapsed economy he will bring us crashing
Those who tried will be forever thrashing
　
Gone will be the American dream
For those who won't prosper, gone the gleam
Either we fall to Soros longtime plan
Or draw our line in the proverbial sand
　
Reject the coping with government funds
Renew the hoping, new spirit begun
Stand in the light of the Constitution
Shoot down the idea of redistribution
　
Marian
May 15, 2011

Love Trumps Fear

QUOTE

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know that we are immersed not in darkness but in light.

~Mother Teresa

Love Trumps Fear
　
Living under thunder clouds
When the only intermittent light
Are the streaks that create the blast
Of the thunder's perceived might
　
Waiting under the covers
Or maybe in the cellars where we flee
Hoping the clouds don't find their fury
Throwing funnel clouds a me
　
Expecting the worse
We sometimes cower
Knowing what was sweet
Has turned sour
　
Love has been known to buffer
Whatever fear holds you at bay
The strength of love like sunshine's power
Is enough to chase the clouds away
　
Marian
May 20, 2011

The Search For Bin Laden

It's easy to miss something you're not looking for.
　The Search For Bin Laden
　
In a decade of aftermath he was not forgotten
The evil that shook us on that day
In the name of Jihad he came knocking
Sending his evil followers our way
　
They hijacked planes at their own discretion
Misunderstanding their precious Koran
In they came from each direction
Intent to kill the Americans
　
We vowed to track him down, your see
He took to hiding in the desert caves
Alive or dead is how it would be
We sent our soldiers proud and brave
　
The evil has cast no real reflection
He stealthily is hidden in plain sight
Ten years now we renew our mission
We've found him now the time is right
　
Helecopters of Navy SEALS swoop in
There is nowhere left for the evil to hide
Bravely now the search begins
As our proud Navy bursts right inside
　
He takes cover behind a wife
One of many the evil had wed
"Surrender or we'll take your life!"
They did it with a shot to the head
　
He thought that time would end our resolve
And we would not find him behind that door
But we would not let this remain unsolved
We had found who we'd been looking for
　
Marian
May 6, 2011

The Search For Bin Laden

It's easy to miss something you're not looking for.
　The Search For Bin Laden
　
In a decade of aftermath he was not forgotten
The evil that shook us on that day
In the name of Jihad he came knocking
Sending his evil followers our way
　
They hijacked planes at their own discretion
Misunderstanding their precious Koran
In they came from each direction
Intent to kill the Americans
　
We vowed to track him down, your see
He took to hiding in the desert caves
Alive or dead is how it would be
We sent our soldiers proud and brave
　
The evil has cast no real reflection
He stealthily is hidden in plain sight
Ten years now we renew our mission
We've found him now the time is right
　
Helecopters of Navy SEALS swoop in
There is nowhere left for the evil to hide
Bravely now the search begins
As our proud Navy bursts right inside
　
He takes cover behind a wife
One of many the evil had wed
"Surrender or we'll take your life!"
They did it with a shot to the head
　
He thought that time would end our resolve
And we would not find him behind that door
But we would not let this remain unsolved
We had found who we'd been looking for
　
Marian
May 6, 2011

From Within

QUOTE
America will never be destroyed by the outside. If we falter and loose our freedoms, it will be because we've destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865

From Within
　
Ride on the wagon sound asleep
Leave the journey to the beasts in harness
Are you so certain that the course they will keep
Will bring you home in earnest?

Leave the map, take no direction
Use your memory to find your way
What will happen if you don't ask questions?
With your liberty you might pay
　
Live your life in trust of others
Accept the laws they make at their will
Turn your back on your founding fathers
You'll find your enemies on Capitol Hill
　
Say what you must about the countries against us
But they are not the ones to fear
Your freedom will be lost by those you trust
You thought you'd never see it happening here
　
Marian
May 16, 2011

Tell Us Your Plans

QUOTE

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists---to protect them and to promote their common welfare, all else is lost.

