Rae Hart Anderson for Minnesota Senate

http://www.usdebtclock.org/: YOU PAY EVERY DAY! A BETTER PLAN FOR HEALTH CARE WILL SLOW THE CLOCK!

Rae — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:13:30 +0000

The disabled still vote for life at the MN rally for life January 22, 2010! The human spirit with God is indomitable.

A BETTER PLAN FOR HEALTH CARE!

From Michele Bachmann’s website comes this better health care policy and plan.

Many in Congress agree–well not Nancy, of course–to vote for a better plan that preserves personal freedom. Not Nancy. She remains stuck on herself and her own “stable insanity” [oxymoron here]. She’s doing the same thing and getting worse results.

It’s insanity–utter craziness–to expect to fool we the people all the time. Won’t happen except in the dark with the lights turned off to make us blind to her shenanigans. We are learning she is a leader of the blinded–those blinded by faith in a false set of non-facts–freely dispersed to the apathetic and those who trust in Pelosi’s false face. “Trust, but VERIFY.” WE CAN DO THAT.

We can turn on the lights for our neighbors and family and friends. Help them “see in the darkness” being provided so liberally by Nancy and her co-conspirators who would TAKE POWER FROM THE PEOPLE. Thieves! Yet they give THEMSELVES MORE EARMARKS, AND MORE FREAKIN’ CONTROL OVER our personal and private HEALTH CARE. Nancy and friends are furious at those who think for themselves, and at those who turn up the lights.

THIS GROUP OF PELOSI FANS WOULD ELIMINATE OUR CONSCIENCE IF THEY COULD. THEY CAN BE “UNELECTED” AND STOPPED IN THEIR PURPOSE FILLED HATEFULNESS TOWARD WHAT IS GOOD AND KIND AND RIGHT…LIFE, ITSELF.

STAY STRONG. TAKE HEART. BELIEVE AGAIN IN 2010. CALL THE REPS below in our United States Congress and THANK THEM for thinking OF U.S.!!! 202-224-3121!

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Washington, D.C., Feb 23 -2010

The following Members of the House of Representatives have signed the Declaration of Health Care Independence (as of February 23, 2010):

W. Todd Akin, MO – 01
Steve Austria, OH – 07
Michele Bachmann, MN – 06
Spencer Bachus, AL – 06
J. Gresham Barrett, SC – 03
Roscoe G. Bartlett, MD – 06
Joe Barton, TX – 06
Gus M. Bilirakis, FL – 09
Rob Bishop, UT – 01
Marsha Blackburn, TN – 07
Roy Blunt, MO – 07
Jo Bonner, AL – 01
John Boozman, AR – 03
Charles Boustany, LA – 07
Paul C. Broun, GA – 10
Ginny Brown-Waite, FL – 05
Michael C. Burgess, TX – 26
Dan Burton, IN – 05
John R. Carter, TX – 31
Bill Cassidy, LA – 06
Howard Coble, NC – 06
Mike Coffman, CO – 06
Tom Cole, OK – 04
K. Michael Conaway, TX – 11
Ander Crenshaw, FL – 04
John Abney Culberson, TX – 07
Geoff Davis, KY – 04
Nathan Deal, GA – 09
John J. Duncan, Jr., TN – 02
Mary Fallin, OK – 05
John Fleming, LA – 04
J. Randy Forbes, VA – 04
Trent Franks, AZ – 02
Scott Garrett, NJ – 05
Phil Gingrey, GA – 11
Louie Gohmert, TX – 01
Kay Granger, TX – 12
Sam Graves, MO – 06
Brett Guthrie, KY – 02
Ralph M. Hall, TX – 04
Doc Hastings, WA – 04
Dean Heller, NV – 02
Jeb Hensarling, TX – 05
Peter Hoekstra, MI – 02
Sam Johnson, TX – 03
Steve King, IA – 05
Jack Kingston, GA – 01
John Kline, MN – 02
Doug Lamborn, CO – 05
Robert E. Latta, OH – 05
John Linder, GA – 07
Frank D. Lucas, OK – 03
Blaine Luetkemeyer, MO – 09
Cynthia M. Lummis, WY—At Large
Donald A. Manzullo, IL – 16
Kenny Marchant, TX – 24
Patrick McHenry, NC – 10
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, WA – 5
Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, CA – 25
Candice Miller, MI – 10
Jeff Miller, FL – 01
Jerry Moran, KS – 01
Sue Wilkins Myrick, NC – 09
Randy Neugebauer, TX – 19
Devin Nunes, CA – 21
Pete Olson, TX – 22
Mike Pence, IN – 06
Thomas E. Petri, WI – 06
Joseph R. Pitts, PA – 16
Todd Russell Platts, PA – 19
Bill Posey, FL – 15
Tom Price, GA – 06
Adam Putnam, FL – 12
David G. Reichert, WA – 08
David P. Roe, TN – 01
Mike Rogers, AL – 03
Dana Rohrabacher, CA – 46
Thomas J. Rooney, FL – 16
Steve Scalise, LA – 01
Jean Schmidt, OH – 02
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., WI – 05
John B. Shadegg, AZ – 03
Bill Shuster, PA – 09
Lamar Smith, TX – 21
Mark E. Souder, IN – 03
Cliff Stearns, FL – 06
John Sullivan, OK – 01
Lee Terry, NE – 02
Glenn Thompson, PA – 05
Todd Tiahrt, KS – 04
Patrick Tiberi, OH – 12
Michael Turner, OH – 3
Zach Wamp, TN – 03
Lynn Westmoreland, GA – 03
Joe Wilson, SC – 02
Frank Wolf, VA – 10

THESE ELECTED CONGRESS MEN AND WOMEN ARE ON NANCY’S HIT LIST–THAT DO NOT RE-ELECT LIST. LET’S “DO NOT ELECT NANCY”.

GOT FRIENDS IN SAN FRAN…TELL THEM, “NOT NANCY”. FIND A COMMON MAN OR WOMAN WHO HAS A HEART FOR THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO NANCY DOESN’T COUNT AS SIGNIFICANT.

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What time is it really? When do we pay a 1000 billions back? Every one trillion dollars our socialist influenced, so-called president is borrowing from other countries is called DEBT! Will these countries take land, our land? Has this so-called president borrowed against “Your land and my land” because he wants TO MAKE IT THEIR LAND?

Time out for thinking. Pray. Repent. Ask for God’s help with this Goliath that would overthrow God’s influence in His people in our land, America.

There is a way that seems right but the end is the way of destruction. How can it be right to destroy our elderly, our disabled and our pre-born. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.

There is a real devil WHO USES DEATH FOR his purpose–and he has a plan. There is real death, disease and destruction that needs to be changed into protection for those vulnerable ones in our land, who are in need of our help. The way we treat those we think are inferior to ourselves reveals ourselves.
Watch Nancy with her ‘INFERIORS’. Of course they are not, but she doesn’t know. Reality therapy doesn’t always work.

How did Goliath treat David the Shepherd boy? Answer: With utter disrespect.

Goliath was wrong and David came to him in the power of God–to do right. We will stand strong in the power God has given you to do what Jesus would do, through us.

God is good, all the time. Romans 8. God can make good happen, even through and in spite of evil designs, evil boasts and threats. God turns the tables on evil. If God’s people call and act and speak for those who can’t speak for themselves GOD WILL ANSWER AND HE WILL SAVE MIGHTILY.

WE CAN SOON SAY, “GOOD FOR GOD” AGAIN, AS WE HAVE SO OFTEN. BELIEVE THAT WHERE THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS THERE IS FREEDOM.

“ASK, and you shall receive that your joy may be full.” And don’t forget to thank God for the results. His mercy endures forever. Praise the name above every name…JESUS. He is here and holiness is a health care option….life for life!

Call 202-224-3121:No ObamaCARE! Ask for your US Rep!

