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Here is a list of more good bills congress worked hard on May 12th

– Expressing the support of Congress for the Jewish community in Venezuela.

– Recognizing the historical and national significance of the many contributions of John William Heisman to the sport of football.

– A resolution commending South Charleston, West Virginia, for celebrating its 50th annual Armed Forces Day on May 16, 2009.

– Honoring police officers and law enforcement professionals during Police Week.

– A resolution to designate the week beginning on the second Saturday in May as National Travel and Tourism Week.

– A resolution designating July 25, 2009, as "National Day of the American Cowboy".

– To encourage water efficiency.

– A resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of the end of communist rule in Poland.

Congress on May 7th again work hard to earn their bloated paychecks. America would just not survive if congress was not spending it’s time congratulate, praising, encourage, commend and celebrating. Here is a list of 10 pointless bills they worked hard on writing, getting cosponsors for and passing: (Personal favorite is the national day of remembrance for nuclear weapons program workers.).

– Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Parthenon Marbles should be returned to Greece.

– Encouraging the President to designate 2010 as "The National Year of the Bible".

– For the relief of Paul Green. (thank you Barney Frank)

– Commending the heroic efforts of the people fighting the floods in North Dakota and Minnesota.

– Congratulating Jockey Calvin Borel for his victory at the 135th Kentucky Derby.

– Celebrating the symbol of the United States flag and supporting the goals and ideals of Flag Day.

– Recognizing and commending the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on its 75th year anniversary.

– Congratulating LeBron James for being named the 2009 Most Valuable Player in the National Basketball Association.

– Expressing support for a national day of remembrance for the workers of the nuclear weapons program of the United States.

– Renamed a post office

I am beginning to fear greatly what the next four years will bring to this country. While I certainly have my opinions about who should be president, the bottom line is, I love this country and want whoever the president is to lead this country in a direction that will promote long term peace and prosperity. I fear what awaits us in the cloudy mist of our future when our government cannot call men terrorist who openly call for the annihilation of a country and the open killing of as many American civilians as possible. Yet, in that same inanity call our military veterans  “extremist” and “terrorist cells.” 

The people that “cut off a person’s face with piano wire” and an Iranian president that says “To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible" are not terrorist. Those that really mean us harm are our own military and those right wing radicals.

Have we really lost our ability to understand the greater threat here? Or have we simply lost our courage to see it? Or worse yet courage to face it.

I saw this picture a few weeks ago and it really touched me. I hope whoever this is does not mind me sharing but I think it is important for all of us to remember our service men and women. They sacrifice a lot to fight those that mean to do us harm, while we go on enjoying our every day life.

Maybe your are one of those that don’t believe their service is really needed.

Maybe this video will disabuse you of such a mind set.

                              http://www.tangle.com/flash/swf/flvplayer.swf

Is this really what people were after when they elected Obama?

“In only two months, since the last CBO budget review in January, Democrats have passed laws that increase spending by $134 billion in the last six months of this fiscal year alone”

So let me get this right. The U.S. economy is struggling to survive because corporate executives got their companies debut to equity ratio to high, and the U.S. governments response is to do the same thing and run up a huge deficit even higher?!?!?!

Forget about learning from history! WE CANNOT EVEN LEARN FROM THE PRESENT!!!!!!!

“’Fairness’ is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What "fairness" means in practice is that third parties — busybodies — can prevent mutual accommodations by others.”  Thomas Sowell

I recently went to my daughters school to see her class presentation about American symbols. It was wonderful to see her and her friends sing songs and talk about different American symbols (The White House, the Flag, Washington, etc). They sang “I am proud to be an American” which is one of my favorite songs. The feeling of hope and inspiration I got from watching my daughter in the morning was muted by what I saw on TV and read about the rest of the day.

You see today in the media it was all about government bailouts and AIG executive bonuses. The rest of the day was focused on what our government and large corporations have been doing the past year, and it reeked of selfishness, greed and denial. Republicans, Democrats and Executives spewing hate a blame at each other, none really interesting in service to their country or doing what is best for their country. Each solely focused on protecting their interests and their pile of green paper.

Reflecting back on the events of the morning in my daughters class room, which where full of hope, selfless and patriotic feelings of service towards our great country, something that today seems like an anachronism. I pray for my daughters future this is not the case. May these children not reflect these values of those that came before them.