Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Quote of the Day


"Americans are finally fed up with the Democrats' value system: no personal accountability; moral equivalence; belief that success is derived from exploiting everybody else; everybody else is a hapless victim; we are all racists and xenophobes, consigned to endless acts of contrition where reparations and open borders would be the only relief."


Friday, August 26, 2011

Quote of the Day


"Ronald Reagan believed government is the problem. Barack Obama believes government is the solution. We've tried it his way for the past two and a half years, and the results are painfully obvious. What the left-wing naysayers said would happen under Reagan is taking place right now under Obama! Unemployment is above 9%. "The engines of economic growth have shut down." Today, GDP was again revised downward, to just 1%. Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

It doesn't have to be this way. The tale of this recession can have a happy ending too. To paraphrase Reagan, "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. Recovery begins when Obama loses his job!""

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Quote of the Day


"I'm deeply troubled by the comments reportedly made by the vice president yesterday regarding China's reprehensible one-child policy, which has resulted in forced sterilizations and coerced abortions and should not be condoned by any American official. No government on Earth has the authority to place quotas on the value of innocent human life, or to treat life as an economic commodity that can be regulated and taken away on a whim by the state.


"I hope and trust that the vice president didn't actually say what has been reported, and that a correction or clarification from the White House will be forthcoming. The Obama administration should be focusing on jobs for the American people, not encouraging foreign governments to utilize abortion as a means of population and deficit control."

Speaker John Boehner


Sunday, August 21, 2011

August 22nd: Sustainable Development - CONSPIRACY THEORY?


Come to GCRC: ALIVE! Monday, August 22nd, 6:30 pm at the Blue Ridge Café in Ruckersville and draw your own conclusions.

Donna Holt, executive director of Virginia Campaign for Liberty, will deliver “The History of Sustainable Development-Connecting the Dots”. “Learn about the looming threat to private property rights that is set forth in official documents published by countless government agencies and NGO’s as public policy for the transformation of our great nation for a “Sustainable America”.

These documents were rarely reported in the news, and average working people as well as state and local lawmakers have no idea what sustainable development really means, and even less knowledge of what is in store for the future. If the vision of sustainable development continues to unfold as it has in the last decade, life in the Commonwealth and the rest of the nation will be quite different in the future.

All citizens are invited to this timely discussion sponsored by the Greene County Republican Committee.

Quote of the Day


“The way we sell the idea of self reliance is by elevating the life of Frederick Douglass. As a slave, Douglass lived on entitlements. He ran away from slave master entitlements. He wanted his God-given right for self-rule. He wanted life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and, because he used his talents, his God-given gifts, he created a better life for himself, his family and others. This is the role model.”


Tea party activist K. Carl Smith



A Prayer of Thanks for Every Earthly Good


Dear Heavenly Father we thank Thee,

For giving us so freely,

Our daily food and all things good;

We thank Thee, Lord, for Thy great love.


Thou of life, the Fountain Head

By Thy hand we all are fed;

As we bow in gratitude,

Lord we thank Thee for our food.


Be present at our table, Lord;

Be here and everywhere adored;

These mercies bless and, grant that we

May feast in paradise with Thee.


We thank Thee, Lord, for Jesus Christ,

And for the blood He shed,

For light and life and health and home

And for our dally bread.


We thank Thee, Heavenly Father,

For every earthly good;

For life and health and clothing

And for our dally food.

O give us hearts to thank Thee

For every blessing sent

And whatsoever Thou sendest

Make us therewith content.


Saturday, August 20, 2011

Quote of the Day


"With each passing day, as Obama spends more and as we cut our defense budget and grow weaker, China grows stronger. This is a dangerous time for America and the world. Obama is kowtowing to the Chinese. On the right, there is growing isolationism, led by Ron Paul, who suggests that if only America would just leave everyone else alone there would be fewer problems around the world. That's exactly what every thug and dictator is hoping for.

I have missed Ronald Reagan every day since he walked out of the Oval Office for the last time. Days like today, I miss him even more."

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Quote of the Day


“It’s outrageous that Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project to control the birth rate of blacks is alive and thriving today because so many black leaders have sold their constituents the lie that abortion is the key to emancipating African-American women. Abortion kills babies and hurts women and families. These pro-abortion voices are not the voices of black America.”

Alveda King of Priests for Life

A Prayer Requesting Knowledge of Our Moral Obligations


Dear Father,

You know --- that we know better --- than to continue to allow ourselves to be herded down the path we are on, the path that goes nowhere --- except into the abyss.

