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2009-11-18T17:40:00.000-08:00

Four Lessons For Willow Morgan Part Two
The Preservation Of The Neph

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Four Lessons For Willow Morgan

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Four Lessons For Willow Morgan Part Two - The Preservation Of The Neph

2009-11-13T07:58:00.000-08:00

Chapter Two

Four Lessons For Willow Morgan Part Two
The Preservation Of The Neph

Goreme Caverns, Cappadocia, Central Turkey

“I can’t believe the years have passed.” He thought. Another voice filled his mind, as Walter Morgan took a large pick and swung it hard against the cavern wall. The loud thud was the result of thirty-five years of falling rock and debris that made it so hard to get to it.

“I know it’s here. I put it here myself.” he thought out loud as he swung the heavy pick-ax again, and it collided with the stone that separated Walter Morgan from retrieving what he had come there to get. Then another voice filled his mind and the sound of it made him lower the pick and listen intently.

“Wally? Where’d he get off to? Walter Aaron Morgan you will get to this house this instant!” He smiled at the sound of his mother’s voice. “I loved buying those bugs.” He laughed and heard his mother’s screams. “Walter Aaron Morgan, I am going to kill you! I hate those things!”

His kind and studious face took on a great childish grin as he remembered how those plastic bugs had made his mom so crazy when she pulled the blankets down and saw them planted right on her pillow.

“They looked so real.” Walter told himself. He pulled the pick into the air and swung it hard against the stone wall. “They looked so real, those bugs.” He heard a definite crack this time and reared the pick back behind him again.

“The tomato worms were the ones she hated most.” He reminded himself again.

He yanked the heavy pick forward and crushed the remaining wall and a pitch black hole was suddenly flooded with light, and Walter Morgan’s mind was flooded with his father’s voice. They were the same words that had often made him stronger and afraid to ever give up.

“Walter, you get in and get back out fast! It doesn’t take power to do what you must. It takes speed, accuracy and a determination to survive. It is our heritage, rarer than gold and of inestimable value.” Walter’s mind saw his father wrap an arm around his son’s shoulder. “My boy, it will all be clear. It is here that you will understand your significance and how to possess it and hold it with humility and to consecrate yourself to helping all men and women without respect of person. It is the way of the Neph.”

Since then, it was what drove him, just as his father had said it would be. It was Walter Morgan’s duty to pass his birthright on to Willow, just as his father had delivered it to him. It was that drive to preserve their unique and hidden difference of his line that had shed its insatiable appetite for evil and instead had yielded their kind to God.Walter swung the tool around one last time and the opening grew large enough to reach in and take back what he had placed there thirty-five years earlier. He reached in and felt a large box on the tips of his fingers. He pushed in further and dug his fingernails into the wood and pulled hard. He pulled it out quite easily.

~~~

“Miss Willow, you shouldn’t squirm so much.” Willow looked down and saw the flickering lights of the valley farmers who lived off the land in that part of Turkey.

She saw the rock spires of Goreme just out ahead. Willow spotted places where there was light and then darkness until another little patch of light appeared, with pitch blackness overtaking the land of Cappadocia. She kicked her legs with excitement as they soared above it all and screamed out in pure enjoyment mixed with fear.

“This is what I was born for, isn’t it?”

“I am but a created creature myself. We too have demonstrated our capacity to go the wrong way. You will meet many Black Hearts on this excursion to prove my point.”

“What you’re really trying to say is that you are not perfect and could drop me, right?” she confirmed.

“Not in so many words.”

“What? You used twice as many words as I did.” Willow wrinkled her brow and took on a half-perturbed, half-inquisitive look across her face. She looked at the great beast and was sure she had seen a great smirk or smile or something that told her he was messing with her.

“You are, aren’t you?”

“And what would that be, Miss Willow Daisy … um Willow?” as the Watcher descended and landed on a ledge carved into one of the spires that had clearly been someone’s home a couple thousand years ago. The Watcher got down on one knee and placed Willow on her feet.

“You’re pretty smart, you know that?” Willow told the Watcher. “But you are hiding something from me, I know.”

“Smart of you to say, Willow. You Nephs are all different. Seems that …”

“What did you say, and no angelic hocus-pocus, OK? What’s a Neph?”

~~~

Walter Morgan looked down at his own hands that were tugging on the box that should have been almost fossilized by the weight over it and the thirty years that had past. “It’s too light.” He said loudly with a strong hint of real fear. “We will not survive without the scepter of truth. It cannot be done.”

Walter looked down at his trembling hands that held a urn that was far too light to contain the scepter. He unhooked the latch and opened the lid. “Gone? Perhaps stolen; either way, it’s just as gone. Walter reached into the urn and pulled out a letter. He held it up and tried to open it but his hand shook, trembled so badly until it seemed to dry out and then his whole arm crumbled into dust.

“Whoever owns the scepter rules the Neph.” Walter recited to himself. He held the envelope with his left hand and pulled the letter out and unfolded it with his teeth and began to read it.

“Now, now, you needn’t be so frightened. You’ve had a good run, but nothing lasts forever. Walter, you know the rules of the challenge. The house cannot refuse, and I think that just might be you. I admit to you though, it’s hardly a challenge, since you know longer have what I’ve just taken from you. “Whoever own the…”

“Yes Kassadia … whoever owns the Scepter rules the Neph … yea, I know! And, I know there is nothing resembling a Neph in you!” Walter screamed while crumbling and crushing the letter in his only hand and looking at his right arm that was no longer there. “When I put my hand to possess the scepter, it took possession of my arm. I have to get it back.” he shouted. “Willow!”

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“Lord Kassadia, they’ve been spotted just over to your right, there on that ledge.”

“Where do you mean? I can’t even make them out with these binoculars.”

“My lord, please forgive me, but you half-breeds are of a more frail nature than we Watchers.”

“I am not a Neph nor a Dark Heart, oh fallen one.” Kassadia told the dark Watcher. “You do know how to get on my nerves.”

