Personal Responsibility is a "Choice"

A Women's Right to Choose, Her Choice and Her Body....

For years I have been trying to develop my theory and opinion about abortion and the "choice" argument.  I understand making abortions illegal is most likely not going to happen. But a goal of having fewer of them should be reasonable to all sides. Having less of them does not mean that women will not have a say in what happens to their bodies but perhaps it does involve having more individual responsibility in the decision making process. Here is my case.

You have a "choice" to wear a seat belt or to not wear one while in a moving car. If an accident happens and severe injuries occur, can you put on a seat belt AFTER the accident to prevent injury?   The choice to avoid more severe injury is made before the car starts moving with the act of clicking that belt. It's the law and the public is generally ok with that law as studies have shown that it does reduce and/or prevent most injuries. I know it's not the best comparison but the emphasis is on the personal responsibility to click the seat belt before moving.

You are a woman or a man (because both have personal responsibility) and are about to have sex and just like you chose to click that seat belt you have a choice to make. You or your partner can use one of many available pregnancy prevention methods. Methods that I believe are available easily at Planned Parenthood locations, Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, Costco, CVS and virtually every community in America and in some cases, 24 hours a day. You can chose to obtain a pregnancy prevention method before having intercourse. Or you can choose to not have sex until you obtain such prevention. Did I miss anything that personal responsibility won't cover?

I hope you see my point, that is women AND men have a choice at the time of intercourse. There is a choice to be made and my point is that personal responsibility should determine where in the timeline of events is best for the choice to be made? I say before the car accident, you should click your seat belt. In comparison, before you are "punished with a baby" as the President referred to it in speaking about his daughters, there are a number of available choices, including the choice to not have sex at that time. The "women's choice" argument is hard for me to understand unless you include ALL possible choices including the option to not have sex until pregnancy prevention method can be obtained. When the choice is made to continue on with the sex without protection and with the thought, "if something does happen I can always get an abortion" then personal responsibility is ignored but the choice was still made to do so.

That is also where my belief that abortions should be available under situations involving rape, incest  or if the life of the mother is in jeopardy. Again these are options where the woman usually has NO choice due to be in the situation she is in. The choice argument is used as a political tool and I believe that too often it is abused in that manner when common sense should prevail. The choices are there, my trouble is WHEN that choice is made, and the lack of personal responsibility to make that choice at the right time. Accepting personal responsibility or ignoring it, IS a choice. Your choice.

You may not agree with me and that's fine. This is America and you have the right to have different opinions. Both sides need to think hard about this and if there is an argument that contradicts these thoughts, I would love to hear it. I accept my personal responsibility to learn from all points of view, especially those that differ from mine.

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." 

Abraham Lincoln

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Morning Sun - "Ode to Joy"

The Pittsburg KS newspaper, The Morning Sun ran a special feature by one of their favorite local liberals Joy Leeper. You can read it here if you would like to start, go ahead I will wait...
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Ode to Joy – response to Joy Leeper

Ok, did your eyes bleed like mine? Let's start the shake down of this piece. The writer states "The Democrats are clearly stating their intention to put the middle classes first" in my view the Republicans and the Conservatives supporting them want to put ALL AMERICANS first instead of apologizing FOR them. We want Americans to succeed not by sending taxpayer money to South America for their oil industry but by keeping it here, and enable America to become less dependent on foreign oil. Not by using less, but by producing more HERE in America. This will create American jobs, American TAX revenue and cheap energy is the fuel for innovation and growth in America. Ms. Leeper also states ""Democrats are the ones who do not want to make cuts to public education, Pell Grants for college students"  One of President Obama's first acts was to remove the school voucher program in the DC schools that was very popular and enabled a community in need to get a better education for their children. She says "We must not balance the budget on the backs of teachers and minimum wage earners", what exactly is she saying? That Republicans want to actually take money from teachers and cut the budget with that money? Get serious; never have we supported that idea, regardless of what the teachers unions wildly claim. I am still surprised that democrats will use education as a stance since the state of our student’s educational results drops lower and lower in world ranking. There are GREAT teachers that are under paid and under rewarded. The unions don't seem to like the idea of being rewarded for performance.

