Live at 6:05-9pET on WOAI/San Antonio.....watch/listen by clicking on the Blog TV box at showtime. Podcasts of shows this week can be heard at www.WOAI.com
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Thursday Briefing
It appears that despite all the money by Homeland security and new procedures, federal facility security is "abysmal." This is according to a Congressional report that came out this week. My buddy Jim Kouri who writes for http://www.examiner.com/ will be joining me live tonight on WOAI/San Antonio at 8:05pm ET. You can read his column linked at the right side of the page.
..US Military Chief says clock ticking on Iran nuke...time is running out he says. VP Joe Biden indicated that Israel had a "green light" to deal with Iran but President Obama said this week there is no "green light." Nuke weapons expert and author Lee Boyland will join me about this and other issues. http://www.leeboylandbooks.com/ Lee will appear at 7:05pm ET on the show tonight.
6:35pm ET. Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen will be on to get his reaction to the Senate vote yesterday approving a 700 mile fence along the US/Mexico border to curtail illegal immigration. Will it work? It is expensive.
...ABC news reporting that the Obese account for the greatest cost in healthcare....this is a prelude to saying we need a "fat" tax on junk food and things like McDonald's hamburgers...
Live tonight 6:05-9pm ET on WOAI/San Antonio. http://www.woai.com/
..US Military Chief says clock ticking on Iran nuke...time is running out he says. VP Joe Biden indicated that Israel had a "green light" to deal with Iran but President Obama said this week there is no "green light." Nuke weapons expert and author Lee Boyland will join me about this and other issues. http://www.leeboylandbooks.com/ Lee will appear at 7:05pm ET on the show tonight.
6:35pm ET. Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen will be on to get his reaction to the Senate vote yesterday approving a 700 mile fence along the US/Mexico border to curtail illegal immigration. Will it work? It is expensive.
...ABC news reporting that the Obese account for the greatest cost in healthcare....this is a prelude to saying we need a "fat" tax on junk food and things like McDonald's hamburgers...
Live tonight 6:05-9pm ET on WOAI/San Antonio. http://www.woai.com/
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wednesday Daily Briefing
Live at 6:05-9pm ET on NewsRadio 1200 WOAI/San Antonio todayhttp://www.woai.com/
Topics today include:
PETA urges ban on Downtown Horse Drawn Carriages
San Antonio drivers do not fare well in insurance survey
Senate votes to require actual fencing to 700 miles of the Mexican Border
6:35pm et Jerome Corsi will join me. He is most recently author of the book "Obama Nation" and writes for WND. His weekly newsletter Red Alert is available at: http://www.redalert.wnd.com/
Jerome dropped this on us during the program tonight...and I just got the release dealing with Obama's Birth Certificate issue:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 5 OBAMA BIRTH MYSTERY: MORE THAN 1 HOSPITAL© 2009 RedAlert.WND.com
By Dr. Jerome R. Corsi and Joe Kovacs
More than eight months after Barack Obama was elected president, the mystery surrounding his precise birthplace is deepening as the myth-busting website Snopes.com – along with several news agencies and an Obama community blog – directly contradict the president's own claim regarding the hospital in which he was born.In an official letter signed by Obama on White House stationery, the president celebrates his birth at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii. The facility has posted that letter on its website, along with video of the letter being read in public.
Link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103306
Barack Obama states in this letter on White House stationery that he was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. The letter was posted by the medical center on its website.But according to Snopes, the popular online hoax-buster that many rely on as the final word on both important and frivolous stories, Obama was born at a different hospital in the Hawaiian capital.Want to turn up the pressure to learn the facts? Get your signs and postcards asking for the president's birth certificate documentation here.In Snopes' entry concerning allegations that Obama is a "radical Muslim," the site addresses the birth history of the commander in chief, stating, "Barack Hussein Obama was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. WND took a screen shot of the entry and highlighted the name of the hospital.
Link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103306
The Obama administration today through the Assistant Attorney General actually said that terrorists captured on the battlefield have constitutional rights. That is as ridiculous an opinion as one could have. Under that theory, Japanese and German prisioners taken in World War 2 would have the right to get an attorney and be released. What really is amazing is how such "learned" people can be so stupid today.
