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Mosque at Ground Zero?? May 11, 2010

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I had been watching the news on this, but didn’t realize a vote had taken place last week.  I’ll just paste the Eagle Forum writer’s comments below.  He says pretty much everything that needs to be said.  It’s sickening.   And as always, if you don’t receive these reports, I’d recommend you click on the link at the bottom of the e-mail and sign up.

Sonya

Exclusive: Spitting in the Face of Everyone Murdered on 9/11

Gadi Adelman

Well, it’s official, we have all lost our minds.

I read about this last December, plans for a mosque at Ground Zero, but like a fool, I assumed that New Yorkers would never let this come to pass. A mosque just 600 feet from where the World Trade Center towers once stood. I thought to myself; no way will New York or anyone with a heart or soul, not to mention just plain common sense, ever allow a mosque to be built anywhere near Ground Zero. But, as I said, I am a fool.
The project of a community center /mosque is being proposed by two organizations, the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) and their sister organization, the Cordoba Initiative. This past Wednesday night they made their presentation to the Community Board of lower Manhattan (CB1). Twelve people sit on the board and would you like to guess what the final vote was? Get ready to grab a barf bag … the 12 members voted unanimously to support the project. Yes, it’s not a typo, it was unanimous, all were in favor and, to give you an idea of how excited the board members were, they applauded during the presentation.
In an article in the New York Daily News on Thursday, retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches said,
“I realize it’s not all of them, but I don’t want to have to go down to a memorial where my son died on 9/11 and look at a mosque. If you ask me, it’s a religion of hate.” Deputy Chief Riches lost his son Jim, a firefighter, on 9/11.
Also quoted in the article was Rosemary Cain of Massapequa, L.I., whose son, firefighter George Cain, 35, was killed in the 2001 attacks, she called the project,
“a slap in the face. I think it’s despicable. That’s sacred ground,” said Cain, “How could anybody give them permission to build a mosque there? It tarnishes the area.”
The mosque would be located in a former Burlington Coat Factory outlet which is just 2 blocks or 600 feet from where the World Trade Towers once stood. I find it ironic that the building has been mostly abandoned since 9/11 because the landing gear of one of the hijacked airplanes crashed through its roof.
The leader and co-founder of the project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, paid $4.85 million dollars for the building in December last year.
In a Fox NY channel 5 interview on Thursday, a 9/11 firefighter Tim Brown described the mosque project as,
“a Trojan horse being rolled into our most sacred ground”. He asked the mosque’s imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, where did Rauf get the reported $4.85 million in cash to purchase the building?
Needless to say, that question was never answered in full; Rauf would say only that the cash came from “members of the community.”
Tim Brown is a former NY firefighter and one of the few 9/11 survivors to survive the collapse of both WTC towers. He was also a first responder to the 1993 WTC bombing, also executed by a group of Islamic terrorists. He is the founder of the website thebravest.com.
I spoke with Matt Dunning, the Associate Editor of the Tribeca Trib newspaper on the telephone on Sunday. The Tribeca Trib is a monthly newspaper that covers lower Manhattan. Unlike most publications today, they actually report the news. Mr. Dunning explained to me that they “do not even do editorials for that reason”, they report on facts. He was at the CB1 board meeting Wednesday night. We spoke about his article on the meeting and I must say I was shocked when Dunning told me that “not one person from the community came to the meeting was in opposition. If someone had been, we would have reported it.”
This was a public board meeting, and no one who lives or works in this area even showed up to voice his or her opinion that they opposed the mosque? Have we actually arrived at the point in this country where forgiveness or ignorance overrides sense and responsibility?
Back on December 16th, 2009, in an article written shortly after the purchase of the building, Youssef M. Ibrahim wrote the following in Hudson NY
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“As a former New York Times and Wall Street Journal correspondent, and as a New York Sun columnist who covered Islamic fundamentalism extensively overseas and in the USA, I find the facts oddly lacking. The story as reported fails to answer, and avoids asking, so many pertinent questions.
