Are you a fearless voter?
www.fearlessvoter.com The Fear. Yesterday was Constitution Day. There wasn't much hoopla about it that I could tell, but then I rarely participate in the multi-billion dollar industry of what is passed off for news in our country. After 7 years – read, post-9/11 — of conservative media consumption, I'm pretty much on the wagon with the exception of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, which airs at 8 a.m. on local broadcast TV. I'm invariably late for church most Sundays because I am a major Brit Hume fan and can hardly tear myself away during the second segment of the Power Panel. I truly thrill when this great old newsman one-ups Juan Williams when the poor Liberal is being a donkey's patootie. Fortunately for me, that happens often enough and the Rector is now resigned to seeing my smiling face arrive at 9:07 a.m. – 7 minutes late – and he simply smiles and nods. He understands. Whether he agrees or not, he knows what I am up against and it's okay. Three days after Arab Muslims terrorized the U.S.A. with jet planes was the day I subscribed to cable TV and discovered conservative talk radio. It took me that many days for my mind to fully comprehend what had happened. Three days I sat glued to the box waiting, not sleeping, hoping desperately for someone to come on and tell us that it was a terrible Hollywood stunt, the perpetrators were now in custody awaiting maximum punishment and that life as I, we, once knew it could resume. It didn't and the damage was done. If it wasn't before, Fear was now every American's companion. The Bible says, For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7, Amplified) I'm not a Bible scholar or theologian by any means, nor do I purport myself to be any kind of expert on God. What I am is just your basic Midwestern American girl who's pushing the underbelly of 50, letting my gray grow out, recovering from wandering around for 40 years of American life in a desert called Liberalism and saved by the grace of God. I am also employed with an associated fundraiser dialing for dollars for several non-profits including various levels of the Republican Party. Since 2004 I've had meaningful 3-4 minute conversations with about 12,000 good-willed Americans (mostly Republicans, but not all) across the country with only 1 complaint and $1,000,000-raised for my employer's clients. In my book, that's a lot of pulse taking of the American voting constituency and day-in-and-day-out I hear it over and over – Fear. When you are a faceless voice on the other end of a phone talking with people about a subject that is very near and dear to them, they will often tell you things they would never say otherwise. They will sometimes tell you that they'll never vote Democrat, but they'll never say they won't show up to vote. They will tell you they won't give the Republicans money until the Party gets some backbone, but they'll never say it's their elected officials who are the problems. They will tell you that they'll vote for who they perceive to be the lesser of two evils, but they'll never say it's still evil because, well, he's OUR evil. Besides, if the vote isn't cast for the lesser of two evils, then it must be a wasted vote because then it's a one-half vote for the greater of two evils. HUH? And the greater of two evils is really scary. Well, okay. Now we're at the root of the problem. Apparently, in the mind of many voting-age Americans, it no longer matters that neither of the Big 2 Parties' candidates are sufficiently Constitutional in their articulated positions and/or voting records to merit even a single American vote in the first place, but now it's okay and even socially esteemed to vote for the candidate who is just slightly less damaging to our country and her people than the other one? Huh? Since when is it acceptable in America to cast a vote for President of the United States based on fear? Just days before the Republican National Convention, the Media were reporting speculations that John McCain might name a pro-choice candidate for VP. The Conservatives went ballistic. Church-goers and leaders, already knowing they'd been betrayed by the nomination of McCain at the top of the ticket, for some unknown reason thought it plausible that if they threatened the Party one more time with mutiny and the seeking out of an alternative that better suited their convictions, they would be heard. Who knows if the Party was actually listening or not, they certainly tried to spin it that way, so let's look at the reality of events. Yes, Sarah Palin was offered the job just a week or so before the announcement and yes, McCain and she had only had a meal together a couple of weeks before that. But the real key here is what happened back in February at the Governors' Conference where they first met.
RE: Are you a fearless voter?
