President Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

A Letter to the President:

Dear President Obama,

How outstanding that you’ve been recognized today as a man of peace. Your swift, early pronouncements — you will close Guantanamo, you will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear weapon-free world, you admitted to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, you made that great speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, you’ve eliminated that useless term “The War on Terror,” you’ve put an end to torture — these have all made us and the rest of the world feel a bit more safe considering the disaster of the past eight years. In eight months you have done an about face and taken this country in a much more sane direction.

But…

The irony that you have been awarded this prize on the 2nd day of the ninth year of what is quickly becoming your War in Afghanistan is not lost on anyone. You are truly at a crossroads now. You can listen to the generals and expand the war (only to result in a far-too-predictable defeat) or you can declare Bush’s Wars over, and bring all the troops home. Now. That’s what a true man of peace would do.

There is nothing wrong with you doing what the last guy failed to do — capture the man or men responsible for the mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11. BUT YOU CANNOT DO THAT WITH TANKS AND TROOPS. You are pursuing a criminal, not an army. You do not use a stick of dynamite to get rid of a mouse.

The Taliban is another matter. That is a problem for the people of Afghanistan to resolve — just as we did in 1776, the French did in 1789, the Cubans did in 1959, the Nicaraguans did in 1979 and the people of East Berlin did in 1989. One thing is certain through all revolutions by people who wish to be free — they ultimately have to bring about that freedom themselves. Others can be supportive, but freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else’s Humvee.

You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don’t, you’ll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. Your opposition has spent the morning attacking you for bringing such good will to this country. Why do they hate America so much? I get the feeling that if you found the cure for cancer this afternoon they’d be denouncing you for destroying free enterprise because cancer centers would have to close. There are those who say you’ve done nothing yet to deserve this award. As far as I’m concerned, the very fact that you’ve offered to walk into the minefield of hate and try to undo the irreparable damage the last president did is not only appreciated by me and millions of others, it is also an act of true bravery. That’s why you got the prize. The whole world is depending on the U.S. — and you — to literally save this planet. Let’s not let them down.

Engage Today 2009 Conference Event

What if you could learn directly from some of the World’s greatest thinkers including Richard Branson, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Bill Harris, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama? It doesn’t happen very often where you get the chance to learn directly from some of the world’s top thinkers and business leaders .. but that’s exactly the opportunity I wanted to share with you!

Some of the world’s brightest entrepreneurs will converge on Calgary from September 30th to October 3rd to ‘engage community to change the world.’

Engage Today (www.engagetodayevent.com) brings together top business leaders to explore how they can use business and commerce to create the catalyst for positive economic, social and environmental change.

This international conference will bring the world together under one simple theme – by engaging business, organizations and individuals in our community, we create the catalyst for positive change from an economic, social and environmental perspective.

You may not be able to attend the live event in Canada but by simply participating in the FREE training calls you will be able to tap into the wisdom of world-renowned super-achievers, expand your thinking, potentially transform your life and even make a significance difference to the world. And right now the world is in need of individuals, like you, who want to make a significant difference!

Specifically, the greatest challenge for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors is to use their organization to create positive change in the world. We are eager to make a difference and create change, but we are not sure how to utilize our resources effectively to ignite the passion and enthusiasm to bring forth that change in the world.

Engage Today will provide the international business, investment and non-profit communities the opportunity to see first-hand how many of the world’s leaders are creating significant change through their organizations. You will learn how to bring about change and ignite your passion, whether you are the CEO of a major international corporation, the owner of a small business, a sole proprietor or anywhere in between.

Engage Today will draw attendees together from around the world to be inspired, empowered and educated on how they can use business and commerce for the good of the local and global community.

Keynote speakers include, but is not limited to:

Sir Richard Branson, president and founder of Virgin Group. Its 200 companies employ 50,000 people in 29 countries in the aviation, entertainment, hospitality and leisure, telecommunications, financial services, health and wellness and clean energy industries. Richard in 2004 launched Virgin Unite to pull together the Group’s international resources and staff. They have helped create sustainable health clinics in Africa and fostered new entrepreneurs through the Branson School of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.

Dr. Stephen R. Covey. Recognized as one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Americans, Dr. Stephen R. Covey has dedicated his life to demonstrating how every person can control their destiny. An internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant and author, Dr. Covey has sold over 20 million books in 38 languages, including the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the 20th Century, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Bill Harris owner of  CenterPoint Research, and his principles of how to quickly and easily create the mindset to overcome obstacles and take control of the life you want.