Barack Obama


Tell Me Your Plans


How does this president interpret the role
His Government was created to play?
It was not in place to save every soul
Micromanage their every waking day


It exists to protect us but not to neglect us
The People who contribute their part
It is not to enable those not willing to work
Who have taken entitlements to an art


It was meant to represent us, our will to proceed
Not to regulate our every waking hour
It was not to endebt us, and totally bind us
To the maximum of their taxable power


Dear Mr. Obama, I ask you this question
In all of my sincerity
Is it your idea that your hope for transformation
Is to collapse our capitalists society?


Do you want us encumbered, liberties now numbered
Like birds in a nest waiting to be fed?
Is you social justice that you want thrust upon us
Based on entitlements from birth til we're dead?


Do you see The Constituion as an ancient paper
Not worth the ink it was written?
Or will you as President continue to honor it
Along with the reps on The Hill that are sittin'?


Do you see us beholding to Chinese intervention
As our debt will continue to climb?
Do you see this country as yours and forgetting
It is also supposed to be mine?


Marian
May 19, 2011

Look To Abe

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
February 22,1861 @ Independence Hall.

Look To Abe

He revered the Declaration of Independence
As his political Bible
And all that he stood for
Was his country and its survival

He stood tall above his people
But it was on level ground
Freedom for all was his one true hope
In his Presidency it was found

He was a man who should be looked to
As our country begins to crumble
As The People blame each other
In ideology they rumble

Please look to Abe for guidence
He respected his fellow man
The Declaration of Independence
Held tightly in his hand

Marian
May 17, 2011

Destiny

QUOTE
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695
　
Destiny
　
Choice Is but a state of mind
A misconception of the truth
Free will was offered from days behind
Meant to lead us through our youth
　
Paths were ahead, to avoid or take
It was for ourselves to ponder
Trying to trick our destiny for our own sake
Taking different roads to wander
　
Free will is but a carrot
On a string to lead us ahead
The key is not to parrot
But individuality is ours instead
　
Whatever fate confronts us
Still leads to Heavens door
Whatever road is your destiny
Shall be traveled forever more
　
Marian
May 4, 2011

Value

QUOTE
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something suffers damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom
　
Value
　
Broken treasures, just ordinary at one point in time
Revered for the history it represents
Repaired with golden loving care
Set high upon a pedestal
　
Broken hearts, of ordinary people
Once loved, or so they thought
Broken hearts can be repaired
With some one's golden touch
　
Something once loved, someone once loved
Important in some point in history
Repaired because it is something or someone
That once had made an impression
　
Something is never nothing, someone is never no one
Meaningful is every thing and being
To someone who loved and treasured it
And put them high on pedestals
　
Marian
March 22, 2011

Trust

QUOTE
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway

Trust

Trust is an experiment to be proven or lost
You have to be willing to pay what it cost
If trust is true and proven to survive
The bond with that person forever will thrive

If your trust is misplaced and your heart is broken
Take in in earnest that fate has now spoken
If your feelings are some of complete devastation
It's not you who has tarnished your own reputation

When the one you had trusted has broken his vow
And you're left with the pieces forever and now
Be proud that you'd given his word half a chance
Let him have what he sees as his victory dance

Marian
May 19, 2011

Ourselves

QUOTE

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

1854-1900

Irish poet, novelist dramatist


Ourselves

We like to see ourselves as part of something
We bask in inclusion in a group
But individually we have our own values
Step proudly, or see how low you can stoop

We are stronger in the herd, we feel protected
But individually must realize
Are we really dedicated to the good of us all
Or will we cut each other down to size?

We must stand for our values, be silent no more
Even if your friends have locked their doors
Because it's faith in yourself that delivers your soul
To what God promised as your reward

Marian
May 19, 2011

When Friends Flee

When Friends Flee

Even when it seems your friends are leaving
When you see their backs as they walk away
Faith in God will take you through your grieving
Even when tears flow freely as you pray

When your hands shake and your stomach is in a knot
Over the friends you've no longer got
God will always steadfastly remain
And over time help ease your pain