The fallen Watcher sneered at Kassadia. “I am an original. I have not given my will to the maker, like the Neph. We are of a more pure race. We didn’t take the name. It was given to us, but Dark-Hearts just stuck.” Kassadia reflected. “I guess it’s true, but I like me that way. Take a message from me.”

~~~

“Miss Willow, you make my lights sputter and my wings quiver nervously with your persistence.” Willow giggled that she was able to drive an Angel so crazy. “Though, Miss Willow, I can surmise that by human logic, you think you have a right to know.”

“See, I told you that you were smart. So, tell me, what is a Neph?”

“For this purpose we are going to such lengths. But we can talk about it as we continue. Your family is special in the ...”

“Wait! Did you hear that?” Willow stood silently frozen and listened for the sound again. She heard nothing then saw something there, but transparent and swirling over her and the Watcher.

“Willow!” She turned her head at sound of her father’s voice.

“You heard that, right? You had to have heard someone calling my name!”

The watcher didn’t respond to Willow this time. He sensed the presence, one of his own, gone bad and no time to tell her even to get down. He reached down and took Willow by the hood of her coat and left her dangling in the air while he scanned all around.

“Willow Daisy Morgan, unchanged and alive.” The words did not give her the feeling of safety that they once did. This was all too real to let mere words give her hope. There was an adversary there that got the Watcher’s attention. “Put me down! I insist.”

The watcher did even glance her way but squatted down and placed her carefully and firmly on the ledge. Willow ran to the side of the stone dwelling and hid in the dark.

A black thick shadow seemed to hover and swirl in the air. The Watcher saw it coming at him and drew his great sword and swung it at the black leathery Watcher. It suddenly appeared and the sound of their swords colliding was deafening for Willow, but she knew that victory was not certain.

“But, I have a good idea what a Neph is.” she said. “Because I feel like I want to fly.”

A sharp pain shot through her sides and she fell to the floor and screamed and then the pain was gone. Willow rose to her feet and felt behind her back. “Willow Daisy Morgan, unchanged and alive.” Then she smiled broadly. “Are they real?” Willow felt them. “Oh my goodness, I’ve got wings!” She decided to use them when she saw the black shadow thing coming at her.

Willow leapt into the air and just knew how to do it. Her wings responded instinctively and she moved perfectly. The watcher saw Willow leap into the air and yelled out to her. “Get down!” But, as soon as he did, the dark leathery Watcher swung his sword and struck Willow’s Watcher in his armor sending him crashing to the floor. He landed with great force. The dark Watcher heard him hit bottom and dived toward the Willow’s protector. She took a large rock in her hand and dove toward the dark Watcher.

The dark Watcher smiled to think of what his master would think of him if he killed a King’s Watcher. His face turned grave and serious. The King’s Watcher lay on the floor waiting to recuperate. He saw the dark Watcher drawing near, but he could not yet move. The Dark Watcher pulled his sword back and readied for the kill. As the dark Watcher got in striking distance, Willow threw the large rock and hit the dark Watcher in the chest sending him crashing to the ground as well.

“HaHaHa! Loser!” She screamed. The King’s Watcher had now fully recovered and had to subdue his dark brother before his regenerative powers kicked in as well. Willow’s protector had needed some protecting from her. The Watcher was grateful for his life, and Willow was happy to have lived the moment. She felt so much older now.

***

Walter Morgan knew that he had pass on the Scepter to Willow before the end of the night. If Kassadia could keep the Scepter till midnight, his line would then rule, and the covenant between the Neph and the King would be broken, and it was 6:23 p.m. now. The shadow of the dark hearts would then again dominate the minds and hearts of all men and women, and like a great Pandora’s box, every hidden evil thing that had been forbidden to grow and the dark tentacles would take root would infest the whole world of humans.

“Willow is the next in line.” Walter said out loud. “Today, she shall grow into her wings.” He shouted again. “Willow!”

***

The King’s Watcher jumped on top of the dark Watcher’s body. “Who sent you? We have the covenant, and you know the transition that must happen to keep the agreement that was sealed in perfect blood.”

“The realm is hers no more. It has been removed and you will do service to Kassadia, after the transition.”

The King’s watcher grabbed the dark Watcher’s neck and squeezed strongly. “What are you talking about? She is here and ready to...”

“It belongs to another now.” The dark Watcher found the idea of Willow’s father lying in a cave in Goreme with his right arm turned to sand amusing. “It really was quite a chore to find where he had hidden it, but nothing is impossible if one’s life depends on it. Nothing personal, but they are half-breeds, and now, their lives depend on us.”

“Wait I heard it again. Did you?”

“It was your father, Willow. He is in great danger, and so are you.”

***

Kassadia placed the binoculars to his eyes and he saw Willow crying and the King's Watcher giving strong blows to the face of the dark Watcher. Kassadia found it all so entertaining and laughed every time a fist came in contact with the dark Watcher’s face.

“It’s going perfectly. There are myriads of others who will serve me, if this one dies.”

***

Willow reached behind her and felt her wings. She told herself to make them disappear and she felt them fold into her body and she knew she was different, unique, and special.

I am Willow Daisy Morgan, constantly changing and very much alive!”

Four Lessons For Willow Morgan Part One
by Steven Clark Bradley
& Selin Alicia Bradley

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Four Lessons For Willow Morgan by Steven Clark Bradley & Selin Alicia Bradley

2009-10-17T20:29:00.001-07:00

There is nothing more important than imparting strong values into the lives of our children. It is getting tougher and tougher today, with parents giving up more and more of their authority and responsibility to the schools and the government, to be faithful to the call of bringing up our children with examples of mercy, confession, fairness and conviction. Yet, nothing can do more for a child's future than teaching them about honesty, good choices and hard work when they are still young. That is why I have started this little book called Four lessons For Willow Morgan.

This is a story a story about decisions, wise judgment and strong convictions, about that which is right and that which is wrong.

I am writing this a bit differently than I have in the past. This time, I am writing it together with my 9 year old daughter, Selin Alicia Bradley. She is a bright, sweet and very smart young lady and loves to read. So, this is a two-fold project that gives my little girl lessons in creativity and this story can stimulate lots of children to seek more than their own self-interests, if they venture to read it.

Willow is a little girl who is growing up and who feels urges of rebellion, disobedience and disrespect starting to take hold in her life. Her mother and father recognize it and want to instill some true life lessons in her young heart.

Read chapter one, (the only one I have written thus far) and it may make you recall the times you were faced with decisions and how hard it was, at times, to do the right thing. I hope you enjoy it. The young lady playing part of Willow Daisy Morgan in the blog is my beautiful daughter, Selin Alicia Bradley.

Steven Clark Bradley

Author of Patriot Acts Nimrod Rising StillBorn! Probable Cause

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Chapter One

Cappadocia, Central Turkey

“Willow Daisy Morgan, unchanged and alive.”

“Sounds cool.” she mumbled with a twinge of mischievous glee.

Willow looked around the place and thought it felt a little creepy, but she kind of liked it. “I was stupid not to want to come here. It’s…” She paused as her eyes darted around the room and her clever little mind formed her ideas as to why something was not to her liking and how other things were just right.

“It’s obviously something clearly … cool.” Willow thought out loud as her mind drifted back to a moment that had actually seemed to carry her to this rustic, old beautiful place with ancient old monuments of a people who lived and survived in the caves of Goreme, Turkey.

Four Weeks Earlier
Cappadocia, Central Turkey

She wondered if it was really all her daddy’s doing, getting her to that place. “Ridiculous!” she always told herself. But she had developed some kind of ritual about asking herself why her father had brought her all the way to Central Turkey.

“He’s an Archeologist. It’s what they do.” Willow reminded herself sternly as she was getting herself ready for a perfect day, though not quite, since her daddy would not be with her; he’d be too busy on a dig somewhere in the ruins of Goreme, she knew he was special. He had a knack for reading people, sometimes perfectly sizing them up before he really knew him. Walter Morgan had not been stingy with his talents and had passed a portion of his gifts to her; things she was only now learning about.

“He’s somewhere watching me, I just know it.” she laughed.

He had told her it would be good for them to be together, but Willow Daisy Morgan was sure that she had talked less to her dad than she did in between his world-wide journeys. She had been almost under lock and key constantly, but she understood it was dangerous and it didn’t make her upset. What it did do, though was to make her probing mind try to put two and two together without the needed information. She was sure the one man she loved completely and trusted without doubt had brought her there for some reason other than he had said.

“So, it has to be good, then.” Willow reassured herself. “He’d never do anything bad to me. I just know my daddy. And my mom, she’d kill or be killed to protect me.” Willow decided to play along, and, today was different. Willow had a free day today, and she could go out and wander in the caves of Goreme and see how people lived in a time when her habit of comfort was very seldom lived. Willow heard a knock at her door.

“Miss Morgan, you know it’s your free day. Your guide is here.” the house Butler kindly shouted through the closed door.

“Hi Franklin, I’ll be right down.” She shouted back.

Willow pulled her boots on and her jacket. She just knew something big was on for today. It was the strangest feeling she had ever had, and it animated her ... energized her. She zipped up the jacket and put her Cubs hat on her head and got ready for … whatever. Willow walked over to the door and saw a picture on the wall suddenly tilt to the right.

“That was weird.” Willow admitted. She walked over to the picture and reached up to straighten it. Crooked things, half-closed doors or drawers closed with bits of clothing sticking out of them made her a certain kind of crazy. It was a compulsion, but she didn’t fight it.

Willow took hold of the picture and she felt a gust of wind brush across the left side of her face and then on her right and it seemed to swirl around her. She was afraid and wanted to scream, but instead used the words she had made herself believe would shield her from any danger.

“Willow Daisy Morgan, unchanged and alive.”

She felt its touch and then saw it swirled into a perfectly pure white mist. What scared her was that she wasn’t scared at all. “It’s too beautiful to be bad, but she knew that way of knowing if something or someone was good or not did not always work. She decided to let it show her.

The mist moved, more slowly and it took on a shape. Willow was sure she saw wings and it was massive and peaceful and had a glow that was not from power but purity, like something that had never done wrong.

“That’s better than me.” Willow told herself.

A face emerged and smiled at Willow. It stretched out its arm and touched her and it spoke. Willow knew it wasn’t speaking English, but she understood it.

“Are you Willow Daisy Morgan?”

“Come on now, you’re telling that you just barged into my room and appeared so coolly, and you’re not even sure of my name?”

“Well, I was just told to ask you that.”

“Don’t worry.” Willow said. “I know it was rhetorical.”

The white beautiful beast looked a bit confused. “It means you were being polite, right?”

The white glowing image livened and looked more confident. “Yes, that’s right. I was trying to … connect with you; I think I read your age group says that to each other, right?"

Willow rolled her eyes. “You’re an angel, aren’t you?”

“I am a Watcher, Miss Willow Daisy Morgan. I guess that is one type of Angel, according to humans.”

“Well, I think you’re cool, so just be yourself, cause I always am. I think this is what my teacher called a culturally teachable moment or something like that. But you really are very beautiful.” The Watcher’s wings glowed a bit brighter, obviously appreciating Willow’s words.

“And one more thing.” Willow said. “You can just call me Willow. It’s a lot easier, don’t you think?”

“Indeed, Miss Willow.”

“I didn’t say Miss Willow. I said just plain Willow.”

“But, Miss Willow, there is nothing plain about you at all.” The Watcher looked at Willow and wondered. “Oh my, none of my brothers told me I’d have one of them.”

“And what do you mean by ‘one of them?” Willow wondered. “You know, one of the stubborn ones who know everything.”

“You mean there’s bad luck in heaven?” Willow asked.

“Not until today.” the Watcher replied.

Willow looked frustrated and then they just laughed.

“I hope you’ll come back and see me soon again, but I have to go now.”

“Indeed, Willow, you do have to go … with me.”

“With you? No way! If I am not downstairs in a couple of minutes, I am going to get so grounded.”

The Watcher touched Willows forehead and she rose up off the ground.

Willow looked down at the floor below her and started trying to protect herself again.

“Willow Daisy Morgan, unchanged and alive.” She shouted with her feet dangling in the air. “Willow Daisy Morgan, unchanged and alive.”

Willow was flaying her legs and kicking at the white beast and it shook its head and smiled. Franklin was again knocking on the door.

“Miss Morgan, are you Okay?” Willow looked over at the door and then hers and the Watcher’s eyes met.

“Willow, no one shall compel you. It is you and you alone who can decide what you wish. Doesn’t a life of greater importance interest you?” Willow stopped throwing her feet around and calmly looked at the Watcher.

“Willow Morgan, can you hear me?” Franklin asked while pounding on the door.

“Guess it’s now or never, huh?”

“I wouldn’t put it that way, because it is never too late to do good, but I know what you mean.”

“You sure are a strange angel.”

Franklin was giving the door body slams now. “Open the door, Willow!”

“And how many Watch…angels have you known that would give you the ability to form such an opinion of me?" Asked the Watcher as he leaped into the air.

"Come down here." Willow demanded. "I don't have time for this. Franklin's going to kill me if I don't get down there."

Franklin pounded again and again and took out his cell phone. He pressed a key into the lock.

