The Legacy List

At Tandem Computers we had a 4 week vacation every four years in addition to our yearly vacation.  People made lists of where they wanted to go and what they wanted to do.  How cool is that?  A couple I'm close to made a similar list and did it all together including 200 miles of the John Meir trail.  Those bucket lists ignite our lives.

One other list I've been thinking about lately is the my life list -- the one we complete by being here.  I've often said there is nothing I have not done that I wanted to do in my life.  I simply put it on a list and do it.  Often it gets done daily. I love the simple phase "do it."  And I'd prefer to do it now.

I'm beginning to realize another list.  The deliverable list I want done by the end of my life.  It is the I've done it and here it is list.  It is not the list from your wife, your boss, your friend, or your mother.  This list is your legacy list.  It is something left when you are gone.

It helps to choose someone you admire and identify their legacy list.  Like President Reagan.  Amazing that he spoke so often on radio and left us a legacy of conservative speeches which promote liberty.  I guess I felt I didn't know Ronald Reagan until I read Riding with Reagan and felt the impact of his life at the ranch.  Here was a leader that would go to the ranch to work with his  hands and think.  He tried his best to do the right thing for our country through tried and true inspiration from the divine.

How about John Wayne ... most actors have a big legacy list in their films.  John Wayne always stood out as a no-nonsense kind of guy.  He believed in America and stood up for its principles.  He came across as a take charge kind of guy.  Everyone knows that walk ... a man's man.

Proverbs would say, in all thy getting get understanding.  I guess what I am saying is in all your listing get a bit of legacy going.  Those things we strive to complete and how we complete them add up.

Treason

"Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" said Patrick Henry. We live in a time with treason in the highest halls of our government and we need those who will hold their actions to the light. Anyone who supports Occupy Wall Street is calling for anarchy in our streets. Anyone in our government who asks for socialism and a tightly controlled capitalism model to replace our constitution is committing an act of treason and needs to be impeached. Anyone in our government who would give away islands belonging to a sovereign state (Alaska) without permission of the People needs to be impeached. Anyone who would give 1.5 billion dollars to the enemies of our nation (Muslim Brotherhood are Jihadists and were thrown out of every Muslim nation for that reason) needs to be impeached. Anyone who would call out the actions of one single individual and call it racist and incite riots in our streets is being irresponsible and inciting others to be racist themselves. The facts in any case need to be gleaned before making snap judgements. Our constitutional republic is not mobocracy or even democracy. It is a republic which preserves our freedom when those sworn to uphold it obey its principles.

It is time for us all to say, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"  It is time to clean house across all of our branches of government.

Valley Forge Today

George Washington retreated to Valley Forge for safety in the winters during the revolutionary war.  History remembers 10,000 troops settling in tents in a freezing winter.  4,000 of them without blankets and many without shoes.  2,000 never receive blankets though they managed to build small barracks housing 12 soldiers each.  2,500 of them died that winter.  America's Valley Forge ended with more troops than they started.  They were ready to fight and disciplined for war despite the hardships.

Benjamin Franklin wrote George Washington from France, "you would, on this side of the sea, enjoy the great reputation you have acquired.  I frequently hear the old generals of this martial country, who study maps of America and mark upon them all your operations, speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct, and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age."

Washington himself wrote after Valley Forge, "grateful thanks due to the great Author of all the care and good that have been extended in relieving us in difficulties and distress."

Martha Washington visited her husband in every winter of the campaign.  She arrived in Valley Forge with carriages full of clothing, medicine, and blankets.  She organized other women to help.  She repaired torn clothes and acted proving medical relief.

There needs to be a return to the common sense and American values delivered from Valley Forge -- forged in blood, tears, and agony.  We need to treat our tax dollars as a sacred trust.  We need to restore confidence in the American institutions that got us here.  We need to rely on the "invisible hand of providence" to deliver us from our "difficulties and distress."

We need to remove the huge staffs of congress and in the executive branch.  We need to restore our freedom to have a fair jury.  We need to restore our rights as American citizens to freedom of religion in the manner set up by our founding fathers.  We need a free press and to remove the right of the government to block it in any circumstances.  We need to remove regulations which govern by oppression.  We need a fair tax, not a progressive tax which is a hallmark of communist regimes.  A good start would be the list in the book, "Throw Them All Out", which suggests solutions in a few pages of how to remove greed and graft from Washington.

