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I can understand making the first mistake, I’ve had my share on that scoreboard .. but real stupidity is making that same mistake again and again… and then, believe it or not, again!  But I’m supposing that people like Barney Frank have some semblance of intelligence … big mistake.  Barney is introducing the “Community Reinvestment Act of 2009“.  Here we go again … REWIND!

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What is/was The Community Reinvestment Act?

Redlining.  Congress passed the act in 1977.

1936 Phily Redline Map

The CRA was initially signed into law by President Jimmy Carter back in 1977. Its “intention” was a normal liberal reaction to mathematics used by the banks. Certain geographical areas had a history of not repaying loans made to them by the banks. So the banks “redlined” the geography not allowing loans from them in those areas.  The reason? The loans were not repaid.  So this sets the groundwork.  Whether you think redlining was right or wrong is your choice. (I don’t loan money to friends that won’t pay me back … am I redlining?).

Government-mandated loans: But the government solution to redlining was where the problem started. Redlining, with the CRA became illegal.  That’s OK, so far.  But then the government decided that to prove the banks were not redlining, they had to have a certain percentage of loans within the previously redlined areas. This meant the banks HAD to give out a certain percentage of housing loans where they KNEW they were not going to be repaid.  If they refused, and didn’t have a good “score” … they were not allowed to increase in size, not allowed to start new branches and not allowed to partake in governmental financial processes.  In other words, give out bad loans or go out of business.

From “Good Intentions” to “Financial Disaster” Under Carter it was mostly “initiated” (good intentions and all) … but under President Bill Clinton, it became used as political clout and was his way of securing the black vote in poor communities.  Under Clinton, the CRA was put onto steroids.

Gather.com: In 1995, as a result of interest from President Bill Clinton’s administration, the implementing regulations for the CRA were strengthened by focusing the financial regulators’ attention on institutions’ performance in helping to meet community credit needs.

Millions of dollars were forced to be given to loan applicants who had no way of paying back such loans.  And this so everyone could live in “affordable housing.”  (This is Barney Frank’s mantra still today).  People could not pay back the loans. The banks tried to find ways of “selling” these bad loans to other people … and some of those institutions like Fannie and Freddie (government-run) bought them, as did many other financial institutions. It was these “toxic assets” that caused us to have to bail out the financial industry were THE LOANS GIVEN TO PEOPLE WHO HAD NO QUALIFICATION TO PAY IT BACK!  In a second-layer way, this was the government giving housing to unqualified people.  Its not about “affordable” housing, its about “free-from-the-government housing.”  Why didn’t they just say and then just give houses to poor people, charging the hard-working-tax-paying citizens for the bill?

The Community Investment Act of 2009

The CRA of 2009 is HR 1479 (Full Text Here) states:

To enhance the availability of capital, credit and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pase as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as
a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.

Sec 3 Purposes

The purposes of this act are as follows:

1. To enhance the availability of financial services to citizens of all economic circumstances and in all geographic areas.
2. To enhance the ability of financial institutions to meet the capital and credit needs, and needs for other banking and financial services of all citizens and communities, including and especially minority and los- and moderate-income communities and populations.
3. To ensure that community reinvestment keeps pace with developments in the financial industry and with the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers as provided by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Why are we repeating a disaster?

Barney Frank

How could Barney Frank even be credible after what we have just watched happen to our financial security? What I fail to understand is why, after what we have just learned and what we have just gone through with the housing market crisis … why in the HELL would we propose to “do it again,” or even “update a FAILED policy?”The proposal Barney Frank has made is lunacy at worst.  Why would we “enhance” the cause of the 2nd worst financial disaster in the history of the USA.  Like I said, hey people make mistakes, but to PURPOSELY make the mistake a second time is sheer lunacy.

What to do now? Go meet the “Lib Next Door”

Write your congressman … how often have you heard that and has it helped much?  Not really. The way things are “getting” done today is by getting the public ENRAGED about such lunatic antics of our congress.  The “problem” isn’t congress, that is a RESULT. The “problem” is probably your neighbor, the “Lib Next Door!”  Someone who will say .. “oh yes, but we have to help all those poor people who can’t afford a home.”  If they want to help, then are they offering a free room at their house, or would they rather solve the problem by throwing MY money at it…again, and again, and now again?

I already gave.

Last year, I paid almost half of my retirement savings to these people the first time when the market crashed on top of my hard-earned retirement nest egg.  If they want to pay for other people’s housing let them … but don’t take it out of MY taxes … I already “gave” last year. You want to make the same mistake again … do it with YOUR money.