The source of money matters as a significant part of the hundreds of mosques being built and already erected in this country double up as cultural Islamic centers for distributing literature– Islamist propaganda in fact—from Bay Ridge Brooklyn to Detroit, and for schools growing Muslim minorities. They house Imams of unknown origin and education, many of whom do not speak a word of English but preach in Arabic and Urdu — radical messages, it often turns out.
As a reporter familiar with the Arab communities of the USA, I doubt the faithful fork out all that money for mega mosques, and if they did, the mayor’s office should prove it, not merely accept someone’s say so. It is an established fact that a significant percentage of the mosques built in the USA in the past two decades are receiving a disproportionate amount of their funds not only from the Saudis, but also the UAE, Qatar and Iran — all problematic Islamists activist nations. The government just discontinued work on a major Iranian-funded mosque and center in New York City, which had operated under the radar since the days of the good old Shah of Iran under the auspices of the Pahlavi Foundation, and has been owned since 1979 by the Mullahs of Iran.
The context here is that 15 of the 19 perpetrators of the attacks — on the very site where this new mosque shall rise — came from Saudi Arabia.”
He ended his article with “One would hope for a follow-up story or stories, and that New York City and its citizens at least ask harder questions, rather than submit to being misled in the interest of political correctness.”
The estimated cost for the 13 story building is $100 million dollars. According to page 8 of the ASMA website financial statements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009 they have “temporarily restricted net assets” as follows:
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) $ 53,664
MDG3 Fund (Millennium Development Goals) $481,942
Hunt Alternatives Fund $15,000
Carnegie Corporation of N.Y. $ 144,752
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund $50,000
Qatar government fund $576,312
Interestingly, I had no trouble locating all of the groups as linked above, except for the Qatar government fund, which donated over half a million dollars to ASMA in 2009.
The fact that the UN has a hand in this really comes as no surprise given that just last week they embraced the Islamic Republic of Iran by allowing them to become a member of The Commission on the Status of Women, as I wrote about in my article “Even if it were a joke, it wouldn’t be funny”.
Also, according to the same financial statement, on page 10 of the report they list their “Expenditure report for the period October 13, 2008 to June 30, 2009” leaving ASMA with a balance of $988,586.00 when converted from Euros to Dollars using the conversion noted on the same page.
So, assuming this “independent” audit is correct they ended their fiscal year on 6-30-09 with a balance of almost 1 million dollars. I wonder then, where is the money for a 100 million dollar mosque coming from?
As Youssef M. Ibrahim wrote in his article “It is an established fact that a significant percentage of the mosques built in the USA in the past two decades are receiving a disproportionate amount of their funds not only from the Saudis, but also the UAE, Qatar and Iran — all problematic Islamists activist nations.”
Does anyone have the sense to connect the dots and follow the money trail? Is it not enough that the terrorists who were responsible for 9/11 are from the same country that is funding mosques all over our country, that we have to allow them to fund the building of a mosque in the very location where they committed the most heinous act in American history?
Using this analogy, had the bomb last week in Times Square actually exploded, we would be planning a mosque in Times Square right now. Have we lost our minds so much that we have moved to erecting monuments to perpetrators and not victims?
Currently, in the U.S. there are over 1200 mosques, with at least one in each state. I don’t see the need to build a new mosque at the same location where nearly 3000 people were murdered by terrorists who followed an Islamic ideology that will be preached inside this new one.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gadi Adelman is a freelance writer and lecturer on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism. He grew up in Israel, studying terrorism and Islam for 35 years after surviving a terrorist bomb in Jerusalem in which 7 children were killed.  Since returning to the U. S., Gadi teaches and lectures to law enforcement agencies as well as high schools and colleges. He is currently writing his first book, “Terrorism; Understanding the Threat”. He can be reached through his website http://gadiadelman.com