Meanwhile, the White House didn't know how to spell his name apparently..
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/08/white-house-spells-obamas-name-wrong/
In another important story of the day, look for the link at the right side of the page from CNSnews.com about Judge Sotomayor and her support of censoring a bible verse on a billboard.
My buddy Lee Boyland has a new article out this morning about the situation in Honduras.
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/l_boyland/2009/07082009.htm
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Live all this week on WOAI/San Antonio 6:05-9pm ET.
For the best information about pending bills before Congress, i've added links to the Americans for Tax Reform web site. http://www.atr.org/
Doing my best to do NO Michael Jackson talk today on WOAI.
From my buddy Lee Boyland
http://www.leeboylandbooks.com/
Subject: Freedom of speech
America’s freedom of speech is touted by the news media, elected representatives, officials, and the courts, while at the same time we are being suppressed from saying anything that is “politically incorrect.”
First example:
The three major billboard companies have refused to sell billboard space for an advertisement that simply asks, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" These three major companies, who control most of the advertising billboards nationwide, are using their market domination to suppress freedom of speech.
This is a violation of American citizen’s right of free speech. We demand that you, our elected representative, intervene.
Second example:
Gerrt Wilder’s video Fitna is another example of suppression of free speech. The video examines five verses from the Qur’an (4:56, 4:89, 8:39, 8:60, and 47:4) that reveal the frightening message buried in Islam’s Holy Book. The video only contains verses from the Qur’an and video of Islamic clerics’ sermons and speeches. Mr. Wilder provides translations of Qur’anic verses and allows the clerics to speak for themselves.
Islamic organizations mounted a campaign to prevent Mr. Wilder from showing Fitna and speaking in the U.S. Islamic organizations intimidated Lowes Hotels into canceling an event in Little Rock, AR, where Wilder was going to speak. IS THIS THE PC VERSION OF FREE SPEECH AND RELIGION? We [I] demand that you stand up for our freedoms and slap down those who seek to curtail our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
Displaying Jesus on the cross, or the Virgin Mary makes one an idolater in Muslim eyes, as does believing in the trinity (there can be only one God, not three). Recognize the dangers Islam presents to the Constitution and our religious freedom. Vote down all attempts to sneak Sharia law into our laws.
We the people who elected you demand this.
Sincerely,
For the best information about pending bills before Congress, i've added links to the Americans for Tax Reform web site. http://www.atr.org/
Doing my best to do NO Michael Jackson talk today on WOAI.
From my buddy Lee Boyland
http://www.leeboylandbooks.com/
Subject: Freedom of speech
America’s freedom of speech is touted by the news media, elected representatives, officials, and the courts, while at the same time we are being suppressed from saying anything that is “politically incorrect.”
First example:
The three major billboard companies have refused to sell billboard space for an advertisement that simply asks, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" These three major companies, who control most of the advertising billboards nationwide, are using their market domination to suppress freedom of speech.
This is a violation of American citizen’s right of free speech. We demand that you, our elected representative, intervene.
Second example:
Gerrt Wilder’s video Fitna is another example of suppression of free speech. The video examines five verses from the Qur’an (4:56, 4:89, 8:39, 8:60, and 47:4) that reveal the frightening message buried in Islam’s Holy Book. The video only contains verses from the Qur’an and video of Islamic clerics’ sermons and speeches. Mr. Wilder provides translations of Qur’anic verses and allows the clerics to speak for themselves.
Islamic organizations mounted a campaign to prevent Mr. Wilder from showing Fitna and speaking in the U.S. Islamic organizations intimidated Lowes Hotels into canceling an event in Little Rock, AR, where Wilder was going to speak. IS THIS THE PC VERSION OF FREE SPEECH AND RELIGION? We [I] demand that you stand up for our freedoms and slap down those who seek to curtail our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
Displaying Jesus on the cross, or the Virgin Mary makes one an idolater in Muslim eyes, as does believing in the trinity (there can be only one God, not three). Recognize the dangers Islam presents to the Constitution and our religious freedom. Vote down all attempts to sneak Sharia law into our laws.
