Removing the Whitewash from Dr King

I heard on Glenn Beck yesterday that the head of the NAACP, Julian Bond, had proclaimed that Martin Luther King was in favor of this country being governed by "a modified form of socialism". It took me a long time of searching to find where Beck had come up with this information because not one media outlet, including Fox, has been willing to touch this one. I would guess there is some testing of the water going on by the progressives as to whether this admission will help or hurt their case and as such it is very deeply hidden and hard to find. But in any case and as is usually the case, Beck has facts to back up his statements. It is amazing to me that while many of us who were alive at the time of Dr. King were aware of this, the progressive liberals have managed to whitewash our memory and the history books in one generation and accomplish the combining of Washington and Lincoln's birthdays into a single Presidents day holiday so they could have a dedicated Martin Luther King day. Think about this, everyone and most importantly the NAACP has never admitted what we all knew because it would have tainted the memory and surely we would have not allowed such a major holiday in commemorating the birthday of someone who supported such a different form of government than our Presidents prior to the 20th century. But now that we have a radical socialist president who also just happens to be black, they can now come out of the closet and openly say what MLK stood for. It has now become cool to be socialist and they are using MLK and his memory to further add credibility to Obama's agenda.

Here is a youtube.com video of Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP making the King a socialist remark at about minute 3:05.



I hope you listened to most of this video and understood this is not some radical ranting and raving about Dr King's agenda. If not here is the transcript of Julian Bond’s remark regarding Kings view towards socialism:

We don't remember the King who was the critique of capitalism who said to Charles Fager when they (MLK) were in jail together in Selma in 1965 that he thought a modified form of socialism would be the best system for the United States. We don’t remember the Martin Luther King who talked ceaselessly about taking care of the masses and not just dealing with the people at the top of the ladder. So we’ve kind of anesthetized him. We’ve made him into a different kind of person than he actually was in life. And it may be that that’s one reason he’s so celebrated today because we celebrate a different kind of man than really existed. But he was a bit more radical. Not terribly, terribly radical but a bit more radical than we make him out to be today.

 This is the very composed Chairman of the NAACP merely stating historical facts. He has been a politician, professor and writer who is obviously very educated and deliberate in his speaking style. Since I think his credibility and position is what makes this story significant here a link to a wikipedia bio on his very admirable career and life. Julian Bond

There you have it. It gets more difficult to educate our children on the true history of this country when within our lifetimes we have managed to confuse the facts we are teaching them. How many facts do you think may be wrong or omitted from our history? A history we did not experience but only read about in school? How much history are we doomed to repeat because we are not aware of the true history not only of our country but that of the world.

Additional note on rewriting of history
I don't know what Beck is up to today on his show that he has billed as his first documentary called "Live Free or Die" but he says it will shock you and he advises to watch it once without your kids and then determine at what age you think your kids can handle the truth. He says it is very upsetting; the rewriting of history that has been accomplished by progressives and how he is going to expose that history using actual video and audio, a part of 20th century history you have never known. As usual the web site therightscoop.com will have the entire show without commercial interruption if you miss it.

The Constitution and Freedom

I know that Glenn Beck has a mission this year of educating his viewers and listeners on American History and the Constitution. I am beginning to think that perhaps it is a goal of Fox News to educate Americans on the history of this nation in an attempt to return the power to the people. Judge Andrew Napolitano is a Fox contributor and this week did a five part series on the Constitution. It is worth watching a couple times as it reminds you of what you may have learned long ago but forgotten.

We spent 10 days in Washington DC last year for much the same purpose. Educate ourselves on the United States of America and the history of this country. Remind yourself of the goals in the creation of this country as you watch our current government officials greatly accelerate the dismantling of individual freedoms and explicit goals and protections intended by our founders. Remind yourself of how many generations have felt so strongly about this nation and the principals upon which it is built that they were willing to die. They died just to insure their decedents had the same opportunities and freedoms they had been granted by the Constitution and the system of government that created a free people. They died to leave the country at least as good as they had received it, however this generation of politicians empowered by a very selfish and uneducated electorate is robbing from the future both money and individual freedoms that were the foundation of this free country.

This link is in 5 parts starting at the bottom and working up and each is probably 9 minutes. May need to watch some of this multiple times to absorb the entire meaning of our founders intent.