Describing Republicans, she says "They say one thing and do another, but catch them in an unguarded moment and their true plan comes out. Their true plan is this one thing: privatize everything." Everything, really? Medicare and Social Security are BROKE. A brave Paul Ryan proposes an option to fix it and the Senate won't even debate it? Why not consider privatizing the U.S. Post Office, it is BROKE under governmental control. Constitutional limited government does not mean privatizing everything and that is NOT what the Republicans are asking for. We are just asking for the founders’ intent to be returned to this country. Radical isn't it.

The author writes "We sent new people to Congress in 2010 to work on jobs and they have spent the last 2 years doing nothing about jobs."  The House of Representatives has passed 2 budgets, many jobs bills and NONE of these have even been debated in the Democrat controlled Senate. When the President proposes a budget, it received ZERO votes. Yes that includes ZERO votes from ALL Democrats in congress. No person in congress took it seriously enough, even for a symbolic YES vote. The first 2 years of the Obama Administration they had complete control, no blocks, no opposition to speak of and their signature piece of legislation is the Obamacare bill that polls show is NOT supported by the majority of Americans.

The piece says "The way to improve the economy is to give aid to the lower incomes. If a person earning $20,000 a year gets a raise, she spends it on a new bed or washing machine, thereby helping the economy; whereas a person earning 2 million a year just socks the tax break money away" Why does she believe that helping the lower income is ok but not the rest of Americans? Is that not class warfare in a nutshell? Pretty bold of her to think that rich people also don't need a new bed, or GASP!, a new washing machine. So rich people don't spend their money, what world is she living in?  Shared costs apply but shared benefits are wrong?

So in conclusion she writes "Students, seniors, women, gays and anyone earning less than a million dollars a year, plus anyone who cares about our American family and the future of the planet."  So you make $500,000 a year, you’re ok and should vote Democrat because you won't be harmed by liberal and progressive policies? Yes you will. Students who are among the highest rate of unemployment in the nation won't be harmed? Yes you will. Women also have a higher rate of unemployment and the Presidents administration still pays their women less, won't be harmed? Yes you will.

Oh and "one more thing" as she put it. Writing "Obama was hamstrung by the” just say no” Congress the last 2 years, making it almost impossible to do anything. When we re-elect the Democrat for President, let’s give him a Democratic Congress to work with" she seems to have a memory or reality lapse. Like I mentioned above, the first 2 years of his administration he had a clear ticket to pass anything he thought would help America. The exact same policies he claims will help us now were not passed when he had total control in the House, Senate and White House. Other than spending more money and accelerating the growth of debt, what good did it do?

"This is the time that the rise of the oceans slow and the planet begins to heal" President Obama's own words not mine. Recent developments in the Middle East where an unguarded embassy was attacked and our Ambassador murdered, even the Middle East is out of control with no signs of it getting better. He refuses to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has time for fund raising and an appearance on David Letterman? This election is critical, will you make the right choice for ALL Americans? I have faith that....Yes you will!

Great Quotes From the RNC 2012

( Thanks to Patriot Post  )

"Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony." --Thomas Jefferson

With that said, here are a few of our favorite quotes from a handful of the numerous speeches.

Mitt Romney: "How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America? Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama?"

"The president has disappointed America because he hasn't led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government."

"The centerpiece of the president's entire re-election campaign is attacking success. Is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression? In America, we celebrate success, we don't apologize for it."

Paul Ryan: "When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners."

"College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."

"Sometimes even presidents need reminding that our rights come from nature and God, and not from government."

Marco Rubio: "[The president's] new slogan for his campaign is 'Forward.' Forward? A government that spends $1 trillion more than it takes in. An $800 billion stimulus that created more debt than jobs. A government intervention into health care paid for with higher taxes and cuts to Medicare. Scores of new rules and regulations. These ideas don't move us 'Forward,' these ideas move us 'Backwards.' These are tired and old big-government ideas that have failed every time and everywhere they've been tried. Ideas that people come to America to get away from. These are ideas that threaten to make America more like the rest of the world, instead of helping the rest of the world become more like America."

Rick Santorum: "President Obama rules like he is above the law. America take heed, when a president can simply give a speech or write a memo and change the law to do what the law says he can't, we weaken our republic."

Rand Paul: "When I heard the current president say, 'You didn't build that,' I was first insulted, then I was angered, then I was saddened that anyone in our country, much less the president of the United States, believes that roads create business success and not the other way around. Anyone who so fundamentally misunderstands American greatness is uniquely unqualified to lead this great nation."

Condoleezza Rice: "When the world looks at us today, they see an American government that cannot live within its means. They see an American government that continues to borrow money that will mortgage the future of generations to come. The world knows that when a nation loses control of its finances, it eventually loses control of its destiny."

