tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84747596710152040712024-03-19T04:54:51.718-05:00Going RogueReflections by Brianus BerkleianusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474759671015204071.post-32101590292288444552014-02-02T09:37:00.001-06:002014-02-02T09:54:13.510-06:00PAGE 144<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>"I would hire back 80 percent of my great team <br />
of dedicated public servants..."</i></b></div>
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On p. 144 of GR, Sarah has been discussing the early days of her gubernatorial administration. She makes the following observations: "I remembered reading a survey once that said most CEOs, if they had to do things over again, would hire back only 20 percent of their original staff. For me it was the opposite: I would hire back 80 percent of my great team of dedicated public servants, including my office administrative staff.<br />
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"But the 20 percent on which I'd ask for a 'do-over,' well, they were doozies."<br />
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We observe in this brief passage the Governor's perfect balance: She manifests realistic humility, and also demonstrates, without boasting, her ability to judge character.<br />
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She concedes that not all of her hires were suitable (20%). On the other hand, 80% of them she would bring back.<br />
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Let us contemplate the implications of this passage if she decides, God willing, to seek the White House for 2016, and wins.<br />
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She will have TWO marvelous founts and sources upon which to draw for the bringing of real public servants into the executive branch of the Federal Government, into the Palin White House (wow, it feels good to say, or type, that: "Palin White House" :-) !!)<br />
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First of all, there are those 80% of tested, trusted, true, and loyal staffers.<br />
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Second, there is the wisdom and discretion that she has gained and won from her Alaskan gubernatorial experience with the other 20%. The Governor is very good, but not infallible, in her work. She is humble enough to learn from her past mistakes with personnel.<br />
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What follows is mere speculation, but I suspect that her ratio of genuine public servants versus "doozies," as she calls them, would change from the 80-20 proportion of Juneau days to something like 95-5 in her Washington days.<br />
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All things serve the Lord's Purposes, willy-nilly. Even the 20% of unsuitable people from her days as Governor served to hone and sharpen her Art of Discrimination in the judging of character.<br />
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When barack hussein obama came to Washington, he certainly did not come alone. No, he dragged in his woeful wake a whole crowd of the worst sort of people: An anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-military-virtues mob of 60s-type radicals and wreckers and destroyers.<br />
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So too I believe that the Governor, if, by the Merciful Dispositions and Plan of Heaven, she comes to Washington to take that ancient Presidential Oath of Office and to SERVE as OUR President, will bring with her …<br />
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… hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of the best minds, the best spirits, the bravest and finest men and women in our nation to serve in Government:<br />
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Principled, fearless, patriotic, and devoted to Sarah, devoted to America, devoted to SarahAmerica!!<br />
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<i>FIAT, FIAT</i>: Let It Be, Let It Be!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474759671015204071.post-49974806568038164882014-02-02T09:32:00.000-06:002014-02-02T09:33:52.588-06:00PAGE 143<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Dca6LqgvLiD8L7QjyiIQFR3HTNbaXjPYpX7rkfB1z0XsDwK8sfwvXAWcI_VzGcOnlDx7UShAa1wQjSbjCL0AsB1hLCFKhH9KYpJ3B_O_5z1kHBP7Yv7BQW-GOQys5HDNZR9vKpt1Kx4/s1600/1506074_10152153999013588_1108468571_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Dca6LqgvLiD8L7QjyiIQFR3HTNbaXjPYpX7rkfB1z0XsDwK8sfwvXAWcI_VzGcOnlDx7UShAa1wQjSbjCL0AsB1hLCFKhH9KYpJ3B_O_5z1kHBP7Yv7BQW-GOQys5HDNZR9vKpt1Kx4/s1600/1506074_10152153999013588_1108468571_n.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>"One man and one woman make a marriage."</i></b></div><br />
On p. 143 of GR, Sarah is discussing an issue that came up early in her gubernatorial administration. She writes, "I had been in office two weeks when the Alaska Supreme Court issued an order requiring us to offer health benefits to the same-sex partners of state employees. The issue split conservatives and liberals.<br />
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"I support the traditional definition of marriage. One man and one woman make a marriage. And I don't support efforts that can lead to changing that definition.<br />
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"But on this issue in Alaska, the court was the lawful interpreter of the state Constitution. The promise I had made when being sworn into office was to uphold the Constitution. That meant I would be bound by the judiciary's ruling. So when conservatives in the legislature passed a bill that would prohibit state benefits for same-sex couples, the court ruled it unconstitutional, so I vetoed it.<br />
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"A few angry lawmakers visited my office, outraged that I hadn't bucked the court. A couple of them said I should have been willing to go to jail over the issue.<br />
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"The unhappy legislators knew how I felt personally about benefits for homosexual couples; there was no need to preach to the choir about it during our meeting. I bit my tongue and didn't ask them why, as lawmakers who'd been serving in office for many years—and I'd just gotten to Juneau—they hadn't been able to usher their desired outcome though the legislative process or at least get the issue onto the ballot for Alaska voters to decide.<br />
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"As governor, I meant to follow the law. Therefore, even though legislators passed a law that reflected my personal views, I vetoed it. It wasn't about me; it was—and is—about respecting the Constitution and the separation of powers.<br />
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"And if the people want to amend the Constitution via referendum, I told the lawmakers, they have the right to battle it out and do so."<br />
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This page pretty much speaks for itself.<br />
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Let me just make a few remarks to contrast the Governor with barack hussein obama.<br />
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The Governor says, "I support the traditional definition of marriage. One man and one woman make a marriage. And I don't support efforts that can lead to changing that definition."<br />
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She has been consistent on this position.<br />
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What a contrast obama makes.<br />
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At Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Presidential debate/forum in 2008, obama expressed support for the traditional definition of marriage. IMV, he did so because he felt this was necessary for him to win the election that year.<br />
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Then—lo and behold, surprise, surprise!!--sensing a change in the winds, he comes out, a few months before the 2012 election, and totally reverses his position.<br />
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I will grant that people can sometimes sincerely rethink and change their opinions on some issues.<br />
<br />
However, about "president" obama, I am highly skeptical, to say the least.<br />
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On the issue of constitutionality, the Governor has shown herself to be a consistent supporter of her State's Constitution and of the U.S. Constitution.<br />