~~~

Willow's father, Walter Morgan was up a hill on one of the caves; digging in one of the ancient homes and collecting an ancient treasure of information. He had a cell phone to his ear and a small pick in his other hand pounding a certain stone that looked like nothing but which was precious to his professional eye. He felt the other cell phone in his pocket vibrate and threw down the pick. He took the phone read the name of the caller and spoke into the cell already pasted to his ear.

“Honey, I am sure this is about Willow. No, don’t worry; she’s going to be fine, just like you and I were. With significance comes risk. I’ll call you back. Love you too.” He closed the cell and opened the other.

“This is Walt.”

“Sir, Miss Willow has locked herself in her room and refuses to open the door. Should I…?”

“By all means, Franklin. You can open the door.”

Willow heard the key enter the lock. She extended her hand and the Watcher took hold of it. Franklin turned the key and suddenly, she felt herself racing upward and saw the ceiling getting closer and closer and then it was gone. They flew low and towards Israel.

Franklin threw the door open and stepped quickly into the room. He heard a noise above him and looked up and saw nothing, but he was sure he saw a shoe, a boot that was there and then … not.

“If I get grounded, I am gonna tell God and he’s gonna … demote you!” Willow said laughing with her hair flying backward and the wind bouncing off her face. She was very much alive and loving it.

The Watcher looked down at Willow and she smiled with great excitement. The Watcher did as well, but knew the entire journey would not bring her joy. “Not one with her type of personality.” Some things had to be learned with difficulty and sometimes pain.

Walter Morgan’s phone rang again. “Betty, she’s going to be alright, I promise.” He looked up and saw what only those like he, his wife and his daughter could see. Out in the horizon, headed South East, Walt Morgan saw his daughter zooming through the sky; held up by a watcher of God. “Honey, believe me, she’s well on her way.”

Willow’s eyes again saw the present world again and left the past behind. She looked down and saw the book neatly fitted inside the box. She picked up the card again.

“Wow, that day made me a believer.” She thought.

Willow was changing. At thirteen, she was, “not a kid anymore.” She blurted out. She looked up at the ceiling and really liked the magical way the nightlight shined into the rafters above that held up the whole place.

“People are smart” she decided. “Sometimes.” She added. Willow knew that meant she didn’t need her mom and dad to tell her what to do anymore.

“I can figure things out just fine for myself, anymore.”

Being a ‘good little girl’ at church three times a week was just not her anymore. It had all become so routine; so boring. The world just seemed so big to her now with so much to learn, both good and bad for a thirteen-year-old who did not want to play the game of being who she was not. It would be a moment of discovery. Her attitude made her feel guilty, but it was a journey she had to take.

