Mitt and Clinton

http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/2012/webcast/archives/player.asp?id=61

Go here to see Clinton introduce Mitt Romney quite nicely! Then Mitt speaks!

Quotes From Thomas Jefferson

I currently am unable to post pictures on my blog here. Usually I like to illustrate each post with some kind of pictures. This post will just have quotes: ~~~~ "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take away everything you have." ~Thomas Jefferson ~~~~ "The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all History: Whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be rules by a small elite. ~~Thomas Jefferson ~~~~ "The price to pay for liberty is eternal vigilance." ~~Thomas Jefferson ~~~~ "Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." ~~Thomas Jefferson

Sites to peruse

http://www.dialoguewith.us/index.html  This is about global warming.

Want to know what is being tweeted? 

"Blacklash" Author

This gal wrote a very important book...and here is also C.L. Bryant who made a movie "Run Away Slave"

Debate Schedule

I can't wait to see and hear these debates...do you know the schedule? I do! Scroll down...

There will be 4 debates between Obama and Romney. Here is the SCHEDULE.

Mark your calendars for Oct. 3, 11, 16 and 22 !

Please Vote. Here are Convention Times

I grabbed this from wallbuilders.com

The Republican Convention starts on August 27th and goes until the 30th in Tampa, Florida.
 The Democratic Convention is Sept. 3-6, in Charlotte, NC.

Reagan on Freedom

F R E E D O M Quotes from Reagan
from
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, (30 March 1961)

Later variant : Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech (5 January 1967)

Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961) - audio recording, part of the Operation Coffee Cup campaign against the social insurance program which later became known as Medicare.

"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" Reagan wondered. "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his state 'State Socialism', and way before him it was relevant 'benevolant monarchy'."

The Kitchen Debate

I remember Krushchev...here he tells plainly how the US and Russian Communists will never agree on politics.

I had never heard of the Kitchen Debate until an 86 year old friend of mine mentioned it last week as we talked about Nixon...so I looked it up.

The Kitchen Debate: Nixon And Khrushchev

1959

http://watergate.info/nixon/1959_nixon-khrushchev-kitchen-debate.shtml

Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow.

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[Both men enter kitchen in the American exhibit.]

NIXON

I want to show you this kitchen. It is like those of our houses in California.

[Nixon points to dishwasher.]

KHRUSHCHEV

We have such things.

NIXON

This is our newest model. This is the kind which is built in thousands of units for direct installations in the houses. In America, we like to make life easier for women...

KHRUSHCHEV

Your capitalistic attitude toward women does not occur under Communism.

NIXON

I think that this attitude towards women is universal. What we want to do, is make life more easy for our housewives.....

NIXON

This house can be bought for $14,000, and most American [veterans from World War II] can buy a home in the bracket of $10,000 to $15,000. Let me give you an example that you can appreciate. Our steel workers as you know, are now on strike. But any steel worker could buy this house. They earn $3 an hour. This house costs about $100 a month to buy on a contract running 25 to 30 years.

KHRUSHCHEV

We have steel workers and peasants who can afford to spend $14,000 for a house. Your American houses are built to last only 20 years so builders could sell new houses at the end. We build firmly. We build for our children and grandchildren.

NIXON

American houses last for more than 20 years, but, even so, after twenty years, many Americans want a new house or a new kitchen. Their kitchen is obsolete by that time....The American system is designed to take advantage of new inventions and new techniques.

KHRUSHCHEV

This theory does not hold water. Some things never get out of date—houses,for instance, and furniture, furnishings—perhaps—but not houses. I have read much about America and American houses, and I do not think that this is exhibit and what you say is strictly accurate.

NIXON

Well, um...

KHRUSHCHEV

I hope I have not insulted you.

NIXON

I have been insulted by experts. Everything we say [on the other hand] is in good humor. Always speak frankly.

KHRUSHCHEV

The Americans have created their own image of the Soviet man. But he is not as you think. You think the Russian people will be dumbfounded to see these things, but the fact is that newly built Russian houses have all this equipment right now.

NIXON

Yes, but...

KHRUSHCHEV

In Russia, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet Union. You are entitled to housing...In America, if you don’t have a dollar you have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say we are the slave to Communism.

NIXON

I appreciate that you are very articulate and energetic...

KHRUSHCHEV

Energetic is not the same thing as wise.

NIXON

If you were in the Senate, we would call you a filibusterer! You—[Khrushchev interrupts]—do all the talking and don’t let anyone else talk. This exhibit was not designed to astound but to interest. Diversity, the right to choose, the fact that we have 1,000 builders building 1,000 different houses is the most important thing. We don’t have one decision made at the top by one government official. This is the difference.

KHRUSHCHEV

On politics, we will never agree with you. For instance, Mikoyan likes very peppery soup. I do not. But this does not mean that we do not get along.

NIXON

You can learn from us, and we can learn from you. There must be a free exchange. Let the people choose the kind of house, the kind of soup, the kind of ideas that they want.

[Translation lost as both men enter the television recording studio.]

KHRUSHCHEV

[In jest] You look very angry, as if you want to fight me. Are you still angry?

NIXON

[in jest] That’s right!

KHRUSHCHEV

...and Nixon was once a lawyer? Now he’s nervous.

NIXON

Oh yes, [Nixon chuckling] he still is [a lawyer].

Other Russian speaker

Tell us, please, what are your general impressions of the exhibit?

