In my blog next week I will answer the questions I pose. I say to my readers that I want the issue to sink down into your souls. I want you to dwell on this for awhile.

Below is the content of the letter I have written to all of my legislators. No one has yet replied to my letter. If someone does, I will include their replies, no matter whether I agree with them or not:
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Dear Sir or Ma’am,

I would like to give you a quote from Thomas Jefferson, and then ask you two questions. Your answer will be included in my web site, www.rehoboth-news.com. To facilitate my ability to include your answer, please reply by email to oasis@inbox.com .

HERE IS THE QUOTE:
“With respect to our state and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. To the state governments are reserved all legislation administration, in affairs which concern their own citizens only, and to the federal government is given whatever concerns foreigners, or the citizens of other states; these functions alone being made federal. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government; neither having control over the other, but within its own department.”
~ from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Major John Cartwright, June 5th, 1824. This quote is not in dispute. It is found, as one example, on page 1493 of “Jefferson Writings”, put out by the Library of America in 1984. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-19917 ISBN 0-940450-16-x

QUESTION ONE:
What Constitutional amendment(s) changed our government structures from what it was then to what it is now? Please include in your explanation Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution and the 9th and 10th Amendments.

QUESTION TWO:
What is the federal government’s current legitimate role in our government structure, and what is the state’s role, according to the US Constitution?

Thank you.

Cordially,

Mr. Terry Haines

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Who were these letters sent to and at what address? Here is the list.

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The Honorable US Senator Carl Levin

https://www.levin.senate.gov/contact/email/

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The Honorable US Senator Debbie Stabenow

http://www.stabenow.senate.gov/?p=contact

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The Honorable US Congressman Gary Peters

http://peters.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=59&sectiontree=3,59

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President Barak Obama

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

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Governor Rick Snyder
Mailed to: Governor Rick Snyder, P.O. Box 30013, Lansing, Michigan 48909 
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State Representative Tim Melton
(Melton quit mid-term and there is not yet a replacement for him.)
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State Senator Jim Marleau
SenJMarleau@senate.michigan.gov
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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney
press@mittromney.com
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Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich

http://www.newt.org/contact

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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum
Matt@RickSantorum.com
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Presidential candidate Ron Paul

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/contact-us/

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REPLY DATES:

Gingrich
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Levin
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Marleau
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Obama
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Paul
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Peters
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Romney
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Santorum
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

Snyder
• Contact date: Mailed 2-6-12
• Reply Date: Pending

Stabenow
• Contact date: 2-5-2012
• Reply Date: Pending

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There once was a poor farmer who had almost nothing. His wife died, and all he had left was his son and his horse. The horse got out of his corral and was lost.

The neighbors came to him and said, “You poor man. What a bad thing has happened to you.”

The farmer said, “Don’t say that. We don’t know what God is doing.”

Two days later, the horse returned with three horses. Now the farmer had four horses and his wealth was beginning to return.

The neighbors came to him and said, “You are a fortunate man. What a good thing has happened to you.”

The farmer said, “Don’t say that. We don’t know what God is doing.”

The next day, the farmers son was in the process of breaking one of the new horses, was thrown from the horse and broke his leg.

The neighbors came to him and said, “You poor man. What a bad thing has happened to you.”

The farmer said, “Don’t say that. We don’t know what God is doing.”

Soon, the king of the country came to the village where the poor farmer was, and began taking the young men from each family to go away to a war. Most of these young people would never return, as they would be killed in the war. But the farmer’s son was not taken because he had a broken leg.

The farmer believed that God was powerful enough to change all of the circumstances in his life. He believed that God was good all the time. He believed that God was wise enough to make nothing but beneficial choices for him.

So the question is, what is a good thing?

A good thing is that which will result in our good God being glorified. The farmer did a good thing by trusting and obeying God even when he did not understand His ways.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
~ Romans 8:28-29

So again, let’s see. Ahem. Okay, yeah, so I’m a little negative. People hate that, but my negative words are good for them. I just know it. It’s Saturday morning and my mind is blank. What to write to my adoring fans? Think. Think.

Well, let me say this.

I love America. But she’s in trouble.

I love the church, and I am a Christian, but we Christians are not always the light of the world .

I love my family, but we don’t have the perfect family. I can’t have the perfect family because I don’t have the perfect wife. (Now you are committed. You have to read this entire blog.)

I love my job. I work with the public school system as a para-professional with special needs young people. But the public school system needs God. They have expelled God from their schools, and have made themselves irrelevant in the process.

I love the free enterprise system, but it doesn’t seem to really be a part of our economy right now. Our economy is in trouble mainly because it is an economy built on debt. Money does not exist until someone borrows. When people talk about how much our country is in debt the answer should be all of it. There are three things an economy can run on. Something. Nothing. Or less than nothing. Our economy runs on debt, which is less than nothing. But then it takes a while to explain that and people are not really interested in that sort of thing.

So I should just continue on and be negative or just look only at the bright side or just shut up.

But you know that despite my ranting and raving, I am not discouraged, and maybe that is the thing I will write about today.

I am not discouraged about America. I don’t know what the next step will be in America’s destiny. But I know the past. I know that we were born in honor and in a piece of history that has never before existed. The people of this nation were a religious and righteous people and brought forth a document, the US Constitution, that has never been equaled. It was not, and is not perfect, but it is very good.

The church? Well, I am not perfect. I guess if I ever found the perfect church I really shouldn’t join it. I would just corrupt it. There are many sins in the church, but it is not Jesus who has made it so. I trust the Author and Finisher of my faith to be the Author and Finisher of others’ faiths.

My family? I do love my wife and three children. I have a good wife, and I have good children. I am not really crabby with them. For one thing, once crabbiness starts, it multiplies. You should know that my wife is a real fun lover. If you see her and I at a party, you just gravitate to her and leave me alone. I have gotten used to it. I know her abilities, but I also know mine. I will not publicly rebuke them, and I expect the same from them. The family was given by God and is a wonderful institution. But I do not worship the family. I worship God. I do not get my emotional well being from the family. To expect that is to make the family an idol.

