It’s Only A Matter of Time….

Before this fight comes to your state too. And what ever happens in Maine, will greatly influence the outcome in your own state. Please stand behind marriage in Maine. Contact the author of this article IMMEDIATELY to ask how you can be of help.

Maine4Marriage

September 9, 2009

We Need Your Help Today!

Dear Maine4Marriage Supporters,

We are now fully engaged in the battle to protect traditional marriage in Maine.

We need your help.

We can’t win without it.

The following are real reasons to get involved in this effort. As we have said before, this is the most important bill that has EVER found its way to the legislature in the history of Maine. As you consider whether to help on this issue, or how much you can help, please pause and consider the following:

Our children will be taught in the public schools that homosexual marriage is every bit as desirable, normal and praiseworthy as true marriage. There will be nothing you as a parent can do about it. Parents in Massachusetts who have tried to prevent this kind of indoctrination of their children have lost in the federal law suit they filed. How will you respond when you ask your first grader what they talked about in school that day and they reply, “We talked about whether when we grow up we want to marry a boy or a girl?” Don’t think it won’t happen here in Maine. It is happening now in states and countries that have legalized homosexual marriage.

The radical redefinition of marriage that legalizing same sex marriage represents will also completely change the way all children, including our own, will view marriage. Instead of the child-centered social institution it is now, it would become adult oriented and merely an official recognition of adult “love.” That means even fewer people will get married. While we may be able to instill the proper concept and importance of marriage in most of our own children, they will still grow up in a very different society if we allow homosexual marriage to become legal.

We also know from social science research that the natural family (in which children are born to and raised by their married, biological mother and father) is by far the best for children on all measures of their welfare. Every other arrangement results in more negative outcomes for children that will continue to affect them as adults, and therefore weaken society. That weakened society with all the problems that will result from ever more members not having the best advantages as children is the society our children will have to live in and try to cope with. If for no other reason than parental concern about our children’s future, each of us should be actively engaged in fighting the legalization of same sex marriage

Even the terms “wife” and “husband” and “father” and “mother” will eventually be attacked as being politically incorrect. More and more children will not have either a mother or a father and those who marry will even be identified on Maine marriage licenses as “Spouse A” and Spouse ”B” or some other generic kind of category. What kind of teaching will that be for our children?

Please help by doing the following:

1. Become a member of www.standformarriagemaine.com and indicate that you are willing to be a volunteer.
2. Donate all that your budget can allow to either www.standformarriagemaine.com and/or www.maine4marriage.org. Your dollars will go to support the effort here in Maine.
3. Educate yourself on the issue. Knowledge is power.

We have less than 60 days. Every day counts. Please sign up and offer to help.

Today.

Miriam Conners
207-729-1549
nuview@bigplanet.com

Eileen Quinn
esq8@maine.rr.com

UPDATE: I just received this email from Miriam today:
We are desperate out here in Maine for help. The outcome of this referendum in Maine will effect all other states. Your help would be so appreciated…no words can tell how much. What would be wonderful is if you called Stand For Marriage Maine and asked for Mary. Tell her you know me and where you live and that you have a group who would be willing to make some calls. (and perhaps donate if that is feasible) Those two things are what we need at present. I am hoping that very soon, they will have the online access to make calls from the website. That would really open things up so that friends from other states can make 10 calls here and there. The opposition is so well funded that it is indeed a case of David against Goliath.

Perhaps you will enjoy my latest post to a newspaper.

Thank you again,
Miriam

nuviewmaine of Topsham, ME
Sep 10, 2009 6:18 PM
I have several concerns with same sex marriage legislation and will address one today. Under this law our relatively small and temporary body of legislators have decreed that men can make just as good of mothers as women; and women can make just as good of fathers as men. The status of “mother” as the one unique citizen in our culture that can carry and give birth to another infant/citizen has been deemed gender neutral. What that robs from me ( I’ve delivered 7 babies)and my 7 daughters is that our status as the citizens who are unique in that contribution are no longer unique under the law. The status of mother evaporates with LD 1020. It demands that under the law, all reference to familial relationships are genderless. It is crystal clear that one group of citizens must lose their position and status to give status to another group. Is that just? Whether we socially accept this thinking is one thing. But there is no mistaking that the law will demand no difference between me and any man. “Mother” under this law will no longer mean what is has meant for almost 5000 years in every culture and in the animal kingdom. We must carefully consider all the possible ramifications of this legislation, or we run the risk of consequences never imagined. I hope that people will think this through carefully before November 3.