We the people who elected you demand this.
Sincerely,
Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday July 6, 2009
Live today on WOAI/San Antonio 6-9pm ET. Watch/listen live by clicking on the Blog TV box at showtime.
6:35pm Joining me is John Wohlstetter of the Discovery Institute. We'll discuss Judge Sotomayor's nomination to the US Supreme Court, the latest info regarding Iran, and other breaking issues. His latest book is The Long Road Ahead and the Short War Upon Us.
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=19&isFellow=true
John's Blog is:
http://www.letterfromthecapitol.com/
7:35pm Joining me is Vern Moter. A Financial and business expert to discuss the Congressional move for "Cap and Trade."
http://www.yourpracticaladvisor.com/
We'll also discuss whether inmates in Texas should have air conditioning during this hot 100 degree days and Rep. Peter King's comment saying that Micheal Jackson was a pedophile and should not be glorified just for his music.
This is from my buddy Lee Boyland:
http://www.leeboylandbooks.com/
Subject: The Constitution
Is the Constitution a living document?
The Constitution of the United States of America, all thirteen of them, was written in four months by fifty-five delegates behind closed doors in Philadelphia. It was signed on September 17, 1987 and the greatest nation in the history of the world was born. The Constitution established a Constitutional Republic, or as some say a Democratic Republic. It did not establish a Democracy.
Our Founding Fathers realized that the Constitution would require change and in Article V they provided a method to make such changes. The power to amend the Constitution is vested in the states and the people. It is not vested in the Federal Courts, the Supreme Court, or the Congress alone.
The current Administration and Democratic controlled Congress, supported by the Supreme Court, have ignored the method established to amend the Constitution by “setting aside” provisions that restrict actions they wish to take. They claim the authority to do, based on the false doctrine that the Constitution is a “living document” that was intended to be continually reinterpreted to accommodate current changes in public moors and political situations. If we accept this lie, we might as well just throw out the rule of law, tear up the Constitution, and let the president and Congress do whatever they want. Isn’t that what they’re doing anyway?
We, the people who elected you, demand that you accept the fact that the Constitution IS NOT a “living document”, and that all Articles and Amendments are in full force. You can begin by ensuring that Barrack Hussein Obama is fulfilling the requirements established in Article 2 of the Constitution—starting with the oath he took to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
If you wish to retain you elected office, listen to those who elected you.
Sincerely,
Lee Boyland
6:35pm Joining me is John Wohlstetter of the Discovery Institute. We'll discuss Judge Sotomayor's nomination to the US Supreme Court, the latest info regarding Iran, and other breaking issues. His latest book is The Long Road Ahead and the Short War Upon Us.
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=19&isFellow=true
John's Blog is:
http://www.letterfromthecapitol.com/
7:35pm Joining me is Vern Moter. A Financial and business expert to discuss the Congressional move for "Cap and Trade."
http://www.yourpracticaladvisor.com/
We'll also discuss whether inmates in Texas should have air conditioning during this hot 100 degree days and Rep. Peter King's comment saying that Micheal Jackson was a pedophile and should not be glorified just for his music.
This is from my buddy Lee Boyland:
http://www.leeboylandbooks.com/
Subject: The Constitution
Is the Constitution a living document?
The Constitution of the United States of America, all thirteen of them, was written in four months by fifty-five delegates behind closed doors in Philadelphia. It was signed on September 17, 1987 and the greatest nation in the history of the world was born. The Constitution established a Constitutional Republic, or as some say a Democratic Republic. It did not establish a Democracy.
Our Founding Fathers realized that the Constitution would require change and in Article V they provided a method to make such changes. The power to amend the Constitution is vested in the states and the people. It is not vested in the Federal Courts, the Supreme Court, or the Congress alone.