Rae — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:19:10 +0000

Old photo of Jesus image on the ‘US Declaration of Independence’.

http://sightlerpublications.com/history/Foundation_Declaration_Independence.htm

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JOHN JAY
First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

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CALL CONGRESS! 202-224-3121 SAY NO TO TAKE OVER OF US RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, VS GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF ALL HEALTH CARE.
District 50A Blog] Take over of 1/6th of US Economy take 2
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Fri, March 5, 2010 10:38:11 AM
From:
Leftfoot Leeds
ObamaCare – Take II – Call Now!
President Obama, standing yesterday in the midst of a bunch of turncoats — er…”white coats” — claimed the government takeover bills had already passed. He said the debate is over.

Not so fast. If he has to actually declare it’s over, it isn’t. He’s using a technique (ad nauseum) to try to make you believe a falsehood is a fact…and to shut down opposition.

President Obama wants the Senate bill passed by the House by March 18, the day he leaves for vacation (isn’t it amazing he’s leaving so early!), or by Congress’ Easter break – Monday, March 29. Then he promises to sign a “fix-the-Senate-bill” bill to please House Democrats. This would be if and only if the fix-it budget bill would be passed by a 51-vote majority under “reconciliation” rules (no 60-vote requirements). BUT, Pelosi does not yet have the votes.

It’s up to freedom-loving Americans to make sure Members go home EMPTY-HANDED! The bill should be buried, not resurrected!

Call Congress every day. Contact YOUR OWN MEMBERS and the 10 Members who have told the Associated Press that they may be willing to switch their previous ‘No” vote to a “Yes” vote:

Brian Baird of Washington – not seeking reelection
Bart Gordon of Tennessee – not seeking reelection
John Tanner of Tennessee – not seeking reelection
Rick Boucher of Virginia
Suzanne Kosmas of Florida
Frank Kratovil of Maryland
Michael McMahon of New York
Walt Minnick of Idaho
Scott Murphy of New York
Glenn Nye of Virginia

Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Ask to be connected to each office you wish to speak to. More contact info at http://www.contactingthecongress.org

ObamaCare threatens freedom, patient lives, rights, pocketbooks and medical ethics – Sign the Declaration of Health Care Independence

Tea Party Patriots seem to be brewing another rally in D.C. and elsewhere. Stay tuned!

Posted by Leftfoot Leeds to District 50A Blog at 3/05/2010 08:38:00 AM
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“Fatal Flaw of Democracies” October 2009 [from Constitution Party of MN ]
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August 25, 2009

“We just can’t afford it!”

Not long ago, every American child heard that, at one time or another, in the home in which he or she was raised.

“We just can’t afford it!” It may have been a new car, or two weeks at the beach, or the new flat-panel TV screen.

Every family knew there were times you had to do without. Every father and mother has had to disappoint their kids with those words. Why is it that what parents do many times a year politicians seem incapable of doing: saying no.

How many times in the last decade have the political leaders of either party stood up and declared, “No, we cannot afford this”?

Consider. Friday, the White House conceded that the deficits over the next 10 years will total $2 trillion more than they had reported just months ago. Instead of $7.1 trillion, we will run $9 trillion in deficits.

Meanwhile, the White House demands a new entitlement — health care coverage for 47 million uninsured who can’t afford it or refuse to buy it — that will cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years. Can we afford this — now?

“We can’t afford not to,” comes the retort. This is “a core ethical and moral obligation,” says Barack Obama.

But is it not a core ethical and moral obligation not to debauch the currency in which most of the hard-earned wealth of the American people is invested? Yet, as Warren Buffett writes in the New York Times, collapse of the dollar and the end of its days as the world’s reserve currency is what we are risking.

Government expenditures are running at 185 percent of revenue, which is like the lone family breadwinner earning $50,000 a year, while the family spends $92,500 a year. With families that do that, it is not too long before the credit cards are cut off, the mortgage is called in and the family Chevy is repossessed.

According to those same White House figures, this year’s deficit will be closer to $1.6 trillion than the $1.8 trillion previously projected. Now, there are only three basic ways to finance that deficit.

The first is by borrowing the savings of one’s own citizens, thus consuming the seed corn of the private economy. The second is by borrowing from abroad. The third is by having the Fed, “through a roundabout process,” writes Buffett, “printing money.”

Assume the Treasury borrows most of the savings of the American people this year, say, $500 billion. Then Uncle Sam is able to persuade Beijing to buy another $500 billion in Treasury bonds. The Fed must still run the printing presses to create another $600 billion.

How long before our Chinese, Japanese and OPEC creditors conclude that the Americans are depreciating their currency, and dump their U.S. Treasury bonds, or demand a higher rate of interest to cover the risks of their dollar-denominated assets sinking in value?

Can anyone believe the dollar can even retain its present diminished purchasing power if we run $9 trillion in deficits over 10 years? How long before producers conclude the same and start to demand more dollars for their goods — and inflation takes off?

As Buffett argues, even when the U.S. economy returns to full employment, the new tax revenue it would throw off cannot close a deficit of that size. One must either slash spending or raise taxes to balance a budget where the feds are spending a fourth of gross domestic product.

But how do we cut spending when the five largest items in the budget — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest on the debt and national defense — are untouchables and growing faster then the 3 percent to 4 percent a year a full-employment economy can manage?

Are we going to cut veterans benefits, spending on our crumbling infrastructure or education, when Obama is promising every kid a college degree? Are we going to cut funds for Afghanistan and Iraq, and risk losing both wars? Are we going to cut foreign aid after Hillary Clinton has been touring Africa telling one and all America is here to stay?

How about cutting funds for food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit? Good luck. How about PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts? Just try it.

Does either party have any plan to cut federal spending from today’s near 28 percent of GDP to the more traditional 21 percent?

George W. Bush didn’t even try, and Obama is making that Great Society Republican president look like Ron Paul.

When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over.

“Remember,” said John Adams, “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

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“Kenyan-born Obama All Set for US Senate”, see 6-27-2004 report–plus Prz Os “current feud” with U.S. Supreme Court.

Rae — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:37:09 +0000

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The East African Standard | Online Edition

[FROM A 2004 NEWS STORY; ON LINE EDITION: IT STATES OBAMA SYMPATHIZES WITH OPPONENT AFTER A CHICAGO JUDGE UNSEALS OPPONENT'S DIVORCE RECORDS--MAKING RYAN LOOK BAD.
H-M-M-M-M-M-M---SO JUDGES CAN UNSEAL SEALED RECORDS IT SEEMS. HOW WOULD THAT WORK FOR SEALED ORIGINAL BIRTH RECORDS AND FOR SEALED COLLEGE RECORDS FOR ANY 'FOREIGN BORN STUDENTS'?]
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Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

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Barrack Obama

“It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race,” Ryan, 44, said in a statement. “What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play.”

Although Ryan disputed the allegations, saying he and his wife went to one ‘avant-garde’ club in Paris and left because they felt uncomfortable, lashed out at the media and said it was “truly outrageous” that the Chicago Tribune got a judge to unseal the records.

“I feel for him actually,” Obama told a Chicago TV station. “What he’s gone through over the last three days I think is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody.
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Somebody is missing something!

“An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.” — Norton vs. Shelby County Source: 118 US 425 p.442

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Roberts: Scene at State of Union ‘very troubling’

NO ONE SHOUTED THAT’S A LIE, TO PRZ Os accusations that the US Supreme Court is letting unions and corporations unduly influence elections…but Samuel Alito mouthed, “NOT TRUE” and shook his head said some present at the actual speech in January 2010.

And Prz O needed to be reprimanded for his poor etiquette. Two GOP legislators took him to task and called him out on his lack of decorum during his own first state of the union speech. Will he apologize? He is a newbie and often needs help knowing when to bow, and when to kow tow, so to speak–but maybe only when he’s on foreign soil and makes a mistake. Well, he said we needed global approval here in the USA, and now his own global approval is lower than ever. It’s down hill and off the hill, hopefully, for this very inexperienced prz, with the big town bullies behind him in Chicagoland…or maybe right beside him in OUR LAND. Keep posted on this one.

Justice Samuel Alito seemed to respond — some said he was shaking his head and appearing to mouth the words “not true”. Obama just keep speaking. But facts are stubborn things.

Justice Antonin Scalia no longer chooses to attend the partisan speech, some remembered.
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Op Ed: Republicans Safe from Tea Party says Brooks

Rae — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:55:17 +0000

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About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution.
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Today, another social movement has arisen. The people we loosely call the Tea Partiers also want to destroy the establishment. They also want to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution.