My job? God owns the cattle on a thousand hills and I will be fine.

The economy? Ditto.

There is a story in the Bible of the prophet Elisha who one day woke up to find himself surrounded by an enemy army. His servant informed him of this, saying “Alas, my master, what shall we do?” Elijah asked God to open his servants eyes, and he saw not just the chariots and horses of the enemy, but the horses and chariots of fire that had been sent by God. See 2 Kings 6.

We can see the reality of the bad things going on around us, but we also MUST see the reality of the horses and chariots of fire that will be sent by God.

In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, we see the destruction brought by God, but we also see the story of God protecting Lot and his family from the destruction. See Genesis 18 and 19.

In the story of the ten plagues that brought Israel out of Egypt, one of the things to notice is that God eventually made a distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptians. The last few plagues were not brought on the Israelites, just the Egyptians. See Exodus chapters 7 through 12. See God’s words in Exodus 12:12, “on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.” I expect it to be the same in America. At first, the Christians and the unbelievers will go through the same plagues. But in the end, the Christians will find themselves leading our nation out of our national darkness.

Miracles still happen. After I called any potential readers miserable at the beginning of this post, you still read this. And I love you for it.

I am not discouraged.

I serve a risen Savior, who’s in the world today.

Our nation has forgotten God. We are attempting to rise from the ashes without acknowledging dependence upon God and seeking obedience to His principles. In Isaiah 9:10 it says, “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

In this Bible passage, the Israelites had just been attacked by the terrorists of their time, the Assyrians. This was Israel’s words to the situation. It was the nation’s way of saying “We will rebuild!” It sounds like a noble response until the previous verse is examined. The previous verse states that Israel said this “in pride and in arrogance of heart.” They were rebuilding, but without God. Ten years from this utterance, Israel was conquered by the Assyrians.

In the Declaration of Independence, our nation found themselves “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world…with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.” Concerning the Revolutionary War, George Washington stated, “The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”

After our Constitution was ratified, at Washington’s first inaugural address, he acknowledged God’s Invisible Hand in the founding of our nation. I include Washington’s address for your convenience. Our first President took his oath of office in the Federal Hall in New York City. After the address, Washington and the newly elected Senate and the House of Representatives walked the eight blocks to St. Paul’s Cathedral where they prayed that our nation would be dedicated to the service of God.

A few hundred feet from St. Paul’s Cathedral stands is now Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attacks on our country. On this site our nation was humbled. We can either humble ourselves before God, or God will humble us. Our nation will learn this, as Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon once learned this.

Sirs, I urge you to make a commitment that if elected, you would hold your inauguration at the New York City Federal Hall, then walk with the leaders of our nation to St. Paul’s cathedral to remember this Invisible Hand, and rededicate our country once again to the service of God. I further urge that you would order that the original inauguration speech of George Washington be read at this site. Then I urge you to go to Ground Zero to bring us words of healing.

I am a man of no particular importance. That is agreed upon by both my friends and my enemies. But this message has importance. Will America again seek God’s face to regain their rightful destiny in the world? I believe that the right leader might once again bring our nation in that direction.

Thank you for your consideration.

Mr. Terry Haines

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George Washington’s First Inaugural Address

April 30, 1789

Fellow Citizens of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years: a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance, by which it might be affected. All I dare hope, is, that, if in executing this task I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof, of the confidence of my fellow-citizens; and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me; my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my Country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated.

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.

By the article establishing the Executive Department, it is made the duty of the President “to recommend to your consideration, such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” The circumstances under which I now meet you, will acquit me from entering into that subject, farther than to refer to the Great Constitutional Charter under which you are assembled; and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the preeminence of a free Government, be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its Citizens, and command the respect of the world.

I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide, how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the Fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the System, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good: For I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an United and effective Government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience; a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen, and a regard for the public harmony, will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be more impregnably fortified, or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.

To the preceding observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the Service of my Country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed. And being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the Executive Department; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the Station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.

Having thus imported to you my sentiments, as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race, in humble supplication that since he has been pleased to favor the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparallelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

Bobbie Sue:
Did you know that in 2009, the county/district that RON PAUL represents received $14,707 per resident, topping average per capita federal spending in 46 of the 50 states. Paul earmarked some $60 million for projects in and around the city that year. So your favorite no pork ‘Constitutionalists’ is actually one of the biggest spenders. Oh but before you tell me he voted against the bills that gave his state and county all that pork/federal money. Yes he did, he WROTE it into the bills, knew it was going to pass then voted against it so he could stand on his record of not voting for pork. That is a POLITICIANS move, not a STATESMAN.

Terry:
I’m a Ron Paul man, but this is one of those moments for me when I will be wincing. Ouch. Still, do you know any other candidate who opposes the Patriot Act and the Federal Reserve? We are too militaristic in our country, causing “blowback.” How do we get rid of this national sin? RP is actually one of the most electable people on the ballot because he will receive votes from people who normally vote Democratic, Independent, or people who are so disgusted they don’t vote. Is Santorum your man? I don’t know much about him yet. What about these items I mentioned? I always like your spirit, Bobbie Sue. I think the issue is that we need to find a President who will live within the confines of the Constitution. No one but RP even pretends to do so.

Terry:
Here’s a better link: The CIA Exposes the Truth About Ron Paul! Must See!!