Marian
May 19, 2011

The Quest

Confucius said....
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
The Quest
　
We've all heard the term "being lost in a book"
But I find it in my heat to disagree
Each page is a journey with the map well plotted
A path of enlightenment we all shall need
　
Each chapter is a hamlet, each book is a country
Each reading is an organized quest
We can backpack lightheartedly and soak in the nature
Or find the knowledge to pass life's true tests
　
We can read of our ancestors and know their beginnings
Then follow their lives through the end
That is what makes us whole in our skin
And the willingness to savor what's around every bend
　
When we pack up our time and send it vacationing
Through the billions of pages at hand
We spent our time well and have gained moments to be cherished
From the snow capped mountains to deserts of sand
　
Marian
April 26, 2011

The Proud Warrior

quote by David Gemmell that says it well...
"A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge; he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, OF PURPOSE, of heart and soul."
　
Proud Warrior

I found that I am made of more
Than passive flesh and bone
My heart aches for righteousness
Not just getting by alone

I find it in my blood
To right the things so wrong
I think I know my purpose
It's a warrior, true and strong

I train myself in body
That physically I can take it
I teach myself the knowledge
To conquer not just make it

Although I'm not a soldier
In what form we're used to seeing
I am warrior in the sense that I
Protect our right to being

Marian
April 23, 2011

No Regrets

Eric Fromm...

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air; is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."

No Regrets


I have in times of my life been down
Pain and disappointment prevailed
I stood on too many shores in ife
To wave goodbye to my ships that had sailed


Physical pain I endured, but I beat it
Mental health was sometimes a chore
I found agony and had to defeat it
Found my courage to settle life's score


Who is to say all the pain that was suffered
Was worth all the love in my life?
But in the end I chose not to live my life buffered
From a minute of what I called strife


Each walk on the beach
Each minute on a horse
Each breath that I breathed
Each obstical course


What life had to give
What price I had paid
What it meant to live
In the bed I had made


I found it all worth every bump in the road
And I lived what I thought had been me
I'll never regret each shattered hope
For the life I had the priviledge to see


Marian
April 26, 2011

Failing Our Future

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at least incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious...or just dead wrong."
Russell Baker
　
Failing Our Future
　
Mundane lessons from the uninspired
Educators marking each minute under-fired
Outdated books, or progressive lies
Determining paths in our children's lives
　
Underfunded schools with children begging to learn
For qualified teachers, new books, they yearn
Listless thugs take up desks and chairs
Dealing their illicit mind bending wares
　
Harvard graduates tout their degree
For each and everyone to see
How many were paid for by rich parents and such
When idealistic poor students weren't offered as much?
　
Parents who choose to remain detached
A key around the neck, a locked door latch
Empty houses and video games for hours
No one to tend to these poor lost flowers
　
Biased information is passed along
No one cares if it's right or wrong
Teachers, parents, administrators
No one questions these imitators
　
Students passing on failing grades
There are too many teams that must be made
How many can read on graduation day?
How did our system ever get this way?
　
Lives go on, many children are lost
Society has borne the cost
The most important assets to nurture
Are being forgotten, a scarified future
　
Marian
April 26, 2011

The Simple Man

Robert Ingersoll.....
."It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

The Simple Man
　
Give me a farmer, a self made man
Who toiled for years upon his land
He learned what he could from others and books
But most of his knowledge is what he took
　
He took what he learned from nature
From trial an error, failure and success
He trusted in his God to help him mature
He worked hard to do his best
　
Common sense saved him more than once
It was the pillar of his survival
It taught him about friendship, and some mistrust
Who to embrace, who to see as his rival
　
The thought of one without formal education
Brings questions to competency
But judging from simple man's innovations
I'll take common sense as priority
　
Marian
April 26, 2011

Back On South Street

Back On South Street

It seems that every Easter I go
Back to my memories
When we lived in a big green house
Surrounded by many trees


The previous week of shopping
Brought new clothes and shiney shoes
That we would wear on Sunday
To sit in our church's pews


Every lady and girl child
Wore fine dresses and Easter hats
The men and little boys
Wore suits that were all that


The church was always packed
With everyone from our town
Many we don't see much
Only when holidays come around


