Independance day! Tea Party Registers as Florida Political Party

It seems that speculative "TEA PARTY" that out polls (read one here) the GOP/DNC Party is now a reality!

Better save that old party memorabilia- it's about to become collectors items!

Tea Party Registers as Florida Political Party

Contact: Frederic O’Neal (407) 719-6796
(Orlando) - Florida has a new political party joining the political fray – The Tea Party (TEA).
The Florida Secretary of State has certified the TEA Party as an official political party, joining the Democrat and Republican Party’s in providing alternatives to Florida voters.
Building on the incredible success of Conservative/Tea Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the recent New York 23rd Congressional race, the TEA Party will be offering similar quality candidates in various Florida contests.
“Over the past year or more, we have seen a growing disenchantment with the existing two-party system. The current system has become mired in the sludge of special interest money that seeks to control the leadership of both parties. It’s time for real change,” stated Orlando attorney Frederic O’Neal, founder and Chairman of the TEA Party.
The TEA Party is currently interviewing potential candidates for various statewide positions, including the United States Congress; the Florida House and Senate as well as local positions.
“So many people have cried out for a real choice in the political arena, The TEA Party will help provide taxpayers the opportunity to compare and contrast with candidates from other parties. It’s no more ‘business as usual’ in Florida, now there will a choice,” O’Neal concluded.
The TEA Party will be launching its website www.FloridaTeaParty.us within the next several weeks.
Individuals interested in joining the TEA Party or seeking the TEA Party nomination for the 2010 elections should contact Chairman O’Neal at (407) 719-6796.

Sent in by email: A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts…

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said, "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.

And I will be here 'till dawns early light.
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.”
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
“I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

"PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people
stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us".

Attributed to:
LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq

Michelle Bachmann on Barney Frank's attempt to take over the Finacial Industry

Folks,

Barney Frank is moving legislation out of left field right now that will secure the entire Financial industry under the control of the Federal Government.  If you consider that the Health Care Bill will reduce us to rationing for health care how do like the idea of having your personal or business credit lines rationed?  Would you be between the proverbial rock and hard place? Might you change your mind to accommodate the new world order?

Consider this:
President Obama has amended Reagan's Executive order 12425 of 6/16/83 to allow for an international police force to operate above the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. 

Report from the Examiner.com:
"Through EO 12425, President Reagan extended to INTERPOL recognition as an "International Organization." In short, the privileges and immunities afforded foreign diplomats was extended to INTERPOL. Two sets of important privileges and immunities were withheld: Section 2(c) (presented in full text above), and the remaining sections cited (all of which deal with differing taxes).

    And then comes December 17, 2009, and President Obama. The exemptions in EO 12425 were removed:

        By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

    What does this mean? It means that we have an international police force authorized to act within the United States that is no longer subject to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure. The "property and assets of [INTERPOL], wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation."

    INTERPOL, an international criminal police organization, is now poised to reside above the United States Constitution - in a place of sanctity beyond our FBI, CIA, DIA, and all other criminal investigatory domestic organizations.

    President Obama has just placed our Constitutional rights under international law".


The Amendment issue seems disjointed I agree, but if foreign police can operate here with impunity serving foreign courts and if you 'violate' international law in the workplace or you are financially connected to commerce deemed to be illegal (because of carbon emission restrictions for example) is it a stretch to wonder if there is a connection? I don't believe in political "randomness".

Consider your position if you are a political dissenter.  Are you ready to be denied health care and credit?  Could you survive that if you were sick or you needed credit to tide you over during our man made recession? How secure is your front door if you have political enemies?  Under such a system ( and such a system has existed often in other countries)  how easy would it be for a political enemy to trump up a charge and have a foreign police force remove you to another country to await trial?  Wouldn't that be convenient! Are the pieces to the puzzle starting to look like something? It is starting to look a little like Europe in the 30's and 40's to me.

Consider the Government is going after multiple industries: Finance, Health Care, Auto, Insurance, Energy and these are broad categories.  Where do you work?  Does your company supply one of these industries and where does that leave you? What if you or some one you know is unemployed will they be subject to a litmus test in the near future in order to be employed in one of these industries? It is a question we can no longer afford not to ask of our representatives.

It is time to stand up.  If you have been sitting on the sidelines now is the time for you to act.  This is an all out assault on Liberty and OUR Constitution.

Bribery, Blackmail and Prostitution A message from GOOOH

Folks the political landscape is changing and here is one movement to watch.  GOOOH is preparing the way (to borrow an Advent phrase) for the birth of a new political reality.  The Democrats have been taken over by Marxists and Communists of varying degrees and the Republicans are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm weasels, looking to appease whom ever would devour us.   There are no men on the horizon in the GOP for 2012 and precious few for 2010.  We need choices and fast.

