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Remembering The Lessons Of 1918's Spanish Flu Outbreak

Sun, 03 May 2009 08:42:45 -0700

By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER |The Hartford Courant

Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital in this 1918 photograph taken at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

It started in New London, then crept across Connecticut, killing men and women in Hartford, Middletown, Norwich, Waterbury and more than two dozen other towns as September wore on. Then, in October, it took off, killing 5,228 people throughout the state in one month alone.

The Spanish flu of 1918 moved across the world slowly compared with the current spread of swine flu known as H1N1. But the 1918 flu proved to be deadly, killing nearly 9,000 people in Connecticut, 650,000 in the United States and between 20 million and 40 million worldwide.

It's too soon to know the course of the current outbreak of swine flu, whether it will mirror any of the three pandemics of the 20th century or die off far short of any kind of comparable destruction.

So far, the swine flu has been linked to only one U.S. death and 725 confirmed illnesses worldwide. Most cases are in Mexico, where 19 deaths have been reported. (Tomcat notes: The Mexican death toll stands at over 100 unconfirmed cases)

Most of the U.S. cases have been mild, and it's possible that the swine flu's impact will more closely resemble that of a typical seasonal flu — the kind that kills approximately 36,000 Americans a year but leaves most people who have it unscathed — than a pandemic of any kind.

But as scientists and public health officials work to get a handle on the swine flu, the history of past flu pandemics looms in the public consciousness, informing public health efforts, bringing into relief the vastly different world that swine flu strikes and raising a host of questions.

Does the relatively mild nature of the current strain mean a mild outbreak, or could it mutate into something far more deadly, coming back in intensifying waves like the 1918 flu did?

Or could it peter out, much like the feared swine flu of 1976 that prompted a massive government response?

And, even if a strain like the 1918 virus came along, would all the changes since then — antiviral treatments, global communications, the ability to track a disease in its earliest stages — protect us from such massive mortality?

History offers some clues, including this one: The influenza virus can defy our best guesses.

"It's very, very unpredictable," said Dr. Richard Garibaldi, hospital epidemiologist at the UConn Health Center. "I think that's a historical fact that humbles us all."

Different World

This flu comes in a different context from the Spanish flu of 1918, the Asian flu of 1957 or even the Hong Kong flu of 1968.

For one thing, there's the prevalence of global travel, a fast way for infectious diseases to spread. Swine flu didn't take months to spread worldwide; it moved across the globe rapidly, appearing in Mexico in late March and making its way to Israel, Canada, New Zealand and other nations by the end of April.

If the Spanish flu traveled in waves, swine flu's course has been more like an explosion, Garibaldi said. It's instructive, he said, for understanding what could happen if a more virulent strain were to spread.

The 1918 flu outbreak came near the end of World War I and, in less than a year, killed more people than died in the war. In Connecticut, 8,907 people died of influenza, and 2,336 more died of pneumonia.

The outbreak hit in waves, changing in severity as it spread from continent to continent, a process that took months. A full 30 percent of the population became ill, and 2 percent of those died. Those aged 20 to 40 experienced especially high mortality — much like the swine flu deaths initially reported in Mexico.

Ninety-one years later, public health officials make preparedness plans around projections of such severe pandemics.

In a presentation to lawmakers, epidemiologist Dr. Matthew Cartter of the state Department of Public Health projected that a flu pandemic on the scale of 1918 could lead to 102,348 hospitalizations in Connecticut and 23,852 deaths.

Even a less severe outbreak like the one that occurred in 1968 — the most recent flu pandemic — could mean 12,451 people in the hospital and 2,902 dead in Connecticut.

"We have devised a tremendously effective means of moving viruses very quickly from one country to another," said Dr. Sandro Galea, director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Michigan. In particular, he cited "the silver tubes that we fill with bugs and send from one country to another on a regular basis."

He was talking, of course, about airplanes.

But along with swift travel, we now have nearly instant means of communicating, allowing both experts and regular people to report and track the earliest cases of an outbreak in all corners of the world. By early last week, possible swine flu cases were being tracked on Google Maps.

