The ideological divide

I am an optimist, and so I believe most people want what is best for them and for those around them. Lately as I have had discussion with friends on certain political topics, like health care, I noticed we truly do want the same thing but differ entirely on how to get it.

Recently a friend sent this to me, I am not sure who wrote it but it explains this difference better than I can.

“The Difference: If a conservative doesn't like guns, they don't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, then no one should have one.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don’t eat meat. If a liberal is vegetarian, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced and God removed from public view.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his.” –unknown

We cannot govern happiness or peace. The proper role of Government is to allow law abiding citizens more liberty and choices, and to protect that liberty. I have found that great happiness and joy come from going through struggles and then overcoming those struggles on my own, with only the Lords help. Too often we want to deny people that opportunity to struggle and grow by giving them what they need right now. This is not a place for government, but a place for religion and charity.

It seems to me that the left and many of the progressive movement want to diminish the responsibility of churches and charities and in turn make it the responsibility of government to take care of those in need. In my own personal review of history I believe that has never been effective and has cost the lives of countless people.

“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan

Dear Glenn Beck

Hello Independence Caucus Members,

Wow, Glenn Beck is soooooo close! He’s on the right track but he needs a little more info to add to his solution – he needs Independence Caucus’ plan! Please help us get the word to Glenn. One of our Directors has written a letter (below) to Glenn. BUT, one letter won’t get his attention. We need thousands of people to email Glenn. Will you help us out? As Frank asked in an earlier email, please email Glenn and help us get is attention. If you can’t come up with something of your own, feel free to forward this along and ask your friends and family to email him too.

Please Tweet the following:

RT icaucusgayle @glennbeck Please check out Independence Caucus’ open letter to Glenn Beck & invitation http://short.to/qd5y.


Please email Glenn. His email addresses are: me@glennbeck.com and glenn@glennbeck.com and refounders@foxnews.com and glennbeck@foxnews.com and stu@glennbeck.com and cbrady@glennbeck.com. Please send your email to ALL of these addresses. It would also be great if you would copy and paste the letter into the contact form on Glenn’s site: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/program/contact.

Dear Glenn and “Re-founders” staff,

Bob Basso (Thomas Paine) told me we have what American needs right now.

You are absolutely correct about what Americans need to do.

You are calling for Americans to expose the corruption of both parties. Did you know that one of the “We Surround Them/9-12” groups is already doing exactly that?…and did you know that every time this group makes a video that exposes a piece of the corruption that they ALWAYS expose BOTH one Republican and one Democrat? They refuse to single out only one of the two parties!

You are calling for finding politicians who will stand up for a Re-founding of the country. Did you know that Dr. Bob Basso (Thomas Paine) has said that this same “We Surround Them/9-12” group already has established a way to properly vet and qualify political candidates who will support Constitutional principles?….and that Dr Basso has said that their process of qualifying candidates for congress is “the message that ALL Americans need to hear right now!”?

You ask your listeners to read “The 5,000 Year Leap”. Did you know that Zeldon Nelson, the head of the NCCS that publishes “The 5,000 Year Leap” was so impressed with the work that this same “We Surround Them/9-12” group is doing that he personally has authorized the group to sell the Audio version of “The 5,000 Year Leap” on their website and keep 100% of the sale price to help fund their work?...and that Zeldon has told this group that as soon as they are ready that Zeldon himself will personally deliver to the Glenn Beck staff this groups research that exposes the money trails between the 25 institutions that have received 95.3% of all bailout money and the Incumbents who voted to funnel that money to them via the TARP bailouts?
You exposed Census Bureau plans to use ACORN “volunteers” after Congressman Jason Chaffetz tipped you off to these plans. Did you know that the founders and organizers of this same “We Surround Them/9-12” group originally met and came together as part of the 1,000 un-paid volunteers working on the Jason Chaffetz campaign that helped Jason defeat the 5 term incumbent even though that incumbent outspent Chaffetz by more than $600,000.00?

You ask Americans to stand up and do something. Did you know that this same “We Surround Them/9-12” group has volunteers all over the country who are already in the process of vetting and endorsing candidates in all Congressional and Senate races for 2010?... and that they have so far already endorsed a Senate candidate who is running against Barbara Boxer in California, and Congressional candidates who are running against incumbents in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Virginia?...and that over 400 other candidates and incumbents are already in the process of getting vetted?

This “We Surround Them/9-12” group has a pretty ugly website, because they don’t have much money and are just trying to maintain it by themselves. But on that website you will find short 9 to 12 minute videos exposing exactly the corruption you want exposed…and they’ve already experienced how to win an election with the Jason Chaffetz campaign…and they are already leading and teaching other 9-12 types all over the country what they learned…and they are already leading the search to find the 56 re-founders you’re looking for and over 400 more to join them?

This “We Surround Them/9-12” group is called The Independence Caucus. My name is Frank Anderson, and I am one of the founders of this group, and I ask you to look at what we are doing.

You can see for yourself in less than 10 minutes by watching this 9 minute video titled “A Tale of Two Congressmen: One Democrat and One Republican” that starts explaining how BOTH parties have been co-opted by the Big Money special interests here: http://www.ourcaucus.com/Article2-1.html

You can also contact Dr Bob Basso and ask him for yourself what he thinks of what the Independence Caucus. (We know you have his contact info)

You can also contact Jason Chaffetz and ask him about Frank Anderson, Monte Bateman and the other original members of the Independence Caucus who worked as unpaid volunteers on his election campaign. (We know you have his contact info as well)

You can contact the two Independence Caucus founding organizers here: frank@icaucus.org and/or monte@icaucus.org

Thank you!
Frank Anderson

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Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen.

-Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter: $0.00 dollars



-Having Michelle Obama Serve you your soup: $0.00 dollars



Snapping a picture of a homeless person who is receiving government funded meal while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 Black Berry cell phone: Priceless

The Sky is falling the sky is falling...

It really is but not in the way you are thinking. Yeah there is that ever present threat from terrorist organizations, and yeah the economy is in the crapper, but I have found a hidden threat not many know about. Amish Friendship bread! Don’t laugh, have you tried some?

It all starts off very innocently enough. It’s a gift from a friend or loved ones; you wait the ten days or whatever it takes and then boom, your addicted. For me it happened last Friday. After a long and strenuous week I came home to two wonderful loafs freshly baked by my sweetie. One movie and a loaf and a half later I woke up out of my sugar coma wondering what just happened. I could actually feel myself gain 5-10 pounds in one evening.

At some point on Saturday when I broke out into what I like to call the Amish-sweats, I realized there was something more to the bread then what it appears at the first delicious sniff. It is now clear to me that they put an addictive chemical in that bread that makes me crave it both day night. After several days of being off this addictive, mind controlling, and pallet pleasing bread, I realized there is a far more seductive plan with this bread then just friendship. While they work hard each day from sun up to sun down, and we sit on our fannies eating this addictive, mind controlling, pallet pleasing bread growing larger by the minute. Then when our physics look more like the characters from the movie WALLEE, the Amish can simply walk in and take over. I know it sounds crazy, but trust me on this do not try the Amish friendship bread, give it to me.

This is why as a patriot I can no longer propagate this evil bread. This time when we have four loafs to make and eight to give away we will just make 8 loafs. I will take one for the team, or make that 8-9 loafs for the team. It is my duty as an American! I realize that this may lead to my hinny getting larger but someone must stop the cycle before it is too late, before we are all fat and lazy, subdued by the power of freindship..Arhh... just one more bite before bed...HMM!...Yummy.

Daddy what are drugs?

While spending some quality time together this weekend with my oldest son, we caught a glimpse of a TV show depicting DEA agents hard at work. My son asked what is the DEA? I explained it stands for the drug enforcement agency, and they serve to protect us from the bad guys who sell or use drugs.

As expected from a 4 year old, he followed one question with another, "daddy what are drugs"? -I have to admit that although this isn't as bad as him asking how babies are made, I was a little nervous to answer. -So all kinds of info flooded my mind, from Cheech and Chong movies to President Reagan's war on drugs. I even had a thought of a book from Tom Wolfe called the Electric Acid cool-aid test, where Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters run around the country using acid and filming their experiences. It was there where I remembered who I was talking to and tried to teach to his level.

"Well son there are good drugs and bad drugs" making sure he realizes that when a doctor gives him some pills he needs to take them. I then referenced an experience he had two days earlier going to the dentist to fix 8 cavities. The dentist gave my son some type of liquid paradise and left him laughing at everything he laid his eyes on, especially his mother. I explained that what he took from the dentist was an example of good drugs and they helped him go through his treatment with minimal pain. I reminded him that those drugs made him feel funny and he had a hard time walking, talking and all he wanted to do was laugh. I even received a text from my wife after his appointment that said, "this is like taking care of a drunken midget, he thinks he can run around but when he tries he runs straight into the wall". I then explained that some people want to feel like that all the time and that was bad. I then said these people will stop at nothing to get drugs for that feeling and so the DEA and the police have to stop them from breaking the law to use drugs.

He then smiled and said "ohh", with a feeling of accomplishment I figured I had accomplished my fatherly duties and my son is better off with the knowledge I had given him. Later as I was explaining to my beautiful bride what a wonderful father my son has, she says, "Ohh that is why he came in and told that the dentist gave him some gooood drugs,(extra "o" for explanation purposes).

It's funny how literal children can be and how the same phrase can change depending on its context.

Stuck in an MRI

Recently I had the great privilege of getting an MRI. While some may think this is no big deal, they are often taller then they are wide. Unlike myself. Knowing this I called around to try to find a larger machine. It was a little awkward asking does your MRI work with fat guys like me. I instead awkwardly stated that I was a rather robust gentleman and then asked if their MRI would fit. To my dismay they all said yes.

Knowing what I had to do I started my mental preparations early thinking it will help me over come my fear of making headline news as the first fat man stuck in an MRI. Then when I looked into the little tiny hole that they insisted I should get shoved in I freaked out a little. To overcome that fear they suggested I use some drugs, in the form Valium. As a good Mormon boy my first thought was, " yeah I get to get stoned and it is legal". When the nurse came out to give me my precious prize she said, "we are going to give you a little more than the usual", boo ya. I looked at the two little pills she gave me and said I was hoping for more like a blow gun and to shot with tranquilizer normally used for a rhino. She smiled and handed me 15 mg of Valium. It had zero effect on me, what a rip off.

"Fat man in a little hole, fat man in a little hole", OK so unlike this guy in the picture I did fit, barely. I had to put my hands above my head while slowly slid me into the death coffin leaving hardly any room between me and the machine. This had one very undesirable result. Because of my massive size plugged the whole and limited the air flow through the tunnel. I was sweating more than Tom Dashle being grilled in front of the IRS.


Not only did I have to do this once but I ended up going to the MRI place three times in one week. After the second trip into the tunnel I had overcome my fear of being trapped stuck human sardine in a can.

Lesson learned, to overcome my fear I had to just do it.