Constitution and Freedom

Recycling Cans

I have been telling Christopher how I used to save newspapers and cans for recycling when I was young. He has started saving cans and we were just looking to see how many cans it takes to make a pound which turns out is about 34 and the price I most recently saw was 55 cents a pound at the recyclers. However in that web site on which we learned how many cans there are per pound we learned what a major environmental impact recycling cans can have. Here is the link to that site and hopefully this will cause you to think before you throw cans in the garbage. Not for the money involved but for the positive environmental impact.
Recycling questions answered

Why Interest Rates Will Almost Certainly Rise in 2010

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Obama Gives Save Award

Obama was on the bully pulpit again yesterday attacking his predecessor for poor fiscal management and telling us that he is saving the US and the world. He had nothing but praise for the senate in their fleecing of America state by state with bribes for socialized health-care for all. His words are almost laughable if he were not the president of the US.

He also was promoting his SAVE program and the award of the first winner. Below is the text from the portion of his self congratulatory talk on health care yesterday related to the program. Note they had 38,000 ideas submitted from Government employees and they voted on them and narrowed it down to 4 and finally this one great idea.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE:

The winning idea:

Nancy Fichtner from Colorado thinks that veterans leaving VA hospitals should be able to take the medicine they've been using home with them instead of it being thrown away when they're discharged.
As is the case in most hospitals all across the country, medicine that is used in the hospital is not given to patients to be brought home; instead, it is thrown out. "Currently the inpatient medications such as ointments, inhalers, eye drops, and other bulk items are being disposed of upon patient discharge." Nancy proposes ending this waste and finding a way to allow this medicine to be used by those who need it.
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs

What a genius idea, I am sure glad this was voted on among 38,000 ideas and deemed the best and that the President of the United States was able to give the award. Glad we were able to fly her and her family across the country for the presentation. This was an award that shows the lack of empowerment in our federal government. This idea should never have had to go beyond the shift supervisor on the floor of the hospital but instead had to be submitted, reviewed at probably every level of the VA then voted on and then given an award at the white house. And these are the people who have come up with the idea to save our entire health care system. Should make you feel better after you read the transcript or perhaps even watch the whole video of his praise for the fleecing of the taxpayers by the the Senate.

Entire transcript in case you can't get enough:
Time Transcript of speach

Link to White House Video

Otherwise here is the portion related to this earth shattering idea:

" Now, embracing this kind of responsibility in Washington is what also brings us here today. I am pleased to be joined this morning by my Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Ric Shinseki; my budget director, Peter Orszag; and our special guest, last but not least, the winner of the first annual SAVE Award -- and that's Nancy Fichtner of Loma, Colorado.

Having met with Nancy a few minutes ago, I can tell you Nancy means business. She is a single working mom; she's a clerk with the VA; she's an artist; she's an outdoorswoman; and she is an avid hunter. In fact, somewhere in the western United States, there is an elk that is breathing a sigh of relief because Nancy is here instead of where she would have been: hunting with her kids. (Laughter.) And I believe her children are here -- where's Nancy's kids? There they are right there. It's great to see you guys. Nancy's daughter -- she skins and guts her elk, so don't mess with her either. (Laughter.)

We're all here for a simple reason. At a time when we face not only a fiscal crisis, but also a host of difficult challenges as a nation, business as usual in Washington just won't cut it. We need a government that's more efficient, that's more effective, and far more fiscally responsible.

When my administration walked through the door, the country faced a growing economic downturn as well as a deepening fiscal hole. Washington had passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy and an expensive new entitlement program without paying for any of it. Health care costs continued to rise, year after year. And little effort was made to cut wasteful spending. As a result, over the previous eight years, the national debt doubled -- doubled. In January, the deficit stood at $1.3 trillion. And we had to make the difficult decision to add to the deficit in the short term to prevent the potential collapse of our economy."

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"Finally, I've issued a challenge to every man and woman who works for the federal government: If you see a way that government could do its job better, or do the same job for less money, I want to know about it. That's why we started the SAVE Award, to draw on those who know government best to improve how government works. We asked federal employees to submit reform proposals based on their experiences. And in a testament to the seriousness with which these folks are taking their jobs, we received more than 38,000 proposals in just three weeks.

From these submissions, four finalists were selected and put to an online vote. Nancy is here because she won. Her idea stems from her experience at the VA Medical Center where she works. She noticed that whenever patients left the hospital, leftover medications like eye drops or inhalers were just thrown away. And often, veterans would have to go right back to the pharmacy to refill what was discarded. So the VA is paying twice -- it's waste, plain and simple. And thanks to Nancy -- and to Secretary Shinseki and the folks at Veterans Affairs -- we're putting a stop to it. The change is already underway.

Of course, Nancy's proposal was just one of many great ideas that came to us. We've already begun to implement a host of suggestions made through the SAVE contest. And while promoting electronic paystubs or scheduling Social Security appointments online or re-purposing unused government supplies may not be the most glamorous reforms in history, when taken together, these small changes can add up; they add up to a transformation of how government works.