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obama, by contrast, has, with his overweening abuse of executive power, through his various agencies, especially entities like the EPA, the IRS, and the "Justice" Department, manifested an absolute contempt for Constitutional rule of law.<br />
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I hope and pray that the American People will vote many conservative Senators and Representatives into office in 2014, and that, thus encouraged, IF, and only IF, it is the Lord's and her will, the Governor will run for the White House in 2016!!<br />
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forged between rider and horse..."</i></b></div><br />
On p. 142 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of the early days of her gubernatorial administration. At the top of the page she writes these words "… my administration rode in on the horse of ethics reform."<br />
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Simple words!<br />
<br />
And yet I believe that, along with many other seemingly simple phenomena of nature, of history, of language, etc. it can be worthwhile briefly to examine these words. The Governor presents an image that we can easily take for granted. Since our eye races in an instant over these ten words (maybe fifteen or so words for the "president," who thinks there are fifty-seven States!)--since the eye darts and dances and dashes past these words, our mind too can easily skip over them.<br />
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There has existed from ancient, ancient times a close relationship between man/woman and horse. While it is undoubtedly true that the advent of the Age of the Automobile has brought great benefits to humanity, I think that we may have lost something precious too in the diminished relationship between man and horse.<br />
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Does not the ability, nay the ART, of riding a horse, and riding it well, help to create and consummate certain special qualities in the human soul, and even body? To be sure, race-car drivers, for example, are a very brave and bold and daring bunch (long live the memory of Dale Earnhardt, Sr.!!). <br />
<br />
Still, I believe that there is a special bond and link forged between rider and horse. We can observe this in historical figures, such as General Robert E. Lee and his magnificent war-horse Traveller, and in the fictitious and yet eternal and deathless Gandalf from Tolkien and his stalwart, incomparable steed Shadowfax.<br />
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Remember too the splendid photo of the Governor on HORSEBACK at the Reagan Ranch from a couple or so years ago. It is, IMHO, one of the most beautiful photos of a LADY whose photos are always beautiful. It is in the current SarahPAC calendar for the month of October.<br />
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A true heroine and ethics reformer like Sarah, who passed through her "apprenticeship" of reform in Alaska--her preparation, God willing, for greater and mightier deeds on the national level—a true reformer like the Governor will have to be mounted upon a mighty "horse": A horse of daring; a horse of swiftness; a horse of elan; a horse of dauntless and fearless and noble charges into the thick and thunder of the ferocious and fearsome conflict.<br />
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If our BATTLE CAPTAIN Sarah Palin decides to vault into the saddle of a Campaign 2016 for the White House, if she unsheathes her "terrible, swift sword," legions and legions of American Patriots stand ready to follow her into the fray.<br />
<br />
IMHO—and it is truly just my OPINION:<br />
<br />
SARAH waits on the Word of the Lord and on the word of the American People (=results of the 2014 election) …<br />
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America, in turn, post-2014, will wait on the Governor's word ...<br />
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If you sound forth the clarion call to battle, Governor, we shall come flocking in our MILITANT MILLIONS to your STANDARD AND BANNER OF WAR!!!<br />
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On p. 141 of GR, Sarah recounts the scandal that broke just as she was taking office as Governor. <br />
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She writes, "Just as I took the helm, the results of an FBI investigation that had percolated between Juneau, Prudhoe Bay, and Washington, D.C., began bubbling to the surface. Bill Allen, the longtime CEO of VECO Corporation, the powerful oil field services company, had for years held court in Juneau's Baranof Hotel, where his firm maintained a suite. <br />
<br />
"For decades, he was a big-time political fund-raiser, and, following the Exxon Valdez (italics in original) oil spill, his company was the prime oil services contractor. Like other business owners, Allen pressed for legislation that would benefit his company. But he pressed harder than most. Allen was friends with Governor Murkowski and his chief of staff, and with powerful Republican lawmakers.<br />
<br />
"FBI undercover surveillance video of the VECO suite in Room 604, which would become infamous, even showed the VECO executive pressing cash into the palm of a Republican legislator. Months of videotaping and recorded phone calls earned VECO executives a long visit with federal agents, during which they admitted having bribed several lawmakers to push through legislation favorable to the oil industry. Allen pleaded guilty to extortion, bribery, and conspiracy.<br />
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"His <i>mea culpa</i> led to other pleas, including one by Governor Murkowski's chief of staff, who eventually copped to a single count of conspiracy. All told, a dozen lawmakers, staffers, and oil company executives would be found guilty of multiple charges, including wire fraud, bribery, conspiracy, and extortion.<br />
<br />
"Alaskans said the Democrats weren't any better—they just hadn't been caught that go-round. But the reality was that it was the Republicans this time."<br />
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<i>NIHIL NOVUM SUB SOLE</i>—Nothing New Under the Sun!!<br />
<br />
It seems that nothing has changed!<br />
<br />
I would just like briefly to suggest that this scandal that "began bubbling to the surface" just as the Governor was taking office in Juneau is as nothing compared to the scandals that are MORE THAN BUBBLING in Washington—they are already at the surface, and are threatening to sink the American Ship of State.<br />
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Further, I believe that things are only going to deteriorate, to decay, to become worse and worse in the coming months.<br />
<br />
If the American People, with the Help of the Lord's Mighty Arm, can get Sarah into the White House for 2017, backed by a Conservative Congress, I think that the relative trickle of Alaskan thugs and hacks who were caught and convicted will be as nothing compared to the flood-tide of corrupt individuals, from BOTH Parties, who will find themselves paraded from their pampered halls of luxury to prison cells.<br />
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I think that what happened in Alaska around the year 2007 could be a MICROCOSM of what could take place, a Merciful Lord Willing, on the NATIONAL level about ten years later—in 2017!<br />
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It is my humble opinion that the Governor and her absolute INTEGRITY and SERVANT'S HEART shone forth all the more brightly and resplendently against the foul foil and black backdrop of the massive corruption in the Forty-Ninth State several years ago.<br />
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I think the same scenario could be repeated in a few years ...<br />
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… crooks and frauds heading to PRISON just as a great American President, a second Ronald Reagan, assumes office.<br />
<br />
The Psalmist assures us that (addressing the Lord) <i>OMNIA SERVIUNT TIBI</i> – All Things Serve Thee.<br />
<br />
If the Alaskan "jail birds " of 2007 served any purpose, willy-nilly, it could well have been to make the Governor's SOUL FOR HER PEOPLE stand out all the more.<br />
<br />
Again, the same phenomenon could repeat itself in the Years of Grace 2017 and beyond.<br />
<br />
America, IMV, is sick of crooks, is sick of lies, is sick of frauds … is sick of selfish individuals who, in lieu of being PUBLIC SERVANTS, are PRIVATE ROBBERS—lining their own putrid and private pockets—and the American People be damned.<br />
<br />