George Washington continued his Valley Forge as he took oversight in the building of our nation -- both the constitution and the presidency.  His greatest enemy was Muslim nations who took 25 percent of all of our tax dollars as ransom for us to free them from slavery.  He established the marines and a navy and sent them over to fight again for our right to a free market on the open seas.

Today our free market system and the inalienable rights preserved by the republic's constitution mean something only to the degree that we still follow them.  They have held us in good stead for many years.  Our nation started out restoring freedom to those slaves who were sold into our country as slave labor.  Two of the signers of the declaration of independence were black.  The heritage of being American was bought in blood by all of us.  It is time we vote in representatives that believe in our own form of government.

Obama shifts view of Modern Presidential Power

According the Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama has fundamentally shifted his view of Modern Presidential Power and is rallying public opinion to his side.  No, he is not.  Someone must begin to ask why FEMA spends less than 7 percent of its budget on emergencies and falls under homeland security.

Okay, what is this modern presidential power.  Is it executive orders, czars outside of congressional control, governing by regulations outside of congress, and appointing justices who are socialists and communists?  Has he moved away from that ... no.  A vote for Barack Obama is a vote to redistribute the wealth in our country, to update the constitution to reflect social justice and controlled capitalism, and a cradle to grave welfare system that takes over the control of keeping our children indoctrinated with the new welfare state.  It includes unions that have begun to openly say that communism is their end goal.  If you do not believe this then you have not been listening to his speeches.  He means to redistribute the wealth, to tax the wealthy, to insure that everyone has cradle to grave rights in education, jobs, health care, and to eliminate any hate speech that goes against said policies.  It is all there.

A Comprehensive List Of Obama's Executive Orders 

Note: here is a link to current executive orders ... I find the executive order numbers simply do not match with Laurie Roth's documents.  And I find the executive orders put out by the president are usually specific to his plans which often circumvent congress.  Although many pertain to national security, it would take several days to wade through them.  The early ones attempt to provide greater access to documents within the White House.  Today he takes an opposite approach and often blocks congress from seeing vital documents ... the 80 boxes of information on the Project, for example, which detail The Muslim Brotherhood's plan to take over American internally.  Or even the fast and furious documentation has been blocked.  Note these are the orders that are not classified:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders

Restore American Prosperity, Freedom, and Liberty

I remember being in a foreign country in 1973 and being on a list to be shot.  It seems a million years away because I never thought things like this would ever happen in America.  I had literally erased it from my mind.

The republic of Chile elected a president who believed in socialism.  He began a program of feeding children at school and other entitlements.  He changed the landscape of civil servants dismissing many who believed in God or who didn't belong to the socialist party.  He began redistributing the wealth by allowing the poor to claim vacant land and buildings.  He began taking away property in the name of the people.

Chile had established a constitution patterned after The United States Constitution.  They were a republic and enjoyed all the liberties of a capitalist society.  They had the highest level of literacy in South America and enjoyed the highest standard of living.  Anyone could work and own their own car.  Does that sound familiar?

I arrived in Chile about 2 years into this presidency.  The president eventually declared himself a marxist and began visiting Cuba and bringing in Russian and Cuban advisers.  The morality in the papers took a nose dive as it seemed anything was okay to print.  One had a hard time even looking at the news stands where the pages openly and flagrantly pressed immorality as the norm.

Teachers who believed in God or the Republic were dismissed.  Many men who stood for freedom and liberty as taught in the constitution went into hiding as the assassinations began to mount up monthly.  It was no longer safe to be members of the party that supported the constitution and a republic.

Even in the church congregations the people seemed to split into socialists and those who loved the constitutional republic with safeguards to their liberty and freedom.  I often heard "yankee go home."  There were moments of danger at times being American.  The country was in a crisis with deep divisions between people of different backgrounds.

Big pits were dug for people as graves and lists were made up for those who would be shot and killed on their liberation day.  I remember being part of a round up of suspected individuals who were being taken to an open field, shot, and dropped to the earth.  I was taken outside where others were being shot and dropped dead into pits.  I was one of the lucky ones who came out of that camp alive.

