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		<title>Another Whitehouse Bribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Outsider</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Pennsylvania Joe Sestak alleges that the Whitehouse offered him a high position job in the administration to back out of  his running against Arlen Specter in the primary.  That&#8217;s the way it is in the Obama Whitehouse. After all, who will hold Democrats accountable? The mainstream media? They are too busy going after Massa, 24/7.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently, Pennsylvania Joe Sestak alleges that the Whitehouse offered him a high position job in the administration to back out of  his running against Arlen Specter in the primary.  That&#8217;s the way it is in the Obama Whitehouse. After all, who will hold Democrats accountable? The mainstream media? They are too busy going after Massa, 24/7.  Read it <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34221.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>I wonder how many Dems will bite the dust protecting Obama? Looks like Sestak is nothing less than a piece of red meat for the animals running the Whitehouse. I wonder why Sestak won&#8217;t name names? Hmmmm! Who said the Mob is in Chicago!</p>
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		<title>Job Loss a Good Thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Reid made a statement a few days ago that got little mainstream press. That&#8217;s because Reid made the idiotic remark that &#8220;Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good&#8221; Is this guy for real?
The only job loss that would make a &#8220;good day&#8221; in America [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Harry Reid made a statement a few days ago that got little mainstream press. That&#8217;s because Reid made the idiotic remark that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/05/reid-lost-jobs-february-really-good/">&#8220;Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good&#8221;</a> Is this guy for real?</p>
<p>The only job loss that would make a &#8220;good day&#8221; in America will be the loss of Reid&#8217;s job this next election. It will be an &#8220;excellent&#8221; loss if all the Democrats and some of the liberal Republicans were voted out of their jobs. Progressive thinking MUST be a mental disorder, (mind pollution),  that cannot be legally remedied any other way. Voting them out is the best prescription for a healthy America.</p>
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		<title>Whose on first?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Toman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to argue timing and who was saying what first we could go to Jesus Christ 1st. century but I won’t. 
Let’s just start with guys like Jon Hus (1374-1415) He was burned at the stake for defending man’s rights as they came from God.  He taught that rights came from God and His [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to argue timing and who was saying what first we could go to Jesus Christ 1st. century but I won’t. <br />
Let’s just start with guys like Jon Hus (1374-1415) He was burned at the stake for defending man’s rights as they came from God.  He taught that rights came from God and His Bible and not from the Pope or having rights come from the church.  <br />
Or John Wyclif (1329-84) Who translate the Bible into English and believed all men should be free to read the Bible, his “Lollards” (burnt at the stake) were linked to political unrest.<br />
Then we have Martin Luther (1483-1546) the great German reformer and his “95 theses”.<br />
Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Huldreich Zwingli (1438-1531), John Calvin (1509-1564)  Calvin’s writing (The Institutes of the Christian Religion Circa 1534 )are said to have done more for man’s rights and freedoms then any of the man and their writings that came out of that period (1500’s).  And I have not mentioned any of the great Puritan writers of that early time period.  (Lex, Rex The Law and the Prince&#8211;Rutherford) or (Treatise of Conscience&#8212;Perkins)  </p>
<p>Out of this Reformation movement came all the doctrinal positioning the enlighten thinkers pick-up on and did two things, they replaced God with natural law and then put man and his reasoning in front of nature.  You saw that big time in France with Rousseau (1796+/-). </p>
<p>Let me just cut to the quick of the discussion, if you don’t believe there is a God or a need for Jesus Christ as your savior, of course you will replace God and Christ with Man and Reason along with enlightenment thinking, it is that simple and just tell me that is what you have done and I’ll understand.  But don’t tell me it is who is first in putting forth the correct belief system as effecting man, for what you said is just not true.  The enlightenment thinking was not original thinking but a re-framing of thought without God and placing man in the forefront before God.  If you replace man’s rights as coming from God you must have them come from man as himself and I can assure you, there will be men that think they have the right to believe those rights are theirs and dictate rules as they see them.  I think they had called that the Divine Rights of Kings and you will have come full circle.  King Obama sounds scary, doesn’t it?  Pray God doesn’t let that happen.</p>
<p>We Shall See and shortly if we need God and his Christ first or Man and his Reasoning first.<br />
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		<title>Frustration is it coming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The systematic risk within the Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) is far larger and goes well beyond what the people might suspect it to be.  We not only have troubles within the areas of finance, revenues and budgeting, there are serious flaws that make-up the legal obligation of the BASD.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The systematic risk within the Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) is far larger and goes well beyond what the people might suspect it to be.  We not only have troubles within the areas of finance, revenues and budgeting, there are serious flaws that make-up the legal obligation of the BASD.</p>
<p>Let me start with the financial aspect and what CC-BASD has learned.</p>
