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As Independence Day approaches, we'd like to know how you define and express your patriotism as an American.

From serving your country on the battlefield to serving up soup at community kitchens, people have different ways of caring for our great nation. What's yours?

What is patriotism?love for or devotion to one's country ("patriotism." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.)

This the definition of what patriotism is and you need to have the opposite of ,to get a true meaning.This is the so called debate in America since the 1960s.

Is it Patriotism or Treason to LIE???

opposite of is Treason

–noun

1. the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

2. a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.

3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

—Synonyms 1. Treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government. Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense.

Main Entry: Treason Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender: the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war; specifically : the act of levying war against the United States or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one who owes it allegiance .

Now the big bunch of words that we all owe

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

1 aarchaic : deprive b: to reduce in scope : diminish <attempts to abridge the right of free speech>2: to shorten in duration or extent <modern transportation that abridges distance>3: to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense

This freedom is for all ,except the founding fathers also put in a word (T

Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense.

Freedom of speech is words and to pass a law causing harm to the people is an action and is giving aid and comfort to the enemies and that is Treason.

Actions is how we judge people and not with words.I have always accepted my Responsibility to my country.to my family and to my children and to my values.I am serving jury duty not griping that it will cost me money.I served my country and now suffer with a bad leg ,but I do not blame my country.I served for years in the boy scouts to serve boys growing up to become men and did not blame my country for losing money on all those wonderful trips.I have spent many hours as a kid and a man and father in church until they started protesting in the streets and trying to over turn laws and lying about it all and killing Doctors just to make money from their treason.Now I pray in my closet to my God.I have voted in all elections since JFK was made President of the USA and have been to tons of meetings with neighbors either trying to get something done or not.Have awards on my walls and Have worked hard for my children and wife and now i am retired and enjoying the rewards of serving my country.I honored My mother and father and they supported this their country and taught me how to be a man and American and to follow the rules and not bring harm to my fellow country men and mom is 87 and my Dad died in 1999.I have and still have lots of patriotism

Check with your court house and find out where every elected offical lives in your district.

Find out where that congress man lives and spend the fourth of july at thier house.

Heres another example of Congress at work,

The American Dream: Dr. Quiñones' Incredible Journey

Leading Doctor at Johns Hopkins Started Out as An Illegal Immigrant

"By the time I was 19, I decided I wanted to go to the U.S. and explore," Quiñones-Hinojosa said. "I was tired of the political oppression and the bifurcation of classes, the oppression of the poor that happens in my country."

Desperate for money, and with his sights set on a brighter future, he scaled a barbed border fence across from Calexico, Calif.

"It was a pretty scary experience," Quiñones-Hinojosa remembered. "It was filled with a real adrenaline rush excitement, but also fear, and, you know, fear gives you extra strength and courage. I got caught and sent back, but I did it again the same night."

He worked illegally for more than a year doing backbreaking work in California's fields, mostly picking tomatoes. Like other migrant workers, he sent his hard-earned cash back to his family in Mexico.

Although he always had a strong work ethic, Quiñones-Hinojosa -- who manned the pumps at his father's gas station -- seemed destined for a life of menial labor at low-paying jobs in his hometown. For Quiñones-Hinojosa, growing up was difficult.

Read about criminal success in America http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5247526&page=1This a Wonderful story of how a criminal who did not have to have a Birth Certificate to get in to school and did not take sat test and did not graduate from high school and the bad USA government sent him to school and then a scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley. I believe this is the town who is going to throw out the Army and ban them from the town.He was deported twice and then his dream came true.

Now the Dam o crats are trying to get reelected with lies and using false names and a AKA.

What makes this a great story is that the 30,000,000 million kids in America will never have a chance to get his dream cause they did it the right way and they cant get a job with dad cause he was kicked out of the family and they sure will not be rewarded for being a criminal.

They are just forgotten.

Only criminals win in America.

Kick them all out and Congress too.

Oh well he don't care who he cheated and neither does Congress.

Put the us back in usa.

Obama is full of DO DO.

This gas price fixing has been going on since the 1970s and he did nothing then and when he got in to congress ,he and all the others did nothing and he has not presented a bill to do something now .Just promices and lies and the same o same o out of the Dam o crats.

