http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/index Bloggers of the American Reform Party en don.torgersen@uswide.net Copyright 2011 2011-12-15T21:01:26+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/the_fence/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/the_fence/#When:21:01:26Z   Which side of the  fence do you sit on ? If you ever  wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great  test!   If a Republican  doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a Democrat  doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a Republican is  a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a Democrat is a  vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for  everyone. If a Republican is  homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a Democrat is  homosexual, he demands legislated respect. If a Republican is  down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his  situation. A Democrat wonders  who is going to take care of him. If a Republican  doesn't like a talk show host, he switches  channels. Democrats demand  that those they don't like, be shut down. If a Republican is  a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A Democrat  non-believer wants any mention of God and religion  silenced. If a Republican  decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may  choose a job that provides it.. A Democrat demands  that the rest of us pay for his. If a Republican  reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good  laugh. A Democrat will  delete it because he's "offended". Political Parties 2011-12-15T21:01:26+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/we_can_kiss_the_good_ole_usa_goodbye/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/we_can_kiss_the_good_ole_usa_goodbye/#When:23:38:09Z Posted by Addie Blake If whoever gets the nomination for president, and whoever gets elected president, doesn't understand that if legal status with birthright citizenship is granted to just half of the 12 million illegals, they will be a 750 million majority, with voting rights, in three generations. Their religion/culture encourages large families (whether they can support them or not).  With an average of 5 children per family, they will go from 6 million to 30 million in one generation.  From 30 million to 150 million in two generations.  From 150 million to a 750 million majority with voting rights in the third.  If there are 20 million rather than the 12 million estimate, this 750 million majority number goes to a One Billion Majority With Voting Rights in three generations.  Add to that the millions of descendants of the millions of legal immigrants (the number of legals has quadrupled in the last 50 years due to chain migration), and the number doubles to two billion.   They will tear down the soon to be built border fence with their vote.  And the border will be left open for millions of Mexican citizens to step across the border with amnesty.  And we can kiss the good ole USA goodbye. We'll be asking them if we can stay. You hear, let them stay but not vote.  That's half a loaf:  They will be back for the other half:  citizenship and the vote. Your grandchildren and their children will have to fight that battle if the American people, and those they have elected to office, do not deal with immigration in a way that will insure that our grandchildren and their children, nor any future generation, will ever have to deal with this problem again. We can win the economy battle but lose it all with the wrong immigration policy.   Immigration 2011-12-13T23:38:09+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/the_worlds_largest_army_or_a_case_against_gun_control/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/the_worlds_largest_army_or_a_case_against_gun_control/#When:23:22:29Z Here’s an interesting side bar. After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, They could have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California To finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was we would not be able to stop a Massive invasion until they reached the Mississippi River. Remember, we had a 2 million man army and war ships. All fighting the Germans. So, why did they not invade? After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question. Their answer: They know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them.. The world's largest army.... America's hunters! I had never thought about this.... A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and Arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters became the eighth Largest army in the world. More men under arms than in Iran .. More than in France and Germany combined. These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt With firearms, and no one was killed. That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan's 700,000 hunters All of whom have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally Establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone Would comprise the largest army in the world.. The point? America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security. That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed. Food for thought when next we consider gun control. Firearms and Gun Control 2011-12-13T23:22:29+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/tuition_fees_soar_under_obama/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/tuition_fees_soar_under_obama/#When:22:59:19Z Over the past few years under the watchful eye of our current government, our higher education system has become a unreachable for many Americans as tuition fees have grown at a staggering rate.   When looking at databases of colleges and universities, some tuition prices have soared to over $48,000 for a single.  This record high in tuition prices have caused even students with college scholarships can't afford to stay in school.  Although enrolment rates in law schools and medical school hasn't changed much through this time, which is a direct result of the crumbling job market because graduates have no other option but to stay in school because of the anemic job market, as students are forced to scour job listings with no avail. With elections around the corner, look for the youth vote to swing for a candidate with improving our education system as one of their top priorities. 