Our Family Crisis

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott

Dear Patriots,

I will make no attempt to "make sense" of the horrific tragedy that devastated the community of Newtown, Connecticut, and has shaken our nation.

How can we make sense of the senseless murder of twenty children and seven adults? How can we make sense of one deranged individual who was in such a dark place that he shot his own mother, murdered children and then killed himself?

Yesterday, my church -- like I'm sure countless places of worship -- paused to pray for the families, their community and our nation. Our president spoke, on our behalf, words of comfort and support.

Now, as we move forward, efforts will be made to prevent this from happening again -- or at least to minimize the risk. It will be a difficult task.

A Societal Cancer

What we face is more like a cancer than a virus. Our society has turned on itself, and these mass murders are the shocking fruit. The perpetrators of these crimes now typically turn their weapons on themselves and have essentially become societal suicide bombers. As the military knows, there is no real defense against a suicide bomber who has reached such a point of desperation and delusion that his own life doesn't matter.

Responding to this specific crisis with legislation would be a mistake that politicians will likely make.

Responding to the root cause of the crisis would be a better way to go.

And what is that root cause?

The destruction of the family.

I'm not discounting any other factors, but to address problems with our mental health institutions or virtual reality gaming or the drugging of our children or our gun laws or the media culture's glorification of such violence and not deal with the root cause of our societal decay are vain attempts to mask symptoms.

The statistics back me up on the destruction of the family being at the center of our na

tional crises, including violence. Before I cite the statistics, please do not take these numbers as a condemnation of single moms or dads. There is no condemnation. Many single parents are doing double duty and raising wonderful children.

But the numbers are hard to overlook.

Our Family Crisis

Consider what our family brokenness has done to society:

* 3 in 10 children grow up in broken homes.

* In the African-American community, it's far worse: two-thirds of black children grow up with one parent.

* More than half of all babies are conceived out of wedlock.

* Of those conceived out of wedlock, 4 in 10 are aborted. And so, the cycle of violence begins.

* Of the survivors of abortion, half the children born out of wedlock end up in poverty.

Children from broken homes account for:

--63% of teen suicides.
--71% of teen pregnancies.
--90% of homeless and runaways.
--71% of high school dropouts.
--75% of all drug users.
--85% of behavioral disorders.
--70% of those in juvenile detention.
--57% of all prison inmates.


Building Families in Tough Times

As you know, for the past few weeks, I've been on a journey of discovering and sharing lessons from a 2,500-year-old letter written by the prophet Jeremiah to Jewish exiles.

In light of the national discussion that will take place in the coming weeks, as we seek to heal and strengthen our land, I find it interesting that at the very center of Jeremiah's instructions to exiles is an explicit endorsement of family:

"Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease" (Jeremiah 29:6, NASB).

In the midst of tough times, getting married and thinking about the future do not instinctively come to mind. Marriage is expensive. Children are expensive. Yet in Jeremiah's letter to exiles, marriage and child bearing are central to the instruction. Perhaps this is because in tough times -- at any time, for that matter -- the marriage bond is the stabilizing force for individuals, for families, for communities and even for a nation. Marriage and strong families are vital to thriving in exile.

What if our government policies unashamedly focused on the goal of reducing the fatherless and divorce rates? What if our laws profoundly preferred those who get married and stay married?

More importantly, what about you and me? After all, our laws only reflect our culture.

What are we actually doing in our families and communities to strengthen marriages? Is it clear in our social circles that sex out of wedlock is wrong? Are we holding young men accountable for their actions, demanding they take their responsibility as fathers seriously? Do men face any negative societal pressure for putting children and mothers at risk for the sake of fulfilling their own sexual exploits outside the marriage bond?

Many traditional wedding ceremonies include an open acknowledgment by all in attendance of their responsibility to do whatever it takes to help this new couple in their marriage. We should take that commitment much more seriously.

Every marriage faces profound times of crisis. Perhaps your prayer, phone call or offer to babysit could ultimately help save a marriage, keep a child from facing long odds and, dare I say, spare a community from another unspeakable horror.

Steve Elliott, Grassfire

Read More from Steve Elliott from Grassfire HERE

ObamaCare Rationing for Seniors

Barry Hussein Obama and the lowlifes at the AARP have hatched a LIE that most seniors support ObamaCare. The Truth is seeping through and now our healthcare system and our nation’s future is in peril. The Seniors and Catholics are topping the HIT LIST as of late. Will YOU be next on the Regime's Hit List?