And that's why we're going to turn the SAVE Award into an annual event. That's why we're holding a forum at the White House next month to seek more ideas from the private sector, specifically about how we can better use technology to reform our government for the 21st century.

After years of irresponsibility, we are once again taking responsibility for every dollar we spend, the same way families do. It's true that what I've described today will not be enough to get us out of our fiscal mess by itself. We face a deficit that will take some tough decisions in the next year's budget and in years to come to get under control. But these changes will save the American people billions of dollars. And they'll help to put in place a government that's more efficient and effective, that wastes less money on no-bid contracts, that's cutting bureaucracy and harnessing technology, that's more fiscally responsible, and that better serve the American taxpayer. That's the government we need. That's the government I intend to implement. That's the kind of government that the American people deserve. And that's the kind of government that people like Nancy are helping to build each and every day.

So, Nancy, congratulations. We're proud of you. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're very proud of your mom. (Laughter.) That's great."



Now don't you feel better about our federal government getting spending under control.

Is this the Change that was expected

Constitutional Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.


The terrible thing we have now is a President and regulatory czar who
believe we need to have a second bill of rights stating what the
government must do for you and enforcing redistributive change.
Notice how proud Obama was of giving the Indians 3.4 billion recently.
He is the CEO of a company who just settled a 3.4 billion claim and
he brags about it. Obama said during a 2001 radio interview

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights
movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it
succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed
people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be
able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for
it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues
of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as
political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical
as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that
radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were
placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its
been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that
generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says
what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government
can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State
government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of
the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because
the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a
tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and
activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual
coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive
change. In some ways we still suffer from that."


And then Obama and Sunstein as well as I am sure most of the cabinet
and czars support FDR's massive expansion of the obligations of
government through a second bill of rights. Sunstein even wrote a
book called The Second Bill of Rights: FDR'S Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need It More than Ever. Here is what that means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States
President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address
on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize,
and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not
argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that
the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by
federal judges. Roosevelt's stated justification was that the
"political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of
happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of
rights" which would guarantee:

A job with a living wage
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
A home
Medical care
Education
Recreation

Roosevelt stated that having these rights would guarantee American
security, and that America's place in the world depended upon how far
these and similar rights had been carried into practice.

So you see the problem is not that our existing Bill of Rights was not
clear it is that we have a power structure in Washington who wants to
entirely redefine the role of government and idolizes socialist
agendas. They want to use politcal power and community organizing to
bring about the change that the Courts and Constitution have not been
able to achieve nor were they ever intended to achieve.

Chavez and Clinton in Copenhagen

It is very disturbing to me that Hugo Chavez can receive some of the most applause for attacking capitalism and the free markets. It tells you the political ideology of those who are attending that conference. Sure hope our President doesn't follow suit as he has been known to do both here and abroad relative to the evils of capitalism and the need for government regulation, ownership and control. Hillary pledged 100 billion per year to third world nations by 2020 yesterday financed by cap and trade in the US. At least I guess you have to say they are consistent. Redistribute the wealth in our own country and then turn around and use the environmental movement to redistribute the national wealth to poor nations and wa la, we have a socialist world where we are all equal.

Hugo Chavez remarks

Hillary pledge

National Budget on Defense VS HHS plus SS

The graph on the right is of the percentage of the National Budget spent on Department of Defense both Civilian and Military plus the VA compared to spending on Health and Human services plus Social Security. Since 1962 they have completely switched places from defense taking over half the budget to social services taking over half of it. In 1962 the defense portion was 52.1 % compared to 16.7% for the social services. In 2007 it was defense 22.1% to social services 45.4. According to the 2009 budget, the estimate for 2013 is defense 19.2% and social services 50.3%. Think about that next time someone complains about the defense budget taking from social programs. Or they want to create a tax for funding defense. The progressives want to eliminate defense and they are well on their way. This comparison is even more extreme when you consider that the dollars involved have gone from about 100 billion in 1962 for the entire national budget to 3.5 trillion now. That is an increase of the total budget of three thousand five hundred percent. Thus if the percentage allocations had remained the same they would have been spending 35 times more than in 62. For a look at the actual dollars involved in 1962 the combined spending of defense and VA was 56.675 billion and for 2007 which is the last year we have actual numbers it was 649.808 billion an increase of 11.46 times or 1146 percent. For the combination of Health and Human Services and Social Security in 1962 they spent 17.9 billion as compared to 1,233.8 billion which is 1.2338 trillion for an increase of 68.9 times, 6,890 percent. The 2013 estimate is defense 707.914 billion compared to HHS and SS of 1,798.606 billion or about 1.8 trillion. Guess we can see where all the increased spending has occurred and continues to do so. Sure not on military. But now we want a tax just for the military spending so we can make people more aware of the military spending while we ignore the big spending abuse of social welfare programs.

