[Login / Register]

Menu

Forums

error

This forum is not active, and new posts may not be made in it.

Mary Evelyn 23244 5352 Strawb...	RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO. 3/7/2013 6:41:24 PM
	Great, I was pronouncing right in my head. :) Quote: Thank you. It's pronounced Trijina.

	+1

Mary Evelyn 23244 5352 Strawb...	RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO. 3/7/2013 6:54:46 PM
	I'm sure there are way too many who will not take what this lady is saying seriously. I see the evidence of this unimaginable stupidity everyday. Too many people can not see what is right in front of their face because they are too enamored with this despicable alien sitting in our WH. As you read down through this ask yourself how many of these same things have already happened or are happening here in America and as this lady says "After America, there is no place to go.” “I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay in her native Austria. She was 10 years old, but bright and aware. And she was watching. ... “We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,” she recalls. She wasn’t old enough to vote in 1938 – approaching her 11th birthday. But she remembers. “Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.” No so. Hitler is welcomed to Austria “In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. “My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.’ “We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933.” she recalls. “We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. “Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group – Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone in Germany was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. “Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler. “We were overjoyed,” remembers Kitty, “and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed. “After the election, German officials were appointed, and, like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service. “Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been re- quired to give up for marriage. “Then we lost religious education for kids “Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical education. “Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail.” And then things got worse. “The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. “We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had. “My mother was very unhappy,” remembers Kitty. “When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination. “I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. “Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. “It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy. “In 1939, the war started, and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and, if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. “Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men. “Soon after this, the draft was implemented. “It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps,” remembers Kitty. “During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. “They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. “When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. “Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service. “When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. “You could take your children ages four weeks old to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, seven days a week, under the total care of the government. “The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had. “Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna.. “After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. “When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. “If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries. “As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80 percent of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. “All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing. “We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. “Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. “Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control. “We had consumer protection, too “We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the livestock, and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it. “In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. “So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. “I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. “I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. “They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness. “As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia. “Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law-abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long afterwards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily. “No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up. “Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.” “This is my eyewitness account. “It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity. “America is truly is the greatest country in the world. “Don’t let freedom slip away. “After America, there is no place to go.” Kitty Werthmann

	+0

Trygeania 510 103 Winsto...	RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO. 3/8/2013 5:37:11 PM
	How grape seed extract benefits your health. Grape seed extract, you wouldn't think this amazing extract could make a big impact on your health. . If you haven’t done your research, then you would have no idea of the importance of these tiny seeds. Inside those little seeds of grapes there is an ingredient called Proanthocyanidin (PCO). An ingredient that our bodies cannot make, and we cannot survive without it. The French have been using this ingredient for over 40 years. So what makes it so important? It fights against free radicals. Free radicals destroy our cells. They make us sick. They create mutations in our cells. They are linked to cancer, cataracts, arthritis, heart disease, hardening of the arteries, alzheimers, and they damage the skin’s elasticity. They attribute to more than 60 diseases. Now turn all those words to the positive, because that is what PCO fights against. When you take supplements with grape seed extract in them not only are you fighting against more than 60 diseases, but you are protecting your cell membranes from mutations. Grape seed extract is the most powerful preventive nutrient you can possess. It can slow down aging. It helps prevent heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United states. It also can help prevent cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, cataracts, glaucoma, wrinkles, cellulite, and a lot more. http://www.betterhealthinfo.net/Uneedit Trygeania Dowell
	Trygeania Dowell http://my.sociopal.com/uneedittoxic trygeaniadowell@gmail.com 336-422-6697
	+0

