Committees of Correspondence

You Raise Me Up So I Can Stand On Mountains

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:40:30 -0600

IMO a most moving and beautiful tribute to the People and City of Cedar Rapids.

I received A DVR disc from a young woman who has been working tiredlessly in the rescue and recovery of our City from the recent flood.

She had a concept and a series of photos and had a friend create the disc.

I wanted to put it on Youtube, but alas I do not have the skills.

But I was able to upload all of the files into my website directory and have created a page from which it can be viewed.

I regret that it is necessary to download a 16 Meg EXE file so it will be difficult for those with dialup modems and I do not know how it will play for anyone with that type of connection. Sorry

Cedar Rapids Flood of 2008

YOU RAISE ME UP
SO I CAN STAND ON MOUNTAINS

Technorati Tag:Mission of Hope******Cedar Rapids Flood***Serve the City

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Just Pull the D Lever

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 05:08:27 -0600

A few nights ago, I was watching a discussion on CNN of all places (Not Fox) about the increases in Oil Prices, Drilling in our Off Shore Fields, ANWAR, the Coal Tar and Shale Oil Deposits out West and Liquification of Coal.

During the portion on Drilling off shore, a Democratic Strategist with a smirky smile pronounced in a self satisfied manner that drilling off shore would not lower the price at the pumps but would only increase the profits of

BIG OIL

I have been thinking

Do I want my hard earned money to increase the profits of some Filthy Capitalistic Greedy Big Oil Compay?

H&*L NO!

I want MY hard earned money to

increase the profits of some Greedy Dictatorship,

Fund Totalitaran Oppression,

Islamofacism,

and Interntational Terrorism BY GOD!!!!

Just think

Without the valiant efforts of some in Congress to stem the tide
towards Energy Independence for the US

My Hard Earned Money might actually go to

Create Jobs for Americans

Reduce the National Trade Deficit

Increase US Tax Revenues

Elimiate our need for MidEast Oil

and lighten the load for Working Families?

Now we just can't have that can we?

So if YOU do not want your hard earned money to
end up in the coffers of some American Big Oil Company

Rather than in the Hands of those who

Truly Hate us, Desire to Destroy Our Way of Life
and see All of Us Dead?

Then you have only ONE choice.

This November march right into that voting booth and

Pull the D is for "Death to America!" Lever!!!!!!!!!!

Or if you have other opinions you might want to listen to this

Technorati Tag: Oil******Gas Prices***Drill Here

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Neo American Gothic?

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:41:46 -0600

Well it seems like one of our Presidential Candidates during a talk with some Marin County Ultra-Rich Constituents
gave a description of his concept of what Flyover America is like

Obama on small-town voters: Bitter, xenophobic, religious;

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations

I would expect that when Ole Bama looks at this iconic American Painting

What he sees is this

Halp Us

Obama put his foot in it again today, saying that:

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

So, in celebration of his discovery of my bitterness and anger, here is a photo from my small town today; complete with the general sentiment of those who live here

So my small town agrees (as does the media). Just a bunch of gun toting, bible reading, unemployed hicks waiting for our Jesus to come along and save us from our world of pain and suffering.

It doesn’t bug me that Obama thinks this about small town folks (is anyone -really- surprised that he thinks this?), but that he doesn’t even have the audicity (of hope) to tell small town folks to their faces that he wants to spread his message. Hey, Obama, if you are gonna bring hope to these downtrodden people, I suggest you begin them on their 12 step journey; help them see that they are xenophobic protectionist gun toting bible thumpers who stroke their rifle because jesus tells them too. Help them see the error of their ways. But do it to their face, not to a bunch of billionaires in San Francisco.

Hallelujah!

I Can Haz Crypto-Marxism?