<p>The BASD, so we were told, has only about 4% of the total budget, which they actually control.  The balance is man dated by state and federal government.  Federal and State programs, in order to cut costs within programs, you must eliminate the whole program, rather then modify or trim the costs within the program.  There is no correction that can be made in the area of cost savings within the program it is all or nothing, something that is total insanity in my mind. </p>
<p>Here is another insanity, if the BASD should fail and/or declare bankruptcy all contracts will be voided accept the Union Teachers contract.  There is no need for cooperation and absolutely no fairness within the bounds of negotiations because the Teachers Contract stays in place, regardless if things get run into the ground.   </p>
<p>On top of this we have no willingness on the part of the School Board to consider a Zero base budget and/or vote “NO” to a school property tax increase. </p>
<p>The BASD is deeply involved with Swap’s and Derivatives and have fallen prey to not only the obligation and responsibility of paying for a $295 million dollar debt but have involved the BASD in what has become a systematic risk of the Greedy Wall Street/Banking Industry.  They have opened BASD up to were Moody’s Bond Rating Agency looked at BASD and had wanted to down grade the BASD rating, which would have cost the tax payers millions if in fact they would have down graded BASD.  How the financial advisor talked Moody out of not down grading BASD financial portfolio, I have no idea, but the one thing I do know is, as this thing is being exposed, it is becoming increasingly clear the School Board had gambled with tax payers money and for sure they should never have been involved with these type of financial products.</p>
<p>The correction of the problem must start with some want to make a correction, I have not seen nor do I know of that correction effort to exist within the BASD.  It may even be worse then that; I see no mechanism to make correction by a citizens advocate group, even if CC-BASD would start to be noticed by BASD. </p>
<p>The question then becomes; how are we going to make these corrections, before a frustration sets in and we go completely off the track?  We see this frustration starting to manifest itself on the State and Federal levels as I write this.  We Shall See and shortly.         </p>
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		<title>An Interesting Position (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Toman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a couple of comments on my article http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/an-interesting-position/  and I would like to say a few more words regarding what I wrote.
Western Civilization evolved out of Biblical Law and this country was founded by people who knew the Bible and God.  They knew the difference between religion and spiritual belief of how they were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a couple of comments on my article <a href="http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/an-interesting-position/">http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/an-interesting-position/</a>  and I would like to say a few more words regarding what I wrote.</p>
<p>Western Civilization evolved out of Biblical Law and this country was founded by people who knew the Bible and God.  They knew the difference between religion and spiritual belief of how they were to get into Heaven.  The separation of church and state is about as ignorant a positioning of the people as I have ever heard.  You can’t separate people (the body state) from a belief, they will believe something, everything is a belief/religion of or in something, and people created by God are believers in something.  You may not believe you were created by God but that belief changes nothing, you are still of the nature that you must believe in something.</p>
<p>Now here is the shocker, the founders knew the difference between religious teaching; IE: God’s Law and Western Civilization and witnessing of a Spiritual nature, telling people of Jesus Christ.  They knew the government had to be run as part of God’s Biblical Law and that didn’t mean every 5 minutes someone was troubling you with some sermon about Jesus Christ, although that should not be viewed as trouble but the grace of God but I’ll save that for another time.  They also knew it was the work of the Holy Spirit that was going to bring you to Jesus Christ, so let’s get it strait, the governing body needs the Bible and God’s Law, you need the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ.  Now if and/or whether the Spirit and you come together is between you and God not me or the government.  Separation of what and how you “Spiritually” believe is between you and your god and the government has no business sticking their over bloated nose into what church or what church you don’t go to, it is none of their business.  But let me say one more time before I move to my last point “Western Civilization” hinges on Biblical Law and must be the grounding and make-up of the system period&#8212;-end of discussion.</p>
<p>The Christian Religion is the only religion that has “Love” as the most important tenet and toleration of other religions, take a look around the country and you can find almost any religion that is on the face of the earth right here in the good old USA.  Now if you don’t believe me, try living in any other country were Christianity doesn’t dominate and they don’t have Biblical, Constitutional, Bill of Right Law.</p>
<p>Now if you don’t think you want to preserve Christianity, Western Civilization, and our constitution I would suggest you just continue as we are going and you will arrive in short order to another type of governing body without God and the Christian Religion. I might also add if the people abandon God don’t pray to Him when you find things have fallen apart for He will not hear you and just might laugh at you, for God will not be mocked.</p>
<p>We Shall See if the professor at the 9/12 meeting was right or wrong in his claim that God and the Christian Religion didn’t found this country, for we are about to enter into a Hell called Progressive Government with no Constitution, no rights, no freedoms and no God or His Christ and don’t bet those are to strong of words</p>
<p>WE SHALL SEE and shortly</p>