Janet Bray Attwood, visionary leader and world humanitarian. Janet is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life’s Purpose. She and her co-author Chris Attwood have trained more than 450 Passion Test Facilitators around the world. She earned the President’s Volunteer Service Award for her work with kids and teens in detention centers and homeless men and women in transition.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Conference attendees, from leaders of international corporations to small business owners and sole proprietors, will have the special opportunity to hear the Tibetan spiritual leader speak in an intimate presentation at the University of Calgary.

South African President F.W. deKlerk shares his extraordinary story of ending apartheid and releasing Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison — and what it took to create such historic change in an entire culture.

Tony Hsieh reveals the secrets of how his focus on service and value (and not just money) allowed him to change an industry, and engineer the sale of his company, Zappos.com, to Amazon for over $900 million

Carol Cone shows how to integrate your values and commitment social issues into your business for significant bottom-line impact.

Brendon Burchard provides powerful case studies of others reaching breakthrough results because of this new model of social capitalism.

Bryan Adams and K.D. Lang.  Exclusive concerts by these award-winning musicians are planned as part of the conference.

Engage Today is the brainchild of Greg Habstritt, founder and president of SimpleWealth and the Real Equity Group of Companies. With more than 20 years of entrepreneurial and investment experience, Greg has founded, built and sold more than a dozen companies; become a millionaire with four businesses in four industries; and received numerous awards, including Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

To find out more, visit www.engagetodayevent.com.

This conference will change our world. The global economic crisis has been a wake-up call to all of us.  Now you have the chance to join some of the top thought leaders and business people in the world to create a new paradigm for our relationship with wealth, prosperity and success. I wouldn’t miss this opportunity for anything and I hope you won’t either.

Hope to see you all there!

How To Read People Before They Ever Say A Word

Committed to my own personal growth, I continue ongoing academic studies, educational programs, apprenticeships, and volunteer programs to deepen and expand my personal, as well as professional knowledge, experience, and capabilities.

Every so often (and not very often at all!) I come across a personal growth program that I truly believe is worth recommending and sharing. Today, I want to introduce you to a uniquely beneficial program that I implement on a daily basis, and I am certain you will want in your learning library.

This is a remarkable “must have” program. Please indulge me a moment while I explain why.

Joe Navarro is a former counterintelligence officer for the FBI and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior. He spent his professional career developing a system for “reading” people that is used today by this top government agency.

This is not a program about the meaning of crossed arms! It’s an in-depth, easy-to-learn system for reading people’s true intentions through their body language. The truth is, what Joe has to say in this program is riveting, informative, and tremendously applicable to every encounter you have with every individual you now know or will meet.

I’m sure you’ve considered learning a new foreign language at some point in your life. Why? So you would be able to communicate in ways you couldn’t before. Well, Joe reminds us there is a language that will tell us more about an individual than any words can.

In his new program, The Power of Body Language, (published by Nightingale-Conant) he explains how to “speed-read” people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. What’s more, he unveils how YOUR body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and even strangers think of you.

Filled with examples from Navarro’s professional experience, this definitive program offers a powerful new way to navigate your world. You’ll learn:

? The ancient survival instincts that drive body language

? Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person’s true feelings

? What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives

? The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments

? Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust or communicate authority

(just to name a few!)

If you think learning a new language is important, put it on hold until you master learning about body language. You’ll be armed with the “decoder secret” about people’s motives and attitudes that most people never realize exist — knowledge that will change your life in ways you can’t begin to imagine.

It will take only one listen to The Power of Body Language, for you to learn how to detect what people really mean. It will send your nonverbal intelligence soaring! I guarantee that this program is going to give you an amazing edge when negotiating or even just getting to know a person for the first time. I find it very helpful when being approached by people interested in new business deals … or by guys who want to date my daughter!

Live In Joy!

Lilly

Laura Ling & Euna Lee Say “Thank You” (VIDEO)

On March 17, 2009, our colleagues, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were arrested by
North Korean guards while reporting along the China-North Korea border.
After 140 days detained in North Korea, Laura and Euna returned home.

You can watch this “thank you” message and a full Vanguard special tribute to
Laura and Euna tonight on Current TV.

