I took some vacation time, at home, the week before the 4th of July weekend. I live on the Alabama Gulf Coast, and spend most of my time away, from there, working. I had not been home since before the oil rig leak, in the Gulf, had began.

I didn’t know what to expect really. My only source for information is the internet. Internet news stories ranging from BP propaganda, to end of the world scenarios, have had me very emotional.

My mother’s family were among the first English settlers in the area. My mother even had an uncle, by marriage, whose family, were Spanish subjects, from the Spanish colonial days.

I was born in Mobile Alabama, and the Gulf is a part of me, it is a part of who I am. Many of my happiest moments, as a child, were spent fishing, and swimming, in the Mobile Bay.

Just a mile, down the road, from where I live, there is a BP station. I have bought gas at the station since it was opened. I knew, however, that I would no longer be a customer there. While away, I felt sorry for the people that owned the station. I was resolved to never buy another BP product, for as long I as I live.

Having had family members, in the gas station business, and having been a gas pump jockey, during my High School years, I knew the station is a family business. I also know that the business owners can change the product at their gas pumps.

I had returned home over the weekend, and stayed, shut in, the house going through my mail. Monday morning, I ventured out, to make a dentist appointment, and do some investigating, on the the Gulf beaches.

Leaving the house, I had made up my mind, to drive past the gas station, at the next cross roads. Approaching the station, I was happily surprised, to see that it was now a Shell station.

I made a point to stop in and patronize the station. Saturday, I had bought gas at a Chevron, and didn’t need to buy more. The station owners had been as outrage, as everyone else, at the conduct of BP, and the Federal Government. They had taken the decision to end their association with BP on their own.

Entering the store, I noticed that all BP products had been removed from the shelving, and Shell Oil products, in their place. The store owners, and managers, were not available, so I couldn’t ask them any questions. To show some support, I bought a few items, that could have been bought, more cheaply, elsewhere, and moved on.

As you can see, from the above picture, the store was completely empty. No one inside, and no cars at the pumps. I took this picture in mid-morning, at what should have been, a busy time of day for the station. While I had been certain to never patronize the station, as long as they sold BP products, I was saddened.

The owners had taken the initiative to change their oil company affiliation, but passing motorists, could only see the BP green, and not the Shell Oil replacement sign. The Shell sign being, basically, a large bag placed over the, more permanent, BP sign.

Over, the many, weeks of the oil leak, I have listened in to talk shows, so far as, I could stand to listen. Many talk show hosts have been criticizing the BP boycott because it hurts the small business owners. If small business owners are hurt, by their association with BP, they can change their business associations.

Please beware of propaganda in it’s many forms. While many of the national talk show hosts try to make you feel sorry, for Mom, and Pop, they are really shilling for the corporate giant.

Some of the propagandists are quite clever. This article, from Newsweek, Boycott BP!, subtitled, Because it is better to give your money to Exxon,  asserts that, if you boycott BP, you are giving your money to Exxon, as if their are no other oil companies.

It maybe true that Exxon got off light, from the Exxon Valdez spill, it wasn’t their company policy that kept it going for profit. As is the case with the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

The disaster, in the Gulf of Mexico, isn’t the only place that BP is leaving their mark. BP is dumping, as many as, 5 lbs. of mercury, in lake Michigan, per year, from their Indiana operation. The Chicago Sun Times has been calling for a boycott of BP for it.  Please see Sun Times Says Boycott BP.

British Petroleum, is an un-needed, corporation, in the United States of America. We do not need a foreign company to steal our natural assets, and sell them back to us. BP drills, and pumps oil, from Alaska, and sells it to other nations, like Japan.

The vey fact, that BP does business, in North America, is the result of the policies of the Trilateral Commission, whose purpose, was to merge the economies of Japan, The United States, and Great Briton.

I often tell people about the Trilateral Commission and their purpose. They often tell me that they don’t think it could happen. Well, it happened in the 1980’s.

Were you sleeping?

The latest battle in the healthcare war is being waged using a new strategy; the circumvention of the intent, spirit, and true definition of the legislative process by folding the health care bill into a budget bill and using the budget reconciliation process to facilitate passage. The 1974 reconciliation method is the perfect vehicle to navigate around certain obstacles, like a Republican filibuster. Besides, the budget reconciliation process only requires a 51-vote majority in the Senate.