Easter baskets wait for us
Inside our big front door
On sunny days we search the yard
Jut like the year before


Brightly colored eggs are scattered
Hidden amid the flowers
Sure some pushing does prevail
As we search for about an hour


Chocolate bunnies and jelly beans
Are passed around to all
Enough to make the little kids
Bounce happily off the wall


As we compare our baskets of treasures
Baked ham is smelling sweet
Along with Yams and all the fixin's
That make this day complete


We sit down at the table
The family is gathered there
As we pray and thank our Savior
We've been taught to be aware


Amid the fancy clothes and gifts
That give this day a lift
It was Jesus and His sacrifice
That has led us to this gift


Marian
April 24, 2011
Easter Sunday

Easter

Easter
　
"All You Need Is Love"
Say the Beatles with such luster
And on this pleasant Easter Day
This is what I have to muster
　
I love my Lord and thank him for
His unselfish sacrifice
And also that I find today
The chocolate is quite nice
　
Marian
April 24, 2011
Easter Sunday

Truth

Truth
Our Savior was the truth
Some had tried to hide
Yet he did arise and prove
Truth could never be swept aside
　
You can hide it from your eyes
Chase it from your mind
Reject it with your words
Convincing some mankind
　
But it always shall survive
Rise up when times are low
Our Savior is the truth
That I truly know
　
Marian
April 24, 2011
Easter Sunday

The Monsters We've Created

QUOTE
The government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~Ayn Rand

The Monster We've Created
　
Borne for your protection
Supplied by your direction
Fed by your interjection
But never quite perfection
　
Fed fat then ignored
And left with unbridled power
The government built by you
Grows steadily by the hour
　
With your backs turned
I takes your rights
Restricts your freedom
Call your fights
　
It takes your guns
And leaves you helpless
Steals your money
And leaves you penniless
　
In apathy you lose control
In all the orders they'll soon extol
Like a boulder downhill they continue to roll
Until they ultimately own your soul

　The monster we've created will have their way
Once they've stifled their victims and have they say

　Marian
March 15, 2011

Thoughtful Advancement

Every man is free to rise as far as he is able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
~Ayn Rand
　
Thoughtful Advancement
　
Climb impetuously the tree of life
With no thought, no plan
Go branch to branch upward and onward
A swiftly advancing man
　
Luck may have it you will reach the top
Pretty much unscathed
For that to happen with many men
I'd be pretty much amazed
　
Thoughtlessly climbing, only looking up
With only versitality
Pitfalls are there to be reakoned
With even mass calamities
　
For the branches of life are sometimes frail
And will snap beneath his weight
And man goes tumbling down again
In his radom thoughtless state
　
Marian
March 15, 2011

My rant for the Ides of March

Our costs of living is continuing to grow out of control. It has been sneaking up on us and people just accept it. Gasoline has risen by nearly 50 cents per gallon this year, groceries are rising weekly penny by penny while people try not to notice. Auto insurance rates are sneaking up along with home insurance (mine went up $200 this year) More and more taxes at every level have been imposed. The nominal amounts add up when heaped one on top of the other. Why can't the schools and towns and cities find ways to live within their means? Because unions are allowed to run rampant over them. We have yet to see the true impact that Obamacare is going to have on us. We shall all have health insurance but at what cost to the hard working Americans footing the bill. Illegals are now our dependents and we are raising their families. Politicians say they are listening and some are trying to stop the madness. Our country is not allowing people to stand on their own two feet and help each other through their own chosen charities. The liberals will not have their entitlement programs cut, conservatives don't seem to be up to the fight and still find themselves exposed to lobbyists. Our President is afraid to take a stand against the terrorists of the world and call a spade a spade. He is also afraid to stand against the evil of the Qudaffis of the world. Sitting back and watching the slaughter of the Libyan people is akin to if we sat back and watched Hiltler slaughter the Jews.
There is some of my rant for today. It goes so much deeper.

Dear Mr. Conservative (and rebuttal)

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

Speaking of water, farmers in California were denied water for their crops in California because it would endanger the Smelt thanks to the liberals, but please continue....

