Do you know what the Statue of Liberty stands for? Do you know what is written on her plaque?

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 "Give me your tired, your poor,
 Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
 I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Notice that she doesn't say, "I lift my lamp so you can jump over my walls and break my laws" There is a door, the proverbial "Golden Door," or a method for coming to America.

It recently came to my attention that there are groups out there, mostly liberal, who want the Statue of Liberty torn down because they have the audacity to claim, "It doesn't stand for what it used to." I give this correction.

The Statue of Liberty stands as a beacon of hope. A beacon leading the lost and the weary to a place of rest, but this place of rest is not without rules and laws. We, the people of the United States of America, have indeed created a way for these lost and abused souls to come to our land and enjoy our freedoms, but remember that Freedom isn't Free. We have spent the blood of our fearless, God fearing soldiers to keep this place free. So, if you want to share in the freedom that our service men have sacrificed so much to "purchase" for us, then by God, you better keep our rules.

There is a method established wherein foreigners are able to become a citizen of this great country. My father and his family did it in the 1950s. My aunt became a citizen last November. It is still working and it is still approved. We have not closed our borders to those who wish to come to this land and follow our rules to be come a citizen. We HAVE closed our borders to those who wish to cross without following the rules and who do not wish to come here legally.

My rant is this - This country is truly the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." You are welcome to join us, but please do so by following our laws.

And this message needs to go out to all of our Liberal leaders: Freedom isn't Free. If you love this country, you'll Fight with us! Not bicker and complain that we are not doing anything. If you want the Illegal Aliens to stay and usurp our resources, you should be deported with them as you are obviously as guilty as they are.

One final thing: This country was established by religious, God fearing men and it is only by the grace of that God that we are able to keep this country free. So, if you are Muslim and call him Allah, Christian and call him Heavenly Father or any other religion, please pray to that Supreme Being who grants us this great freedom and the breath we breathe so that this country will remain free. It doesn't matter what name we call Him, He is there and He loves us.

How Headlines Are Made

Two boys in Boston were playing baseball when one of them was attacked by a killer Rottweiler. The dog had already locked his jaws on the boy's leg.

Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off of a nearby fence, wedged it into the dog's collar and twisted it, breaking the dog's neck. A newspaper reporter from the Boston Herald witnessed the incident and rushed over to interview the boy.

The reporter began entering data into his laptop, beginning with the headline, 'Brave Boston Red Sox Fan Saves  Friend From Jaws Of Vicious Animal.' "But I'm not a Boston Red Sox fan," the little hero interjected.

"Sorry" replied the Reporter. "But since we're  in Boston, I just assumed you were."

Hitting the delete key, the reporter  began, 'John Kerry Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Dog Attack.'

"But  I'm not a John Kerry fan either," the boy responds.

The reporter says, "I  assumed everybody in this state was either for the Red Sox, John Kerry or Ted Kennedy . What team or person do you like?''

"I'm a Yankees fan, and I really like Mitt Romney," the boy says.

Hitting the delete key, the  reporter begins again: 'Arrogant Little Snot-Nosed Mormon Republican Kills  Beloved Family Pet.'

How To Destroy America.

We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington , DC, filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America . It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"
 
"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bi cultural country." History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a  society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada, Belgium , Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficult times with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."

Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

Third, to destroy America, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec ' without much effort The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
 
"Fourth, to destroy America, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."

"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other- that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common Language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- from many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'Pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

Also, to destroy America, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book "Mexifornia." His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."

Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path especially The American Dream.

If you care for and love our country as I do, take the time to pass this on just as I did for you. NOTHING is going to happen if you don't!

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Please, keep it going! To show your support for Hillary and encourage her on her run for President of the United States in 2008, please add your name to the rapidly growing list below and send it on to your entire list. Thanks

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Earn Your Desk

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.

The kids came into first period, they walked in, there were no desks.

They obviously looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?"

And she said, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them."

They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."

"No," she said.

"Maybe it's our behavior."

And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."

And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the classroom. Second period, same thing. Third period was the same.  By early afternoon, television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom.

The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And she says, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily."

She said, "Now I'm going to tell you."   Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it,  and as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time they had finished placing those desks, those kids, for the first time, I think perhaps in their lives, understood how they earned those desks.

Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because  they paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it.

English.

A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the US, British, Canadian, Australian, and French Navies.  At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a group of half dozen or so officers that included personnel from most of the  countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks, but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.

He then asked: "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences, rather than speaking French?"

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied: "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."

It got so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.

(It is rumored that this is a true story. -tmc)

Let's Say I Break Into Your House.

I got this from a friend and I thought it was perfect for this section of my site... -tmc
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Recently, large demonstrations have taken place across this country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.  Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.  Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.

Let's say I break into your house.

Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave, but I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors.
I've done all the things you don't like to do.  I'm hard-working and honest (except for the fact that I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

• You are required to let me stay in your house
• You are required to add me to your family's insurance plan
• You are required to educate my children
• You are required to provide other benefits to me and my family

(I will do all of your yard work because I am hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

What's more?  If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there.  It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself.  I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for, well you know, I did break into your house.
 
And what a deal it is for me!!!  I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.  Oh yeah,  I demand that you to learn My Language so you can communicate with me.

Why can't our liberal "leaders" see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America.  It just floors me with how illogical their plans and petitions are.  I've said it before and I'll say it again: " A Liberal is just a Conservative without Facts or Logic!"