We have other advantages, too — antiviral treatments that appear to work on swine flu. Scientists are better able to identify the virus and tailor vaccines. We understand better how diseases are spread and have products that help stop them, like antibacterial hand gels. Medical capabilities have improved dramatically.

The rapid detection, real-time information and coordinated management among countries could insulate us from the kind of destruction that the 1918 flu wreaked, Galea said.

"There's always little we can do about a pandemic that results from a random mutation in a virus that is going to be very pathogenic," he said. "The question is have we gotten better in dealing with it, and I think we have."

Defies Predictions

But it's still the same basic disease — a virus that can mutate and defy predictions. One of the least predictable aspects of flu is whether it will mutate into more pathogenic strains that could be more dangerous.

That is one of the reasons why, even though the earliest swine flu cases in the U.S. appear relatively mild and lack the genes that made the 1918 strain so deadly, public health officials are monitoring them closely.

"There's now growing evidence that this appears to be an influenza strain that causes infections in humans that are probably no worse than our seasonal influenza. It can be bad but not worse than that," Garibaldi said. "But we're still reserving the right to change that judgment as new cases get identified."

Perhaps swine flu will end up like a seasonal flu, a deadly illness that rarely makes headlines.

Perhaps the swift public health response — precautionary school closings, repeated lessons on the importance of hand-washing, cough-covering and staying at home while sick — will stem the outbreak before it sickens enough people to rank with the flus of 1918, 1957 or 1968.

Cartter likens the current situation to watching the weather: If a pandemic is a hurricane, we're now watching a tropical storm in the Caribbean, waiting to see what it will become. In the meantime, government officials and hospitals are preparing for the worst.

William Johnston, a Wesleyan University professor who studies the history of disease, used another weather metaphor for the flurry of activity surrounding swine flu.

Forecasters might predict an 80 percent chance of severe snowstorms, prompting schools to close and everyone to take precautions. Then the snow comes, but not nearly as bad a storm as predicted, leading people to question why it led to such a frenzy.

"A lot of this is a precaution, but it's smart," Johnston said. "It does have the potential to go bad."

Source:

http://www.courant.com/health/hc-spanish-swine-flu-0503.artmay03,0,6933249.story

Swine H1N1 Transmission From Human to Swine - Yes, it IS a SWINE FLU Dorothy

Sun, 03 May 2009 08:24:00 -0700

From Recombinomics.com

Tomcat notes: It *is* fascinating to see pressure brought to bear to call a disease something it is not. In truth, Swine flu is a disease of pigs and the disease will most certainly continue to ignore the U.S. Government's misguided efforts to paint it as something it is not in order to benefit the pig farmers whose businesses may be seeing a downturn. The only thing that can be said with reason is that the pig meat is still good to eat, since the virus cannot survive cooking. Read with interest the section about the coming fall season. This thing is most certainly not over, despite media claims to the contrary.

Swine H1N1 Transmission From Human to Swine
Recombinomics Commentary 07:10
May 3, 2009

The pigs in Alberta were thought to be infected by a farm worker who returned from Mexico on April 12 and began working on the farm two days later. Officials noticed the pigs had flu-like symptoms April 24, Evans said.

Approximately 10 percent of the 2,200 pigs on the farm have been infected, Evans said.

The above comments describe the transmission of the H1N1 swine flu from an infected farm worker to swine in Alberta, Canada. This efficient transmission from human to swine suggests that much of the speculation in the past week is overly optimistic.

The virus is swine, WHO newspeak notwithstanding, and contains six swine gene segments as well as a human PB1 and an avian PB2 that have been in swine for more than a decade. Therefore, although swine to swine transmission is not unexpected, the trans mission from human to swine is striking. The H1N1 is called swine H1N1 for scientific reason. It is not a “nickname” as some media accounts mis-report, but a descriptive name that defines its normal host. The species differences in sequence are easily determined, and species jumps are rare, but can be deadly. Usually the virus replicates most effectively in is host species.