Laura and Euna Tribute
August 13, 6PM EST
August 14, 1PM EST
August 15, 12PM EST, 11PM EST
August 16, 10PM EST

Source: http://sharetool.co.cc/share.php?url=current.com/items/90672274_thank-you-from-laura-and-euna.htm

Marijuana Has Anti-Cancer Properties

(NaturalNews) The active ingredient in marijuana appears to target cancerous brain cells for destruction while leaving healthy cells alone, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Complutense University in Madrid, and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Researchers first conducted an experiment in mice that had been engineered to carry three different grafts of human brain cancer. They injected the mice daily with the molecule tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) near the site of the tumors once each day. The chemical appeared to stimulate the cancerous cells to engage in a process known as autophagy, in which cells initiate their own breakdown.

“These results may help to design new cancer therapies based on the use of medicines containing the active principle of marijuana and/or in the activation of autophagy,” researcher Guillermo Velasco said.

THC belongs to a class of chemicals known as cannabinoids, named after the cannabis (marijuana) plant in which they occur. It is the chemical responsible for the psychoactive effects of marijuana consumption.

In a followup experiment, the researchers extracted and analyzed brain tissue from two patients with an aggressive form of brain cancer known as “recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.” The patients were treated with THC for either 26 or 30 days, then the researchers extracted and analyzed another sample.

After examining the brain tissue under an electron microscope, the researchers discovered that THC treatment resulted in death of cancerous cells but had no effect on healthy ones. The researchers were also able to discover the signaling pathway by which THC acts.

The research opens up the possibility that cannabinoid research could yield “a new family of potential antitumoral agents,” the researchers wrote.

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor. Without treatment, the average patient lives only three months after being diagnosed with the cancer. Treatment extends the average life expectancy after diagnosis by less than a year.

Sources for this story include: rawstory.com; health.usnews.com.

Saturday, July 25, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

Like Orpheus, Michael Jackson was destroyed by his fans

Another beautiful boy is gone, wiped out in an instant. Michael Jackson, unable to cross the threshold into manhood, has died at 50, still a boy, coquettish, fantasy-ridden, horribly vulnerable, unable to take control of his life.

His sudden death is a strange kind of victory. He had managed to prevent his aging and even his growing up. There was no beard upon his chin; his voice was a childish treble. Instead of entering middle age and letting himself be chained to earth, he has floated away like a wisp, annihilated on the brink of a 50-date concert tour that I for one was dreading.

It’s all very well for Madonna to be cranking out tour after tour. As she could neither dance nor sing at 25 no one is going to mind that she still can’t do it at 50. But to see Michael Jackson faking it would have been heartbreaking. Among the hearts that would have broken is Jackson’s own. It has snapped before the debacle. He has been spared.

According to Madonna “the world has lost one of the greats”. We haven’t lost Michael Jackson, because he cannot disappear. His three great albums will last as long as electronic media continues to exist, while the dross is forgotten.

The era of his astonishing creativity ended 20 years ago; most of what has happened since has been embarrassment. Jackson’s kind of transcendental creativity is typical of very young men; it seldom survives into manhood, when the glory fades into the light of common day. Jackson succeeded in prolonging his brilliant boyhood into his thirties, but eventually he ran out of inspiration.

His art had been fuelled by the vernacular culture of the streets but it was many years since he had been able to run with the kids on the block. As his imagination faltered and grew dim, the fending off of maturity became desperate, demented and pointless. The struggle against ageing turned into self-harming and self-mutilation.

Ever since Dionysos danced ahead of his horde of bloody-footed maenads across the rocky highlands of prehistoric Greece, dance and song have been the province of boys. Like Orpheus, Jackson was destroyed by his fans, whose adulation and adoration prevented his living in any kind of normal society. The creativity ebbed away day by day. He became a parody of himself. It is time now to forget all that and salute the miraculous boy who will triumph over death as Dionysos did, becoming immortal through his art.

Nowhere will his contribution be more obvious and his influence more strongly felt than in the world of dance. No choreographer of the last 30 years has been unaware of Jackson’s achievement. He rewrote the vocabulary of dance for everyone, from kids competing in talent shows to the royal ballets of Europe.

If the dance establishment did not often acknowledge his influence it was because there was no need. His shapes, his moves were everywhere.

Nijinsky and Nureyev also died young. They, too, were transcendent dancing boys, but they chose to interpret the choreography supplied to them by others.

By contrast Michael Jackson’s art was astonishingly innovative. No one could dance like him, until he showed them how, and then they were never as good as he was. His concept of the dance was utterly 20th century, extravagantly multi-dimensional, and not in the least middle class.

Nijinsky may have been the greatest Spectre de la Rose, Nureyev the greatest Corsair, but these two candles pale in the light of Jackson’s blazing star. The surprise is not that we have lost him, but that we ever had him at all.

