Still Won't Fly...

There are plenty of commercials on TV on travel destinations, airlines (oh boy, you're only going to charge me that much extra to take some clothes in a suitcase? how wonderful!), and sites like kayak.com and priceline.com. Hey, you wanna take your kids to Disney World, don't you?? (I do, actually.) It seems a cruel taunt considering that you have to spin the roulette wheel of bad touches and radiation before you're allowed to board your plane to your destination with your kids. What decent parent would ever proceed with a trip under these circumstances? You prove to me why our country isn't looking more like Nazi Germany every day.

Shocked: What is happening to my America?

For Tony and I, blogging takes a back seat to so many other things these days. But I've always seen blogging as a release from stress. So, when I don't blog for months, there's often more to it than that I'm just busy. In the past half year, the things foremost on my mind are also all over the news (at least the news we watch and read) and, unfortunately, they're of the more unpleasant variety, unpleasant enough that it becomes heavy and redundant to repost on on my rather light-hearted blog. But it's become overwhelming just how many jaw-dropping, ire-evoking, mentally and emotionally disturbing stories have surfaced this year and how their frequency is only increasing in pace. I feel like I'm watching the death of my nation and the decay of my freedoms every day. And at the top of the list are all the new abuses being put forth by the TSA under the guise of "protection". I've never seen anything more resemble the Nazi offenses in WWII movies than what they're doing now to men, women, the elderly & children. The videos and stories are of scared, paralyzed parents watching their children in distress and of modest, decent people leaving airports true victims of sexual assault. And the perpetrators are protected and revered by our government officials. They're allowed to mock, ridicule and commit crimes with their hands. Many have proven themselves bullies and predators and have not attempted to mask their enjoyment of their new power.

And I'm even more interested in what awful longterm consequences we can expect to surface from forced irradiation by body scanners.

Where are the doctors? psychiatrists? mental health professionals? These are our patients, our familes and friends. We have to stand up and be vocal. We are not sheep to be lead.

Stand up!

Boycott flying!

Read http://wewontfly.com/ and its blog posts and links, especially this one:

http://www.ourlittlechatterboxes.com/2010/11/tsa-sexual-assault.html

and

http://mytsahorrorstory.com/

and, if you're on facebook, join the "Boycott Flying" page!

Getting Edumacated

I've recently been attempting to learn more about how our economy works and I have come across so many things that confuse and infuriate me about practices and policies that squander our country's wealth but are allowed to continue unchecked. Things that, if more were widely known about them, I think would confuse and infuriate everyone else who loves this country too. I used to believe that our country was kept relatively safe from corruption by a series of checks and balances. I am realizing that so many of these have already been eroded long ago, leaving us with a system devoid of reason, fairness or control.

I was excited to learn about a bill designed to target the source of some of these corrupt practices, the Federal Reserve. The same mysterious Federal Reserve that is mentioned daily in the news but that few Americans truly understand. I didn't. I was shocked to learn that the bank that runs our entire economy is not a government agency at all. It's run by private bankers who have no built-in incentive to make choices that are in the best interest of anyone but themselves. They may inflate and deflate our money at will. And they don't even have to allow anyone to audit their books.

Bill HR 1207 would open the Fed up for audit. As it stands now, many Fed meetings are secret and audit is not allowed. I shudder to think of the tumult that an audit would cause and the staunch resistance it would likely create on its way to implementation. But the thought of the status quo continuing for another 10, 20, 50 years is even worse. This isn't the first time such a bill was proposed. Unfortunately, 1993's version was brushed aside by Alan Greenspan, the Fed president, and denounced by President Clinton as dangerous to the stability of our economy.

Learn more about the Fed below and see all the representatives and senators who support the bill to audit the Fed here.

New Linky

The future of American liberty may depend on ordinary citizens joining with organized movements like Campaign for Liberty that have the power to make real changes in Washington. I hope folks will begin channeling any anger they're dealing with into a quest for education and a desire to support like-minded folks in the House and Senate.

Send This Guy To Washington

Is anyone saying this to our president? How much debt does each American child bear?

Quote of the Day

"If you want to start throwing fire bombs, you don't send out the fluffy bunny to do it."

--Jenny Backus, Democratic strategist, about Sarah Palin's attacks on Obama.

*giggles*

Second Dose

How 'bout that! Dr. Ron Paul's campaign headquarters blog is also called The Daily Dose. Exciting that he beat out Giluiani in the Michigan primary. Not so suprising to see him bypass ol' Fred.

New Linky

I saw fit to add Dr. Ron Paul's campaign to the list of linkies (right) today. I'm really excited about him and his ideas, which center on refocusing on the Constitution and preserving individual liberties. Plus he was a flight surgeon for the Air Force and a practicing ob/gyn in Texas! Who better than a doc to lead health care reform? Of course there are many other issues in this election but health care is going to be huge and it's going to change, for better or worse, in the next presidency. He's breaking fundraising records and causing quite a stir. Go Dr. Paul!