May 2009

A Baby Must Do a Lot of Trusting

Family

Have you ever held a newborn in your arms and felt it snuggle into your warmth as if seeking refuge? What a wonderful feeling! A precious, innocent little life depending entirely on your strength to protect it from the real world!

Can you imagine the shock a little one must feel when it leaves the ultimate protection of its mother’s womb and emerges into the cold, blindingly bright world for the first time? All of a sudden the baby is cold, feels hunger, and must fend for itself in the oxygen department. The warm, loving, and nourishing darkness that the baby has instinctively trusted without question, and has come to take for granted for the past nine months is gone! It is replaced by what you see around you.

Is life viable for him or her without the commitment of a loving parent or parents? Of course not! The little one must continue in a state of complete dependence for its basic NEEDS for several years. Warmth, nourishment, shelter, love, touch and knowledge will all come from someone who is totally committed to caring for the child if they are to come at all.

Watch closely, as the baby begins do develop judgment over time. It learns that it cannot blindly trust everyone to cherish it like Mom or Dad does. Some people are too rough or too negligent or too ignorant to be completely trusted. This developing discernment is essential to the child’s ultimate survival and transition to adulthood.

Thank God for the wise plan that makes it possible for us to take our needs for granted for the first nine months of our existence, as we are surrounded by the protecting warmth of our mother’s love. This applies to you, me and everyone else who has lived on the earth.

From the time when we first existed as a few newly conceived cells (each cell carrying the complete DNA blueprint for our future development and growth) through the first 21 days till our tiny hearts started beating, we were hardly recognizable as a baby. Then, things started happening quickly. Two more weeks and our brains start to generate brainwaves indicating our first cognitive activity. Four to five weeks more, we are sucking our thumbs (getting a head start on our suckling skills!), moving around (sometimes vigorously!), adjusting position to get more comfortable, squinting to close out light, frowning (perhaps a smile or two also?), moving our tiny tongues and swallowing.

Ahhh, life is good! We are in a good place! We take all this for granted, for we are not intended to worry at this tender point in our development. There is simply nothing to worry about here! Of course, with hindsight, we know this is about to change! But, for now, we have big job to do. We have to be and learn. That’s it! Nature and mommy will do the rest! I feel certain we would be surprised at all the things we learned while we were in the womb.

Most of all we learned to trust. It was as if we knew there was someone doing all the work. From inside, we could actually feel the love of our mother as she provided for all our needs. Thank heavens, that didn’t change much for most of us after we emerged into the real world.

Some babies were a bit premature on the trust, however. For over FORTY MILLION! (40,000,000), babies since 1973, their tiny lives ended in a flood of betrayal, bewilderment, shock and pain. Horrible unbearable pain.

I was looking at Abortion Statistics the other day. So cold and clinical they chilled me to the bone. Each baby had become a number and was classified by the method used to end its life. There were three classifications of methods. Curettage was by far the most common according to the Center for Disease Control accounting for over 99%. Abortion Statistics – United States. There were two general classifications of curettage used:

  • “Sharp”: Insertion through the cervix which has been mechanically dialated of a hook shaped knife (curette) which cuts the baby into pieces. The pieces are scraped out through the cervix and discarded. Imagine you are a trusting child feeling safe in your mother’s love and all of a sudden, something is going on! There is an inordinate amount of light, strange sounds and then the knife begins its work. Don’t worry, little one, this is not only your first experience with horrible pain it will be your last and it will all be over soon. Society has convinced your mommy it is ok to choose this for you…sorry…

  • “Suction”: A tube with an extremely sharp-edged end is inserted into the womb, then hooked up to a vacuum device. The vacuum suction, nearly 30 times as powerful as your vacuum cleaner, tears the fetus and placenta into small pieces which are sucked through the tube into a bottle and discarded. Imagine the fright at the horrible noise and the pain and horror as your tiny body is torn apart and sucked into the maelstrom piece by piece…

  • Today, we look back on our ancestors and wonder how could they have been so arrogant, cruel and ignorant to think that they could actually own another human being? For most of us slavery is an incomprehensible, shameful blot on the otherwise glorious history of the land of the free…

    We recall more recently the stark, incomprehensible horror of “The Holocaust” and can’t help but wonder how the German Nation could have allowed such an abomination to exist within its expanded borders. Generations of good German people have had to live with similar thoughts when the lights go out before they sleep.

    What will our descendants feel towards us, their ancestors, when they look back on the period where we as a people have tolerated what has to be the most horrible abomination ever committed by an “enlightened” nation in the history of planet earth?