The current Administration and Democratic controlled Congress, supported by the Supreme Court, have ignored the method established to amend the Constitution by “setting aside” provisions that restrict actions they wish to take. They claim the authority to do, based on the false doctrine that the Constitution is a “living document” that was intended to be continually reinterpreted to accommodate current changes in public moors and political situations. If we accept this lie, we might as well just throw out the rule of law, tear up the Constitution, and let the president and Congress do whatever they want. Isn’t that what they’re doing anyway?
We, the people who elected you, demand that you accept the fact that the Constitution IS NOT a “living document”, and that all Articles and Amendments are in full force. You can begin by ensuring that Barrack Hussein Obama is fulfilling the requirements established in Article 2 of the Constitution—starting with the oath he took to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
If you wish to retain you elected office, listen to those who elected you.
Sincerely,
Lee Boyland
Friday, July 3, 2009
Take this Job and Shove it --Sarah Palin
For my moment by moment thoughts on this breaking story check out my Twitter comments on the right side of the page or go to: www.twitter.com/dougtalks997
My buddy Matt Burke who has been involved in republican politics is on with me at 9pm ET on WBT/Charlotte. Here are some ideas he has about Gov. Palin's resignation:
. She is tired of the intense media scrutiny that has followed her.
Just one year ago nobody knew who she was, and think of all the pressure her family has been under, an she may have just said I have had enough. She can write a book, or go on a speaking tour and really provide for her family.
2. She is getting ready to make a presidential run and is taking the time off to prepare her campaign. She has nothing left to proveIn Alaska.
3. She is preparing to run for senate against Lisa murkowski. She has a history of taking on the mirkowskis.
4. She is leaving the public eye completely.She is very young, so she can run in 2016, 2020 or even 2024.
Live Today on WOAI/San Antonio 6:05-9pm ET. Sitting in again for Joe Pags who has been busy with fill-in duties for Glenn Beck. Following 9pm, I'll be live on WBT/Charlotte until midnight. Both shows can be seen/heard live here on the web site by clicking the BlogTV box at the right of the screen at showtimes.
Here is a good one from a friend through email:
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it 'Barack Obama'.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: 'Do you really want to
get rid of 'Barack Obama?'
6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'
7. Feel better?
GOOD! - Tomorrow we'll do Nancy Pelosi
_______________________
Best line I've heard in a while comes from Steve Gill (http://www.gillreport.com/) on his radio show today:
"Taxation with MIS-representation."
(From http://www.allaccess.com/)
Americans: Too Much Michael Jackson Coverage
Too Much Michael?A new national media study among 1,850 Americans revealed that the majority of respondents (63%) believe that MICHAEL JACKSON's death is receiving too much media coverage in comparison to the coverage of FARRAH FAWCETT's death. The study was conducted by HCD RESEARCH using its MEDIACURVES.COM website on JULY 1st, to obtain Americans' perceptions of recent celebrity deaths, with regard to the amount of media coverage they are receiving. While the majority of respondents (63%) reported that MICHAEL JACKSON's death is receiving too much media coverage, an even larger majority (80%) reported that they are engaged in the topic when they are exposed to it by the media. However, a slightly higher percentage of respondents (84%) indicated that they are engaged with the topic of FAWCETT's death when they are exposed to it by the media. Among the study findings: "With regard to the topic of MICHAEL JACKSON's death, indicate whether or not you feel the media coverage is appropriate."
Too much coverage 63%
Appropriate coverage 36%
Not enough coverage 2%
It isn't just that there is too much coverage it is also that the coverage is out of balance. Michael Jackson turned into a freak where children were not safe. We shouldn't be glorifying such a person in American society no matter how many songs he sold.
Tonight on WOAI at 8:05pm ET. Paul Lawrence Vann will join me and we'll discuss our nation's founding on this July 4th holiday weekend. http://www.paullawrencevann.com/
Benjamin Franklin called for divine intervention at the Constitutional Convention. He called it "a superintendeing providence" that, as he pointed out, had guided America through the Declaration of Independence and the Revolution with Great Britian. He was wondering why no prayer has been asked for now? We could certainly ask that question today.
Mr. President:
The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other-our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.
In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.- Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor.