 
President Obama and his administration have unveiled “The President’s Proposal,” a health care bill that is a combination of the Senate and House versions, but heavy on the Senate version. Unfortunately, it too, is unconstitutional and is camouflage for a government takeover of this country’s healthcare system.

As of March 3, the Democrats’ strategy for passing President Obama’s health care plan is to have the House first pass the health care reform bill that was passed by the Senate back on December 24th. The House would do this on the basis that the Senate would then pass a bill with changes in the Senate health care bill as demanded by House Democrats. This new Senate bill could be passed with only a 51-vote majority under the budget reconciliation process. Next, the House would pass the Senate reconciliation bill and the result would be final passage of President Obama’s health care plan as embodied in the combination of the Senate health care bill of December 24 and the new health care reconciliation bill which would modify the Senate’s original bill as per Obama’s health care plan with last-minute tweaking by Senate and House Democrats.

Congressional Republicans are not going to sit idly by while all of this legislative maneuvering happens. They plan to use everything at their disposal to delay and possibly torpedo the Democrats’ legislative strategy.

The New York Times reports that although no official cost analysis has been completed on Obama’s proposal, the White House admits that the plan will cost about $950 billion over 10 years, which is more than the Senate version, but less than the House’s. The plan will extend coverage to more than 31 million Americans by 2019. And the excise tax to pay for this latest unconstitutional health care budget buster will be delayed for insurers and employers until 2018.

Obama’s plan would actually expand the role of federal regulators, czars and overseers, in order to review premium increases in individual states. Mr. Obama would “call on the federal secretary of health and human services to work with state regulators to review premium increases,” while “superseding the authority of state regulators only if they refused to act in the face of excessive rate hikes.”

Language pertaining to abortion coverage in the Senate version remains as government officials “believe they cannot make changes to the Senate language on abortion” when using budget reconciliation. One interpretation of the provision is that insurance plans that cover abortions are eligible to receive federal subsidies, while another interpretation suggests that the bill would establish a separate premium to segregate funds used to pay for abortions, but just how this is done and how it keeps the taxpayers’ money from paying for abortions is not exactly clear.

The bottom line is that congressional passage of President Obama’s Health Care Plan would amount to an unconstitutional, government takeover of one-sixth of our nation’s economy. With sufficient public outcry from the grassroots this freedom-destroying health care plan can still be stopped.

Contact Congress, for free, using the JBS Mission Advocacy page.

There is a sample letter that you may use. You may also edit the letter to best suit your personal view.

The Tea Party movement has been co-opted by the Neo-Cons, and the controlled opposition, The Coffee Party, has it’s roots in the Obama White House.

So, what is a patriot to do?

Join the Beer Party!

No, it isn’t the 1970’s idea of the two party system; party all day, party all night.

It is about “Defending the Constitution from all enemies, Foreign and domestic… MOSTLY Domestic.”

A short video from the Founding Father, of the Beer Party, Mike Church.

Find out more about the Beer Party at; http://www.mikechurch.com/

There is no doubt in my mind, that there is not, so much as one, couch potato, in this country, that is even aware, the world’s central bankers have met in Australia to steal their futures, this past week.

Right now, all across the U.S., over weight, old men, are living, vicariously, in a fantasy world. Imagining that they are the, over paid, hero on the grid iron. All the while, they, and future generations, are being sold into slavery, to the banksters, by their elected politicians.

Here is an excellent commentary, by Alex Jones, on why to boycott the Super Bowl, and I think, professional sports, in general.

Until we wake up and fight back against the damage being wielded politically, we have no business getting caught up in gladiatorial distractions. The heat of the contest has become a substitute for our real manhood.

With millions of people watching the Super Bowl, it may not matter, very, much that I, one man, am not. But, I will not waste, not so much as, one more minute of my time, on useless, media events, until our nation is free again.

Decide to turn off your television. When the T.V. ratings, and advertising revenues dwindle, the media, will get the idea, to stop feeding us crap. 

If you aren’t watching the tube, right now, and would like something, thought provoking to read; Super Bowl Sunday: Scientifically Crafted Mass Mental Illness

The Fall of America and the Western World

In a nine DVD, box set, ‘The Fall of America and the Western World,’ isn’t just a warning of the planned, economic collapse, of western civilization, but a survival guide, for it.

