.....about the disenfranchisement of our troops' votes, REGARDLESS of their party affiliation!

JD Hayworth, our radio host at KFYI, who is a former congressman, received a call on his show last night from a guy here in Phoenix named Tim.  Tim is a veteran of Desert Storm, and currently has 2 nephews serving in Iraq.  It appears that, once again, our troops will not all receive their ballots in time to vote, if at all.  Those bleeding heart liberals in my circle of family and friends ESPECIALLY should be outraged about this, and demand that it be corrected ASAP.

But what angered me most was the interview JD Hayworth had with Congressman Trent Franks, who oversees the Armed Forces Committee.  Congressman Franks stated that he had put forth a bill recently that would ensure these honorable men and women who are fighting for our right to vote are not excluded from voting in this critical election.  A simple bill to ensure their rights, which NOBODY who is a true American would have a problem with.

HOWEVER,  none other than the infamous NANCY PELOSI REFUSED to bring it to a vote!  Just a vote, yay or nay, and she JUST REFUSED!  PERIOD!

Now THIS should cause great concern for everyone, because if she has the power and gall to do this to our brave men and women (simply because the military vote typically leans Republican), then what will stop her from keeping OUR rights from us!

I'm asking every one of you to slam her inboxes via email, telephone, US Postal mail MULTIPLE TIMES!  And please send this out to everyone you know and ask them to do the same!

I am telling you, as the daughter of a military family who has had loved ones who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to all of our military brothers and sisters, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, and the only right thing to do is to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!  Since the mainstream media has made it quite clear that they won't bother, we need to have a grassroots effort in order to be effective ~ there is strength in numbers!  I also will forward this to every media outlet I can possibly find, and encourage you to please do the same.

Here is 'Queen Nancy's' website:

http://www.speaker.house.gov/contact

and all of her contact information:

sf.nancy@mail.house.gov 

Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515

(202) 225-0100

Thank you to all who will help me with this ~ and for those who choose to delete me or send me angry messages, I hope and pray you'll think about what I've said when you exercise your right to simply drive to the polls on Tuesday in the safety and comfort we take for granted here to cast your ballot, without the threat of violent repercussions, or certain death or torture, that our brothers and sisters in other countries, especially Iraq, have had to endure all these years.  They are truly thanking us and our military that they can now enjoy such a freedom that we've never had to do without in the United States in my lifetime!

~ Mary ~

"Only 2 defining forces have ever offered to die for you ~ Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom."

~ Lt. Col. Grant L. Rosensteel, Jr. USAF"

Look At This Picture
Current mood: touched
Category: Life

Please pass this along to anyone and everyone you can ~

Cardinal Egan: Look at this Photograph

The following is a letter from Cardinal Egan which appeared in Catholic New York. Read it. It's the single best pro-life plea I've read in a long time. Here it is:

Just Look

The picture on this page is an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully.


Have you any doubt that it is a human being?

If you do not have any such doubt, have you any doubt that it is an innocent human being?

If you have no doubt about this either, have you any doubt that the authorities in a civilized society are duty-bound to protect this innocent human being if anyone were to wish to kill it?

If your answer to this last query is negative, that is, if you have no doubt that the authorities in a civilized society would be duty-bound to protect this innocent human being if someone were to wish to kill it, I would suggest—even insist—that there is not a lot more to be said about the issue of abortion in our society. It is wrong, and it cannot—must not—be tolerated.

But you might protest that all of this is too easy. Why, you might inquire, have I not delved into the opinion of philosophers and theologians about the matter? And even worse: Why have I not raised the usual questions about what a "human being" is, what a "person" is, what it means to be "living," and such? People who write books and articles about abortion always concern themselves with these kinds of things. Even the justices of the Supreme Court who gave us "Roe v. Wade" address them. Why do I neglect philosophers and theologians? Why do I not get into defining "human being," defining "person," defining "living," and the rest? Because, I respond, I am sound of mind and endowed with a fine set of eyes, into which I do not believe it is well to cast sand. I looked at the photograph, and I have no doubt about what I saw and what are the duties of a civilized society if what I saw is in danger of being killed by someone who wishes to kill it or, if you prefer, someone who "chooses" to kill it. In brief: I looked, and I know what I saw.