CNN's Balanced Coverage Includes Three Panelists Who All Claim Obama Didn't Mean What He Obviously Meant:

Bonus points to Jack Cafferty for likening the same economic desperation that drives Pennsylvanians to Jesus to the poverty that drives Saudis to Al Qaeda:

Actually, Jack Cafferty and Jeffrey Toobin both get doubleplus bonus points for first claiming that Obama never meant to imply that economic privation drives people to Jesus, firearms and xenophobia, and then immediately adding "But Obama's right, economic privation does drive people to Jesus, firearms, and xenophobia."

Ummm.... Jack and Jeffey, I know you're really super-smart guys, being on TV and all, but I'm afraid if this is as "simple" and "obvious" as you assert, you're going to have to choose between the defenses 1) he didn't mean anything so patently offensive and absurd and 2) but by the way he's 100% dead-bang balls-on right.

Fair and balanced, CNN! I love how they focus almost exclusively on the "bitterness" remark (just as Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama decreed,, so it was heralded, so it shall be) and also also accept, entirely uncritically, Obama's explanation that when he said that small-town Americans are driven to xenophobia and hatred of outsiders, he meant that as a good thing

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Journey to Freedom

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:01:40 -0600

On March 15, 1973, John McCain was released as a POW from the "Hanoi Hilton"

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Sense of Honor

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:07:26 -0600

The Few The Proud

It was the sound of machine guns that woke me that night all those years ago. Machine gun fire and tracers lighting up the night sky. I was 8 years old my Father was in the Navy and we were stationed on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, called appropriately Midway Island.

I do not ever recall being so scared in my entire life, but when I saw the base Marines running toward the beach, I felt safe. I knew that they and my Dad would never let anything bad happen to me.

I wish every American could have the experience of knowing deep in their soul what it means to have these brave men and women standing guard protecting us.

I have never forgotten how I felt that night.

I want to thank Michelle Malkin for reminding me with her Sunday night inspiration

Technorati Tag: Iraq War***War On Terror***Marines

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Happy Happy New Years

Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:59:56 -0600

A Strange thing happened on the way after the Surge.

Casualties in Iraq plummeted

Need I say more?

Technorati Tag: Iraq War***War On Terror

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You Knew What I Was When You Picked Me Up

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:26:31 -0600

My good friend Buster Block over at Inmuscatine sent me a thought provoking request yesterday

I need some help on a story about Hillary Clinton ceding powers if elected President. She said : > "Other presidents like Lincoln have had to take on extraordinary > powers but would later go to the Congress for either ratification > or rejection." > > She continued: "There were a lot of actions which they took that > were clearly beyond any power the Congress would have granted or > that in my view that was inherent in the constitution. There were > other actions they've taken which could have obtained congressional > authorization but they deliberately chose not to pursue it as a > matter of principle." > > Here I asked whether a sitting president, once invested with such > powers, could really give some of them up in the name of > constitutional principle. Clinton said: "Oh, absolutely, Michael. I > mean that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get > to the White House, and I intend to do that." > I simply do not have time to do the research necessary to do this justice, but I know this is right up your alley. Do you feel like a cross-post with me if you can shed some light on this? Oh, and by the way - the MSM is ignoring this completely, so we have to do something about it.

My first reaction was that the concept of a Clinton ceding power boggles the mind and I should form a new topic for Demo Fables and put this in with:

And then the Evil Republicans huffed and puffed and blew the poor people's houses down.

Evil Republican Magis influencing voters with mind control

But why don't we explore this issue and then go over to Buster at Inmuscatine and see what his take on it is?

Here are the pertinent URLs

'I'm going to have to review everything they've done'

Clinton vows review of executive power

'You can't lump all terrorists together'

and

Clinton says would cede some presidential powers

It is very easy for a politician to make claims, lets look at one of them

"Well, I think it is clear that the power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer," Clinton said.

So what power grabs could she be speaking of and has Bush indeed pushed the envelope further than any other president

Well one issue that comes to mind is waging War against a Non-State Association of Muslim Terrorists without a Declaration of War. Further complaints on this issue have been worded "How can you declare War on an entity that is not a State?"