We are ready for something different.<br />
<br />
We are ready for SOMEONE different.<br />
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We are ready for our SARAH, for America's SARAH!!!!<br />
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On p. 140 of GR, Sarah is discussing the corrupt political character of the Alaskan capital city, Juneau. She writes, "At other times, the capital city's underside was even darker: clandestine political liaisons and secret meetings, unethical deeds and downright illegal acts. <br />
<br />
"When the legislative session begins, the good and decent people who live in Juneau can witness some of these extracurricular pursuits at places like the Red Dog Saloon and the Baranof Hotel. Others around the state read about them in newspaper gossip columns. During the 2006 gubernatorial race, the FBI handcuffed a number of lawmakers.<br />
<br />
"In short, it was a lot like Washington, D.C. …<br />
<br />
"I attributed part of the corruption problem, besides the obvious self-dealing motives of politicians, to Juneau's inaccessibility. Foreign tourists on cruise ships had better access to lawmakers in session than 80 percent of the citizens of the state had. That makes Juneau an island of sorts, isolating legislators and staff from the people who elected them. Unless access improves, the political atmosphere there will not change much."<br />
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This, IMHO, is simply brilliant, and on several levels.<br />
<br />
It is what is implied that is so powerful.<br />
<br />
First, while this is by no means certain, there may be just a shadow, a shade, a trace, a hint that she thinks that she can do for all of America what she did for Alaska.<br />
<br />
The implicit line of reasoning is:<br />
<br />
Juneau is "a lot like Washington, D.C."<br />
<br />
I began the process of cleaning up Juneau (though it still has problems).<br />
<br />
Therefore, with the American People at my back, I can clean up DC too!!<br />
<br />
Then there is the matter of Juneau's inaccessibility.<br />
<br />
The Alaskan State capital is PHYSICALLY, GEOGRAPHICALLY inaccessible.<br />
<br />
The problem with Washington is much deeper and more thorny.<br />
<br />
In the case of Juneau, the barriers of NATURE erect a wall between citizens and supposed public servants.<br />
<br />
In the case of DC, it is a case of a WALL of BAD MORALS, not walls of land and water and geographical situation that seal off the capital from the citizens.<br />
<br />
There is just a hint that the Governor thinks that perhaps the PHYSICAL locale of the capital of Alaska must be changed.<br />
<br />
This is not the problem with DC.<br />
<br />
WE DO NOT NEED TO REMOVE THE PHYSICAL CAPITAL TO ANOTHER PLACE; WE NEED TO REMOVE THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, AND THE PRACTITIONERS OF THAT "CULTURE"!!!<br />
<br />
We need public servants in DC:<br />
<br />
Whose MINDS are ACCESSIBLE to the American People;<br />
<br />
Whose HEARTS are ACCESSIBLE to the American People;<br />
<br />
Whose SPIRITS are ACCESSIBLE to the American People!!!<br />
<br />
Unlike Alaska's capital, which, just perhaps, needs to be moved, DC does not so much need to be shifted to a new GEOGRAPHICAL position, but restored to its CONSTITUTIONAL position.<br />
<br />
Do not change the physical foundation, but rather resuscitate and "resurrect" the legal, the moral, the Constitutional foundation!!<br />
<br />
Just as the American Republic is much older than the relatively young State of Alaska, so America's problems run far deeper.<br />
<br />
A mere change of locale, the Governor hints, could go a long way to fixing the corruption that has festered in Juneau.<br />
<br />
But for the nation:<br />
<br />
<i>MUTARE NON MUROS SED MORES</i>—translated a bit freely, to preserve some of the alliteration, "to change not walls but wills" (in the sense of FREE will—more literally, "morals")!!<br />
<br />
How?<br />
<br />
BY SENDING GREAT SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE LIKE SARAH PALIN to DC (if, God willing, she runs for POTUS) and by initiating American Revolution II through Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments.<br />
<br />
The spiritual inaccessibility of the closed minds and dead hearts and corrupt spirits of the national capital is far greater than the physical inaccessibility of Juneau.<br />
<br />
Let us then make Washington accessible again; let us open her up!!<br />
<br />
Open her up to common sense;<br />
<br />
Open her up to fiscal responsibility;<br />
<br />
Open her up to government that is limited and restrained and good and wise!!!<br />
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the long commute to the state capital..."</b></i></div><br />
On p. 139 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of her Alaskan gubernatorial administration. She writes, "I built my circle of close advisers carefully. The opportunity to pull in the perfect partners was challenging because few prospective candidates wanted to make the long commute to the state capital. <br />
<br />
"So I shook things up a bit and made concessions more readily than other governors about where my staff's home base could be. NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ALLOWED THIS (emphasis mine). I wanted the right people for the job, and if Juneau's location was the main stumbling block, I wasn't going to mandate that families uproot and move to a beautiful but isolated panhandle, especially when the previous governors had spent so much time in Anchorage and traveling out of state."<br />
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<i>NOVA ET VETERA</i>—things new and things old!! Behold how the Governor combines a wonderful flexibility and adaptability in non-essential matters with her faithful firmness in fixed and immoveable and eternal principles.<br />
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She is exactly the dynamic and moral and principled leader the nation needs in this hour.<br />
<br />
She is not afraid of, indeed she embraces, innovation and change. She is not a "conservative" just for the sake of rigidity and a refusal to adjust and adapt.<br />
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And yet she, with all the LION'S COURAGE OF HER FEARLESS AND FAITHFUL SOUL, refuses to compromise on essentials.<br />
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Things like computer/electronic technology are in themselves MORALLY NEUTRAL; they are simply means that can be used for good purposes or for bad purposes; they are, to use what I believe is the technical term, "adiaphora" :-)<br />
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So consider the means of COMMUNICATION. From papyrus to parchment to paper to the printing press to today's seemingly miraculous computers and smart phones, through all of these amazing and successive innovations, the END has remained the same. <br />
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Communication should be used to transmit truth and beauty, or useful information in the practical order; to persuade people to follow what is good and right and true; to instruct them in quotidian and practical matters; to pass on and share scientific discoveries (Ben Franklin is a great example of this); to share matters of the heart (letters), etc., etc., etc.<br />
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But the new technologies, just like every "instrumentum," every instrument or implement, can be used for EVIL too.<br />
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Just look at the way the Federal Government, THE NSA IN PARTICULAR, is using the marvels of the electronic, technical world: To SNOOP; to SPY on innocent and law-abiding American citizens.<br />
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From the wheel to the sword to the musket to the rifle to the printed word to the art of rhetoric and oratory to the computer—all these things can be directed to the defense either of The City of God (St. Augustine) or of The City of Satan.<br />
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Hitler was, in his way, a "great" speaker and orator.<br />
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Sir Winston Churchill and President Ronald Reagan were great orators.<br />
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One art and skill … two ends or goals or purposes that were a universe apart in moral terms.<br />
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So, as KNOWLEDGE grows in the scientific and technical world, so must WISDOM grow, that WISDOM that concerns herself with ultimate ends and purposes.<br />