Willow glared out the window into the dark night sky and saw the distant flickering lights from homes down the hill of some who were not as rich as she was but who probably had more peaceful hearts than she did. She looked around the room again and walked over to her bed. Willow got down on her belly by her bed and reached under it for the box she had shoved under there right after she and her parents had arrived earlier in the day. She pulled it out and gazed down at the box that she just knew had something magical about it, because it was the only thing she could think about all through dinner. Willow knew that she had not found it by chance; the treasure, which is what Willow called it and what she thought it might lead to.

“I just had to open it.” Willowed said quietly out loud. She recalled how her fingers sort of tingled when she touched the box, and how her hands were not her own; reaching and just taking the cover right off. It seemed … “Unavoidable, really inescapable.” Just as her fingers were doing right now.

Willow pulled hard and the top of the box was sudden in her hands and she felt suddenly frozen; not with fear. It was some kind of understanding that she’d never be the same after this adventure. It was the kind of quest had usually only imagined or dreamt. Willow pinched herself to make sure it was real. The not to pleasant feeling shot up her arm that told her it was the real deal.

Willow placed the cover on the floor and saw the same envelope on top she had not been able to muster up the courage to open the last two times she had ventured this far into whatever it was that awaited her. Then, both times she had managed to hold it up to the light and see a watermark image of the massive estate that her mom and dad brought her to on the card through the envelope. It was then that Willow knew she’d be there, somehow. So when her mother and father announced this little summer getaway, she wasn’t shocked one bit. In fact, she even pretended not to want to go so they’d make her do it all the more. She had them figured out a long time ago, but she loved them that way. Willow also knew that her mom and dad had her pretty well figured out too. She was sure they knew of her pretend life, singing, going on young people’s outings at church, but not really because she liked it. She had actually snuck away three times from church, but her mom knew it, but had not told Willow’s dad and Willow was sure her mom was smarter than her young mind liked to admit.

Willow took the box and again held it up to the light, but felt a powerful urge and ripped it open. Willow’s hands were shaking a bit, but she still pulled out the card that was inside and seemed, in her mind, to be clamoring to get out. She took the card out and turned it over and read it. The message started with, ‘Dear Willow’. The thirteen-year-old was so rattled by seeing her name there that she dropped it to the bed. Willow looked down at the box lying on the bed and her name was no longer there. That seemed to replace her fear with intrigue and disappointment, especially disappointment, in fact. Willow picked it up again and her name appeared there once more. “Isn’t that amazing?” she almost shouted. She opened it and let a scroll slide out. She unrolled it and began to read.

“Good evening to you, you’ve decided to open the box. Your interest has peaked that could not stop you from looking inside the box. You’d still look in without delay if there had been ten thousand locks.

"You’re off on a journey of discovery and an unbelievable tale. Be careful who you talk to and do watch out for their sweet and evil spell.

"You are going to see what many have not. You’re going to know, don’t forget to ask ‘what.’ I cannot assure you that you’ll come back here exactly as the same kid. Yet, it is known that if you do not take the journey, you’ll forever wish that you actually did.

Beware of the black hearts, for they will make you the same as all of them. Look on with a full heart and become someone you have never ever been, and by the way … have fun!”

Willow took the words into her mind and thought about the poem that had gripped her heart and mind and tantalized her. She read the rest of it.

“Look to your right at the window and be ready to take a dive, it’s a voyage of faith that will make you know you’re alive.”

“Wait a minute!” Willow said. She got off the floor by her bed and walked over to the other side and looked down at the box and scroll card. Now it read, “Look to your left at the window and be ready to take a dive, it’s a voyage of faith that will make you know you’re alive.” Willow chuckled and giggled. Isn’t that the most awesome thing you’ve ever seen.” She almost shouted again, both a tad bit scared and totally amazed.

Willow got on her bed and looked down at the card again. “Look straight ahead at the window and be ready to take a dive, it’s a voyage of faith that will make you know you’re alive, and stop playing around and pay attention.” That frightened her a bit and she dropped the card, but her curious heart made her quickly pick it back up, and she pinched herself again. She was awake alright.

“This is why I’m here.” she told herself. So, she read the rest.

"Willow Daisy Morgan, about to change and very much alive."

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End Game - Are They Dismantling America?

2009-10-16T15:31:00.000-07:00

It really is not so hard to see what is going on in this nation. We now have a party which has won by such massive numbers that they no longer fear anyone or anything, but the loss of power.

The Democrats' usually well camouflaged cold and callous nature has revealed itself just enough to allow the people to feel the coldness of true Darwinian and Orwellian civil society. Just the threat or even the mere notion that they would let any of us just die was an impossibility in America. It could never happen; not until it was actually proposed and finally penned into the proposed Healthcare Bill and supported by Barack Obama. The people have already only but started to properly and and appropriately let their elected officials know that "We the People" shall not stand for it. Our Voice is the nation. What is America without the support of its people?

Hence, they seek authority more and more. Have you not seen the rudeness and disregard with which they treat our protesting fellow Americas? These are true-blue Americans who gambled for change and have now had their fill of it?

We have another party, which I believe has a true desire to stand stand up for the American people and which is certainly able to wage war against our enemies from without. The Republicans simply seem unable to fight the war from within. We want to fight right alongside of you, there isn't much fight in you. Will anyone call this in public for what it actually is?

In fact, what seems too quick to us is actually a prescribed plan laid out openly to America by President Barack Obama last November when he declared that there were four more days before he and his hoards would
fundamentally change the United States of America. He said it; now, he is going about keeping his word, for he told us in plain light. Sadly, the American people were sent a strong delusion and the nation believed a lie.

America has opened up the door to a world that will be as shattering as the fall of every great empire. This shall not only encompass the United States, but it shall indeed overtake the world and lead to the greatest war the world has every endured. But, do not call this president a liar. For he is doing just as he said he would do.

This nation cannot be overthrown by battle. It would never allow itself to be. America can only be overthrown by removing its reason for greatness and existence as a force for world influence. That driving purpose that led our brothers and sisters to shed their blood for a new country, that drove a people and a President to hold fast to the premise that the nation could not be divided into two in the bloody civil war. our vision of defeating evil, which made our military fight in battle with valor and sacrifice in each of our American centuries has been freedom and its force is the Constitution of the United States. Now, this government, of the people disregards the people. Now these rights, for the people, seem to have been invalidated by a force that has no constitutional right to do so.

Obama’s forces are systematically laying a framework to take over this nation and turn it into a land that forces efficiency and demands silence from any opposition and is being turned into a land of beggars where its people can no longer meet their own needs and are totally dependent on a sterile, heartless government that kills babies, lets its elderly die early, rations healthcare, lets gays marry, tracks the emails and words of its people, stifles dissent and which lies weakened in its resolve to fight for the nation that will ultimately be defeated by forces taking advantage of our lethargic nature installed within us by Obama’s own Culture of Death. We will all have lives planned out, cradle to grave, by this systematic cabal of thugs with an end game enabled by our unfathomable belief in the lie that Barack Obama has the people’s best hopes at heart. There are many ways that this overthrow of the Constitution is happening right before our eyes.