It is now clear that the BIGGEST LOSERS in the ObamaCare statist healthcare overhaul ARE AMERICA’S SENIORS and those approaching retirement age. Consider these shocking facts:

• According to Obama’s own chief actuary in the Department of Health and Human Services, ObamaCare will savage Medicare by cutting $575.1 billion in this decade alone.

• The www.grassrootsaction.com website says that ObamaCare “will affect all aspects of health care for seniors -- coverage, prices, and access.”

• “Medicare Advantage” -- the popular program which gives seniors more choices in healthcare -- is already being decimated by ObamaCare with major insurers dropping the plan altogether and Obama’s actuary projecting a 50% reduction in the program by 2017.

• And then there’s the reality of HEALTHCARE RATIONING that will be implemented by ObamaCare’s “Independent Payment Advisory Board” -- appointed by Obama with the power to make Medicare rationing decisions without Congressional oversight!

Of course, many seniors have been kept in the dark -- even deceived about ObamaCare by the nation’s largest membership association of seniors, AARP. From the onset, the AARP aggressively lobbied for passage of ObamaCare. Even as these troubling details emerged, AARP continued its staunch support of Obama’s plan...

The reason?

Weasels at the AARP stand to reap billions in profits by offering gap coverage as a direct result of deep cuts in Medicare!

This “Grand Deception” created by Obama and aggressively promoted by the AARP that seniors support ObamaCare is a lie now threatening the health care of every senior and the solvency of our nation.

With American seniors now at serious risk due to ObamaCare, and AARP essentially turning their backs on the concerns of seniors, Grassfire Nation is partnering with Conservative 50 Plus to unite conservative citizens in opposition to ObamaCare.

It is vitally important that seniors and those approaching retirement age stand together with one voice against ObamaCare and the AARP’s Grand Deception!

To accomplish this goal, Conservative 50 Plus has just launched a National Petition exclusively for seniors who oppose ObamaCare.

Click HERE to sign The Petition .

Patriotic Americans must rise up and lead the charge to Reclaim America! Do you want the next generations to live in a Third World Country because we allowed Political Correctness and sicko Liberals to destroy America?

ELECTION 2012 IS COMING - Stop Marxism

A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!

Let's Take a stand and see America Rising Again!

Obama: Gone

Borders: Closed

Language: English only

Culture: Constitution and the Bill of Rights!!!

Drug Free: Make a drug screen mandatory for anyone on welfare and/or food stamps!

NO freebies to Non-Citizens!

We the people are coming.

Will ONLY 86% show this post to their Contacts? It Should be a 100%.

What will you do?

Hat Tip to Neil

Mort's Meandering​s

It is my observation that - too many elected representatives we send to Washington to 'do the people's business' -
instead, pick up the habit of 'doing their business on the people'.

It isn't supposed to work like that.

Conservative Commentary by MORT KUFF © 2011

The Democrats Have Lost Thier Minds

Stop the illegal alien student bailout: DREAM Act target list; Plus: Sen. Sessions’ critical alert
By Michelle Malkin

As I told you yesterday and as I’ve been telling you for, oh, years, the shamnesty crowd is counting on open-borders Republicans to drag the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout across the legislative finish line.

Here’s a handy phone list of target Senate Republicans. Use and share:

Sen. Murkowski of Alaska 202-224-6665
907-271-3735

Sen. Lugar of Indiana 202-224-4814
317-226-5555

Sen. Brownback of Kansas 202-224-6521
785-233-2503

Sen. Voinovich of Ohio 202-224-3353
614-469-6697

Sen. LeMeiux of Florida 202-224-3041
904-398-8586

Sen. Collins of Maine 202-224-2523
207-945-0417

Sen. Snowe of Maine 202-224-5344
207-874-0883

Sen. Brown of Massachusetts 202-224-4543
617-565-3170

Sen. Johanns of Nebraska 202-224-4224
402-758-8981

Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire 202-224-3324
603-225-7115

Sen. Hutchison of Texas 202-224-5922
214-361-3500

Sen. McCain of Arizona 202-224-2235
480-897-6289

***
Stalwart immigration enforcement supporter Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will be circulating an alert about the Dems’ DREAM Act nightmare emphasizing some of the following critical points:

1) The illegal alien student bailout will NOT be limited to “children” — but, in fact, would put illegal aliens in their 30s and 40s on a “path to citizenship.” Taxpayers “would also be on the hook for all federal benefits the DREAM Act seeks to offer illegal aliens, including student loans and grants.