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The Governor, IMHO, is just the leader that the ordinary, hardworking, principled people of our nation are crying out for right now ("Sarah Palin, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.")<br />
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In the passage cited above, she wisely employed and utilized technology to GET GOOD PEOPLE TO SERVE IN GOVERNMENT, people who might not have otherwise been able to!!<br />
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Her very status as the first woman President will admirably express this truth:<br />
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She will represent INNOVATION, on the one hand: A Lady in the Oval Office;<br />
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On the other hand, she will take America back to her ANCIENT CONSTITUTIONAL ROOTS AND PRINCIPLES AND TRADITIONS.<br />
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<i>NOVA ET VETERA.</i><br />
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SARAH PALIN: A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS; MY PRESIDENT, YOUR PRESIDENT, AMERICA'S PRESIDENT!!!!<br />
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At the top of p. 138 of GR, Sarah mentions the horrible and vile and hideous and inhuman threats that were directed against Bristol and Willow after she assumed into her hands the reins and authority of the Governor's Office in Alaska.<br />
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Then, in a beautiful piece of writing that for me echoes and recalls Dickens' "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" (A Tale of Two Cities), she writes, "THOSE WERE THE UGLY TIMES, BUT THERE WERE PRECIOUS TIMES TOO (emphasis mine). <br />
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"My fondest memory from the mansion is Piper learning to ride her bike in the yard. A little kid hadn't lived in the house for decades, so we put in a buoy swing and a trampoline for ours (which I suspect some of the neighbors didn't think was very stately). Someone let Piper use an old bike, a blue one for little boys, and that's what she learned to ride on. <br />
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"MY HAPPIEST DAY AT THE MANSION (emphasis mine) was on a sunny weekend afternoon. We were in the yard, and after many unsuccessful tries, she finally managed to ride her bike upright in a great big circle all the way around the trampoline.<br />
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"Of course, being able to ride doesn't mean being able to stop, and she crashed headfirst into the bushes bordering the lawn. But for Piper, it was the ride that mattered, and she jumped up from the bushes, pumped her fist in the air and yelled, 'Yay, me!'<br />
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"She was victorious! She was proud of herself! And she got to shout it to the world with no one to shush her or to tell her to be humble and quiet. For me, standing there in the sunshine, it was one of those Mom Moments when your heart feels like it just might burst, and I thought, MAY EVERY LITTLE CHILD HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF 'YAY, ME!' MOMENTS (italics in original)."<br />
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These marvelous words hardly require any "commentary," guys.<br />
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I shall confine myself to a few remarks.<br />
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Notice how she finds BEAUTY in her life in the Governor's mansion, finds blessings of the All-Highest, even in the midst of the vilest threats against her family.<br />
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Notice that THIS MOMENT with Piper and that dear old blue bike, was her "happiest day at the mansion"!!<br />
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Not some work on some weighty and world-shaking piece of legislation;<br />
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Not some meeting with the "great" and "powerful" of this world;<br />
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Not even some personal triumph OF HER OWN.<br />
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For truly and verily, PIPER'S victory was a MOM'S victory too!!<br />
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Yes she was Mayor;<br />
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Yes she was Governor;<br />
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Yes she will assuredly, the Lord willing, be President of all these mighty and magnificent United States of America—a world stateswoman for the ages.<br />
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But Sarah Palin of Alaska is, first, last, and always, A MOTHER!!!<br />
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She brought HER PRECIOUS TRIG into this tired, cynical, corrupt old world, and, of course, her other kids too.<br />
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When she is making, in the corners of her brave, indomitable soul, when she is making the decisions, the hard, difficult, lonely, fateful decisions that only a President can make, sitting at that desk where, in President Harry Truman's immortal words, "the buck stops," she will always be a mom, with a mom's guts, a mom's heart, a mom's soul, a mom's unfailing and inexhaustible and everlasting courage and devotion!!<br />
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GEORGE WASHINGTON, FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY;<br />
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SARAH PALIN, GOD WILLING, MOTHER OF HER COUNTRY!!!!<br />
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On p. 137 of GR, Sarah continues her description of the early days of her gubernatorial administration in Alaska. On pp. 136-7 she tells us about a puppy that was given to the family by their close friends, the Menards.<br />
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She continues about the puppy on page 137 and writes, "Once after school, Willow hid the puppy in her purse and snuck her into my office. The Senate Rules Committee chairman busted her and sent me a letter with some kind of official citation attached. Heaven forbid any lawmaker would catch Willow carrying her furry four-pound puppy into my office in violation of the new NO DOGS ALLOWED sign. (Surely just a small distraction for this senator—he was later busted by the FBI and convicted on federal corruption charges.)"<br />
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Now, it may be argued that this state senator was only playing a prank on the Governor, but I do not think so. An "official citation" sounds straightforward; I think this senator was serious.<br />
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How does Sarah respond? She answers with her tongue somewhat in her cheek, but with a fist of steel wrapped in the velvet of her understated words. She makes a powerful point about hypocrites.<br />
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Indeed this passage reminds me somewhat of the Son of God's censuring and condemnation of the Scribes and Pharisees, who were so prissy and punctilious about the technical niceties of the Law, while they grossly and grievously violated the essence and heart and soul of the Law and the Prophets: Love of God and Love of Neighbor. The Lord also said something about people who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.<br />
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This senator was shocked, shocked to find DOGS being brought into the sacred precincts of the Governor's office—and there was even a bright, new "NO DOGS ALLOWED" sign. Oh my, oh my!!!!<br />
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This brief passage, IMHO, stands in the same lines as the Governor's magnificent puncturing of the pompous and swollen pride and balloon of barack hussein obama, charlatan, traitor, supposed "president," and hypocrite supreme.<br />
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I do not think that the vile and vicious and vindictive Left has ever forgiven her for that magnificent and memorable moment in her 2008 RNC "Lipstick" VP acceptance speech: The Styrofoam Greek Columns take down of the little "emperor," barack obama. It makes me smile, with my lips and in my soul, just to think about it as I type these words, almost five years later!!<br />
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The Governor brings not only a double-edged blade of Truth and Guts to her political battles; she also brings a big ole PIN to let the hot air and BS (pardon my language) out of all high-ranking, powerful fakes and frauds.<br />