Bobbie Sue continued, quoting a source of hers:
Michael Farris wrote this a couple of days ago about RP.
“Ron Paul is an enemy of the legal principles that the homeschooling movement has used successfully to defend our freedom to teach our own children. He recently said that he does not believe that the 14th Amendment trumps the 10th Amendment. He said this is an abortion context (which proves that he is not politically pro-life) but, let’s examine what this means in a homechooling context. In the 1920s, the State of Oregon banned all private education. This Oregon law was challenged as a violation of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause prohibited states from banning private education because this overrode parental rights in an unconstitutional fashion. If Ron Paul’s philosophy were applied to this case, then Oregon’s law would have prevailed under the 10th Amendment. The case I won before the Supreme Court of Michigan for homeschooling freedom was based on the 14th Amendment. The federal constitutional principles of religious freedom and parental rights overrode the power of Michigan to require homeschoolers to all be certified teachers. The homeschool victory that I argued before the Court of Appeal of California when that court had previously ruled that homeschooling was illegal in that state–was based on the 14th Amendment. I could go on. Home schooling would be legal in about 3 states in this country today if Ron Paul’s view of the Constitution was actually practiced by the Supreme Court. So I have a question for all of the members of Homeschoolers for Ron Paul: Do you agree with Ron Paul that the states have the exclusive authority over the legality of homeschooling and the 14th Amendment provides no constitutional right to homeschool? How can you support a candidate who denies the very constitutional principle that our movement used to win our freedom? Supporting Ron Paul in the name of homeschooling is like supporting Barack Obama in the name of reducing the national debt.”

Bobbie Sue:
Terry, You are very kind with your words. Thank you for respecting another persons views. A RARE find from a RP fan.:) I truly wish his son Rand Paul had run I would support him 100%! He supports ending the FED, and his foreign policy views are more along what I believe. But the best part is HE VOTES with MORAL values, unlike his father. I do believe RP truly is a conservative in his heart he just refuses to vote that way. Read the article I posted above. I am backing Santorum though he was not my first pick. Honestly I felt Bachmann was the only one that was a TRUE Moral Conservative, she always voted for what was right no matter the cost. She is not a typical politician. Have you read her book or much about her? Truly a very impressive women who isn’t afraid to stand for truth no matter the cost. Santorum has always been my second choice, I think he has made a lot of political moves over the years, and though I understand his reasons why, I don’t like them nor do I think they were the best moves to make. But at this point in my opinion he is the best of what we have left. As to ending the FED, I agree it needs to happen! And would fully support that. Do I think it ever will? NO. Do I think a president has the power to end it? NO. I was just telling my mom today that it is pretty funny to listen to the presidential candidates talk, they all promise to this and that. And yet for the most part they can’t do any of it as we have a system set up my our Founding Fathers that requires a balance of power. But all that to say though I would LOVE to see the Fed ended, BUT I don’t think it’s the most important thing to vote for. Morality is a much bigger deal to me than money.

Bobbie Sue:
Terry, As for the Constitution I value it. And believe it is a VERY important document in it’s ENTIRETY! I know RP fans like to credit him as the only true Constitutionalists. But really his view is I am a 10th Amendment guy hang the rest of the Constitution! Asked of RP, Do you believe in the 2nd Amendment? RP: I believe it’s a 10th amendment issue. WHAT??? Seriously, it’s called the 2nd amendment! Do you believe murder is wrong? RP: I believe it’s a 10th amendment issue. (His voting record proves his stand on murder, no matter what his personal views are). Do you believe a marriage is between a man and a women? RP: It’s a 10th amendment issue. For a man who claims to be a Christian he certainly doesn’t turn to his Bible for guidance on how to vote. Do you believe a parent has the right to choose where and how their children get an education. RP: I believe it’s a 10th amendment issue. Even though the right has been won in 47 states based on the 14th amendment. His view would render all the fighting that you and your wife did useless. Then you have his views on drugs. But I will stop now. What I am saying is I find all of the above to be MUCH more important to me and my views and way of life then my desire to see the end of the FED. You are right he will pull a lot of Democratic votes, Libertarian and Independents. But I don’t necessarily think that’s a good thing. I for one don’t want to be a supporter of someone who gets the endorsement of the Homosexual crowd, or the Nazi party of America. Or votes from people who support death.

Bobbie Sue:
Terry, I did watch the last video you posted. And I do agree that we don’t need to be all over the world. But I also believe that when evil is happening and we can help stop it we should. I’ve heard RP say that if he was president he never would have joined in WWII. He would have let Hitler kill all the Jews and take total control of Europe. He wouldn’t have been willing to stop him till he came at us on our soil. I am a HUGE WWII buff and that alone is enough to get me to never support him. So though I don’t agree with going in and saving everyone. When there is a person who is killing millions and trying to take over the world I believe it is in our best interest to stop them not to mention that would be fulfilling the scriptures to love our neighbor. I think we should go in kick butt and get out, I though I don’t believe it’s our job to rebuild and stay there for years and years to make sure they can run the country we hand them. I do believe we are wrong to sit by and do nothing knowing full well our allies are being killed. If they are not our Allies and don’t support American then I say let them handle there own issues. Goodness I have went on long enough. Sorry for the eye full.

Terry:
I am trying to figure out what the 14th Amendment has to do with home schooling and I haven’t caught the connection yet. Isn’t the 14th Amendment the Amendment that was added to the Constitution to free the slaves?

Bobbie Sue:
No it states . Section 1 “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” I assume they argued that NO state can enforce any law that abridges an American citizens privilege to choose the schooling of their choice. However they used it they won.

Terry:
Thanks. More of this discussion later, if you will. I have just finished an exhausting day. Tomorrow will be the same. But I want to have a coherent discussion on this. Are you up to it tomorrow or Friday?

Bobbie Sue:
I don’t have an issue with that. But I don’t want to discuss him with anyone other than you. MOST RP fans are rude and can’t write more than two sentences without name calling. You respect other peoples choices, which makes it easy to talk to you.

Terry (I asked her something that is often on my mind politically. I look back on this and think it is a bit of a stiff and formal question, and I want to comment on it later.):
Many Christians believe that the next one world government will bring in the Anti-Christ, the Bible prophesied counterfeit Messiah. Both liberals and conservative politicians are bringing all authority to the federal government, then giving away that authority to the UN or to NAFTA or to the Federal Reserve. The result will bring a one-world government either way. Bobbie Sue, I know that you, too, follow Christ. What can Christians do with their vote that will make sure that they themselves will not inadvertently bring in the kingdom of the Anti-Christ?

