“Assuming we, the people, actually manage to pay for health insurance for every American–how in God’s name will we also manage to pay for a quality of care giving that is professional, and above all, compassionate?”
Impossible! Here is my comment
Thanks for sharing, this is the very reason that many mothers are opting for home childbirth. Nightmares during the birth process can lead to post partum depression and very toxic babies from too many drugs.
Socializing the whole mess will just make it that much more dangerous for families.
Jenny Hatch Please watch this video from a mother who experienced “typical western medical care” during his first birth and then gave birth alone at home during her second birth.
Fires whipped up by hot hurricane force gusts ringed Los Angeles on Saturday, charring thousands of acres and hundreds of homes in California’s largest city and threatening the city’s power supply.
More than 10,000 residents were under mandatory evacuation orders as a fire that exploded overnight in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest barreled into the San Fernando Valley and burned more than 6,500 acres.”
Well, here we are. 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. 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
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World! The Natural Family BLOG 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
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.
Ben with his cousin and brother Andy
Hill Buzz Dems who were for Hillary are all going one hundred percent for McCain/Palin. I was listening to Rush Limbaugh this morning and heard him read this comment on the air. It struck me as really interesting because I have personally experienced this sort of flaming on my Blog, my You Tube Vids, and in various chat rooms, especially at Mothering Magazine and Free Republic. Anyway, here is the comment: (Number 25 in the comment section of the post) Perhaps some of my readers who have participated in chats have experienced this sort of “flaming” from web users being paid by the Obama Campaign to work as full time internet political prostitutes. sarah p Says:
October 27, 2008 at 5:04 am
Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow clinton supporters out.
I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over.
I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.
The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you.
We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for obama”
We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.
We did this the whole primary and it worked.
Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.
This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.
Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support.
People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad”
Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.
We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a mccain supporter. Its worked, alough the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.
see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”
The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. Thats due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.
Our donors, are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied, Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill Oreilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.
This is why nothing sticks.
The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.
There is no true inauguration draft or true grant park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.
Our goal is to continue to make you lose your moral. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.
There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.
The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her. To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with dean. I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as america, so I am now supporting John Mccain.
Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.
this is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.
We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly not very truthful kind of intelligence.
Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.
I will be quitting my post on nov 5th and my vote will be for John Mccain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.
I wish you all well, and goodluck.
PS my name is not really sarah. but I am a female and I understand your plight.
This story combined with the Newsmax story about the Hillary supporters who have claimed massive fraud and Will NOT be SILENCED tells me that the marxists who are running things will stop at nothing to make sure the Manchurian Candidate is elected. Jenny Hatch