The jump to humans is cause for concern. The last time as swine flu jumped to human and was efficiently spread in the new host was in 1918. The fact that the virus can jump from human to swine as well as swine to humans suggests this virus is not going to fade away. It has already moved into the southern hemisphere. Suspect cases have been reported in Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand, where the seasonal flu season is just beginning.

Co-circulation of human and swine H1N1 provide significant opportunities for adaptation to the human host via recombination. Two polymorphisms are already fixed in seasonal flu, H274Y for Tamiflu resistance, and E627K in PB2 which allows the virus to more efficiently replicate at lower temperatures.

These changes can lead to adaptation in humans, as well antiviral resistance. Therefore, the evolution of the H1N1 over the summer will be closely monitored. The current H1N1 has already acquired tandem human H1N1 polymorphism in HA, which may have led to the species jump from swine to human.

Thus, the efficient transmission from swine to human and vice verse, raises concerns that further adaptation to humans can lead to a fall pandemic similar to 1918. The species jump indicates the virus can adapt to a new host, and additional acquisitions over the summer continue to be a cause for concern.

Banding together and ignoring Democrats.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:29:17 -0700

Spending is out of control and our country is headed sharp left into an economic abyss while throwing out every semblance of fiscal responsibility while running the printing presses at full speed and with no plan to actually pay down the record debts he is incurring. Although I am not Christian, I respect Christianity and am thankful for the values of the nation that allowed for plurality and free speech.

Now I witness these very same tolerant Christians under attack by elements of the Left who choose to single out this one group to advance an agenda that can be summarized as, at the very least, anti-American in nature. To this end, I stand with the Christians in return for their tolerance and years of loyalty to the notions of freedom and small government with fiscal responsibility. Worse yet, there are serious verbal and even physical attacks on citizens who do not adhere to the views of the left. Democrats see no issue with heaping vile language and disrespect on Conservatives and yet, when questioned by conservatives, they become defensive and even threatening when logic and truth are applied to their plans and schemes for the world. It took me some time to come to this conclusion and I advance it here.

Watching Fox News tonight, Bob Beckel calls us "1950s Leave it to Beaver" idealists who are out of touch with reality. Last time I checked, most Republicans spend wisely, live below their means and live by a code of ideals that do not include socialism, Marxism and other alien views that have been proven not to work by the cruel judge that is history. So Bon Beckel's views seem to mirror the typical liberal view and it is time to ignore the ravings of these people who really are more interested in themselves and their power then in the betterment of the nation.

The difficult view I've come to is that Conservatives and Libertarians should not speak to, listen to or even live in or around Democrats when the subjects of politics or religious views comes to the fore. Normally, I'm in there with the best of them to argue and debate with these folks, but it has now become a matter of personal safety and the realization that our views stand no chance of a fair hearing in any public arena that has me convinced to speak of our beliefs in our own camps and not elsewhere. The world is living in a strange dream right now, and when the facade comes crumbing down, those who live with structure and morals will survive this.

A recent letter I wrote to Senator Diane Feinstein convinced me of this truth after getting the same form letter telling me that there was no intention to listen to my concerns about the spending levels and lowering of our defenses while hiring a secretary of the treasury who can't even get his taxes right. So, as a start, I told the good Senator in a nice letter that I no longer intended to listen to, consider the words of, or apply any credulity to the words of any Democrat, ever. My very last sentence was to the effect "We might as well live on two separate planets" and there is truth in this. Our two distinctly different views of the world are completely incompatible.

Ann Coulter has it right. You cannot talk with a Democrat and come out on top. So the answer is to not speak to them, but at them when forced to interact. Otherwise, turn the other way when the diatribes begin and leave them with empty space to rail at. Truth be told, there *are* Democrats you will be around and my recommendation is only meant as a generality. If the subject of politics or values comes up, it is time to clam up, pick up your bag and leave. They are running the show now and it makes no sense to argue with people whose views are completely out of touch with reality. They will find out how wrong their views are when the economy tanks and things get so hard that it'll come down to basics just to survive. Those of us who are strong, live by a code and know how to make things work, no matter what, will be the future.