Go meet the “lib next door” … convince them of the lunacy going on. Odds are they’ll not even know about this or what the CRA was or even is today.  Give them FACTS … if we ever had the facts that the CRA causes a financial disaster, I’d think we’d have it figured out.  Might not even be to difficult for the “lib next door” to understand.

Let’s not repeat this financial disaster AGAIN …

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The Patriot Flag I am flying today is the South Carolina State Flag.  Here is why …

South Carolina

Today is relatively quiet … lots of talk, discussion, etc. But basically nothing is looming that threatens liberty (today!).  After the Joe Wilson flap, maybe we should take a closer look at the “rules.”  So lets focus on the “rules” then make our opinions. The rules were not difficult to find, here’s a piece the Politico put up that defines them fairly well.

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Politico As stated in Cannon’s Precedents, on January 27, 1909, the House adopted a report in response to improper references in debate to the President. That report read in part as follows:

• “It is… the duty of the House to require its Members in speech or debate to preserve that proper restraint which will permit the House to conduct its business in an orderly manner and without unnecessarily and unduly exciting animosity among its Members or antagonism from those other branches of the Government with which the House is correlated.”

As a guide for debate, it is permissible in debate to challenge the President on matters of policy. The difference is one between political criticism and personally offensive criticism. For example, a Member may assert in debate that an incumbent President is not worthy of re-election, but in doing so should not allude to personal misconduct. By extension, a Member may assert in debate that the House should conduct an inquiry, or that a President should not remain in office. Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:
• refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
• refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
• refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
• refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”
Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:
• call the President a “liar.”
• call the President a “hypocrite.”
• describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
• charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
• refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
• refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”

However, the Senate rules on decorum and debate do not prohibit personal references to the President. Senate Rule XIX governing decorum and debate is applied only to fellow Senators and “does not extend to the President, the Vice President, or Administration officials and a Senator cannot be called to order under rule XIX for comments or remarks about them…” (Senate Procedure, p. 741).

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Ambiguity again?  No, valid legislative double talk!

I am pretty sure these people write these rules so, depending on who is doing what, they can point at a rule and “interpret” it any way they like.  Rules like these say: “well, sort of, but in this case, or that, you know, maybe”.   So I guess it comes down to common sense and courtesy.  In the Joe Wilson flap, both sides are easy to understand.  The “decorum” must be preserved or there would be legislative chaos.  However, a President should not make a statement that is in direct contradiction to a law he is asking to be passed., that would be a LIE being presented to a Joint Session of Congress.

Let’s Look at President Obama’s Lies at the Joint Session of Congress:

• FACTS: The legislation Obama was pushing at the time of the “flap” did not state illegal aliens are not covered, therefore by default they were covered!  The CRS (Congressional Research Service) confirms that Illegals are/were covered under the then-present version HR-3200.

• Also a Republican amendment stating that was VOTED DOWN by the Democrat majority, why if the legislation already disallowed it?
• Obama called the legislators liars FIRST.  A President can call people in a Joint Session of Congress liars and is not “admonished” but someone calls him a liar after he does that and that breaks the rules? Transcript from his speech:

Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens.

Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren’t so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie plain and simple. Now… Now, there are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms — the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.

(UNKNOWN): That’s a lie. <- (Joe Wilson)

• And another one at the Joint Session: Remember when Obama talked about the poor man with cancer that died because he couldn’t get health care insurance?  Well, guess what … that was a LIE … In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn’t die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. Source HERE His sister secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown. Obama couldn’t even tell a little “heart throbbing story” truthfully.
• Also, on the Friday afternoon “document dump” from the White House, the “language” of the bill was changed to disallow health care for illegal aliens. How much proof do we need, folks?

At what price? So you have to ask, “what price” do we have to pay to get something done? To get illegal aliens out of the health care bill, was the price that Joe Wilson paid too high?  And when an ABSOLUTE LIE is stated in a Joint Session from the President’s lips … does “decorum” allow such behavior from a President of the United States … or if he has the “audacity” to do that, should someone who KNOWS it is a like not have the audacity to say “STOP IT!”

• In an earlier post, I mentioned a lady I encountered on the mall during the 9-12 March on DC.  Her sign said: “I’m off the Sidelines … A First Time Protester… And I’m Here to STAY!”  From looking at that crowd I was in and listening to what they were saying, there were a lot of “first timers” there. I think people are starting to take the risk, pay the price (of annoyance) and start saying “NO! THIS ISN’T RIGHT!”     That’s what I saw last Saturday.