No Treats from Obama

National Health Care = VA Health Care

As a member of the home schooling community, I draw a lot of support from online groups where I gain inspiration and encouragement. The following letter is a recent post from  one of these online support groups.  Please take a moment to read it.  And then ask yourself, Do you really want the Feds taking charge of your health care when you or a loved on is ill????

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Dear All,

The following is a letter about the experience we had yesterday that I wrote to our legislators. Please read and write yours to vote NO. Any hospital facility you have been to is better than what the government currently provides.

Blessings,
Kristine Farley
Bonney Lake, WA

The government already runs the VA hospitals and they are in such a shameful situation. Can the government do better? I sincerely doubt it.

Yesterday I spent 13 hours at the Seattle VA Hospital with an older family member and her husband, who is a highly awarded veteran. What a tragic disappointment for these great men and women, the defenders of our freedom!

This facility is horrible with chipped paint on all surfaces (doors, jams, walls, metalwork, etc.), dingy tile & walls that look to be decades old, bathrooms that smell of old urine and stall dividers that must be the original with only some of original paint left on them. Dusty blinds and dirty walls were on every floor. There were soiled, with feces clothing and bed linens on chairs that had been there for a day or so by the smell. All the restrooms that I used (4 or 5) were no better than “scary” gas stations restrooms.

Our family member had been there without food, an IV or bathing for 2 days. His breathing was labored and was not monitored, nor noticed by staff, until his wife pointed it out and suggested oxygen that they promptly used and found fluid around his lungs that was not there when he was admitted. With us there we were able to get the attention and care for him. The doctors and nurses all rotate, so you don’t have the opportunity to have the same ones.

It is such a shame that our country’s great heroes are treated in these manner. I have been in Mexico and see different hospitals there; this hospital is only a small step up from those. Other hospitals in our area are great by comparison.

The HMO’s our family has used in the past are better than this. Our current family health coverage through my husbands work is perfect and affordable for our family. We get to choose our doctors and have the coverage that we need.

This is representative of how the government manages health care…. God help us if all the hospitals in the US become government run. They will be like this!!!

I am sending this to everyone in our address books and asking them to contact their representatives to vote “NO” for US run Health Care.

Please vote NO, too!!!

Sincerely,

Kristine Farley

The Fed Under Fire

URGENT: Stand up for Traditional Marriage in WA

Olympia, WA – April 13, 2009 – The Washington Values Alliance received word late this afternoon that House Majority Leader Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) has pulled the Homosexual “Marriage” Equality Bill (Senate Bill 5688) to the House Floor.

A vote of the full House is imminent and may come as early as tomorrow (Tuesday, April 14) when the House returns to the floor at 1:30pm; and will likely come no later than 5:00 pm, April 17, which is the last day to consider opposite house bills.

If the bill is passed and accepted by both houses, it will be signed by the respective leaders and sent to Governor Christine Gregoire.

The Governor has 5 days, excluding Sundays, to take action on any bill passed by the Legislature, provided adjournment does not occur within those 5 days, in which case the Governor has 20 days to take action, excluding Sundays. April 26, 2009 is the last day allowed the year for regular session under the state constitution.

The Governor has the authority to sign a bill into law or veto all or part of it. If the Governor fails to act on a bill, it may become law without her signature.

The Washington Values Alliance is encouraging citizens all across the state to:

1) Immediately contact their State Representatives (see below) and tell them to VOTE NO on SB 5688!

2) Immediately contact Governor Christine Gregoire and tell her to oppose SB 5688 and VETO if passed by the Legislature!

*IF YOU HAVE ALREADY CALLED AND E-MAILED, NOW IS A GREAT TIME TIME TO DO IT AGAIN!!!!

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HOW IS YOUR LEGISLATOR VOTING ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS?