2011-09-13T22:59:19+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/open_letter_to_presidentobama/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/open_letter_to_presidentobama/#When:13:45:53Z Take care of home first Mr President. I know the world is now in deep recession but its time for each country to now learn to sink or swim including us. I do understand that all countries including us are very deep in debt and are hoping that somehow it will get better but there is no magic wand out there that can turn pocket change into billions of dollars. The only hope for us here in US would be to force our industries to come back home by taxing them heavy , heavy tariffs or boycotting them from shipping  into this country, even then it won't be an over night change. It will take another 5 yrs or more for them to relocate back home again, but at least we then could look forward to the brighter future. I lived through the great world depression that started 1929 and it lasted passed nineteen forties. Every one should call their congress  and demand they bring back the jobs that our companies shipped over seas. All I hear from them is double talk but no one including our President would even mention our overseas jobs as though they never thought of it. SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!   Louise Downing OBAMA 2011-09-11T13:45:53+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/so_youre_a_sick_senior_and_government_says_no_nursing_home_is_available/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/so_youre_a_sick_senior_and_government_says_no_nursing_home_is_available/#When:20:05:11Z So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you, what do you do? Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Congressmen. Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need! Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They’re all covered. And, as an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now. And who will be paying for all of this? It’s the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore. Is this a great country or what?   Healthcare 2011-09-05T20:05:11+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/wow_wow_and_wow_again/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/wow_wow_and_wow_again/#When:11:45:24Z Letter To Obama at Whitehouse Sent from 95 year Old Pearl Harbor Survivor & Hero !! Fantastic!! This venerable and much honored WW II vet known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of services to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before a governmental official, until now. He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president Dear President Obama, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert. I  enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.  One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak  my mind, blunt and direct even to the head  man. So  here goes.  I  am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that  wish. I  can't figure out what country you are the president  of. You  fly around the world telling our friends and enemies  despicable lies like:  "  We're no longer a Christian nation"  "  America is arrogant" - (Your wife even announced  to the world," America is mean- spirited.  " Please tell her to try preaching that  nonsense to 23 generations of our war  dead buried all over the globe who died  for no other reason than to free a whole  lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)  I'd  say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like  America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you  do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be  without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man  sitting in the White House.  After  9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals."  Which  ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that  11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence  from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a  slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil  War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers,  brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died  for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting  any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.  I  don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better  than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of  white people understood when they helped to get you  elected.  Take  a little advice from a very old geezer, young  man.  Shape  up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do  what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on  Pennsylvania Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow,  apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders  who still treat their people like slaves.  And  just who do you think you are telling the American people not  to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who  killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You  mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop  used force to subdue that black college professor in  Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don't mind  offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us  to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are,  terrorists.  One  more thing. I realize you never served in the military and  never had to defend your country with your life, but you're  the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your  battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops  to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not  in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American  soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're  thinking of.  You  could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president. You're  not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight  now.  And  I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy  in this final battle...  Sincerely,  Harold  B. Estes  Snopes  confirms as true:  http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/haroldestes.asp   When  a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest Generation" stands up  and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his  words to as many Americans as we can. Please share this with a friend National Security, Defense/Military, Veterans, Executive & Whitehouse 2011-09-03T11:45:24+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/omg_no_longer_means_what_you_think/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/omg_no_longer_means_what_you_think/#When:19:07:15Z OMG is no longer what you think it is...It has a whole new meaning!   