This isn’t Democrats, this is Dangerous! What people still don’t “get” is that what is happening is DIFFERENT and DANGEROUS to anything we’ve ever seen in the USA.  This isn’t Bill Clinton tring to pass some bill, or George Bush pushing for illegals. This isn’t “politics” … 1/2 of which I’ll disagree with as you disagree with the other 1/2.  That’s politics, debate, etc.  All healthy for a Democratic Republic. But this is DIFFERENT.  We’ve never had an avowed Communist appointed to the high level of the government. We’ve never had a President who wanted to use ACORN (total corruption) brought into Washington to “help him shape” the new administration.  These people are not “Democrats” … that are RADICALS and there is one hell of a difference.  (Give me Hillary, Bill, Al, even the war hero of Vietnam, John and I’ll breath a sigh of relief… yes relief … that would be “politics” … this is different!)

Make YOUR point!

What’s YOUR point? (Have you even got one?)

This administration, with TRILLIONS in spending (leaving George Bush way behind!) with “redistributing the wealth” ideas, with taking over giant corporations and giving them to the unions … is not a bunch of Democrats having fun.  This is you and me losing our country to Socialism.  Decorum is not going to mean anything to these people.  Decorum got us the bill as it was, shouting out “You Lie” got it changed! We are going to have to get off the comfortable “sidelines” and get in the game.  If you are a Republican, shame on you for supporting do-nothing republicans.  If you are a Democrat, shame on you for blindly supporting this administration, just because they “say” they are Democrats.  If you are an American, you better wake up, see what’s going on, and do something about it.   Maybe you’ll see a political button that says, “ACORN helps PEOPLE”  … are you going to ignore it or get into somebody’s face?  Decorum got us “here” … I’m not going any further. In the struggle of Decorum vs. Outrage … I’ve chosen a side.  Have you?

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

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The Patriot Flag I am flying is the 9 Bar Son’s of Liberty, Here’s why…

Sons of Liberty

The Politico: 6:05pm 9/15/2009:

House Democrats dealt South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson a formal rebuke Wednesday, taking the rare step of passing a resolution of disapproval for his famous “you lie!” outburst last week in the House chamber. The vote was 240-179, falling almost exclusively along party lines.

While Democrats said they were defending the rules of the House and enforcing the traditional decorum of the chamber, Republicans mounted a fierce attack on the resolution, saying it was a waste of time after Wilson had duly apologized to President Barack Obama for his outburst during a joint address to Congress. While a resolution of disapproval is little more than a slap on the wrist, a formal roll call vote like this – permanently entered into the Congressional Record – is extremely rare.

Seven Republicans voted to Disapprove Wilson:

1. Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana … email link here
   
2. Rep.  Joanne Emerson of Missouri… email link here
   
3. Rep.  Jeff Flake of Arizona … email link here
   
4. Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina … email link here
5. Rep. Tom Petri of Wisconsi … email link here
6. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California … email link here
   
7. Rep. South Carolinian Bob Inglis … email link here

Write them and let them know how you feel.  Notice the difficulty at getting at Jeff Flake‘s email, he must get a lot of “cranky emails” from “the angry mob!” When you try to write Inglis you get this error message:

• Can not open /sections/contact/outside_mail.htm Your request could not be processed because of the above error.    Nothing has been saved.     Please notify the manager of this web site that a problem was encountered. (my guess, if you aren’t in his zip code, you don’t count!)
  

AMAZING how difficult it is to write “representatives” of the people!

But 12 Democrats voted no on the resolution: Michael Arcuri of New York, Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts, Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, Maurice Hinchey of New York, Paul Hodes of New Hampshire, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Dan Maffei of New York, Eric Massa of New York, James McDermott of Washington, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, Gene Taylor of Mississippi and Harry Teague of Arizona.

To Contact Joe Wilson, Click HERE

To Contribute to Joe Wilson, Click HERE

The fallout: (To be continued as it breaks!)

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Today the Patriot flag I am flying the First Naval Union Jack.  Here’s why …

Liberty Threatened

News: Cass Sunstein: (Sept 9) Cloture Vote: On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The Senate went ahead then with a voice vote and he’s now the new Regulatory Czar.  Did you see the main stream media covering this? Did you see the Republicans RAISING HELL about this man’s potential nomination?  No … nothing but “republican silence” and main stream media “news avoidance” as usual … so Liberty took another hit!

Uh, has anybody seen the news media around here?

