Feb 12 Glenn Beck

Glenn could not believe it when he read the Huffington Post article about him....see it here...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-baker/the-uniting-principles-glenn-beck-should-have-talked-about_b_4769712.html

What? My
9-12    project  has   9 values and 12 principles   said Glenn.
Media out of touch with who Glenn is and what he stands for!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-12_Project
The name "9-12" is symbolic of both the day after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the project's "nine principles and twelve values."[6] According to the website, the 9-12 Project, the 9 Principles and 12 Values are derived from the principles of the Founding Fathers:
At the origin of America, our Founding Fathers built this country on 28 powerful principles. These principles were culled from all over the world and from centuries of great thinkers. We have distilled the original 28 down to the 9 basic principles.[7]
The website lists the 9 Principles, accompanied by quotations from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The 9 Principles are:
America is good.
I believe in God and He is the center of my life.
I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
The 12 Values are:
Honesty
Reverence
Hope
Thrift
Humility
Charity
Sincerity
Moderation
Hard Work
Courage
Personal Responsibility
Gratitude (originally Friendship)[citation needed]
History[edit]

Protesters walking towards the U.S. Capitol during the Taxpayer March on Washington.
A group of protesters hold signs praising Beck at the Taxpayer March on Washington.
The 9-12 Project was created as the result of Beck's "We Surround Them" campaign, a series of segments and specials on Beck's television program in early 2009 which purported to bring back government accountability.[8] Viewers were asked to incorporate these values first in their personal lives, then expect them of those they elected to office and holding the elected accountable. At one point during the campaign, viewers were asked to submit pictures if they believed at least seven of the nine founding principles and felt they were alone in believing these principles. Many of the pictures were used to form a collage that once lined one of the walls in Glenn Beck's Fox News Channel studio.[citation needed] The 9-12 Project grew out of that campaign, as a result of the original call Beck took on his nationally syndicated talk radio show, from "Ed" of New Haven, Connecticut. During that phone call in late January, 2009, "Ed" said that he felt "outnumbered" (as a true conservative in today's political battles). Beck told him that he would figure out a way to prove to him that he isn't alone, and that "they," the powers that be, don't surround "us", the American people, but rather, "We Surround Them!"
Following the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009, Beck introduced a campaign for the 9-12 project called "Re-found America". The campaign aims to find 56 Re-Founders, who are Congressional politicians who agree to stand against corruption and abuses of power, and become whistle blowers, exposing the evidence of corruption.[9]
Beginning in March 2010, the IRS started scrutinizing organizations, in particular conservative organizations, that it suspected of engaging in political activity not permitted under their tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. IRS civil service employees were instructed to focus on groups with certain words in their names. The "9-12 Project" was one of these groups.
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On his TV show at 5 pm NY time, 2 pm Calif time, he had a gal on ( a psychologist) who talked about the mental habits of successful and strong people. They had a group of teens in, too...to discuss these concepts with them and help them. A very valuable show today!

I captured this from today's show:

A Political Site to Return To Periodically

Reason.com is a good site. I recently read this article...

http://reason.com/archives/2013/08/14/the-end-of-policy about How republicans and democrats need to redefine their agendas.


http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/28/how-republicans-could-replace-obamacare
about the Republican's alternative to Obamacare

What do you do with adversity?

Click on the link (not the picture) to hear Glenn's inspiring monologue from today's radio show.

http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=31293425&topic_id=&tcid=vpp_copy_31293425&v=3

More on Immigration

I do not have a lot of time to study all this...but it is an important issue.

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013081033026/us/homeland-security/19-very-disturbing-facts-on-illegal-immigration-every-american-should-know.html

Regarding Illegal Immigration

I got this in an email today. What makes me sad is that our government did not enforce its own laws and now we have this mess. What if they left .....AND ENTERED LEGALLY Somebody really did their homework on this one. Best on the sub j ect to present date. What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America ? I, Tina Griego, j ournalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament". I interviewed Mexican j ournalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What Happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?" Hmmm, I thought, what would happen? So I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below. It's a good question it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America ? The answers I found may surprise you! In California , if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico , it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again. In Colorado , 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grandchildren would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico . That would save Colorado an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone. Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals. Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67% dropout/flunk rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41different languages.. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our grid locked cities in Colorado . Denver 's 4% unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain j obs at a living wage. In Florida , 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America , the rule of law, and English. In Chicago, Illinois , 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience. If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home', the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers. No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches. We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country. In cities like L.A. , 20,000 members of the ' 18th Street Gang' would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters! Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens! America 's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America 's economy which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt. $8.7 trillion debt !! At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California , Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act. Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country-brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders. Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11% of our greenhouse gases. Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, roads, electricity, or any kind of sanitation. The New York Times reported them to be America's new ' Third World ' inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona ; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico . We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico . We already invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life Interesting Statistics! Here are 13 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them: 1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens. (that's Billion with a 'B') http://tinyurl.com/zob77..html 2. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 3. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a word of English!http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 4. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 5. $3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That's $1.2 Billion a year.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 6. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 7. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 8. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 9. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US ..http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt.01.html 10. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from other terrorist countries.Over 10,000 of those were middle-easternterrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin, crack, Guns, and mari j uana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.http://tinyurl.com/t9sht 11. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period and nbsp;http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation 12. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm 13. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States ! http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! If this doesn't bother YOU, then j ust delete the message. Otherwise, forward this to everyone YOU know

Glenn Beck on November 4 2013

Why I really liked Glenn Beck's show on November 4, 2013!