Obama wants crackdown on energy speculators

Barack Obama said today that as president he would strengthen oversight of energy traders he blames in part for rising oil prices. (last week we do not need drilling and the people could have absorbed the price if hike had not been so fast)John McCain's campaign accused Obama of "partisan attacks" after his rival blamed a McCain adviser, former Sen. Phil Gramm, for a so-called Enron loophole.( why ?oh why ?did not obama enter a bill to shut loophole.Busy attacking the presidemt I guess????)

Omg    

Put the US bank in USA

Saudis Willing to Increase Oil Production If Customers Need It

But the Saudi oil minister also blamed speculators and asserted supply is not the problem.

"In today's environment, I am convinced that supply and demand balances and crude oil production levels are not the primary drivers of the current market situation," al-Naimi said. Officials and energy executives from more than 35 countries thronged a large hall where he spoke.

King Abdullah also said Saudi Arabia is not the culprit.

The king cited several factors driving "the unjustified, swift rise in oil prices" including "speculators who play the market out of selfish interests," plus higher consumption by developing countries and higher taxes in some countries.

U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, however, said earlier that U.S. officials had found no evidence speculators are driving up prices.

Now if Congress had the Guts to step up to the plate and shut down the speculators and assert their power to control the purse strings and take back the 9 refinery's that are foreign owned and set the price of our oil coming out of the ground then we would see a big change .

But Congress would have to be the Representatives of the American people ,but we the people don't have Oil Lobbyists and we are not rich enough to help.

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As thousands of schoolchildren in California look forward to their summer break, the spectre of huge budget cuts has left many of their parents wondering what the next school year will bring.

"Pick on someone your own size," announces a fearless eight-year-old at Parthenia Elementary School in North Hills, California - a complex of single-storey buildings in the San Fernando Valley, where 85% of students are Hispanic, more than half of them learning to speak English.

Once the envy of the entire United States, California's public education system now ranks in the bottom five states for per-pupil funding.

The privite schools and the church schools wont be cut and the marjity of the kids are getting no education because of the Invandion from the south.85% in this school and 50% in another of people who should have never been here .The presidents have not done thier job and the Congress are a bunch of cowards who are giving away America just for money.Since Nixcon we need to Kick them all out.

Solaution: cut off all funding from washington to all of the state till California'kicks out all illeagles alliens and deorts all that have entered illegly since the 1980s.

The federal goverment is so bad ,then dont send them all that bad money.Kick all congress out and stop all moneys to the Stupid state of California'

Gov Schwarzenegger for President and the whole country would be screewed up and get as dumb as those Pop Tarts in Schwarzenegger land.

Instead of cuting off funding for Iraq .The congress could have cut off califorinda or deportanted the chrimnals or helped Americans stay in school ,But no the speacker of the house had to go crawll on all fours to the sycian king.

Oh well do anything for a far left group and to get votes.

Dang I forgot she is from California'and one of the Pop Tart crowd.

Democracy - Rule by a government where the people as a whole hold the power. It may be exercised by representatives chosen by them (representative democracy)

Kick them all out and Congress to!

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Bush to Congress: Embrace Energy Exploration Now

have you noticed that:

Congress will not do anything about the drilling.They have been divided into red and blue states since Nixon.They are in perpetual reelection.



Yes folks they are always speaking at organizations and getting donations or bribes or whatever they want to call them.



Have blamed ever president of high crimes and trying to find evil doing in every one ,while never noticing that they are the evil doers

Talking to lobbyists.Constantly ignoring the people and refuse to listen or talk to the people until its time for an election.



Always lying to the people and allowing news and other traitors to the USA to say over and over that the president makes the laws.



They are the slackers always dividing this country and become the do nothing congress whining and crying they cant get nothing done because the republicans did it.



A generation of spoiled high paid lawyers who cant read or able to think up a solution for problems except to protect the money and follow every traitors lies so as to make money and get reelected.



Their friends at BBQs seem to be Traitors and Pop Tarts and foreign nationals wanting to buy land in USA.All they have for the American People is a raw Winnie in a dry bun.



A first for the American People ,KICK THEM ALL OUT.



A first ,a women running for president.



A first ,a man lying and who used an AKA when young and says it was not him.And now running for president.



Not a first ,Congress wont arrest Jane Fonda and follows every move a traitor makes when going to talk to the enemy,Oh! that was the speaker of the house.



A first ,a president who when Governor starts wind generation in his State and the Congress is so busy spreading lies and slander just to get reelected they continue to call him a lier.



Not a first ,wont arrest CEO who is traitor to the country and lets news papers slander and lie to the American public.