Article by Germaine Greer

Tomorrow’s Full Moon & the Angel of Light and Shadow

If you are experiencing some Monday Madness today, you are not alone. The Full Moon is tomorrow and 5 planets are retrograde: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron – wow! The word lunacy was created for a Full Moon like this one (lunacy: intermittent insanity, formerly believed to be related to phases of the moon.)

If it feels harder to accomplish your goals this week, take the retrograde planets and Full Moon into account and carefully discern what is actually creating the drag.

The heaviness is not about your intentions or guidance being out of alignment – it is all about using whatever heaviness you are experiencing to identify where you have inner resistance to accomplishing your mission. The heaviness, or hardships, that are appearing now are blessings in disguise as difficulties.

They are designed in cooperation with your Higher Self and Creator to focus your attention on precise points of self-awareness. Using plenty of self-kindness, self-compassion and self-forgiveness as you so this (remember to invoke the Angels of Kindness, Compassion and Forgiveness as you do this.)

Use this Full Moon to listen to your Higher Self and your Shadow Self – both of these inner selves intend to help you by guiding you to focus on what is ready to shift from fear to love within you during this Full Moon.

You can invoke your Guardian Angels and the Angel of Light and Shadow to help you with this and use this time to receive a very special and potent flow of Grace. We are all making a Powerful Passage of Light from the recent Solstice through Tuesday’s Capricorn Full Moon.

As the Full Moon approaches it is likely that you may feel a heaviness as you are working on carrying out your plans. Your Angels are with you and this sense of heaviness will be a great Spiritual Teacher if you allow it to be so.

Your Angels

This full moon is a special opportunity to take maximum advantage of your Angel’s Gifts of Clear Guidance, Strong Support, Encouragement and Assistance to help you accomplish your goals and intentions for this year.

This Capricorn Full Moon is the one Full Moon of the year that focuses primarily on Your Spiritual Teachers – Your Guardian Angels, the Saints, Sages, Masters and Avatars that have guided your soul’s evolution in this life, your past life, and your future lives. Your spiritual teachers are committed to you for the entire journey of your soul – from now through your total and complete liberation as a fully conscious, fully self-realized being of perfect loving consciousness.

This is great news! There is help at every step of your journey and each step of your journey is of vital importance to your awakening. Your teachers light the path before you with unconditional love, infinite compassion, patience, mercy, forgiveness and grace. Grace is the loving gift of your Angels that dissolves difficult Karma and expands your Soul’s greatest gifts.

This celestial configuration supports you in expanding the power of your Love, Compassion, Communication, Cooperation, Respect, Kindness and Generosity. Your Angels will help you find a deeper connection to your soul’s true purpose and to your perfect place in the Divine Plan.

Your Angels always bring you into greater Love and Peace. As you do your part to receive and accept the most valuable wisdom your teacher’s can bring you right now, you will find greater energy, flow and expansion for your Soul’s highest purpose at this time.

Your Angels do their part to partner with you for clearer Co-Creative power. They understand that as we work to express our gifts, we call upon Source for greater love and greater power. They answer every call for love with love and give their full support to our highest intentions.

Live in Joy!
Lilly

The King, The Angel, and The Human Laugh Track

Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

June, 25th 2009

June 25th 2009

June 24th, 2009

Crop Circles – Organized Harmonic Forms of Energy

Crop circles are organized harmonic forms of energy comprised of light, sound and magnetism which physically manifest as geometric patterns when they interact with our physical world. To date, 10,000 crop circles have been reported in 29 countries, and have appeared in mediums such as wheat, barley, canola, trees, ice, rice paddies, even linseed.

Contrary to popular perception, crop circles are not a modern phenomenon. They were witnessed by policemen and farmers as far back as 1890, they exist in the centuries-old folklore of South Africa and China, and are mentioned in 17th Century academic texts.

Over eighty eyewitnesses have reported crop circles forming in under fifteen seconds; these witnesses describe incandescent balls of light which either precede a crop circle or are actively involved in its creation; in some cases shafts of light descend onto a field and swirled the crop into a geometric shape.

Around 1980 serious attention was finally given to the phenomenon, primarily in southern England, where 90% of designs are reported. They appeared primarily as simple circles, yet by the late 1980s they had developed into pictograms, not unlike the petroglyphs found at sacred sites. After 1990 the designs developed exponentially in complexity, and today it is not unusual to come across crop glyphs mimicking computer fractals and elements expressing fourth dimensional processes in quantum physics.