Obama told us that he wanted a civilian army that would be just as well trained and armed and just as well funded as the military. This incredibly true thing will be the underground force of his shadow government; with ACORN, the ACLU, the SEIU, The Apollo Group … the list goes on, serving as his legal and law enforcement force to bring about and maintain, by force, the emerging Culture of Death.

This government now controls business, insurance, banking and companies, some subsidiaries of which are media groups. That was not enough. Now, they want to pass an environmental bill called Cap and Trade that will get the government into your homes, taxing you for trying to stay warm or cool. How many elderly could this law potentially kill? Yes, if this passes, your thermostat will become property of the Federal Government. And if the feds accomplish this, you can bet the states will pass their own versions to take even more money from the American people.

Let’s take it a step further. The President already has the banking system and can regulate them into almost anything. He controls the insurance system, the finance systems, fired the CEO of General Motors and tells them what they will pay their workers. Now, he needs to control how long you will live. Can you see it? If Obama get his way on these bills, he will control how you live, what you drive; he will set your comfort zone and eventually decide when you die. The very day that Barack Obama signs this healthcare bill, the United States of America will philosophically cease to exist, for with freedom so trampled upon, our raison d’être shall have disappeared. Barack Obama will have pulled off what the government itself will consider as a legal coup d’état. And, it’s happening right now.

Have you ever noticed that everyone around Barack Obama has passed away? His father died when he was young. His mother died of cancer, his grandmother is passed on and anyone associated with his youth is gone. President Obama has an aunt from Eastern Africa on the East Coast who is facing deportation and lives in squalor. He has relatives in Kenya who have never imagined the life that the country Barack Obama is now dismantling has granted him. Neither his aunt nor his family in East Africa has been benefactors of any largesse from the Iconic President. This is because he has no largesse. For largesse is not the giving away of other people’s goods and treasure without their permission, but generously distributing that which is our own. Takers do not give; they only take more. Consequently, President Obama, do you really expect the American people to believe you when you say you do not want to kill our grandmas?

It all gives me pause and great sorrow for a nation that has been consumed by the need to get more, and once the people yield their rights to get their money, Barack Obama will have set up his Dictocracy, and the people will serve the system and be subjugated to the level of mere resources that fuel the Culture of Death. Scary? Take a look around you. Hear the voices? Can you feel the fear, perhaps your own? It is time to refuse to cede our freedom for a mess of totalitarian porridge.

Congress is taking a break from Washington D.C. and the America people probably save billions while the evil Grinch’s underlings in Congress are out of town trying to explain their actions to their constituents with the best talking points and the best designed lies that the American people’s money can buy. It is a tribute to real American that that the expressions on the faces of the senators and representatives when they realize that no one believes them are looks of shock and surprise that we are not the lapdogs they thought we were. They are experts at that at lies and unaccustomed to dissent, and if this does not stop, this government will be in for the fight of its political life. They need to know, they work for us.

That means, these little Obama minions will spend the month of August on recess back in their states and districts. That means it is time to give your Senator or member of Congress a visit on line, at any public venues available. These absolutely inept men and women that we work to pay for have taken to disregarding us as the poor little people who cannot survive without them. They are elitists who no longer want to listen to anything we have to say, but it is up to us to make sure that we speak, shout if need be, and tell these worthless excuses of national leaders that they work for us. We have to let them know it again. The American people should never be afraid of their government, but the government should be afraid of the people. It all depends on us.

Consider this, before Obama’s monstrous and eugenic healthcare plan has even been passed, right at this very moment, if you are a 50-year old-with a college degree, you will pay approximately $81,000 over your working life just to pay the interest on the debt in the Obama budget. A 40-year-old will pay $132,000 to just pay their personal portion of the interest on Barack Obama’s game-changing spending. And if you're a 20-year-old, just starting out after college, you will pay a whopping $114,000 just to service the interest on the debt created by the Obama budget and this is before Cap and Trade and his healthcare bill. Here are some issues that should keep you awake at night. Impoverish the American people and control the masses, by any means necessary. Take a look below:

There are several important issues which directly affect each and every one of us who love this country. Here are some of the biggest and most important reasons why the American People must not stop insisting that they be listened to.

Cap and Trade

“The Cap and Trade system involves trading of emission allowances, where the total allowance is strictly limited or 'capped'. A regulatory authority established the cap which is usually considerably lower than the historic level of emissions.”
Climate Philanthropists.org Basics

In his article, Oppose the Cap and Trade ‘Tax’ Increase Bill, H.R. 2454 Larry Greenly laid out three very important points about the intrusive Cap and Trade Bill that every American needs to know.

(1) “At exactly the time when more and more Americans are realizing that our federal government is out of control, this bill would establish a whole new unconstitutional activity of the federal government and give it yet another regulatory tool for increasing the cost of doing business, which would necessarily translate into higher costs for consumers.”

(2) “This bill would lead to increased expenses for American households of thousands of dollars per year. A recent Congressional Budget Office report estimated that the cost per household would be as little as $175 per year. However, the Heritage Foundation has responded with “CBO Grossly Underestimates Costs of Cap and Trade,” in which they point out that the CBO study assumes nearly 100% of the increased costs for businesses will be rebated to consumers by the federal government (when has this ever happened?) and omits consideration of negative impacts on the economy of thousands of dollars per household per year. Bottom line, don’t rely on the CBO report to be an accurate forecast of the additional costs you’ll be paying each year due to this cap and trade bill. For additional analysis of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, see The Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill: Is the Economic Pain Justified by the Environmental Gain?"

(3) “The whole reason for existence of the expensive cap and trade scheme in H.R. 2454 is based on the global warming myth that man’s activities are producing significant temperature increases. Take a cold bath in reality by reading "A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming."

We have to refuse to give even more unconstitutional powers to the federal government to regulate and destroy small businesses and to control the lives of hard-working and patriotic Americans that would lead to paying thousands of dollars for each American family every year for yet another great society program that only creates mutual poverty rather than increasing everyone’s wealth. Even more importantly, this bill will be just another nail in the coffin that will, in the not so distant future, declare the United States of America dead and gone; replaced by a ‘Big Brother’ system that will control every facet of American life. We must tell them to abide by the powers that the constitution grants them or we will exercise our constitutional power and put them out of office.

HEALTHCARE:
The U.S. Senate and the U.S. House are both considering proposals to overhaul the Healthcare system in the United States. The two proposal being discussed include many provisions which will threaten our ability to chose our doctors, individual control of our health insurance options, timely access to quality health care and your pocketbook and higher taxes to pay for a government-run healthcare.

Want to read the whole text of the proposed healthcare bill? Click this link: www.opencongress.org Obama Health Care Bill HR 3200 Text

A Few Healthcare Bill Details...
Obama Health Care Plan Details HR 3200 currently under consideration in the House of Representatives

Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit the books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!

Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get

Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!

Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your benefits for you. You have no choice!

Pg 50 Section 152 in HC bill - HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise

Pg 58HC Bill – Gov’t will have real-time access to individual’s finances & a National ID Health care card will be issued!

Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Govt will have direct access to your banks accts for electronic funds transfer.

Pg 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community orgs (ACORN).

Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an HC Exchange to bring priv HC plans under Govt control.

Pg 84 Sec 203 HC bill - Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private Health Care plans in the Exchange

Pg 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!

Pg 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill - Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example - Translation for illegal aliens.

Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan

Pg 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs of Ben Levels 4 Plans. #AARP members - Your Health Care WILL be rationed

Pg 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill - Medicaid Eligible Individual will be automat.enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.

Pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue Govt on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly. Want to read more of the details?

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Look up your elected official here and call to make an appointment to visit them. The most lethal war of the Twenty-First century is not the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. The war that will certainly destroy us as a nation is the political and philosophical one right here at home. It is a war against traitors who no more love the United States of America as so framed by our founders than did the Soviets or Mao’s supporters love their people. This administration is set on a course to either transform us or destroy us. One thing is certain, the United States will never be the same, but it will be nonexistent unless we stop the shadow government of Barack Hussein Obama.

Steven Clark Bradley
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Read this piece by a liberal convert who now knows what the Obama Administration is all about. He tells us why we need to be vigilant about every program, and not only healthcare.

Mark Steyn on America Tuesday, 11 August 2009
UNTANGLING THE SPAGHETTI

What’s the end-game here? I suppose it’s conceivable that there are a few remaining suckers out there who still believe Barack Obama is the great post-partisan, fiscally responsible, pragmatic centrist he played so beguilingly just a year ago. The New York Times’ David Brooks stuck it out longer than most: Only a few backs, he was giddy with excitement over the President’s “education” “reforms” (whatever they were). But now he says we’re in “the early stages of the liberal suicide march”. For a famously moderate, Mr. Brooks seems to have gone from irrational optimism over the Democrats’ victory to irrational optimism over the Democrats’ impending downfall without the intervening stage of rational pessimism.

The end-game is very obvious. If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a permanent electoral majority. By “dependent”, I don’t mean merely welfare, although that’s a good illustration of the general principle. In political terms, a welfare check is a twofer: you’re assuring the votes both of the welfare recipient and of the vast bureaucracy required to process his welfare. But extend that principle further, to the point where government intrudes into everything: a vast population is receiving more from government (in the form of health care or education subventions) than it thinks it contributes, while another vast population is managing the ever expanding regulatory regime (a federal energy-efficiency code, a government health bureaucracy) and another vast population remains, nominally, in the private sector but, de facto, dependent on government patronage of one form or another – say, the privately owned franchisee of a government automobile company, or the designated “community assistance” organization for helping poor families understand what programs they’re eligible for. Either way, what you get from government – whether in the form of a government paycheck, a government benefit or a government contract – is a central fact of your life.

A lot of the developed world has already gone quite a long way down this road. If you want to know what Obama’s pledge to “save or create” four million jobs would look like if the stimulus weren’t a total bust, consider what “good news” means in an Obama-sized state: A couple of years back, I happened to catch an intriguing headline up north. “The Canadian economy is picking up steam,” reported the CBC. Statistics Canada had just announced that “the economy added 56,100 new jobs, two-thirds of them full time.” That’s great news, isn’t it? Why, the old economy’s going gangbusters, stand well back.

But I was interested to know just what sectors these jobs had been created in. And, upon investigation, it emerged that, of those 56,100 new jobs, 4,200 were self-employed, 8,900 were in private businesses, and the remaining 43,000 were on the public payroll. “The economy” hadn’t added those jobs; the government had: that's why they call it “creating” jobs. Seventy-seven per cent of the new jobs were government jobs, or “jobs”, paid for by the poor schlubs working away in the remaining 23 per cent. So the “good news” was just more bad news, just a further transfer from the vital dynamic sector to the state.

In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, government spending accounts for between 72 and 78 per cent of the economy, and, as I wrote here earlier this year, that’s “about the best a ‘free’ society can hope to attain this side of complete Sovietization.” But, if you’re not on welfare, working in the welfare office or working for a “green solutions” company that’s landed the government contract for printing the recycled envelopes in which the welfare checks are mailed out, it’s not an attractive society to be in. It’s not a place to run a small business – a feed store or a plumbing company or anything innovative, all of which will be taxed and regulated into supporting that seventy-something per cent. After all, what does it matter if your business goes under? Either you’ll join the government workforce, or you’ll go on the dole. So you too will become part of the dependent class, or the class that’s dependent upon the dependent class. Either way, Big Government wins (as we already see in California).

In the normal course of events, the process takes a while. But Obama believes in “the fierce urgency of now”, and fierce it is. That’s where all the poor befuddled sober centrists who can’t understand why the Democrats keep passing incoherent 1,200-page bills every week are missing the point. If “health care” were about health care, the devil would be in the details. But it’s not about health or costs or coverage; it’s about getting over the river and burning the bridge. It doesn’t matter what form of governmentalized health care gets passed as long as it passes. Once it’s in place, it will be “reformed”, endlessly, but it will never be undone. Same with a lot of the other stuff: Keep throwing the spaghetti at the wall. The Republicans may pick off the odd strand but, if you keep it coming fast enough, by the end of Obama’s first year the wall will be a great writhing mass of pasta entwined like copulating anacondas in some jungle simulacrum of Hef’s grotto. And that’s a good image of how government will slither into every corner of your life: You can try and pull one of those spaghetti strings out but it’ll be all tied up with a hundred others and you’ll never untangle them.
from National Review

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Healthcare That Will Make You Sick - Key Facts About Obama's Sick Health Reform

2009-10-15T16:18:00.000-07:00

Be sure your older friends and loved ones see

it. They'll be the first to be rationed.I can't wait

for my suicide counseling sessions

with a bureaucrat.

I did not compile this very important material. Yet, I am grateful to whomever did and I would love to give them credit for all the hard work they did here. I am just simply trying to help them disseminate the information they thought was vital for Americans.

Just so you know what is really in President Obama's health care bill, I have prepared this informational blog to give everyone a heads-up about reforms of America's Health Care system that will ultimately kill many of us. Please read these key points and decide if this is really...

OH Really? Let's See About That...

Subject: A few highlights from the first 500 pages of the Healthcare bill in congress

Contact your Representatives and let them know how you feel about this. We, as a country, cannot afford another 1000 page bill to go through congress without being read. Another 500 pages to go. I have highlighted a few of the items that are down right unconstitutional.

• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!

• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!

• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

There Is Nothing Like Freedom,

and This Is Nothing Like Freedom!

• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

What Is This A Precursor To?

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

E2 Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

So, who will want to be a Doctor Now?

• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange

Total government control of private plans?

Ask Chief Surgeon Obama - Oh He operated and lost the patient!

• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens

They don't pay - Not even in taxes - We DO!

• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

Are Acorn and Americorp

Obama's Civillian Army?

• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for pr ice-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

• Page 149: Any employer with a payr oll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes

Americans will pay for them

• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
0 Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.

What's That Mean?

Goodbye Yellow-Brick Road?

• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate20taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

Can You Believe This Ad below For Mercy Killing?

• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

None of this was intended to frighten or incite fear, though there is every reason to believe that it did both, as it does with me. There is a time to speak up, to cry out, to demand that the constitution be followed.
It is your country,
your family
your freedom,
YOUR LIFE!

He Was Not Joking!

Obama's White House is Falling Down

2009-10-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

I recall Barack Obama’s words immediately after signing the stimulus bill that will live in perpetuity and more than impoverish our grandchildren’s generation. After signing away our children’s heritage, he declared, “It’s done.” In reality, President Barack Obama was giving a heralding message to his hidden group of minions who make up his shadow government that all the funding for his own personal dismantling of the United States of America was now there and that they should engage and spread their evil ideals throughout the entire inner-workings of the federal government. Since that day, Obama has wreaked havoc upon the nation; spending trillions, with no end in sight. Yet, the American people are beginning to realize what they unleashed last November when they elected the nation’s first radically socialist President of the United States.

