It seems like everywhere you look these days, someone's trying to spread...The Fear.
All around us...in every town...on every corner...a massive Army Of Fear is standing by, according to the Messengers, ready at a moment's notice to obey the dictates of some unappointed Czar or another.
Just ask Glenn Beck: concentration camps for the white people, jackbooted stormtroopers ready to snatch the guns from your cold dead fingers...Socialist Government-Controlled Healthcare That Threatens Your Not Socialist Medicare...it's all coming, my friends-and unless we organize, as a community, to return to the values of the Founding Fathers, The Government, meaning that awful Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and George Soros and all the other Evil Community Organizers, will win.
There's no government, we're told, like no government.
You know who would find all of this fear of self-government just entirely bizarre?
The Founding Fathers.
In today's conversation we'll consider the fundamentals of American patriotism, we'll ask one of those Founding Fathers how he saw the role of Government-and we'll toss in a few words from Abraham Lincoln, just for good measure.
Most of us have heard the saying that 'What you don't know won't hurt you.' and most of us also know that isn't true. Today on Behind the White Picket Fence, I would like to talk about some 'dirty little secrets'. Meet me at the 'back yard fence' and we'll go into this deeper.
It's been a while since I've done a 'Behind the White Picket Fence' column. For those of you who are newbys, that is a column where we talk about things we don't normally talk about in 'polite society'. (I even began this column before Dr.Oz and his 'No embarrassment zone'. However, today's topic is simply an informational giving you information on something that effects us all, our health care and preventative care. Meet me below the fold.
Our military families are going through some hard times and Christmas makes it even more difficult. Remember them and do whatever you can to make the season better for them. (More photos below.)
The Great Green Hope for lifting America's economy is not looking so robust. [...]
Growth in clean energy industries and in green jobs has been considerably slower and bumpier than anticipated, industry experts say.
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Last week, the Gamesa wind turbine plant in western Pennsylvania announced it was laying off nearly half its 280 workers. Last month, General Electric said it would close a solar panel factory in Delaware
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There are myriad reasons why green jobs have grown more slowly than hoped. The clean energy component of the $787 billion stimulus package has only recently started to kick in. Energy experts say that banks, which have been reluctant to lend generally, have been especially loath to lend for alternative energy projects.
And renewable-energy companies are hesitating to invest in new plants and equipment before Congress enacts new environmental mandates, like cap and trade, to limit carbon emissions.
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Did anyone watch President Obama parden the turkey this year? He was so funny. I love his sense of humor. He forgot to wave his hand over the turkey and it was hysterical. I have the video below for those of you who missed it.
(Round 2 in the anti-women's health crusade. Too important not to talk about more. - promoted by edgery)
Most of us have heard about the 'new government task force study. It is absolutely ridiculous and IMO just a precursor of things to come. I would bet that if you knew who paid for that study or who lobbyed it, you'd find our 'upstanding insurance companies' although they are pretending to take the 'high road' on it.
Let's ask the government how many women is 'enough' or if the task force and their family members would be willing to be in a test group for the first ten years.
The new advice was sharply challenged by the cancer society.
"This is one screening test I recommend unequivocally, and would recommend to any woman 40 and over," the society's chief medical officer, Dr. Otis Brawley, said in a statement.
Regardless of whether or not we all agreed with the wars, we can all agree that our Veterans fought to keep us free. Their hearts and souls were in their missions. Thank you Veterans. Thank you for fighting for our country and our freedoms.
Most of us have heard about the 'new government task force study. It is absolutely ridiculous and IMO just a precursor of things to come. I would bet that if you knew who paid for that study or who lobbyed it, you'd find our 'upstanding insurance companies' although they are pretending to take the 'high road' on it.
