K S M – Know So Much

As I have mentioned numerous times in previous posts, we need to become activists in order to counter attempts to move our country to the extreme left. In the next four years we will encounter many battles to protect the freedoms and beliefs that have made America such a great nation. We can no longer just sit back and expect that ‘everything will be OK.’ Those of us that have been active before must become more diligent, those that have been in the background must step forward. Our power is in numbers, and many more must wake up and accept their responsibility.

Look around at what we see on television, in commercials, movies, the Hollywood elite, the internet, the mainstream media, and from our ‘leaders’ in Washington. It is easy to feel that we are surrounded by a declining culture and government, and there is no escape. Glenn Beck has envisioned and organized a national movement he calls “We Surround Them.” The idea is to bring together people of similar values and beliefs to demonstrate the fact that each of us is actually surrounded by people of like values. The declining culture does not surround us, but ‘We Surround Them.’

This and other movements such as the ‘National Tea Party’ movement are emerging and catching fire all across the country. They are being organized and promoted by ordinary citizens that are beginning to realize what liberal interest groups have known for two generations. A large number of ordinary citizens joining together to express a common concern will have a noticeable impact on the media, politicians, and the general public perception. Attendance at these early events are important to the continued growth and influence of the new ‘Conservative Activism.’ Attend one of these early events and learn the pride and satisfaction of exercising your right and responsibility to have your voice heard in our Representative Republic. Your children will thank you!

Tomorrow is the first national ‘We Surround Them’ event. Individual simultaneous events are planned all across the country. Remember that power is in numbers and your attendance at these events is important. Please use the links below to learn more about these efforts and to find an event near you.

What is ‘We Surround Them’?
Find the ‘We Surround Them’ Event Nearest to You
Cincinnati “We Surround Them” Event
Support the Tea Party Movement
National Tax Day Tea Party – FaceBook Group
Cincinnati March 15th Tea Party – Facebook Group

Senator Leahy made a motion to table the E-Verify amendment. The motion to table was successful – the count was 50-47, thereby killing the program.

No Republican Senator voted in favor of the motion to table, and there were seven Democrats that refused to follow the liberal line set by Leahy and Reid, and voted against the motion to table.

Please take time to thank your Senators that voted against tabling, and express your disappointment to any Senator that voted to table.

Senate Contact List

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The E-Verify amendment did not make it to the Senate floor yesterday, and the authorization and funding has expired.
However, the Appropriations Bill was not passed and the debate will continue on Monday. This means that the amendment #604 by Jeff Sessions (R-AL) can still be brought to the floor if the Democrats allow. We must continue to contact our Senators to push for reauthorization of E-Verify.

Regarding my calls to Ohio Senators George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown:
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) – I called his Washington number, 1-202-224-2315, and after a couple rings it forwarded to a recorded response stating that the Senator was receiving a large volume of calls and if I wanted to comment I should go to his website. There was no other option, and the call was disconnected. I DID leave a pleasant message on his website.

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Urgent! E-Verify will expire today if the Senate does not take action.

E-Verify is a tool that allows businesses to quickly check the citizen and immigration status of potential workers. Harry Reid and other Democrats have been blocking this bill from reaching the floor. There is no legitimate reason to let E-Verify die. Without this system there is no practical way for employers to check employee status.

The Democrats do not want us to know who the illegal aliens are. Especially in these economic times, we do not want to make it easier for illegal aliens to take jobs away from American citizens.

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Why a New American Tea Party Movement?

Nearly 47% of popular votes in 2008 went to McCain / Palin.
Even with record voter turnout,
Obama only received the endorsement of
about 32% of voting age Americans.

Barack Obama did NOT receive a mandate to “remake” America!

We must protect the Constitution and the America that the Founders envisioned.
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Barack Obama do not possess the intelligence, judgment, or integrity of our Founding Fathers.

Too many Americans have sacrificed too much over the last 235 years for our generation to hand this country over to those that want to “remake” America!

We need to unite and become activists to save America as we know it.

The Tea Party movement began with a February 19th ‘rant’ by CNBC’s Rick Santelli on the Stock Market floor. His remark urging modern tea parties has caught fire across America.

Santelli’s Tea Party ‘Rant’
National Tea Party Website

Please support and participate in any Tea Parties in your local area. If there are none scheduled, take the lead and organize one. There have already been several successful demonstrations in Chicago, Washington, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and other cities.
How to Organize a Local Tea Party

There is a Tea Party planned for Sunday, March 15th at 3:00 pm on Cincinnati’s Fountain Square.
The day and time were chosen so that working Americans could attend, and would not interfere with the opportunity to attend their preferred church service.

Follow the links below to learn more about this ‘Tea Party’ demonstration.
Official website: www.cincinnatiteaparty.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53063199485

Looking forward to participating and seeing everyone on the 15th!
This has to be just the beginning. We must continue to work to protect our heritage and preserve a promising future for our children.

Cincinnati Tax Day Tea Party

This is just the beginning!