    Our President seeks “dialogue” on this matter. He takes the horror a huge step forward in supporting “partial birth abortions”. How can we have a dialogue on this? This is simply infanticide disguised as the divine principle of human free agency, the right to choose. I pray for the millions of young men and women who have been duped into this crime against humanity. I pray they can forgive themselves when the light finally comes on, and it will… If only they had realized that when you choose an act, you also choose the consequences!

    Please understand, I dont condemn the prospective mothers who must ultimately face this terrible decision alone. Nor is this aimed at irresponsible men who have their fun then leave a young woman alone to face the consequences. This is an indictment of our society for tolerating the carnage.

    When our nation finally removes the blinders and sees this for the horrible abomination it is, there will be change. There will be shame enough for all of us to go around. And, don’t expect our descendants to understand and forgive. They never will.

    The Harlot Of The Harbor

    by Ray on May 22, 2009 · 9 comments

    in War

    We could wander, perhaps whistling, past graveyards all over the globe this Memorial Day— in Vietnam; in Europe: France, Italy, England, Belgium; in the Pacific:  Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines; in the Middle East: Iraq, Afghanistan; and in the U.S.: Concord, Valley Forge, Arlington, and so many more. We might pause to ponder the enormity of the sacrifice attached to each one of those ever-so-neatly arranged little white crosses. Row upon row ––– an endless stream of very still, very young Americans. Children who never had the chance to be remembered for their special talents or their craft, or even for their loves and foibles. Special talents and abilities, loves and lovers, follies and foibles – –all those “might have beens” – – were entombed with their young bodies. They sacrificed their all to protect the freedom they’d been raised to hold dear. The very freedom about which we, the living, often so glibly speak, but so seldom actually comprehend.

    As we tiptoe by, a chorus of bewildered voices may well up from that hallowed earth to plaintively ask, “Is this what it was all for?” “Is this that for which I laid down the only life I’ve ever had or ever will have? Tell me – - how goes it with my ‘Land of the Free?’ Does the flag I vowed to protect still fly head and shoulders above all others? Does my country remain the Hope of the world? Tell me, please! Though I’ve lost touch, I feel an unease in the land.”

    While kindness pleads for a place in my response, a sense of duty and an allegiance to forthrightness ultimately commands the day.

    “Although I’ve no desire to alarm you . . . I must report that that very selfsame ‘unease’ of which you speak, is running rampant throughout the land. There’ve been some changes.

    The Grand Lady in the harbor –– you know, the one that symbolized that which was best about America? Her once proud head is now bowed in sorrow. She thinks her vision impaired, for she sees less of the familiar landscape that once was  her purview. Rubble stands where once there was life. Yet the leader of the land frolics about, vapidly apologizing to the world for the collective ‘sin’ of our refusal as a nation to allow such transgressions to go unpunished!

    Would he transform her into the Harlot of the Harbor? ‘Arrogant’, he calls us! Was it ‘arrogance’, I ask, that provided you your wee slice of eternal foreign real estate? I think not. ‘Twas the currency of your blood that financed the current crop of Freedom – – not just in America, but throughout the world. That is one American currency which must never be devalued”

    “Surely you jest!”, say they who’ve given their best. “Change for the sake of change has no value. Has he forgotten our address? Have you all forgotten? The only reason we provide sustenance to French flowers, rather than to the daisies of our mothers’ liking, is our love of that which is quintessentially American: freedom. Given a choice, we’d rest a bit closer to home. But we make no apologies for our addiction to air that is free, to governess that empowers rather than enslaves. We coddle not our enemies. We curry not the favor of the world at the expense of our principles. ‘Don’t tread on me!’ is a way of life, not just an historic slogan!”

    Cowed by their vigor, somewhat abashed, I meekly say, “Sorry – - – I guess I let it happen.”

    “We ask but one favor….”, say they. “Spread the word: Freedom is never free.”

    In solemn and loving memory of those who have provided me my freedom, I spread their word.

    7,992 Young Patriots Far From Home

    7,992 Young Patriots Far From Home

    Police State U.S.A?

    by Doug on May 18, 2009 · 3 comments

    in Government

    Ok, go ahead and say it… you know you’ve thought it: U.S. Police State. A concept I would never have dreamed in my worst nightmares, now looms as a disturbingly real possibility.

    Let me preface my thoughts by saying that I am not ready to charge that POTUS has a heart as black as Adolph Hitler. As a nation we can not fully know his heart until we see what he does with the power he has been accumulating. We know what Hitler did with the power he gathered during the 1920s and 30s. For Germany it was truly the frog-in-the-pot syndrome. Hitler realized the value of gradual positioning and preparation, from the 1922 establishment of the innocuous sounding “Hitler Jugend” (Hitler Youth) Hitler Youthand moving relentlessly toward the grand finale of WWII and the Holocaust. He left his country in ruins, both literally and figuratively. And the “frogs” who had sat trustingly in his “pot” were thoroughly boiled and left in spiritual tatters. Generations of Germans have paid and still pay the terrible price for the millions of dead and generations of misery their country wrought upon the world.

