Video: Obama Admits Blogs Foil His Efforts

Despite the immense fundings of the astroturfs and the MSM propaganda machine, the humble blogs of the people have identified the lies and the fallacies of the regime.  It has informed the nation of the damages that is being inflicted on the republic consequently more and more have become involved to resist the deterioration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3nBuKWbs3M&feature=player_embedded

Video: Now we see what's in the law that Obama pushed.

They passed the Healthcare Reform law so that we will find out what's in it.  I objected to that tactic along with the majority of the US population but, the Democrats passed it anyway because they can.  So, now we're beginning to see what the GOP warned us about though it's but the tip of the iceberg.  Here's the rest that's soon to follow.  The way this law was made is criminal.  Justice requires that the law be repealed and those who implemented it need be impeached.

This report comes from actuaries from Medicare and Medicaid. Medical costs will skyrocket rising $389 billion 10 years. 14 million will lose employer-based coverage. Millions will be left without insurance. And millions more will be may be dumped into the already overwhelmed Medicaid system. 4 million American families will be hit with tax penalties under this new law.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/government-releases-new-numbers-on-obamacare-showing-costs-will-skyrocket/


This video has a short intro about the MSM's portrayal of the Tea Party movement before going into the lies that are showing up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAE7GhlMQTI  

Video: Worldwide air travel animation brings perspective

The video is an animation of worldwide air travel where each dot represents a plane during a 24 hour period.  One gains a realistic scale of our place in the universe.  We are but a speck in the time and space continuum.  That perspective can tone down our tragedies if ever we are inclined to take ourselves too seriously.  And humility is just that - realizing that we are humus - a speck of dirt.  Everything comes from God, everything is for God and all our abilities and opportunities are an extension of God's creative power of which we are but stewards and will be held accountable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRmqlrCckJw&feature=player_embedded

Video: 18 yr. old. on way to sainthood. Beatification this Sept. 25, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxP4z2-MLA&feature=player_embedded#!


April 22, 2010. The Italian youth Chiara Luce Badano is an example for many youths and the sick despite her death at only 18 years of age. Her heroic way of facing cancer didn’t just surprise her parents and her friends. On September 25 she will be proclaimed blessed.


Chiara was born in 1971. Her father was a truck driver and her mother a housewife. A sports fan, those who knew her described her as an open girl, concerned for others and very close to her parents. The three were members of the Focolare Movement.

“Her mother says Chiara and her would exchange small acts of kindness. They kept track by collecting pebbles in their pockets. In the end Chiara always had more pebbles than her mother .”

“I have seen all the coherence and the radicalism of Chiara’s life in the life of her parents.”

At age nine she found the spirit of the Focolare Movement in a festival celebrated in Rome. It caught the attention of the Badano family, which shared everything. From this moment, they joined the movement, and the young Chiara and the founder, Chiara Lubich, formed a great friendship, which is reflected in the letters they sent each other.

“Chiara Luce is the name that Chiara Lubich would give her after the long correspondence they had since she was a child. She got this name in the last period of her life.”

“Chiara began to write her letters addressed to Chiara Lubich with ‘hi mom’, which shows that for her she was like a mother. And Chiara has known God through the movement founded by Chiara Lubich.”

One day, the 17-year old was playing when she felt a sharp pain in her back. After several tests, the doctors thought it was a problem with her spinal cord. It turned out to be a malignant tumor. When they diagnosed her, it was very advanced. She had two operations, without success.

“In the last moments she refused morphine that could have lessened her physical pain, because she entered into another logic, the one to offer everything. At one moment she said, the only thing left is the pain, and if I can’t offer this, what can I offer?”

“She got sick when she was a teenager and died while she was young, but always trying to live through difficulties with a smile, trying to be love for everyone else.”