Live by your values, even with the Democrats attacking them. If they ban Christmas, come up with a new name for it and celebrate it anyway. If they ban Christmas trees, put up a cactus and place decorations on it. If they choose to prosecute you or label you as a threat, live in a non-threatening way and smile while waiting this all out. If they choose to hit you, try to sue them.

If they tax your out of your house, buy land and live in a tent to foil them. If they take your car and leave you with nothing, get a bike and learn to live within your new means without complaint. If they choose to take your medicine from you and leave you adrift without medical care, I'd suggest seeing a medicine man and herbalist and return to the good old days of old time medicine. If they choose to kill the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and to rewrite history, keep copies of the originals and keep them close to your heart, because these ideals will never die if we don't let them.

Some of the Democrats will likely read this article and attack me for it. So be it. I will not respond nor will I engage in discussions with them. And I hope my fellow Republicans and Conservatives/Libertarians consider these words and choose to talk with one another and to avoid contact with Liberals/Democrats and to band together to help one another rather than to be isolated and left adrift without anyone to talk with. If we help each other and choose not to be isolated, we'll get through this.

Remember... This too shall pass. Hold your head high and know that your values do matter. God Bless you all and may God continue to bless the United States of America.

545 People by Charlie Reese

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:46:30 -0700

545 vs 300,000,000

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE.

READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does..

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, theFederal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one single thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.

The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes..

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party.

She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.   I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red

If the Army & Marines are in    IRAQ  , it's because they want them in IRAQ

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.   Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.

Impeach Obama!

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:06:23 -0700

And visit http://obamaprotest.com/ for more

The Monroe Doctrine - Bring it back!

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:55:43 -0700

The Monroe Doctrine

December 2, 1823

The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823:

. . . At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent. A similar proposal has been made by His Imperial Majesty to the Government of Great Britain, which has likewise been acceded to. The Government of the United States has been desirous by this friendly proceeding of manifesting the great value which they have invariably attached to the friendship of the Emperor and their solicitude to cultivate the best understanding with his Government. In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. . .

It was stated at the commencement of the last session that a great effort was then making in Spain and Portugal to improve the condition of the people of those countries, and that it appeared to be conducted with extraordinary moderation. It need scarcely be remarked that the results have been so far very different from what was then anticipated. Of events in that quarter of the globe, with which we have so much intercourse and from which we derive our origin, we have always been anxious and interested spectators. The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellow-men on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments; and to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States. In the war between those new Governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgement of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.

The late events in Spain and Portugal shew that Europe is still unsettled. Of this important fact no stronger proof can be adduced than that the allied powers should have thought it proper, on any principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed by force in the internal concerns of Spain. To what extent such interposition may be carried, on the same principle, is a question in which all independent powers whose governments differ from theirs are interested, even those most remote, and surely none of them more so than the United States. Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries from none. But in regard to those continents circumstances are eminently and conspicuously different. It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference. If we look to the comparative strength and resources of Spain and those new Governments, and their distance from each other, it must be obvious that she can never subdue them. It is still the true policy of the United States to leave the parties to themselves, in hope that other powers will pursue the same course. . . .

Taxdayteaparty.com Rises!

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:34:18 -0700

Visit http://taxdayteaparty.com to view ground Zero of the answer back to the corrupt forces now spending this country into bankruptcy.

What is this Tea Party effort all about?

The Tea Party effort is just a small piece of a much larger movement aimed at restoring the basic free-market principles our country was built on. The Constitution, for the most part, is being ignored by our current government and we intend on working together to correct the problem.

The Tea Party effort is a grassroots, collaborative volunteer organization made up of every day American citizens from across the country. We take pride in the fact that we've built a 50 state network of leaders and activists using nothing more than the internet, a few websites and a burning desire to restore freedom.