2) The DREAM Act provides safe harbor for any alien, including criminals, from being removed or deported if they simply submit an application.

3) Certain criminal aliens, including gang members, deportation fugitives, and those who have committed voter fraud or marriage fraud, would be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty.

4) An estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens will be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty.

5) Illegal aliens would be eligible for in-state tuition benefits under Section 3.

6) The DREAM Act does not require that amnesty beneficiaries actually finish any type of degree as a condition for “path to citizenship” benefits.

Where do your Senators stand on the illegal alien student bailout — which President Obama is openly pushing as a “down payment” on a larger shamnesty? Ask them. Get them on record. And spread the word.


Hat Tip to Mr. I

Soetoro's Slave Ship & Jeremiah Wright

An article below really nails down Barry. He's had this hatred for "the White Man" since he was child. Why do these Sadists still support him. As Rush and Levin often say, we knew this is who he was. The Liberals and self-loathing Whites and the Black People who voted for Soetoro simply for the color of his skin are at fault. Their own Racism towards Whites did not allow them to question who Barry really is? All they had to do is listen to him, read his material (if you could stomach a few pages) and look at his disgusting friends. This story below is by Robin of Berkeley, who is awesome!


Obama's Slave Ship

Written by Robin of Berkeley
When I was young and living in Manhattan, I saw an Off-Off-Broadway play called Slave Ship. It was an experience I'll never forget.

Unbeknownst to me, the performance was conducted in total darkness. The audience was subjected for one very long hour to the harrowing sounds of slavery. There were blood-curdling screams, whippings, and more.

Given that we were trapped in pitch blackness, the audience was held captive like the slaves, compelled to experience the same terror, helplessness, and despair. This was undoubtedly the intention of the play.

Memories of that ghastly night at the theater sauntered back into my mind's eye upon hearing some of Obama's recent utterances. To an audience of blacks, he invokes the language of slavery, fashioning himself an abolitionist freeing them from bondage.

Using racially charged language, Obama relegates Republicans to the back of the bus. In a speech to Latinos, he directs the audience to align with him against the "enemy." But Obama doesn't mean the Mexican Cartel, who are holding sections of Mexico and the United States hostage. He's referring to conservatives.

Recent photos of Obama have been alarming; they depict a man boiling over with rage. Have we ever witnessed a U.S. president so pugnacious, so incensed and inflamed by his own people?

But to Obama, we are not his people; this is everything you need to know about Barack Obama in a nutshell. Although Obama was marketed as the post-racial, biracial uniter, this is not the man behind the mask.

And the world according to Obama does not resemble the place in which most of us live. His is a threatening, foreboding universe. It has always been this way and will always be, regardless of the power he amasses. As he writes in Dreams from My Father, "The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel."

This is the world Obama was thrust into, born to a teenage white mother and a Kenyan father. The young child lived with his parents (maybe), and then his mother, and next was carted off to a foreign land, Indonesia, with a new daddy.

In Indonesia, Obama began to cultivate his lifelong identity as the outsider. There he was a black/white boy in a Muslim country. His mother reinforced and celebrated their misfit status. She scoffed at socializing with other Americans because "[t]hey are not my people." (If they weren't her people, then who were?)

Obama's mom, the oddly named Stanley Ann, taught Barry to view the world as she did -- in black and white terms. There are villains and there are victims, with no trustworthy people to whom to attach. Stanley Ann's behavior itself exemplified the faithlessness of others.

A young mom, just 18 when Barry was born, she carted him around like a piece of luggage. She spirited him off to Indonesia to start a new life there. After her marriage dissolved, she returned to the U.S. with the little boy in tow.

When Stanley Ann made plans to haul him back to Indonesia, Barry refused and moved in with his grandparents in Hawaii, where there was no love lost. He has described them as "strangers," and his grandma as belonging to "typical white people."

Obama learned how to be a black man through the tutelage of Frank Marshall Davis, purportedly a Communist, pedophile, and bisexual. Davis imparted such lessons as "never trust the white man."

Barry had to endure his grandfather and Davis, in a boozy state, telling dirty jokes in front of the discomforted boy. The small, vulnerable child just didn't exist.

When a child grows up with no strong arms to protect him and no sense of home, he can evolve in several different ways. He may become a dependent person who clings to others like a life raft.

Or he can go another way entirely and become the consummate loner. He will depend only upon himself; it's him against the world.

In extreme cases, the person may become grandiose and ordain himself as uniquely gifted. This path would be more likely if those around him reinforced his specialness, without, at the same time, offering warmth and closeness.