Artur Davis, a former Democrat who seconded Obama's nomination in 2008 and co-chaired his national election committee but has now changed parties: "John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids."

Susana Martinez, likewise a former Democrat: "Before I ran for district attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues -- they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare -- is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government -- how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned, we're Republicans.'"

Mia Love: "[The president's] policies have failed us. We're not better off than we were four years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker or Hollywood campaign ad can change that. Mr. President, I'm here to tell you, the American people are awake, and we're not buying what you're selling in 2012."

Closing with Mitt Romney: "President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans, and heal the planet. I promise to help you and your family."

"If I am elected president of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. And with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future together tonight."

Do You Remember January 3, 2007 ?

This is beautiful, it fully explains the current state of our country and how we got here. George W. Bush was not a true conservative but these numbers do tell a good story. Read them closely and think about it.

Thanks to fellow Conservative and State Rep candidate Jeffrey Locke ( good luck in November ) and I see it has circulated around on the "internets" for some time now but it's still hard to argue with!



    January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took
    over the Senate and the Congress.  At the time:
    >>>>>>>The  DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
    >>>>>>>The  GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
    >>>>>>>The  Unemployment rate was 4.6%
    >>>>>>>George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT
    MONTHS of JOB GROWTH     

    Remember  the day...on this same January  3rd, 2007 it was the day that Barney Frank
    took over  the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the
    Senate Banking  Committee.    

    The economic meltdown that happened
    15 months  later was in what part of the economy?

    BANKING  AND FINANCIAL SERVICES    

    Unemployment...  to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things)
    dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic  loans on the economy from
    YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!  Bush asked Congress
    17 TIMES to stop Fannie  & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it
    was so financially risky for the US economy.  And who took the
    THIRD highest pay-off from  Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
    And  who fought against reform of Fannie and  Freddie? OBAMA and
    the Democrat Congress  So when someone tries to blame Bush.
    

    REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007....  THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!
    

    Budgets do not originate from the White House. They come
    from Congress and the party that controlled  Congress since
    January 2007 is the  Democrat Party.  Furthermore,  the
    Democrats controlled the budget  process for 2008 & 2009 as well
    as 2010 & 2011.  In  that first year, they had to contend with
    George  Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when
    Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.     

    For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid  bypassed George Bush
    entirely, passing  continuing resolutions to keep government
    running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they
    passed a massive omnibus  spending bill to complete the 2009
    budgets.  And where was Barack Obama during this time?  He was
    a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive
    spending  bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as  President to
    complete 2009.     

    If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was
    the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That
    deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight
    decline in deficit spending.    

    After that, Democrats in Congress
    took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who
    voted for the budgets.  If  Obama inherited anything, he
    inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is  saying
    is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to
    expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.  There is no
    way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it
    on!

Restoring Love - Dallas Texas July 2012

Restoring Love in Dallas Texas !! This experience was one of the most moving and motivating of my life. To be around people that are happy, loving and grateful is so great. It was like one big family (without all of the usual family baggage) I say with a smile. I think people in Texas generally feel this way but for sure the over 60,000 people attending the events of Restoring Love, have a strong love of their God, their neighbors and their country. Every restaurant, our hotel, Wal-Mart across from Cowboy's Stadium and everywhere we went we saw people wearing shirts and smiles in support of the movement. Please check out our photo slide show!




Thursday morning we went to the stadium to sign in and get our "Day of Service" assignment and instructions. There were lines of about an hour to sign in but happiness and love were everywhere. A vendor fair offered many different items including books on faith and patriotism, Tea Party groups, wooden jewelry made of olive tree wood from Israel, and a new line of clothing which is 100% American made. 1791.com is even using the original looms that Levi's used before out sourcing the work overseas. That evening we went to the FreedomWorks event Restoring Freedom. Held at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Dallas and it was full of speeches that were both political and inspirational. Most impressive was C.L. Bryants speech, WOW! I urge you to check out THIS LINK to watch it and share with friends. Or better yet, watch it right here!