    However, it’s worth noting that President Obama doesn’t seem to have the patience for gradualism. In fact, his speed at gathering powers makes Hitler look like cold molasses by comparison. He is quickly arming himself with the capability to place his boot on America’s neck without further warning, thus making opposition to his regime impractical. Will he use it? We know that President Obama is not reluctant to use and abuse the power already entrusted to him, our Constitution notwithstanding. He seems to enjoy flexing his new POTUS muscles. Ask Chrysler stockholders, creditors, or advertising vendors.

    Consider the following developments during Obama’s short tenure as POTUS:

  • Establishment of what will likely come to be colloquially known as the “Obama Youth/ Brown-shirt Corps” through The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act which became law April 21, 2009. During his campaign Obama said: “We can not continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we have set. (applause) We’ve gotta have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded…(applause) Watch the video and listen to him here:


  • The law authorizes a “paid volunteer” (isn’t that an oxymoron?) force of 250,000 which Obama clearly intends to use for “national security” here in the homeland.

  • Obama’s budget quadruples funding for Tax law enforcement over the next five years, again for policing US citizens.
  • A Domestic security force of 20,000 U.S. troops is being established within the United States in preparation for civil unrest, among other things. Read about it in the Dec 1, 2008 Washington Post article
  • Subsequently, evidence has emerged that the intention may well be to increase this Domestic Security Force to 80,000. The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), published an unclassified Protective Intelligence Communication Report in March 2009 concerning the “crescendo” of public concern about Obama’s presidential eligibility. The report warns: “if…Mr. Obama fights revealing his documentation, there is growing concern of civil unrest, or worse, being unleashed in the streets of our nation. The economic crisis coupled with this type of a constitutional crisis could prove to be a flashpoint that would test conventional law enforcement and elements of homeland security.”
  • A March article in The Army Times cites recommendations by the Army’s Strategic Studies Institute, that a “Consequence Management Response Force (CCMRF),” (currently the role of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team) might eventually comprise upwards of 80,000 troops. This “Force” is being trained and readied to deal with what could be widespread civil disorder resulting from an “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of a functional political and legal order.”
  • Moved to establish control of vital US internal communications

    • The FCC already has power over the jamming of cell phone signals nationwide
  • President Obama has cowed American industry into quick submission and directly controls several key industries. US Auto industry has now decended to the level of the old Soviet Union. It is essentially controlled by the “government” (read: Obama) and the workers (read UAW). When was the last time you saw a sleek looking Russian made vehicle cruising the strip? I thought so!
  • The labor unions are eating out of the President’s hand.
  • His Messianic following continues to spread at home and throughout the third world.


  • Could a police state happen here in the United States of America or is this simply paranoia? You tell me.

    Glenn Beck discusses proposed state’s rights legislation with Utah State Representative Carl Wimmer (R) and Texas State Representative Leo Berman (R).

    Glenn Beck – States Test the 10th Amendment [1 of 2] – May 7, 2009

    Glenn Beck – States Test the 10th Amendment [2 of 2] – May 7, 2009

    There is trouble afoot in Obamaland. Certain right-wing extremists are taking exception to Obama’s orchestrated revelation of sensitive information from this nation’s “secret” spy agencies. Obama, obviously relishing the opportunity to repent on behalf of “W”, subscribes to the belief that confession is “good for the soul” . . . that we’ll all be “better off” for his current orgy of gut-spilling. Perhaps even safer. Certainly more socially acceptable to the Europeans, those impeccably credentialed bastions of civility and fair play (setting aside, of course, vague memories of the Bastille, the Tower of London, and a few other anomalies.)

    As previously mentioned, there are some cretins among us who feel that perhaps secret spy agencies might qualify for an exemption from the “Obama Transparency Rule”. After all, there have been past exceptions (quite a few, actually). The most notable of such exceptions that comes to mind is the “don’t ask, don’t tell” motif with which Obama has decorated the circumstances and place of his birth. And if total opacity is judged to be the proper level of “transparency” for such mundane matters as one’s legal qualification to assume the office of the most powerful leader on earth, perhaps the activities of secret spy agencies should also remain “opaque”.

    The inference that we as a people are somehow or other miraculously “safer” due to Obama’s regurgitation of government secrets is an insult to the intelligence of all but the most liberal among us (… one can’t insult what’s just not there!)

    A skittish, demoralized CIA is the answer to every Jihadist’s prayer. Apparently, Obama really is a messiah . . . to some.