Words that inspired 

 THE STATUTES of POVERTY

Give me your sick, your poor, 

unskilled, befuddled masses

yearning to get freebies.

Deposit wretched refuse 

on our teeming shores.

Ramp up the crying greed

to strip us of our gold

as you pass through 

our Open Door.

 A MOTHER'S PLEA

Marine Sgt. Andrew Ttahmooressi, held over 100 days

Dear Fellow Citizen,

I want you to imagine something terrifying... 

... you're decorated, combat wounded, veteran of two tours in Afghanistan;

... you're admitted to a Veterans Hospital for treatment;

... and you're being held against your will and then abused in a horrible Mexican jail. 

This isn't a joke –– my son Andrew, 25 years of age –– is a current inactive Reservist Marine Corps Meritoriously Promoted Sergeant who served with honor in two tours. 

After being honorably discharged active duty from the Marine Corps, Andrew went to San Diego in March to receive treatment for PTSD. While driving in Southern California, he unknowingly took a wrong turn and wound up at a Mexican Customs Checkpoint. 

He was denied the right to turn back and was arrested for carrying firearms into Mexico that are legally registered in the United States. In desperation, he even called 9-11 for help. Now, he is in jail in Mexico (he's been moved to three different jails), has been denied bail, and is being represented by the third attorney ordered. 

We have appealed to the State Department... but John Kerry "raised the issue". We have filed a petition with the White House ... but President Obama has ignored our pleas. 

Andrew is not an "issue". He is a gravely serious, URGENT CONCERN. 

I have been honored to be a featured guest on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren, and other cable news networks that have covered Andrew's case. I hope that you're seen or heard something in the news about my son on the news. 

Everyone agrees — Andrew shouldn't be in jail, yet all of his life savings will be spent on his defense of an unintentional entry. This horrific experience has broken Andrew physically, emotionally and financially. So today, I'm at my last resort. As a mother, I'm asking for your immediate help. 

Are you able to make a generous donation of $25 or whatever you can afford to Andrew's liberty fund? 

If you want to learn more about our situation, and I truly hope that you do, please click here to watch a short video that includes reporting from Fox News about our situation. When you're finished watching, please consider making a generous contribution to liberate Andrew. 

I'm so fortunate to have the assistance of many friends and organizations here in America that have helped me set up the Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi Liberty Fund. 

You see, the truth is, I'm just a mother from Florida. I'm not a diplomat, or an international lawyer, or a strong Marine like my son. I need help to get Andrew out of jail and to bring him home and for that I'm going to need to hire talented lawyers... lawyers that I can't afford and that our government isn't willing to provide. 

So that's why I need your urgent help. Will you make a donation of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to the Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi Liberty Fund today? 

I really hope you're with me on this... 

I know the American people are not ok with a decorated, combat wounded Marine being unfairly held in a Mexican jail. And that's why I am emailing you today. 

Click here to watch this short video that includes reporting on our situation from Fox News and other major cable news channels. 

Thank you in advance for your support. 

I hope that you can make a donation, or at the very least, give us your support so we can urge the Obama Administration to show some interest in freeing my son. 

Sincerely, 

Jill Tahmooressi

Andrew's Mother 

Your contribution is not tax deductible and you may incur federal gift tax liability. However, an individual donor can make an annual tax-free gift of up to $14,000, and a married couple can make an annual tax-free gift of up to $28,000. However, you should consult your own accountant or tax advisor regarding your personal financial situation and any potential tax liability as a result of making a contribution to the Trust.

Paid for by Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi Liberty Fund

COMPETING VIEWS?

I

Obama gonna pay my bills

Obama gonna cure my ills

Obama gonna give to me

Everything I want for free.

On me and mine Obama dotes

Dat's why he's gonna get our votes.

We's gonna suck da white man dry

And laugh to see him sit and cry.

We laugh and laugh 'cause its so funny

Dat our bills be paid wiff white man's money.

~Jemima Mauron - 10/3/12

Why are these pathetic creatures smiling?

II

Once "The Rich" have been unseated

ALL of us will be defeated,

'Cause once "The Rich" have been destroyed,

Naught will be left, except a Void --

A Bottomless Pit -- A Big Black Hole 

Where everyone lives on the Dole,

And I don't mean ol' RINO Bob,

Who’s just a lackey to Those Who Rob.

I'm talkin 'bout The Oligarchs,

Whose money once created parks

And enhanced universities,

Built hospitals to fight disease, 

Palaces where Opera's housed ––

Places at which no one's groused,

Libraries and Railroad Stations

Fit for endless celebrations,

Until that old New Deal was struck.

That changed the rules and killed good luck.

Since then "The Rich," forced to connive

To find a way they might survive,

Have joined with Statists to despise,

Deter, discourage those who'd rise.