Not a first ,wont protect a teacher in school in Florida and lets her get fired to protect criminals.



Not a first ,lets the courts make laws.



Not a first ,101 laws a year passed and cant seem to pass one to stop traitors or arrest them and wont even pass one to help the people. Oh forgot about the rebate as a reward for electing them and I have not seen it yet.



A first for the American People ,KICK THEM ALL OUT.



Not a first ,that every president in the state of union Speech ,has warned of troubles coming.Still The Congress is divided into red and blue states and sets on their hands.



Not a first ,that the Democrats are full of traitors and high wheeling criminals who are after money , and just let the people eat cake and oh yes they want to get rid of Guns and wont get rid of a hate religion.



Not a first ,We the people means everyone from $200,000 a year up.The rest are just the dumb bigots who want them to kick criminals out of this country and arrest the criminals who aided and abetted them.



A first that they are still working on Tobacco laws so as to get more money out of cigarette company's and still they sell them and collect tax's.But the Congress cant do a thing about gas prices.The excuses lawyers can make when they are the dumb ones .



Not a first,Guess what the Congress will do? ,Nothing

A first for the American People ,KICK THEM ALL OUT.


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But for many years (fourty seven to be exact), the priorities of the government have been opposite to mine. Mine are accessible education for everybody, equal opportunity for everyone, and solving society’s problems with intelligent, scientific thinking.

Our current government’s priorities are: opportunities and education only for the rich, forget about society’s problems and then put money into your cronies’ pockets. The USA seems to have forgotten its constitution.

We the people have no lobbiests and no repersentives.They refuse to inforce laws and allow courts to make laws.

The comments that McConnell referred to were given during an interview with CNBC. Discussing rising gasoline prices, Obama said: "I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing.Obama also said that "if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money into their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more quickly, particularly U.S. automakers, then I think ultimately, we can come out of this stronger and have a more efficient energy policy than we do right now.

McConnell, honing in on Obama's referral to "gradual" price increases, said Obama's remarks are evidence that Obama believes "rising gas prices aren't the problem. The problem, he suggested, is that they've gone up too fast. He said he would prefer a gradual adjustment."

He continued: "Whether it's shutting down domestic exploration in large areas both onshore and offshore, instituting a moratorium on oil shale development, increasing the gas tax, or refusing to pursue coal to liquids, Democrats long ago implemented a 'gradual adjustment' on gas prices that's reflected today in the $4.05 Americans are paying for a gallon of gas."

first-in-the-nation universal health insurance law
Heres the health care plan that Hillery has talked about since 1991 and the one Obama has talked about and McClain will probably mention.This is the same as the mandatory insurance plan for autos and you already know what happen to the price of a policy when you buy it .You know the price of all labor and repair went up .The insurance company's raised the coinsurance and added a cash copay.All with the blessings of the state.
97,000 Uninsured Mass. Taxpayers Get Fined
This is not being talked about by the news media because of all the advertisement you see on TV and in all media.Hospitals also have Advertisements on TV now .The media does not want their money cut off.
The insurance company's do not want their money cut off .Lobbyist's helped the company's but you are going to get to pay Thur the nose.


Heres what you will get .
Massachusetts health care reform law was enacted in 2006, and requires nearly every resident of Massachusetts to obtain or purchase health insurance coverage. Through the law, Massachusetts provides nearly free health care for residents earning less than the federal poverty line, and subsidized access to health care for those earning up to three times the poverty threshold. As of the end of 2007, the law is credited with covering an additional 336,000 Massachusetts residents. The law established a new quasi-public regulatory authority, the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority which offers the subsidized coverage and facilitates the selection and purchase of private insurance plans by individuals and small businesses.