<p>Thank you folks for having enough interest in what I had to say, that you took the time to write. THANKS      <br />
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		<title>An Interesting Position</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Toman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night at the lehigh Valley 9/12 meeting we heard Professor Andrew Bernstein gave a talk on the virtues of reason and with his talk mentioning Ayn Rand and how much the book &#8220;Atlas Shugged&#8221; had influenced him.  He also was promoting his new book &#8220;Capitalism Unbound&#8221;.  An interesting thing happened in the Q&#38;A Someone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last night at the lehigh Valley 9/12 meeting we heard Professor Andrew Bernstein gave a talk on the virtues of reason and with his talk mentioning Ayn Rand and how much the book &#8220;Atlas Shugged&#8221; had influenced him.  He also was promoting his new book &#8220;Capitalism Unbound&#8221;.  An interesting thing happened in the Q&amp;A Someone ask him&#8212;- And I Para-phase&#8212;Were does the &#8220;Christian Faith&#8221; fit into reason and the founding of the country?  To which he said, It didn&#8217;t and that Christianity had nothing to do with the founding of the country.  I heard or at least I think I heard some voicing of disapproval around the room.<br />
I tell you this only because a house divided cannot stand and we either put God and His Bible first or Ayn Rand and her book “Atlas Shugged” first.  And from everything I read about her she was not a Christian and as a matter of fact she hated Christ and Christianity.  Her position and thinking cannot line up with God if that is true and we than must consider our position and her teachings.<br />
She promoted &#8220;Objectivism&#8221; which she called a philosophical system and claimed it as her system.  Her system hinged on reason alone without the need of faith in anything but self and reason&#8212;&#8211;a very dangerous position to take.  For if you take that to the extremes you have self reason with anarchy and power replacing authority of God’s law.  Reason has no univocal meaning and will be guided by any number of terms and conditions, from blowing yourself up (which some think reasonable) to you name it.</p>
<p>Objectivism:  Any of the various philosophical doctrines that stress the external, independent existence of what is perceived or known, an ethical theory equating ethical assertions with assertions about natural or social processes.</p>
<p>I found the Friday evening 9/12 meeting interesting and that it enlightens the seriousness of the problems.  So WE SHALL SEE how things work out.<br />
Randy       </p>
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		<title>Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about health-care reform that needs reform? Does the services that the doctors, nurses and others in the medical profession provide, need reform? They are not perfect but it isn&#8217;t the medical professionals that need reform. Is it the technology that needs reform? No, we have the best technology in the world.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is it about health-care reform that needs reform? Does the services that the doctors, nurses and others in the medical profession provide, need reform? They are not perfect but it isn&#8217;t the medical professionals that need reform. Is it the technology that needs reform? No, we have the best technology in the world.<br />
Is it the insurance providers that need reform? Are they honoring the contracts that we sign? In most cases they are or they will be sued. The same with doctors not doing their best. Doctors are sued more often than the insurance companies simply because the lawyers can win more easily and the doctors don&#8217;t have the deep pockets that the insurance companies have. The insurance companies and can hire the best lawyers in the business. What can be reformed about these companies when they have lawyers to protect them? Kind of like sluff-off union workers that are protected by their unions, eh?<br />
So where do we need reform? Ah yes, the cost! No one can disagree with the high cost of insurance in the medical coverage business. This is where we need reform the most but we can&#8217;t do that unless we know why the cause. In an earlier article, I expressed the idea that we always complain about the effects we feel but very seldom ever speak about the cause. It&#8217;s like taking an aspirin for pain without addressing the cause of the pain. This certainly applies to health-care costs. How about lawsuits against the doctors and hospitals? What about all the regulations that doctors and hospitals must comply with and all the red tape and paperwork that has to be filled out? What about all the taxes involved that has to be paid on all the medical care products that helps to increase the cost of care? What about the irresponsible people that fill the emergency rooms looking for free health-care? What about the Food and Drug administration telling us and the drug industry what they can deliver and what they can&#8217;t, raising costs again. What about the lack of competition of insurance companies in certain areas of the state and country that is regulated by the government?<br />
The only real reasons for higher costs is the obstruction by the government into the medical profession. Medicare is going broke and so is medicaid, both government controlled and forced on the private medical care providers. Almost everything that is broke in our society is caused by excessive size, over-control and high taxation by our government. If anything needs reform, it is our government! How can it be not so when our government is almost as large as the private sector? All prosperity comes from the citizens in the private sector, not the government. We need government but they also need us even more-so. What does the government believe? They believe we need them and that they are the solution to all societal ills. Don&#8217;t look to the government to solve anything, let alone to look at themselves as the problem with high health-care costs.  Is this about health-care or is it about getting more votes and getting these votes forever? You be the judge.</p>
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		<title>Cause And Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hate IS a learned behavior.