More power grabs from the Obama, Pelosi, Reid Government!

Now they are coming for our guns! READ H.R. 45!
Bill Summary
Full Text of H.R. 45

This bill was introduced on January 6, 2009 and has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee.

This committee is chaired by John Conyers (D), Mich., and currently consists of 24 Democrats, 17 Republicans. If you follow the link below you will see that the committee contains some of the most far left Democrats in the Congress.
http://judiciary.house.gov/about/members.html

If you want to see what their legislative priorities are go to this link and look at the ‘Committee News and Current Issues’:
http://judiciary.house.gov/

Read the bill here:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45

Please contact your Congressman and and any of those on the Judiciary Committee.
This link will get you the contact information for every Senator and Congressman.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

We may have lost the ‘Stimulus’ battle, but now is not the time to surrender. Many conservatives woke up and fought hard to oppose the stimulus bill, just as we did with the immigration bill a couple years ago. We are fighting greater odds now, but that just means we need to fight harder. We will have constant challenges over the next two years, as the liberals know this is the best chance they have ever had to advance their extreme agenda. We must hold our ground until we can muster reinforcements in congress with the 2010 elections.

Check this link often to track any action or movement regarding this bill.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show

You have a right and a responsibility to be heard. Pass this information to anyone that respects the Constitution, and specifically their Second Amendment Rights.

Thanks,
Tim (tmc32)

Back in August of 2008, during the campaign, candidate Obama pushed for a $50 billion economic stimulus plan .   At the time, that seemed like a huge amount of money, and to many it looked to be an overt transfer of wealth.   Well, we now understand that $50 billion was mere pocket change.

The Senate just approved their version of the economic ‘stimulus’ bill this afternoon.   The cost of the bill is currently estimated at around $850 billion dollars, and is nearly 800 pages long. That is slightly more than one billion dollars per page.   Sounds quite harmless, doesn’t it?   We have been so conditioned over the last few months to accepting these huge numbers that the real meaning doesn’t even register.   But how many of us can even comprehend the enormity of such figures.

What does $850 billion look like? How do we understand what these numbers mean?   If we write it out, it looks like this – $850,000,000,000.   A big number, but still meaningless.    So how do we understand how much money we are talking about? Let me give you an example.

First I must remind you that these are your hard earned tax dollars that we are talking about.

I have tried many ways to demonstrate the amount of our money in this ’stimulus’ bill and have settled on one that is easily visualized and allows you to get a real grasp on what $850 billion really looks like.

The Department of the Treasury sets the thickness of all United States currency (bills) at .0043 inches .   That means that there are 232.6 bills in a one inch stack (1/.0043).

Let’s assume those are all $20 bills,
meaning the one inch stack of bills would be worth $4,660 (233 x $20)

Now it is time for us to do a little experiment.   Knowing that the one inch stack of bills is worth roughly $4,660, and without trying to calculate or think too hard, how high would the stack be to equal $850 billion dollars?   After you have made your estimate, continue reading for the answer.

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Regarding the story: Three RINOs Move Left to Support the Stimulus

I want to thank everyone that has stepped up and contacted these three RINOs, as well as their own senators.  I hope you are also relaying this message to all of your personal contacts, and telling everyone you know that they must let their voices be heard on this critical issue.  We must try to turn these three senators.  I know it appears that I have become stuck on one issue here, but how we react to this situation will greatly affect the direction of our Country going forward.

The Democrats are desperate to have this bill labeled as bipartisan because it will not work and they know it.  They realize that it is much more special interest and pork than stimulus.  They need to be able to call it bipartisan.  The Democrats realize that the bill they crafted is destined to pass, with or without Republican support.  When this bill eventually passes we will be forced to ’share the wealth,’ but we should not volunteer to ‘Share the Blame.’

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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Last night three ‘Republican’ senators broke with their colleagues to support the ’stimulus’ bill. They say they can now support the bill since it was trimmed from somewhere over $900 billion to around $800 billion.
Thanks for easing our pain!
What happened to that ban on torture?

It is very important that everyone contact these senators. This is now being touted as a ‘bipartisan’ bill, with a ‘consensus’ of the senators in support. Three ‘left of RINO’ senators does not equal bipartisan!

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The recent confirmation of Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury enraged many honest taxpaying citizens across the country.   When I checked to see how my Ohio senators voted on this appointment I was disappointed, but not surprised, by what I found.   Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown took the lead from former Senator Obama’s playbook, and did not vote on the controversial appointment.   RINO Republican Senator George Voinovich voted to confirm the admitted tax cheat, Timothy Geithner.

Hoping to understand my representative’s logic, I immediately sent the following email message to Senator Voinovich.

I was very disappointed to learn that you voted to confirm Timothy Geithner for Secretary of the Treasury.   His backers assert that he is the only man in America that can get us through this economic ‘crisis’.    That is an absurd contention, especially when you consider the fact that he can not even manage his own tax issues.

There are only three possible reasons for his tax payment problems:

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