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Constitution Series – Shane Krauser, Director
American Academy for Constitutional Education
Date Change  

Monday, Jan. 30th & Friday Feb. 3rd 2012  6-10 pm
Corpus Christi Catholic Chuch
3550 E Knox Road, Phoenix, AZ

Please note:  February 3rd instead of February 6thShane asked us to change our date so that he was able to meet with Glenn Beck to discuss his Constitutional Series. 

The Constitution, taught like you have never heard it taught before is coming to Ahwatukee.  If you have heard Shane speak, you know what an opportunity it is to have this series available locally.  If you have not heard Shane speak, treat yourself to this event.        Cost: $30/person      $55/couple      $40 at the door

Email constitutionrsvp@aol.com to reserve your seat or for questions

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OIL – You better be sitting down when you read this !!!!!!

As you may know, Cruz Construction started a division in North Dakota
just 6 months ago.

They sent every Kenworth (9 trucks) they had in Alaska to North Dakota
and several drivers.

They just bought two new Kenworth's to add to that fleet; one being a Tri
Drive tractor and a new 65 ton lowboy to go with it.

They also bought two new cranes (one crawler & one rubber tired) for that
division.

Dave Cruz said they have moved more rigs in the last 6 months in ND than
Cruz Construction moved in Alaska in the last 6 years.

Williston is like a gold rush town; they moved one of our 40 man camps
down there since there are no rooms available.

Unemployment in ND is the lowest in the nation at 3.4 percent last I
checked.

See anything in the national news about how the oil industry is fueling
North Dakota 's economy?

Here's an astonishing read. Important and verifiable information:

About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one
of the Forbes Bros. was the guest.

The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I
would like a direct answer;

How much oil does the U.S. have in the ground?"

Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the Middle East put together."

The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only
scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big.

It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil
was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota , western South Dakota , and extreme eastern Montana.

Check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe
Bay , and has the potential to  eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable( 5 billion barrels), at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

"When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see
their jaws hit the floor.

They had no idea.." says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's
financial analyst.

"This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found
in the past 56 years," reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly
referred to as the 'Bakken.'

It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada ..

For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end.

Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells
decades ago.

However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's
massive reserves, and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is
light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL !!!!!!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 400 years
straight.

And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should -
because it's from 2006 !!!!!!

U.S. Oil Discovery – Largest Reserve in the World

Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the
largest untapped oil reserve in the world.

It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush
mandated its extraction.

In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted.

With this mother-load of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore
drilling?

They reported this stunning news:

We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves
on earth.

Here are the official estimates:

8 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

18 times as much oil as Iraq

21 times as much oil as Kuwait

22 times as much oil as Iran

500 times as much oil as Yemen

and it's all right here in the Western United States !!!!!!

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the
environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become
independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate
our lives and our economy. WHY?

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in
this very compact area than the entire Middle East, more than 2 TRILLION
barrels untapped.. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil
in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price even with this find? Think again!
It's all about the competitive marketplace, it has to.

Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?

Got your attention yet? Now, while you're thinking about it, do this:

Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you
should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices,

 

By the way, this can be verified. Check it out at the link below !!!!!!

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 ;)

 

 

Upside-down Land

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You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend more money.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration class on a college campus is perfectly acceptable.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if..

  • Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  •  Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  •  Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if..

  • The rights of the State come before the rights of the individual.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if..

  • You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • You have to have your parents’ signature to go on a field trip but not to get an abortion.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

 

You know you live in Upside-down Land if…

  • Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and signing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".

 

Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our world has been turned upside-down. We are in distress.

Where do we go from here?

 

Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone that they have not first taken away from someone else.

Ahwatukee Tea Party General Meeting
Wednesday February 15, 2012   6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Pecos Community Center (17010 S. 48th Street, Phoenix)

Speaker:  DC George on the U.S. Redistribution of the Wealth

Candidate: Denny Barney, County Board of Supervisors, District #1

On Feb 15th, D.C. George will discuss “US Redistribution of Wealth”:  Since 1964, the US has spent $16 Trillion dollars on the “War on Poverty”, and yet the number of Americans living in poverty has remained around 15%.   D.C. will explain why that number is fixed, and why increased spending will not change that number.  He will also discuss other forms of government redistribution, why they continue to grow, and why they must be contained.

D. C. George has worked for 25 years helping companies turn new technologies into new products and new product lines.  He is especially skilled at looking at complicated issues, analyzing huge amounts of data, figuring out what is important, and communicating in a way anyone can understand.

Over the last few years we have all seen our neighbors out of work, losing homes and struggling to get by. 

The private sector have seen cuts between 15 and 25 percent during the last few years, while city government unions have seen 23% in increased payout

Here is a short list with some of the demands from the Union:

  1. Union demands > $100 million in more money for them.
  2.  Continuation of pay raises
  3. Restoring the 3.2% cut (the cost over $100 million).  This was a onetime cut over a two-year budget. This amounted to about 1.6% and only about .5% per year coming from salary.   Yes, a salary cut of less than 1%.  At the same time, nearly half the staff received a 4.5% raise each year.
  4. Veto power over changing job roles, over changing shifts to save overtime and limiting other scheduling options for city workers.
  5. Phoenix is prevented from saving money by avoiding contracting out any services.
  6. ALL contract negotiations to be kept secret.

This is to be funded by increasing taxes: Water and sewer rate increases, Property tax increase and maintain the 2% food tax.

Government unions believe they are entitled to more, why? Are they a protected class?

Tell City hall that enough is enough.

City of Phoenix is taking money from the poor and gives it to its employees. 

How can this be you might ask. 

People need two things to stay alive; food and water. 

City of Phoenix implemented a 2% tax on food to make up for lost revenue due to the recession, or so we were told.  We were not told about pay raises for City employees.

Secondly, the City of Phoenix over the last 7 years has increased our water bill (each year) such that today our water bill has doubled from what it was seven (7) years ago.

Revenue from the food tax and the excessive water fees has funded pay raises and free public transportation for City of Phoenix employees.

Did you know that all 15,000 City employees utilizes the City Public Transit System for free;  and at the Phoenix Public Transit system is subsidized by tax-payers in the amount of more than four (4) food-taxes or in excess of $200 million a year.

 

Enough is enough

Call or e-mail City hall and let them know that you are watching them.

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social
theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal
winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian
perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on
Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . Sowell was
born in North Carolina , but grew up in Harlem , New York . He dropped out
of high school, and served in the United States Marine Corps during the
Korean War. He had received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in
1958 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959. In 1968, he
earned his doctorate degree in economics from the University of Chicago .
Dr. Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including
Cornell and University of California , Los Angeles , and worked for "think
tanks" such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at the Hoover
Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.

The following was written by Dr. Sowell:

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of
what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an America where
the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an
America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the
lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers
and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare
and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American
civil society.

It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals:
defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is
an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith,
family, a free press and individual rights, have been rejected. It is an
America where our founding documents have been shredded and, with them,
every person's guaranteed liberties.

It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the
American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid,
Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis
Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and other loyal
liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.

It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created with the
willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood , unions, universities,
the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and numerous
anti-American foreign entities.

Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four years
than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the
beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the
annihilation of America .

"Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an
intellectual could ignore or evade it."

Thomas Sowell

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