It is the path Obama is pursuing, the path so many of our fellow citizens are now treading with dread;

The abyss of fear and calamity lies ahead, it beckons to us,

And we ask Father ---- that you tell us, as we pray this evening, if this is to be our destiny? Or can we do better?

Is this abyss to be our future --- for our children and grand kids?

Tell us if this choking fear we feel, from our crushing debt, our loss of work, our loss of homes and businesses --- is to be our fate? Or can we do better?

Tell us Father if we, by our stupid choices of incompetent, unprincipled and dishonorable leaders, will destroy our dear nation, and our priceless freedoms?

And Father, what about the loss of our destiny?

Will we no longer be able to succeed?

Will we not be able to flourish as our founding fathers and forefathers flourished?

Will we always be able to bequeath this magnificent gem, this jewel of a nation to our children?

Father --- please tell us if we must accept this abysmal future created by this most incompetent, most lawless and most corrupt administration since Harding, Grant and Carter?

And Father – what about our loss of confidence in ourselves, our leaders and our faith – what would you have us do?

And Father – what about the loss of our nation, our constitution, and our birthright wrought by your hands,

Brought to us through your divine guidance to our founders who simply agreed to pay any price – any price at all --- yes! ----- They sacrificed their fortunes, their lives, and their sacred honor for us.

They were the receptacles into which you poured our greatest gift ------- freedom ------ the freedom to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ----- the freedom which now, this very night, is slowly ebbing away ---- on a tide of citizen ignorance, apathy, and despair,

Father, you are our engine, our battery ---- our source of energy and motivation, and commitment to rise up off our pallets,

To look back at what our fathers and grandfathers have spent and invested for us,

They bought it with the blood, sweat and tears of Lincoln’s generation in the wilderness, at Gettysburg, and at Appomattox.

More recently our greatest generation bought it again ----- on the sands of Iwo Jima, on Omaha beach in Normandy, at Anzio and Salerno, at the frozen chosen, in hue, in the a Shau and La Drang Valleys , the twin towers, and throughout the wastelands of the middle east,

Such sacrifices and investments of blood, pain and treasure are our legacy,

So Father, we ask you tonight, tell us, what is our generation’s debt to our nation, what is our moral obligation to step up, to stand up, to fight, to pay our dues?

Tell us tonight Father ---- in our hearts ----- each of us individually ----Tell us what is our stake in all this?

Tell us collectively --- what is our roll?

In Jesus’ name we pray,

Amen.


Jerry Gore
MCRW Chaplain

Monday, August 15, 2011

Quote of the Day


"Whether it is oil, gas, wind, hydrogen, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, or bio-fuel, every state has the resources to produce more energy than they are currently producing. That new energy production will create jobs. Those jobs will protect homes and boost small businesses."

J. Michael Sharman

Email of the Day


Beware of FLASH MOBS

Racism: Across the U.S., mobs of black youths are organizing on Facebook to loot stores and beat whites. Yet none dare call the "flash mob" attacks hate crime, least of all the attorney general. The Associated Press is reporting that at least one of those arrested in the Wisconsin State Fair beatings said the mob was targeting whites, making it a hate crime.

Where is Eric Holder's civil rights division? About this epidemic of black-on-white assaults, we hear nothing. At the Milwaukee fairgrounds, dozens of black teens suddenly appeared, knocking over children, looting the Midway games and stealing prizes. They pulled whites from cars, flung them to the ground and punched and kicked them in the face. At least 18 people were injured, including some cops.

A similar beat-down took place August 2010 at the Iowa State Fair. Organized as "beat whitey night," bands of black teens targeted white kids, fracturing one of their skulls. Then the thugs swarmed police, hitting one cop from behind and busting both his eye sockets.

Earlier this month in Philadelphia, marauding black flash mobs beat and robbed tourists and other innocent bystanders. Several people were hospitalized, including one man with a fractured skull. Mayor Michael Nutter, Philly's second black mayor, said enough is enough. In an angry lecture from the pulpit of Mount Carmel Baptist Church, he blasted the punks, saying "you have damaged your own race.

"Similar attacks are under investigation in Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Washington, D.C., where our first black president remains mum. Why isn't Obama equally disgusted by the black pack attacks? Perhaps because his own church glamorized the thug culture. His mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told his South Side Chicago flock that those committing black-on-black crime are "fighting the wrong enemy." During the 2008 presidential campaign, Geraldine Ferraro condemned Wright for preaching to young blacks that "it's OK to beat up on white people."

