Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life

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Well, here we are.
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David over at NRO has an interesting piece….it’s sort of written in code. You have to have a certain level of literacy and political awareness to get his meaning. You PhD’s are mostly WAY TOO SMART to understand what he is talking about. But for the regular folks…give it a read.
And then weep, and then like so many in the conservative sphere, I’m thinking it’s time to start SHRUGGING.
My husband is a computer geek genius. Many times over the years he has worked himself to the edge of his health. The latest “death march” marathon at work culminated in him saying to me with tears in his eyes, “Sometimes I feel like I have this whole company resting on my shoulders.”
Now Paul has never read Atlas Shrugged. He is a sports fanatic who loves to follow his favorite teams in his spare time. He passionately watches his childrens ball games. Yet he is exactly the “heroic” man of the mind that Ayn Rand so eloquently describes in her books. When he made that statement to me after several nights with no sleep with managers and clients literally screaming at him to work harder, faster, better. I looked him right in the eye and I said, “SHRUG”.
Granted, he is well compensated for his mental efforts on behalf of his company and I told him that I supported whatever he chose to do. But for me, losing his sleep, his health, his ability to function for a job was just not worth it.
I told him I would be willing to go live in a shack and just do menial labor with him for the rest of my life if it meant he could relax and be healthy. But he takes his responsibility to provide for our family so seriously, he just looked at me like I was nuts.
When pondering the looters coming into the pocketbooks of those of us who produce to be used for whatever purposes they feel is the definition of hope and change, I have come up with some suggestions for ways that mothers and fathers can better hold on to what they produce so that the tax collectors and mob are not able to steal the fruits of our labors.
What is most chilling to me when considering the collective taking over, is the lifestyle they may impose on dedicated homemakers. I see the outlawing of homeschool and forced preschool as the beginning. The Collectivised countrys in our world like Cuba and China have no problem stealing children from their parents to be used for the collective good of the country. I watched all those little chinese gymnasts at the olympics who had been taken from their homes to serve mother china at the tender age of three and four.
And the Cuban government kidnaps the children when they turn six.
I wonder how many ignorant and naive mothers of large families who just voted in the election for hope and change will be gobsmacked when the collective tells them (or their daughters) how many children from their wombs mother earth can manage to sustain. And if those mothers choose to become pregnant with more than one child will they be sterilized or aborted like our sisters in China?
Well, time will tell.
Practical ideas for stay at home mothers intent on providing a legitimate financial future for their children and grandchildren.
1. Put in a supply of survival foods and a large garden and while you work with your children teach them the principles of Constitutional Government
2. Learn the self reliant skills of Mothering like home nursing, childbirth, herbs, and cooking from scratch so that you do not have to pay cash for these services
3. Learn a practical skill that can be used as a bartering tool. Instead of paying cash for cutting hair, dog walking/grooming, tutoring, child care, pre school etc, etc…learn one or two of these skills yourself and be ready to barter with other women so that you do not have to be involved in the cash flow of our American Economy.
4. Ecourage your children to learn a basic skill or start a small home business to provide the necessities of life, and then work that skill to give food, clothing, and shelter to his or her family with an emphasis on farming and homesteading – but pull back from participation in the economic world of colleges, universities, and media while continuing to study, as time permits, all areas of technology, political science, commerce, international relations, and the Arts, so that when the collapse comes (And I’m thinking maybe twenty years), a whole new generation of young americans will be ready to rebuild. I know many of you homeschoolers already are doing and planning these things as it is, but I believe it is time to take it to a much higher level.
5. Get a shotgun, lots of ammo, and learn how to use it.
6. Don’t be afraid of the Looters.
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Some ideas for the fathers who work the jobs that provide for the mothers and the children
(And I know I am being somewhat sexist in these gross stereotypes, assuming that Fathers are the bread winners in a given home – if the situation is reversed and Dad is the at home parent, and Mom works, please don’t shoot the messanger, just take these ideas as food for thought)
1. If you are a small business owner making between $250,000.00 and $300,000 per year, consider making certain that your profits etc are never more than $249,999.99 per year. That is IF Obama’s tax plan truly will only penalize companies that earn over 250. If you are a small business owner that makes more than $250,000.00 per year, consider dividing your corporation into parts, re-incorporate them all and make certain no business makes more than $250,000.00 per year.
2. If you work for a corporation, consider asking your employer to keep you in the income bracket that will make it impossible for the Looters to steal your money. For example: If you are making $65,000.00 per year, and are up for a raise and that raise puts you into a catagory where your money can be stolen at a much higher level, ask your employer to let you have one day off per month to spend with your family, rather than getting the raise. Or if your employer is planning to give you a financial bonus, ask instead for a gift that cannot be taxed – more time off to spend with your wife and children…etc..
3. If you are an inventor, scientist, thinker, or person who works with your mind, consider taking a four or eight year sabatical from the marketplace of ideas and put your mind into a vault (lock box) so no looter can rob your intellectual property. Grow a garden and peddle your food door to door, or consider setting up and running your local black market from a garage sale in your home. Do as much bartering of goods as is humanely possible, with no exchange of cash money.
4. Support your wife in her efforts to learn the skills of self reliance, by making sure she always has fast internet connectivity, has a couple hours a week to chat online and/or in person with other mothers who are also preparing and living providently, and is able to gradually wean from the infrastructures of government money using peer support. Be patient as she masters Family Sovereignty. It takes time to learn all of these skills. You should also learn as many self reliant skills as possible, and help her in her mothering by purchasing timely books, curriculums for self education, and the tools of home making.
5. Buy a shot gun, lots of ammo, and learn how to use it to defend your family.
6. Don’t be afraid of the looters.
And remember: “Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!”
Reporting from Galts Gulch in Colorado:
(Oops temporary blindness from Obamamania and wishful thinking)
Reporting from The Peoples Republic of Boulder:
(AKA The Belly of the Beast!)
Jenny Hatch
The Natural Family Company
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PS From beloved writer Leo Tolstoy who believed it was wise to study fiction to learn the truth:

“The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a revolution.”

Who is John Galt???

THE MEN OF THE MIND and VALUE AND VIRTUE
Ninth section of an ongoing project to explore Galt’s Speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand using images and video from current events.

Text by Ayn Rand
Read by Christopher Hurt
Edited for YouTube by XCowboy2
Music by John Williams.
Anthem from my favorite rock band Rush:


Ayn Rand’s Anthem, a novelette

This novelette depicts a world of the future, a society so collectivized that even the word “I” has vanished from the language. Anthem’s theme is: the meaning and glory of man’s ego.

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is widely known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.

She is known as a defender of objective reality, absolute reason, a morality she called rational selfishness/rational egoism, laissez-faire capitalism, and romantic art.

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

–Ayn Rand

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.”

–Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Howard Roarks Speech from the Movie, The Fountainhead



Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Onion Satire
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Hope and Change

Power to the people – God bless the Mormons in California! Prop 8 controversy

One little glimmer of light over the fruited plain
LOS ANGELES (AP) –

In an election otherwise full of liberal triumphs, the gay rights movement suffered a stunning defeat as California voters approved a ban on same-sex marriages that overrides a recent court decision legalizing them.

The constitutional amendment—widely seen as the most momentous of the nation’s 153 ballot measures—will limit marriage to heterosexual couples, the first time such a vote has taken place in a state where gay unions are legal.

Jenny Hatch
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Of which I am a faithful member) has issued this statement about the passage of Proposition 8 in California:
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SALT LAKE CITY 5 November 2008 COMMENTARY

Since Proposition 8 was placed on the ballot in June of this year, the citizens of California have considered the arguments for and against same-sex marriage. After extensive debate between those of different persuasions, voters have chosen to amend the California State Constitution to state that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Voters in Arizona and Florida took the same course and amended their constitutions to establish that marriage will continue to be between a man and a woman.

Such an emotionally charged issue concerning the most personal and cherished aspects of life — family, identity, intimacy and equality — stirs fervent and deep feelings.

Most likely, the election results for these constitutional amendments will not mean an end to the debate over same-sex marriage in this country.

We hope that now and in the future all parties involved in this issue will be well informed and act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility toward those with a different position. No one on any side of the question should be vilified, intimidated, harassed or subject to erroneous information.