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

While some folks badly in need of new life saving medication have no access to it because it is stalled in bureaucracy imposed by liberal standards, they must suffer for years, even decades or find a way to get it in foreign countries...carry on....

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance

Medical insurance tied to employees of jobs provide union imposed benefits that have driven many companies to relocate to foreign countries so that can operate. Why should medical insurance even be tied to employment benefits? Affordable health insurance should be offered to every American at the same rates offered to employers who can offer the coverage by buying in bulk.

- now Joe gets it too.

Like I said, anyone could have it if it was offered at the same rate without being tied to employment. Affordable rates would be possible if insurance companies could compete for business across state lines.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

While more regulations imposed on farmers cause more farmers to go bankrupt and more farms to fold...rising grocery costs deny many low and middle class families the ability to buy quality food for balanced meals. While I agree that regulations should be in force for the quality and safety of our food products, not to mention the humane treatment of the animals involved, the bureaucratic system needs to be simplified so the regulations can actually be economically feasible to enforce.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Labels are beginning to read like War and Peace. Enjoy the read...great work Mr. Liberal.


Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

No argument from this Conservative.

He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work.

Aw, come on. People made it to work for decades without subsidized transportation to get there. Put it in your budget, Mr. Liberal.

It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Like I said...put the transportation costs in your budget. We people who don't live in the big cities buy our own vehicles and gasoline to get to work everyday. Why should we have to subsidize your ride to work while we pay for ours? Want us to pack your lunch and walk you to the bus stop, too?


Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.

Many jobs are no longer in the United States because of unions breaking the backs of the employers with more and more demands. The industry and business that stays in the U.S.A. just pass the costs on to the consumers in higher prices. Those wages and benefits are being paid for by every consumer in the country, including the union wage earners. They see these big pay raises and increased benefits, yet the raises are quickly lost in the higher prices they must pay to be a consumer. Their health care benefits are better, but the costs are also higher, in case you didn't notice your paycheck may actually be a little smaller because of the portion you must pay for your coverage has increased. And Joe Average who works in the non-union jobs and is happy for receive a fair, living wage is impacted by these costs also.

Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

Why should employers have to fear unions. Employers are providing jobs and taking the fiscal risks of a free market to provide these jobs. As for accidents and unemployment, the advantages received will not save your home in catastrophic cases. Ask me about how far my cushy government job benefits got me when I was hurt off the job. Shit happens. Families should look after each other like back in the day when government was not the nanny to all people.


It's noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

The same banking practices that have outed the gouging of consumers in these modern times. The federally funded insurance does protect consumer assets to a certain extent at the cost of every taxpayer. Yet the banks get bailed out, people paid for their losses, and the bankers are again free to find more ways to screw up the economy while fattening their own off shore accounts. How about instead of using taxpayer money to save the day, get to the bottom of how these bankers and fiscal manipulators scam the public and run off with our money.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.

Uh, housing crisis? Why is the government underwriting loans to people who cannot afford to or are not secure enough in their lifestyle and fiscal practices to receive these loans? The American way...work hard, pay your bills, save up a down payment, buy a house. Not everyone should be a home owner. It is not a right, it is a privilege. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed by offering to subsidise risky home buyers. We all, as taxpayers, share in the cost of bad loans to risky people. Our country is now in the worse housing crisis ever seen by the people of the U.S.A. because of the liberal views that everyone should be equally offered the opportunity to own a home whether they are responsible or not. All of the taxpayers are suffering because of these liberal views.


Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.