Some still argue a third party will split the vote but with the results of polls this past week the speculative "Tea Party" has beat both the Dems and Reps and Reps badly- so who is splitting the vote now huh? One of these two parties is going down and a conservative political party is going to arise- it's just a matter of time

Please read this:

On the heels of an interview on WGN’s Midday News, I am scheduled to be on Fox & Friends Sunday morning, 12/20 at 8:50 am EST. You never know where an interview will go, nor are there any guarantees that it will actually happen, but we appear poised for our first few minutes on a national stage. It could not come at a better time as the behavior in Washington is the worst it has ever been. 

 

What do you call it when a Senator from Louisiana (Landrieu) sells her health care vote for $300 million and then brags about the deal? What term comes to mind when a Senator from Nebraska is threatened by his party that a military base in his state will be closed if he does not vote how he is told? What about when that very same Senator changes his mind and agrees to support the legislation in exchange for an agreement that the other 49 states will pay for the entire cost of Medicaid expansion in his state? Bribery, blackmail, and prostitution are the terms I think of. It saddens me to think what our government has become, that these are the adjectives we must use to describe the behavior of our elected officials.

 

How much longer can we allow this madness to continue? Lest anyone think for even one second this behavior is confined to the Democrats, let me remind you that the Republicans were doing the exact same thing between 2000 and 2006 when they were in charge. Take a moment and refresh your memory on the 1,000 page $1.2 trillion prescription drug bill the Republicans pushed through at 3 a.m. in 2003 in order to buy votes for the 2004 election. The Republicans complain they do not have enough time to read new bills. They whine about Saturday night votes. Have they really forgotten they did the exact same thing when they were in power?

 

Let me add hypocrite to the above list of adjectives. Consider the time wasted debating steroids in baseball when everybody who was paying attention knew the collapse of Fannie and Freddie was imminent. Recall that the Republicans did nothing during their reign to secure our borders, fix the tax code, or improve the high school graduation rate. It is time to ask those hell-bent on “fixing” the Republican Party to admit the problem is much, much bigger than the politicians of the other party. It is time to begin anew!

 

We have a new video we hope you will share with potential recruits. Ask them to watch this short interview on ShelfLife with Kimberlie Dykeman and then ensure they become a member.

 

My calendar for January is booked solid, but we have hundreds of leaders around the country willing and able to lead mock session in your area. If you are looking for a way to get involved, rally a group of 12 or 18 friends to participate in a mock selection session. You can lead the session yourself using the instructions posted online (you must be logged in), or you can contact your State Leader and ask that they send someone to lead the effort.

 

We are nearing the tipping point. We have well over 100,000 members and watchers. Almost half a million visitors have been to our Web site. We have a come a long way, but now is the time to push. Let’s get to 500,000 members and send true citizen representatives to Washington. Help us write history. The future of our grandchildren and theirs depends on what you and I do today. How much effort are you willing to put forth to ensure our posterity has the same opportunities with which we have been blessed?

 

Let me close by wishing each and every one of you a very, Merry Christmas. To those who are not of the same faith, may you and your family have a wonderful Holiday Season. To those who are concerned that my statements are not politically correct, I say, “Get over it.” Our Founding Fathers created this nation based on freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. In my humble opinion, those who do not comprehend the difference are a big part of the problem.

 

Enjoy the Holidays! The real work will begin on January 2nd.

 

In liberty,

Tim C

Save the World! Really.

Atheism is the State religion of Marxists everywhere.  Man-made Global Warming is just the latest 'incarnation' (can we say that?) of State as God.  Algore is it's great high priest.
Needless to say, a mentality that ascribes the ability to change the temperature through legislation and taxation is either:
a) insane
b) a lie
c) or god

So here we are confronted with the latest Communist/Socialist/Fascist attack, only this time it's not heavy armament being paraded through Red Square it is lies on parade in Copenhagen.  Lies are the latest weapons and there is no treaty limiting the production and deployment of lies. Riots, arrests, violence, despots, calls for an end to Capitolism, you name it- it's in Copenhagen.  Funny not a single arrest in DC in September with 2 million USA citizens and look at how the left behaves.  You know why?  Because they are worried the cat is out of the bag, that's why.  The force of their arguments is not enough to convince in fair debate since the science behind their claims has been doctored and manipulated and revealed by some unknown whistle blower:  so what's left?  Force!

What do you think? a, b or c? God doesn't require force as He asks- "Come let us reason together". So I guess that leaves a & b.  Algore may be insane but his financial ability as a collection plate arteeest in his new religion makes Jim & Tammy Faye Baker & the Swaggarts look like Charlie Brown operating a lemonade stand.