#1, He was brave enough to talk about the basic problem facing our country...the philosophical opposites:

The Individual vs. the Collective
He played an excerpt of a video of Nancy Pelosi telling us that "We have to pass the [Health Care] bill before we can read it, before we can find out what is in it."

What? This is crazy, I believe.

The consciousness (Pregressivism, Entitlement, The willingness to let someone else take the reigns)that created this mess is now trying to solve the problem. But it won't work.
The old consciousness is the problem. Regarding the debt problem, the democrats and republicans will do the same thing. It takes NEW THINKING...thinking out of the box.

Here is a quote by Einstein:

Glenn said that the Tea Party is being demonized because it came about from "thinking out of the box".
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THEN...Glenn had on a special guest: The author of the book "David and Goliath" and I was really impressed with this guy and really want to read his book!
Malcolm Gladwell..staff writer of the New Yorker magazine.

The book has many stories of people who had horrible situations and rose above them to do great things.
He  talked about a group of people who defied the  Nazi's...who decided to act instead of thinking they were at a hopeless disadvantage.

 The gist of the book is that adversity has a purpose...it is for our growth. He talked about "desirable difficulties"...he talked about successful entrepeneurs who were dyslexic...he said EVERYONE is capable of doing something unexpected!

Afghanistan History

I heard, on the radio while we were traveling, the author of Games Without Rules:The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
 by Mir Tamim Ansary


The title is taken from the concept of The Great Game...and you can read about it here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game

I am just transcribing my notes that I took while listening. It was quite fascinating and I had to say to myself at the end...If only our leaders would have studied carefully this history, we would never have gone in there.

Why is Afghanistan important/
It is the crossroads of civilized world in that hemisphere.
It is between greatcentersof power. There were 2 forces:
Russian Imperialsim
British Imperialsim

Why does each one want it? To keep the other out!
Afhanistan is HIGHLANDS. From there, the British conquest of India started. Brtiain then had the Indian colonies (India). The power of Britain was that it dominated the seas.
Russia had no access to any reasonable coast so they had TONS of ground troops!
-Arabian Sea to India
-Ocean view
-Afghan highlands
-British want to prevent Russia from entering Afghanistan
British-push to border of Russia
British took over Afghanistan, ousted the King and put in aguy who couldn't rule. Afghanistan fell apart.
So British got out. 40 years later British cam-put in the son of the first guy. Still fell apart. mess. British left.
1st and 2nd Anglo-Afghan War.
Another guy wanted to be king. Turned to the British to help him. They said no. ..and put in someone else. Then regretted it. Said You would have been better.
1750:loose empire
1840 Dash mamed (sic) came back to power. He did OK.
British came back and then left again...left country in hands of tyrant. Iron Ahman (made British or him not cross a line THE DURAN LINE (SE Border of Afghanistan)---who conquered 40 times ? when done Afghanistan in shape of a triangle. Bureaucracy all over now.

YET>>>and still the SOCIAL FABRIC was untouched by all this bureaucracy.
Afghanistan is not hard to conquer, but it is very hard to govern.
There are 2 layers:
new Afghanistan
Old Afghanistan

How it governs:
-DIPLOMACY
-MARRIAGE POLITICS
-RECOGNIZE UNSPOKEN FOLK WAYS
WESTERN FORCES CANNOT OPERATE AT THAT LEVEL AT ALL.

Before Russia invaded, the grandson of the Iron Ahman (1920's) wanted to reform his country. Esp. women, family, etc/ Wanted to be more "western"..he was ousted.Leader of Turkey wanted Islamic Ottoman...wanted constitution..wanted Latin language script..wanted modern medicine.
Now USA and Russia want the Great Game like in Kipling's time.
Containment= ring of communist countries with ring free market countries..
Iraq and Iran were on the side of the USA. Afghanistan was a crucial link. Decided being unaligned was more powerful.
Soviet invasion  1978  -after the coup--be careful to note..it was not a revolution...it was a putsch .

Extreme developmentalists wanted to modernize quickly.  Post coup government drafted women from the villages..."By God, you WILL be literate." So afghans up in arms.
Russia said..lets go in before the USA does. Soviets upset the aple cart.

Taliban grew out of the young boys in refugee camps.
Wahabies built schools...intend Pakistan elements... Taliban driven out by USA. Resurgence now not Taliban...it is dispersed..
It is result fo 2 and 1/2 centuries of the slow destruction of their progress.

Obama's policy: US cames in-sets up stuff-schools, etc. Now all those on board are vulnerable when US leaves.

Our military footprint exacerbated the insurgency that would be there anyway.
We have to choose between 2 evils.
WE DID NOT LOOK AT HISTORY WHEN WE DECIDED TO GO IN>