Recalls, did anyone hear the word recall? The safety standards should be met before the cars hit the road. Somebody is not doing their job. What good are standards when not enforced.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

I'll concede that point to a certain extent. But check back in history when the demands for electrification were being adopted. Conservatives backed it.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Social Security. A fine idea but one not totally researched. Social Security was meant for a society where the life span of its people was around 60 to 65 years. It was a gamble that most people who paid into the system would be dead before or shortly after they became retirement age. Who would guess that today's 80 would be yesterdays 65. People are far outliving their benefits for over the past three decades. Today's retirees are living on our grand children's benefits. The aging population will never be able to collect what they have paid into the system. Alternate retirement plans should be encouraged (not that anyone could actually live off their social security benefits anyway) This is when being a nanny state is fiscally impossible. People need to plan for their own lives and take charge, or rely on family to help get them by. Generations past took care of their aging, not the government.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

True! All have benefited by liberal views but have made us a very needy society of people who cannot stand on our own two feet. Is it too late to change? All the things given to us by the government are at the cost of taxpayers. We are paying a bureaucracy billions to oversee all of our benefits everyday. And the 13 trillion deficit is still rising while a liberal adminsitration continues to spend. Perhaps if we did not have to pay for all of these programs, as taxpayers we would have the money available to stand on our own two feet and use our own charitable instincts to help those need with a hand up (as opposed to hand out). Liberals, Conservatives, Independents all pay for those who do not care if they ever work or not. We pay welfare to able bodied people, subsidize their housing, put the burden of health care to the indigent on our hospitals, which they pass on to us in rising health care costs. We pay unwed mothers who continue to have child after child while on welfare and subsidized housing. Where are their families to teach her to stand up on her own, get a job, raise her own children off the backs of the taxpayers? She is probably the third generation of welfare mothers and has learned the system well. How many drunkards and drug abusers are being housed and fed by the taxpayers? If the Conservatives didn't look out for us fiscally, would the Liberals? Maybe it's time to reach a happy medium and each party give a bit each way. Liberals, we can't support everyone, and everyone is not worthy of our support. Conservatives, know the difference and bend a little to those who are really in need because of circumstances, not laziness. Get the bureaucrats and regulators off the government payroll by reducing social programs. Level the tax paying field, dispose of the two ton tax code and make everyone pay the same 17% across the board with no loopholes and no need for the billions spent on IRS employees and tax enforcement.

Most of all, everyone, help those you chose to help through your own charitable hearts. Take the money out of the middle man's hands and it will help many more people than you will ever know.

Our own oil

The following info is all true.
But this is a Democratic Republic, and NOT run by special interests.
What a joke.
Here's an interesting read, important and verifiable information :
About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and






one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to
ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil
does the U.S. have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more
than all the Middle East put together." Please read below.
The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only
scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a
revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in
this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and
extreme eastern Montana ...... check THIS out:

http://bakkenshale.net/bakkenshalemap.html
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe
Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign
oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion
barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel,
we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5..3 trillion.
"When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see
their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.." says Terry Johnson, the Montana
Legislature's financial analyst.
"This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found
in the past 56 years," reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a
formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the
'Bakken..' It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and
into Canada.. For years, U. S oil exploration has been considered a dead
end.. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells
decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up
the Bakken's massive reserves... and we now have access of up to 500
billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels
will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years
straight. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one
should - because it's from 2006!
U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006
Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the
largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION
barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In
three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this
motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders,
than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it's all right here in the Western United States .
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the
environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America
become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of
people dictate our lives and our economy.....WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in
this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION
barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in
the world today, reports The Denver Post.
Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think
again!
It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to. Think OPEC just
might be funding the environmentalists?
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By the way...this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!
GOOGLE it, or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

Endangering America from the White House

CIA book review

As President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).

Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published.

Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster":

Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi .. A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am with KSM."

Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."

Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.

Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.

Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."

It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.

His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative-for reasons that will be described later in this book.

He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terroristraids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.

In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.

Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for a Bojinka-style attack.

In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot.
On the night of Aug.9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find A USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men
with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other:
* United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at 2:15 p.m.;

* Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p.m.;

* Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p.m.;

* United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p.m.;

* United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p.m.;

* American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p.m;

* American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p.m.

They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared.

Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know
about the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much.
Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to mark
the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and magnitude.

And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through the
interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Editor's Note: For other foiled terrorist plots, see page 9 of "Courting Disaster."

In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and
plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an
unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.

Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."

Former CIA Director Mike Hayden has said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work."

Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."

Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was acted upon."

And John Brennan, Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied : "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."

On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.

The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.

A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected.
George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John eutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"

In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.

With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any President in American history.