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Comment by Don Hereford 14 hours ago

I don't know if this has been posted earlier and I missed it or not - But this little 4 minute video will let you know how close we are to loosing our sovereignty as a nation... I watched a discussion of this on Glen Beck a few days ago... I have written our congress persons already - knowing full well they don't care about our Nation.. Please watch, if you haven't already...

http://tinyurl.com/freedomGONE

Comment by Judy 15 hours ago

Did I just hear Tom on KXL talking about the Constitution Seminars? It was about an hour ago while I was driving to my parent's house. He talked about the next three sessions and said to go to WePeeps.org to find out more. Good going Tom!

Comment by Mike Boyer 15 hours ago

This link will take you to the text of the Manhattan Declaration:

http://lifenews.com/nat5693b.html

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Comment by Mike Boyer 19 hours ago

There's a wonderful e-mail going around this time of year. It's like a lot of other e-mails -- it tells a warm and fuzzy story. But this one is different. It's actually true.

It was the first day of school at Robinson High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 2005. Robinson is a smaller public school with just over 500 kids. And virtually every one of those kids thought Martha Cothren, teacher of AP American History, AP Government, military history and coach of the girls basketball team, was crazy.

They thought she was crazy because here it was, the first day, and her classroom was empty. Not empty of kids -- the kids were there. Completely empty of desks and chairs. All the kids were standing around. For the entire day.

Each class period, the kids asked Cothren where their desks were.

"You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them. So how do you earn them?" she asked.

"Good grades," suggested one kid.

"Those are important, but those won't earn you your desk," Cothren replied.

"Good behavior?" suggested another.

"You will behave," Cothren said, "but it's not that."

Some of the kids even started offering Cothren bribes. No dice. A buzz ran through the school as more and more kids reported the absence of desks and chairs in their class with Cothren. "What's going on with Cothren?" they wondered.

Five minutes before the bell rang to end that first day of school, they found out.

"All day long," she told her class, "everybody has wondered how you earned your desks." Then Martha Cothren opened the door to the classroom.

And in walked a group of men and women of the United States military. Each one of them carried a desk. They lined them up in rows and then stood at attention around the room.

"You didn't earn your desks," Cothren stated. "They earned it for you."

Cothren's story has made the rounds for the past few years, boosted every Veterans Day. It got an especially large bump when Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee mentioned the story in his stump speeches, including his speech at the Republican National Convention.

On Tuesday, I had a chance to talk with Martha Cothren. Her military ties run deep.

"My dad was a World War II POW," she told me. "He was the 24th American captured by the Germans. He was actually thrown out of a plane over Lille, France, after his oxygen mask was shot off; the other soldiers threw him out of the plane to save his life. He spent 42 months in POW camp, Stalag 17B. My high-school sweetheart served in Vietnam. He did make it home, but he was killed in a car accident just before we were to be married."

And Cothren was disturbed by reports from her fellow teachers that students were lazy about standing during the Pledge of Allegiance each morning -- Arkansas state law still requires that the pledge be recited. She knew that the students were guaranteed a free public education. But she also realized that they weren't guaranteed their desks. She took it from there.

And it worked.

"At the end of the day when the veterans came in," she told me, "as they filed in, I had tears pouring down my cheeks. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. And I was so proud of my kids, because they stayed to thank the veterans after the bell rang. Kids congregated in the hallway just so they could thank the veterans. So did the other teachers."

Cothren had called some local television crews to come witness the event. Afterward, one of the photographers asked her to come over and speak with him for a moment. "I need to talk to you," he said. "I'm a Vietnam vet. And I just wanted to tell you that until today, I'd never been welcomed home."

"That made it all worth it," Cothren told me.

She's received her small share of flack. One online commenter suggested that the taxpayers had earned the school desks, a criticism that irked Cothren. "If it weren't for the soldiers, we wouldn't have to worry about paying taxes."

But in general, the support has been overwhelming. The story of the Cothren desks passes from brothers to sisters. She wants to re-enact the scene, she told me -- but only when others have forgotten it, so that it will still have that same impact for the kids.

We can only hope that her message isn't forgotten. We didn't earn our rights -- our men and women of the armed services earn those rights for us. This Thanksgiving, let us give thanks for the people who put their lives on the line to guarantee us those rights. And let us remember, together with Cothren, that same message of thanks each and every day.

Comment by Mike Boyer 1 day ago

How Much Does a Trillion Dollars Weigh?

by Pearl Hahn

Bailouts and deficits have Americans thinking of money in very big terms. Some questions that haunt us include how much money we do not have, how much we owe, and how much we have handed over to failing companies in a futile effort to save them.

Thanks to Ralph Schmeed of Idaho and scholars who have taken the time to ponder the question of how much a trillion dollars weighs, here is the answer:

1,102,311 tons.

It would take 44,080 eighteen-wheel trucks carrying a load of 25 tons each to transport a trillion dollars (in single bills).

What is truly amazing is how a trillion- a figure that is beyond fathomable- can disappear so quickly passing through the hands of government.

The cost of the war in Iraq tops $3 trillion. The unfunded liability of Medicare is $36 trillion over the next 75 years. The interest alone on the national debt as reported this morning by CNN is $4.8 trillion.

A trillion has become the new billion, and no one in Congress seems to be counting

Comment by Mike Boyer 1 day ago

We would like to wish all NIA members a Happy Thanksgiving!

We are all blessed to have the knowledge that we have about the U.S. economy and the hyperinflation that is in our future as the U.S. dollar collapses. The best way to give thanks on this Thanksgiving Day is to share your knowledge with your family so that they can survive and prosper in the months and years ahead.

The Dollar Bubble has already been viewed over 73,000 times since late Monday night. Please continue to spread the word about The Dollar Bubble to those you care most about by having them visit: http://inflation.us/videos.html

Please enjoy your Thanksgiving Day and let's pray that next year, Thanksgiving dinner doesn't cost 10% or 20% more than it did this year.

The National Inflation Association
http://inflation.us

Comment by Mike Boyer 1 day ago

A Voice in the Wilderness: In defense of mere Conservatism:
http://rjmoeller.com/2009/11/a-public-service-announcement-for-harry-reid-and-nancy-pelosi/

Comment by Michael Frome on November 25, 2009 at 3:38pm

Jon Russell has got some ideas that will work.

Jon understands that small business, entrepreneurship, optimism, and minimal necessary intervention by government is the recipe that leads to jobs.

I can't overstate how refreshing it is to see a politician with proven, correct ideas along with the gumption to get them done!

You can learn more about Jon at www.jonrussell.us

I'm pleased to be supporting him for his 2010 run for Washington's 3rd Congressional District.

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