So I have to go with b.

I could have given option d) 'true' but then you would have to grade me as well.

Watch the vid: Che Guevara on display- Che is going to cure GW huh?  Wow I really see the connection-  Gore says this is not about politics but a "moral issue".  Che huh?  No politics here.  No siree, we are not trying to take over the world uh uhhh.

Maybe Che's ghost has possessed the scientists at East Anglia. After all that is the seat of the new Office of Propaganda for the New World Order.  Screwtape would be proud.

But wait, there's more!  Not only East Anglia but the EPA.  Yes now the EPA, you know that Gub'mint bureaucracy with some 18000 employees, yeh that one, it wants to work for these globalists!  They want to regulate every aspect of our lives.  And, as Americans for Prosperity points out, if you want to see the results of their intentions look at the misery in New Jersey thanks to incredible over-regulation:

"New Jersey has one of the worst economies in the nation - people are really hurting - in part due to Lisa Jackson's job-killing heavy-handed regulatory policies. Now the Obama administration hopes she "does for the United States what she did for New Jersey."

So far, Americans for Prosperity activists have logged more than 13,000 comments telling EPA to obey its mandate and leave climate legislation to the people's elected representatives. If you haven't taken action yet, click here to help stop EPA's power grab before the December 28th deadline."

 Folks it is getting serious out there and we need to stop these people.  For the time being we may have some success slowing down the encroachment at the borders of Virginia with the new administration taking office in January but with all the agendas in Congress Mssrs. Cuccinelli, McDonnell and Bolling look a little like dutch boys with fingers in the dike .  We shall see.

Liers figure, but figures don't lie

Inconvenient questions?  In light of the revelations coming by way of leaked emails out of East Anglia, Algore seems to be clamming up.  Another victim of the hot water the global warming religion is steeping in. Funny how it snows every time these people try to hold a meeting.  Reports are this conference is as well organized as the 'science' behind the "man made' theory.  Boy if they can just get us to buy into this long enough to get control of our liberties and industry then they can claim they saved us since the natural warming trend seems to be over.
All those lies melting away.  Hey Al, hockey sticks are best left to hockey players.

Hanover County Sets Stage for 2010 Real Estate Assessments

On Dec 10th an article appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch with the headline Hanover real estate loses nearly $200 million in value.

Here is a excerpt from the Article:

Hanover County real estate has lost nearly $200 million in value since last year, supervisors learned yesterday from the county's chief assessor, John W. Nelms Jr.

The overall decrease of 1.5 percent in value represents a nearly $195 million decline in residential real estate and a $2.8 million decline in commercial real estate, Nelms said. Assessments were calculated based on sales through the end of October, he said. Values changed on about 10,500 parcels, most of them in the central to eastern part of the county between Ashland and Mechanicsville.

....sold in the county also is down, from $347,400 in 2008 to $271,200 in the most recent report, he said. That figure doesn't necessarily indicate a decline in the value of any specific property, however.

The following letter was submitted to The Mechanicsville Local by long time Hanover resident BJ Ostergren. Mrs. Ostergren is also the owner of The Virginia Watchdog website

Editor:

According to an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on 12/10/09 about house sales in Hanover it was reported that "the average price of homes sold is down from $347,400 in 2008 to $271,200" in 2009. That equals a 22% drop in value.

Also in that article the County Assessor, John Nelms, Jr. stated that it was the "less expensive" property that was selling.

While the "less expensive" property may be selling, it has also taken a hit in this distressed market.

For example, in my subdivision, a house sold this past June for $170,000 which was almost 18% less than its 2009 assessed value of $206,800.

But get this....In 2008 that same property's assessed value was $178,200 which was still higher than what it sold for this year; however, in January 2009, the County Assessor (who lives in Richmond) raised the value on that property to $206,800 even while knowing that we were in a depressed market. The house was not worth the 2008 assessed value much less the assessment increase put on it this year by the county. The owner got a bum deal because he had to pay higher taxes this year based on an inflated assessed value.

Remember this example (I could give you more) and ask yourself if you could sell your house in this day and time for what the County Assessor thinks it's worth. Obviously my neighbors couldn't, but I'm also sure there are exceptions.

Around the first of January we are all going to get notices telling us what the County Assessor thinks our property is worth. Even if your property assessment stays the same - or goes up - in that notice, you should seriously think about "appealing" your reassessment. You have that right and it's free.

Also, look online on the "Assessor's" page on the County's web site at the parcels that he is going to lower for 2010. Compare your house's assessed value to others of like value and see if you think you're getting the shaft from the county. What your house is assessed for has a direct bearing on how deep you will have to reach down into your pockets to pay real estate taxes next year.