Source: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6177/pub_detail.asp

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Obama suddenly opposes technology??? May 10, 2010

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Obama was fine with technology until everyone started recognizing – and talking about – his deception and manipulation.  And even with the topic of technology, he can’t avoid pulling the “race card,” with words like “empowerment” and “emancipation.”  Regardless of one’s race, those words sound great to a largely uneducated audience (thanks to the government school system), who are looking for someone to bail them out of all their woes.  In other words, they cling to words like “empowerment” and “emancipation” and I believe they would throw their electronic devices off a cliff, and possibly jump themselves, if Obama said to do so.  After all, he is the “savior.”

Our Founding Fathers decided that their leader would be called a “president” and did not allow him to rise to the title of “king” or “dictator” for a reason – to preserve the integrity of our system of checks and balances and to ensure an individual’s right to life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness.  They never guaranteed that we would have these things, but if we work hard and keep our leaders in check, then our country provides more opportunity than any other for the tired, the poor, the wretched, the huddled masses YEARNING to breathe free.

It breaks my heart to see the things going on in this country.  I believe Obama will use this new push against technology to suspend the flow of information as we know it, which is a direct violation of the First Amendment.  If this happens, we will no longer have a chance against a tyrannical government.  After all, the First Amendment protects ALL speech for a reason.  Obama can claim that others are spreading lies, but without freedom of speech, we wouldn’t be able to deny that or point out all his discrepancies of speech.  It also seems ironic to me that suddenly Oprah has started an anti-cell phone campaign and Obama seemingly has started an anti-technology campaign.

Obama’s real complaint can be found in his comments to the graduating class, when he stated that the students were “coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter.”  In reality, I think Obama is worried that those of us who are diligent will continue to find errors in his statements and expose his lies, his deception, and his blatant intent to transform our country from the republic it once was to a pure socialist state where justice, money, property, and everything else is “distributed” under the control of a strong central government, thus removing the rights of the individual altogether!

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

What in the world is going on in China?!? April 29, 2010

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Based on the comments I’ve read in international papers, the attitude about THREE mass attacks on children in a month could be described as “gee… how sad.”  Are you kidding me?!?

In recent weeks, China has receiving renewed international criticism about their “one child” policies and renewed attempts to sterilize families so that they will be forced to submit to the “no more children” rule.  They’ve even said that they would “back off” the policy.

But then, suddenly, you have three different people who just decide to go insane around the same time and attack CHILDREN???  Doesn’t anyone else think this is a little bit STRANGE?!?  They aren’t setting off bombs at a café or stabbing people at random in a shopping center.  They are going to primary schools and attacking CHILDREN.

-  Today in Eastern China, a knife-wielding man entered a Chinese kindergarten and wounded 28 children and three adults.  Most of the children were four-years-old and several of them are in critical condition.

-  On Wednesday, a man broke into a primary school in southern China and wounded 15 students and a teacher.

-  On March 23, a doctor killed eight children at an elementary school in the Jiangsu province.  He admitted to the killings and was actually executed earlier this week – on Wednesday, the day the 15 students and teacher were wounded.  (On a side note, I do appreciate China’s system of swift justice.  He murdered eight children and admitted to it.  In the United States, he would have been given food, shelter, and job training for the next 30 years and then let out on parole…)

What’s really sad is that many Americans look at China with disdain.  People think they hate children and therefore these acts are simply another effect of a society that kills their unborn, leaves newborn girls to die, and allows children to be adopted by other countries because they don’t want more children themselves.  In fact, the Chinese adore their children.  The one-child policy enforced in many provinces make the Chinese child a precious gift and the parents’ only hope for the future.  Most assuredly, these children who were killed were dearly loved and most probably their parents’ one and only offspring.

So what is causing this spree of child attacks?  I don’t know.  But we can speculate.

Perhaps the attackers want to cause the most damage to their society by taking away one of their most precious commodities – their children.  Perhaps there is more going on here than we can understand and since the government has backed off on the sterilization of parents, they have found another way to incite attacks against children.  After all, even though individual parents deeply love their children, the Chinese government looks at the bigger picture, such as population growth, overuse of resources, etc.  Maybe they’ve found a way to take care of the population problem without sterilization… just kill some of the children who are already here.

Ultimately, I don’t know if these three cases are related or not, but you have to admit that it seems more than a coincidence that three unrelated men in three different areas of China would go into the same place (a primary school setting) and do the same thing (attack children with a KNIFE).

The whole situation is incredibly sad.  We should pray not only for the physical healing of those children who are still in critical condition, but also the emotional healing for all the children who attend these schools and also for the families who have lost their precious children.

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

Arizona Immigration Reform April 24, 2010

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Photos of Arizona immigration reform protesters show many carrying posters stating “SIN FRONTERAS!!”  Do you know what this means???  It means “NO BORDERS!!”