There are many differences between the New Left and the Tea Partiers. One was on the left, the other is on the right. One was bohemian, the other is bourgeois. One was motivated by war, and the other is motivated by runaway federal spending. One went to Woodstock, the other is more likely to go to Wal-Mart.

But the similarities are more striking than the differences. To start with, the Tea Partiers have adopted the tactics of the New Left. They go in for street theater, mass rallies, marches and extreme statements that are designed to shock polite society out of its stupor. This mimicry is no accident. Dick Armey, one of the spokesmen for the Tea Party movement, recently praised the methods of Saul Alinsky, the leading tactician of the New Left.

These days the same people who are buying Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” on Amazon.com are, according to the company’s software, also buying books like “Liberal Fascism,” “Rules for Conservative Radicals,” “Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left,” and “The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party.” Those last two books were written by David Horowitz, who was a leading New Left polemicist in the 1960s and is now a leading polemicist on the right.

But the core commonality is this: Members of both movements believe in what you might call mass innocence. Both movements are built on the assumption that the people are pure and virtuous and that evil is introduced into society by corrupt elites and rotten authority structures. “Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains,” is how Rousseau put it.

Because of this assumption, members of both movements go in big for conspiracy theories. The ’60s left developed elaborate theories of how world history was being manipulated by shadowy corporatist/imperialist networks — theories that live on in the works of Noam Chomsky. In its short life, the Tea Party movement has developed a dizzying array of conspiracy theories involving the Fed, the F.B.I., the big banks and corporations and black helicopters.

Because of this assumption, members of the Tea Party right, like the members of the New Left, spend a lot of time worrying about being co-opted. They worry that the corrupt forces of the establishment are perpetually trying to infiltrate the purity of their ranks.

Because of this assumption, members of both movements have a problem with authority. Both have a mostly negative agenda: destroy the corrupt structures; defeat the establishment. Like the New Left, the Tea Party movement has no clear set of plans for what to do beyond the golden moment of personal liberation, when the federal leviathan is brought low.

Recently a piece in Salon astutely compared Glenn Beck to Abbie Hoffman. In it, Michael Lind pointed out that the conservatives in the 1960s and 1970s built a counter-establishment — a network of think tanks, activist groups, academic associations and political leaders who would form conservative cadres, promoting conservative ideas and policies.

But the Tea Partiers are closer to the New Left. They don’t seek to form a counter-establishment because they don’t believe in establishments or in authority structures. They believe in the spontaneous uprising of participatory democracy. They believe in mass action and the politics of barricades, not in structure and organization. As one activist put it recently on a Tea Party blog: “We reject the idea that the Tea Party Movement is ‘led’ by anyone other than the millions of average citizens who make it up.”

For this reason, both the New Left and the Tea Party movement are radically anticonservative. Conservatism is built on the idea of original sin — on the assumption of human fallibility and uncertainty. To remedy our fallen condition, conservatives believe in civilization — in social structures, permanent institutions and just authorities, which embody the accumulated wisdom of the ages and structure individual longings.

That idea was rejected in the 1960s by people who put their faith in unrestrained passion and zealotry. The New Left then, like the Tea Partiers now, had a legitimate point about the failure of the ruling class. But they ruined it through their own imprudence, self-righteousness and naïve radicalism. The Tea Partiers will not take over the G.O.P., but it seems as though the ’60s political style will always be with us — first on the left, now the right.
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“Government shall make no law…” The first amendment protects Christians from anti-Christian laws–OR DOES IT?

Rae — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:30:27 +0000

OCEAN GROVE, N.J., September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced on Monday that it was stripping the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of its tax-exempt status for part of its property. The Methodist camp made the news earlier this year after it refused, for religious reasons, to allow a lesbian couple to hold a “civil-union” ceremony at a pavilion on the camp’s property.

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“Two Christian Evangelists Executed in America–Silence is Audible”

Rae — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:40:57 +0000

JOHN JAY
First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

[Jesus Christ is not a threat to good government or good people. He gave sinners hope and had lunch with them. He invited repressed people to come to Him. He didn't threaten those who ignored Him or who refused. Christians do give to Caesar what is Caesar's, but we as Christians will NEVER GIVE TO CAESAR WHAT IS GOD'S. People do not belong to the state, the state belongs to we the people--to we the people created in the image of Almighty God.
We have unalienable human rights--given to us by God, not GOVERNMENT. Remember? IT IS WRITTEN--PAY ATTENTION, OR LOSE LIFE, LIBERTY AND FREEDOM. Waking up WORKS.]
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NEWS ALERT: Street Preachers Killed In United States
Saturday, February 6, 2010 (8:39 am)
By Worthy News North America Service

WASHINGTON, USA (Worthy News)– A religious liberty group warned Saturday, February 6, that “Anti-Christian hostility is getting increasingly deadly” in the United States after two street preachers were shot and killed by a teenager who apparently opposed their message.

“The increasing demonization of Christians in our culture makes some feel its open season on Christians,” said Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission.

Tite Sufra, 24 (pictured above), and Stephen Ocean (pictures below), 23, were shot and killed late Saturday, January 30, in Boynton Beach in the U.S. State of Florida, where they evangelized, after meeting 18-year-old Jeriah Woody, local police said.

“They witnessed to Woody for fifteen minutes when he got a phone call and told the preachers he ‘had to go’, added the Commission, which closely monitored the case.

CHRISTIANS EXECUTED
“As they walked away, Woody suddenly started walking back toward them. Sufra walked up to greet him and was killed with a shot gun blast at point blank range. When Ocean ran, he was shot in the back. After he fell, Woodyshot him in the head execution style.”Stephen Ocean was shot in the street near the Boynton Beach city library.

Woody was detained Wednesday, February 3, and is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Bail was reportedly denied to him.

Cass complained about a lack of interest in national media. “As of today, there are no national news organizations reporting this vicious murder of two innocent Christian men. Why?” Cass said, “I’ll ask this: If two Muslims, or two feminists or two homosexuals were murdered, wouldn’t the media be all over it? These were two fine young black Christian men shot by another black man for their Christian faith, yet the media does not seem to care.”
“OMINOUS SIGN”
He described the case as “an ominous sign” of times “that Christians are being shot on the streets and in our churches.”

Last year Jim Pullion was killed while holding pro-life signs in front of his granddaughter’s Owasso Michigan high school. Reverend Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.

“Increasingly we see Christian ministers threatened and churches terrorized and vandalized for their stand on marriage. Now when Christians gather for worship they must have armed security.”

He said, “Anti-Christian defamation and bigotry has helped to create this violent climate and it must stop.” (With reporting by Worthy News’ Stefan J. Bos).

QUOTATIONS:

“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth… For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.”

Patrick Henry

“It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings. … Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things, which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. … Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry

“If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him…Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
William Penn

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

James Madison

Federal Budget: Fatted America’s Addiction to Fat! [Earmarks, too]

Rae — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:28:09 +0000

Diets are sometimes necessary to keep ‘Stayin’ Alive’. When we get FED UP, WE MAY DECIDE TO EXERCISE OUR RIGHTS. [Sounds like work--exercising our rights...hmmmm. WE COULD!]

The Federal American Pie is cut into irregular pieces. Where do the Feds get the ingredients to make this pie that gets ‘redistributed’ to ‘we the people?

Yes, we do need our National Defense and ROADS. Rails don’t go where we the people go. They’re STAPLED to their own way–stuck. Nothing new. STATIONARY.

We need safe ROADS. Trains take a lot of energy to move a mile down the track and back WITH THREE PEOPLE IN A FIFTY PERSON CAR–CONNECTED TO MORE FIFTY PERSONS CARS ALL IN A ROW. TRAINS–hey THEY DON’T pay for themselves. In Japan they sold the trains.

Trains are CONTROLLED by government gurus with government programs–USING OUR MONEY EVEN THOUGH WE’RE NOT ON THE STUPID TRAIN. WE HAVE OUR OWN 4 person type CAR.
Keeping our buses is a priority. Big buses and little buses can take people right to their own homes, NOT TO THE DEPOT. Buses can be DRIVEN by mere humans with brains–men and women who have driver’s licenses and need jobs. Trains mean government control of the tracks and the connections and the HUGE LOANS to keep the trains moving. WHAT ARE WE THINKING? The bus is US.