HSI e-Alert - You've Got to Ask...

Dear Reader,

Every now and then, when a study comes along that just doesn't add up, I find myself wondering: What the heck was in that placebo?

In placebo controlled clinical trials that the medical mainstreamers are always holding up as their sacred "gold standard," the placebo pill is assumed to be inert. In fact, it's a blind spot.

In trials financed by drug companies, the company supplies the placebo and controls the ingredients. The FDA does not oversee placebo ingredients. No one does.

So for instance, if a drug prompts a side effect, such as howling at the full moon, drug company execs might be tempted to include something in the placebo that would also prompt full moon howling. That way, the published write up of their study would simply note that side effects were similar in both groups.

That's just one way a placebo with a little something extra might tweak study results.

Which brings us to a new trial that tested Chantix, a best selling smoking cessation drug. I'm not saying there were any disreputable hijinks involved with this research. But some of the details had me wondering: What the heck was in the placebo?

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UCLA researchers put Chantix up to a very difficult test: COPD.

According to Dr. Donald Tashkin, the leader of the UCLA study, Chantix came through like a champ!

This is impressive because Dr. Tashkin tells Reuters Health that cigarette smokers with COPD (a debilitating and steady deterioration of the respiratory system) actually find it harder to quit smoking than smokers who have avoided the disease.

The UCLA team recruited about 500 smokers with COPD. On average, subjects were in their late 50s and had been smoking for about 40 years. For 12 weeks, half the group received Chantix while the other half received a placebo.

Results: One year after the beginning of the study, nearly 19 percent of the Chantix group had successfully refrained from smoking, while nearly six percent of the placebo group had quit.

Considering how hard it is for COPD patients to quit smoking, I suppose that one success story out of every five attempts might be considered an impressive result.

But what's really surprising is that ANYONE in the placebo group was successful. I mean, you have a disease that makes it harder to quit, but still, you successfully kick the habit after FOUR DECADES of steady smoking.

Hmmm. That's an unusually powerful placebo effect!

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Here's where the study gets very fishy: side effects.

You may remember Chantix dangers from several previous e- Alerts. For instance, in the first quarter of 2008, the number of serious reactions reported to the FDA was higher with Chantix than with all of the 10 best selling brand name drugs COMBINED.

One year later, the FDA required Pfizer, the maker of Chantix, to include a Black Box Warning that the drug might prompt depression, suicidal ideation, and suicidal actions.

In the UCLA study, Chantix side effects included nausea, insomnia, and abnormal dreams. But serious side effects were MORE common in the placebo group. And no one in the Chantix group reported suicidal ideation, but one person in the placebo group did.

Wow. That is an astounding placebo effect!

But wait -- before we ask the question -- I have two more details: 1) The trial was funded by Pfizer, and 2) Dr. Tashkin is a consultant for Pfizer.

Okay? All together now: What the HECK was in that placebo?

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...and another thing

I don't believe there's enough champagne in France to accommodate all the celebrating that must be going on at drug companies these days.

Well, not ALL drug companies. Just the five that have a sweet piece of the H1N1 vaccine action.

So far, the U.S. has ordered 195 million doses of the vaccine. But don't be surprised when that number goes higher. A few days ago, the FDA approved the use of Australia's CSL Limited H1N1 vaccine in children 6 months and older. Previously, the approval was only for teens and adults, 18 years and older.

And an added bonus: The approval includes CSL's seasonal flu vaccine. So just imagine the delirious joy this news must have brought the vaccinators at CSL.

The vaccine is available in two forms: 1) A single dose that's preservative-free, or 2) a double dose that contains thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative.

Hmmm. Now, why in the world would they make one form with a double dose of mercury, and another single-dose form with zero mercury?

Could it be because many parents who (wisely) suspect the shot is unnecessary would quickly opt out if their only choice included thimerosal?

Television medical pundits are quick to dismiss any link between thimerosal and autism. They call it "junk science" and no one ever questions them. But the mercury is still there. And mercury is still a neurotoxin. And many parents (wisely) ignore the assurance that it's perfectly safe to inject this heavy metal into ANYONE -- particularly infants.

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson

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Memorial Liberty Bell

This is the first I’ve seen or heard of this bell, what an honorable thing for someone to do.