Tax Day Tea Party

The Tax Day Tea Party is a national collaborative grassroots effort organized by Smart Girl Politics, Top Conservatives on Twitter, the DontGo Movement and many other online groups/coalitions.

The Tea Party protests, in their current form, began in early 2009 when Rick Santelli, the On Air Editor for CNBC, set out on a rant to expose the bankrupt liberal agenda of the White House Administration and Congress. Specifically, the flawed “Stimulus Bill” and pork filled budget.

During Rick’s rant (see video below), he called for a “Chicago tea Party” where advocates of the free-market system could join in a protest against out of control government spending.

A few days later, grassroots activists and average Joe Americans began organizing what would soon become the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party effort.

On February 27th, an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+ cities accross the country in the first nationwide “Tea Party” protest.

Organizers of the February 27th events pledged to continue on with an even bigger and better protest to follow the first. With April 15th being “Tax Day”, it was decided to schedule the second round of Tea Party protests to ride alongside the tax deadline.

And with that, the “Tax Day Tea Party”, the second round of the Nationwide Tea Party protests, moved into reality.

Bringing America Back...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:22:43 -0700

When in the pursuit of daily happiness, it becomes clear that one's government is stepping far beyond it's place, one looks to the past to see what inspired the founding fathers of this great nation.

In this glance to the past, nowhere did I find:

Bailouts of failed businesses in order to accelerate the failure of a country.
Demonizing Capitalism as a root cause of all ills.
"Social" programs promoted as a norm, with the minority dictating terms and conditions to the majority.
Foreign-Aid programs. (In direct violation of the warning James Monroe taught us). We cannot afford to pay for the rest of the world.
The re-introduction of taxation without representation...
Life-time appointments of Judges and no term-limits in place for Senators and Congressmen.
Earmarks for legislation without express approval by the taxpayers.
Control of journalism by political forces and interests.
A complete lack of ethics throughout all vital institutions and sectors.

Tonight, I see that Tea Parties are being promoted all over the country. Only on Fox News do we see the true depth and breadth of anger in the country. The Press, in all other cases, has failed us. The schools are riddled with Communists teaching alternative versions of history and attacking Capitalism. Folks... this country is in deep trouble. And it's pretty damned apparent that things are headed downhill when the Czech Prime Minister tells the U.S. it is on the road to Hell because of it's fiscal problems.

Our Declaration of Independence has an interesting paragraph that holds true even in these times:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Note the underlined section. This was a warning, but our founding fathers that, should one day we need to do this, that we fight absolute tyranny and oppression. I will not say we are quite there yet, but we are not far away from a totalitarian regime assuming control of the government and potentially, the world.

One does not need to look far to see the fine hand of the United Nations in all of this. The U.N. is, without a doubt, the most evil and scheming group of criminals this planet has ever seen. Under the guise of a "cap and trade" program, using dubious science and an artificial crisis of "global warming", these people are seeking to install a totalitarian world-government that will reduce the U.S. to a vassal state and will promote China and Russia as the new deciding forces for the planet.

This cannot be allowed to occur. The concept of nation-states living peacefully is an ancient and noble one. And to trash this as a wholesale "failure" as so many "intellectuals" of the socialist variety do these days, it's clear that the agenda is a large one and has been underway for years.

How is this all going to play out? I don't know. I do think that good men and women will not stand by as Freedom finds itself under the worst assault on it's foundations in generations. A world-dictatorship cannot be allowed to form and to enslave the human race.

With the U.N. talking about using the Cap and Trade agreements to dissolve entire industries, fire and relocate people with no regard for their societal or regional sensibilities, it's academic that there will be chaos, rage and anger from all quarters.

And at the center? Our lovely President, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, The U.N. and a machine geared to teaching propaganda to our children and with a master plan to take the planet into an abyss we many never recover from.

I have zero trust in the current situation and powers that are running things. Their aims are clearly anti-American in nature. Our Congress has sold us down the river and the Executive Branch has lost sight of it's role in championing America and instead spends it's days seeking to make the American people feel guilty for existing. At this point, it's become clear that the trust in a fair and just government, whose belief in a higher power, that of the world of God, has become skewed and out of touch with reality.