But what about the being that has been in its mother for only 15 weeks or only 10? Have you photographs of that too? Yes, I do. However, I hardly think it necessary to show them. For if we agree that the being in the photograph printed on this page is an innocent human being, you have no choice but to admit that it may not be legitimately killed even before 20 weeks unless you can indicate with scientific proof the point in the development of the being before which it was other than an innocent human being and, therefore, available to be legitimately killed. Nor have Aristotle, Aquinas or even the most brilliant embryologists of our era or any other era been able to do so. If there is a time when something less than a human being in a mother morphs into a human being, it is not a time that anyone has ever been able to identify, though many have made guesses. However, guesses are of no help. A man with a shotgun who decides to shoot a being that he believes may be a human being is properly hauled before a judge. And hopefully, the judge in question knows what a "human being" is and what the implications of someone's wishing to kill it are. The word "incarceration" comes to mind.

However, we must not stop here. The matter becomes even clearer and simpler if you obtain from the National Geographic Society two extraordinary DVDs. One is entitled "In the Womb" and illustrates in color and in motion the development of one innocent human being within its mother. The other is entitled "In the Womb—Multiples" and in color and motion shows the development of two innocent human beings—twin boys—within their mother. If you have ever allowed yourself to wonder, for example, what "living" means, these two DVDs will be a great help. The one innocent human being squirms about, waves its arms, sucks its thumb, smiles broadly and even yawns; and the two innocent human beings do all of that and more: They fight each other. One gives his brother a kick, and the other responds with a sock to the jaw. If you can convince yourself that these beings are something other than living and innocent human beings, something, for example, such as "mere clusters of tissues," you have a problem far more basic than merely not appreciating the wrongness of abortion. And that problem is—forgive me—self-deceit in a most extreme form.

Adolf Hitler convinced himself and his subjects that Jews and homosexuals were other than human beings. Joseph Stalin did the same as regards Cossacks and Russian aristocrats. And this despite the fact that Hitler and his subjects had seen both Jews and homosexuals with their own eyes, and Stalin and his subjects had seen both Cossacks and Russian aristocrats with theirs. Happily, there are few today who would hesitate to condemn in the roundest terms the self-deceit of Hitler, Stalin or even their subjects to the extent that the subjects could have done something to end the madness and protect living, innocent human beings.

It is high time to stop pretending that we do not know what this nation of ours is allowing—and approving—with the killing each year of more than 1,600,000 innocent human beings within their mothers. We know full well that to kill what is clearly seen to be an innocent human being or what cannot be proved to be other than an innocent human being is as wrong as wrong gets. Nor can we honorably cover our shame (1) by appealing to the thoughts of Aristotle or Aquinas on the subject, inasmuch as we are all well aware that their understanding of matters embryological was hopelessly mistaken, (2) by suggesting that "killing" and "choosing to kill" are somehow distinct ethically, morally or criminally, (3) by feigning ignorance of the meaning of "human being," "person," "living," and such, (4) by maintaining that among the acts covered by the right to privacy is the act of killing an innocent human being, and (5) by claiming that the being within the mother is "part" of the mother, so as to sustain the oft-repeated slogan that a mother may kill or authorize the killing of the being within her "because she is free to do as she wishes with her own body."

One day, please God, when the stranglehold on public opinion in the United States has been released by the extremists for whom abortion is the center of their political and moral life, our nation will, in my judgment, look back on what we have been doing to innocent human beings within their mothers as a crime no less heinous than what was approved by the Supreme Court in the "Dred Scott Case" in the 19th century, and no less heinous than what was perpetrated by Hitler and Stalin in the 20th. There is nothing at all complicated about the utter wrongness of abortion, and making it all seem complicated mitigates that wrongness not at all. On the contrary, it intensifies it.

Do me a favor. Look at the photograph again. Look and decide with honesty and decency what the Lord expects of you and me as the horror of "legalized" abortion continues to erode the honor of our nation. Look, and do not absolve yourself if you refuse to act.