People know how many calories we need to live. But with more food options we do grab, we move more foord on our plates. We feel happy chowing down, we get immense– fatter and slower and addicted–and often chronically immobilized by addictions to plain FAT.

Once we the people are over-endowed with fatty tissue we MUST HAVE more calories to keep that EXCESS fatty tissue nourished. Blood vessels traipse into the fatty world, carrying MORE FOOD AND WATER FOR THE FATTY TISSUE. Fact is fat gets packed between our organs and hiding in bulges under our skin. We get advised to keep FED UP FAT in place with ‘government girdles’ and ‘congressional corsets’. Why aren’t our political leaders advising ‘we the people’ to start CONSTITUTIONALLY EXERCISING OUR RIGHTS. Why? Because they’re addicted and they want to be eating at the TROUGH.

We know fat keeps the main man or woman ponderous and slowed–immensely slowed…carrying a heavy load we FED to ourselves. Exercising our rights sounds like WORK.

The truth is diets are sometimes necessary to keep ‘STAYIN ALIVE’–we could “Live it up… and exercise our rights, and put on our running shoes–right after we ungird our state from pork. Let’s release ourselves from feeding at the federal trough.

Or we could stay there nosing in the federal trough, fighting over the scraps our government tosses to MN, gobbling down the remains of our free society, scared to toss the garbage and the ELECTED OFFICIALS. Insanity to shoulder up to the trough with those who have lost their sense of human destiny and freedom–those polluted OFFICIALS.

Who needs ‘em? Let’s empty their trough and eat at home. They’ll look elsewhere for easy eats and stay blubbery, but not on our dime. We did hire them–a dire deal. New idea– FIRE ‘EM.

I’m thinking. They’re making more laws hand over fist. Don’t we have enough laws, already?

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* Budget — Federal
* Tax — Federal

The federal government collects taxes in order to finance various public services. As policymakers weigh key decisions about revenues and expenditures, it is instructive to examine the recent usage of federal tax dollars.

In fiscal year 2008, the federal government spent $3 trillion, amounting to 21 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While 2008 expenditures — as a share of GDP — slightly exceeded those of recent years, they roughly equaled the average for the last three decades. Of that $3 trillion, more than $2.5 trillion was financed by federal tax revenues. The remaining $459 billion was financed by borrowing; this deficit will ultimately be paid for by future taxpayers. (See box on below for the recession’s impact on the budget.) As shown in the graph below, three major areas of spending each made up about one-fifth of the budget:

* Defense and international security: In 2008, some 21 percent of the budget, or $625 billion, went to pay for defense and security-related international activities. The bulk of the spending in this category reflects the underlying costs of the Department of Defense and other security-related activities. The total also includes the cost of supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, for which Congress appropriated approximately $188 billion in 2008 (note that this amount represents funding, not actual spending).
* Social Security: Another 21 percent of the budget, or $617 billion, went to Social Security, which provided retirement benefits averaging $1,041 per month to 35 million retired workers (and their eligible dependents) in September 2008. Social Security also provided survivors’ benefits to 6.4 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers and disability benefits to 9.1 million disabled workers and their eligible in September 2008.
* Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP: Three health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — together accounted for 20 percent of the budget in 2008, or $599 billion. Nearly two-thirds of this amount, or $391 billion, went to Medicare, which provides health coverage to around 45 million people who are over the age of 65 or have disabilities. The remainder of this category funds Medicaid and CHIP, which in a typical month in 2008 provide health care or long-term care to about 55 million low-income children, parents, elderly people, and people with disabilities. Both Medicaid and CHIP require matching payments from the states.

Most of Budget Goes Toward Defense, Social Security, and Major Health Programs

Two other categories each accounted for about one-tenth of federal spending:

* Safety net programs: About 11 percent of the federal budget in 2008, or $313 billion, supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to individuals and families facing hardship.

These programs include: the refundable portion of the earned-income and child tax credits, which assist low- and moderate-income working families through the tax code; programs that provide cash payments to eligible individuals or households, including Supplemental Security Income for the elderly or disabled poor and unemployment insurance; various forms of in-kind assistance for low-income families and individuals, including food stamps, school meals, low-income housing assistance, child-care assistance, and assistance in meeting home energy bills; and various other programs such as those that aid abused and neglected children.

A Center analysis shows that such programs lifted approximately 15 million Americans out of poverty in 2005 and reduced the depth of poverty for another 29 million people.

* Interest on the national debt: The federal government must make regular interest payments on the money it has borrowed to finance past deficits — that is, on the national debt, which reached $5.8 trillion by the end of fiscal 2008. In 2008, these interest payments (net of some interest income) claimed $253 billion, or a little more than 8 percent of the budget.

2009 Budget Outcomes Were Highly Unusual

Due to one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression – and the policies enacted to combat it – 2009 tax and spending levels diverged sharply from recent patterns. Preliminary data show that federal revenues plunged to less than 15 percent of GDP in 2009, the lowest level in decades. The efforts to prevent collapse of the financial system and to deal with the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the automatic expansion of programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps (which always grow during economic downturns to meet rising need), and spending from the February 2009 stimulus package together pushed federal outlays to almost 25 percent of GDP. The deficit reached record levels.

Under current policies, federal spending and revenues will gradually return to more normal levels that resemble fiscal year 2008. It will take the economy several years to fully recover, and during that time federal revenues and expenditures will continue to differ from historical experience.

As the graph shows, the remaining 19 percent of federal spending goes to support a wide variety of other public services. These include providing health care and other benefits to veterans and retirement benefits to retired federal employees, assuring safe food and drugs, protecting the environment, and investing in education, scientific and medical research, and basic infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and airports. A very small slice of this remaining 19 percent — about 1 percent of the total budget — goes for non-security programs that operate internationally, including programs that provide humanitarian aid.

While critics often decry “government spending,” it is important to look behind the rhetoric and determine whether the actual public services that government provides are valuable. To the extent that such services are worth paying for, the only way to do so is ultimately with tax revenue. Consequently, when thinking about the costs that taxes impose, it is essential to balance those costs against the benefits the nation receives from public services.
Appendix

The broad expenditure categories presented in this paper were constructed on the basis of classifications commonly used by budget agencies. The categories are constructed by grouping related programs and activities into broad functions, which are further broken down into subfunctions. The details of how the categories used in this paper were constructed from those functions and subfunctions are described below.

Defense and security: The largest component of the “defense and security” category is the national defense function (050). In addition, this category includes the international security assistance subfunction (152) of the international affairs function.

Social Security: This category consists of all expenditures in the Social Security function (650), including benefits and administrative costs.

Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP: This category consists of the Medicare function (570), including benefits, administrative costs, and premiums, as well as the “Grants to States for Medicaid” account and the “Children’s health insurance fund” account (both in 550).

Safety net programs: This category of programs includes all programs in the income security function (600) except those that fall in the following two subfunctions: federal employees’ retirement and disability (602) and general retirement and disability insurance (601). The latter contains the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation and also covers programs that provide pension and disability benefits to certain small groups of private sector workers.

Interest on debt: This category contains the net interest function (900).

Everything else: This category includes all federal expenditures not included in one of the five categories defined above. The subcomponents of this category that are displayed in the graph are defined as follows:

* Benefits for federal retirees and veterans: This subcategory combines the veterans benefits and services function (700) and the federal employee retirement and disability subfunction (602, which is part of the income security function).
* Education: The education subcategory combines three subfunctions of the education, training, employment, and social services function: elementary, secondary, and vocational education; higher education; and research and general educational aids (subfunctions 501, 502, and 503 respectively).
* Scientific and medical research: This subcategory consists of the general science, space, and technology function (250), the energy function (270), and two subfunctions in the health area: health research and training (subfunction 552) and health care services (subfunction 551), excluding Medicaid and CHIP.Transportation: This subcategory consists of the entire transportation function (400).
* Non-security international: This subcategory consists of the international affairs function (150) except for international security assistance, which is included with defense, above.
* All other: This subcategory consists of all other federal expenditures.