Soldiers on the streets marched with rifles in their hands pointing them straight ahead as if being ready to engage the enemy.  At one point the business people staged a boycott of buying and selling goods.  For over 30 days we had to survive on what was available at home.  A curfew at 2 P.M. kept people off the streets.  One would listen to the shots as those who broke the curfew were shot.  Bodies were picked up and carried off from those who challenged the authority of the state.

If you wanted land or a building, one simply displayed the Chilean flag and declared it in the name of the people -- your land or building.  That night often the real battle began with land owners or other squatters who felt they wanted the land more.  Blood flowed like a river and goods became scarce.  Long lines for simple products as bread, oil, rice, and meat were common.  The government granted houses with no sewage and little support for the community turned into great slum areas.

I literally knew people who were dying in this cause.  As a songwriter the songs I wrote in this period captured the conflict of ideas in pure feeling.  I did not dare share them because I was a guest in this country.

The Army took over the country the day before many of us were to be shot.  We were literally on a list to be shot including everyone in the home where I stayed.  It was the home of an ex-mayor who believed strongly in Liberty and Freedom through a republic.  He used to own 5 homes but had to choose only one in this redistribution of wealth.  In the rural areas he had land as far you one could see in all directions.  It was all taken away in the name of the people.

Chile eventually restored their republic back to representation of the people.  They are a model of how a republic recovers under the tyranny and blood letting of socialism.  Today they are fiscally sound.  They use private enterprise to fund their equivalent of medicare and social security which are solvent today.  Today private property is respected.

Today we are seeing a revolution dedicated towards redistributing wealth, changing our constitution, and creating a new America that is globally aligned with "social justice."  Using a ploy invented by a pair of communist professors at Columbia, ACORN, and other such organizations with government money have been striving to overwhelm our system by placing as many people on government welfare as possible.  The balance of power between executive, legislative, and judicial branches has been broken.  It is up to "we the people" to right this out of balance -- to vote those out who have taken moderate and progressive stances and allowed this government to become anti-American.

Rich and powerful men have bought out our media and the news no longer portrays what is real on the ground in America.  The dialogue is a love affair between the president of the United States and "hope and change" which is anything but hope and is leading us down the path of financial ruin.  Our paper supply has been increased 300 percent in the last 4 years.  Our banks are paid interest to hold over one trillion dollars of money by the Fed.  The interest rates are being held low.  Our definition of unemployment, inflation, and key indicators of our economy change to reflect the best side for the government.  Congress has not even tried to balance the budget for over 3 years.

I am advocating that you and your families read those who were part of the movement that broke off from these progressive politicians who have controlled our country for many years.  David Horowitz wrote a number of good pamphlets.  I simply bought all of them. They cover how progressives took power through illegal voter registration.  They show how progressives use government money to front community groups like ACORN that are dedicated to destroying America.  They show how the Muslim Brotherhood has gained a strong hold on America and are dedicated to defeating us from within.  The show the relationship of George Soros and his influence in the Democratic party.

See good movies which document what is happening.  The Tea Party shows how ordinary Americans stood up to President Obama in 2010 and elected enough patriots to congress to stop his agenda.  The movie 2016 gives a clear view of the roots of President Obama so one can understand why he makes the decisions he makes today.  The movie Agenda takes a look at the history of Progressives in American politics and shows the trail to the communist party and how they created an agenda and got it done.  It shows this President and his true agenda.  I Want Your Money is a movie which illustrates the differences between America with Reagan and America with Obama.  Buy these movies and share them with your friends.

It is time to stand up and be counted on the side of Liberty and Freedom through a constitutional republic which respects the rights and liberty of all citizens.  There has never been a utopian society that was not tyranny led by dictators who crushed their opponents and tightly controlled their citizens through arbitrary regulation.