Imagine if the flash-mob victims were black instead of white. Holder would have launched a special investigation. With the races reversed, he just shrugs. In so many words he has said blacks are incapable of hate crimes because of their victimhood. "There is a pervasive hostility toward (prosecuting) these types of cases," said Christian Adams, a civil rights attorney who quit after Holder refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for intimidating white Philly voters in 2008.

To Holder, blacks are the permanent victims. But his department's own data say otherwise. In most cases of interracial crimes, the victim is white and the perp is black. Black criminals choose white victims 45% of the time, while whites victimize blacks 3% of the time. More than twice as many whites are murdered by a black than cases of a white murdering blacks.

And despite underreporting, blacks commit a disproportionate share of hate crimes. In 2009, almost 20% of known offenders of hate crimes were black, even though blacks make up just 13% of the population. Holder presupposes all problems afflicting the black community come from the outside — racism, poverty, etc. Nutter make no excuses for bad behavior.

"Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer," the Philly mayor scolded black youths. "Pull your pants up and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt."

He added: "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half-down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy."

Candidate Obama vowed to stand up for a civil rights unit that enforces laws "fairly and justly." If his attorney general doesn't pursue these black mob cases as hate crimes, punishing the offenders, he risks giving white racists an excuse to respond in kind.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Email of the Day


When France went bankrupt the Bourbons lost their country and Louie lost his head.

When Russia went bankrupt the Soviets lost their empire and Gorbachev lost his job.


Folks who ignore sometimes get to relive it.


Thursday, August 11, 2011

Quote of the Day


"There is no government program, no amount of taxpayer money, that can make up for the breakdown of the family. But as these flash mobs become more common and more violent, one has to wonder why President Obama has remained silent for so long and whether he will reconsider his own rhetoric."

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Monday, August 8, 2011

Quote of the Day


"Bawney Fwank said the debt crisis can be blamed on military spending. Now Bawney, if you cut the budget more they might not be able to afford all of that new homosexual sensitivity training."


August 16th: Guest Speaker Jonathon Weakley


Jonathon Weakley, Republican candidate for Madison County Supervisor, will be the Guest Speaker at the August 16th meeting of the Madison County Republican Women, 6:30-8:30 PM, at the Madison Presbyterian Church, 1236 Fishback Road at the north traffic light.

The evening's menu celebrates the Summer Picnic with Hot Dogs, Potato Salad, Coleslaw, Three Bean Salad, Brownies, Deviled Eggs, Strawberry Delight, Cookies, Ice Cream and toppings. Dinner: $7.

Everyone is invited to attend this informative meeting. For additional information please call 923-4300.


Sustainable Development: CONSPIRACY THEORY?


Come to GCRC:ALIVE! Monday, August 22nd, 6:30 pm at the Blue Ridge Café in Ruckersville and draw your own conclusions.

Donna Holt, executive director of Virginia Campaign for Liberty, will deliver “The History of Sustainable Development-Connecting the Dots”.

Learn about the looming threat to private property rights that is set forth in official documents published by countless government agencies and NGO’s as public policy for the transformation of our great nation for a “Sustainable America”.

These documents were rarely reported in the news, and average working people as well as state and local lawmakers have no idea what sustainable development really means, and even less knowledge of what is in store for the future.

If the vision of sustainable development continues to unfold as it has in the last decade, life in the Commonwealth and the rest of the nation will be quite different in the future.

All citizens are invited to this timely discussion sponsored by the Greene County Republican Committee.


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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Quote of the Day


"...So the worst of three worlds has all occurred as a result of years of irresponsible Washington spending, capped by the recent actions of Congress and the President. We now have 1) more debt; 2) no real cuts; and, 3) a downgrade of our debt.


Since this campaign began in December, I have been talking about ending the fiscal insanity in Washington.


I have said time and time again that federal spending needs to be decreased immediately and significantly in order to get our massive debt problem under control, and that the permanent structural restraint of a balanced budget amendment is absolutely necessary. I have noted that this problem can no longer be kicked down the road, because we have run out of road.

The Washington Establishment -- of both political parties -- called those of us who wanted serious spending cuts and a balanced budget every name in the book. Vice President Joe Biden went so far as to call us "terrorists."

The Establishment promised their debt ceiling increase would preserve our AAA credit rating. We Tea Party Republicans said a debt ceiling increase would almost certainly guarantee a

downgrade.


Tonight, less than five days after the debt ceiling was raised, that downgrade has occurred. Through their actions, President Obama and the Washington Establishment have guaranteed much higher interest rates for everything from homes to cars to credit cards. They have effectively raised taxes massively on the American people, and taken us even closer to the brink of financial ruin.


