REAL Patriotric sites and resources

I came across some real patriotic sites that give excellent resources and information for us to return this country back to its moral and Constitutional foundation.

The first is a resource for my fellow North Carolinians, NC Freedom. NC Freedom has links connecting to other like-minded sites, but also contains information on pending bills before the NC General Assembly, and NC Tea Parties.

Get Out of Our House is a site dedicated to returning the US House of Representatives to the people, by campaigning to get the politicians out.

The next three sites deal with the corruption that oozes out of the nation's capitol.

The Sunlight Foundation wants to shine the light were the two-legged cockroaches gather. Here is what their purpose is, as found on their homepage:

The Sunlight Foundation is committed to helping citizens, bloggers and journalists be their own best congressional watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitizing new information, and by creating new tools and Web sites to enable all of us to collaborate in fostering greater transparency.

Another interesting site is CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress. They bipartisanly label various Republicans and Democrats as being the most corrupt, and give good reasons why.

The last site I want to mention is OpenSecrets.org. Open Secrets allows you to track the money going into the politicians pockets, where ti comes from, what they sort of do with it. It also allows you to see why they want all these pork barrel projects. This site is just really amazing.

Swampfox

THE FUTURE IS GETTING VERY SCIFI

Harnessing science to create the ultimate warrior
New Scientist

BATALLIONS of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness. [What are they supposed to be? Cyboorgs, Terminators, Storm Troopers?]
http://tinyurl.com/pdfcov

The Weimar Hyperinflation: Could it Happen Again?
By Ellen Brown/The August Review

We have been led to believe that we must prop up a zombie Wall Street banking behemoth because without it we would have no credit system, but that is not true. There is another viable alternative, and it may prove to be our only viable alternative. We can beat Wall Street at its own game, by forming publicly-owned banks that issue the full faith and credit of the United States not for private speculative profit but as a public service, for the benefit of the United States and its people.
http://tinyurl.com/qmvgn2

FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
By Ryan Singe/WIRED

You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.
http://tinyurl.com/px2rx2

Army Terminators Walk Like Men
By David Hambling/WIRED

Petman needs to precisely simulate human movement, and the makers say it will be "the first anthropomorphic robot that moves dynamically like a real person, with natural, agile movement." The mecha-man is described as "BigDog’s Big Brother." In fact, his bottom half is simply a pair of BigDog legs.
http://tinyurl.com/pz9hd6

Darpa’s Simple Plan to Track Targets Everywhere
By Nathan Hodge/WIRED

Bottom line: they plan on being able to see everything that anybody does, wherever they go.
http://tinyurl.com/r3h423

Now We're Burning Bibles

The Age of Fahrenheit 451 has arrived.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted on the US Army and government taking a firm stand against our troops (those who happen to be Christian) sharing their faith in any form with the people of Afghanistan. Military.com and CNN are both reporting now that the Bibles, which were translated into the two most common languages of Afghanistan, were burned.

When I first read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, I never thought the Firemen would start burning books so quickly. Of course, it isn't surprising that Bibles are the first things to be burned.

Since the Bibles were offensive to the Muslim leaders of Afghanistan, and the Army didn't want to take the chance on the Bibles being sent back, they decided it was in everyone's best interest to have the Bibles burned.

It's also interesting to note that it was a chaplain who did his "patriotic duty" of collecting the Bibles to prevent them from getting out into the hands of the Afghan people.

Since this test run worked so well in a country where our military is currently engaged, I wonder how long it will be before the same thing is done in the "land of the Free"? After all, there are a lot of people here who are not Christians, and they do find the Bible to be highly offensive. Why is it that a foreign country has more rights than our own people who are not Christians? Don't they deserve to have their own Bible burning?

Swampfox

One Smart Lady

Recently, I have been getting updates from The Grocery Shrink. This lady has some excellent ideas on how to save money - things I just have never thought of. In her recent email update, she listed a few things that kind of kicked me in the hindquarters. That same feeling when the preacher's message hits me right between the eyes. Ouch.

I understand that God will take care of His own, but I also know that the majority of our financial problems are brought about due to our own stupidity. God gave us enough common sense to survive and thrive, and we should.

We are a whiny bunch of people. We think we deserve certain things, when we do not. We have a misplaced understanding of what is truly important. And we are so willing to go into debt (I'm speaking to myself here as well).

Check out her website and sign up for her email updates at The Grocery Shrink and check out The Grocery Shrink Blog. Excellent ideas and excellent advice.

Some Good News For Once

Victory at Last - National Park Service Gun Ban Repealed!

Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place
Suite 102
Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

"Gun Owners of America was the most consistent and loudest voice on Capitol Hill in support of the effort to repeal the National Park Service gun ban."
- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Good news!

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill today that included an amendment to repeal the gun ban on National Park Service (NPS) land and wildlife refuges.

The amendment, sponsored by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and attached to a credit card industry reform bill, passed the House overwhelmingly by a vote of 279-147.

For decades, law-abiding citizens have been prohibited from exercising their Second Amendment rights on NPS land and wildlife refuges, even if the state in which the land is located allows carrying firearms.

With some limited exceptions for hunting, the only way to legally possess a firearm anywhere in a national park is by having it unloaded and inaccessible, such as locked up in an automobile trunk. A Bush administration regulation partially reversed the ban, but that action was singlehandedly negated recently by an activist judge in Washington, D.C. The Department of Interior decided not to appeal that ruling.

Senator Coburn believes, like you do, that Americans should not be forced to sacrifice their Second Amendment rights when entering NPS land and wildlife refuges.

GOA worked with Coburn on an amendment that simply allows for state and local laws - instead of unelected bureaucrats and anti gun activist judges - to govern firearm possession on these lands.

The anti-gun leadership in both the House and Senate went berserk and fought to keep the Coburn amendment from being attached to the underlying bill. Sparks were flying on the floor of the House of Representatives today.

Anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) whined that a "very good" credit card bill had been "hijacked" by the Coburn amendment. To this, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) pointed out that gun control is the policy of tyrants, as evidenced by the British attempt to confiscate firearms at Lexington and Concord in 1775.

Congressional leaders and entrenched bureaucrats have fought GOA over the NPS gun ban for the past eight years.

But your activism has finally broken through. The late Senator Everett Dirksen said, "When I feel the heat, I see the light!" Well, you have applied a lot of heat. Members of Congress know that they oppose your Second Amendment rights at their own peril.

As it stands today, both houses of Congress have now passed the Coburn amendment - and President Obama is expected to sign the provision into law (only because it is part of a larger credit card bill that he really wants).

So, congratulate yourself for winning this long, hard battle. GOA was the leading, and often only, national gun group involved in this fight. You involvement was absolutely vital to achieving this win.

Of course, many more battles lie ahead. President Obama continues to push for the Senate to ratify massive international gun control treaties. There is a battle over a Supreme Court nominee coming up. Anti-gun zealots in Congress are aggressively pushing to renew the Clinton gun ban and close down gun shows.

And as the health care debate picks up steam in the coming weeks and months, GOA is battling efforts to create a computerized national healthcare database. Such a database can be used to deny people their Second Amendment rights in the same way that so many veterans have lost their gun rights based only on the diagnoses of a doctor for things like combat-related stress.

GOA will be calling for action on these and other Second Amendment issues as they move through Congress.

In the meantime, have a safe Memorial Day as we remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that America would remain "Land of the Free."

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