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THIS IS AMERICA–WE CAN HAVE OUR OWN CLUNKER OR TOYOTA–that may have been redundant…but we get it, we got it. So we don’t need trains draining our money from our pockets, directly or indirectly. We need wheels.

It takes less time to save our dime each time we think and believe again in our own THOUGHTS. What if we the people are really right on?

Now to get US on the ballot and vote for US–while the ballot box is secret. {Except in Fridley? Who said Fridley is into hankey pankey at the ballot box in two precincts? Poll watchers–be alert. Let’s see. Send in more poll watchers! Send in new election judges when there are questions–strong citizens who stare down the illegal voters messing with our outcomes in every city.}

Call a meeting and make a photo ID the ONLY way to vote. Freedom can take our picture. WE are keeping that picture ready to prove we are registered as American citizens–face by face. Face up to it. Only US gets to vote. Keep it that way–voting is just for US CITIZENS–justly so–AND our other name is TAX PAYER. We INSIST ON DOING CPR AND BEING REPRESENTED WHERE OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IS ‘HEMORRHAGING’ MONEY.
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YOU PHONE THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT TO DO–HA HA, THEY REALLY DON’T WANT TO CALL YOU AND THEY MAY HANG UP IF YOU CALL THEM. SO FIRE THEM!

Some American Leader’s Disease–Osteoporosis of the Back Bone! [What would Reagan do–what did Australia’s P.M. do? What would America’s ‘Tea Party’ do? Sharia Law, not welcome in America, either–nor is any law that compromises our country’s constitution and foundations.

Rae — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:03:24 +0000

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http://www.pjtv.com/video/Sharia_and_Jihad/The_Islamic_Infiltration%2C_Part_1%3A_Inside_Our_Govern

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QUESTION: IS AMERICAN LAW WORKING FOR US WHEN WE LET FOREIGN LAW HAVE ITS WAY HERE? WHAT DID AUSTRALIA SAY TO SHARIA LAW? See below: “Use Australian freedom to LEAVE!” Do some American leaders have osteoporosis of the back bone? It is a slow disease, and comes from the inside to weaken the whole body.

On the other hand, many immigrants have fled from Sharia Law, and certainly not to rewrite it into American law. We must be very SURE OF THAT, however. U.S. freedoms still call [and welcome] the world’s repressed and disenfranchised to “our city on a hill–America the Beautiful and the Free because of the Brave”. And yes America is strong when America wills to be good. America is a Christian nation–we may have given Australia a few ideas at a time when we had some spine. It is because of goodness and mercy that America welcomes the repressed–and some decide after getting “unrepressed” to try to change our American way of life!

Together with Austrailia, let’s say it OUTLOUD. “This is my country with freedom for all–including freedom to leave if you hate our faith, our flag, our culture of life, liberty and happiness…YOU have freedom to leave us and the happy land we love. May the Star Spangled Banner in Freedom still wave o’er the LAND OF THE FREE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.

Stay strong, take heart. Believe again in the American dream based on a firm foundation of God and our Christian faith, family–one man one woman equal and married, and country ruled by those who love their country and will defend it against all odds.

And we speak English here, American English to be specific. And to those wanting to be Americans, too–and become citizens, I will firmly state, “Learn your new country’s language”. My own family when immigrating DID THAT, purposefully and effectively.

United with a common language we CAN COMMUNICATE, stand tall and strong and ready–ready to better be understood and to understand one another. Also, to legal immigrants, “Welcome to the neighborhood! ###
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Disciples’ University, Taiwan

Via Cath News Asia:

Taiwan’s Tai Chung diocese has inaugurated a “Disciples University,” creating a new channel for the evangelization formation and charitable services on the Internet.

These initiatives represent the fulfillment of several main points mentioned by a diocesan Congress on Evangelization and Pastoral Ministry, Fides reports.

Among the subjects to be pursued are the following: vocational and priestly formation, economic development, parochial events, social care, the pastoral care of new immigrants and foreign faithful, family and marriage, culture, and education.

Local Bishop Martin Su Yao Wen said that “the university seeks to take advantage of new technologies to the maximum, i.e. the web, to launch the faith formation, helping even non-Christians to find the treasure of faith on the web”.

According to Disciples University coordinator, Fr Joseph Huang, “the choice of the name of the University was motivated by a desire to encourage every believer to be a disciple of the Lord, to always ‘recharge’ our spiritual life so as to be able to assume the mission that Jesus has entrusted to us: the evangelization of all peoples.”
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Jesus “The Living and Personal Gospel”
‘With conversion, instead, we aim for the high standard of Christian life, we entrust ourselves to the living and personal Gospel, which is Jesus. He is the path we all are called to follow in life, allowing ourselves to be enlightened by His light and supported by His strength that moves our feet. Conversion is not simply a moral decision that corrects the way we live, but it is a choice of faith that draws us fully into intimate communion with the living and concrete person of Jesus.

“His person is the final goal, He is the deepest meaning of conversion.’

Pope Benedict, General Audience, Ash Wednesday, 2010

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Techniques of US investigation of terrorism is BEING BROUGHT TO ISLAM FRONT ORGANIZATIONS to make sure AN INVESTIGATED FOLLOWER OF ISLAM does not get his feelings hurt.
FBI “Care” trains them the investigators. Do you know what ‘CARE’ is? Look that up. Training is given by ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ group that is apparently outlawed in Egypt. [See Wikipedia FYI.]

“How on God’s green earth did this happen?” Hundreds of Muslim front groups, right here with rights protected for ‘Sharia Law’ using U.S. laws and courts?

For example, one of the first organizations was the Muslim Student Associations in our Universities; MSA–1963, recruiting–connected 100% to a larger group, to establish the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda here in the USA.

Recently young men from the USA were recruited to provide bodies to carry bombs. Muslim parents wondered where their sons went. It wasn’t long before some young men died.
Pay attention citizens. Kidnapping is a crime in America–and that is THE LAW OF THE LAND.

REMINDER, MN IS 13TH AS A DESTINATION FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ENSLAVED THROUGH HUMAN SLAVE TRADERS, BUYING AND SELLING SOULS, TRAFICKING FOR SEXUAL ENTERTAINMENT THAT OFTEN ENDS UP VERY BADLY FOR THE HUMAN BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD. They’re promised American freedom, and become pawns of the ’slave traders’ with fraudulent enterprises. MINNESOTANS ARE NOT FRIENDLY TO SLAVE TRADERS. Capitalism has ‘rule of law’, and enslavement is not a legitimate business enterprise in MN.

“It is more effective to erode the U.S. system from within than to attack it from outside,” say these who would destroy us. Are you paying attention, America? Our FBI is being trained to be nice to the very groups it must investigate. Really now, to be nice to those who would destroy and overthrow us is not a laughing matter. Are we really that naive? Remember who is President–he’s being handled by those who like to keep him talking while they’re stalking us on our own soil.

Remember the Trojan Horse of old? Every new immigrant carries his past with him to replicate or to learn from. It is up to Americans to include him/her in new ways of a BETTER LIFE. There is liberty here and justice for all of us–NOT ONLY THE NEW IMMIGRANT–for ALL of us. If he refuses to live freely and covertly or blatantly tries to destroy our lives, our liberty, our fortunes and our sacred honor by being here–we could compose an American amendment to our constitution that includes actually buying him a ticket OUT– freeing him to leave–it could save us lives and money and protect our freedom for ALL OF US in the long run! There is a way OUT OF AMERICA, THERE IS A WAY TO GET AWAY FROM AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL–JUST BUY A TICKET, or walk over the border. It’s “that-a-way”.

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STATEMENT FROM RNC CHAIRMAN MICHAEL STEELE ON PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN’S 99th BIRTHDAY

WASHINGTON – Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele issued the following statement and released a web video to honor the observance of President Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday. The web video, entitled “A Shining City Upon A Hill”, can be viewed here: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaI1bDc7sNw).

“Today, I am pleased to honor the 99th birthday of President Ronald Reagan. Through his commitment to freedom, leadership and hard work, President Reagan spent his life serving our nation and the public good. Ronald Reagan’s accomplishments for our country are endless, and his unwavering commitment to the conservative principles is what enabled him to achieve so much. As we remember our former president on this special day, we should take time to learn from his example and remind ourselves and the nation that anything is possible for this country.”