We absolutely must send a new generation of courageous conservatives to Washington who will rock the boat, ignore the lobbyists, make serious cuts to federal spending right away, and pass a balanced budget amendment."


Jamie Radtke
www.radtkeforsenate.com


Friday, August 5, 2011

Quote of the Day


“You could almost hear the sigh of relief when the jobs figure came in slightly above the consensus and the official unemployment rate dropped one tenth of a percent to 9.1%. Whoopee!!!

Feel better? Of course you don't. The dirty little secret is the number fell a pitiful 1/10th of a percent because tens of thousands of Americans got so discouraged by the state of Obama's economy that they quit looking for work and dropped out of the jobs market entirely. Since they are no longer looking for work, they no longer count. Day by day, millions of other fed up Americans believe they don't count either.


Obama now says he will focus on jobs, but he has no ideas that he hasn't already tried. His mantra remains the same -- more regulations on business, higher taxes on entrepreneurs and small business owners whom he derisively refers to as "millionaires and billionaires" or "fat cats."

He continues to send hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats and regulators to attack and undermine our most successful industries -- energy, healthcare, finance, insurance and others. While we wait for his socialist ideas to work, he continues to wage class warfare and promises the American people not real jobs, but more food stamps, welfare and income redistribution.

Republicans, to their credit, have blocked efforts by Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise taxes in the middle of an economic decline. But that isn't enough. What we need are TAX CUTS now! Lower tax rates on businesses, entrepreneurs and everyone else. Letting people keep more of their hard-earned money is the only stimulus that works.


We should be the party of lower taxes, smaller government and less bureaucracy. Let Obama run on being the president of more welfare, more food stamps and more government."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families


Congressman Randy Forbes: Our Federal Sinkhole


The federal government is spending more per household than ever before. Since 1965, spending per household has grown by nearly 162%, from $11,431 in 1965 to $29,401 in 2010. From 2010 to 2021, it is projected to rise to $35,773, a 22% increase. This chart breaks it down:

While a debt ceiling framework passed the House this week (read about my vote against the framework here), we have a lot of work to do to help America dig out of our fiscal sinkhole, including pursuing entitlement reform and passing a Balanced Budget Amendment.

As we continue through the rest of the year, I want to make sure you stay up to date on my work to address federal spending.Subscribe to my blog or follow me on Facebook and Twitter.

Yours in Service,

Randy Forbes
Member of Congress

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Quotes of the Day


"Now let's say the tax side goes according to the White House's plan: Most of the Bush tax cuts are extended, but the break for income of more than $250,000 a year expires. Are we done? … In 2021, that scenario would leave the debt above 75 percent of GDP -- and growing. …it doesn't leave us at all prepared to deal with costs related to the retiring baby boomers. …

"Next year, the Bush tax cuts expire. If Congress does nothing, we revert to Clinton-era tax rates for everyone, and the federal coffers fill with $3.6 trillion in additional revenue over the next 10 years -- enough to stabilize deficits. …To govern responsibly, Democrats cannot simply raise taxes on the rich and call it a day."

Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein urging Democrats to let ALL of the Bush tax cuts expire -- not just those for the wealthy.


“In a moment of honesty, even a true blue lefty like Klein acknowledges the cost of Big Government, as well as the hollowness of Obama's class warfare rhetoric. Don't fall for it.”

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families


Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Quote of the Day


"...There is no true justice in a court system, where the judge, the prosecutor and the police form a triad against the accused. And once again, Americans are finding themselves under-represented, overtaxed and forced at gunpoint, practically, to dance to the government's tune. The similarities to Revolutionary America are startling."

John Whitehead


Congress: End the NIH's abusive use of taxpayer funds


2nd Group Calls on Congress to Suspend NIH Grants and Criticizes NIH Spokesperson’s Response

Another large national organization, The FAIR Foundation, and its 27 member Board of Directors of surgeons, medical directors, dentists and patient advocates, applauds the recent call to Congress by the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) urging Congress to freeze National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for six months while investigating the NIH’s research practices that are "striking working families across America as wasteful, illicit, and in many cases outright offensive."

Palm Desesrt, CA (PRWEB) August 02, 2011

Another large national organization, The FAIR Foundation, and its 27 member Board of Directors of surgeons, medical directors, dentists and patient advocates, applauds the recent call to Congress by the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) urging Congress to freeze National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for six months while investigating the NIH’s research practices that are "striking working families across America as wasteful, illicit, and in many cases outright offensive."