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that Service-
Mr. SHARMAN seconded the motion.
Mr. HAMILTON & several others expressed their apprehensions that however proper such a resolution might have been at the beginning of the convention, it might at this late day, I. bring on it some disagreeable animadversions. & 2. lead the public to believe that the embarrassments and dissensions within the Convention, had suggested this measure. It was answered by Docr. F. Mr. SHERMAN & others, that the past omission of a duty could not justify a further omission-that the rejection of such a proposition would expose the Convention to more unpleasant animadversions than the adoption of it: and that the alarm out of doors that might be excited for the state of things within, would at least be as likely to do good as ill.
Mr. WILLIAMSON, observed that the true cause of the omission could not be mistaken. The Convention had no funds.
Mr. RANDOLPH proposed in order to give a favorable aspect to ye. measure, that a sermon be preached at the request of the convention on 4th of July, the anniversary of Independence; & thenceforward prayers be used in ye. Convention every morning. Dr. FRANKn. 2ded. this motion After several unsuccessful attempts for silently postponing the matter by adjourng. the adjournment was at length carried, without any vote on the motion.
Our State of the Union:
1. Our Founding Fathers would be appalled at the power of the federal government over the individual states. The Constitution was put into place to
limit power.
2. The Founding Fathers would be surprised and angry at the amount of debt the nation has racked up.
3. The Founding Fathers would be shocked at the amount of power allowed to the Supreme Court. They were so concerned about an out of control judiciary and that is what they would see.
4. Our Founding Fathers would insist that any one running for President prove that he/she is a natural born citizen.
My buddy Matt Burke who has been involved in republican politics is on with me at 9pm ET on WBT/Charlotte. Here are some ideas he has about Gov. Palin's resignation:
. She is tired of the intense media scrutiny that has followed her.
Just one year ago nobody knew who she was, and think of all the pressure her family has been under, an she may have just said I have had enough. She can write a book, or go on a speaking tour and really provide for her family.
2. She is getting ready to make a presidential run and is taking the time off to prepare her campaign. She has nothing left to proveIn Alaska.
3. She is preparing to run for senate against Lisa murkowski. She has a history of taking on the mirkowskis.
4. She is leaving the public eye completely.She is very young, so she can run in 2016, 2020 or even 2024.
Live Today on WOAI/San Antonio 6:05-9pm ET. Sitting in again for Joe Pags who has been busy with fill-in duties for Glenn Beck. Following 9pm, I'll be live on WBT/Charlotte until midnight. Both shows can be seen/heard live here on the web site by clicking the BlogTV box at the right of the screen at showtimes.
Here is a good one from a friend through email:
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it 'Barack Obama'.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: 'Do you really want to
get rid of 'Barack Obama?'
6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'
7. Feel better?
GOOD! - Tomorrow we'll do Nancy Pelosi
_______________________
Best line I've heard in a while comes from Steve Gill (http://www.gillreport.com/) on his radio show today:
"Taxation with MIS-representation."
(From http://www.allaccess.com/)
Americans: Too Much Michael Jackson Coverage
Too Much Michael?A new national media study among 1,850 Americans revealed that the majority of respondents (63%) believe that MICHAEL JACKSON's death is receiving too much media coverage in comparison to the coverage of FARRAH FAWCETT's death. The study was conducted by HCD RESEARCH using its MEDIACURVES.COM website on JULY 1st, to obtain Americans' perceptions of recent celebrity deaths, with regard to the amount of media coverage they are receiving. While the majority of respondents (63%) reported that MICHAEL JACKSON's death is receiving too much media coverage, an even larger majority (80%) reported that they are engaged in the topic when they are exposed to it by the media. However, a slightly higher percentage of respondents (84%) indicated that they are engaged with the topic of FAWCETT's death when they are exposed to it by the media. Among the study findings: "With regard to the topic of MICHAEL JACKSON's death, indicate whether or not you feel the media coverage is appropriate."
Too much coverage 63%
Appropriate coverage 36%
Not enough coverage 2%
It isn't just that there is too much coverage it is also that the coverage is out of balance. Michael Jackson turned into a freak where children were not safe. We shouldn't be glorifying such a person in American society no matter how many songs he sold.