Bobbie Sue:
The scriptures are written and will come to pass no matter what anyone does. I personally do not think we will even be a country when the Anti-Christ comes. So I am not sure that our votes has anything to do with it. I do think that we are to be careful and wise with our privilege to vote. We need to look at the records of the candidates and pick the one that best represents our values. With that being said, I think people often give too much credit/ power to the office of president. I am not saying it’s not important, but we are set up with a government with three branches for a reason, and just because a presidential candidate says they will do something doesn’t mean it will come to pass. If you control the Executive and Legislative branches with good people you can definitely move mountains if you’re so inclined.

Terry:
Forty four minutes into the last Republican presidential debate, Rick Santorum quoted the Brookings Institute, saying that people are rarely poor if the do three things- work, graduate from high school, and get married before they have children. Any comments?

Bobbie Sue:
I didn’t watch the debate so I will have to take your word for what RS said. I would agree with that statement. If you have a solid work ethic, can read and write and have the morals to wait till you’re married to have children/sex. You will make something of yourself. You might not be rich but you will be able to provide enough to live on.

Terry (I gave her the last word in Facebook, though I want the last word on this web posting):
Anything else?

Bobbie Sue:
For the record, Santorum is the best that I see in the four we have left. I am not a huge fan of his, which is why I don’t post anything about him. I am not happy with some of his choices in the past. I truly think Michelle Bachmann was the only candidate who truly voted with her Bible as her moral compass, which to me is the most important thing.

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And that was the end of the conversation.

I agree with Bobbie Sue on some things. I appreciate that we have a government that at least in theory does not give one person too much power. But what has happened is that the Presidency in our country has become like a kingship or even the office of a Messiah. What I want in a President, and what Bobbie Sue wants, is a President that will not overstep the bounds of their Constitutional authority.

Thomas Jefferson said this:
“In questions of powers, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

So what I am after is a President that will not aggrandize himself. I already have a Messiah, thank you very much, and I don’t need a second one. But the issue of the Federal Reserve is a big one for me. Mayer Amshel Rothschild (1744–1812), founder of the Rothschild family banking dynasty once said this:
“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes it’s laws.”

One of his descendants, Baron Nathan Rothschild (1840–1915), said:
“I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, …The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.”

So much of our nation’s sovereignty is given to financiers such as these type of men who control the Federal Reserve that we really don’t have control of our own country’s destiny or sovereignty. To support a candidate who will support the Federal Reserve is just a way of wasting a vote because we vote away our nation’s own sovereignty. People are mildly amused by people like myself who waste our votes for Constitutional candidates. But I am not the one who is wasting their vote. I want my vote to count for something.

Now as to the Patriot Act. It nullifies the rights that we as a nation gained during our Revolutionary War. Only Ron Paul wants the elimination of the Patriot Act and the Federal Reserve. Only he knows how to do it. It is ironic. I am supporting a President because of what he WON’T do, and because of the power he tells us he will NOT use.

One last thing. If we try to vote in a Messiah, we will end up with the Anti-Christ. Enough said…for now.

I have just finished reading a book by the Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. I highly recommend the book, titled The Harbinger – The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America’s Future. The book is written in the narrative style of a journalist that comes across a mysterious prophet that explains how America’s position in the world is similar to Israel’s position just before their destruction. Though it is written in fictional style, the message is a deadly serious one.

Israel was attacked by the terrorists of their time, the Assyrians. The Assyrians were known for inhuman tortures toward their enemies. They would skin their enemies alive and hang their skins up as a warning for others not to dare oppose them. The Assyrians had made a quick attack on Israel, as recorded in Isaiah chapter nine, then had gone away. The Scripture makes it clear that the attack was a warning to Israel to seek His face, to remember their history, to repent, and then – only then – to rebuild. To rebuild without repentance would be to rebuild on the wrong foundation. Israel chose to rebuild, but not to repent and seek God’s face about their national sins. Ten years after this small initial attack, the Assyrians overran Israel, conquered and destroyed them. Will the same happen to America?

Here is the pertinent central Scripture that Rabbi Cahn referred to:
The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel; and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart: “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
~ Isaiah 9:8-10

This part of Scripture was actually referred to by a political leader the day after the attacks, but without giving the context of the verses. It was meant to be words of comfort, but the words are words of impending judgment. Three years later, another American political candidate again referred to the verse, “The bricks are fallen, but we will build…”, but look at the context of the verse. The context is pride against God.

On February 24, 2009, President Obama came to the hill one month after his inauguration and spoke to the House of Representatives. He said:
“But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this – We will rebuild.”

Yes, we are rebuilding, but without repentance. By doing so, our nation is inviting our own destruction. We are not seeking God, and God is beginning to remove our hedge of protection.

We are also not remembering our history. Here are some important events of the days leading up to our nation’s first Presidential inauguration. In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was written. The Revolutionary War followed. Then in 1787, the US Constitution was ratified and our government was set up. The day of Washington’s inauguration was April 30, 1789, and took place in the Federal Hall in New York city.

Let me include a part of Washington’s first inaugural address:
“Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency…”

After Washington’s address, he led the newly elected Senate and House of Representatives in an eight block walk to St. Paul’s Cathedral, where together they prayed a prayer of dedication of our newly formed country to God.

Now up to the present time. The Federal Hall still exists. It stands between the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street. St. Paul’s Cathedral still exists. In the field of the land that was originally owned by St. Paul’s Cathedral stands Ground Zero. This was the location of the 9/11 attacks. St Paul’s Cathedral stands less than 300 feet from the where the twin towers stood.

There is much more to be said. But at this time it is extremely important that we remember our God and remember our history. It is important that we worship God and not money. Our past will lead us securely to the future. Will America repent? I believe our very lives may depend upon it.

NEWS YOU CAN USE
• Cultures
Jesse Ventura: WTC7 Is The Key To 9/11 Being An Inside Job!
> Video 9:08 from Mox News
> Jesse Ventura is interviewed by The View

• Economy
Post Office Should be Privatized
> Editorial from Investors Business Daily
> Repeatedly suffering from red ink, the author explains why the Post Office cannot fulfill its business plan without becoming privatized.

