LOST and ATT

So, my former excitement about the possibility of Sen. Kelly Ayotte is officially over.  Why?!  Because she is one of about 20 Senators who have agreed to approve Law of the Sea Treaty.  They are joining democrats to uphold this treaty.  It is a treaty that President Reagan was against citing it was going to impede our sovereignty as a nation.

Here are some links to read more about this: http://www.examiner.com/article/20-republicans-set-to-uphold-controversial-un-treaty  http://action.letfreedomringusa.com/6792/tell-your-senators-to-oppose-lost/
http://www.redstate.com/ironchapman/2012/05/30/does-your-senator-oppose-the-law-of-the-sea-treaty-lost/

I personally have tweeted all the Senators who are supporting LOST and asked them to oppose it.  I have also sent emails via this link asking my Senators to oppose it, also.  Although it is highly unlikely they will seeing as they are both democrats who tow the party line.

{Although, I do give Senator Schumer a little admiration ~ I have emailed him actively recently voicing my opposition to alot of legislation, and I actually get personal emails from him, giving me an explanation of where he stands, and I admire that.  Don't agree with it most of the time, but I greatly the feedback from his office}

Another piece of legislation through the UN that will be hitting us this month is called the Arms Trade Treaty. Here is a great link telling what the ATT could mean for us in America and for our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.   ATT and Forbes.  I signed a petition and sent it to my Senators and Congresswoman through this. And the scariest part of the ATT is this: Iran overseeing the ATT.  If it wasn't so deathly serious, it would be laughable.

So, do your part!  Become active, and involved.  And don't let our country disappear without fighting for it!

cross posted at Smart Girl Politics

It's almost time ~

It is almost time for us to hear who Mitt Romney has chosen as his running mate.

Today, this picture came out:

And, so I looked up just who was this lady up there with Mitt Romney.  Her name is Kelly Ayotte.  And I wondered, are we looking at the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket.  So, I had to look her up.

And I like what I saw.  This website On the Issues is a great place to check for any candidate.  You should check her out.  And you can actually use that site to check out anyone whom you want to vote for, but can't seem to put your finger on where they stand.

In no way am I saying I think this is it.  I'm just saying that I could really get behind a Romney/Ayotte ticket.  But, I suppose we still have to wait and see who the actual VIP pick is!

cross posted at Smart Girl Politics

Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Happy Independence Day to you!

Fighting Back

I get so sick and tired of hearing the liberals, when they don't like that I don't like Obama's politics, they pull out what they think is their trump card.  "RACIST".  They have nothing else to use.  Obama has failed policies.  And no record that they can defend ~ can't tout Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Obamacare {it's a penalty, not a tax, ~ oh wait, it IS a tax} or anything else ~ and they HATE that.  So they do the only thing they can do.  Start pointing fingers at those of us who are conservative and screaming RACIST.   And really, what can you say after that?!  Well, you can fight back.  And tonight, I did.  I wrote a long response on a facebook post on a friends page ~ although, after the post, I really doubt they will consider me a friend now!  Here is what I posted:

And it is things like this that has SO divided our country in recent days. 

 ~ who is the one on here making ridiculous statements that those of us who don’t like Obama is because of his skin “pigmentation”?  And let me assure you, people were disgusted and angry at Clinton ~ there just wasn’t twitter and facebook that you could see every day.  Did you NEVER listen to Rush Limbaugh during the Clinton administration?!  I bet you didn’t. 

I am a proud right wing conservative and actively involved with getting Obama out of the White House.  Yet, it is people like ME who get accused of being a racist.  When most of the people in this country couldn’t care less if the president is white, black, brown, yellow, green or purple.  What I care about are his politics.   And when I (or others who are like-minded) won’t change my belief that his politics are WRONG, people throw around the word RACIST.  And, then, where can we go?  Well, I’m tired of it. 

There is no race issue in this country except the one that the extreme leftist media want to convince you that there is.  Disagreement, disapproval and strong dislike of a persons politics do NOT make one a racist.  If you see a racist in every disagreement, then maybe you should remember that when you point your finger at someone, you always have 3 pointing back at you, so maybe it’s time to take stock of yourself.  You are the one who brought up Amos and Andy and bedsheets ~ so who is the one perpetrating that narrative?!

Believe it or not, some (most) of us who disagree with Obama do so because of his politics.  I don’t get how that is such a foreign concept to people.  He pledged to uphold the constitution and yet at every turn, every opportunity, he circumvented it.  Still is, and still will.  He has disgraced the office that he holds by what he has done while in office. 

The leftist progressive media are doing what they can to keep the race narrative going to keep the minds of people off the failed policies and dismal record he has. 

And for the record, the government is NOT going to just pass out healthcare like candy at a parade.  You will either buy it ~ there hasn’t been any torte reform, so it’s going to just keep going up up up ~ or if you don’t/can’t buy it, you are going to get taxed out the wazoo.  Wait, we were told it wasn’t a tax by the administration, now it is.  Hmmm………Integrity issue.  You can call it whatever you want ~ put a pig in lipstick and it’s still a pig.  Tax or penalty there is no difference.  And yup ~ if you can’t afford healthcare now you DEFINITELY won’t be able to afford it because of Obamacare.  It’s not going to make getting better any cheaper, or a doctor more accessible.  It is actually going to do just the opposite.

Obama on so many occasions has circumvented congress entirely to independently enact amnesty.  Which he did, NOT to better someone but for political gain.  Hello, if Florida can’t kick the ineligible voters off the rolls, then they can still run to the polls to vote for sugar daddy Obama.  This administration’s entire attitude toward the states is to keep them in their place.   There are so many things I can continue with ~ Fast and Furious, Arizona, DOJ, DHS, but I won’t.  For now.

This is supposed to be a government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, and FOR THE PEOPLE, but unfortunately the only people they are for is themselves ~ self serving narcissistic people. 

Nothing is free.  EVERYTHING comes with a price.  The question is are you willing to let them just continue to take from you ~ to give your hard earned money to those who have found its easier to go to Walmart with a SNAP card and buy their name brand cereals, soda, chips and junk food while buying their beer, cigarettes and iphones.  When are you going to say ENOUGH.  And Fight for what is yours.  Democrats thrive on keeping you beholden to them with the promise of “taking care of you” and in so doing making us all slaves to them. 

I refuse to sit by and watch my country go to hell in a handbasket because the leftist progressive ideology wants to change our country into something it was never intended to be.

 -signed a proud, far right conservative Tea Party Patriot.  

The race card should NEVER be used in this country.  And it is not the conservatives who keep up the derogatory narrative.  We don't have to take it anymore.  FIGHT.  PUSH BACK.  Don't let them race card you into silence.

-cross posted at Smart Girl Politics