Tonight on WOAI at 8:05pm ET. Paul Lawrence Vann will join me and we'll discuss our nation's founding on this July 4th holiday weekend. http://www.paullawrencevann.com/
Benjamin Franklin called for divine intervention at the Constitutional Convention. He called it "a superintendeing providence" that, as he pointed out, had guided America through the Declaration of Independence and the Revolution with Great Britian. He was wondering why no prayer has been asked for now? We could certainly ask that question today.
Mr. President:
The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other-our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.
In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.- Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor.
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that Service-
Mr. SHARMAN seconded the motion.
Mr. HAMILTON & several others expressed their apprehensions that however proper such a resolution might have been at the beginning of the convention, it might at this late day, I. bring on it some disagreeable animadversions. & 2. lead the public to believe that the embarrassments and dissensions within the Convention, had suggested this measure. It was answered by Docr. F. Mr. SHERMAN & others, that the past omission of a duty could not justify a further omission-that the rejection of such a proposition would expose the Convention to more unpleasant animadversions than the adoption of it: and that the alarm out of doors that might be excited for the state of things within, would at least be as likely to do good as ill.
Mr. WILLIAMSON, observed that the true cause of the omission could not be mistaken. The Convention had no funds.
Mr. RANDOLPH proposed in order to give a favorable aspect to ye. measure, that a sermon be preached at the request of the convention on 4th of July, the anniversary of Independence; & thenceforward prayers be used in ye. Convention every morning. Dr. FRANKn. 2ded. this motion After several unsuccessful attempts for silently postponing the matter by adjourng. the adjournment was at length carried, without any vote on the motion.
Our State of the Union:
1. Our Founding Fathers would be appalled at the power of the federal government over the individual states. The Constitution was put into place to
limit power.
2. The Founding Fathers would be surprised and angry at the amount of debt the nation has racked up.
3. The Founding Fathers would be shocked at the amount of power allowed to the Supreme Court. They were so concerned about an out of control judiciary and that is what they would see.
4. Our Founding Fathers would insist that any one running for President prove that he/she is a natural born citizen.
5. Our Founding Fathers would be shocked at the removal of all religious expression from our public places and schools.
6. Our Founding Fathers would be shocked at the lack of an advisorial media toward the government.
7. Our Founding Fathers would be amazed that we allowed illegal immigrants to protest their rights in our country.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Joy Behar of ABC's "The View" who often reaches great heights of ignorance on that show says she doesn't believe in any thing after death. As if that just makes it so.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Television/story?id=7931535&page=1
Wow..Helen Thomas actually got one right. About the staged so-called town hall meetings for President Obama and the programmed questions. Actually, this is nothing new. Democrats have been doing this, at least, back to Bill Clinton's run in 1992. I remember when he came to Columbus and only dems could get in there and ask any question. Local TV televised it live so it became nothing more than an hour free TV commercial.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/thomas_reid_obama/2009/07/02/231353.html
Pat Buchannan says Obama is trying to make America look like California. It is amazing that Obama, when pushes his climate bill, pointed to California as the model. Amazing since California is virtually bankrupct because of regulations that killed jobs, raised taxes, and sent companies to other states.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pat_buchanan_california/2009/06/29/230057.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Television/story?id=7931535&page=1
Wow..Helen Thomas actually got one right. About the staged so-called town hall meetings for President Obama and the programmed questions. Actually, this is nothing new. Democrats have been doing this, at least, back to Bill Clinton's run in 1992. I remember when he came to Columbus and only dems could get in there and ask any question. Local TV televised it live so it became nothing more than an hour free TV commercial.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/thomas_reid_obama/2009/07/02/231353.html
Pat Buchannan says Obama is trying to make America look like California. It is amazing that Obama, when pushes his climate bill, pointed to California as the model. Amazing since California is virtually bankrupct because of regulations that killed jobs, raised taxes, and sent companies to other states.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pat_buchanan_california/2009/06/29/230057.html
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