WORK

some great articles on the topic...
http://thefederalist.com/2014/08/29/the-american-dream-isnt-just-about-income/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/09/03/home_cooked_family_dinners_a_major_burden_for_working_mothers.html?wpsrc=fol_tw

and the response
http://thefederalist.com/2014/09/05/home-cooking-and-the-lefts-resentment-of-effort/

A Story About Iraq

Yesterday I went to see my doctor who is from Iraq and moved here to the USA when she was 28 in 1980. After we discussed my health needs, I asked her what she thought of what was going on in Iraq.
 I asked her this because I remember a visit I had with her before 9/11...before Iraq was invaded by the US and the statue of Saddam Hussein toppled. She had said..."Saddam is worse than Hitler."

So yesterday she opened up  and these are her comments:
"The Iraqis deserve what is happening to them because they have not learned to live together."

"Bush/USA did the right thing by capturing Saddam and ordering the killing of his sons (who were hiding up north...they were even worse than their dad.)"

When I was growing up in Iraq it was the safest country! We never locked our doors..we would have our garage door open all the time, night and day, we were not afraid of anyone coming to steal our things or hurt us. I could walk home from the university in the dark at 10:30 at night..safely.

When Saddam came into power...he had a circle of people who did his bidding and got rewarded...they were his henchman..if one of them overheard someone say something like. "Oh darn, we have no tomatoes because of the sanction." They would get their heads chopped off. You could not say one thing against Saddam or you would be killed that way.

"The happiest day of my life was when the Saddam statue was pulled down. I was watching it on TV here in this country and I jumped up and down on the couch in celebration..I was so happy! Yes, it was the happiest day of my life."

Bush did the right thing..Plan A was right, take out Saddam. He did not have a plan B and that was bad. They should have put in a good dictator...we do not want democracy. We like dictators..they just have to be good ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-V-Bl7GU8 shows Iraq in the 50's...and tells of its history.

Spencer W Kimball Speaks On SELF RELIANCE

We are to build Zion, characterized by love and peace and unity.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1978/04/becoming-the-pure-in-heart?lang=eng#listen=audio

This is just a portion of the speech below. Click on the link above to hear the whole audio.

“The responsibility for each member’s spiritual, social, emotional, physical, or economic well-being rests first upon himself, second, upon his family, and third, upon the Church. Members of the Church are commanded by the Lord to be self-reliant and independent to the extent of their ability. (See D&C 78:13–14.)

“No true Latter-day Saint, while physically or emotionally able, will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family’s well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will work to the extent of his ability to supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life. (See Gen. 3:19; 1 Tim. 5:8; and Philip. 2:12.)

“As guided by the spirit of the Lord and through applying these principles, each member of the Church should make his own decisions as to what assistance he accepts, be it from governmental or other sources. In this way, independence, self-respect, dignity, and self-reliance will be fostered, and free agency maintained.” (Statement of the Presiding Bishopric, as quoted in Ensign, March 1978, p. 20.)

Underlying this statement is the recurring theme of self-reliance. No amount of philosophizing, excuses, or rationalizing will ever change the fundamental need for self-reliance. This is so because:

“All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, … as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.” (D&C 93:30.) The Lord declares that herein lies “the agency of man” (see D&C 93:31), and with this agency comes the responsibility for self. With this agency we can rise to glory or fall to condemnation. May we individually and collectively be ever self-reliant. This is our heritage and our obligation.

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