These protesters do not want immigration REFORM or legal immigration.  They want to TAKE OVER OUR COUNTRY.

Legal immigration is OUR right – the right of United States CITIZENS – just as it is the right of every other country on earth to protect their borders!

What is the big deal with this and why are so many liberals in our country dead set on DESTROYING our country, eliminating boarders, ignoring the laws of our land, etc.?!?  If they want to live with a different government, then go to a different country.  For me, I would prefer to stay here and respect our Constitution and boot out those who are trying to dismantle it.

We need to take back our country and enforce the Constitution our forefathers died to protect!

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

It’s not about Salt. It’s about FREEDOM! April 20, 2010

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Another side effect of GOVERNMENT health care… If they are “GIVING” you something (such as health care), they ARE going to regulate it. Nothing comes w/out a price. Government regulators will now tell you when and how you can get treated for various ailments, who deserves treatment, and just today, an announcement …that they will be regulating the amount of salt that goes into food. While I agree that we eat too much salt, it’s a FREE country. Freedom means the ability to CHOOSE a healthy lifestyle or NOT choose one. But when someone is GIVING you health care, they WILL expect to be able to tell you how to live, how to eat, how much to exercise, when you can go to the doctor, etc. This is another fine example of big brother at his BIGGEST.

Do I encourage healthy eating?? Of course. But I also exercised regularly until I developed the clotting problem. I don’t drink alcohol, take illegal drugs or SMOKE, which is a big one. The single BIGGEST thing the government could do to help people’s health in the United States would be to completely ban smoking. While I can see this might be a good idea, again, people should be wise enough to make this decision (or not eat too much salt) without a government regulator at their door!! But you know why they don’t do this single biggest thing and just ban smoking to help w/ health care issues??? Because then they would have riots across the whole country, government offices would be destroyed, politicians attacked, etc.

I come from a small country town in Tennessee and even many of my Christian friends there are addicted to cigarettes. Not only does just about everyone there smoke, but kids start smoking in elementary school. No, I’m not kidding!! Many parents even let the kids smoke! If the government were to ban smoking, I think even my mom – in her frail health – would be among those pushing down the doors to the political offices – DEMANDING their cigarettes back.

This is what we need to do. We need to start demanding that the politicians leave us alone and give us back our country. After all, it’s not about SALT. It’s about FREEDOM.

These politicians are smart. They know where to push and where to back off… at least until later.

But trust me, it WILL come later. This is only the beginning of our loss of freedoms in the area of health care. They WILL regulate how you exercise. Perhaps you’ll have to turn in how much you’ve exercised each week in order to receive medical care… They WILL regulate the food we’re allowed to have. They WILL tell you when you can go to the doctor and where. That is socialized medicine. Even if it’s not exactly like that in other countries. America is different. Our politicians want to set an example for everyone else and, unfortunately, tends to go overboard. Big Brother WILL get to decide what you will have access to!

Sonya

P.S. If you’d like to read the “salt” article from Reuters, here’s the link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63J0JN20100420

The Bilderberg Group April 14, 2010

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“The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an annual, unofficial, invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of politics, banking, business, the military and media. Each conference is closed to the public and the press.”  (From Wikipedia)

This group has met every year since 1954.

Is it a coincidence that our textbooks started using REVISIONIST history a few years later???

Is it a coincidence that the Civil Rights Movements took place several years later???

Is it a coincidence that our Constitutional Rights have been eroded, freedoms revoked and nationality destroyed since the first Bilderberg Group meeting????

Well, perhaps.  But considering the fact that these are some of the most liberal people in the world who attend the meeting.  AND considering the fact that some of the members have openly stated that they are seeking an era of “post-nationalism,” when humans can come together as the “race of humankind” or the “children of the earth,” then well… no, I’d say it’s not a coincidence.  I’d say it’s all part of a greater plan.

And this plan is much more sinister than Hitler’s of Nazi Germany because this plan doesn’t involve turning the citizens or children of Germany into little soldiers to promote the Arian race.  Nope.