Currency Wars
> Video 13:03 from the Keiser Report
> Author James Rickards is interviewed about his book, “Currency Wars; The Making of the Next Global Crisis”

• Education
Famous Homeschoolers
> Video from Miller Home School
> Do you know which famous people were home schooled?

• Elections
Detroit has More Registered Voters than Residents Over 18
> Article from Crain’s Detroit
> We watch as the evidence mounts that there is a plan for voter fraud in our nation. This can happen innocently as people move out and do not register to vote another place, but it is extremely unlikely to happen to this extent.

• Energy
Obama’s Energy Program was Infused with Politics
> Article from Washington Post
> It shouldn’t surprise us that a politician created an energy policy using public moneys for political purposes, not energy purposes. The best way of solving this sort of problem is to return all domestic policies to the states, not the federal government.

Congress Ends Corn Ethanol Subsidy
> Article from The Detroit News
> Subsidizing one part of the economy over another is always a bad idea, so good for Congress. Another up side is that ethanol now comes from corn, uses much needed farming space, and so drives our food prices up. But there will be ramifications in energy costs of ethanol. Our country will be further locked into dependence on oil. Much of our oil comes as imports from our country’s enemies.

• Environment
Zimbabwe Follows Kenya and Rejects Genetically Modified Food
> Article from Bernama Microsite
> Why Reject GMOs? They contain toxic substances, are less nutritious, and negatively effect humans and the environment.

• Family & Sexuality
Realistic Advice To Teenage Girls
> Article from Backwoods Mom
> Enjoy some humorous wisdom, but stay a while at this site. The author describes her family:
“I’m Keri Riley, a backwoods mom in Ninilchik, Alaska where I shuttle 8 kids around, fighting off moose, mosquitoes and middle age. My husband is an ice road trucker … that’s right, just like the show … and gone from our lives six months of the year, so more often than not I’m edgy, tired, and going it alone.”

• Freedom
Raw Milk Freedom Riders Push Further on Interstate Milk Prohibition
> Article from The Complete Patient
> Some choose to drink milk that has not been pasteurized. It’s refrigerated. It has never been proven to be unsafe under modern methods. But I want to be as fair as I can to the FDA. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. So would the government please provide me with a list of all the calves that have have died from drinking the mother’s unpasteurized milk. Then my friends and I will further study this horrible crime that the raw milk riders have committed, and will report back to our readers.

America Ranks 9th on 2011 Index of Economic Freedom
> Article from The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal
> This is the ranking of countries from the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom.

Businessmen Can “Shoot to Kill!” in the Event of Martial Law!
> Video 10:12 from Democracy Now
> In the event of Marshal Law or societal chaos, over 23,000 business leaders, working With FBI and Homeland Security, have been given government permission to shoot to kill to protect their property.

Jesse Ventura: Abolish Income Tax and Dissolve IRS
> Video 7:28 from Bloomberg
> The always popular but controversial Jesse Ventura discusses how government OUGHT to be structured. What Ventura is advocating is is to restructure our country as the founding fathers originally intended.

• Globalism
Population Reduction! What The World Refuses To See!
> Video 9:56
> The topic of population control can be academic until you realize that the social planners are talking about you and your family.

The Last Word on Snake Oil- History of the Rockefeller Family
> Video 8:19 from Corbett Report
> The Rockefeller family is an extremely wealthy and influential family who have many plans for the people of the world.

• Health
The Future of Food
> Video 1:28:51
> Our food supply is increasingly controlled by multinational corporations. This causes concerns along economic, environmental, health, and freedom issues.

• History
JFK Warns Against Secret Societies or Secrecy in Government
> Video 5:15
> President John F. Kennedy warned us about the danger posed by tolerating excessive secrecy, and permitting members of “secret societies” and the military-industrial(-intelligence-media) complex to slowly covertly subvert our Constitutional Republic from within, right before our eyes.

• International
N Korea May Soon be Able to Strike US with Doomsday HEMP Weapon
> Article from Mike Adams in Natural News
> Missiles toting High altitude ElectroMagnetic Pulse weapons could fry all electronics using computer chips and our electricity infrastructure. Now the US is a one bomb country. One bomb could destroy us beyond hope for recovery.

• Spiritual
Request a complementary copy of Tortured for Christ
> Voice of the Martyrs web site
> Voice of the Martyrs is giving away free copies of the book Tortured for Christ by VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand to promote their ministry.

Atheist Leader Complains About U.S. Troops Praying Together Before Combat Mission
> Article from CNS News
> Jason Torpy, head of Military Atheists and Free Thinkers Association, is promoting “atheist chaplains.”

Prince Charles: Follow Islamic ‘Spiritual Principles’ to Save the World
> Video 8:34
> Prince Charles, speaking to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, discusses the Islamic religion. Charles will become the head of the head of the Church of England when he succeeds to the throne.

• State-Wide
Michigan Bill Would Overturn Special-Rights Ordinance
> Article from CitizenLink
> Three bills go through the Michigan legislature that would have an effect on the homosexual agenda.