It turns out the Nation has faced this very same issue in the Past. As a matter of fact the very first Land Military action by the United States after the Revolutionary War was against a Non-State Association of Muslim Terrorists named the Barbary Pirates.

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the Congress of the Day discussed whether or not it was necessary to issue a Formal Declaration of War and decided that since our Sovereignty, and our Citizens had been attacked we were in fact in a State of War and while a Formal Declaration might be needed to initiate a War the point was moot. So Jefferson sent in the Marines to deal with the matter.

Notice that they did not even discuss whether or not they should respond militarily??

What other Presidents have exceeded their Constitutional Powers? Well when Andrew Jackson decided to move the Cherokee Nation upon being told that the Supreme Court had denied him that power, replied "John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can"

I don't recall Bush ever going to that extreme, but I do recall Dick Gephardt telling Rainbow Push after the Surpreme Court issued a ruling he and they did not agree with that

When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.

But maybe that does not count, because he was never nominated, much less elected thank God.

Mention was made of Lincoln.

"Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to Congress for either ratification or rejection

Could she have been referring to Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus?

With Congress not in session until July, Lincoln assumed all powers not delegated in the Constitution, including the power to suspend habeas corpus. In 1861, Lincoln had already suspended civil law in territories where resistance to the North's military power would be dangerous. In 1862, when copperhead democrats began criticizing Lincoln's violation of the Constitution, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus throughout the nation and had many copperhead democrats arrested under military authority because he felt that the State Courts in the north west would not convict war protesters such as the copperheads. He proclaimed that all persons who discouraged enlistments or engaged in disloyal practices would come under Martial Law.
Among the 13,000 people arrested under martial law was a Maryland Secessionist, John Merryman. Immediately, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States issued a writ of habeas corpus commanding the military to bring Merryman before him. The military refused to follow the writ. Justice Taney, in Ex parte MERRYMAN, then ruled the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional because the writ could not be suspended without an Act of Congress. President Lincoln and the military ignored Justice Taney's ruling.

Now here is an interesting factoid about the above suspension

Finally, in 1866, after the war, the Supreme Court officially restored habeas corpus in Ex-parte Milligan, ruling that military trials in areas where the civil courts were capable of functioning were illegal.

April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders

April 15, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln dies

Notice habeous corpus was not reinstated until long after the War was over and Lincoln was dead?

There may be some mutterings about Gitmo, but there are NOT thousand of War Protestors in prison camps and none of them have been sentenced to be executed.

FDR had his camps too, Japanese, Italian, Germnan-Americans many of them citizens interred.

I will not debate here whether it was Constitutional I just wish to point our that the statement

"The power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer," she said. "Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to Congress for either ratification or rejection."

Would be ideal to plow into the ground to inspire turnips.

What I, myself find most interesting is that in responce to this question

I want to start with some questions about foreign policy and terrorism. If you become president you'll enter the White House with far more power than, say, your husband had. What is your view of this? And what specific powers might you relinquish as president, or renegotiate with Congress - for example the power to declare a US citizen an enemy combatant

She replied

Well, I think it is clear that the power grab undertaken by the Bush-Cheney administration has gone much further than any other president and has been sustained for longer. Other presidents, like Lincoln, have had to take on extraordinary powers but would later go to the Congress for either ratification or rejection. But when you take the view that they're not extraordinary powers, but they're inherent powers that reside in the office and therefore you have neither obligation to request permission nor to ask for ratification, we're in a new territory here. And I think that I'm gonna have to review everything they've done because I've been on the receiving end of that. There were a lot of actions which they took that were clearly beyond any power the Congress would have granted or that in my view that was inherent in the constitution. There were other actions they've taken which could have obtained congressional authorization but they deliberately chose not to pursue it as a matter of principle

Some one point out to me where in the above she responds to what specific powers might you relinquish as president, or renegotiate with Congress????