Edward Cardinal Egan
Archbishop of New York

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... is right here and well worth the 60 minutes it takes to view it:

History is doomed to repeat itself ~

especially if those who are ignorant of it choose not to educate themselves

about the

~ R E A L I T Y ~
 
of it.

May God bless you as He continues to bless America

~ Mary ~

~ Many thanks to Michael Brown and www.SpiritDaily.com for this link ~

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Ryan Mauro is the Associate Director of the Center for the Defense of Western Interests and one of the authors of the Christian Action Network’s Weekly Terrorism Spotlight.

In 2002, he was originally hired as a geopolitical analyst at age 16 for Tactical Defense Concepts, a maritime-related security group, believed to be the youngest hired geopolitical analyst in the country at that time. Mauro’s reports, which often criticized both political spectrums for their approaches to national security and geopolitics, were often forwarded to members of the law enforcement and intelligence communities with great response.

In June 2003, Mauro founded WorldThreats.com to promote news and analysis he wrote and ones he felt needed more exposure. Soon after, he became a volunteer analyst for the Northeast Intelligence Network, a civilian group dedicated to investigating terrorism and potential terrorism-related activity with a wide range of diverse views. He has also done volunteer work for the Reform Party of Syria, a group dedicated to bringing democracy to that country.

In 2005, Mauro published his first book, Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (and their possible movement to other countries), involvement with terrorism, corruption at the UN, and how Iran and Syria were engineering the insurgency in Iraq.

Mauro is also an associate editor for American Foreign Policy and the Middle East at GlobalPolitician.com and a U.S. editor at the World Security Network. He also co-founded the International Analyst Network, a Facebook-like website for readers to follow their favorite analysts and writers.

Mauro is frequently a guest on talk radio, such as the left’s “Al Franken Show” and the right’s “Dennis Prager Show.” He is also a public speaker, having spoken at the prestigious Intelligence Summit, and at various protests, community colleges, and local political clubs.

Mauro is currently working on making his own ghost writing company and is a student pursuing a Bachelor’s in Intelligence Studies and a Master’s in Political Science."

This kid knows his stuff ~ I'd trust him over Obama any day!

Barack Obama Denied National Security Clearance Aug.20, 2008

In general Barack Obama cannot be trusted with classified Information.

How can the President of the United States be denied a basic security clearance? How can the Commander and Chief of the most powerful military be denied access to classified information? Barack Obama would be denied the necessary security clearance for President if he was held to the same standard as everyone else. If you can't pass a Secret level background investigation, which is required for many soldiers, you should not be eligible for the Presidency.


What is a Security Clearance?

Having served in the U.S. military, law enforcement, and as a civilian government contractor, I've had my fair share of background investigations. The United States government employs a multitier security clearance paradigm.


Confidential – Unauthorized disclosure could cause "damage to national security." Secret – Unauthorized disclosure could cause "serious damage to national security." Top Secret – Unauthorized disclosure could cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security."

Each level of access requires a progressively more in-depth background investigation before the clearance is obtained. The President of the United States should be able to flawlessly pass the most extensive investigation and a polygraph test. Both are required for workers in some Special Access Programs classified Top Secret.


The purpose of the clearance is to determine an individual's honesty, trustworthiness, reliability, financial responsibility, criminal activity, emotional stability, foreign influences, family associations, drug use, mental health, judicial proceedings, employment history, traits of character, and loyalty to the United States. This collective data is used to evaluate your ability and willingness to safeguard national secrets.


Based on the facts about Barack Obama, he fails to satisfy the minimum requirements for even a basic secret clearance. His background investigation would have "Red Flags" shooting up in so many places; the issuing panel would deny him a clearance outright.


Obama's Answers on the Security Clearance Application Instead of going through all the Security Clearance Application questions, I'll examine the questions that would deny Barack Obama a Secret Clearance.


List foreign national relatives whom you or your spouse are bound by affection, obligation, or close and continuing contact.


Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. of Kenya, and Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian oil manager his mother married. These two foreign relatives would probably initiate a Defensive Security Services or Department of Defense investigation that would take roughly a year to explore. I'm not sure how many degrees of separation are involved, but Obama Sr. and Soetoro's associations are not friendly to the United States. However, they are not the primary concern.