Order out of Chaos- The Rise of A New One World Religion
> Video 1:03:21 from Prison Planet
> As people of all three Abrahamic faiths look for a Messiah, there is an agenda to unite all religions.
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“LET IT BE LIGHT”- Humor and Inspiration
Give Me Jesus – Fernando Ortega Ruth Graham Tribute
> Video 4:10
> Ortega’s inspiring tribute on the passing of the wife of evangelist Billy Graham.
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RECOMMENDED BOOK
The Biblical Basis for Modern Science
> Book by Henry M. Morris
> This book is a classic in understanding the relationship between the Bible and science. Morris shows that the Bible is accurate when it touches on the sciences. In fact, the sciences depend upon the Christian world viewpoint to maintain their validity.
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NOTABLE QUOTES
“God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.”
~ The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language, 1807

“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
~ 1823; Every Christian a Publisher, Ernest Reisinger, Free Grace Broadcaster, Issue 51, Winter, 1995, p. 17

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
~ Common Sense, January 10, 1776; The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1, Chapter XV; Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894)
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SCRIPTURE
Test everything; hold fast what is good.
~ 1 Thessalonians 5:21
> This is a simple but an important verse. We should test newspapers, political parties, history, science, and other other forms of knowledge to see what “holds fast.” Even after we establish concepts in our minds, we should be open to new forms of knowledge. As one of my old college professors said, as we get older we should avoid “hardening of the categories.”
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NEWS YOU CAN USE
• Cultures
Top Ten List of 2011 Confirmed Conspiracy Facts (Article from Natural News)
(These confirmed facts used to be considered off the wall conspiracy theories.)

Does Barack Obama Think He’s the 4th-Best Modern President? (Article from the Miami Herald)
(Let’s see. Good self concept, arrogance, or just a guy trying to defend himself? What do you think about Obama’s comments? Maybe our President found himself about to say that he was the greatest President in history and then corrected himself by mentioning other great Presidents. You just gotta wonder what happened here. Also you should notice which Presidents are BHO’s heroes.)

The Latest Fair Tax Results (Article from Northern Light)
(The Fair Tax system is beginning to get a fair hearing.)

• Economy
Where You Can Buy Building Products Made in America (Article from ABC News. Includes Video 4:21)
(The implications of this article are STUNNING! The author, economist turned builder Anders Lewendal, has built a house made entirely of American materials at a cost of 1-2% more than conventional houses. Lewendal is convinced that if every builder in the United States were to buy just 5% more American materials, it would create 200,000 jobs. This is an example of how most American problems are better off solved by we Americans ourselves. We should not always go to our politicians for the answers.)

Just How Huge is Walmart? (Article from Fast Company)
(If WalMart was a country, it would be the 25th largest country in the world.)

• Elections
Ron Paul Gets Home Run on CFR-NAU Question (YouTube Video from Grand Theft Country 2:23)
(Here Ron Paul fields a question about the Council on Foreign Relations and the North American Union.)

Gingrich Speaks Out About CFR & NWO (YouTube Video 0:54)
(Newt Gingrich fields a question on the Council of Foreign Relations and the New World order.)

Obama’s Agenda: Overwhelm the System (Article from Las Vegas Review Journal)
(This is written by one of Obama’s classmates at Columbia University class of ’83. The author believes Obama’s goal is to force our country into socialism.)

‘Mischief Maker’ Ron Paul’s Rise in Polls Comes From Democrats & Independents (Article from Gateway Pundit)
(Only half of Ron Paul’s supporters are Republicans. The rest are from Democrats and Independents. Wouldn’t a better title have been ‘Ron Paul Supported by Broad Political Spectrum’?)

Newt Gingrich Loves FDR (YouTube Video 1:38)
(FDR vastly expanded the size and scope of government, supposedly for citizen benefit. Gingrich is just another big government politician who will do the same. He is not a conservative.)

• Energy
Author Dr. Robert Zubrin Discusses His Book ‘Energy Victory’ (Video recorded at Google Headquarters 1:31:33)
(The full title of Dr. Zubrin’s book is ‘Energy Victory. Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.’ In the book, a simple, easily implemented plan is laid out on how to break free from our nation’s dependence on oil. Zubrin suggests that all vehicles sold in the US should be required to be fully flex fueled, able to use either gasoline or ethanol or methanol. The advantages are many. There would be environmental improvement as ethanol or methanol are used, as these fuels are not pollutants. There would be economic advantages, as our economy would be transformed from a system that brings much money to an elite few. Our economic system would become a society where tens of thousands of companies could each promote a part of the energy solution. Wealth could be dispersed among the many, not the few. Finally, our country would no longer be dependent upon a part of the world that hates us for our energy needs. The sad reality of our relationship with OPEC is that we are sending money to our enemies through OPEC. Because of this, the US has ended up funding both sides of the War on Terror. This lengthy video deserves to be seen by every citizen in the country.)

The Possibilities of Algae as a Bio-Fuel (Video from Google Videos 21:30)
(One of the legitimate criticisms of using ethanol as a fuel for cars in our country is that ethanol is mostly processed from corn and this will drive up food prices. A possible solution is creating bio-fuels from algae and growing the algae in our nation’s deserts. This will neither use farming resources nor increase the cost of food. A good solution.)

• Environment
Canada: First Out of a Sinking Kyoto Ship? (Article from CNN)
(The Kyoto Accord ruins the economy of countries while it supposedly improves the environment. Canada now disagrees with the Kyoto mandates.)

• Family & Sexuality
Astounding Video Depicts Unborn Baby’s Full Development (Video from TEDTalks 9:38)
(The Bible declares in the Psalms that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. This video shows the wonder of human life from conception to birth.)

• Freedom
Voters Leaving Republican, Democratic Parties in Droves (Article from USA Today)
(People on the left and on the right are both disillusioned.)

Hackers Take Down Anti-Muslim Website (Article from Forbes)
(The hacktivist group Anonymous shut down a website rallying against the show “All-American Muslim.” This is the first known attack of the group of a Christian web site.)

Gingrich: Courts Are Far Too Powerful (Video from Fox News Presidential Debate in Sioux City 2:06)
(Gingrich declaring that the courts are not supposed to rule the land, a view the founding fathers had.)

2011 Spending Highest in Human History! (Article from Political Realities)
(Much of the spending is debt, and debt enslaves us all.)

• Globalism
The Collectivist Conspiracy (Video 1:24:55)
(Author G. Edward Griffin discusses how seeing the world as a left vs. right struggle will eventually lead to a collectivist one-world government. He also discusses the banking elite, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Tea Party movement.)

• Health
Female Winner of “Tough Mudder” Contest Credits It to Super-Foods (Article)
(The Tough Mudder Contest is similar to an Iron Man Contest, but lasts 24 Hours and is more of a military endurance contest. 90% of the contestants do not finish the course.)