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Research continues on what to do with greedy and arrogant immigrants, mismanaging our freedoms, determined to over throw America the Beautiful. Say it, believe it. THERE IS GREAT BEAUTY IN LIBERTY AND IN BEING BORN FREE. Every ‘newbie’ will either love it, or should be empowered to leave this land where freedom is growing–not being stopped and stymied by some fake forms of political correctness. We know political correctness! Its written in our hearts and on our documents that demand OUR ATTENTION once again! We are a light to raise the hopes of the children of the world–we have the energy and the enthusiasm to illuminate GLOBAL DARKNESS and to bring in to this culture of life those who have been enslaved, tortured, disenfranchised, imprisoned and whose freedom, family and money have been taken away under threat of more terroristic activities. Send us the poor and the unwanted souls who want to live freely–they will expand the American dream and become securely established. Many of these immigrants, with the dream of freedom driving them, are becoming very good neighbors and close friends–and BEING THEMSELVES. There are those honest and effective citizens who give back in ways too numerous to list here. We know them, and we love the fabric of their lives. They include others and others include them–love is an international value, and every human knows love is much stronger than FEAR! In fact God has not made us timid and fearful. Rather God emboldens us with love and gives us a mindset of love and compassion. Incidently, that boldness includes God creating a spine bone and the right to SELF-DEFENSE. ###
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Prime Minister John Howardd and Kevin Ruud express loyalty to their faith their flag their pathway and their own culture – Australia speaks out–tells it like it is–and how it could be!
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Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..
Separately, Rudd angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques. Quote:
‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. ‘
‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’
‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!’
‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’
‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’
‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, ‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.’
‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’
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Maybe if we circulate this amongst ourselves, WE will find the courage to start speaking and voicing the same truths.

[Christians who stand for nothing fall for anything.]

http://www.timesexaminer.com/content/view/84/50/

Tampa editorial

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/beamerican.html

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Never in America? Wake up Americans. Citizens, speak UP.

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We look up to one whose family immigrated from Ireland. Many of his Irish relatives were buried in pauper’s graves. We must be aware of the human potential in a poor immigrant says Ronald Reagan, speaking in Ireland with Nancy, to an Irish audience. “One of these could become Prime Minister of Ireland or President of the United States.” God bless and multiply the wisdom of this honest man, always being himself, always loving his neighbors–even while condemning the walls that some of the ‘international neighbors’ had built to keep people in and freedom out. When you see an ‘evil empire’, know what’s wrong with it and SAY SO CLEARLY to MOTIVATE OTHERS to find the courage and competence to overthrow it…and may God speed them in doing so. Today, February 14th–for the love of freedom and humanity–think Iran and North Korea and countries enslaved by Sharia Law, as well.
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Americans remember and celebrate Ronald Reagan on his 99th birthday. RIP!
___________________________________________________________________________A Political firestorm is inevitable as the Tea Party is quietly targeted for capture!

“The Tea Party is an inspired movement of like minded Patriots, not the actions of one person, but countless Patriots acting as one. I am deeply concerned the Tea Party is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.”

I am sending an alarm to the Tea Party membership! Be alert to turncoats and deceivers being herded into the Tea Party by usurpers from the weakened Republican Party for the sole purpose of capturing our populist movement. Our political ideals were once theirs and our immense growth has created a lusting for their good old days!

Sarah Palin’s well delivered speech and her attractive demeanor is little more than a veneer for her less attractive political philosophy. She seems more like a duck out of water among true Conservative Constitutionalists. Palin demonstrates her NeoCon flippant viewpoint and her naïveté as she seems envious of the swelled numbers of Patriots pledging their allegiance, to of all things, AMERICA and not to a kool-aid ridden political dinosaur.

What Republican wouldn’t want 10 million angry voters marching in the streets shouting, God Bless The Republican Party, where a few months before the same voices sang, God Bless America!

Sarah Palin is not dense or erroneous in her view of the Tea Party, just the opposite. She represents a growing insider’s attack to the heart of the Tea Party. Very much like a wolf in sheep’s clothing entering in at the gate as an ally, but for all intents and purposes there to seize and capture, not only one or two stray sheep, but the whole flock!

Instead of the Republican Party endeavoring to return to what made them great, it appears they are trying to take the low road, by attempting to commandeer someone else’s dream, the American dream forged by blood sweat and tears. Is the Faith of the Tea Party being replaced by folly and our Patriotism being replaced by Party-ism?

However, what the Republicans can not fathom is the inspiration of the Tea Party, a simple common thread, one which is missing from the fabric of their political wardrobe.

The common thread running the length and breadth of this movement is a Common Sense Constitutional Conservative approach to self-governance. However, danger is magnified simply because of the spontaneous nature of the Tea Party. The Tea Party, by some, is viewed as easy prey for the filling of their donation coffers and vote gathering machines. The only divisive aspect of the Tea Party is to be rid of the political machine that erodes the fabric of our Patriotic soul.

When Patriots zeal is bursting out at the seams, caution is often overlooked and a politically lackadaisical attitude creeps in. Such is the emerging case with recent events by those who declare themselves as the Tea Party privileged, but who in reality are nothing more than kool-aid drinking Republicans in Sheep’s clothing.

Many Tea Party members are concerned with the complicity of Big Business and Big Government, Wall Street Bail-outs and Mortgage Mogul sweet-heart deals. My concern grows as I observe the open and deliberate adulteration of the U.S. Constitution by those who proudly boast their allegiance to ‘Party’ principles. The difference is startling, the Tea Party places restoring the Republic and returning America to common sense government as our core platform.

However, what I am witnessing is an attempted defilement of the concept of what the Tea Party’s purposes are and where we are going. The bastardization of our message I find bilious and disingenuous on its face.

Tea Party members are being eyed as just another piece of voting meat. Tea Party members are targeted for filling the rank and file of minion laden political operations, most of which are lead by failed Republican hacks.

Some are saying NO Way! Yet, who is objecting to high ranking Republicans trying to grab the Tea Party and call it their own? Do I hear voices shouting NO, NO Stop! This is our party?

Has the Tea Party become so impotent that we can not see how millions of Tea Party members are being lead down a slippery slope into the abyss of political complacency?

Are the ears being trained to adore the mindless blither which drools from the sweet tongues of the politically anointed?

Has the Tea Party reached its zenith? Was all of our work, hope and fire expended to only stop Obama-Care? Has our message become so contaminated and ineffective as to be mistaken for the same old political clap-trap vomited from the kool-aid drinking mouths of the Republican elite? Shall the Tea Party be lead down the primrose path of numb contentment like so many other movements and organizations have been over the years?

I can see the possible evisceration of the Tea Party by recent shifts in ideology. For example: Would the Tea Party knowingly endorse a candidate who believes in Amnesty masquerading as a “pathway to citizenship”?

Of course not! However, it is being considered!

What shall we do next? Turn a blind eye to the 20 million or more illegal aliens who demand citizenship because they believe they have earned it by nefariously entering our beloved nation and who continue to break the law by staying here?

The Republican elite say “Yes to amnesty!” But, I believe the Tea Party will not reward law breakers, especially with our most sacred commodity – ‘Citizenship in our beloved nation.’

Yet, Sarah Palin says, “Yes we can!” Proving my point is her endorsement of Open-Borders McCain. Why would any Tea Party member “want to be” on the same side of Obama-Amnesty?

Point well taken.

Has the Tea Party forgotten the tax hikes poised and ready to crush the American people? How can we fail to remember the unrelenting line of gun grabbing legislation continually snaking its way through Congress?

Yet, where is the outrage?

Is the fire of the Tea Party quenched because the members have heard a pleasing speech and seen a pretty face? Is the Tea Party merely made-of cardboard signs and baseball caps?

I say NO and HELL NO! We are non-negotiable in our stand against dumbed down politics spun by deadhead Republican political hacks dreaming of emasculating the greatest thing going since 1773.

I say NO and HELL NO! We are non-negotiable in our stand for protecting jobs!