1. &#8220;Man shoots security officers at Pentagon&#8221; Read here. 
2. &#8220;Hatred of the government motivated a man in Texas last month to fly a small plane into a building housing Internal Revenue Service offices, killing an IRS employee and himself.&#8221;
3. &#8221;A gunman walked up to the security entrance of a Las Vegas courthouse [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hate IS a learned behavior.</p>
<p>1. &#8220;Man shoots security officers at Pentagon&#8221; Read <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588074,00.html">here</a>. </p>
<p>2. &#8220;Hatred of the government motivated a man in Texas last month to fly a small plane into a building housing Internal Revenue Service offices, killing an IRS employee and himself.&#8221;</p>
<p>3. &#8221;A gunman walked up to the security entrance of a Las Vegas courthouse and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one officer and wounding another before being gunned down in a barrage of return fire.&#8221;</p>
<p>4. &#8220;A deadly attack on the Army&#8217;s Fort Hood, Texas, post allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings.&#8221;</p>
<p>5. &#8220;Violent Weekend Rocks Chicago: 36 Shootings, 9 Homicides&#8221;</p>
<p>There has been a lot of hate going on lately in which innocent people have been killed. The above articles and many others have been initially reported by the mainstream media but whenever the suspect or the instigator of the crime has been found out to be a person from the left and a supporter of Obama, the media seems to lose interest in a follow-up. This is the same media that are constantly calling the &#8220;Tea party&#8221; members, hate mongers, fascists, racists, right wing gun toting militia members and a danger to society.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been to many tea parties including the big one at the 9-12 event in DC and I have seen <strong><em>NO </em></strong>hate or violence at any of them. I did, however, see an African American man being beat up by SEIU and ACORN members at a town hall meeting with Missouri Claire McCaskill at a town hall meeting.  He was handing out political paraphernalia that just happened to support conservative positions. No mention of that by the mainstream media!</p>
<p>Then there was the black militia (Black Panther) types carrying nightsticks in Philadelphia intimidating whites going to the pols to vote.  Obama&#8217;s Attorney General Erik Holder left them off the hook because they were black Obama supporters.</p>
<p>We all know that there is a double standard in reporting news by the mainstream media and to deny that is being dishonest or plain stupid.</p>
<p>One of the problems we face as Americans is political correctness and the consequences it brings to our society. We never seem to look at causes, just the actions. Why is there so much hate on the left? Is it a taught behavior? How do so many become so filled with hate? I think we should start with the government schools. When is the last time most parents made an effort to find out what their children are learning? After all, it is YOUR tax dollars at work. Our colleges and universities are another source of far left propaganda instilled into the mushy minds of our youth by leftist professors. Maybe I&#8217;m a sceptic, but I don&#8217;t believe this is accidental. By the way, Obama was one of those professors!</p>
<p>We should be taking a hard look at our schools for breaching our trust. We failed to do that with electing Obama and now look at where we are at! Some call him a Socialist, I see him as being much closer to a Communist, judging by his actions and policies, not always by what he says. It&#8217;s time to stop kidding ourselves and to forget political correctness and call it the way it is! That is really what the Tea Parties are all about, not hate!</p>
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		<title>Is something still wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well Saturday the 27th (February 2010) was the PA Lehigh County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day fund raising breakfast.  As usual I saw people’s faces that I never see at the regular meetings and have know idea who they were.  The guest speaker was going along fine until the end of his speech when he went [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well Saturday the 27th (February 2010) was the PA Lehigh County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day fund raising breakfast.  As usual I saw people’s faces that I never see at the regular meetings and have know idea who they were.  The guest speaker was going along fine until the end of his speech when he went off the track by bringing in the lesser of two evils and the possibility of having to vote for that person and I guess it was for the sake of unity because he called for the people in the room to unite and I guess people in general.  He also said that it was our fault that we are on this path and that President Obama is president and guess what I couldn’t agree more.  But unity, when voting for the lesser of two evils is not the answer folks nor is rallying around somebody you never know when he/she is going to go South on you and/or make a wrong turn.</p>
<p>The one thing that was missing through out the speech was the word “Principles” I don’t remember hearing the speak saying anything like “We have lost our principles and the truth of what the founders sought to accomplish in bringing them into the “Constitution”, nor were those principle came from. </p>