We call it Crony Capitalism,

And it has caused the mammoth schism

Yawning now twixt rich and poor,

'Cause we let Marxists in the door.

COMMUNISM KILLS. 

IT CANNOT CURE OUR ILLS!

~ Freethinke 

Shall We Gather at the Border?

Links From The DRUDGE REPORT

BORDER BREAKDOWN: MORE MIGRANT BUSES BLOCKED...

LICE SO BAD 'They Can Be Seen Crawling Down' Their Faces! 

PRO-AMNESTY PROTEST: WOULD OBAMA SEND HIS KIDS 'BACK TO KENYA'?

Border Patrol Tells Agent: 'Cease and Desist' from Speaking with Media...

MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti on Walls of Processing Center...

Minors Admit to Engaging in Torture, Murder...

Sheriff: Feds Releasing Criminals into AZ...

Hundreds released in MD...

Churches Providing Housing for Illegals...

HHS Official: 'Jesus Was Refugee'...

CLAIM: Residents Asked To Shelter Children -- In Their Homes!

FLASHBACK: Obama Mocks GOP on Border: 'They'll Want a Moat and Alligators'...

SESSIONS: President has abandoned lawful duty to American people...

Patriotism or Chauvinism?

What’s the difference?

And streams will flow in the desert ... - Isaiah

Visions Become Reality

The parched ground shall become a pool . . . 

Isaiah 35:7

We always have a vision of something before it actually becomes real to us. When we realize that the vision is real, but is not yet real in us, Satan comes to us with his temptations, and we are inclined to say that there is no point in even trying to continue. Instead of the vision becoming real to us, we have entered into a valley of humiliation.

Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And battered by the shocks of doom
To shape and use.

God gives us a vision, and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that so many of us give up and faint. Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience. Just think of the enormous amount of free time God has! He is never in a hurry. Yet we are always in such a frantic hurry. While still in the light of the glory of the vision, we go right out to do things, but the vision is not yet real in us. God has to take us into the valley and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the point where He can trust us with the reality of the vision. Ever since God gave us the vision, He has been at work. He is getting us into the shape of the goal He has for us, and yet over and over again we try to escape from the Sculptor’s hand in an effort to batter ourselves into the shape of our own goal.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here. Allow the Potter to put you on His wheel and whirl you around as He desires. Then as surely as God is God, and you are you, you will turn out as an exact likeness of the vision. But don’t lose heart in the process. If you have ever had a vision from God, you may try as you will to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never allow it.

"He leadeth me beside the still waters ..."

~ Oswald Chambers 

My Utmost for His Highest, July 6, 2014

http://utmost.org/

Fifteen “Loaded” Questions That Should Provide a Springboard for Lively, Fruitful Discussion

In Congress July 4, 1776, Philadelphia, PA

We are grateful to Truthseeker, whoever he or she may be, for posing these questions yesterday, and to Les Carpenter for reposting them at his blog.

TruthseekerJuly 4, 2014 at 4:55:00 PM EDT (edited and emended by FT)

On This July 4th, 2014, please don’t "thank a liberal"for our splendid heritage. Marxian-Fabian-Socialist-Liberal-Progressive-Statists today often boast that the likes of Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin, and many other founding fathers were "liberals", and as such ought to be given credit for the achievements of the Founding Fathers, who risked everything and suffered incalculable loss and hardship in their quest to establish a government that stood for individual liberty.

This, of course, is not true, because the meaning of the term “liberal” has changed drastically since it was craftily adopted by the Progressives to neutralize their growing fear of opposition to the quasi-Marxian, collectivist initiatives that characterized political activism -- in both parties -- early in the twentieth century. Given the nature of our Founding Documents it’s dubious that the Founders, who were never unified in their views in any case, would have supported the social and economic agendas promoted by the Left for the past hundred years.

1. Would our Founding Fathers have supported a bloated, reckless, out-of-control federal government?

2. Would they have supported aborting millions of unborn babies under the guise of "privacy" and "reproductive rights"?

3. Would they have supported marriage between two men and marriage between two women?

4. Would they have supported the influx of millions of illegal aliens streaming across our borders unchecked?

5. Would they have supported providing millions of illegal aliens with federal and state-funded education, food, housing, and medical care?

6. Would they have supported deficit spending, crushing national debt, and the fiat currency system?

7. Would they have supported the creation of the Federal Reserve System and the resulting manipulation of our money supply and our country's economic health by the Federal Reserve Board?

8. Would they have supported the executive branch bypassing the legislative and judicial branches and unilaterally making laws via Executive Orders?

9. Would they have supported our participation in military actions in foreign countries that did not pose direct threats to the United States?