As far as I can tell she definitely said she would review Presidential Powers but she is real shy about what she want to get rid of.

As to her desire for Power itself? Is not one of her major campaign planks a plant to Nationalise an Industry that comprises 1/7th of the US Economy?

Now that is what I call a Power Grab. I would like someone to show me where in the Constitution the Federal Govenment has the right to do that?

There is an old Fable that goes

”It was really cold and a nice lady had a warm blanket. A poisonous snake nearby was shivering and begged the lady just to pick him up long enough for him to get warm. She resisted saying "you are a poisonous snake and you will bite me and I'll die!" He begged and pleaded and promised not to bite her so she finally gave in and picked him up and wrapped him in the blanket. He bit her and as she was laying there dying she asked "why did you bite me - you promised you wouldn't?" As he slithered away he looked back and said: "Lady you knew I was a snake when you picked me up

THE LADY AND THE SNAKE

I submit that before we pick up this viper and hold it to our breast, we need to think real on what we know about it.

Now let's see what Buster;s take is over at Inmuscatine

Technorati Tag: Bush******Lincoln***Clinton

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Military Moms Defeat Pelosi & Reid

Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:20:22 -0600

This from my email Inbox to you. Pass it on.

For two weeks Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee and Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns led a pro-troop caravan of vehicles that traveled more than 4,500 miles across this country in the "Fight for Victory Tour." They held 27 pro-troop rallies in cities across America, with their objective being to stop Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from undermining our troops in Iraq.

In a tale akin to David v. Goliath, these two military moms won - and Reid and Pelosi lost!!!

As the New York Times admitted in a news story published this past week:

"With other war initiatives seemingly headed for the same fate, Senate Democrats, who only two weeks ago proclaimed September to be the month for shifting course in Iraq, conceded that they had little chance of success."

Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns are both single moms who gave up two weeks of their lives, away from their families, to join with the pro-troop organization, Move America Forward, and rally the American people to stand behind our troops and their missions in the war on terror.

Debbie Lee's son, Marc Alan Lee, was the first Navy Seal killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Deborah John's son, Marine Sgt. William Johns, has proudly served 3 tours of duty in Iraq - and volunteered to go back for a 4th deployment.

Now these patriotic women stand ready to fight back from the next round of attacks against our troops and their missions by MoveOn.org and their allies in the anti-military Left.

MoveOn.org and the anti-military left are currently spending MILLIONS of dollars in advertising to beat down the morale of the American people and urge them to turn against the missions of our troops.

Now it's time for us to respond with our positive, pro-troop national advertising campaigns!

Instead of full-page ads attacking our generals, as purchased by MoveOn.org, we have the chance to run full page newspaper ads, and national television ad campaigns, featuring the patriotic, pro-troop message of military moms Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns.

>>> We need every person reading this email to pitch in and support this effort with a donation - no matter how small or large of a contribution you can afford to make.

How 2 Pro-Troop Moms Spent
Their Summer Vacation

Here's a few photographs from the cross-country, pro-troop, trek across this nation. If you want to see stories like this told to the American people then help these military mom's raise the funds to purchase airtime to get their stories told - CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico the pro-troop caravan received a police escort!

Thousands turned out across the country. You'll be surprised
but even in San Francisco the crowd was especially enthusiastic!

In Carson City, Nevada Congressman Duncan Hunter
joined Move America Forward Chairman, Melanie Morgan, in support
of the pro-troop effort led by Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns.

In the village of Niles, Illinois (suburb of Chicago) the caravan led
a 9/11 candlelight remembrance and pro-troop rally.

In Des Moines there was both a great crowd and
a Jr. ROTC Color Guard present at the State Capitol.

We worked hard to get our message heard through local
media. At this stop in Oklahoma City we had 4 TV stations, radio stations
and print media present to cover our rally and get the message out!

In Sacramento the pro-troop moms were greeted by this great crowd!

Here's some shots of our pro-troop caravan as we drove through Texas!