<p>But let me not get to emotional or appear to be irrational and just say&#8212;&#8211; for anyone to say to me I should consider voting for the lesser of two evils and suggest I unite behind that person has no idea what he is saying or who he is talking too.  I have watch for a long, long time, the strategy and philosophy of voting for the lesser of two evils, and guess what folk’s&#8212;&#8211; it has not and is not working.</p>
<p>Let me keep it short and just say voting for the lesser of two evils creates the largest possible tent you want to imagine, all in the Republican Party’s name and with the unity of a bunch of fools heading for the cliff like lemmings.  But let me be kind to the party and speaker and say, I’m sure that is not the lesser of two evils, the speaker nor the party have in mind.  But that is the lesser of two evils you have and will continue to get.</p>
<p>We Shall See and shortly how this big tent lesser of two evils works out.</p>
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		<title>Clearing the Air</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randy Toman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a couple of sentences from two of my February articles that have developed into quite an exchange between some dear friends.  One of which is a devoted fan of Glenn Beck.  This is good because it gives me a chance at explaining what I was trying to say regarding Beck and the talk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Below is a couple of sentences from two of my February articles that have developed into quite an exchange between some dear friends.  One of which is a devoted fan of Glenn Beck.  This is good because it gives me a chance at explaining what I was trying to say regarding Beck and the talk show hosts hurting the movement. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/confusion-is-right-around-the-corner-and-then-chaos/">http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/confusion-is-right-around-the-corner-and-then-chaos/</a></p>
<p>“We are living in confusing time and the talk show hosts Beck, Rush, Hannity, are not helping the cause anymore and I think they are starting to hurt it.”</p>
<p>“One of the problem areas that I see starting to come to the forefront loud and clear is the fact that we have no way of stopping any of the wrongness that is happening to the citizens.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/ethics-and-principles-for-the-republican-party/">http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/ethics-and-principles-for-the-republican-party/</a></p>
<p>“Were there is no principles there will be at best, ethics that are confused, at worse, no ethics at all.  For ethics seek to answer three questions.<br />
1. What is the motive of human action?<br />
2. What is the standard of human?<br />
3. What is the end or purpose of human action?”</p>
<p>Exactly what am I talking about when I said, Beck, Rush, Hannity maybe starting to hurt the cause?  Rush has been in the business longer then any of the talk show people and has been educating people going on 20 years.   So what am I saying is, they must take the people to the next level, which must be an action item.  Allow me to quote from “American Majority” Activist Training manual (page 4) In bold letters we have this:</p>
<p>“WATCH OUT<br />
A lack of clear goals and step-by-step planning will make a well-meaning coalition completely ineffective.  This is why coalitions should avoid the mistake of holding meetings that are based simply on discussion, while not at the same time planning strategic methods to promote or resolve the uniting issue.  Repetitive “gripe sessions” accomplish nothing.”</p>
<p>The fact that the talk show people have been educating the people was needed and I’m sure much appreciated by the followers of those different shows but it is now time to move to the next level of the educational process.  There must be a series of action items suggested by Beck, Rush, Hannity, these different plans will do at least two things.<br />
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1/ Take the emotion and energy to a higher level of involvement, with the people having direction and knowing they are working toward resolution.</p>
<p>2/  It will take the power and more so the authority completely out of the politicians hands and put it back into the hands of “We the People” because of these action items.</p>
<p>If the talk show people keep on talking, and telling the citizens how bad things are, not give them direction, it will lead to confusion of effort and/or efforts of little effect.  Further more the situation will continue to deteriorate until it will truly be passed the point of being capable of correction.</p>
<p>So therefore I said; “ I think they are starting to hurt the movement.”</p>
<p>To be more accurate I should have said, “I think they will start to hurt themselves and the people.”   And that starting will take place this year, because confusion and chaos is right around the corner because of this observation. </p>
<p>“One of the problem areas that I see starting to come to the forefront loud and clear is the fact that we have no way of stopping any of the wrongness that is happening to the citizens.”</p>
<p>We Shall See and shortly<br />
Randy Toman    <br />
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