Mary Evelyn 23244 5352 Strawb...	RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO. 3/9/2013 1:37:07 PM
	Happy Saturday Trygeania and yes I am well aware of the benefits of grape seed extract and it's many benefits and take this supplement everyday because after I started using it I was able to get off my asthma inhalers. Hope your day is great. :) Quote: How grape seed extract benefits your health. Grape seed extract, you wouldn't think this amazing extract could make a big impact on your health. . If you haven’t done your research, then you would have no idea of the importance of these tiny seeds. Inside those little seeds of grapes there is an ingredient called Proanthocyanidin (PCO). An ingredient that our bodies cannot make, and we cannot survive without it. The French have been using this ingredient for over 40 years. So what makes it so important? It fights against free radicals. Free radicals destroy our cells. They make us sick. They create mutations in our cells. They are linked to cancer, cataracts, arthritis, heart disease, hardening of the arteries, alzheimers, and they damage the skin’s elasticity. They attribute to more than 60 diseases. Now turn all those words to the positive, because that is what PCO fights against. When you take supplements with grape seed extract in them not only are you fighting against more than 60 diseases, but you are protecting your cell membranes from mutations. Grape seed extract is the most powerful preventive nutrient you can possess. It can slow down aging. It helps prevent heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United states. It also can help prevent cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, cataracts, glaucoma, wrinkles, cellulite, and a lot more. http://www.betterhealthinfo.net/Uneedit Trygeania Dowell