Of course, a man can reject all of the poisons of the past. He can instead emulate a wholesome and healthy person in his life. But who in Obama's world embodied a life-affirming spirit?

The adult Barack has instead chosen people who support his worldview, those lessons that he learned by Davis' side. In college, Obama gravitated towards the college militants, then married the fiery Michelle, who dubs this country "mean."

Together they befriended the hardcore Left, the Bill Ayerses and Bernardine Dohrns of the world. Fashioning themselves as soldiers in a war within, Ayers and Dohrn configured bombs that maimed and murdered American citizens. They were ecstatic about Charles Manson's butchery, as well as his scheme to incite a race war -- Helter Skelter.

For his adult mentor, Obama picked Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Then Pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Wright is a fan of Black Liberation Theology. BLT teaches that blacks are God's Chosen People, with whites inferior and wicked. Its founder, James Cone, has described the goals of BLT this way:

". . . complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary. . . Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.'"

By choosing this church over all others, Obama made a pivotal life decision. For seventeen years, Obama sat in the pews of Trinity consuming the vitriol of racial hate. In one sermon after another, Rev. Jeremiah Wright invoked the specters of slavery and Jim Crow, resurrecting a war that, for him, had never ended.

In his autobiography, Obama lets slip a fascination with something that the biracial Malcolm X once said. Malcolm was so repulsed by his white ancestry that he daydreamed about draining the white blood from his body.

One must wonder: by Obama's choosing Trinity, a church where his own mother wouldn't have been welcome, was he trying to exorcise the evil white spirit in him? And by joining that church, did he finally leave his repugnant white side behind at Trinity's door?

Now at the helm, Obama is avenging the Sins of the Fathers, even though the fathers are long since dead and buried. Consequently, the Department of Justice drops all charges against the new generation of domestic terrorists, the New Black Panthers, who verbalize their desire to kill "cracker babies."

The DOJ turns a blind eye toward egregious acts of injustice towards whites. The Feds will even go so far as suing Arizona and threatening other states should they not toe the party line of importing as many people of color as possible.

When Obama tells black voters that he's freeing them from slavery, this is not hyperbole; he means it. But he's not referring to liberal politics that has only decimated the black culture.

Obama means this: he will put the final nail in the coffin of American exceptionalism. He will end the Civil War. And he will do it his way: by trying to break the backs and the spirits of the white oppressors.

It matters not that the Civil War ended over a century ago, nor that 3% of the population perished in the struggle to free the slaves. For people like Obama and the Revs. Wright and Cone, the war still rages.

Obama thinks we're on his Slave Ship, and he's taking us along for a ride. He wants us to experience the same terror, helplessness, and despair as that New York audience held captive in the theater long ago.

He wants us to suffer. That's why there's an impish gleam in his eye when he consigns Republicans to the back of the bus.

For Obama, the change has come. But it's not prosperity. It's not uniting us as one people, Americans, under God.

It's the chickens coming home to roost. It's this: we're finally firmly and, in his mind, deservingly, under his thumb.

A frequent American Thinker contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley.

The Real Truth About Doctors without Borders

Today we read more about Liberals who practice Racism on a daily basis. How could any self-respecting Jewish Person still support Liberalism and Democrats? With Barry Soetoro in the back pocket of a Nazi Collaborator, how could anyone still support him?


If you think "Medecins Sans Frontieres" are doing a wonderful job, please read this.
To:
The Chief Operational Officer
Médecins Sans Frontières
Sent to the Australian Office and New York Office
Subject: Dismay

Dear Sir/Madam

When my daughter wed in July 2006, in lieu of gifts she asked for donations to be made to Doctors without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres as our family had always supported the Group. Well, I have a regret. I've just read a presentation by Alan Dershowitz "Doctors Without Borders erected borders when it came to Israeli doctors who flew to the Congo to treat 50 local villagers who had been severely burned. The Israeli volunteers worked around the clock, treated the burn victims and trained local doctors to perform skin grafts, and donated tons of medical equipment. But Doctors Without Borders refused to work with the Israeli medics and para medics and treated them "as though we were occupiers." - quoted one Israeli medic.

Dr. Marie Pierre Allie, President of the French branch of the organization, said that "Israel's actions in Gaza were actually worse than the Darfur genocide in the Sudan."Only a blind moonbat could even make such a comparison! MSF has an apparent problem with one democratic Jewish State but is quite at ease with the existence and actions of 56 dysfunctional & corrupt Islamic states.