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The bastard of a state "senator": He goes after a little girl and her puppy (my what courage!!), and yet was at the same time betraying and prostituting his honor and his office to line his own putrid pockets.<br />
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Sarah cleared such individuals out of State government during her tenure in the Governor's office; if, the Lord willing, she becomes POTUS, she will extend the fumigation to the vermin-infested halls of the Federal government.<br />
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This is why the Establishment slaves fear her so much: Many of them would go to prison if she enters the White House.<br />
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There was a "NO DOGS ALLOWED" sign outside the Governor's office in Alaska.<br />
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We need a new sign hammered up and into place over the Halls of Government in DC by the votes and voices of the American People:<br />
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NO JACKASSES AND NO RINOS ALLOWED!!!<br />
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Hell, let's allow literal dogs and cats and other pets, even a horse or two, into the White House and Congress.<br />
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Horses!!--yes, MR. ED could do a better job than most of these opportunistic, self-serving traitors to their country!<br />
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Yes, let's let some literal animals into the Hallowed Halls of Government, and let us toss the metaphorical dogs and jackals and jackasses and rhinos, er, RINOs, out!!<br />
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Willow's puppy will have the last bark, er, laugh!!!<br />
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"They saw that when government programs started growing, sometimes citizens became dependent on the programs and abandoned the strong work ethic of their elders. This resulted in too many young people giving themselves over to a dependent lifestyle that often leads to fractured families, abuse, and subpar education, and other problems. <br />
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"Todd and his family appreciated the opportunity we had as First Family to help share a message of family strength and unity, and a work ethic that should be both expected and rewarded. Todd was, to me, a perfect spokesman to help spread that positive message to all Alaskans, especially those in our rural communities.”<br />
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At the outset of my remarks, I would like to insert a personal note. While I appear to be “white,” this is from my father's side. I am actually Hispanic on my late mother's side. Now MY maternal Hispanic relatives are proud, hard-working folks who would not want government handouts.<br />
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However, there seems to be unfortunate but solid evidence that people like my relations are in the minority in the Hispanic community. Apparently a majority of Hispanics today want and favor Big Government and its redistribution of wealth. Statistics and evidence have been cited, I believe, at C4P and in other places to show this fact.<br />
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Does this mean, however, that there is no hope for Conservatives among this growing demographic group?<br />
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I think not, and for two reasons. The second of these reasons will be tied directly back to the passage from GR on Todd that was cited above.<br />
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The first fact we have to keep in sight and mind, IMV, is that Hispanics, especially those of Mexican descent, have a strong attachment to their religious beliefs. In particular, they share a deep devotion to and veneration of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe.<br />
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I firmly believe that most Hispanics are not sympathetic to the anti-life, anti-family, pro-“gay marriage,” pro-abortion positions of the Leftist Establishment.<br />
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I think that Latinos stand poised, politically and morally, between two poles, and could tip either way in these coming and critical months and years.<br />
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This is where I believe that the mighty example and influence of Todd Palin as First Dude of the United States could exercise a decisive influence.<br />
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Todd is himself from a minority, of Yupik Eskimo blood. He and Sarah and the entire Heath/Palin family are hard-working, self-reliant, brave, and independent.<br />
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I THINK THAT TODD'S STRONG EXAMPLE AND INFLUENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE COULD INSPIRE MORE YOUNG HISPANICS TO EMBRACE A CONSERVATIVE WORK ETHIC.<br />
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Such an awakening could initiate and inspire the breaking of the unholy grip that the Left holds on Hispanics.<br />
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The other factor would be making Hispanics more aware of the evil social doctrine of the Left, especially as it is currently expressed and incarnated in the platform and policies of the Democratic Party.<br />
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You see, THE LEFT HAS MANAGED TO CONCEAL AND HIDE THIS ASPECT OF THEIR POLICIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT MOST LATINOS, IMV, DO NOT THINK ABOUT THEM WHEN THEY GO TO THE BALLOT BOX!!<br />
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In short, I do not believe that that the obamunists have quite the IRON GRIP AND GRASP on the Latino/Hispanic population that they think they do.<br />
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They have managed A) to focus Hispanics on economic and immigration and “amnesty” issues, and B) camouflage their vicious social policies, policies that are anathema to millions of Spanish-speaking Catholic Latinos!!<br />
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I do not think that the majority of Spanish-speakers in America have any sympathy for the anti-Christian “philosophy” of the Left; it is just that they do not advert to and notice these policies, and associate them with the Left in their political thinking and ballot-box choices.<br />
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I believe that Sarah and Todd in the White House, with their strong blue-collar background, with Todd's minority background, and with their simple honesty and warmth and decency and goodness, could open the eyes and minds and spirits of millions of Latinos to the beauty and ultimate benefits, personal and societal, of the work ethic and of the Conservative philosophy in general.<br />
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THEN, once they perceive this truth, they may start to notice that the policies of the Left on social issues are RADICALLY and DIAMETRICALLY opposed to everything that they hold dear.<br />
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Some may think that I am dreaming, but we have to remain optimistic, IMV, and not surrender to despair … especially when there is a rational basis for such optimism. There is in this case, IMHO.<br />
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I believe that the Left, which thinks, in its vacuous and vicious arrogance, that it OWNS the Hispanic vote, may, under the influence of Sarah and Todd, even before they enter the White House and even more so once they are our OFFICIAL First Couple—I think that the Left may be shocked to awaken one day and find that …<br />
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… THEY HAVE, WITH THEIR EVIL, ANTI-CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND PRACTICES, LOST THE LATINO VOTE IN AMERICA!!<br />
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Remember the Governor's words above: “Todd and his family appreciated the opportunity we had as First Family to help share a message of family strength and unity, and a work ethic that should be both expected and rewarded. Todd was, to me, a perfect spokesman to help spread that positive message to all Alaskans ...”<br />
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Just change that last word from “Alaskans” to “Americans”!!!<br />
