Picture this: You're sitting in your livingroom with your family one Sunday night and the doorbell rings. You answer it only to find a scraggly looking man standing there. The man states, "Sorry to bother you, but you see, my kids and wife and I are hungry, and we have no place to go. We were staying with relatives, but they were very poor and live in a dangerous area. I saw through your open curtains that you have a spare bedroom. Could me and my family come stay with you"?
"Well", you tell him, "I'm pretty well broke and have a lot of extended family that I must take care of too, but if you fill out some paperwork, I'll consider it and let you know in about a year. And of course, you'd have to pay for your room and board and support yourself financially." The homeless man tells you, "Well I don't have any money and we really don't want to wait," and leaves.
The next evening, you return home from work only to find the homeless man and his family set up in your spare bedroom. You order them to leave, but they refuse, so you call the police. You explain to the responding officer what has happened and he says, "Well, they really aren't hurting anything and didn't do much damage when they broke in, so we have to let them stay. And oh yeah, you're now responsible for them. You need to feed them, clothe them, make sure they get an education and good healthcare, you know, just like they were your kids, you just can't claim them as dependents".
You tell the officer, "Wait a minute! This man and his family broke into my home, everyone knows it's illegal to break into someone's home"! The officer replies, "Well, technically yes, but we don't really enforce that law. Have a nice day!"
What do you think about amnesty now???
If you think this couldn't happen to you, think again. Amnesty is just the first step toward just that!
Fire all the politicians that support amnesty and vote only for those who strongly support the consititution and the rights of the AMERICAN people ! It's not just an Arizona problem, or a California problem or a Texas problem, It's AMERICA's problem. Check out: http://www.icaucus.org/ to find the best candidates for the job!!!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
BE AFRAID...BE VERY AFRAID
So obviously, Arizona is now under the gun by left-wing do-gooders who would have the USA just welcome everyone that wants in with open arms, (and open checkbooks)! It's not just about being taxed to death people! It's about losing our COUNTRY!! There is more to the Mexican illegal immigrants agenda than meets the eye. They're not just here because of the need for jobs and mess in their own country that they refuse to deal with. They certainly get their people united and rebellious in our country! The radical groups believe that America is ALREADY their country and that they are entitled to whatever they want. When they finally have it their way the USA will still be the USA, but it will stand for the United States of Aztlan. Some of what these radicals are professing is happening....their population is growing and ours is not. They are having babies, and we are not. It's simply a numbers game. It's the same "plan" the muslims have to take over the world...and it's working. And they're being unwittingly helped by the self-righteous left-wing politicos and their "blind" followers. Little do they realize, that when the Mexicans (or Muslims) take over our homeland, they (the left wing politicians, etc) will be but dirt under their feet. Used, then abused (it's almost funny if it weren't so sad).
Those of us who care need to make sure we vote OUT all politicians who support amnesty! If you don't know who they are, get educated. A great place to start is: www.iCaucus.org
Sunday, April 11, 2010
JOIN ME IN THE FIGHT !
The following text in yellow is a forwarded email I received from a dear friend of mine. In researching its veracity, I found that the account is true and it started circulating via email in December of 2000. To me, it brought home how precious my freedom is, and that to let it fall by the wayside in my own country because I did not do my part to fight back as our politicians slowly chip away at what our founding fathers intended, I am disrespecting all the young men that willingly gave their all so that I could be free. Fight back with me by getting involved in disarming (voting OUT) the corrupt and selfish politicians whose only thought is to get re-elected. Get educated about the men and women seeking election or re-election. Complacency will take our country where we don't want her to go...socialism!
Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial.. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'
I told him that we were from Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'
(James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)
'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers' which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.
Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player ... He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph.. a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima .. Boys. Not old men.
The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24 When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
Arizona .. Ira Hayes was one who walked off Iwo Jima .. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together .. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken).
The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop,Kentucky. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell Soup.
You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero.. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic.. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.'
So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima, and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.'
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero.. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice.
Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom.
Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also pray for those still in murderous unrest around the world..
STOP and thank God for being alive and being free at someone else's sacrifice.
God Bless You and God Bless America ....
REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it's going to be a great day.
P.S. Be sure to click on my newest video post on the left side of the blog!
Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial.. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'
I told him that we were from Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'
(James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)
'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers' which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.
Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player ... He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph.. a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima .. Boys. Not old men.
The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24 When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
Arizona .. Ira Hayes was one who walked off Iwo Jima .. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together .. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken).
The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop,Kentucky. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell Soup.
You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero.. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic.. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.'
So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima, and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.'
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero.. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice.
Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom.
Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also pray for those still in murderous unrest around the world..
STOP and thank God for being alive and being free at someone else's sacrifice.
God Bless You and God Bless America ....
REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it's going to be a great day.
P.S. Be sure to click on my newest video post on the left side of the blog!
Monday, April 5, 2010
What is WRONG With This Picture???!!!!!
I decided my blog today would be about getting information out to my readers regarding voting districts, as not all primaries are held on the same date. Until I started getting involved, I didn't know my own districts, and thought that many people, well, probably most people, don't know what districts they belong to, or even their representatives names. We have to change that if we're going to change the "politics as usual" in this country.
I first googled "find your voting district by address" and found: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html You put in your address, click submit, and your district number and legislators information shows up. In fact, http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/legsite.html has a plethora of information that is very useful and informative for all California voters.
So, then I googled "find California congressman by address" and the #1 hit was http://www.contactingthecongress.org/. When I clicked on it, here is what I see:
(It didn't copy too well, but you get the picture..LOL)
What the heck??? I don't know who sponsors the website, and it seems to be accurate in locating one's representatives, but what's with the huge red underlined sentence? We need to wake up and force our legislators to introduce and push legislation to allow English only when voting or filling out ANY government form (DMV, etc). This is crazy. You're going to vote, but can't read or write English?!!!
As California voters, we must spread the word...If we want to save our STATE and our COUNTRY, we have to stop being complacent about the power we really have. The idea that "my one little vote doesn't really ever count" attitude has to stop!! There is a movement going on in this country that can change all of that, but we need everyone to get involved. If you do nothing else, educate yourself and your family and friends about the power we have when we all support and promote the right candidate for the job!! Go to http://icaucus.org/ RIGHT NOW and read about the endorsed candidate(s).
Also, don't forget to view the latest educational video (regarding taxation) posted on the left side of my blog! Thanks for reading :)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
I Changed My Mind...I'm Voting For Carly!
APRIL FOOLS !!
Now Chuck DeVore, there's a man who wants the best for this country. He can DEFEAT Barbara Boxer! He is truly a common sense conservative who believes in upholding the Constitution and Bill of Rights. He is ready, willing, and able to work for us. His Republican opponents are RINO's at best. Make sure you watch the above video and read a little bit about him below. Then go to his website to get the whole picture.
- Chuck DeVore believes government’s most important role is to secure our rights. This was the Founders’ view of government too. Bigger government encroaches on our liberty.
- Chuck opposed the bailouts, the stimulus package and the big government auto industry takeover.
- Chuck opposes Obamacare and has fought hard to see its defeat in the public arena.
- Chuck has a strong voting record fighting for increased domestic energy production and he has strongly opposes Barbara Boxer's Cap & Trade energy tax scheme.
- California faces an unprecedented challenge due to a drought made worse by arcane environmental laws.
- Chuck is a strong defender of family values and has the voting record to show for it.
- Assemblyman DeVore is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army retired Reserve. He also worked as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon. Chuck supports a strong military and defense for our country.
- Chuck supports strong controls on our borders and considers this issue to be of vital national importance.
- Chuck has a proven voting record of fighting for our Constitutional rights.
On March 8, 2010, Chuck DeVore was, in the first round of voting, overwhelmingly endorsed by the California Republican Assembly's 75th annual convention. DeVore's endorsement, was a landslide margin of 194 votes to 89 for distant-second Carly Fiorina. All the money Carly Fiorina had invested to influence the vote was for naught. There is hope!! People are fed up with the status quo of big money in government. http://www.chuckdevore.com/
P.S. Don't forget to watch my 3rd video post on the left sidebar of this page.
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