As one critic has put it well, "These are Doctors With Borders - and without scruples." Google "Doctors without Borders Israel" and you will get more confirmation of the reactions around the world. My family will no longer donate to Doctors without Borders until this cynical, hateful and bitter culture towards Israel - which obviously emanates from the top - ceases. I shall disseminate this email as widely as I can and shall ask recipients to forward it on also.

Written by a Gentleman from Melbourne, Australia

Hat Tip to B!

Comments to Left Wing MSM

Today we have a letter below to one of the Left Wing MSM outlets in Florida. These self-proclaimed elitist still preach on "Racist Tea-Party". Yet none of these Nazi Media Outlets, who drink Obama Kool-Aid tell the story of Allen West and Marco Rubio. The Tea Party supported these great Guys and others who are so called Minorities in this Politically Correct Country ruled by a Marxist Regime.
This portion below is from our Friends at Chuck On The Right Side.

Dear Professor Watson:

For a supposed esteemed historian (in the liberal community), you seem to have flashes of amnesia when evaluating some of the policies that our government has pursued.

In your screed on "patriotism" you claim that it is not patriotic to root for a president's failure or to pledge your loyalty to party rather than to their constitutional oath. Let me ask you "Professor", if you think that the policies of the president will do harm to our country, would it not be patriotic to root for those policies to fail? That's exactly what President Obama's critics root for - the failure of his policies, not, in particular, the man himself. To me, that is more patriotic than what you implied. We are all not lemmings being driven to our demise by the Pied Piper.

As to the part where you claim it is not patriotic, for a politician, to pledge his/her loyalty to a party rather than their constitutional oath, is a point I could possibly agree with. Knowing your politics (which is decidedly left-liberal) and your past utterances, that "dig" was directed at the Republicans ( most likely the Tea Party protesters, in particular), but isn't passing legislation (like ObamaCare) which, in my estimation, will be declared unconstitutional because you can't force someone to buy a good or service and then assess a penalty for not complying, and then passing it because of partisan arm-twisting and outright bribery, is just as unpatriotic as your unfair depiction as claiming that the tax cuts only benefited the rich when the "rich" taxpayers today pay approx. 60% of all income taxes? To pass along such misinformation under the cloak of being an objective educator, is as unpatriotic as you can get because it undermines an honest and fair dialogue.

I think the people you decry as unpatriotic are really the true patriots and not the self-serving professor who lives in his liberal ivory tower.

Sincerely,

Chuck On The Right Side

America Rising! Republican Ad 2010

We must get to the ballot box this November. The Marxist Regime has their ACORN on the down low ready to stuff the ballot box with dead people's ID's. The lies, bribes and straight up desecration of our Constitution and some people still want to get along with Barry Soetoro? We have to take off the gloves and take the fight (politically) to them. If you watch this short Video and still vote for Lowlife Democrats then you are a Traitor, plain and simple.

Hat Tip to Neil

Michael Berry Why Democrats Must Go (part 2 of 2)

Please watch this short video from Michael Berry. Michael Berry explains clearly, why all Democrats must go now! This, firing ALL Democrats, is very important to take some of the power away from Barry. Barry is on a mission to destroy America and then he will be able to sail away to live like a King in Kenya.
So let's Stop the KING OF KENYA!

Here is Part 1 if you missed it.

Hat Tip to Chuck on The Right Side

Barry Soetoro & Democrats Caused This Disaster

Explosive Audio Unearthed! After the Sub-Prime Crisis already started in 2007 Obama says Sub Prime Mortgages that gave houses to people WHO COULDN'T AFFORD THEM was a GOOD IDEA! Also involved where many Obama cronies and the leader Franklin Raines made huge profits.

Even as it was destroying our economy Obama thinks giving people mortgages who couldn't afford them was a good idea. Then he says spreading the bad debt throughout the financial system was good "in theory" (is Marxism good in Theory to a Chicago Thug?). Obama went as far as to sue Citibank Under Community Reinvestment Modernization Act (CRA) to force it to make Bad Loans.

“I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.” — Barack Obama, Speech to ACORN, November 2007

The Obama Fail - Lies and Deception

A video showing Obama's pre-election promises compared to his actions in office.
One thing not in this video is Obama comments on our great Troops. Obama said they were air raiding villages, and killing innocent men, women, and children. It showed his utter contempt for the military. Dirty Hussein Obama then had the gall to salute the caskets of our fallen Heroes.
Obama is NOT turning things around. HE IS THE PROBLEM!