To quell the public’s growing interest in crop circles, the British Military created two sexagenarian characters named Doug and Dave, and presented them to the media via a fictitious press agency as the makers of all crop circles. Once in a while, governments like to control public interest in unexplained phenomena they cannot control by ‘debunking’ — a technique developed by the US government after WWII for the sad purpose of controlling mass opinion (as stated in the 1953 Robertson Panel). This method is very effective because it makes use of two extraordinarily simple tools of mass control — ridicule and fear. When later confronted to provide evidence of their alleged creations, Doug and Dave changed their stories and reversed previous claims; they could not even explain the anomalous features they allegedly made. Thus, their story was entirely fabricated. Later, in 1998, the surviving member of the deceptive duo admitted to British newspapers that he’d been “guided by an unknown force”.

A hoax is a forgery, and forgers require a genuine from which to copy. So, what exactly lies behind real crop circles? In genuine formations the stems are not broken but bent, defeating the hoax argument, since a plank or garden roller is required to flatten the crop to the ground, resulting in clear damage to the plants.

The plants are subjected to a short and intense burst of heat which softens the stems to drop just above the ground at 90C, where they re-harden into their new position without damage. Research and laboratory tests suggest that infrasound is capable of producing such an effect: High-pressure infrasound is capable of boiling water inside the stems in one nanosecond, expanding the water, and leaving tiny blowholes in the plants’ nodes. The pressure applied also causes the water to steam, and it is reported by farmers that when they stumble upon a new crop circle they see steam rising from within the design. This process creates surface charring along the stems.

It has been scientifically documented that soil samples taken from within crop circles show changes to its crystalline structure and mineral composition. Expert analysis concludes that heat of 1500C would create such a change. Hardly the kind of anomalies created by pranksters with planks!

Crop circles also show existence of ultrasound, and such frequencies are known to exist at ancient sites such as stone circles and menhirs. And like all ancient sacred sites, crop circles appear at the intersecting points of the Earth’s magnetic pathways of energy; thus the size and shape of a crop circle is typically determined by the area of these ‘node’ points at the time of their appearance. This electric and magnetic energy can interact with brainwave patterns, and because the human body is itself electro-magnetic, crop circles are known to affect people’s biophysical rhythms. Consequently, it is not unusual for people to experience heightened states of awareness and healings in crop circles — a situation also common to sacred sites and holy spaces.

Biophysical evidence shows the plants’ nodes (its knuckles) are drastically extended, seed embryos are altered, and the existence of expulsion cavities in the plants as if they have been heated from the inside. In genuine formations there is also a reorganization of the plant’s crystalline structure. Other evidence from crop circles shows how the floors of laid plants are swirled in mathematical proportions relative to the Golden Mean, the vortex used by nature to create organisms such as shells and sunflowers.

Genuine crop circles are not perfectly round but slightly elliptical (a hoax, requiring a fixed central rope, cannot achieve this adequately). Their edges are crisply defined from the flattened crop as if drawn with a compass, and incised with surgical precision.

Mathematically, genuine crop circles have yielded five new mathematical theorems. based on Euclidian geometry. They are also encoded with sacred geometry – those harmonic ratios that govern the relationship between the orbits of planets in our solar system.

Crop circles alter the local electromagnetic field; often compasses cannot locate north, cameras and cellular phones malfunction, packs of fresh batteries are drained in minutes, and the frequencies are known to affect helicopter and aircraft equipment. Radio frequencies are markedly different inside their space; local farm animals avoid the crop circles or simply act agitated hours before one materializes.

August 15-21, FREDDY SILVA, one of the world’s leading experts on crop circles and sacred space, will show us how the temples of Stonehenge and Avebury (and genuine crop circles, should we encounter some along the way) are strategically placed at special points along the Earth — the interstellar conveyor belts — where information can be received and coded. He will share how ancestral temple altars, crop circles and the human soul are linked via resonance; how orbs may be an expression of one’s own soul; and how, from time to time, these forms manifest as “the tall ones” from our ancient history.

Join them for this exploration for it may indeed be the most important event taking place in your lifetime. Find out how you can take your place in this adventure by visiting www.greatmystery.org/events/salisbury09.html.

Sponsored by The Prophets Conference & The Great Rethinking
www.greatmystery.org

The letter everyone should read

I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I’m not a racist. This isn’t to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don’t you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don’t you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don’t trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ?? what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we’ll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band?Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let’s have it. Let’s say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ?? please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let’s just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I’m busy. I’m busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don’t want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we’re morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we’re so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have canceled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn’t ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don’t care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26742/

An Open Letter to our Nation’s Leadership

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