Thank you, well put. Now if we can get the patted on the head group to really wake up, we might save this country. Jerry -Original Message- From: missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charity Davis Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:10 AM To: Charity Davis Subject: Are you a fearless voter? www.fearlessvoter.com The Fear. Yesterday was Constitution Day. There wasn't much hoopla about it that I could tell, but then I rarely participate in the multi-billion dollar industry of what is passed off for news in our country. After 7 years – read, post-9/11 — of conservative media consumption, I'm pretty much on the wagon with the exception of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, which airs at 8 a.m. on local broadcast TV. I'm invariably late for church most Sundays because I am a major Brit Hume fan and can hardly tear myself away during the second segment of the Power Panel. I truly thrill when this great old newsman one-ups Juan Williams when the poor Liberal is being a donkey's patootie. Fortunately for me, that happens often enough and the Rector is now resigned to seeing my smiling face arrive at 9:07 a.m. – 7 minutes late – and he simply smiles and nods. He understands. Whether he agrees or not, he knows what I am up against and it's okay. Three days after Arab Muslims terrorized the U.S.A. with jet planes was the day I subscribed to cable TV and discovered conservative talk radio. It took me that many days for my mind to fully comprehend what had happened. Three days I sat glued to the box waiting, not sleeping, hoping desperately for someone to come on and tell us that it was a terrible Hollywood stunt, the perpetrators were now in custody awaiting maximum punishment and that life as I, we, once knew it could resume. It didn't and the damage was done. If it wasn't before, Fear was now every American's companion. The Bible says, For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7, Amplified) I'm not a Bible scholar or theologian by any means, nor do I purport myself to be any kind of expert on God. What I am is just your basic Midwestern American girl who's pushing the underbelly of 50, letting my gray grow out, recovering from wandering around for 40 years of American life in a desert called Liberalism and saved by the grace of God. I am also employed with an associated fundraiser dialing for dollars for several non-profits including various levels of the Republican Party. Since 2004 I've had meaningful 3-4 minute conversations with about 12,000 good-willed Americans (mostly Republicans, but not all) across the country with only 1 complaint and $1,000,000-raised for my employer's clients. In my book, that's a lot of pulse taking of the American voting constituency and day-in-and-day-out I hear it over and over – Fear. When you are a faceless voice on the other end of a phone talking with people about a subject that is very near and dear to them, they will often tell you things they would never say otherwise. They will sometimes tell you that they'll never vote Democrat, but they'll never say they won't show up to vote. They will tell you they won't give the Republicans money until the Party gets some backbone, but they'll never say it's their elected officials who are the problems. They will tell you that they'll vote for who they perceive to be the lesser of two evils, but they'll never say it's still evil because, well, he's OUR evil. Besides, if the vote isn't cast for the lesser of two evils, then it must be a wasted vote because then it's a one-half vote for the greater of two evils. HUH? And the greater of two evils is really scary. Well, okay. Now we're at the root of the problem. Apparently, in the mind of many voting-age Americans, it no longer matters that neither of the Big 2 Parties' candidates are sufficiently Constitutional in their articulated positions and/or voting records to merit even a single American vote in the first place, but now it's okay and even socially esteemed to vote for the candidate who is just slightly less damaging to our country and her people than the other one? Huh? Since when is it acceptable in America to cast a vote for President of the United States based on fear? Just days before the Republican National Convention, the Media were reporting speculations that John McCain might name a pro-choice candidate for VP. The Conservatives went ballistic. Church-goers and leaders, already knowing they'd been betrayed by the nomination of McCain at the top of the ticket, for some unknown reason thought it plausible that if they threatened the Party one more time with mutiny and the seeking out of an alternative that better suited their convictions, they would be heard. Who knows if the
China Blames Wall Street Meltdown On Fed Over Issuance Of Currency