There are over 44,000 parcels in Hanover and only 10,500 (about 23%) are even changing. Some will be going up in value and some will be going down, but 34,000 values will be staying the same.

How can this be?

BJ Ostergren
Mechanicsville

Judge Napolitano on the Unconstitutional Senate Healthcare Bill

Judge Napolitano has written a fine treatment of the Healthcare bill and it's proponents.  Read below with some comments from the peanut gallery:

"Sometime before Christmas, the United States Senate will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure".

I an constantly barraged by Republicans asking why I "attack" them.  Here Judge Napolitano illustrates what 45% of all conservatives have come to understand:  The GOP is not an opposition party it is the party of "Don't leave us behind".

"We do not have two political parties in this country. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience and enjoy the use of your own property as you see fit. The government wants you to follow the will of some compromising power-hungry politician or some faceless bureaucrat with the mentality of those who run the Post Office.
When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone's healthcare, he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, but they do it anyway. There you have it. Congress recognizes no limits on its power".

If you read the previous post "Close Encounters of the Third Party Kind" you will see that each day more and more people come to agreement with the sentiment expressed here by the Judge.  You will also hear the big dogs like Rush whine about a third party, as some are so invested in the idea that a 3rd party is a zero sum game that they refuse to acknowledge the writing on the wall.  Oddly Rush rails against the zero sum logic prevailing in the Democratic party but readily engages in it to convicnc people that no new party can arise.  This denies history! The GOP itself was in fact a 3rd Party!  41% of all voters now (that would be a majority in a three way race) believe a 3rd party is the only way out of present dilemma because both parties cannot see past their own reelection. Certainly that could change but as it is people see the so call 2 party system wanting for real leadership rather than "Me-tooism."  There will likely be no 3rd party, there  is no "2nd" party now, so the next party will simply remove one half of the current problem and hopefully offer us a real choice.

"This is the world turned upside down. Everyone in Congress takes an oath in which they swear “to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” The essence of the constitutional impediment in the healthcare bill that the Senate will probably pass is the theft of freedom of choice and the theft of property. Here’s an example of government theft. If you are 20 years old, and have $4,000 in the bank, how would you spend it? Might you take a course at a community college to learn a vocational skill? Might you buy an old pick-up truck and some lawn mowers and start a landscaping business? Whatever you would do with your $4000, the choice should be yours. You have a natural right and a constitutional right to use and enjoy your own property as you see fit".

Here is what G.K. Chesterton says about the tendencies of those who view the world (in this case the Church but the logic carries through here as well) in their own image:
"Every man is a theologian; it does not matter that his soul is covered with more blemishes than can be counted. The result is that these innovators find an abundance of men to join their factions. So ambitious, self-elected men divide the government of the churches among themselves, and reject the authority of the Holy Spirit. The ordinances of the Gospel have been thrown into confusion everywhere for lack of discipline; the jostling for high positions is incredible, as every ambitious man tries to thrust himself into high office. The result of this lust for power is that wild anarchy prevails among the people; the exhortations of those in authority are rendered utterly void and unprofitable, since every man in his arrogant delusion thinks that it is more his business to give orders to others than to obey anyone himself.”  Insert the word "Politician"" for theologian, and Constitution for Gospel and you get the point. The "exhortations of those in authority" of course are not our present day wonks but applies to those words of our Founding Fathers. It is hard to exercise one's Constitutional rights when such as we have in elected office put themselves above us all and ignore the Constitution.

"Instead, if the Senate bill becomes law, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama will force you under threat of incarceration to use that money to buy health insurance; something you don’t want and probably don’t need at age 20. Thus, the government is stealing your freedom to spend your money. Under the Constitution, your money is your property; and the Fifth Amendment requires that if the government wants to separate you from your property, it cannot do so by legislation or decree, it can only do so by suing you in front of a jury. We call this Due Process".

Our own Eric Cantor has his GOP version of an unconstitutional alternative-  The GOP- "Progressive Lite" all the taste of progressivism (read compassionate conservative) with a little less fascism.

"But the Congress is afraid of Due Process because no jury would send someone to jail for not buying health insurance. So the law will evade Due Process and evade the Constitution. That should not come as a surprise. Congress doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights, it doesn't care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn't even read the laws it writes".

They cannot evade We the People and they cannot jail all of us.  We must all refuse to cooperate or obey those laws which are unconstitutional- we must demand our new Governor and Attorney General to protect us from these ravenous congressional harpies.  The answer lies in one word- NO!  Not one inch further!

"This is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be.
When Congress takes away our freedoms, they will be gone forever. What will you do to prevent this from happening"?

"We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us".
Indeed, what will we do?