It is important to understand that this issue for the Church has always been about the sacred and divine institution of marriage — a union between a man and a woman.

Allegations of bigotry or persecution made against the Church were and are simply wrong. The Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage neither constitutes nor condones any kind of hostility toward gays and lesbians. Even more, the Church does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights, so long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the traditional family or the constitutional rights of churches.

Some, however, have mistakenly asserted that churches should not ever be involved in politics when moral issues are involved. In fact, churches and religious organizations are well within their constitutional rights to speak out and be engaged in the many moral and ethical problems facing society. While the Church does not endorse candidates or platforms, it does reserve the right to speak out on important issues.

Before it accepted the invitation to join broad-based coalitions for the amendments, the Church knew that some of its members would choose not to support its position. Voting choices by Latter-day Saints, like all other people, are influenced by their own unique experiences and circumstances. As we move forward from the election, Church members need to be understanding and accepting of each other and work together for a better society.

Even though the democratic process can be demanding and difficult, Latter-day Saints are profoundly grateful for and respect the ideals of a true democracy.

The Church expresses deep appreciation for the hard work and dedication of the many Latter-day Saints and others who supported the coalitions in efforts regarding these amendments.

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Bens 6th Birthday!

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Our youngest child Benjamin turned six last saturday and we had a party for him at the local rec center. His birth was a milestone in my life, well documented on this blog. These past six years have been pure bliss as I have had the joy of mothering him.
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Ben with his cousin and brother Andy


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Doubts persist about Obama birth certificate

Considerable evidence still points to candidate’s birth in Kenya

HONOLULU – “Even though Hawaii officials now claim to have verified the authenticity of Sen. Barack Obama’s birth certificate – in hopes of ending widespread speculation and even multiple lawsuits challenging the Democrat candidate’s constitutional qualification to be president – it turns out there is still reason for serious questioning.

In fact, there is considerable evidence that Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as the candidate and his campaign have maintained.

…The controversy is further fueled by a video posted on YouTube in which Obama’s Kenyan grandmother Sarah claims to have witnessed personally Obama’s birth in Kenya. The YouTube.com video tape also features Sayid Obama who was interviewed by WND.

To date, Obama and his campaign have refused to disclose the name of the doctor delivering the candidate or the precise hospital where he was born.

The main reason doubts persist regarding Obama’s birth certificate is this question: If an original Hawaii-doctor-generated and Hawaii-hospital-released Obama birth certificate exists, why wouldn’t the senator and his campaign simply order the document released and end the controversy?

That Obama has not ordered Hawaii officials to release the document leaves doubts as to whether an authentic Hawaii birth certificate exists for Obama.

Rather, the failure to release the document fuels the theory – true or not – that the Obama family, shortly after Obama’s birth overseas, returned to Hawaii and registered at the Hawaii Department of Health the original Obama birth certificate that had been issued by the doctor and hospital that delivered Obama in Kenya.”

From the You Tube Video:

“Everybody in Kenya seems to know something about Barack Obama, that Americans don’t know! Hear what they have to say about Barack Obama’s religion and where he was actually born. I guarantee you’ll find it interesting whichever political side you may be on. Remember that the United States Constitution requires that a President must be a “natural born” citizen of the United States – born to American parents on American soil! Stay up-to-date on the latest and hottest issue sparked by the revelations that Obama had posted a fake birth certificate on his website (the forgery was later confirmed as shown in another video). What is Barack Hussein Obama up to? “

Jenny Hatch
The Natural Family Company

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Some of my favorite columnists share final insights on the election

From Blogger Jenny Hatch
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Free Republic Thread on this post
Here is an election roundup from my favorite political commentators:
Mark Steyn: Obama in 2-D (Must Read!!!)
Victor Davis Hanson: The End of Journalism
Thomas Sowell: Ego and Mouth
Ben Johnson: Socialism we can believe in
Michael Freund: Look who’s rooting for Obama
Mark Levin interviews Sarah Palin
Phyllis Schlafly: Big Media Pull Out All Stops to Elect Obama
Cal Thomas: Smoking audio I blogged this story here.
Peter Wehner: Liberals and the Surge (Must read!!!)
QUOTE:

In his April testimony, while stipulating that “the situation in certain areas is still unsatisfactory and innumerable challenges remain,” Petraeus presented an avalanche of statistics illustrating the degree to which “security in Iraq is better than it was when Ambassador Crocker and I reported to you last September, and . . . significantly better than it was 15 months ago when Iraq was on the brink of civil war and the decision was made to deploy additional U.S. forces to Iraq.”