Heres what you could have
The State or federal government becomes the insurance company.
No insurance company
no insurance adds
no hospital adds
No being laid off and miss payment and then no Insurance and then states fine you and if not paid you get jail time.same old story.
no looking for best deal you will have it.
Hospital tax's out of pay check
NO----PPO
NO----$35 copay for GP's, then 0% coinsurance.
NO----$50 copay for Specialist's, then 0% coinsurance.
NO----20% after deductible
NO----Family:$5,000($2,500 per person, 2 persons maximum)
NO----$500 Individual Applies to Levels 2, 3, 4
NO----Rx Deductible for Levels 2, 3, 4, then Level 1: $15 copay; Level 2: $35 copay; Level 3: $55 copay; Level 4: 25% copay up to $2500 maximum out of pocket.
Levels based on specific drug
NO-----Annual Out-of-Pocket Limit Family:$4,000($2,000 per person, 2 persons maximum)Does not include deductible
NO---Lifetime Maximum $5 Million per person
Out-of-Network Coverage Yes (Details in plan brochure below)
NO----COPAY
NO----20% AFTER DEDUCTIBLE
NO MORE ASKING YOU THIS-----If you are a new or existing patient, please make sure you bring the ....... Any co-payments that are required at the time of your visit
If you don't have Any co-payments ,you get thrown out. Remember on the news the man who froze to death and man in wheelchair.
How much could it be for nearly every resident of Massachusetts =4,871,283 people
Cost per month=$290.00

2006 figures
population=7,185,132___Est.
under 18=22.5%=1,448,368
65 and older=13.3%=856,146
below poverty=9.9%=637,282
disabled=1,084,746
per capita income,1999=$25,952
Median household income, 2004 =$53,657
prisons =9,335
taxpayers =50% = 3,158,590
4 Insurance plans (details of plans at bottom of page.)
Pay in @$149.75 per month=$1,797 Per year= $5,675,986,230 (Cheapest offered)
pay in @$229.72 Per month=$2,756.64 per year=$8,707,095,537
pay in @$374.01 Per month=$4488.12 Per year=$14,176,130,950
Pay in @$509.25 Per month=$6,111=$19,302,143,490 (they get higher)
How much did the insurance company's make and how much does their advertisements cost .
Who is telling you that socialized medicine is bad???
News and talk shows and movies and advertisement company's and the Insurance company's.
Who makes the most from this SCAM.

Total pay in to all hospitals in Massachusetts =$16,996,625,876

How much out of pocket,
How much 20%coinsurance=$3,399,325,175,( the people paid this)
How much doctors office calls,( the people pay this)
How much Medicare,(the people pay this)
How much Medicaid,(the people pay this)
Hospital profit=$1,000,000,000+( the hospitals that are going broke made this)
Amount paid after deductions for copay=$12,597,300,701(insurance company's paid this or mush less)
97,000 Uninsured Mass. Taxpayers Get Fined
(AP) Nearly 100,000 Massachusetts taxpayers have been fined for failing to obtain health insurance, even as a major survey concludes the effort to create near-universal coverage in the state is meeting key goals.

Rest of story here:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/03/health/main4148660.shtml

Plan Type
PPO
Office Visit for Primary Doctor
$35 copay for GP's, then 0% coinsurance.
Office Visit for Specialist
$50 copay for Specialist's, then 0% coinsurance.
Coinsurance
20% after deductible
Annual Deductible
Family:$5,000($2,500 per person, 2 persons maximum)
Separate Prescription Drugs Deductible
$500 Individual
Applies to Levels 2, 3, 4
Generic Prescription Drugs
Rx Deductible for Levels 2, 3, 4, then Level 1: $15 copay; Level 2: $35 copay; Level 3: $55 copay; Level 4: 25% copay up to $2500 maximum out of pocket.
Levels based on specific drug
Brand Prescription Drugs
Same as above
Annual Out-of-Pocket Limit
Family:$4,000($2,000 per person, 2 persons maximum)
Does not include deductible
Lifetime Maximum
$5 Million per person
Health Savings Account (HSA) Eligible
No
Out-of-Network Coverage
Yes (Details in plan brochure below)

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Carlton E. Corbin,
Winslow,Arkansas,
On top of the Boston mountains

Does anyone know how many party's and Political organizations there are just in the USA???

We the people do not have anyone to represent us.Our congress is too busy listening to all the Political organization and party's and lobbyists from all over the world .

This election has shown that there is a problem in our country and it is the people who took an oath to get in to office and then we the people are left far behind in the dust as they scramble to please all of the people who gave them money or helped them get in to office.

As you can see they will beg for our VOTE and spend millions to convince us to Vote for them and then when its over they go back to begging the Political organization for money and ask them ,what should they do for the poor slobs at the bottom of the money ladder.

We need a Political Organization to lobby and influence and beg for laws for us the American people.

We have a list of members and its registered Voters.

We can get donations from congress ,so we can send out mail to all Voters in the USA.

All of us have money to give to candidates already taken out of our tax's.

I doubt if we could become tax exempt as the Political organization are.