Should we learn how to speak Chinese in the very near future ?? China Blames Wall Street Meltdown On Fed Overissuance Of Currency http://www.infowars.com/?p=4695 Friday, September 19, 2008 China's state media today reports on the real reason behind the Wall Street meltdown and a subject that the mainstream US media dare not mention - the Federal Reserve's overissuance of currency - which the Chinese say is part of a wider agenda to justify increased control over the global economy. The Bush administration today announcedhttp://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080919/financial_meltdown.htmla plan to use hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to buy up up bad mortgages and other debts. The process of injecting more fiat money into an already over-inflated system had the desired effect - the Dow Jones shot up 450 points - but the dollar, following a brief jump, began to plummet. According to numerous Chinese state media news sources today, the Federal Reserve's continued zeal for propping up the market by injecting illusory liquidity is part of an agenda to gain trust and grease the skids for increased government intervention in financial markets. China Finance , China News and Chaobao Financial News, all state owned media outlets, slammed the Fed for taking action that will only make long term economic conditions worse and devalue the dollar by creating money that does not exist which leads to the inflation of liquidity, a policy contrary to China's position as a holder of vast reserves of US dollars. The analyst quoted by Chaobao Financial News highlighted that when there is market failure, the paramount purpose of government intervention should be saving the market for the benefit of the people: Relief, Recovery and then Reform, and that Protecting the rights of people who are suffering in the housing market and as a result of high oil prices should be treated as a priority. The analyst added that by concentrating on saving just a few large financial companies, the Fed is creating wider financial chaos while arousing anger and suspicion by only protecting and encouraging large companies' wrong doing. CEIBS Professor of Economics and Finance Xu Xiaonian told a conference yesterday that The fundamental source of Wall Street's meltdown is caused by Federal Reserve overissuing currency. He cautioned that the US government has already exceeded its scope in terms of intervention compared with their usual policy. Similar sentiments were echoed by economist Zuo Xiaolie, who said that the amount of money injected into the market will have little real impact, but that such measures are a Narrow minded way that the Federal Reserve uses to diversify the pressure of currency adjustment to other countries, which leads to the devaluation of the dollar, causing imbalance in the global economy. The amount of money that has been put into the market can not fundamentally save the market, said Xiaolie, adding that the move was merely part of an agenda to regain the trust and justify future further intervention in the economy. On Wednesday, China's official People's Daily newspaper, the voice of the ruling Communist party, said that the US had unleashed economic weapons of mass destruction and set off a financial tsunami by allowing Wall Street lenders to trade in subprime debts and unstable financial derivatives, according to a Press TV reporthttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=69805sectionid=351020404 . China has previously threatenedhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xmlto liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries, amounting to $1.33 trillion, if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation. The Communist power has also repeatedly expressed its anger at the Fed's indifference to the weakening dollar. If China were to dump the dollar it would likely set in motion a chain of events that would lead to a collapse of the greenback. We know we are in trouble when the Chinese Communist Party sound like bastions of sound money policy and fiscal conservatism in comparison to the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve, who in creating more money out of thin air continue to bail out their friends on Wall Street while the economic future of hundreds of millions of American citizens is sold down the river. SOURCES Chaobao Financial News: http://www.usqiaobao.com/zhuanlan/2008-07/24/content_127956.htm China Finance: http://www.caijing.com.cn/2008-09-18/110013626.html China News: http://www.fywj.gov.cn/Article.asp?id=3219 *Translations provided by Yihan Dai.* Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- John Quincy Adams -- http://417-political-pundit.blogspot.com/ www.moliberty.org lite a fire for a man he'll be warm for a day, lite the man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't
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GREAT ARTICLE http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd393.htm -- http://417-political-pundit.blogspot.com/ www.moliberty.org lite a fire for a man he'll be warm for a day, lite the man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -Pericles (430 B.C.) In fact, there is a direct correlation between loyalty to one's spouse and the trustworthiness, sincerity, honesty and strength of leadership required to lead a nation. ~John Edwards~ no cause is lost if there is but one fool to fight for it ~Will Turner~ ~Pirate's of the Caribbean @ World's End~ Save your property rights www.mo-cpr.org http://www.radiofreeliberty.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