To which Crocker added:

Last September, I said that the cumulative trajectory of political, economic, and diplomatic developments in Iraq was upward, although the slope of that line was not steep. Developments over the last seven months have strengthened my sense of a positive trend.

Which did not stop Barack Obama from taking to the op-ed page of the New York Times two months later to insist that “the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true.” A week later, ABC’s Terry Moran asked Obama if, knowing what he knew now, would he support it? Obama’s answer was “No.” That is, he was still against the surge despite his own belated acknowledgment that it had, in fact, “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

In the effort to reconcile this blatant contradiction—akin to a diagnostician’s continuing to oppose the treatment that made the patient well—he twisted himself into an intellectual pretzel, asserting that the decrease in violence was the result not of any new American strategy but of “political factors inside Iraq that came right at the same time.”

…And so it goes. By the time General Petraeus handed over the flag of his command to General Raymond Odierno in September, the situation in Iraq had been utterly transformed.

…For some liberals, hatred of the President was clearly so all-encompassing that they had developed a deep investment in the failure of what they habitually dismissed not as America’s war but as “Bush’s war.” To an extent, this passion was driven by merely partisan considerations: Iraq had become a superbly effective instrument with which to bludgeon Republicans. It had helped the Democrats take control of both the House and the Senate in 2006; might not a thorough “Republican” defeat in Iraq lastingly reshape the political landscape in their favor?

This is, admittedly, an unpleasant line of speculation, and those foolhardy enough to venture upon it have been loudly condemned for questioning the patriotism of their political adversaries. But patriotism is not the issue—judgment is. When politicians acting in good faith misjudge a situation, nothing prevents them from acknowledging their error and explaining themselves. For the most part, we await such acknowledgments in vain.

In partial extenuation, it might be contended that politicians have an elementary obligation to be responsive to the opinions of their constituents; since Iraq had become a certifiably unpopular cause, stepping out of line on the issue was likely to be regarded as an offense punishable at the polls. But what, then, are we to say of the opinion shapers, the editorial writers of our great newspapers, the essayists and columnists and book authors who, unconstrained by petty interest, present themselves as stalwartly independent spirits willing to follow the truth wherever it may lead? What was at work in them when the evidence of American progress—which started as a trickle, and then became a river, and eventually became a flood—could no longer be denied? For not only did they continue to deny it, but they actively promoted an alternative policy of withdrawal and retreat that would have made an American defeat, and a jihadist and Iranian victory, inevitable. Is it not fair to say that what was at work in them was an ideological antipathy not just to an American President, but to America’s cause?

Fortunately, as I noted at the outset, Americans at large are not so ready to deny the evidence of their senses, and appear open to reasoned argument on the basis of that evidence. For a political leader in high office, this is a great blessing. Some eyes will refuse to open and some ears will refuse to hear and some voices will always be raised high in derision. To act rightly in such circumstances is difficult and often enormously costly; but it is the very essence of leadership. If a leader’s decision is wise, there are grounds for hoping that in time this wisdom will be vindicated and, perhaps, recognized—even in the case of a war once massively unpopular but now winnable.”

Donald Kochan: Selfishness IS a Virtue
As Adam Smith described:

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer employment which is most advantageous to the society . . . . [H]e intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.” — Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk. IV, ch. 2, 397, 399 (D.D. Raphael ed., 1991) (1776).


In his book “Capitalism and Freedom” (1962) Milton Friedman (1912-2006) advocated minimizing the role of government in a free market as a means of creating political and social freedom.
And the final, to me most important, column written about the election in the past month.
Erik Rush: Obama and the Trinity United murders

Members of Chicago’s Trinity United Church (the house of worship attended by Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama for 20 years) already had their Christmas trees up when members of the Chicago press circulated through the city, interviewing many of them as they mourned Donald Young, their 47-year-old choir master who has been found shot dead in his South Side Chicago home on December 3, 2007.