	+0

Mary Evelyn 23244 5352 Strawb...	RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO. 3/9/2013 1:50:23 PM
	RAND PAUL/VAN JONES 2016 The Senator from Al Qaeda - Daniel Greenfield Saturday, March 9, 2013 Here’s an easy way to tell when your position isn’t a conservative one. When you’re standing with Van Jones, your position isn’t a conservative one. When you’re standing with Code Pink, then your position is not a conservative one. No amount of noise or chest-beating is going to change that. The Republican Party has taken a severe beating in the last year. With so many hopes down the drain, some will take a victory where they can find it, even if it’s a younger version of Ron Paul. There are Conservative sites that are positively giddy about Rand Paul getting positive mentions from John Cusack and Van Jones. Code Pink’s endorsement is being treated like some kind of victory. Are we really getting worked up about getting a pat on the head from the left? Are we all Paultards now or are we all RINOs now? Or is finding someone to the left of Obama to side with… supposed to be a victory for conservative principles? “Will the Left finally get the Tea Party now?” Breitbart’s site asks. If Andrew Breitbart were alive, he could have answered that question in one four letter word. The left “gets” the Tea Party. It gets it as a middle class bourgeois defense of its property and rights against the the rule of the left. That is what the Tea Party is. That is what the Left is. Even saner heads are calling Rand Paul’s filibuster a political victory. The only place that it’s a victory is in the echo chambers of a victory-starved party. And to Code Pink and Van Jones who are happy to see the Republican Party adopting their views. The “brilliant victory” was that some Republicans tried to go further on the left than Obama on National Defense. Maybe next they can try to go further left than him on Immigration, Gay Marriage and Abortion. And if that doesn’t work, Rand Paul and Jon Huntsman can get together on ending the War on Drugs. Most Americans support using drones to kill Al Qaeda terrorists. Most Americans don’t know about the filibuster or care. Most Americans want political and economic reforms, not conspiracy theories. The Paul filibuster was about drone strikes on American soil, the way that Obama ‘only’ wants to ban assault rifles. This isn’t about using drones to kill Americans on American soil. That’s a fake claim being used by Rand Paul as a wedge issue to dismantle the War on Terror. Now that he manipulated conservative support for that, he can begin moving forward with his real agenda. Rand Paul is on record as opposing Guantanamo Bay and supports releasing the terrorists. He’s on record opposing drone strikes against Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, saying, “A perpetual drone war in Pakistan makes those people more angry and not less angry.” This position is no different than that of his father. The only difference is that Rand Paul is better at sticking statements like these into the middle of some conservative rhetoric. It’s the same trick that Barack Obama pulls every time he gives a speech. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted fellow GOP Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday, saying the two “think the whole world is a battlefield.” Like Ron Paul, Rand shifts the blame to America. It’s not Senator McCain who thinks the whole world is a battlefield. It’s Al Qaeda. Here, in the middle of Rand Paul’s drone rant is what he really stands for and against. It’s one thing to say yeah, these people are going to probably come and attack us, which to tell you the truth is probably not always true. There are people fighting a civil war in Yemen who probably have no conception of ever coming to America. The people fighting that “civil war” are tied in with Al Qaeda, including the Al-Awlaki clan, whose scion, Anwar Al-Awlaki helped organize terrorist attacks against America and was linked to 9/11. Friedersdorf (Andrew Sullivan’s underblogger) goes on to say we do know the U.S. drones are targeting people who have never pledged to carry out attacks in the United States, so we’re talking about noncombatants who have never pledged to carry out attacks are being attacked overseas. Think about it, if that’s going to be the standard at home, people who have never really truly been involved with combat against us. Take Pakistan where the CIA kills some people without even knowing their identities. This is more from Friedersdorf. Think about it. If it were your family member and they have been killed and they were innocent or you believe them to be innocent, it’s going to - is it going to make you more or less likely to become involved with attacking the United States? This isn’t about stopping Obama from killing Americans. This is straight-line anti-war garbage. You know, or how much - if there’s an al-Qaida presence there trying to organize and come and attack us. Maybe there is. But maybe there’s also people who are just fighting their local government. How about Mali? I’m not sure in Mali they’re probably worried more about trying to get the next day’s food than coming over here to attack us. And a politician reciting Michael Mooreisms like these is supposed to stand for a “Conservative Victory”? I think that’s a good way of putting it, because when you think about it, obviously they’re killing some bad people. This is war. There’s been some short-term good. The question is, does the short-term good outweigh the long term cost, not only just in dollars but the long-term cost of whether or not we’re encouraging a next generation of terrorists? Is this the new conservative position now? That killing Al Qaeda terrorists only encourages more terrorism? Is this the new conservative position now? That killing Al Qaeda terrorists only encourages more terrorism? Are we all Paultards now? The other thing about this is, is you need to try to understand who - who are these terrorists? Members of al-Qaida. There are no people walking around with a card that says “al-Qaida” on it. There are bad people and there were bad people associated with the terrorists. We’ve killed a lot of them who were in Afghanistan training and part of the group that attacked us. But there are terrorists all over the world that are unhappy with their own local governments. Some of them are unhappy with us, too. But to call them al-Qaida is sometimes a stretch, and sometimes open to debate, who is and who isn’t. But then they use other words, and words are important. They’re either a member of al-Qaida or associated forces. I don’t know what that means. And here is the ultimate point. This isn’t about opposing drone strikes on Americans, it’s about using that to salami slice the debate to get to his real agenda which is opposing drone strikes on Al Qaeda. Ultimately we as a country need to figure out how to end war. We’ve had the war in Afghanistan for 12 years now. The war basically has authorized a worldwide war. This is Rand Paul’s position. It’s the position of anti-war protesters in 2002. It’s Barack Obama’s original position before he discovered that war wasn’t so easy to end. If you stand with Rand, this is what you stand with. Everyone can