Yet, High ranking Republicans, including Sarah Palin endorse Governor Rick Perry knowing full well he was instrumental in the creation of the Transnational Corridor fiasco. A government plan which would have ripped through the heartland of America, destroying domestic jobs and wrenching family owned farms from the hands of families who have worked those farms for generations.

The infusion of ANY formal political party into the Tea Party movement will corrupt the very fiber of what the Tea Party is and what we stand for. The need for fresh voters and fresh blood is no less a drug to certain Republican ‘NeoCons’ than crack is to an addict.

Don’t get me wrong, many of the Tea Party members are registered Republicans who were disillusioned by the failure of their party to hold to time tested conservative principles. They won’t be so easily convinced to return to a failed party simply because of a new paint job and a fresh covering of veneer.

The ongoing attempt of a stealth and silent seizure begins to take shape, begging a burning question: Does the Tea Party still resemble the one I envisioned years ago?

I witnessed the exhilaration of millions of people speaking out about the collapse of our financial system and the subversion of power was a catalyst for our protest. These same members, for once in their lives, felt they had ownership in their beloved nation.

The Tea Party is famous as a movement of ragtag, unorganized independent, politically hungry libertarian style Patriots holding fast to a Conservative belief in America. The Tea Party is something fresh, unique and alive.

Did our march on Washington with over 1 million strong, Town Hall meetings in major cities and millions of Pink Slips with tens of Millions of Tea Bags, countless E-mails, and phone calls to our elected Representatives mean nothing?

Shall the Tea Party slide into the abyss of political boredom?

I say NO! and HELL NO! The Tea Party must cling to our Common Sense – Constitutional Conservative approach to Self-Governance, making everything else non- negotiable!

Shall we go silently into the night or stand and fight?

Therefore, I am calling on all Tea Party members to cling fast to our core beliefs and tell the world: What we believe is non-negotiable.

What are the Tea Party Non-negotiable core beliefs?

Special Interests Need to be Neutralized
Political Office available for Average Citizens
Illegal Aliens are illegal.

Pro-Domestic Employment is indispensable.

Stronger Military is essential.

Gun ownership is sacred.

Government must be downsized.

National Budget must be balanced.

Deficit Spending will end.

Bail-out and Stimulus Plans are illegal.

Reduce Personal Income Taxes a must.

Reduce Business Income Taxes is mandatory.

Intrusive Government Stopped.

English only is required.

Traditional Family Values are encouraged.

Common Sense Constitutional Conservative Self-Governance is our mode of operation.

….and Yes, we are a Christian Nation!

The Tea Party must stay independent or we shall die.

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Dale Robertson is a family man living in Texas with his wife and five children. He is a retired military officer having served in the Marines and the Navy. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Washington in Political Science, as well as an Associates Degree in Engineering from Southwest College. Dale Robertson is volunteering full-time for the Tea Party. www.TeaParty.org

Early in my college years I dreamed of a political vehicle which could divert America from the destructive path it was on, to a path of common sense with a Constitutional Conservative approach to self-governance.

I found such a vehicle in the original intent of the 1773 Tea Party. In 2004 www.teaparty.org was created and I used that site to announce my one man protests in Washington. I incorporated my dream, filed paperwork for the name “Tea Party” and did everything I could to push the idea of a new American revolution, not of war, but of will, the will of the people.

I’ve walked the same path of many Tea Party members who have lost a job, a home and watched their nest egg vanish. I could not turn my back on my nation. I decided enough was enough and pursued my desire in making our voices heard by creating a new voice for the American people. As if by Divine design, many other Patriots were also inspired to push aside their personal interests by creating their own political Tea Party voice echoing the founding precepts of the original 1773 Tea Party.

“To discover the strength of tea it must be steeped in hot water, for it is the hot water which makes us strong. We must not allow our passion become lukewarm.”

Dale Robertson

President/Founder TeaParty.org
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NOAH WEBSTER (1832)

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a [our] government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes; Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws.”

FEATURED COMMENTARY:

Americans Must Free Themselves From A Two Party Death Grip

by Chuck Baldwin

It’s time to say it: the two major parties hold a death grip on the American people! Instead of representing the people, both parties are bought and paid for by special interest groups. Neither party pays any attention to the U.S. Constitution but are largely marching in lock-step toward bigger and bigger government. Both Republicans and Democrats eagerly sacrifice what’s good for the country with what’s good for the party. As they now exist, neither major party deserves the support of patriotic Americans.

Furthermore, blind allegiance to the two major parties has created a “lesser of two evils” mindset that has warped the thinking and perverted the values of otherwise good people. What people would never accept in any other venue of society, they gladly and willingly accept from their chosen party’s candidates.

People expect honesty and integrity from clergymen, bankers, doctors, businessmen, realtors, even journalists and used car salesmen. Those same people, however, quickly tolerate and even excuse dishonesty and chicanery from their chosen political party.

Consider the excuse conservatives give for President Bush’s recent announcement that he supports the Clinton gun ban. Rather than holding Bush accountable for his inexcusable statement, they rush to his defense by saying, “Bush is just saying this to placate moderates. He doesn’t really mean it.” What they don’t stop to consider is that if they are correct, G.W. Bush is a liar!

It is clear, therefore, that conservatives are more than willing to support and defend someone they believe to be deliberately lying. In other words, it doesn’t matter to them whether Bush tells the truth or not. He has an “R” behind his name and, therefore, they will support him.

However, the same people who will justify dishonesty in the lives of their favored party’s politicians would never accept such conduct from anyone else. Furthermore, many of these conservatives actually call themselves Christians; many are preachers. They preach and teach the virtues of honesty and integrity. What is even more amazing is that they find no inconsistency with what they are doing!
In his Farewell Address, our first and greatest President, George Washington, loquaciously lobbied the American people to guard against over-infatuation with political parties. Anyone reading his warnings today will be impressed with his insight and sagacity. Virtually everything he predicted has come to pass. Blind loyalty to political parties has corrupted our public institutions, blinded the hearts and minds of the American people, and opened wide the door to undue foreign influence.

If everyone who believes and teaches honesty and accountability would put it into practice when they walk into the voting booth, we could put a stop to this pathetic practice of electing dishonest and despicable people to high public office. Instead of hiding their own character and integrity under the bushel basket of party partisanship, voters could be proud of the fact that are actually helping to set the ship of state aright by helping to elect men and women of honesty and character!

Though I do not share this opinion, many people believe Abraham Lincoln to be one of America’s greatest presidents. Personal opinion aside, it is a fact that Lincoln’s election and subsequent influence upon this country was huge. Therefore, it is more than significant to realize that Lincoln was first elected from a four- person ticket with less than 40% of the vote! So much for the importance of receiving a majority vote.

In practically every presidential election, there are candidates from a variety of independent or “third” parties on the ballot. To ignore them merely because they are not Republicans or Democrats is absurd! If a worthy candidate cannot be found within the two major parties (and they are becoming increasingly harder to find), voters should look to alternative parties.

Remember, the object is to elect honest and honorable leaders for our country, not to promote and protect the private agendas of the fat cats who control the two major parties.

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More “TEA”; Plus Jesus’ picture seen on U.S. document: The Declaration of Independence in NY Times Article

Rae — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:07:31 +0000

“The Sovereign People of TEXAS, obviously living inside the borders of the USA, are reading US History”. They will be ‘TEA-ching’ original U.S. History TO ‘THE Children’ “!

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html

The Texas Education Association realized early on that they needed to ‘do it for the children’. In a review of current public school textbooks it was noted that the faith of our Founding Fathers, and our documents based on the Christian faith were being obscured, to put it politely. To put it more succinctly the early building blocks of American society were being ignored by forces that wanted early parts of U.S. history diluted or forgotten–skewed, twisted, minimized, or just plain eliminated. Never in Texas!

Now 46 or 47 U.S. states are influenced by some truth coming from Texas. Lesson learned: Don’t mess with the sovereign people of Texas when the minds of their children are ‘remaining blank slates’. The ‘tabula rasa’ effect is being addressed and discussed. The beginnings of America are considered worth remembering and have been recorded. Let the children know! “Don’t mess with TX”–that still works!

“The Enemy…” have fun with negative numbers–or not!