Use this site to find your local legislator: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx

1st District
Represents portions of northeast King County and south Snohomish County,
including areas of Bothell, Woodinville, Mountlake Terrace, and Brier.
Al O’Brien (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Mark Ericks (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

2nd District
Represents Pierce County, including McKenna, Rainier, Roy, Ft. Lewis,
Spanaway, Orting, Graham, Yelm, and the City of Eatonville.
Jim McCune (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Tom Campbell (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

3rd District
Represents the heartland of the downtown Spokane area,
extending to the North Side and South Hill.
Alex Wood (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Timm Ormsby (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

4th District
Represents part of Spokane County.
Larry Crouse (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Matt Shea (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

5th District
Represents East King County, including North Bend, Snoqualmie,
Issaquah, and portions of unincorporated King County.
Glenn Anderson (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Jay Rodne (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

6th District
Represents a crescent shaped district around the North, West, and Southern parts of the City of Spokane, a small portion of the City of Spokane Valley, and sizeable portions of North and Southwestern Spokane County (including Airway Heights, Colbert, Chattaroy, and southern Deer Park).
Kevin Parker (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
John Driscoll (D) DRISCOLL OFFICE UNSURE OF POSITION AS OF APRIL 1

7th District
Represents Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry, Lincoln
and parts of Okanogan and Spokane Counties.
Shelly Short (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Joel Kretz (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

8th District
Represents most of Benton County, including Richland and Kennewick.
Brad Klippert (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Larry Haler (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

9th District
Represents the counties of Adams, Asotin, Garfield
and Whitman and parts of Franklin and Spokane.
Don Cox (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Joe Schmick (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

10th District
Represents all of Island County and portions of Skagit and Snohomish counties, including the cities of La Conner, Oak Harbor, and Stanwood.
Norma Smith (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Barbara Bailey (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

11th District
Represents parts of South Seattle, Burien, Sea-Tac, Tukwila and the southern part of Renton.
Zack Hudgins (D)SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Bob Hasegawa (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

12th District
Represents Chelan and Douglas Counties and parts of Grant and Okanogan Counties.
Cary Condotta (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

Mike Armstrong (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

13th District
Represents most of Grant, all of Kittitas and part of Yakima Counties.
Judy Warnick (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Bill Hinkle (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

14th District
Represents parts of Yakima County.
Norm Johnson (R) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Charles Ross (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

15th District
Represents all of Klickitat County and parts of Yakima, Skamania and Clark counties.
Bruce Chandler (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
David Taylor (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
16th District
Represents parts of Benton and Franklin counties,
and all of Columbia and Walla Walla counties.
Maureen Walsh (R) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Laura Grant-Herriot (D) ????? UNABLE TO CONNECT WITH REP. GRANT-HERRIOT’S OFFICE

17th District
Represents a portion of Clark County.

Tim Probst (D) ???? UNABLE TO CONNECT WITH REP. PROBST’S OFFICE

Deb Wallace (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

18th District
Represents parts of Clark and Cowlitz counties.
Jaime Herrera (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Ed Orcutt (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

19th District
Represents Pacific, Wahkiakum, and parts of Grays Harbor and Cowlitz counties.
Dean Takko (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Brian Blake (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

20th District
Represents all of Lewis and south Thurston Counties.
Richard DeBolt (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Gary Alexander (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

21st District
Represents Edmonds, Mukilteo and portions of Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace.
Mary Helen Roberts (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Marko Liias (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

22nd District
Represents the northern portion of Thurston County, including all of Olympia and portions of Lacey and Tumwater, and the unincorporated communities of Johnson Point, Cooper Point, Tanglewilde, Thompson Place, and Boston Harbor.
Brendan Williams (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Sam Hunt (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

23rd District
Represents Kitsap County, including Bainbridge Island,
Silverdale, Poulsbo, Kingston, and parts of Bremerton.
Sherry Appleton (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Christine Rolfes (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

24th District
Represents Clallam, Jefferson, and part of Grays Harbor Counties.
Kevin Van De Wege (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Lynn Kessler (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

25th District
Represents Puyallup and South Hill, and parts of Midland,
Summit, Fife, Tacoma, Edgewood and Milton.
Bruce Dammeier (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