Friday morning we were to be at the Stadium and 7am to get ready to board buses that would take us to our service project. Only a portion of the days people were in our area, others were scattered across the city from cleaning parks to rebuilding porches to feeding the homeless. Our group of 4 buses went to the Operation Blessing warehouse in Grand Prarie TX. Half of the about 150 people there painted walls of the warehouse while the other half bagged beans and sorted food for the food bank packages for needy families. Overall there were 130,000 volunteers that day working on over 300 projects if I have my numbers right. Did you see anything about this on the mainstream media? I doubt it. It was a great time, and again everyone was so happy to be there!!
Friday evening was the group night at the Rangers game. Although a true blue Royals fan, I rooted for the home team from Texas. It was easy because they were playing the Chicago White Sox, but sadly they lost. We saw a lot of Restoring Love shirts there also! The group was listed in the groups displayed on the giant scoreboard during the game. After the day of service and night of baseball in 100 degree weather, we were ready to shower and go to SLEEP! Saturday nights big event was incredible. Restoring Love it was called but in that crowd, the love was already present. It started with this great intro video.

All you really need to know about the message of the night can be seen in this opening prayer video.


The entire weekend was fantastic and inspired us to come back and begin to make a difference in our community. We met so many great people that share our beliefs and ideals and hope that we can help restore America and restore the belief that America is great because America is good. Americans are good.

Freedom-of-Speech & Chick-fil-A

Once again the Pittsburg Kansas Morning Sun with an unsigned editorial totally misses the intent of the Chick-fil-A protest. They took the media hype path that wanted to make it about gay people or gay marriage. Anybody who supported Chick-fil-A that day will tell you it was about FREE SPEECH and the right for a privately owned company to have an opinion. They did not condemn anyone or refuse to serve them. The CEO simply stated his company’s beliefs to the Baptist Press. Imagine that, a company that honors their Sabbath by closing, is standing for traditional marriage. I don’t think they are closed on Sunday because they are big NFL fans. When mayors and government officials make claims to keep them out of their city or state, then the constitutional right of free speech is compromised.

The media and the political left whipped up this frenzy by pushing the CEO’s original quote, which lit a fire they could not put out. That fire is burning strong in America and it’s not left or right. It’s about standing for the Constitution! There are 2 lies out there.  One is if you don’t agree with a person’s lifestyle you must hate them. The other is that to love someone you must agree with everything they believe and do. Neither of these is true and most common sense Americans know better. It would be nice if the Morning Sun would learn that lesson.

Tolerance is something that both sides need to be aware of and work to improve. The left needs to be more tolerant of the free speech issue and that all Americans have a right to voice their opinion, either individually or with their privately owned business. The right needs to be more tolerant of all lifestyles and realize as the line above says... "if you don’t agree with a person’s lifestyle you must hate them and other is that to love someone you must agree with everything they believe and do. You can LOVE them no matter what, love them with all of your soul and all of your heart. Love will hold us together, always.

Restoring Love Dallas TX July 26-28

Mercury One

It begins with the FreedomWorks event on July 26 at American Airlines Arena, then the Day of Service on July 27 to help the needy in the Dallas area and across the country and finishes with Cowboys Stadium where about 100,000 like minded people will be the continuation of a movement to restore America and it's values. We are attending and we hope you will also.

Sponsoring charity is Mercury One !



Three days, not about the left or the right, liberal or conservative but about America. America is great because Americans are good people. We need to restore Honor, Courage, Love and the Truth. Politicians and "leaders" on both sides of the isle have abused us, misled us and ignored us. Their time is up I believe, we will be heard.

I am looking forward to this event for many reasons, one is that on Friday we get to go with a group from Restoring Love to the Texas Rangers game! Baseball is always fun! More importantly we will be spending 3-4 days with people that believe like us, that people of faith need to stand together, serve others and be active is all aspects of our lives.   I hope to post blog updates each night so if you'd like to keep up on the happenings of the day, check back here that week.

Our service project could be anything from painting, serving food to the needy, cleaning and even loading semi trucks with donated food going to many cities across the country. That many people in a few days will make a large impact but this is just one day. It must not end that weekend in Dallas. We will need to bring it home and make an impact for our family and our local community.

Some new and some familiar musicians will be attending and performing. I highly recommend that you check out these artist and their message. Please watch and listen to the videos posted below. Instead of complaining about the condition of popular music and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, time to contribute to them. Kalai who has performed on Jimmy Kimmel will perform as well as Tom Douglas whose song is the America's Son video above. You must also find this song "Letters from jail" on iTunes or Amazon, great song and message.  Here are a few others. Enjoy the music and watch for updates! God Bless you all !

Matt Maher

Kari Jobe

Larger playlist here....