Even now, specific steps are being taken. They are not out in the open, but not exactly hidden either. The powers that be know that we love our country but they also understand that few there are who are willing to contribute life and limb to just forget about thriving and be mollified and pacified with the offer of mediocrity.

The irrefutable evidence reveals that a very large segment of this nation has believed the lie. It is the supreme perception that all of a sudden, I'm not strong enough or of sufficient intellectual prowess to simply take care of myself. There is no indignity in trying hard to make a dollar when you know it is really yours, and not taken out of the pocket of one and used to fill my belly while theirs perhaps remained unfilled!

There are those in society who do have need of their nation's largess. There is nothing greater than helping a mother to feed her children, getting an man or woman off of a hateful drug and into the workforce. I can think of no more worth while purpose for using my contributions to the national treasure than helping the elderly to extend their lives. They should remain at the top of the food chain and be given the help and attention that their lives were spent earning and fully expecting to be
considered as far more than just an unfortunate expense.

I applaud every dollar that has been spent to find a vaccine for AIDS and to extend the lives of those who are stricken with this affliction. We care about helping everyone to live as long as God determines. But, I will never support the right of anyone to use one dollar, that I have paid to the government, to terminate the life of anyone as perfect and as harmless and someone with so much potential like any of the forty million unborn children forced to walk through fires of Abortion in America's Culture of Death; the same ones that President Barack Obama would have called a punishment, had they lived.

The President has assessed the people of America correctly. He had to do that a lot, just to win the Oval Office. He knows that such things as the taking control of the banking, insurance, automobile and medical industries without war in the streets was a success; there was silence throughout the land and Obama read it as our capitulation.

Everyone inside the Democratic Party knows that these measures are unconstitutional, but they are determined not to let a little thing, like the complete disregard for the one document that holds us together as a nation, stand in their way. Why let the total abandonment of the law of the nation become such a major thing to complain about? Is that not Treason?

Is it too late to stop this evil cabal of left-wing thugs from enslaving us all to a government which has already drained America’s treasure? Read Daniel Greenfield’s article from the Canadian Free Press and you can decide for yourself if the nation can yet be saved. My prayer is that we will not all be buried in a national collective grave as Obama’s White House is Falling Down.
Author Steven Clark Bradley

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Obama's White House is Falling Down
By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.canadafreepress.com/

Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and freelance commentator. “Daniel comments on political affairs with a special focus on the War on Terror and the rising threat to
Western Civilization.
He maintains a blog at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
Daniel can be reached at: sultanknish@yahoo.com

In the sixth month of his presidency, Obama has turned an economic downturn into an economic disaster, taking over and trashing entire companies, and driving the nation deep into deficit spending expected to pass 10 trillion dollars.

Abroad, Obama seems to have no other mode except to continue on with his endless campaign, confusing speechmaking with diplomacy. It is natural enough that Obama, who built his entire campaign on high profile public speeches reported on by an adoring press, understands how to do nothing else but that.

"Ego driven photo op appearances and
clueless treatment of foreign dignitaries"

Daniel Greenfield

While the press is still chewing over Obama's Cairo speech, this celebrity style coverage ignores the fact that Obama's endless world tour is not actually accomplishing anything. Instead his combination of ego driven photo op appearances and clueless treatment of foreign dignitaries have alienated many of America 's traditional allies. Those who aren't being quietly angry at Obama, like Brown, Merkel or Netanyahu, instead think of him as an absurdly lightweight, as Sarkozy, King Abdullah or Putin do.

While his officials carry out their dirty economic deeds, Obama responds to any and every crisis as if it were a Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland musical, with a cry of, "Let's put on a show." Thus far Obama has put on "shows" across America , Europe and the Middle East . And what the adoring media coverage neglects to cover, is that Obama's shows have solved absolutely nothing. They have served only as high profile entertainment.

Neither alienating America's traditional allies, through a combination of arrogant bullying and ignorance, nor appeasing America's enemies, has yielded any actual results. Nor does it seem likely to. Islamic terrorism is not going anywhere, neither are the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran . While Obama keeps smiling, the global situation keeps growing more grim.

At home, if Obama was elected as depression era entertainment, the charm of his smiles and his constant appearances on magazine covers appear to be wearing thin on the American public. Despite the shrill attacks on Rush Limbaugh or the Republican Enemy of the Weak-- the Democratic party of 2009, is polling a lot like the Republican party of 2008.. The Democrats have suddenly become the incumbents, and the only accomplishment they can point to is lavish deficit spending, often on behalf of the very same corporations and causes they once postured against.

The European Union Parliament's swing to the right cannot be credited to Obama, though doubtlessly some European voters seeing socialist economic crisis management on display in the world's richest country decided they wanted none of it, but it is part of a general turning against federalism. And
Obama's entire program is dependent on heavily entrenching federalism at the expense of individual and state's rights. Yet that is precisely his Achilles heel with independent voters who are polling against more taxes and expanded government. And no amount of speeches by Obama can wish away his 18 czars or the national debt he has foisted on generation after generation of the American people. (Now, there are 32 czars and counting.....)

That leaves Obama with a choice
between socialism and the independent
voter. And thus far he has chosen socialism.

Obama's tactic of hijacking Bush Administration era policies on the economy and the War on Terror, and exploiting them as Trojan horses to promote his own agenda, have left him coping with a backlash from his own party, as well as general Republican opposition.

His Czars are meant to function as the bones in an executive infrastructure accountable to no one, but a lack of accountability isn't just another word for tyranny, but for incompetence. A functional chain of command is accountable at multiple levels if it is to function effectively. Obama's White House by contrast is in a state of over-organized chaos, the sort of organized disorganization that undisciplined egotistical leftists naturally create for themselves, complete with multiple overlapping levels of authority and no one in charge but the man at the top, who's too busy doing other things to actually be in charge.

Dennis Blair as National Intelligence, who collaborated with the Muslim genocide of Christians in East Timor , trying to muscle out the CIA to create his own intelligence network, is typical of the kind of chaos being spawned by every chief in an expanding government bureaucracy working to make sure that all the Indians answer to him. (Has anyone checked to see if the troubles between the CIA and Nancy Pelosi - and now - other Democrat Representatives in the House have any relationship to this?)Similarly the National Security Council wrestling with the State Department, highlighted by Samantha Power getting her own specially created NSC position to butt heads with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, illustrates the state of conflict and chaos in American foreign affairs. A state of chaos so pervasive that incompetence has now become commonplace, and no one can even be found to double check the spelling of a Russian word that is meant to be the theme of American's diplomatic reconstruction with Russia , or to pick out a gift for the visiting British Prime Minister.

"The death of Chrysler at the
hands of Fiat and the UAW"

Meanwhile on the economy, Obama exploited the ongoing bailouts, transforming them from bailouts into takeovers meant to shift the balance of power in what had been a democracy and socially engineer not only corporations, but the lives of ordinary Americans. But the public's patience with corporate bailouts is at an end, most Americans were never happy with them to begin with, and want them to end.