I believe THIS group plans to force everyone into a one world government where we do not pledge allegiance to our country or where we do not worship God with our individual religions or where we do not enjoy and celebrate our differences with something as simple as being a MALE or a FEMALE.  They would prefer that we all commit to ONE WORLD, ONE MANKIND, ONE GENDER, ONE GOD (the “no” god concept), etc.

Now, does all THAT sound familiar????

It’s something to think about!

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

Oppose Obama’s Cap and Trade Plan April 10, 2010

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Obama: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

Say NO to “climate tax”!!! Speak out!!!!

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4

We keep our heat turned down and freeze all winter because we already can’t afford a high heat bill AND because we’re responsible ON OUR OWN – without government interference.

Our house gets so hot in the summer that two years ago our computer motherboard actually MELTED!!! We can’t afford a high air conditioning bill and we’re responsible ON OUR OWN – without government interference.

Obama has lost his mind! Please help me oppose new taxes – even if they’re “hidden taxes.”

Watch the You Tube interview with Obama above. It’s only one minute long. Speak up. Tell your legislators that you oppose these hidden taxes that will – once again – serve a special interest group and harm the REST OF US.

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

Trading guns for gift cards March 27, 2010

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South Carolina ministers are giving gift cards in exchange for citizens’ guns in an attempt to “reduce” the number of guns in the communities.

First, these are liberal churches who apparently don’t believe in the second amendment!

Second, it stinks of government involvement.

KEEP YOUR GUNS, GOOD CITIZENS!!! KEEP YOUR GUNS…

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/27/south-carolina-ministers-trade-store-gift-cards-guns/?test=latestnews

6-yr-old suspended from MI public school for making gun gesture w/ hand March 6, 2010

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If the student suspended for the cafeteria knife or the two boys suspended last year for a Boy Scout camping utensil set (which contained a “dangerous weapon” – the knife) weren’t enough, now a SIX-year-old Michigan student has been suspended for making a gun gesture out of his hand and pointing it at other students.  While some of the other students were said to be “uncomfortable” with the gun gesture, rather than suspend the little boy, I would have suggested that they show them how to make gun gestures with their hands as well and point back.  After all, a friendly game of “cops and robbers” or “Cowboys and Indians” never hurt Opie Taylor (or me and my brother and all our friends for that matter)!

Of course today, Cowboys and Indians is no longer appropriate because they aren’t “Indians” as Columbus mistakenly thought – and we’ve been trying to correct that for nearly 600 years.  They are “Native Americans” and that just doesn’t have the same ring to it.  Besides, since kids aren’t allowed to play with guns any more and any cowboy in his right mind wouldn’t be caught DEAD without a gun … well, actually, that’s the problem, a cowboy without a gun was kind of like someone in the Wild West holding up a huge sign saying, “Go ahead, just shoot me.  I don’t have enough sense to carry a gun to hunt wild animals, protect myself from rattlesnakes, shoot coyotes that try to eat my cattle, etc. so perhaps I just want to be shot.”  So Cowboys and Indians is out.

And even playing “Cops and Robbers” isn’t appropriate any more.  You wouldn’t want to stage one group of kids against the other, after all, and the “robbers” might be mislabeled.  After all, it’s not politically correct if their attorneys aren’t present and they are innocent until proven guilty so no shooting until … well, no shooting.  They should be able to languish in jail at taxpayers’ expense for the next thirty years and then allowed out on parole, again at taxpayers’ expense, when they’ll be able to get a “fresh start” on life, but be way too old to play cops and robbers any more.  The “cops” aren’t supposed to use their guns unless absolutely necessary and if you face reality, it’s really no fun when you just run around the yard yelling, “Stop, or I’ll shoot.”  Just SHOOT the robber!  You already KNOW they’re the robbers because you’re playing cops and robbers!!  What’s the harm in letting kids be kids?  And whatever happened to um, let’s see… imagination?!?  It’s PRETEND play.  It’s not supposed to be real!