At each stop the caravan had supporters sign pro-troop banners that
were then presented to the wounded warriors recovering from injuries
at Walter Reed Medical Center at the caravan's conclusion.

Congressman Mike Pence welcomed us to our Indianapolis stop.

With the media in tow, the military moms confronted Senator Reid's D.C. office
and took them to task for Reid's statement that "this war is lost."

The Grand Finale: An event at the White House Featuring
President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney
and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Let's get this positive, pro-troop message out!

Do your part to help fund a new national ad campaign that will stand up against MoveOn.org and those who speak out against our troops and their missions in the war on terrorism.

Here are just two of the many great media stories that were generated by the "Fight for Victory Tour":

*Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Media Doesn't Show Whole Picture, Iraq War Vet says

*WPXI TV:

Largest Pro-Troop Caravan Makes Stop In North Fayette Twp.

Now help us build on this terrific momentum that we've already built, as we fund the national ad campaign to fight back against MoveOn.org, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

CONTRIBUTE TO THIS PRO-TROOP EFFORT - HERE

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Military Moms Stand Up to Pelosi & Reid

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:55:33 -0600

This came to my email inbox, it may not get much media

exposure. So Pass it on. It deserves our support

Dear NewsMax Reader:

Please find below a special message from our sponsor, Move America Forward about the upcoming Fight For Victory Tour that takes place September 3rd through September 15th. They have some important information to share with you.

Thank you.

NewsMax.com

THESE TWO MILITARY MOMS
ARE GOING TO STAND UP AGAINST
HARRY REID & NANCY PELOSI
Please don't make them do it alone.

Meet Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee and Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns, two military mothers who believe in the missions our troops are serving in the war on terror.

But now Congress, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are threatening to cut off funding for our troops in Iraq and force the United States military to surrender to the jihadist terrorists in Iraq and come home in defeat.

Military moms Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns are leading a national effort to fight back - and they need your help... time is short, so please give this your immediate attention.

From September 3rd - 15th military moms Debbie Lee and Deborah Johns will lead military families and their supporters in Move America Forward's "Fight for Victory Tour" -- a historic cross-country caravan of vehicles that will travel across America, holding 27 pro-troop rallies along the way.

This is one of the most ambitious pro-troop efforts that has ever been undertaken in this country, and we are asking you to be a part of history. Please don't allow these military moms to undertake this effort alone!

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP

* Go to the Move America Forward website and see the caravan route and schedule for the 27 pro-troop rallies. Jump in your own vehicle and join the caravan for all, or just part, of the way. Or, attend one of the pro-troop rallies, and be sure to bring along an American flag with you! The complete itinerary of the caravan and the pro-troop rallies can be found at our website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org

* Help fund this massive undertaking with a donation. The costs for this effort will be enormous -- renting vehicles, purchasing fuel, booking hotel rooms, paying for permits for the rallies, buying food for the military families who will participate, purchasing radio and TV ads to alert the public to these events - so please, MAKE A CONTRIBUTION RIGHT NOW - CLICK HERE

WHY THE TIMING OF THIS EFFORT IS SO CRUCIAL

The timing of this effort is critical - as our commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has been ordered by Congress to give a progress report on "the surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq by September 15th. The Democratic Congressional leadership has suggested that they will use this mid-September timetable to force terms of surrender on our troops and require them to pull out in defeat.

Al-Qaida and the Islamic jihadists will have won, and America will have lost if Reid & Pelosi get their way.

But, we can make sure that they don't get their way, and with the "Fight for Victory Tour" led by Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee and Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns, we can mobilize an incredible outpouring of support for our troops all across the nation over the next two weeks.

So please, don't allow these military moms to stand up to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi alone. Join in the "Fight for Victory Tour" in whatever way you can. Forward this email on to friends and ask them to come to one or more of the rallies, join the caravan or make a donation to fund the campaign.

COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE ONLINE:

www.MoveAmericaForward.org

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