I believe in conservation.  I believe in using renewable energy.  I believe in taking care of our planet.  We do not need to become a global society or a socialist nation to accomplish those goals.  Using regulation to limit access to resources is simply the wrong way to go about it.  Using a cap and trade system which sets up penalties and payments for polluting is absurd and the wrong direction.  Americans helped restore the idea of bio-intensive farming by preserving and spreading its ideas to over 109 nations.  Americans invented the idea of a solar roadway which could produce 3 times the amount of electricity that we currently produce simply by placing solar roadways on our interstate highways.  Americans invented the idea of hydrogen as a clean energy ... and solar roadways would set us up as an independent nation to become the first hydrogen economy.  These ideas would build on what we have done with fossil fuels and extend our influence to all nations by example.  This would show leadership in a free world where choice is paramount to success.

In the history of the world, the United States has not been a colonist nation.  They have sought freedom of each individual state where states have the latitude to produce programs tailored to their people.  The idea of a strong Federal Government was the opposite of what our founding fathers created.  It places us in a dangerous position where powerful men could tip the scales in their favor with their own brand of regulation.  I think we have seen enough of that under progressive presidents.  It is time to restore the ideas that made America great.  It is time to restore the American vision for prosperity, freedom, and liberty.

Nature Within

To follow something like religion is not a weakness, it is a strength.  To obey laws of nature and nurture is not a sign of weakness, it is a strength.  It leads us to understand the heavens about us.  Even after all of what we know, we know little of the stars, the moon, and the sun.  We are a small dot on the edge of something that is quite grand all about us.  From the very smallest thing we can see to the the very largest there is, there is this sense of harmony and inter-unity about it all.

It is nature and nature's creator that brings out the best of curiosity in all of us from all paths in life.

Despite the darkest of the far reaches of the universe our earth is a veritable garden of all kinds of plants, animals, and things we haven't even met yet!  The moon has this interplay with plants that allows them to burst with seed and produce jumbo sizes.  The sun gives us a complex mix of light and growth that sustains life we haven't even met yet!

And then one finds water -- that magical source of life sustaining essence that permeates all living things.  It can be powerful in all of its states.  It nourishes, renews, and cleanses the earth.  It is teaming with life.  Can we be as pure as water, taking with us those things that are not pure and giving them back with stillness to parts of the earth which can receive them.

The earth cultivates in our fields the life sustaining force that keeps us all alive.  It all begins with a seed.  By following the course of a seed, life around us begins to make sense.  This simple cycle used to be watched over and followed everyday in our struggle to be alive.  Today our seeds are managed by larger and larger groups who help sustain larger and larger groups.  Our world was designed to sustain a large number of people.

One PhD friend did his thesis on how many billions of people the great plains of the United States could sustain.  It was well over 20 billion people with planned cities, canals in a system of free enterprise.  It reminds me of how the Russians who let the farmers plant and sell their own crops on 1 percent of their land.  That one percent out performed the 99 percent of the rest of their crops.  It adverted a disaster of famine.  Private enterprise in a communist country averted a national disaster.

Is it any surprise that you find researchers in Kansas looking to turn annual food crops into perennials?  That would mean that food would grow naturally everywhere.  Many farmers already know what perennials are great to plant and make that part of their harvest plan.  Home owners in the cities can plant these easy to grow, sustainable crops as well for a hedge against high food prices.

Clouds in our sky come and go with rain, and sometimes with storms.  Man has forever been talking about the severity of stormy days.  Protection from storms comes at the cost of advance planning and serious thought about wind, rain, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, and even earthquakes.  Despite our best advances it continues to be a vigilant need in our communities.

Our responsibility is to cultivate the humanity within us -- the nature within.  When a baby is born the purity of their life is read in their face.  They absorb everything within their hearing, taste, touch, and sight.  It is an amazing transformation.  The vigor and energy they put into life is instantly rewarded as they become fellow speakers of our language, fellow doers of our actions, and fellow followers of our inner natures.

A simple breath is taken when a child is first born.  That breath is not extinguished until death comes.  It sparks an energy throughout the body.  I've noticed when patients register a low oxygen level, that ten deep breaths instantly restore its value to 99 or even 100 percent saturation.  Collectively our breath is that ability to find what is best in our communities for us all.  Deep within us there is a divine call or a spiritual nature to what defines our being.  It is found as we give service to others and begin to understand the cycle of life around us that sustains our community.