Young, known for having a flamboyant persona, was an openly gay man.

The choir director’s murder and the execution-style murders of two other gay Trinity United congregants within 60 days of each other had gays and blacks terrified over the winter of 2007-2008. They feared that a serial killer targeting either blacks, gays or both might have hung out his shingle in Chicago.

Curiously, neither Sen. Obama, his surrogates nor law enforcement had anything to say regarding the circumstantial connection. Nowhere in the news reports of the killings has there been any mention of Obama, or the questioning of him or any of his cohorts or staffers by Chicago police.

To suggest that Sen. Obama was somehow involved in these murders is obviously a leap. However, one would imagine that if any other prominent citizen had been publicly accused of being a closet homosexual, then three gay men from their church were murdered in the months that followed, local law enforcement would have crawled up one of their excretive orifices with an entire forensics lab.

Although this columnist and Fox News’ Sean Hannity have been accused of similar transgressions, the Rev. James David Manning appears to have taken on the mission of preventing the election of Barack Obama as a holy and personal crusade. The minister, who presides over New York-based Atlah World Ministries, has released a flurry of anti-Obama videos that depict the candidate as “an emissary of the devil.”

Manning asserts that Barack Obama is at least bisexual, if not a closet homosexual and former drug abuser, an unregenerate sinner who is only using the issue of faith to advance himself in the political realm. Manning is also opposed to the progressive agenda for blacks, maintaining that it has only served to render blacks irresponsible and dependent.

Although former Obama associate and accuser Larry Sinclair — who precipitated Obama’s short-lived “gay bimbo eruption” at the beginning of his campaign — failed a polygraph test following his assertions that he had done cocaine and had sex with Obama in 1999, it does give pause that the candidate continues to be linked with sex and drugs.

Though Obama did admit to experimentation with drugs years ago, some speculate that he was concerned that his experimentation with (or immersion in) sexually adventurous realms might not sit so well with American voters. If Rev. Manning’s charges contained any truth whatever, it might lend credence to accusations that the three men murdered in Chicago were victims of a conspiracy to silence those who might bring Obama’s homosexual dalliances to light.

Left wing blogs and some YouTube posters portray Manning as a veritable psych ward escapee. Others find him — though brutally frank — as one who simply possesses a certain orthodoxy as regards literal obedience to Christian doctrine in the tradition of a Pat Robertson, though possibly being singled out because he is black (an because some are so slavishly dedicated to Obama).

In conversation, Rev. Manning is entirely lucid. He maintains that his sources and information pertaining to Obama are “rock-solid and incontrovertible” He has met with Larry Sinclair and while Sinclair “obviously has other things going on in his life relating to his credibility,” the pastor said that, in general, Sinclair speaks easily and knowledgably when he talks about Obama’s bisexuality and crack cocaine use.

So what do we really know? What we know is that three gay members of trinity United Church were murdered in close temporal proximity during late 2007. It is extremely unlikely that Obama never met these men, particularly the choir director. We also know that somewhat earlier, a former Obama acquaintance claimed that he and Obama had participated in gay sex and drug use. Though it was revealed that the man was lying about something, law enforcement operatives know that polygraphs are not universally reliable and even pathological liars don’t lie all the time.

The tabloids The National Enquirer and The Globe have been investigating Obama’s alleged homosexual adventures and drug use for some time. A private investigator who works with the Chicago Police Department allegedly told the tabloid The Globe that Donald Young was silenced because of something he knew about Obama.

As we know, despite the outlandish tales sometimes spun by these publications, quite often they are spot-on as regards the lives of people in the spotlight. A prime example is the case of Sen. John Edwards’ love child. If the tabloids know anything, however, they are clearly biding their time.

As may be some others…”

© Erik Rush


Erik Rush broke the story on Rev. Wright in 2007
I don’t have anything to add to these excellent comments on the current political situation, except to challenge my readers to go vote!!!
Let Freedom Ring!
Jenny Hatch