Pat Wright, Sealy, TX, wrote in a letter to Micheal Steele saying the following:

Do you watch television? Do you watch Fox News? Do you watch Glenn Beck? I’m appalled that there has not been a movement from the Republican Party to impeach this man who is living in our White House. Don’t even try to tell me that we can’t do that. We must impeach him. Are you aware that Van Jones, the green job czar, whose organization, the Apollo Alliance wrote the stimulus bill and is receiving tax dollars to dismantle our country? Van Jones is a self-avowed communist! Those are his words. This man is an advisor to the President? How can that happen? How can any elected official stand by and let this happen? Who is representing us?

What about Cass Sunstein? This man is a fascist nut. Yes, I did say fascist. I’m sick of not being able to speak truths because we’re fearful of not being politically correct. Guess what? We are out of the p.c. closet. Sunstein is a proponent of the ‘nudge’ philosophy – Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Our decisions, our health, our wealth and our happiness. No thank you. This man thinks animals should have the right to take people to court??? This is not a fairy tale.

Read the rest of Pat’s letter to Michael Steel here: AIP News

Cass Sunstein is Nominated as Director of OIRA.

Cass Sunstein

What he believes … (in his own words).

1. “We ought to ban hunting” - 2007 speech at Harvard University
2. “[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. ” - Cass Sunstein, writing in his book, “Radicals in Robes” (Text Here)
3. “Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …”- 2004 book Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Text Here)
4. “[Humans’] willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings.”- Cass Sunstein, in a 2007 speech at Harvard University
5. “[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture.“ – Cass Sunstein, “The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer,” August 2002. (Text Here)
6. “A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.” -Cass Sunstein, arguing for a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet in his book, Republic.com 2.0 (page 137). (Text Here)
7. WND: There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are “only a handful of cells,” argued President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.”If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning),” wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Cloture Vote Highlights: The Republicans that voted FOR and Democrats voting  against his nomination were:

• For: Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).
• Against: Democrats voting against: Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Sen. James Webb (D-Va.).

Bottom Line … a “sophisticated radical” … far more clever than the loose cannon, Van Jones, and probably in a position more dangerous to Liberty and Freedom.  Where Van Jones was “in your face” … this  man will come at Liberty and Freedom with subtlety. He is a particular threat to the 2nd amendment.  Republicans voting for this nomination will have to pay for this error in their next election.

But WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REPUBLICANS? Do they just sit on the bench and not even get into the game.  Why do we have to rely on Linbaugh and Beck and even Dobbs to get our news on these jerks that are being placed in control of our government. Why does an unknown like Pat Wright have to be one of the LEADERS? McCain and Graham out there talking about Afghanistan when Obama is putting radicals in charge of our country …???

Also, WHERE THE HELL IS THE 4th ESTATE? (Port St. Lucy folks click here). This news media we have today is a total joke.  CNN reported “over 1000 people showed up at the 9-12 march” … I was there, that kind of reporting is simply a LIE!  “The Most Trusted Name in News” should be “The Least Trusted Name in News.” These people are becoming a joke.

From The Heritage/Blog:

• The media, you see, used to have something called a “watchdog” role in this country, by which it was understood that they worked for society and protected it against those in power, preventing abuse. But as with the Sherlock Holmes case of the “dog that didn’t bark,” old traditional media such as the New York Times, network television, National Public Radio and PBS, are not doing much, if anything, to keep those in power in check. For that today, one has to rely on blogs and popular outlets such as FOX News. In fact, FOX News gets labeled as conservative for merely fulfilling this obligation.
• The New York Times, for example, ran zero—that’s right, zero—stories on Van Jones, the Obama Administration “green jobs” Czar before he was forced to quit last weekend. It was left to investigative reporting by conservative bloggers, amplified by FOX News, to reveal that Jones had signed a petition accusing the Bush administration of allowing 9/11 to happen so they could have a pretext to wage war on Iraq. This was a man with real power and real budget authority. In fact his department’s budget nearly doubled the total annual budget for NASA. But not only did the New York Times or the networks never devote any resources to investigate, even after the revelations of his obvious instability came to light, the traditional media outlets sat on the story.

Flash (duh!) … Pew Research – “Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low”

The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.

The Watchdogs are asleep.  Comments?

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The Patriot Flag I am flying today is the Flag of the United States of America! Here’s why …

Flown for 9-11 Remembrence

9/12/2009 Today, I am at the 9-12 march in Washington, DC. I’ve never participated in anything like this, so it is a first for me.  I’ll be keeping a log of the day and will be taking many pictures and videos of the activities. Below are links to the Patriot Flag’s Gallery so you can see what the march and rally looked like from “ground level.”  I put comments on each of the pictures. Below I’m giving you a sort of hour by hour summary of our day at the March on Washington, DC.  It was certainly an event I’ll never forget.  