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SARAH FOR PRESIDENT; TODD FOR FIRST DUDE; MY HISPANIC BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR A CONSERVATIVE, TRADITIONAL AMERICA … FOR SARAHAMERICA!!!<br />
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On p. 135 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of her gubernatorial administration, with emphasis on Todd's role. She writes, “Two years running, at the end of February, Todd rushed off the Iron Dog trail to hustle back for his official First Gentleman duties, which included accompanying me to D.C. for meetings of the National Governors Association. <br />
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"It seemed he barely had time to tear off his Arctic Cat gear and rip the protective duct tape off his face before settling in to sip fine tea with Laura Bush and other First Ladies of state at the White House. (He was getting good at those tea parties!) I remember teasing him later--'What? Did you chat about your snow-machine suspension? Did they ask about top-end speed and size of carbides?' Todd was a good sport and an awesome First Dude.<br />
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“Todd would develop his own role in contributing to Alaska's progress while we served in office. His family had long struggled against the tide of increasing state and federal intrusion that was creating a climate of government dependency for our rural areas.”<br />
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There is so much contained and captured in this seemingly simple passage!!<br />
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First, notice how she, not once but twice, in both of the (partial) paragraphs cited above, makes an allusion to the great Tea-Party struggle of our time, first with the whistling battle-arrow of humor and a smile, and then with the hammer of hard facts!!<br />
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In the first case, she pulls off a quick switch. I don't know about you guys, but when I read the words “settling in to sip fine,” I expect “wine” to be the following and subsequent word (we “sip fine wine”). Sarah substitutes … “tea” for “wine”: Tea with Laura Bush!! <br />
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Then, she further develops and unfolds the hint and the allusion and the suggestion by saying (and I can just see her WINKING as she writes this)--by saying, “He was getting good at those tea parties!”<br />
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Wow! Todd was a stalwart, stand-up “Tea Party” guy even before there was a Tea Party!!<br />
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Then, in the next paragraph, she develops the whole theme of the purpose and point (the “teleology”--er, TEA-leology :-) )--the purpose and point and end and goal of the Tea Party when she says that Todd's family “had long struggled against the tide of increasing state and federal intrusion that was creating a climate of government dependency for our rural areas.”<br />
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This is, IMHO, a simply brilliant, brilliant piece of allusive, humorous, and yet deadly serious writing. The FOOLS who have attacked the Governor's power with both the written and the spoken word will be exposed in due time for the purblind and corrupt idiots that they are—especially if, as I suggested yesterday, she gets a three-cornered Presidential debate with Jeb and Hillary in 2016!!<br />
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Next, let us notice how Todd's ruggedness in both physical and political climates is illustrated and illuminated. It is EXPLICITLY stated that he “barely had time to tear off his Arctic Cat gear and rip the protective duct tape off his face [i.e., from the Iron Dog] before settling in to sip fine tea with Laura Bush and other First Ladies of state at the White House.” <br />
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He is armed against the spears and arrows and darts of the Alaskan winter … and now she says implicitly that he has to face the blasts, not of the ice and snow of the Great Land, but of the knives and daggers of the snake-pit of Washington DC!! She does not SAY that, leaving Alaska for DC, he had to don protective gear of another sort, but, IMV, she implies it!<br />
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To bring these brief reflections to a conclusion, let me observe what the Governor can accomplish while she is wielding the sword of the pen, wielding the battle-mace of the written word, in just a PART of ONE page of her magnificent volume!!<br />
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This LADY is:<br />
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A BRILLIANT WARRIOR;<br />
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A FEARLESSWARRIOR;<br />
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A PATRIOT WARRIOR …<br />
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… a warrior who, God willing, will take out the vile Establishment foes that have tried so maliciously and mendaciously to destroy her, to destroy her family, to destroy her State … to destroy the country that she loves with every last filament and fiber of the brave and bonny banner of her heroic soul.<br />
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<i>SARAH VICTRIX SEMPER!!!</i><br />
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On p. 134 of GR, Sarah continues, in the context of the early days of her gubernatorial administration, her discussion of animal "rights" activists. <br />
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She writes, "One animal rights group recruited a perky, pretty celebrity to attack our scientifically controlled, state-managed wolf-control program. It was ironic that she opposed using guns to kill predators that would cause Native people to starve, but apparently not opposed to taking movie roles in which she'd use guns to kill predatory people.<br />
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"People outside Alaska are often clueless about our reliance on natural food sources. (You know you're an Alaskan when at least twice a year your kitchen doubles as a meat-processing plant.) They don't use common sense in considering why our biologists need responsible tools for abundant game management. But as the ninety-year-old Alaska Native leader Sydney Hunnington told Todd, 'Nowadays, common sense is an endangered species.' "<br />
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I have a few brief observations to share with you about this passage.<br />
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First, note how she exposes the hubristic hypocrisy of the Hollywood Left in the person of the "perky, pretty celebrity" who was quite willing to line her pockets through playing movie roles in which she used guns to kill people, while she at the same time opposed Alaska's killing of wolves.<br />
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This is typical of these purblind and benighted creatures: They shed bitter and copious crocodile tears for animals and even for plants … but favor and defend the slaughter of human beings through ABORTION!!!<br />
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Next, let us note these words: "They don't use common sense in considering why our biologists need responsible tools for abundant game management."<br />
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The key words are COMMON SENSE and WHY.<br />
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Common sense links together the findings of the particular senses, and links together particular observations, in order to perceive ENDS, GOALS, PURPOSES. That is, it attempts to answer what we may call the Why-Question. Another way of stating this is that it looks towards the "teleology" of things. (Greek "<i>telos</i>"--the end proposed, the end of action).<br />
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Finally, let us consider the concluding words of the cited passage, "Nowadays, common sense is an endangered species." In seven words she brilliantly mocks the often-abused practice of designating certain creatures as "endangered species," and also points us towards what our real concerns should be; towards what is truly "endangered"!!<br />
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"We kept an interesting variety of food that way. If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: IF GOD HAD NOT INTENDED FOR US TO EAT ANIMALS, HOW COME HE MADE THEM OUT OF MEAT? [italics in original]<br />