Dawn Morrell (D) ??? WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM FROM REP. MORRELL’S OFFICE

26th District
Represents parts of Pierce and Kitsap Counties.
Jan Angel (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Larry Seaquist (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

27th District
Represents portions of Tacoma and Fife in Pierce County.
Dennis Flannigan(D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Jeannie Darneille (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

28th District
Represents Fircrest, University Place, Lakewood, Steilacoom, Tillicum,
and West Tacoma; Anderson, Ketron, and McNeil Islands.
Troy Kelley (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL FOR HOMOSEXUALS (MAY BE WILLING TO SUPPORT FLOOR AMENDMENTS)
Tami Green (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL FOR HOMOSEXUALS

29th District
Represents South Tacoma, Parkland, and portions of Lakewood and University Place.
Steve Conway (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Steve Kirby (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

30th District
Represents Federal Way, Milton, Algona and Pacific.
Mark Miloscia (D) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Skip Priest (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

31st District
Represents south King County and northeast Pierce County, including Auburn, Bonney Lake, Buckley, Edgewood, Enumclaw, Greenwater, Sumner, and Lake Tapps.
Dan Roach (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Christopher Hurst (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

32nd District
Represents Northwest King and Southwest Snohomish Counties, including Edmonds, Kenmore, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park and Woodway.
Maralyn Chase (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Ruth Kagi (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

33rd District
Represents SeaTac, Des Moines, Normandy Park, and parts of Kent, and Tukwila.
Tina Orwall (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Dave Upthegrove (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

34th District
Represents West Seattle, Burien and Vashon and Maury Islands.
Eileen Cody(D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Sharon Nelson (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

35th District
Represents Mason and portions of Grays Harbor, Kitsap, and Thurston Counties.
Kathy Haigh (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Fred Finn (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

36th District
Represents Seattle: Magnolia, Queen Anne, Phinney Ridge and parts of Ballard, Crown Hill, Denny Regrade, Fremont, Greenwood, Lake Union, Loyal Heights, Sunset Hill.
Reuven Carlyle (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Mary Lou Dickerson (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

37th District
Represents Rainier Valley, Madrona, North Beacon Hill, Rainier Beach, Mt. Baker, Leschi, Columbia City, southern Capitol Hill, Skyway and parts of Renton.
Sharon Tomiko Santos (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Eric Pettigrew (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

38th District
Represents Snohomish County including Everett, Marysville, Tulalip and the part of the Snohomish Valley west of Highway 5.
John McCoy (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Mike Sells (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

39th District
Represents the eastern portions of Whatcom, Skagit, and Snohomish counties,
and the northeast portion of King County.
Dan Kristiansen (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Kirk Pearson (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

40th District
Represents San Juan, eastern and northwestern Skagit
and southwestern Whatcom counties.
Dave Quall (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Jeff Morris (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

41st District
Represents Bellevue, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Issaquah and Renton.
Marcie Maxwell (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Judy Clibborn (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

42nd District
Represents the western half of Whatcom County.
Doug Ericksen (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Kelli Linville (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

43rd District
Represents Seattle: Capitol Hill, University District, Madison Park, Washington Park, Broadmoor, Montlake, Wallingford, Madison Valley and parts of Fremont, Laurelhurst, Ravenna, Denny Regrade and downtown Seattle.
Jamie Pedersen (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Frank Chopp (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

44th District
Represents a portion of southwest Snohomish County.
Hans Dunshee (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Mike Hope (R) OPPOSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

45th District
Represents Woodinville, Duvall, Carnation, and
parts of Kirkland, Redmond, and Sammamish.
Roger Goodman (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Larry Springer (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

46th District
Represents part of King County and the city of Seattle.
Scott White (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

47th District
Represents part of southeast King County
from the Renton Highlands to Kent to Black Diamond.
Geoff Simpson (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Pat Sullivan (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

48th District
Represents portions of King County: parts of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond,
and all of Medina, Clyde Hill, Yarrow Point and Hunts Point.
Ross Hunter(D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Deborah Eddy (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

49th District
Represents parts of the City of Vancouver and Clark County.
Jim Jacks (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS
Jim Moeller (D) SUPPORTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS

Help WAVA defeat homosexual “marriage” by donating online at www.valuesaction.org

or mail your check to:

Washington Values Alliance

PO Box 501

Arlington, WA 98223

Wake UP America!