do what they please, but if you’re going to stand with Rand, then let’s be clear about his positions and agenda. And be clear about whether you share them or not. No more dressing this up in “Rand Paul is standing up for the Constitution.” That’s the same dishonest claim his father made for years. And none of the even more dishonest, “Drone strikes on Americans in cafes” nonsense. That’s not what this is about. Do you think that the United States is murdering innocent Muslims and inspiring terrorist attacks? Do you think that if we just leave them alone, they’ll leave us alone? If you think all those things, then wasn’t the left, which has been saying all these things since before September 11, right all along? Is Van Jones agreeing with you… or are you agreeing with Van Jones? One blogger called the filibuster the biggest Republican victory since the midterm elections. Sure. In one case, the Republican won the House of Representatives. In the other a guy who believes that drones are a New World Order conspiracy got to trend on Twitter at night for a few hours. For years Ron Paul supporters believed that flying a blimp and googling Who Is Ron Paul would lead to the people coming over on September 11 being caused by American foreign policy. It hasn’t and it won’t. Every Paultard victory was an imaginary triumph that took place in their own bubble. Now the Republican Party is climbing into an even smaller version of that bubble. And then a few years from now we can celebrate every one of the Paul clan’s publicity stunt complete with the No Drones blimp while losing by a landslide to Hillary Clinton. The lesson that the Republican Party refuses to learn is that you don’t win by abandoning conservative values The lesson that the Republican Party refuses to learn is that you don’t win by abandoning conservative values. You don’t win by going liberal on immigration. You don’t win by going liberal on government spending You don’t win by going liberal on social values. And you don’t win by going liberal on national defense. You either have a conservative agenda or a mixed bag. And Rand Paul is the most mixed bag of all, because the only area that he is conservative on is limited government. If the new Republican position is open borders, pro-terror and anti-values, then what makes the Republican Party conservative? Reducing conservatism to cutting the size of government eliminates it and replaces it with libertarianism. It transforms the Republican Party into the party of drugs, abortion, illegal immigration, terrorism… and spending cuts. And the latter is never going to coexist with a society based on the former. This isn’t the popular thing to write. The popular thing to write is to praise Rand Paul for his political theater and to call it courage. And then maybe to timidly dissent in one or two areas, while praising him as the future of the Republican Party. But if Rand Paul is the future of the Republican Party… then the party has no future But if Rand Paul is the future of the Republican Party… then the party has no future. I don’t blog on Sultan Knish to be popular. If I did, I would have embraced Paul Ryan as the savior of the Republican Party, back when that was the thing to do. I would have never criticized Bush until 2007 or so when it became legit. And I would be busy evolving on gay marriage and immigration. Still I considered not writing this. It would have been easier to throw up some easy observations about Obama. And move on. But I regret not speaking out in the past as much as I should have done. And while it would be easy to let this go, to let Rand Paul have his anti-war moment and let Marco Rubio have his immigration moment, so they can run in 2016 and show how wonderfully diverse our party is while bringing in the ‘kids’... I don’t believe that we can win through political expediency that destroys principles. We tried that in two elections and we lost. Watering down what we stand for until we stand for nothing at all except the distant promise of budget cuts is how we walked into the disaster of 2012. John McCain in 2008. Mitt Romney in 2012. Rand Paul in 2016. And what will be left? To be reborn, the Republican Party does not need to go to the left To be reborn, the Republican Party does not need to go to the left. It doesn’t need to stumble briefly to the right on a few issues that it doesn’t really believe in. It needs to be of the right. It needs to be comprehensively conservative in the way that our opposition now is comprehensively of the left. If we can’t do that then we will lose. America will be over. It’ll be a name that has as much in common with this country, as modern Egypt does with ancient Egypt or as Rome of today does with the Rome of the imperial days. And we will be able to distract ourselves with the latest political gimmick. The latest piece of theater. Conservative media voices have been growing incoherent lately, adopting positions that contradict their last positions and the positions that they will take a week from now. We are suffering from a conservatism without context where each day and each week’s position exists in a vacuum and is not guided by bedrock principles. Too much of that same media has become guided by attacking Obama. Not by attacking Obama from conservative principles, but just by attacking him. And the problem with that is when you define yourself by attacking Obama… you become defined by Obama. Conservatives are defined by positive principles, by the presence of values, not by negative principles, by pure antipathy. We attack Obama because of what we believe to be true, not because we believe that everything he believes is false. The slippery slope is that when you become defined by what you attack, then you lose sight of what you do stand for. And then suddenly you find yourself standing on the same side as Van Jones and Code Pink. Reagan said that conservatism is a three legged stool. Social, fiscal and national defense Reagan said that conservatism is a three legged stool. Social, fiscal and national defense. Either we have all three. Or we have nothing. There are Conservative sites that are positively giddy about Rand Paul getting positive mentions from John Cusack and Van Jones. Code Pink’s endorsement is being treated like some kind of victory. “Will the Left finally get the Tea Party now?” Breitbart’s site asks. If Andrew Breitbart were alive, he could have answered that question in one four letter word. The left “gets” the Tea Party. It gets it as a middle class bourgeois defense of its property and rights against the the rule of the left. That is what the Tea Party is. That is what the Left is. The left is not concerned about the Constitution. It does not care about civil rights. It cares about taking over. Allying with the far left against the middle left is allying with the people who really want to enslave you to further radicalize the system. If the Cold War should have taught us anything, alliances like these end with the duped handing a victory to the left. We can fight the left. We can fight the Islamists. Or we can cheer a man who is pushing the agenda of both. There’s nothing conservative about that. Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.

	+0

Like us on Facebook!