KHRUSHCHEV

It’s clear to me that the construction workers didn’t manage to finish their work and the exhibit still is not put in order...This is what America is capable of, and how long has she existed? 300 years? 150 years of independence and this is her level. We haven’t quite reached 42 years, and in another 7 years, we’ll be at the level of America, and after that we’ll go farther. As we pass you by, we’ll wave "hi" to you, and then if you want, we’ll stop and say, "please come along behind us." ...If you want to live under capitalism, go ahead, that’s your question, an internal matter, it doesn’t concern us. We can feel sorry for you, but really, you wouldn’t understand. We’ve already seen how you understand things.

Other U.S speaker

Mr. Vice President, from what you have seen of our exhibition, how do you think it’s going to impress the people of the Soviet Union?

NIXON

It’s a very effective exhibit, and it’s one that will cause a great deal of interest. I might say that this morning I, very early in the morning, went down to visit a market, where the farmers from various outskirts of the city bring in their items to sell. I can only say that there was a great deal of interest among these people, who were workers and farmers, etc... I would imagine that the exhibition from that standpoint would, therefore, be a considerable success. As far as Mr Khrushchev’s comments just now, they are in the tradition we learned to expect from him of speaking extemporaneously and frankly whenever he has an opportunity. I can only say that if this competition which you have described so effectively, in which you plan to outstrip us, particularly in the production of consumer goods...If this competition is to do the best for both of our peoples and for people everywhere, there must be a free exchange of ideas. There are some instances where you may be ahead of us--for example in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space. There may be some instances, for example, color television, where we’re ahead of you. But in order for both of us benefit...

KHRUSHCHEV

[interrupting] No, in rockets we’ve passed you by, and in the technology...

NIXON

[continuing to talk] You see, you never concede anything.

KHRUSHCHEV

We always knew that Americans were smart people. Stupid people could not have risen to the economic level that they’ve reached. But as you know, "we don’t beat flies with our nostrils!" In 42 years we’ve made progress.

NIXON

You must not be afraid of ideas.

KHRUSHCHEV

We’re saying it is you who must not be afraid of ideas. We’re not afraid of anything....

NIXON

Well, then, let’s have more exchange of them. We all agree on that, right?

KHRUSHCHEV

Good. [Khrushchev turns to translator and asks:] Now, what did I agree on?

NIXON

[interrupts] Now, let’s go look at our pictures.

KHRUSHCHEV

Yes, I agree. But first I want to clarify what I’m agreeing on. Don’t I have that right? I know that I’m dealing with a very good lawyer. Therefore, I want to be unwavering in my miner’s girth, so our miners will say, "He’s ours and he doesn’t give in!"

NIXON

No question about that.

KHRUSHCHEV

You’re a lawyer of Capitalism, I’m a lawyer for Communism. Let’s kiss.

NIXON

All that I can say, from the way you talk and the way you dominate the conversation, you would have made a good lawyer yourself. What I mean is this: Here you can see the type of tape which will transmit this very conversation immediately, and this indicates the possibilities of increasing communication. And this increase in communication, will teach us some things, and you some things, too. Because, after all, you don’t know everything.

KHRUSHCHEV

If I don’t know everything, then you know absolutely nothing about Communism, except for fear! But now the dispute will be on an unequal basis. The apparatus is yours, and you speak English, while I speak Russian. Your words are taped and will be shown and heard. What I say to you about science won’t be translated, and so your people won’t hear it. These aren’t equal conditions.

NIXON

There isn’t a day that goes by in the United States when we can’t read everything that you say in the Soviet Union...And, I can assure you, never make a statement here that you don’t think we read in the United States.

KHRUSHCHEV

If that’s the way it is, I’m holding you to it. Give me your word...I want you, the Vice President, to give me your word that my speech will also be taped in English. Will it be?

NIXON

Certainly it will be. And by the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and will be carried all over the Soviet Union. That’s a fair bargain.

[Both men shake hands and walk off stage, still talking.]

Kennedy's Speech in SLC 1963

For those of you who have not know President Kennedy, this is a great speech he gave while visiting Salt Lake City. He praises the state of Utah, he praises the qualities of the Mormon pioneers who first settled Utah. He talks about the water west of the 100th parallel, the ideal of American freedom and its responsible place in the world.

He said that Americans should be like the Mormons and not turn back or give up in our responsibilites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkH5PcntC9s&feature=watch_response

or just click on this....9 and 1/2 minutes...

Here is Part 2....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSpW_3KlsS0&feature=relmfu

or just click on this....also about 9 and 1/2 minutes.

Possible President?

Here we have our daughter at some political event way back when...with Mitt Romney!

New Vocabulary Word Today

I don't know if I should get permission to post this...but I give credit to Lisa at

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson/

for this cartoon thismorning...I learned anew word: Bluster.

John was surprised, even shocked, that I did not know what it meant. I know what a blustery wind is, yes...but using bluster as a verb?

Here is what the dictionary said:

bluster: vi 1. To blow stormily, said of wind.

2. to speak or conduct oneself in a noisy, swaggering or bullying manner .

There was more but that is all I have time to type...

I Discover A Good New Political Blog

Read Crystal Wright's opinions here:

http://conservativeblackchick.com

See if you agree with her...Her articles are a great springboard into your own research on the issues.

Gas Prices in Victorville

These photos were taken byt me in my car as I waited during a red light. This picture was taken today, March 2, a week after the picture below...the price of a gallon of gas went up 10 cents in a week. This price was also featured at the Shell station across the street from the Chevron station. We get out gas at Costco where we pay a membership fee each year. Today's price was 425.99.

Limbaugh freaks as Romney lays claim to Obama's bailout

Great artwork here! Article is example of how we voters get confused!!!

By David Horsey
January 12, 2012, 5:42 p.m.

Great artwork here! Article is example of how we voters get confused!!!

Art and article by David Horsey
January 12, 2012, 5:42 p.m.

latimes.com

Limbaugh freaks as Romney lays claim to Obama's bailout