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"As governor, though, hunting WAS [italics in original] an issue. I would face pressure from Hollywood to halt hunting, ban guns, and end our state's wildlife management practices, such as controlling predators.<br />
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"I said no to all of that nonsense: gun bans would destroy the Second Amendment, and as a lifelong member of the NRA (Alaska has the highest NRA membership per capita in the nation), I had plenty of backup when telling Hollywood liberals what I thought of their asinine plans to ban guns."<br />
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I would like to make a few observations this morning on this passage.<br />
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First, notice how the Governor strikes a perfect balance (the Roman poet Horace's <i>AUREA MEDIOCRITAS</i>--The Golden Mean): She serves vegans a tasty meal of SALAD mixed with TRUTH … nourishment for the body and for the mind!<br />
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That is, she holds and maintains equilibrium between being cruel and ungracious and uncouth, on the one hand, and keeping silence and compromising truth, on the other hand.<br />
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She will make and serve them a salad, respecting their beliefs, but she also defends the natural and normal and Divinely-Sanctioned (Book of Genesis) consumption of meat!<br />
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She doesn't try to compel them to eat meat; she defends the eating of meat.<br />
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Second, I would like to make a note on the Hellish hypocrisy of so many on the Left.<br />
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These tender little souls refuse to consume meat, presumably because they "care" about animals …<br />
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… BUT THEY SANCTION, APPROVE OF, AND PRACTICE THE BLOODY AND SANGUINARY SLAUGHTER OF THE UNBORN!!!!<br />
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These same people want to abolish "gun violence," but are perfectly content to condone the most abominable violence against unborn babies!!<br />
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Finally, we may notice how the Governor and her family, instead of exploiting her gubernatorial office, SAVE THE STATE MONEY through their stalwart self-reliance; they catch their own food!!<br />
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GRACIOUS.<br />
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TRUTHFUL.<br />
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FRUGAL.<br />
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SELF-RELIANT.<br />
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This is the Heroic and Patriotic Soul that so many Americans want to be PRESIDENT.<br />
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SARAHAMERICA, 2016 <i>ET SEMPER</i>!!!!<br />
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On p. 132 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of her family's first hours in the Governor's Mansion in Juneau following her election in 2006 as Governor of Alaska.<br />
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She writes, "The first night in our new home, I tried to light a nice, cozy fire for the kids in one of the eight fireplaces. Problem was, it hadn't been used in years. I didn't know the dampers were closed, so the house filled with smoke and alarms summoned the local fire department. Next some revelers 'welcomed' the First Family on our lawn, and our neighbors had to call the police department. It was nice to meet Juneau's first responders.<br />
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"We got the house in order by the next day, just in time for Juneau's annual cookies-and-cider open house. We couldn't have done it without our patient and kind house manager, Erika Fagerstrom, and her fun family full of teenagers, who would become friends of the Palin kids. And after thousands of people came through the mansion for Juneau's annual event, staff member Diane Diekman and her helpers turned the formal house back into a home. <br />
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"Later, after Trig was born, the staff became even more like family. They'd come to work early and we’d all congregate in the kitchen and have a cup of coffee together before our official workdays would begin. Before friends would arrive to help take care of Trig, and I headed off to the Capitol, the staff would kiss Piper good-bye and send her on her way to school." <br />
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I would like to share a few thoughts with you this morning on various aspects of this charming and bright passage.<br />
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First, in regard to the initial paragraph that is cited above, let us observe the Governor's wonderful spirit. She tries to light a fire for the kids and it all goes wrong. Later the police have to come because of some overly-exuberant revelers. However, she laughingly sees the best in and gets the most out of these distressing situations. And, as we have seen before, she is a genius with humorous understatement. The final words of the first paragraph above are, IMV, Classic Sarah: "It was nice to meet Juneau's first responders."<br />
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This sense of proportion and of wit in straitened minutes and moments is no insignificant virtue. We witness it here in a relatively small matter. However, the same cast and contours of soul came to her aid, I think, on the evening of 3 September, 2008, as she was delivering her RNC VP acceptance speech to a vast hall full of people, and to a television audience of tens of millions. Her teleprompter failed (and was likely sabotaged). <br />
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The broad and generous heart that said "It was nice to meet Juneau's first responders" probably said something like "It will be nice to speak to all these people from my gut and from my heart, and not just from a script." From the sabotaged teleprompter came, not the failure of her great speech, as her enemies were hoping, but rather the glorious and unforgettable moment that has bestowed for all time its name and its crown upon it: "The Lipstick Speech." Such are the ways of Divine Providence in working with a brave and gallant spirit like Sarah's!!<br />
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BTW, this same quality will stand her in good and sturdy stead when she faces various crises in the White House as our President!!<br />
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In the third paragraph, let us observe Sarah the Unifier, even in small matters. She and the staff share common things, namely friendship, conversation, and coffee, before they head off in the morning to their very different duties and responsibilities. The Governor does not look down upon and despise the staff. They are not (just) the "help"; they are friends … family even.<br />
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I think that this is how she will view all Americans when, God willing, she takes up residence in the White House. Leftists and RINOs may pay lying lip-service to this concept, but it is clear that in reality they regard the American People as peons, subjects … even slaves. Sarah, by contrast (and what a contrast!!), views us with respect and love as fellow citizens!!<br />
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Finally, let us note the distinction that she makes in the second paragraph: The Governor's Mansion is a house, but it is also a home. The staff had to turn "the formal house back into a home" after the annual open house.<br />
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I think that it would be fruitful to reflect for a moment upon the distinction between "house" and "home," especially in connection with that House and Home that we hope Sarah and Todd and their family will be occupying from 20 January, 2017 and on.<br />
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A house and a home may "materially" occupy the same place. But the house is like the physical "matter," the BODY … that which breathes life and vitality and spirit into the house; that which makes it a HOME, may be regarded as the SOUL of the place.<br />
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The physical edifice of the White House remains more or less the same from President to President.<br />