20 Pain Cures You Can Find In You Kitchen (Article from iVillage)
(Do things that relieve pain have to be patented medicines or FDA approved? No.)

This Year 37 Communities Voted to End Water Fluoridation (Article from Natural News)
(Even if you believe that water fluoridation is a good idea, how do you administer this to people in the proper dosages? People are re-examining the issue of medicating our water supply.)

• History
Top 3 Myths About the Great Depression (YouTube Video 2:13)
(Historian Stephen Davies names three persistent myths about the Great Depression.)

• International
Former FBI Chief: Most Terror Attacks Are Committed By Our CIA and FBI (YouTube Video 8:44)
(Former FBI Chief, Ted Gunderson, discusses terror attacks and who is behind them.)

Netanyahu PM of Israel agrees with Ron Paul (YouTube Video 1:57)
(Ron Paul has been heavily criticized for being anti-Semitic. One person who agrees with Paul’s foreign policy toward Israel is Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.)

• Privacy
Internet Censorship SOPA, Bought and Paid For YouTube (YouTube Video from RT News 3:37)
(The internet is the last hope for individuals to express their opinions contrary to the giant media empires. All attempts to begin curbing the internet should be viewed with great suspicion.)

• Prophecy
Jewish Prophecy Suggests Messiah May be Coming Soon (Article from Israel Today Magazine)
(Not included in this article is that there are many Christians who also believe we are living in the end times.)

• Science and Technology
Holes In Heaven? – HAARP and Advances In Tesla Technology (YouTube Video from UFO-TV 52:47)
(Critics of HAARP say this technology could blow a massive hole in the upper atmosphere as well as disrupt the subtle magnetic energies on Earth.)

Flying Car at Oshkosh (Video from EAA Video 5:57)
(This flying car was invented to be able to land in an area the size of a football field to provide medical attention to remote areas. It can also be used for border patrol, search and rescue, and other uses. The S-LSA certified car was invented by Steve Saint, the son of Nate Saint, the martyred missionary to the Auca Indians in Ecuador.)

• Spiritual
The Texas Christmas Day Massacre Was a Muslim Honor Killing (Article from Bare Naked Islam & Video 3:07)
(This is another example of Muslim violence)

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“LET IT BE LIGHT”- Humor and Inspiration
The Government Can (YouTube Video from Tim Hawkins Comedy 3:04)
(Comedian Tim Hawkins uses the tune of The Candy Man Can to make a spoof about how the government can solve all of our problems.)

Jesus, Show Me Some Lightning! (YouTube Video 0:45)
(This shows the faith of a child. During a storm, a father tells his son to ask God to show him some awesome lightning. The child prays, and Wow!)
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RECOMMENDED PURCHASE
Energy Victory. Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.
~ by Dr. Robert Zubrin
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NOTABLE QUOTES
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
~ David Rockefeller Sr., in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991.
(The mainstream media is not “objective.” It is bought and paid for by powerful financial interests, as is our government. Only We the People can change this. This shows our need for alternative news sources.)

“The structure [of the Constitution] has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid, its compartments are beautiful as well as useful, its arrangements are full of wisdom and order, and its defenses are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of men may justly aspire to such a title. It may nevertheless perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, the People.”
~ Justice Joseph Story, “Commentaries on the Constitution,” Volume III Chapter XLV: Concluding Remarks, Section 1907, 1833

“There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists. We don’t need homicide bombers. The 50+ million Muslims will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”
~ Libian leader Muammar al Gaddafi
(The reason? Muslim families in Europe average 8.1 children. Europeans average 1.4 children per family.)

“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose— that it may violate property instead of protecting it— then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French Political Theorist and Economist. From his publication, ‘The Law’

“I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.”
~ George Washington Carver (1864-1943) Son of a slave. Scientist of the Christian faith. Botanist, Inventor, Educator.
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SCRIPTURE
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
~ Joshua 1:8-9

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
~ 2 Chronicles 7:14

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him.
~ 2 Chronicles 16:9
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There is a book out that introduces an energy concept so simple, so inexpensive, and so easy to apply that it astounds me that this book hasn’t taken the country by storm. What is this concept? The book introduces the requirement that all vehicles sold in the US become what I will call GEM vehicles – able to use Gasoline, Ethanol, and Methanol as fuel.

The book is “Energy Victory – Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil” by Dr. Robert Zubrin. Dr. Zubrin suggests requiring that all new vehicles sold in the United States be fitted to accept three types of fuel – Gasoline, Ethanol, and Methanol. The technology for this has been around since the 1980s. Brazil already has a similar national requirement. Brazil has had great success in meeting its country’s energy needs in an unstable oil market.

What modifications need to be made and what are the costs? It involves making sure that all of the hoses that connect with the fuel supply are able to take the acidity of all three of the fuels. Then it requires the fuel intake sensor to modified to be able to measure the oxygen level of the incoming fuel. This one time cost would be between $30 and $100 per new vehicle produced.

What are the benefits? Many. The US would become independent of OPEC, which is controlled by countries hostile to us. This requirement would deter the need for war, first by the United States, then all over the world. Think of it. Right now the US is funding both sides of the war on terror. We are giving oil money to OPEC which is controlled by radical Muslims. They then use some of the trillion dollars a year we give them to wage their side of the war.

With this energy solution, there would be many fewer possibilities of ecological disasters like the 2010 BP spill. An ethanol or methanol spill would not harm the environment.

This energy solution is also very, very good for the economy. If this was national policy, thousands of cottage industries would raise up to produce methanol or another bio-fuel to be used by motorists. This would not be money kept in the hands of only a few of the already very wealthy, but would spread the wealth out all over the nation.