A Revolution is Brewing

PLEASE SHOW YOUR support!!!

So, here’s the plan. On April 1, 2009, all Americans are asked to send a TEABAG to Washington, D.C. You do not have to enclose a note or any other information unless you so desire. Just a TEABAG. Many cities are organizing protests. If you simply search, “New American Tea Party”, several sites will come up. If you aren’t the ‘protester’ type, simply make your one voice heard with a TEABAG. Your one voice will become a roar when joined with millions of others that feel the same way. Yes, something needs to be done but the lack of confidence as shown by the steady decline in the stock market speaks volumes.

This was not my idea. An online survey showed over 90% of thousands said they would send the teabag on April 1. Why, April 1?? We want them to reach Washington by April 15. Will you do it? I will.

Send it to:  1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington , D.C. 20500 .

Here’s a site you may find interesting as well
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/how-to-organize-your-own-%E2%80%9Ctea-party%E2%80%9D-protest

Looking for a place to let your conservative voice be heard?

Join a Glenn Beck Meet Up group. More info here:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/

Learn more about the original Boston Tea Party by watching this short informative video:

http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.php/course_locator.php?course=AP%20US%20History%20I&lesson=10&topic=3&width=800&height=550&topicTitle=Boston%20Tea%20Party&skinPath=http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default

A message for our time

Montessori Homeschool Resources

We have been using the WAshington Virtual Academy as our main curriculum for homeschool this year (www.wava.org) 

But I’ve been adding in some other methods as well, namely the Montessori method. My oldest has attended montessori school for the past year and has gained tremendous benefits from it.  I’ve tried to incorporate some of what she loves at school into our home classroom.

In my search for help with this huge undertaking, I came across many wonerful and helpful individuals who are anxious to share their knowledge of this time-tested education strategy.  One of these helpful people, Mary, put together the following document which will help ANYONE who wants to start doing some montessori work at home wtih their children.  (See below)

It may seem a daunting task, and for sure it will take some time and effort. But the rewards are incredible and for those who want a really quick and easy start to montessori homeschool for preschoolers, I would suggest getting the book , “Teach Me to Do It Myself”.   It’s filled wtih simple activites that you can put together with items you alreayd ahve at home or can find at second hand stores very inexpensively.

Here’s the letter from Mary

For ongoing resources and support, my number one recommendation is that you join a

YahooGroups list called Playschool6.  This is a Catholic, Montessori homeschoolers site. There are many non-Catholics (of which I am one) and it is a very warm, supportive bunch. Don’t let the name put you off–it refers to the site owner’s kids. You have to “join” yahoo to use this group, but it is free and I have suffered no ill effects. I can’t stress enough how important this group is. Once you are in, check out all the “sister sites” linked from the Playschool6 page. MontessoriMakers is for people wanting advice on making Montessori materials. There’s a book discussion of Montessori books as well as other groups.

 

Karen Tyler does online training for parents who wish to homeschool Montessori style. I have not taken it, because I am trained already, but she seems to be on the right track. http://www.amontessorimarketplace.com/teachertraining.html

 

Next, you are going to need some practical books to start you off. (I am assuming that you have already read many books by Maria Montessori. If that is not true, I can give you a list of her books to read.)

 

“Teaching Montessori in the Home (Preschool)” and “Teaching Montessori in the Home-School Years” by Elizabeth Hainstock

 

“Basic Montessori” by David Gettman

 

After that, you will need “albums”. These are books for the adult, telling how to do each lesson. If you were to take training, you would be learning the material in these albums. Go to:

http://www.montessorird.com/  if you wish to purchase, but first look at the free ones below:

 

Moteaco, an excellent website, has some albums and other resources http://www.moteaco.com/albums.html 

 

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfsjy/ is Shu-Chen Jenny Yen’s free online albums.

 

For materials, look at these websites:

 

www.nienhuis. com  Ask this company for a catalog and price sheet. They are very expensive and you won’t want to buy from them, but they have an excellent catalog with pictures of each material.