The death of Chrysler at the hands of Fiat and the UAW might look like a victory in the union ranks, but it doesn't play too well outside Detroit . And tacking on CAFE standards that will kill the pickup truck and the SUV will badly erode Obama in the swing states, if exploited properly in 2010 and 2012. Despite the constant media barrage, orchestrated out of the White House, the public is growing disenchanted with the performance of Obama and the Democrats.

With unemployment booming and the economy dropping, the jobs aren't there and the spending is out of control. Republicans today are polling better on ethics and the economy, than the Democrats are. That shows a trend which is likely to register in the mid-term elections in 2010, in the same way that the EU parliamentary elections served as a shock to the system.

In the opposition, Republicans are free to embrace the rhetoric of change, to champion reform and push libertarian ideas about the size and scope of government. In turn all Obama has is his celebrity fueled media spectacle world tour. A charade now serving as a parallel to the depression era entertainment that functioned as escapism in a dour time. But before long, it may be Obama that the American public will want to escape from.

A shallow, manipulative and egotistical
amateur who is in over his head

Obama has tried to play Lincoln, Reagan, JFK and FDR-- but in the end he can only play himself, a shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over his head, and trying to drag the country down with him. Obama's White House is falling down and while the flashbulbs are still glittering and the parties are going on in D.C. and around the world, Obama and the Democratic Congress may be headed for a recession of their own.

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Is Barack Obama Just Another Jimmy Carter?

2009-10-13T17:37:00.000-07:00

__________________________

"There are two types of folks living today.
One that remembers the Carter era and
the other is about to learn about it.
God, please help us all."
Dr. Anne Wortham
__________________________

This is the truth and honesty and profound wisdom of a true patriot of this country, Anne Wortham. She speaks out, not counting the cost and demanding to be heard; insisting on saying what is on her mind. This is pretty rich stuff.

Anne Wortham is a scholar and a very effective writer. I was impressed with her success in her unswerving determination to warn the nation she loves about President Barack Obama's future plans for the United States of America. It makes me more determined to be a light in the days of social upheaval. The article written below by Anne Wortham is very important reading. I wish all Americans would read it.

With the transformation of the nation I love into a land of limits where what we can say, what we can do, what we can believe, what doctor we can see and how long we can live will be taken out of our hands and placed into the hands of CLASSIFIED. Celebrate an American who is willing to tell the truth about what Barack Obama intends to do with the nation he has now broken with a tide of red ink that is far beyond overflowing and which can never be wiped away. The nation that was once the bastion of faith, hope and liberty is now debating over gay marriage, government control of our lives and our deaths, and trying to tell us how to heat our homes. Welcome to the Second Republic.

Author Steven Clark Bradley

ANNE WORTHAM – American Educator

Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association.

She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer’s television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, “A World of Ideas”.

Dr. Wortham is author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.

Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure. This short article by her is something to absorb.

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America.

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change” that Obama asserts has come to America.

Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them.

I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.

So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

There are two types of folks living today. One that remembers the Carter era and the other is about to learn about it. God, please help us all.
Anne Wortham
Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

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We Now Have A Total Gangster Government

America's Condemner in Chief...

2009-10-12T19:09:00.000-07:00

How do you feel about the man you voted for to be your leader and to represent you in the world constantly condemning you and your country? Read what your President Barack Hussein Obama has said about the nation he swore to Preserve, Protect & Defend then ask yourself if this is change you voted for...

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Apology for Guantanamo in Washington:

"Guantanamo set back

America's moral authority.”

Apology for the Mistakes of the CIA

“Don't be discouraged that we have to

acknowledgepotentially we've

made some mistakes."

Apology for U.S. Policy toward the Americas:

"Too often, the United States has not pursued

and sustained engagement with our neighbors."

Apology before the Turkish Parliament:

"The United States is still working through

some of our own darker periods in our history.

Apology for Guantanamo in France:

"And when you start sacrificing your values,

when you lose yourself, then over the

long term that will make you less secure."

Apology for the War on Terror:

"Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat,

our government made a series of hasty decisions...

In other words, we went off course."

Apology at the G-20 Summit of World Leaders:

"You're starting to see some restoration of

America's standing in the world."

Apology to the Summit of the Americas:

"The United States will be willing to acknowledge

past errors where those errors have been made."

Apology to the Muslim World:

"We sometimes make mistakes.

We have not been perfect."

Apology to France and Europe:

"America has shown arrogance and

been dismissive, even derisive."

Voters' Remorse -- Is Baracklash on the Horizon?

by John Kraushar

Since January Obama has failed to help many of his core supporters. Will they soon turn against him?

Call it Baracklash: so far, Barack Obama isn't helping many people who voted for him in high percentages when he was elected president eight months ago.

According to exit polls, Obama beat John McCain for the vote of those under the age of 22 by 66-30 percent. He also generated a lot of enthusiasm among teenage volunteers below the voting age. But in June, unemployment encompassing this group --16 to 19-year-olds -- hit 24 percent, that's up from 20.6 percent at the end of George W. Bush's second term.

Ninety-five percent of blacks voted for Obama. As of June, black unemployment stood at 14.7 percent, up from 11.1 percent when Bush left office. Obama won the Hispanic vote by a 66-31 percent margin. Unemployment for Hispanics in June was 12.2 percent, an increase from 8.8 percent upon Bush's departure.

But it's not only black and Hispanic adults that Obama has so far failed to lift up. It's also their children. Nationwide, only 55 percent of black students and 58 percent of Hispanic students graduate from high school (versus 78 percent for whites). Yet Obama refuses to fight the teachers unions or his fellow Democrats in Congress to enact school choice. In fact, both groups oppose it. Meantime, many minority parents are begging for school choice to get their children out of unsafe, failing schools.

A high school graduate earns $600,000 more over a lifetime than a dropout and high school graduates live up to seven years longer than dropouts. A high school dropout is five to eight times more likely to go to jail than a college graduate. And it's estimated that if the racial gap in American education could be closed it would have led to a 2 to 4 percent increase in GDP in 2008 -- translated into real money that works out to between $310 and $525 billion dollars!

Obama knows that. Nonetheless, he sends his daughters to a private school that he'd shut Washington's minority kids out of. He praises the mother of his Hispanic Supreme Court nominee for working six days a week to pay, in Obama's words, to send "her children to a Catholic school called Cardinal Spellman out of the belief that with a good education here in America all things are possible."

Seventy-eight percent of the Jewish vote and 62 percent of the Asian vote went to Obama. This is despite the reverse discrimination many of their high-achieving children suffer because of the affirmative action quotas Obama favors in college admissions and employment.

Further, while Obama tried to solidify his pro-Israel credentials when he was courting the Jewish vote, since his election he has made far tougher demands on Israel than on its Palestinian and Arab enemies. Last month, in his much-touted address in Cairo to the Muslim world, Obama singled out only Israel for criticism for its settlement policies in the West Bank. His administration has given the impression that Israel's settlement expansion and military self-defense is preventing America from stopping Iran's nuclear buildup.

On July 3, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who supported Obama for president, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that "Many American supporters of Israel who voted for Barack Obama now suspect they may have been victims of a bait and switch. Now, some of them apparently have voters' remorse."

What will it take for more of Obama's staunchest backers to join other Americans who have reached that conclusion?

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