We already have flex fueled vehicles that use either ethanol or gasoline. Why would we add accepting methanol to the requirement in the flex fueled engine? The answer is that methanol is a fuel that the United States is able to produce in abundance. It can be made from coal, natural gas, or any rotting vegetation. Ethanol is produced only by vegetation that has a high starch content. In the US, that is mostly corn, but could also be beets. Methanol does not have to be produced this way. It could be made out of farm waste or leaves or grass clippings or just get creative. There are hundreds of possibilities of how to produce methanol. Making methanol out of algae is one of the possibilities, and growing algae in the desert is one good solution. Producing methanol does not require us to use up our food supply as a source of fuel. Right now, methanol is produced for about 60 cents a gallon. It only has about half of the energy that gasoline has, so you would be going to the gas station twice as often. But buying methanol is the energy equivalent of buying gasoline at $1.20 per gallon. Even with taxes, due to competitive pressure, gas would never go above $2.00 per gallon, if in fact you chose to use gasoline. Which ever source of fuel is the cheapest at the time would usually win out at the pump, but those who have environmental concerns could choose to always use ethanol or methanol.

Why force the GEM requirement at all? Why not just allow our free enterprise economy to take care of this problem on its own? Because of a supply and demand problem. Look around at the gas stations now. There are only a few ethanol gas stations because there are not many cars that use ethanol. Why aren’t there more cars that use ethanol? Partly because there are not enough gas stations to supply the ethanol anyway. It’s a chicken and egg problem. Which will go first? With the simple GEM requirement, the problem is solved. All cars will be able to use three types of fuel. Then the gas stations will catch up to whatever the next popular fuel is or they will go broke.

If all vehicles were flex fueled GEM vehicles, then finally the free enterprise system could go into overdrive and begin to help our economy. We would never again see gasoline prices over $2.00 per gallon because there would be too much competitive pressure to keep the price of gasoline low. We may soon see a $5.00/gallon gas price. But fuels for our vehicles at these prices are absolutely and completely unnecessary. Which state will gain the most from the GEM requirement? Michigan will, because we are so automobile dependent. But this requirement is good for all citizens of the United States.

If this is such a good idea, why hasn’t it been done yet? It can’t be that simple, can it? Yes it is simple, but in this case, as in many cases, simple is the opposite of easy. We need to go against the ingrained interests of the Republican and the Democratic Parties. These two parties have sold out to the oil industry. They have not looked out for the interests of We the People.

Dr. John Marburger, Presidential adviser for George W. Bush, was shown this option for energy independence. When asked what was stopping America from making this flex-fueled mandate, he replied simply, “We don’t believe in mandates.” It’s a lie. There are dozens of government mandates on vehicles supported by both parties. These mandates are required for safety and fuel efficiency reasons. Why not make this requirement, which has much more far reaching positive purposes, including national security concerns?

In the fall of 2005, Barak Obama was one of one of three Senators which watered down a 2005 bill to make this flex-fuel requirement. See Senate bills S.1994 and S.2025. There are many examples that that both major political parties are “fueled” by oil money.

There is another, more complete answer as to why this mandate is not now US law. In some senses the entire world economy is based on oil, and oil is measured in American dollars. There are those who believe that if we do not go along with the OPEC oil interests, OPEC will base their oil prices on some other currency, and ruin our national economy. I see both dangers. But for me, we cannot remain so dependent on our enemies’ whims. Mandating all vehicles to be flex-fueled GEM vehicles is elegant in its simplicity and provides for a more stable economy. It minimizes the possibility of environmental disasters like the BP oil spill, and it minimizes the incentive for an energy war. Every raise in fuel prices brings up the cost to any merchandise shipped to us, maybe most importantly our food prices. There are many good reasons to take this solution seriously.

You can learn more on the subject by buying the book, “Energy Victory” by Robert Zubrin. There is also a video available of Dr. Zubrin’s lecture at Google.

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• Economy
Where You Can Buy Building Products Made in America (Article)

• Education
Home School Entrepreneurs: Take a Look at This (Web Site)
Waiting for Superman- Online Documentary About the Public School System (Video 1:40:16)

• Elections
A Third Major Party? Most Americans Say It’s Needed (Article- USA Today)
Voting Fraud Perpetrators Found Guilty in New York (Video 3:27)
Republican Elites Worry Ron Paul May Win Iowa Caucus (Article)

• Energy
Is Cold Fusion Knowledge Really Possible? (Video from 60 Minutes 12:25)

• Family & Sexuality
Recommended for Abortion, Miracle Baby Survives Odds (Video 6:13)

• Federal
Federal Government Takes Final Step to Suspend Constitution (Video 7:40)
Government Shutdown Avoided by Borrowing Another $Trillion (Article)

• Freedom
More People Giving Guns as Christmas Gifts This Year (Article)
Gun Ownership Mandatory In Kennesaw, Georgia- Crime Rate Plummets (Article)

• Globalism
Hillary Clinton Accidentally Admits that the CFR Determines US Foreign Policy (Video 3:04)

• Health
More Hospitals Offering Alternative Therapy Services (Article)

• International
N Korea’s Kim Jong-il Dies (Article)

• Privacy
GPS In Cameras And Phones Create Privacy Issue (Video 3:12)

• Prophecy
Mandatory Microchip in ObamaCare Could Become the Mark of the Beast (Article)

• Science & Technology
Weather Warfare- Documentary from The History Channel (Video 9:47)

• Spiritual
Congress Told: Saying “Merry Christmas” Publicly is an Ethics Violation (Video 3:03)
Death of Atheist Christopher Hitchens (Article)
President Obama and the Muslim Religion (Video 43:46)
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“LET IT BE LIGHT”- Humor and Inspiration
Fallen Soldier’s Puppy Gives Hope to a Grieving Family (Video 2:02)
The Storm: Message About Prayer from Tony Evans (Video 4:02)
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NOTABLE QUOTES
“With respect to the words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”
~ James Madison, Letter to James Robertson (1831-04-20)

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
~ Patrick Henry, The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.

“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God. What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”
~ John Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9
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SCRIPTURE
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
~ Isaiah 7:14

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
~ Micah 5:2

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He [Jesus] was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
~ 1 Timothy 3:16
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