There is something to be said for letting children play pretend and get it out of their system, but here’s another thought.  Even though we do have checks and balances (such as a trial by jury of our peers and innocent until proven guilty), I would say that a lot of these old games were great for several reasons.  Here are a couple.  First off, they were definitely pretend and the kids knew that.  We could use more separation between reality and pretend in today’s world.  Second, there were definite good guys and definite bad guys (who would vary from week to week depending on who wanted to play which role).  There was one side or the other.  Kids KNEW this and they picked sides!  Today everyone is soooo concerned with being politically correct – saying things the right way, doing things the right way, and not offending anyone that we sometimes have a difficult time figuring out who is who any more.

The teenager who walks into the high school carrying a concealed shotgun under his trench coat is doing something BAD.  He is a BAD GUY.  The six-year-old who pretends to make a gun with his hand and points it at his classmate is doing nothing bad.  He is not a bad guy. I’d say he is mostly likely a bored six-year-old who would MUCH RATHER be outside playing cops and robbers than sitting inside a classroom listening to his teacher drone on about some politically correct lesson related to civil rights or evolution.

OK, I guess I should admit here that I could have just said, “There was a boy suspended from public school for making a gun with his hand.  If you’d like to read the article, go here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588183,00.html?test=latestnews“

But I didn’t.  It’s just SO frustrating that I wanted to – in this case – vent a little.  I could go on and on forever about how RIDICULOUS this is.  If anyone wants to say how boys shouldn’t use guns or how was a good decision on the school’s part to prevent the future possibility of violence, we could discuss that.  We used to say we’d NEVER let our boys play with guns and we’d NEVER own a gun ourselves.  Well… you know what they say.  Never say “never.”  Biblically we’re admonished to train children in the way they should go.  I obviously believe this means to train them toward following Christ and share the gospel, but I also believe this means training them based on the examples we see in the Bible of proper behavior of men and women – taking care of the home, being frugal with money, being of godly character, and YES, even learning to use weapons and being ready and willing to defend their homeland, their property, their families, their values, their right to worship the Lord, their children or anything else that needs defending.  Learning to stand up for what is right – and knowing the difference between right and wrong – is something that is just as important to learn as the ABCs or 123s!   It’s going to be difficult to train young men to stand up for what is right and have the skills to do so if we continue to raise effeminate boys who grow into men with no bearing on how to be manly.

Sonya Haskins, author of Homeschooling for the Rest of Us

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P.S.  The only way to be sure that this doesn’t happen to your children is to teach them at home!!  : )

Kids’ thoughts on Obama October 30, 2009

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We were driving along the other day and the children started talking about Obama. 

“Did you know that Obama supports health care that could deny coverage to old people so that they’d have to die?”

“Did you know that Obama says the economy is getting better, but it really isn’t.  Do you think it is, Mommy?  We don’t even have enough money for gas!”

“Obama says he’s going to fix the world, but so far he hasn’t done anything and everyone still treats him like a king.”

“Did you know that Obama won the Nobel Peace Price even though he hasn’t brought any peace?”

“Obama is going to make our country communist with all his beliefs.”

I just sat there and listened to them talk, all the while thinking, “Where do you get all this stuff?!?”  After all, I don’t like Obama, but I certainly don’t sit around talking about these things in front of the children.  Micah replied with no hesitation, “the news.” 

The news?!?  We don’t have cable television, we don’t subscribe to any newspapers and I wasn’t aware that he was reading the news online.  I guess we’ll have to start blocking news sites in addition to the “bad” sites we have blocked with our parental blockers on the Internet.

Then he added, “And did you know that when Obama is giving speeches, he talks mostly about himself.”

“Yeah,” Christopher quickly put in, “He talks about what HE does, what HE already did, or what HE is going to do every few seconds.  He talks about himself a lot more than he does anything else.”

“And he is always pointed to himself when he is talking about good things,” Micah said.  “If you watch him give speeches, he points toward himself if he is talking about something good and positive, but if he is talking about something bad, he points out to the people.  The masses.  His followers.”

“Yes, his evil minions,” Christopher said.

Ha!  I was cracking up.  Evil minions.

I’m not sure where they got ALL the information and I guarantee you that I have NEVER taught the children the word “minions.”  It has never been on any of our spelling or vocabulary lists, but you gotta give them credit for thinking for themselves – and being willing to speak their minds.  If homeschooling has accomplished one thing, these children certainly aren’t going to be “sheep.”

Sonya Haskins

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