Benedict XVI has recognized as a miracle through Chiara Luce’s intercession the extraordinary cure of an Italian boy with a grave illness. Now the 18-year-old girl will be raised to the altar on September 25.

source: http://www.romereports.com/palio/modules.php?t=Chiara-Luce-Badano--Eighteen-year-old-girl-of-the-Focolare-Movement-will-be-beatified-in-September&name=News&file=article&newlang=english&sid=1990

Video: The Altruism in "Spreading the Wealth" and the Demise of the American Ideal as seen by Tocqueville.

No wonder people are conflicted.  It's that approach-avoid conflict.  This video explains it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3_Ki6R3z0&feature=player_embedded

(H/T http://agangershome.blogspot.com/ )

The opposition ridicules Conservatives as having some sort of  a cognitive dissonance, "being angry at something they cannot put their finger on".  While that is not exactly an indicator of inferiority, the conservatives are chided as being "low-information" voters - a euphemism for being ignorant and stupid.

There is indeed an uneasiness because things cannot be painted in stark colors where evil is dark and menacing and good is the underdog struggling against all odds.  In fact, how many times have the liberals and their friends in the media tried to turn the tables around albeit falsely attacking the Tea Partiers as racists and the Pope as a pedophile.  Yet the man on the street feels that something just doesn't sit right;  that there's something going on - something insidious.  And that sense of the people may not be far off from the reality of the slow demise of the American ideal as foreseen by Alexis de Tocqueville (cfr. Democracy in America).  Michael Ledeen recently wrote, de Tocqueville knew that "we will not be bludgeoned into submission; we will be seduced."  

Tocqueville foresaw the collapse of American democracy as the end result of two parallel developments that ultimately render us meekly subservient to an enlarged bureaucratic power: the corruption of our character, and the emergence of a vast welfare state that manages all the details of our lives.

Just as the Austrians placed the red carpet to usher the Nazis to rule over them, we have voted the Democrats to fix our financial mess despite their words that hint on Totalitarianism.  We didn't care as long as we get that quick fix away from Enron, the mortgage collapse and recession - no matter what the cost.  That is how our character is corrupted - when we sold the soul of the American ideal.

The whirlwind continues as liberals with neither honor nor dignity use tactics e.g. the Alinsky method to obfuscate, mislead, misinform, confuse, ridicule and confound their opponents.  There is no honest dialogue where both parties seek the truth and the solution to problems.  There is only a contest, a debate, a moot court where the opponent is put down for points.

So, the common people are indeed confused because they hear the administration and law makers talk in a sincere tone, feigning compassion and good will, while making laws and policies that take away  freedoms as a small price to pay.

Reflection of a guilt ridden tea partier

I have a son who stopped breathing through his nose and a wife who is squirming in pain. What if I didn’t have insurance? All these rushed through my mind as I drove them to the doctors. I have work but took the day off yesterday.  Being away made we worry about my job.  What if I were like my brother and friends who after months are still jobless?   All these made me reflect about my position against the insurance reform. Have I hardened my heart to those who are in dire straits?

I read that the supporters of the culture of dependence came from those making less than $50K and those making more than $200K. Those were the people who voted for Obama - those who need help and those who want to change the system to help them. They’re really not bad people; but for the grace of God, I too would be among those needing a handout.

Those in between are those who resist the culture of dependence.  I doubt if they are uncaring towards the plight of the poor. On the contrary, statistics show that these people give more to charity than those who think that the government should redistribute the wealth. And that’s where I find myself today.  Through taxes,  I am funding Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that provides healthcare for the poor.  And I don't mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rQ7zQSCEgQ&feature=player_embedded


I still feel convinced that the Health Care Law should be repealed because the reforms needed in the insurance industry will not be fixed by jumping from the frying pan to the fire. Because of that, I hate the Democrats for exploiting this crisis to advance their causes e.g. more government control and Socialism.

(About my son, he has allergies.  We'll try cleaning up his room first then consider allergy shots.  My wife's initial diagnosis was constipation. What can I say?)

Video: Pope plans to expand use of exorcism. Interview with an Exorcist

Pope plans to expand use of exorcism.

http://vimeo.com/1406401

Interview with an Exorcist from jim Sitton on Vimeo.