Barack Obama's brother, his kin Abongo Obama, is a militant Muslim who has been quoted saying, "A black man must liberate himself from the poisons of European cultures and western values." Obama's paternal cousin, Raila Odinga is also a Muslim extremist who recently lost the Kenyan Presidential election to a Christian.

How can such relations exist between the President of the United States and radical Muslims?

Have you ever been an officer or a member or made a contribution to an organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the United States Government and which engages in illegal activities to that end, knowing that the organization engages in such activities with the specific intent to further such activities?

Have you ever knowingly engaged in any acts or activities designed to overthrow the United States Government by force?

These two questions go hand and hand. Having gone through the interview phase of the clearance process a number of times, I can't image the look on the face of the investigator nor the sheer amount of time it would take to explain Barack Obama's anti American ties.


Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist and granted funding to a controversial Arab group that dubbed the creation of Israel as a "catastrophe." The founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti western terrorism.


Barack Obama also served on the Wood's Fund board with William Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. Bill Ayers has killed hundreds of civilians, police officers, and was recently quoted saying, "I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough.
"

I would deny a security clearance for anybody that even shook these men's hands, never mind launching a campaign from Ayer's living room.


Have you illegally used any controlled substance, for example, marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, hashish, narcotics (opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, etc.), amphetamines, depressants (barbiturates, methaqualone, tranquilizers, etc.), hallucinogenics (LSD, PCP, etc.
), or prescription drugs?

Barack Obama has specifically admitted to using marijuana and cocaine in his book "Dreams From My Father." He even confesses pursuing heroin, but was scared of the drug dealer. A clearance question such as this is used to test someone's ethical fortitude to stand up for what is right, legally forbidden, and ultimately make correct decisions. Obama fails this test with his weakness to deny temptation.


Would anyone question your honesty?

Obama's lies regarding his recollection of policies supported and the reality of what he actually did endorse are too numerous to count.
However, these lies are unfortunately common in today's politics. An article written in a conservative blog has outlined 26 more personal deceptions Obama has made to the American people.


How can anyone trust this guy with confidence?

PLEASE research the facts for yourself, and make this information known to everyone you can.

Sharia Law has been oficially adopted in Britain:

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4749183.ece


and we will be next if Obama gets into office!

...please read all you can on 'Odinga' from Kenya - he has a very disturbing connection to Obama, Sharia (extremist) Law, and Dr. Jerome Corsi (author of Obama Nation). I could explain all of it to you here, but to make an informed decision on November 4th, you really do need to see this for yourself. There is too much at stake to not educate yourself on this stuff - besides, you wouldn't believe me if I told it to you - it's that incredible! What is more incredible is that nobody in the mainstream media is questioning Obama on ANY of this! So I guess it's up to us to do the legwork that they should be doing - yet again...

This is too critical to be ignored! I'm listening to Rusty Humphries right now - he has a lot of information on this breaking story:

www.talk2rusty.com

www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=43&authorId=82&tId=7

Please help get this information out there - we can't afford NOT to!

~ Mary ~

A couple more to look at:

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree. blogspot. com/2008/10/barack-obama-raila-odinga. html

NOTE:  Odinga's mantra at the bottom of his web page:

http://www. raila07. com/

"REGISTER FOR CHANGE"?? "VOTE FOR CHANGE"??

Too many coincidences too close to home if you ask me!

http://wnd. com/index. php?fa=PAGE. view&pageId=77291

Please be sure to read the 'diggs' about this also - very valid information!

~ Mary ~

Whether you're Catholic or not, there is one thing we ALL have in common, and that is the ruling of 'Roe V. Wade' in our country, whether you think it was 'good' or 'bad'.


Well do you know who the real 'Jane Roe' is, and where she is now? Here is the rest of her story, in her own words ~ please take a few minutes of your time and check it out!

And please, repost this and pass it on to everyone you know ... this is truly too important an issue to just ignore anymore.

Thank you, and may God bless you as He continues to bless America with McCain/Palin 2008:)

www.VirtueMedia.org/norma.htm

www.VirtueMedia.org

~ Mary ~