This is a natural development in Democratic societies. And though we are a Republic, it's pretty clear that the Democratic tendency to seek "pure Democracy" has introduced this rot far faster than it would have been had this all been kept in check and the weak points in our legal and legislative bodies been properly repaired and the trust of the American People held up as the overriding priority.

So folks... I laugh when I see these developments taking place. The more that we Capitalists are ridiculed, the more we'll be vindicated. The more we are oppressed as a people, the more it will become clear what the U.S. Constitution really means and it will become clear that it will become the law of the land once again.

How that occurs will probably be an ugly thing. The months ahead will be filled with sorrows and tremendous shocks as our worlds collapse and new ones arise.

This is an opportunity for we citizens to define the future and NOT to place our futures in the hands of those who wish to scare us, control us and to use the media to direct us. Now is the time to talk with friends, family and to ignore the message of the higher forces whose interests are not you or I, but their own monetary and political goals.

Take care of yourself and your interests first... When laws arise that impose the ridiculous or absurd, evade them or adapt to go around them. Confound the planners who will be trying to control you. Go opposite to what they wish, choose options that are not on the formulated plan they want to sell you and limit the access these people have to your mind through media and print.

Whatever the new order becomes and should Freedom win the day, there is one thing that needs to be enshrined as a tenet upon which freedom will be based; The replacement of income tax in favor of a consumption tax. Followed with the use of quotas to limit the numbers of attorneys and lawyers allowed into practice at any one time to a level not to exceed limits set by the voters.

Good luck my friends... We're all going to need it. God Bless the United States and May God Protect the United States from it's enemies... foreign and domestic.

Too Funny!!

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:53:04 -0700

Three dead bodies turn up at the mortuary, all with very big smiles on their faces. The coroner calls the police to tell them what has happened.

The Coroner tells the Inspector, "First body is a 72 year old Frenchman. He died of heart failure while with his mistress. Hence the enormous smile."

"The second body is an Irishman, 25 years of age. He won a thousand dollars on the lottery and spent it all on whisky. Died of alcohol poisoning, hence the smile.

" The Inspector asked, "What of the third body?"

"Ah," says the coroner, "This is the most unusual one. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, 66, struck by lightning."

"Why is she smiling then?" inquires the Inspector.

"Thought she was having her picture taken."

Veteran's Benefits to be removed - The Obama plan

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:52:58 -0700

President Obama is going to remove Veteran's benefits and medicines according to recent rumblings from Washington. I wrote my Senator, Diane Feinstein, and decided to publish this letter I just sent so that there can be no doubt it was sent and to stir up public sentiment to resist the murderous urges of the Democratic party in it's bid to kill the elderly and disabled who do not have a defense against these kind of atrocities:

"Dear Senator,

My father's life depends upon medicine provided through his veteran's benefits. There is no way he can stay alive if these medicines are removed from him.

Now I hear that President Obama and the Congress are entertaining the notion that there will be a summary removal of these medicines with no safety net to save these men and women who gave their all for the country. Now the country is going to fail them.

Hear me now Senator... Killing my father and other people's fathers and mothers in order to save a buck isn't right, isn't moral and is a profound abandonment of human rights. This will not be permitted and will be resisted.

Worse yet, foreigners here illegally WILL get benefits at the expense of our elderly and disabled. The Democratic party is out of control. It has lost it's bearing on reality and is living in a fantasy. The problem is that this fantasy is going to kill people now.

I'm so disgusted with Congress and this President I can't tell you. I'm making good on my promise to give my time and effort to Republicans who can take back the government and introduce checks and balances into the system that are sorely needed.

Your party is going to look awfully bad when it starts removing benefits from people needing them to stay alive.

How you all wake up in the morning and keep your head held high is beyond me. I suppose you won't be losing your benefits since you are an elite and therefore above the rest of we peons."