We could get news letters out that report the news of the American people and does not have to lie so as to protect the owners of the news company's .

We could petition in courts and the congress and make amendments to the Constitution to shut off this garbage in our country.

We could ask for the arrest of the General Electric, CEO and just like the homosexuals do ,to get judges to protect them.

We could holler kill whitey and protest in the streets to get laws changed in protection of us.We could get donations to us from our congress.

Wow we could get our schools fixed instead of the Rich's schools .We could get our rights back and be able to sue the rich .We could get the wages of congress cut and cut off their retirement and best of all we could make it where a poor man could become president of the USA.They would come make speech's to US and beg us for money.Just think we could declare the gangs in America terrorists organization and bring the army back home (who have trained fighting them)and clean up our city's and make them safe for US the hard working and honest Americans.

We need a Political organization to lobby and influence and beg for laws for us the American people.We need and can get out of the BOX they have put us in.

Just think some one doing this for all the people. Establish Justice(for good people not criminals), insure domestic Tranquility(shoot gang members), provide for the common defense(close that border), promote the general Welfare(Schools,Hospitals,safe food), and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity(this is our children and not just theirs), do ordain(enforce laws and make it happen for all) and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Here is a list of just a few Political organizations in America and they are all tax free ,but we wont get that benefit.

Wow! no wonder the congress has no time to represent us.120 just in this list

                                 :( Go here and see how many :)

Each one can give 1500 dollars and all sub list of their party can give 1500 dollars(PAC Money)

Belgo-British Conference

Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre

British Committee for Universities of Palestine

British Muslims for Secular Democracy

British-American Project

Buraku Liberation League

Byrd Organization

C

California ProLife Council

Center for American Unity

Centre for Policy Studies

China Support Network

Citizens Flag Alliance

City Club of Chicago

Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform

Committee

Communist League

Community Friendly Movement

Concentrazione Antifascista Italiana

Congressional caucus

Consultant Orthodontists Group

Cordeliers

Council for National Policy

Council on American-Islamic Relations

Creative Coalition

Criticism of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

D

Democratic Federation of Burma

Democratic Study Group

Dofar Liberation Front

Downsize DC Foundation

Drinking Liberally

E

European Heritage Alliance

European Youth Parliament

F

Friends of Clean Accounts

F cont.

The Friends of Ireland (U.S. Congress)

Friends of Soviet Russia

G

Generation Engage or GenerationEngage

German Eastern Marches Society

Grassroots

Group of 184

Gun Owners of America

H

Hanahoe

Hispanic Democratic Organization

I

ICCA Congress & Exhibition

Islamic Thinkers Society

J

John Randolph Club

Junior State of America

Justice at the Gate

K

Kommune 1

L

LaborNet

Landless Workers' Movement

Landmark Legal Foundation

League for Programming Freedom

Libertarian Party of Florida

Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution

Liberty and Property Defence League

Liga Nacional de Accion Ruralista

M

MDC Congress 2005

Mexica Movement

Model parliament

Monochrom

Movement for Democratic Change Congress 2005

Muslim Association of Britain

Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK

Muslim Public Affairs Council

N

Narodna Odbrana

National Agenda Document Project

PROTECT

National Council of Resistance of Iran

National Economic Council, Inc.

National Labor Federation

National Legion of Decency

No War But The Class War

Northern Baltic Communist Youth League

O

ORJUNA

O cont.

Obama Works

Obraz

On the Issues

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa

Open Society Initiative for West Africa

Opposition (politics)

Out of Iraq Caucus

Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus

P

Pennsylvania Abolition Society

Philosophical radicals

Potere Operaio

Priests for Life

Project Vote Smart

Q

Quilliam Foundation

R

Raitu Coolie Sangham (Andhra Pradesh)

Ratnik

Refuse and Resist

S

Scottish Youth Parliament

Service d'Action Civique

Society of United Irishmen

Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement

Sovereignty International

Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats

T

The Future of Children

Turkey Youth Union

U

U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

U.S. English (organization)

UK Youth Parliament

Uganda National Liberation Front

Ukrainian Military Organization

Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council

Union of Italian Migrant Workers

W

WAAKE-UP!

Wellstone Action

Whitaker and Baxter

The White House Project

White allies

World In Common

Y

YMCA Youth and Government

Young Democrats Movement

American Voters (I added this one)

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Carlton E. Corbin,
Winslow,Arkansas,
On top of the Boston mountains

Put the US back in USA