10. Would they have supported the breakdown of the family unit through divorce or illegitimacy or abuse or irresponsibility?

11. Would they have supported the erosion of state's rights via the judiciary?

12. Would they have supported the erosion of religious freedoms?

13. Would they have supported a gridlocked legislative branch and an extremely partisan and subjective judicial branch?

14. Would they have supported the widespread voter fraud that has affected countless local, state, and federal elections?

15. Would they have supported negotiating with terrorist organizations for the release of American hostages?

Were his immense sacrifices made in vain?

_____ FIREWORKS _____

The fountains in the sky in brilliance burst
Over throngs who thrill as patterns spread
In radiant arms of glowing hues disbursed
Natant in the blackness overhead.
Deafening as any cannonade
Explosions follow soon the hiss and squeal --
Preliminaries to the star brigade
Erupting floridly, yet quite unreal.
Naumachia was naught compared to this
Delirium. Decorum’s cast aside.
Enraptured like Narcissus we know bliss,
Non sequitur to what’s seen nationwide.
Could joy we take in heaven’s fireworks
Earthbound hold us, while the Devil smirks?

~ FreeThinke - The Sandpiper - Summer 1996

Even in a world that makes no bones about calling  Barack Obama an Asshole and Hillary Clinton a Cunt 

THIS 

still has to be 

THE EPITOME of BAD TASTE

And AIN’T it JUST GREAT?

You see when you truly hate something, the best way to deal with it is to 

LAMPOON it to DEATH

Mirror, mirror in my hand
Who's the vilest in our land?

The mirror didn't say a word
But thought, "The question's too absurd

The country's run by knaves and fools
For citizens who act like ghouls

Sucking on each pus-filled sore
Destroying their esprit de corps

By taking a perverse delight
In cursing Dark while loathing Light

FreeThinke - 4/29/10

BEYOND the PALE

See One of the Vilest of the Vile Self-Destructs on TV, Because He Insults One of His Own Who Happens to be The Vilest of Them All.

I Swear these Filthy Swine would have no Compunctions about Devouring their Young, If they thought it Expedient.

TO THIS WE’VE COME!

WHO is PRIVATE BOWE BERGDAHL?

A traitor? A deserter? A monster?

A misfit? A hero? A philosopher?

An earnest seeker of truth?

A victim? A collaborator?

A confused little boy?

What have we made of him?

Who is he? What is he?

Who was he? What will he become?

Did President Obama merely use the Bergdahl family as part of a political ploy, or does the president feel honest compassion for them?

Private Bergdahl was recently cleared by the Army of any misconduct during his captivity. The Left wants to see that as a An Embarrassing Defeat for Rabid Right Wingers who Rushed to Judgment.

But the Left, itself, has Rushed to Judgment, because the the circumstances of Bowe Bergdahl’s disappearance from his post and subsequent capture have not yet been revealed.

I'm a libertarian, which puts me about as far to the right as anyone could get, and I posted the following observation here, at Always On Watch, and at Progressive Eruptions several weeks ago soon after the brouhaha over Private Bowe Bergdahl began:

'Good points on both sides about the handling or possible mishandling of Sgt. Bergdahl's return, but overemphasis of any bit of evidence primarily to score points for a particular "side" results in distortion of the truth, which does no lasting good. When both sides do it, both are equally at fault.

'Even if Sgt. Bergdahl really is guilty of desertion and possibly treason, it has been extremely unwise and distasteful –– not to say impolitic –– for Conservative elements to jump on this and beat it to death right now.'

I first published that statement at Progressive Eruptions, then repeated it elsewhere several times where I felt a lot of hotheaded, irresponsible, defamatory remarks were being passed. I even went so far as to say the fervid eagerness to condemn Private Bergdahl was assuming the characteristics of a typical LYNCH MOB.

I remind you of this, because Left Wing Bloggers have been hurling hotheaded, defamatory, accusatory remarks condemning FOX News and the Right Wing in general for using Private Bergdahl’s sensitive-possibly-tragic situation to try to damage their beloved President Obama. So, once again Left and Right mirror each other, and fail to see how very much alike they are in their arrant bigotry.

I don't like being lumped in with a bunch of Yahoos, rabid partisan zealots and ululating savages who jump to conclusions on slight evidence, avidly feed their penchant for blood lust, and render themselves eager to kill at a moment’s notice, so I’m publishing this yet again to try to set the record straight. 

As I've said so often since 911, the extremes of left and right meet back-to-back on a circle. Too often thr they produce a Rorschach pattern -- mirroring  and mimicking one another with chilling clarity and precision.  

It is the ferocious eagerness to vilify, condemn and punish that unites Left and Right.

All that aside we need to do honest, objective research in order to learn the full ruth about Private Bergdahl.