Rae — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:14:16 +0000

February 14, 2010, 5:30 pm
The Enemy of My Enemy [...is my friend!]
By STEVEN STROGATZ

Steven StrogatzSteven Strogatz on math, from basic to baffling.
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multiplication, negatives, numbers, relationships, subtraction, World War I

It’s traditional to teach kids subtraction right after addition. That makes sense — the same facts about numbers get used in both, though in reverse. And the black art of “borrowing,” so crucial to successful subtraction, is only a little more baroque than that of “carrying,” its counterpart for addition. If you can cope with calculating 23 + 9, you’ll be ready for 23 – 9 soon enough.
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At a deeper level, however, subtraction raises a much more disturbing issue, one that never arises with addition. Subtraction can generate negative numbers. If I try to take 6 cookies away from you but you only have 2, I can’t do it — except in my mind, where you now have negative 4 cookies, whatever that means.

Subtraction forces us to expand our conception of what numbers are. Negative numbers are a lot more abstract than positive numbers — you can’t see negative 4 cookies and certainly can’t eat them — but you can think about them, and you have to, in all aspects of daily life, from debts and overdrafts to contending with freezing temperatures and parking garages.

Still, many of us haven’t quite made peace with negative numbers. As my colleague Andy Ruina has pointed out, people have concocted all sorts of funny little mental strategies to sidestep the dreaded negative sign. On mutual fund statements, losses (negative numbers) are printed in red or nestled in parentheses, without a negative sign to be found. The history books tell us that Julius Caesar was born in 100 B.C., not –100. The subterranean levels in a parking garage often have names like B1 and B2. Temperatures are one of the few exceptions: folks do say, especially here in Ithaca, that it’s –5 degrees outside, though even then, many prefer to say 5 below zero. There’s something about that negative sign that just looks so unpleasant, so … negative.

Perhaps the most unsettling thing is that a negative times a negative is a positive. So let me try to explain the thinking behind it.

How should we define something like –1 × 3, where we’re multiplying a negative number by a positive number? Well, just as 1 × 3 means 1 + 1 + 1, the natural definition for –1 × 3 is (–1) + (–1) + (–1), which equals –3. This should be obvious in terms of money: if you owe me $1 a week, after three weeks you’re $3 in the hole.

From there it’s a short hop to see why a negative times a negative should be a positive. Take a look at the following string of equations:

–1 × 3 = –3

–1 × 2 = –2

–1 × 1 = –1

–1 × 0 = 0

–1 × –1 = ?

Now look at the numbers on the far right and notice their orderly progression:

–3, –2, –1, 0, ?

At each step, we’re adding 1 to the number before it. So wouldn’t you agree the next number should logically be 1?

That’s one argument for why (–1) × (–1) = 1. The appeal of this definition is that it preserves the rules of ordinary arithmetic; what works for positive numbers also works for negative numbers.

But if you’re a hard-boiled pragmatist, you may be wondering if these abstractions have any parallels in the real world. Admittedly, life sometimes seems to play by different rules. In conventional morality, two wrongs don’t make a right. Likewise, double negatives don’t always amount to positives; they can make negatives more intense, as in “I can’t get no satisfaction.” (Actually, languages can be very tricky in this respect. The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”)

Still, there are plenty of cases where the real world does mirror the rules of negative numbers. When a nerve cell inhibits the firing of another that in turn inhibits a third, the indirect action of the first cell on the third is tantamount to excitation; a chain of two negatives makes a positive. Similar effects occur in gene regulation: a protein can turn a gene on by blocking another molecule that was repressing that stretch of DNA.

Perhaps the most familiar parallel occurs in the social and political realms, as summed up by the adage, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This truism, and related ones about the friend of my enemy, and so on, can be depicted in relationship triangles.

The corners signify people, companies or countries, and the sides connecting them signify their relationships, which can be positive (friendly, shown here as solid lines) or negative (hostile, shown as dashed lines).
balanced triangles

Social scientists refer to triangles like the one on the left, with all sides positive, as “balanced” — there’s no reason for anyone to change how they feel, since it’s reasonable to like your friend’s friends. Similarly, the triangle on the right, with two negatives and a positive, is considered balanced because it causes no dissonance; even though it allows for hostility, nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

Of course triangles can also be unbalanced. When three mutual enemies size up the situation, two of them — often the two with the least animosity — may be tempted to join forces and gang up on the third.

Even more unbalanced is a triangle with a single negative relationship. For instance, suppose Carol is friendly with both Alice and Bob, but Bob and Alice despise each other. Perhaps they were once a couple but have now suffered a nasty break-up, and each is badmouthing the other to ever-loyal Carol. This causes psychological stress all around. To restore balance, either Alice and Bob have to reconcile, or Carol has to choose a side.
unbalanced triange

Leaving aside the verisimilitude of the model, there are interesting questions here of a purely mathematical flavor. For example, in a close-knit network where everyone knows everyone, what’s the most stable state? One possibility is a nirvana of goodwill, where all relationships are positive and all triangles are balanced. But surprisingly, there are other states that are equally stable. These are states of intractable conflict, with the network split into two hostile factions. All members of a given faction are friendly with one another, but antagonistic toward everybody in the other faction. (Sound familiar?) Perhaps even more surprisingly, these polarized states are the only states as stable as nirvana. In particular, no three-party split can have all its triangles balanced.

Scholars have used these ideas, for example, to analyze the run-up to World War I. The diagram below shows the shifting alliances among Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary between 1872 and 1907.
European alliances

The first five configurations were all unbalanced, in the sense that they each contained at least one unbalanced triangle. The resultant dissonance tended to push these nations to realign themselves, triggering reverberations elsewhere in the network. In the final stage, Europe had split into two implacably opposed blocs — technically “balanced” but on the brink of war.

The point is not that this theory is powerfully predictive. It isn’t. It’s too simple to account for all the subtleties of geopolitical dynamics. The point is that some part of what we observe is due to nothing more than the primitive logic of “the enemy of my enemy,” and this part is captured perfectly by the multiplication of negative numbers. By sifting the generic from the meaningful, the arithmetic of negative numbers can help us see where the real puzzles lie.

NOTES:

For more of Sidney Morgenbesser’s witticisms and academic one-liners, see the sampling here.

Balance theory was first proposed by the social psychologist Fritz Heider, and has since been developed and applied by social network theorists, political scientists, anthropologists, mathematicians and physicists. For the original formulation, see:

F. Heider, Journal of Psychology, Vol. 21 (1946), p.107;

F. Heider, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (John Wiley and Sons, 1958).

For a review of balance theory from a social network perspective, see:

S. Wasserman and K. Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge University Press, 1994), chapter 6.

The theorem that a balanced state in a fully connected network consists of either a nirvana of all friends, or two mutually antagonistic factions, was first proven in:

D. Cartwright and F. Harary, Psychological Review, Vol. 63 (1956), p.277.

A very readable version of that proof, and a gentle introduction to the mathematics of balance theory, has been given by two of my colleagues at Cornell:

D. Easley and J. Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

In much of the early work on balance theory, a triangle of three mutual enemies (and hence three negative sides) was considered unbalanced. I assumed this implicitly when quoting the results about nirvana and the two-bloc state as being the only configurations of a fully connected network in which all triangles are balanced. However, some researchers have challenged this assumption, and have explored the implications of treating a triangle of three negatives as balanced. For more on this and other generalizations of balance theory, see the books by Wasserman and Faust and by Easley and Kleinberg, cited above.

The example and graphical depiction of the shifting alliances before World War I are from:

T. Antal, P.L. Krapivsky and S. Redner, Physica D 224 (2006), p.130, available online here and here.

This paper, written by three statistical physicists, is notable for recasting balance theory in a dynamic framework, thus extending it beyond the earlier static approaches.

For the historical details of the European alliances, see:

W.L. Langer, European Alliances and Alignments, 1871-1890, 2nd ed. (Knopf, 1956);

B.E. Schmitt, Triple Alliance and Triple Entente (Henry Holt and Company, 1934).

Thanks to Carole Schiffman, Andy Ruina and Jon Kleinberg for their comments and suggestions, and to Margaret Nelson for preparing the illustrations.

[See article for illustrations.]

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