Executive & Whitehouse 2011-08-31T19:07:15+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/perry_right_huntsman_wrong_on_global_warming_evolution/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/perry_right_huntsman_wrong_on_global_warming_evolution/#When:14:21:13Z Knowing little about former Utah Governor John Huntsman, except that he was hand-picked by Barack Obama to be his man in China, it was revealing to learn through his recent statements that he belongs to “the debate is over” crowd. The “debate is over” crowd never bellows louder than when it comes to global warming and evolution. They are the people who push fiction as if it were fact and then denigrate anyone who disagrees. Huntsman revealed a major unawareness of current scientific data when he attacked fellow presidential candidate Rick Perry (TX-R) on his position on evolution and global warming during an ABC interview stating: “I think there’s a serious problem. The minute that the Republican Party becomes the … anti-science party, we have a huge problem … When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 or 100 climate scientists have said … I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science and, therefore, in a losing position.”   Huntsman’s statements are misleading and rife with misinformation. Huntsman misleads by stating that 98 to a 100 climate scientists support global warming, but leaves out the documented fact that some 33,000 scientists worldwide consider man-made global warming to be total nonsense. The carbon-credits scheme is proving to be a scam. Yet, Huntsman appears to be a man after Al Gore’s heart. Huntsman would do well to Google the article: GLOBAL FRAUDS:  AL GORE & CHARLES DARWIN at: http://darwinsracists.com/book/?p=62. On the topic of evolution, Huntsman joins the more strident “the debate is over” crowd as he personally “embraces” evolution. Even Barack Obama was quick to give a “shout-out to Charles Darwin on his 150th birthday.” Evolution is mere theory without empirical scientific data to support it. As a life-devaluing, God-denying, racist theory, evolution was readily embraced by Karl Marx, the father of Communism, who wrote that he was “a devoted admirer” of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Others who anxiously “embraced” evolution were murderous tyrant Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky -- who fanatically persecuted the Christian church while claiming that Darwin's ideas"intoxicated him.”Another avid fan of evolution was Soviet mass murderer Joseph Stalin who became a devout atheist after determining that evolution does not require conscience or morals. One politician of note who “embraced” evolution was Adolf Hitler who was an avid follower and wrote in his book, Mein Kampf, that he believed in "natural selection" and the "survival of the fittest" as propagated by Darwin. Hitler's reign resulted in the murder of some 6 million Jews as well as Slavs, Poles, Blacks, Gypsies, homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled and other groups he deemed unfit to live.” (Excerpts from book:  Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.) Darwin’s theory of evolution became a political tool for murderous tyrants who used it as a mechanism to devalue life, justify racism by labeling various groups of humans as less evolved, and as a means to eradicate God so that the “state” could become god to the people. Avid American abortionist and purported mother of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, embraced evolution as an argument for abortions and the denial of care for America’s poor, sick, elderly and disabled. Where evolution and Huntsman lose legitimacy is when both face the advancements of hard science in the 21st century. DNA proteins are providing evidence against the possibility of evolution and reveal that no species can “jump its DNA code” to evolve into another species. Even in his rudimentary analysis Charles Darwin wrote: “When we descend to details, we cannot prove that a single species has changed.” Evolution scientists themselves are abandoning the theory in droves and have gone so far to say, “That it ought not to be taught in High School.”  Yet, Huntsman’s opponent did not take it that far. In what appears to be a balanced approach, Governor Rick Perry did say that both evolution and creation are taught in Texas schools because he thought students would be smart enough to decide for themselves. Even Charles Darwin professed serious doubts about the validity of his theory of evolution vs. creation and wrote that: "A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin.  At least, Darwin got that one right.   Sharon Sebastian is an author, writer, and contributor to various forms of media including cultural and political broadcasts, print, and online websites.  In addition to the heated global debate on creation vs. evolution, her second book, Darwin's Racists - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, highlights Social Darwinism's impact on America's political ideology and its influence on current policy out of Washington.  Reviewers proclaim "Darwin's Racists" a "Must Read," "Incredibly Timely" and "Perhaps the Most Important Book in Publication Today," as it addresses Social Darwinism's national influence with its Marxist/Socialist underpinnings that directly impact the fractious political, educational, religious, and social environment in America today.  Website:  www.DarwinsRacists.com      Education, Environmental 2011-08-24T14:21:13+00:00 http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/is_this_going_on_in_your_state/ http://www.americanreform.org/index.php/member-blog/comments/is_this_going_on_in_your_state/#When:19:18:25Z Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with the collective bargaining for teacher's unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,300,000 surplus as a result. Why? It seems that the insurance company that provided all the "so-called" benefits to the teachers, was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher's union. Since they were guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers and the State had to pay for it, and not the teachers, they were increasing the annual costs every single year to become the most expensive insurance company in the state. Then the insurance company was donating millions and millions of dollars to their favorite politicians, who when they got elected, guaranteed to keep backing the unions. Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away. Now the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bid, and lo and behold, they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, there's more money for educating the children, and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don't have to pay more taxes to fund the union's political ambitions, oh, and the teachers can have direct dialog with school officials rather than having to go through the union. Gee... sounds like a win for the teachers, taxpayers and children, and a loss for the crooked Wisconsin Education Association and politicians. Go little guy!!! Here is the article: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/07/wisconsin-schools-buck-union-cut-health-costs   You will also notice that none and I mean none of the major media outlets covered this story.  Wonder why?? ARP General, Economy, Education 2011-08-17T19:18:25+00:00