The speakers, featured in the film, cover the entire political spectrum. The guests include Alex Jones, Naomi Wolf, Joseph Farah, David Icke, David McAlvaney, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Professor Mark Crispin Miller, Doug Casey, Mickey Z, and G. Edward Griffen.

All of the guests featured in this box set offer candid perspectives on why America and The Western World is headed for collapse and what we can do to protect ourselves from the forthcoming devastation before it’s too late. The guests were chosen because they offered the most bi-partisan, no nonsense, non-biased, and intelligent perspectives on the economy, the culture, politics, the global elite, the police state, the banking system, democracy, the end of democracy, the U.S. Constitution, the media, media reform, the bible, the surveillance society, precious metals, the globalist agenda, the end of national sovereignty, marital law, getting off the grid, the middle class, off-shoring, The Federal Reserve, the housing crisis, the credit crisis, unemployment, the book of revelations, prophecy, the police state, the surveillance society, the new world order and more.

This isn’t a Left Wing film, it isn’t a Right Wing film, it is a how to guide, to surviving financial Armageddon.

Topics Include:

The global financial collapse has already begun and Fascism is taking over. Consider that one of the speakers, in this film, Naomi Wolf, is on the No Fly list, for simply speaking out against Fascism.

You are not powerless if you are informed and prepared.

Purchase The Fall of America and the Western World, by clicking on the title, or any of the pictures in this blog.

Nine DVDs for $79.99 is a good deal.

For more information about the West for Congress campaign or to become involved please follow this link http://allenwestforcongress.com/.

Ron Paul appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live on Monday evening along with Ben Stein and Sheila Jackson Lee to discuss the recent thwarted terrorist attack. After Paul gives his now famous view that they “attack us because we are over there” Ben Stein calls Paul "anti-semitic" which solicits a demand for an apology by Paul. Paul characterizes it as a “vicious attack”.

Ben Stein Should Apologize to Dr. Ron Paul for falsely calling him "Anti-Semitic".

The under wear bomber is a matter that should be handled by the Department of Justice and not the Department of Defense.

Not invading other countries over simple criminal matters is not anti-Semitic. How insane of Ben Stein to stoop so low.

So, if you are not willing to invade other countries, and murder the population, over the actions of one person, you  are, according to Ben Stein, anti Jewish.

By all means, please feel free to contact Mr. Stien and let him know what you think.

Ben Stein’s Email 1: benstein99@aol.com

Ben Stein’s Email 2:  buellermail@aol.com

Ben Stein’s Website: www.BenStein.com

Ben Stein’s personal speaking agent is Marcia Hurwitz.

marcia@iala.com – Email

310-656-5171 – Telephone

New Facebook Group: Win Ben Stein’s Apology

From Infowars.com

For more info:
Bleak Deficit Numbers Projected Under Obama’s Budget Plan
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/b…
Poll: Public Disapproval of ‘Obamacare’ Jumps to 52 Percent
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/…
Obamacare: Nightmare before Christmas
http://savannahnow.com/opinion/2009-1…
Obama’s trillions dwarf Bush’s ‘dangerous’ spending
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pol…
Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/…
ObamaCare Keeps Falling in the Polls
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001…
Health Care Bill Is A Huge Tax Heist
http://www.prisonplanet.com/health-ca…
Under ObamaCare, Prepare To Wait 18 Months To See A Doctor
http://www.prisonplanet.com/under-oba…

Polls: Majority Disapprove of Health Care Legislation
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.co…
Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/kucinich-…
Health Care Bill "Death Panels" Could Only Be Repealed With Super Majority
http://www.infowars.com/health-care-b…
Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts in health bill
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/a…
Five critical flaws in the Senate health care bill
http://www.examiner.com/x-27701-Dalla…
Senate health care bill giant power grab for HHS
http://www.examiner.com/x-27580-St-Lo…
Report on Senate health bill: Medicare cuts jeopardize access to care
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec…
Cuts to Medicare for home health care providers
http://www.pri.org/politics-society/g…

It is only three days away from Christmas and time is short. If you have anything left over from Christmas shopping; consider donating for the children of disabled vets.

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