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PICTURES IN THE 9-12 Album

Click here for our video on YouTube: Part 1 (Getting there)

Click here for our video on YouTube: Part 2 (March on the Capital)

(Part 3 coming tomorrow)

8:30 am …  We started off by driving from Sterling, VA to the Dunn-Loring Metro station.

Click for YouTube Link

As we got out of the car, we saw a couple of ladies get out of another car, and they were carrying posters.  They saw our T-Shirts and realized that we were “friendlies” and we were surprised to find people getting out of a car with posters. The surprise got larger as we walked into the Metro station to get our tickets and found a sizable line waiting to buy tickets from the machine.  When we got down to the platform, it was about 1/3 taken up with people carrying posters and flags.  When we got on the train, many people were already on board from the 2 stops ahead of ours. By the 2nd stop after us, nobody else could get onto the train … it was jam-packed.  What was amazing (and you’ll see it in the pictures) … getting off the train was when we realized this thing was much bigger than we had ever imagined. The platform at Federal Triangle metro was completely filled with people waiting to go up the escalators.  Then at the final escalator, there was a good wait as the huge crowd came up from below and out into the open (pictures show this).

Emerging from the Metro

When we emerged from the Metro, we were in another crowd which was slowly moving forward. This crowd merged with a crowd already walking up Pennsylvania Avenue. (We were supposed to turn left and go to Liberty Square, but there were so many people they started the march early to move the people along). So we merged with the march and continued toward the Capital.  Along the way toward the Capital building which loomed larger and larger on the horizon ahead of us, we again had to re-adjust our image … this thing was MUCH BIGGER than we had imagined, people as far as you could see ahead and behind.

We finally got to the Capital grounds, but they swere already full so we “parked” our chairs across the street from the grounds … a good viewing point for the activities.  There were basically two forms of entertainment, the speakers and activities from the podium area, and the crowd milling around us.  They had some fine speakers and some good bands playing patriotic music.  One of the most stirring moments was when a lady began to sing the Star Spangled Banner and the entire crowd … from the Capital steps to the Washington Monument (2 miles?) all sang along with her … that was amazing and we captured a little of that on the video.  My favorite speech was our South Carolina Senator, Jim DeMint. He got a great welcome, was well-cheered during his speech and made a big hit with the crowd.

About 3:30 Dan and I walked away from the Capital area around the reflecting pond.

Patriots Everywhere!

Again, our focus had to widen. We hadn’t seen the people behind us, probably 4/5ths of the entire crowd. The area all the way around the reflecting pond was filled as was the entire mall down to the Washington Monument.

We finally found a Starbucks, got an iced coffee, and headed back into the Metro for a long, (tired) ride home. Many people were with us from the rally … everyone was tired but still having a good time.

There were no swastikas, there were no “angry mobsters” … what we saw was a helluva lot of people … darned concerned about the direction of their government, and doing their best to make a point … HOPING somebody would listen.  (Of course the White House mentioned Friday, that they were “unaware of the march”.  That figures).  When you see the aerial shots of this event … which we did not see until we got home … you realize a statement was being made. But you would have barely noticed it if you were not watching Fox News.

We are all Sons of Liberty

My favorite “moment” was THE picture I missed.  On the mall, a gal sitting in her lawn chair, here dog lying  by her side, with a poster that read:  “I’m off the Sidelines!  I’m a First-Time protester.  And I’m here to stay!”  I think that summed it up for many people there. The people who sat beside Dan and I were in their 80′s … he was a WW II vet. These folks were not “professional” protesters by a long shot.

This was a PLEASURE to have attended this event. Sometimes we are thinking we are “all alone” in this struggle. As Dan and I got out of the car we were kidding about being the only two in the march … then the two ladies showed up, then the people in line for tickets, then the packed subway, and into a Pennsylvania Avenue crowded with people from end to end.  I came away feeling that being a “conservative” doesn’t mean you are “alone” … you’re actually in a pretty good group that is growing, and growing and growing.  I’d rather be on the RIGHT side of this whole issue than the LEFT!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PICTURE GALLERY

From the Podium, it was announced that CNN had stated there were “Over 1000″ people at the 9-12 March and Rally.  For once, they were correct!  When this was announced, the crowd boo’ed then started chanting, “They can’t Count!” Below is the time lapse video of the march … are there more than 1000 of us there?

Here is the WORLD NET DAILY summary … great summary with pictures.

Your comments are welcome.

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