FAIR’s CEO, Dr. Richard Darling, states, “I applaud TVC for ‘outing’ the NIH for improper use of taxpayer dollars to study 'rats on cocaine, water buffaloes and snails in China,' which owns over a trillion dollars in US Treasuries and can well afford to fund its own researchers."

Darling continues: "It should be pointed out that the NIH seems to think our dollars should also be providing research jobs in other areas of the world, as evidenced in the list below. It is taken from just two of the pages detailing HIV research.”

  • Kazakhstan: Couples-Based HIV Prevention for Injecting Drug Users
  • Tijuana: Epidemiology of HIV and HCV Among Injecting Drug Users
  • China: Neurobehavioral effects of HIV and host genetics
  • Thailand: Risk Factors for HIV-1 infection Among Young men
  • Brazil: HIV and Perinatal Depression
  • Malawi: A Randomized Trial of HIV Partner Notification
  • Brazil AIDS Consortium
  • Jamaica: HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials
  • Kenya: Preventing HIV Risk Among Adolescent Orphans
  • Zimbabwe: Environmental Factors Shaping Circumcision Decisions
  • Cambodia: Culture and HIV Prevention
  • Kenya: Mental health assessment & treatment for HIV prevention
  • Haiti: Cost-effectiveness: Early vs. Delayed Antiretroviral Therapy
  • India: National AIDS Research Institute: Clinical Trials Unit
  • Chiang Mai University HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Unit
  • Uganda: Impact of HIV & therapy on cause and Outcome of Meningitis

Darling has special criticism for the NIH’s response to the Traditional Values Coalition by NIH spokesperson, John Burklow, who responded that this funding is necessary with his reference to HIV disease and “many people in the USA who suffer from parasite diseases.”

Darling states, “Regarding HIV, what Burklow didn't mention is that the Director of the NIH’s Institute that oversees HIV’s $28.3 billion budget request, Anthony Fauci, MD, has publicly admitted his ‘breathtaking success’ with ‘HIV patients living normal lives.’”

(To insure fair and equitable distributions of NIH bio-medical research funding, FAIR has issued an opinion editorial calling on President Obama to replace Director Fauci with a Director who has no bias towards any one disease.)

Darling: “Fauci has been at the NIH overseeing all HIV funding through five US Presidents; it is time for change. Such favoritism is grossly unfair to researchers looking for cures for all other illnesses, including rare illnesses, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hepatitis C."

Darling continues, “Taxpayers have now spent over one-third of a trillion dollars on HIV disease. It is an outrage that our country, which is on the verge of default, is continuing such funding on a disease that in almost all cases can be prevented by purchasing a 50¢ condom and treated with two pills a day that cost 40¢. These facts were recently emphasized by HIV advocates and legendary performers Bono and Elton Johnwho also publicly admitted that ‘HIV is not a life threatening illnesses anymore.’”

Regarding Burklow stating that the NIH’s exorbitant funding was necessary due to many people in the U.S. who suffer from parasitic diseases, Darling has little patience:

“I’m sure we all have many friends and relatives riddled with parasites. For the NIH to stoop to such an absurd statement is clear evidence of the need for

Congress to step in and put an end to the NIH's abusive use of taxpayer funds.”


Dr. Richard Darling is the Founder, President & CEO of the FAIR Foundation whose missions are equitable funding for bio-medical research, new policies to reverse America’s organ-donor crisis, promotion of organ donation, preventive health education and pre- and post-transplant educational/emotional support and referral for transplant in their Liver Disease & Transplant Support Group. FAIR’s Board of Directors includes 27 transplant surgeons, medical directors, dentists, pharmacists and patient advocates.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

Quote of the Day


"Conservatives who argue that this deal does not solve our fiscal problems are correct. But it is not realistic to think we can get serious entitlement reform and spending restraint out of Harry Reid's Senate or from Obama's White House!

The national debt will not be brought under control until conservatives control the Senate, the House of Representatives and the White House. The 2012 elections are even more important to solving our fiscal crisis than this current debate on the debt limit. If we win back the Senate and also send Obama back to Chicago in November 2012, the new Congress and new president should immediately renegotiate the deal to make larger spending cuts AND TAX CUTS.

The Tea Party conservatives who were elected to rein in spending have gotten a good down payment on that promise. God bless them! Now we have to take the fight to the American people. Later this year we will have a vote on a balanced budget amendment. That will be another great teachable moment for the voters, who will have the final say next November."

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families