 

www.michaelolaf.net    (text)

www.michaelolaf.com   (products)

This company has great, short info about Montessori and sells good quality products at premium prices

 

http://www.montessoriworld.org/

 

http://www.montessorimaterials.org    has great printables

 

Hello Wood products is a great company.

 

Montessori Services 800-214-8959   www.forsmallhands.com

Be sure and ask for the school catalog–it’s bigger. They sell supplies like trays, aprons, etc.

 

http://www.learncollection.com/index.html 

 

There are numerous companies now which sell Montessori materials for cheap. I cannot recommend any because I have not used them and I have grave concerns about how they manage to keep their prices down (can you say human rights violations?) which they have never adequately addressed for me. Playschool6 has numerous threads where people tell their experiences with different companies.

 

You are welcome to ask more questions as they come up. Good luck in the journey of educating your children!

 

Mary

Food Riots by 2012??

Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012…Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says

The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions – all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing concern than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.

Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in predicting fut ure world and economic events, which will send a chill down your spine considering what he told Fox News this week.

Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.

“We’re going to see the end of the retail Christmas….we’re going to see a fundamental shift take place….putting food on the table is going to be more important that putting gifts under the Christmas tree,” said Celente, adding that the situation would be “worse than the great depression”.

“America’s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,” said Celente, noting that people’s refusal to acknowledge that America was even in a recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.

Celente, who successfully predicted the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, the subprime mortgage collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. Dollar, told UPI in November last year that the following year would be known as “The Panic of 2008,” adding that “giants (would) tumble to their deaths,” which is exactly what we have witnessed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and others. He also said that the dollar would eventually be devalued by as much as 90 per cent.

The consequence of what we have seen unfold this year would lead to a lowering in living standards, Celente predicted a year ago, which is also being borne out by plummeting retail sales figures.

The prospect of revolution was a concept echoed by a British Ministry of Defence report last year, which predicted that within 30 years, the growing gap between the super rich and the middle class, along with an urban underclass threatening social order would mean, “The world’s middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest,” and that, “The middle classes could become a revolutionary class.”

In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the subject of revolution in America.

“There will be a revolution in this country,” he said. “It’s not going to come yet, but it’s going to come down the line and we’re going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen.”

“The first thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That’s going to be the big one because people can’t afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax. You’re going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop.”

“It’s going to be very bleak. Very sad. And there is going to be a lot of homeless, the likes of which we have never seen before. Tent cities are already sprouting up around the country and we’re going to see many more.”

“We’re going to start seeing huge areas of vacant real estate and squatters living in them as well. It’s going to be a picture the likes of which Americans are not going to be used to. It’s going to come as a shock and with it, there’s going to be a lot of crime. And the crime is going to be a lot worse than it was before because in the last 1929 Depression, people’s minds weren’t wrecked on all these modern drugs – over-the-counter drugs, or crystal meth or whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody’s comprehension.”

“When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.”
- CNN Headline News

“A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.”
- The Economist

“Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right.”
- USA Today

“There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.”
- CNBC

“Those who take their predictions seriously … Consider the Trends Research Institute.”
- The Wall Street Journal

“Gerald Celente is always ahead of the curve on trends and uncannily on the mark … he’s one of the most accurate forecasters around.”
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Mr. Celente tracks the world’s social, economic and business trends for corporate clients.”
- The New York Times

“Mr. Celente is a very intelligent guy. We are able to learn about trends from an authority.”
- 48 Hours, CBS News

“Gerald Celente has a solid track record. He has predicted everything from the 1987 stock market crash and the demise of the Soviet Union to green marketing and corporate downsizing.”
- The Detroit News

“Gerald Celente forecast the 1987 stock market crash, ‘green marketing,’ and the boom in gourmet coffees.”
- Chicago Tribune

“The Trends Research Institute is the Standard and Poors of Popular Culture.”
- The Los Angeles Times

“If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.”
- New York Post

So there you have it – hardly a nutjob conspiracy theorist blowhard now is he? The price of not heeding his warnings will be far greater than the cost of preparing for the future now. Storable food and gold are two good places to make a start.