A flowing river is a powerful tool given to the earth which removes mountains and creates valleys.  It ebbs and flows in cycles that sustain powerful communities of life.  Our efforts on this planet do the same by our attitudes and choices.  We become the rocks of our generation that fill in the places where people need to be helping.  We become the trees that plant deeply in the earth and sustain the land across the background of changing weather, and changing times.  We grow deeply into the earth -- so that what seen above the ground is only a hint of what went on below.

The ancients of this world had the same struggles we have and their wisdom is still with us preserved in their records both oral and written.  It is in our best interest to continue to catalog the best of our nation.  It is in our best interest to provide open portals into that knowledge.  This mountain of knowledge is not without precedent as many far flung nations have made attempts to amass libraries only to see them plundered in ruins.  It is our honor and respect for the ancients and the freedom and liberty of mankind that should sustain us.

Let us be strong as the tiger in sustaining freedom for all people.  Let us be wise as the crane who in stillness embraces the earth.  The crane is vigilant in knowing the area about him.  Let us be determined as the fish who swim upstream with the strength of survival ... that of one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  May we be as enduring as the turtle who is both self-sufficient and self-preserving despite the slowness of his movement.

Left or Right

I'm an American. My parents came here a long time ago. We trace our roots back to Scotland and Wales. They have been democratic voters and recently started to think like republicans. I've been an independent. I like to think that our choices in presidents have been carefully groomed by two parties that almost think alike. Sometimes I think they create conflict simply to give the appearance of disagreement while increasing government and moving us toward less freedoms.

I love the founding fathers and their clarity on the role of state and federal government. The constitution and its principles which balance the power between state, federal, and local governments is inspired of God. No other country has had so much given from this foundation that America. To the degree we align ourselves with this style of government, we will continue to be a light to every other government on earth. We've had a group of presidents, congressional leaders, and judicial judges that have increased their roles and reduced our freedoms while lining the pockets of everyone who helped elect or choose them.

Why? This is not a question of left or right. Both left and right seem to jump into the fray and remove freedoms. An act of congress -- the patriot act under Bush's term was celebrated as a wonderful anti-terrorist act. Has the public read it? Do they know what it does? Do you? The rules and regulations from the last three presidents can fill a room with paper. It literally is clogging the economy with red tape. Overseas we act as if we are the world's police. We give aid as a country as if money will fix the world's problems.

How about the organization called FEMA? Are you aware that only 7 percent of its budget is for emergencies and that they come under Homeland Security? Are you aware that some independent observers have called this a shadow government to take over when a crisis happens? Are you aware of the executive orders which put this in place across all the presidents since Kennedy? There exist executive orders which are held back from congress because they are classified.

This is not a question of left or right. It is a question of right or wrong. It is wrong to mislead the public while building a private army ... be it a democratic president or a republican president. It is wrong to build democracies by force. It is wrong to put in place a plan to revert to martial law when a crisis happens without letting our system work. It is wrong to control the media so that news does not appear on the presses. It is wrong to openly encourage a crisis to happen like in the occupy wall street fiascoes. It is wrong to go into debt and create a slave relationship for the American people. It is wrong to use minority issues like race or gender to divide and conquer the American people for the political end to destroy our republic. It is wrong to strengthen our enemies as a way of bringing about global collapse ... so vastly rich manipulators of global economies can make more money.

A vote for Obama is a vote to continue the trillion dollar spending spree that no one knows how it is truly spent. Even the general accounting office can not give a complete account of it. A vote for Obama is a continuation of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States of America where every other nation in the world has removed them from power. Yet, the United States helped reinstate them across many middle eastern countries. A vote for Obama is the continuing effort to put known communists and socialists into the executive branch. A vote for Obama includes giving the majority of stimulus money to democratic campaign contributors for them to create shell companies with tax payer money that does not even have to be paid back. A vote for Obama includes the free loan subsidies which put the tax payers at risk for all loans given and money into their friends pockets.

I can't even mention everything a vote for Obama includes so I'll end with this -- a vote for Obama is a vote against George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson -- an end to liberty as we have known it in the past. I hope people will sufficiently wake up to recognize the slavery that Obama has created both domestically and within our foreign affairs.