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However, I believe that our Sarah has the power to make it a true HOME in spirit, and not just for her own family, but for ALL AMERICANS.<br />
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Not all of us will be able physically to visit the White House during the Palin Years, but I am sure we will all feel:<br />
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THIS IS A PLACE WHERE I CAN FEEL"AT HOME," IN THE TRUEST SENSE AND SIGNIFICATION OF THE TERM.<br />
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THIS IS MY HOME AND AMERICA'S HOME BECAUSE A LADY WARRIOR NOW RESIDES HERE WHO BREATHES LIFE AND SPIRIT INTO THE ANCIENT WALLS; WHO EMBODIES IN HER OWN SELF THE VALUES WITH WHICH WE DESIRE TO BUILD UP OUR OWN HOMES AND THE ENTIRE EDIFICE AND STRUCTURE OF THE RES PUBLICA AMERICANA!!<br />
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When Sarah moves into the White House …<br />
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AMERICA WILL HAVE COME HOME!!!!<br />
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On p. 131 of GR, Sarah has been recalling the time when, back in her high-school days, she tried to visit the Alaska Governor's Mansion in Juneau. Now, of course, she has arrived at the Mansion as the new Governor of Alaska. <br />
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She writes, "I traveled to Juneau for a basketball tournament and stopped by to ring the doorbell, but no one was home--or at least no one wanted to open the door to a curious and historically minded teenager. Now, twenty-five years later, I stood before that same door with my own basketball-playing teenage daughters. Life has a fascinating way of coming full circle."<br />
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I would like to share a few brief thoughts with you this fine morning on the expression with which the Governor concludes this passage: "Life has a fascinating way of coming full circle."<br />
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I think that, when we are caught in the midst of some circumstance or situation that tries our spirits and distresses our souls, it can seem as if we are riding on a STRAIGHT LINE right into the stink and stench of Hell. <br />
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We often cannot perceive the gentle and subtle BEND and CURVE in the line that the Hand of a Merciful Providence is working and creating … all unseen by us poor mortals!<br />
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These almost imperceptible turns and twists can transform what appear to be beelines into the pits of Hades into marvelous Celestial Circumferences that eventually, if we are faithful and patient and trusting, can bring us around not to the jaws and horrors of Hell, but to Grace and to Glory!!<br />
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When Sarah "lost" the VP race in 2008; when she was harassed and hounded from gubernatorial office in 2009 (Lefties, she did not "quit"; she RESIGNED and RELOADED!!); when barack hussein obama was "reelected" in 2012, it could appear and seem as if America was going down the dark drain of history into ignominious and irreversible oblivion.<br />
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However, we cannot perceive the full and fateful revolutions and windings and turnings of circles when we are in the mundane midst of them!!<br />
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We can usually descry and discern and detect them only when they have been fully and fairly and felicitously traced in the course of our own lives or in the course of the life of our country.<br />
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Seeming LINES of our limited vision and horizons often, in reality, turn out to be cosmic CIRCLES in the Celestial Order--circles of Glory, circles of perfection to wreathe and crown the brow of our deepest dreams and highest and loftiest aspirations.<br />
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The Lord willing, America will come "full circle" from the noxious and nocent nadir of the dark night of the "presidency" of barack obama to an apogee and zenith of glory in the restoring, the resuscitating, and --dare I say it--the resurrecting Presidency of Sarah Palin of Alaska!!!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 27.05965805053711px; text-align: left;"><b><i>the door handle of our new home."</i></b></span></div><div><br />
</div>On p. 130 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of the early days of her gubernatorial administration in The Great Land. Here she writes about the new First Family's arrival at the Governor's Mansion in Juneau. <br />
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She writes, "Our initial arrival at the mansion was a bit like walking into a storybook. The home was decorated for Christmas in the whimsical theme of a gingerbread house. Outside, large white lights trimmed the eaves and colored lights sparkled in a pine whose upper branches soared past the rooftop. We had fought hard to get there, and now here we were, reaching for the door handle of our new home."<br />
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I would like to focus this morning on the final words of this passage, and on the striking image that they evoke, "… and now here we were, reaching for the door handle of our new home."<br />
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At this moment in the turnings of time and of fate, it can seem as if the Governor, were she to run for the White House for 2016, would be reaching for the "door handle," not of a "new home," but rather of a hellhole, a morass of immorality, a snake pit worse than any that Indiana Jones ever envisioned or encountered!!<br />
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Now, most politicians are changed for the worse by Washington, DC.<br />
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I think that Sarah Palin may be the one public figure of our day and time who, in lieu of being corrupted by the nation's capital, herself holds the power of integrity to change and transform Washington, as much as it can ever be changed. In this way, during the Palin Years, the White House, that venerable House of the People, really will become a "new home," a second home for Sarah and her family.<br />
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Washington will not coopt and corrupt Governor Palin; rather she will renew Washington!<br />
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DC will never, ever, ever tear and wrench the "Alaska" out of the heart and soul of our brave and noble Sarah. Rather, she will bring the spirit, the essence, the youth, the fortitude, the fire of the Great Land and of the Last Frontier to the tired and dying old world of DC!<br />
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The Lord willing, in January, 2017, Sarah and her family will be preparing to enter the White House, will be "reaching for the door handle of our new home." And it WILL be their new and SECOND home!!<br />
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HOW?<br />
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A nation that CHOOSES TO ELECT SARAH PALIN AS ITS PRESIDENT will be a nation that has already started to force changes in the "culture" of corruption of the capital.<br />
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She will have begun to transform DC before she ever comes to dwell there!!<br />
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When, the Lord willing, Sarah and Todd (the First Dude of the United States) and their family take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it will not be, at least in toto, it will not be a putrid pit of political corruption, it will not be bilge waters of business as usual, it will not be a cesspool of cynicism and selfishness that will await them. Rather, it will be a spot that has already felt and sensed the first glimmers and graces of a New Dawn of Ordered Liberty!!<br />
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Just as the Alaskan Governor's Mansion welcomed the Palins when they were "reaching for the door handle of our new home," so not just the gracious White House itself, but vast portions of the American People will be welcoming the fresh and freedom-bearing blasts of the winds of Liberty from the fair and far North Country, will be welcoming Sarah Palin and America's REAL FIRST FAMILY when they come reaching, reaching, reaching for the door handle, and knocking, knocking, knocking at the door of their new home …<br />
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AMERICA'S NEW HOME!!!<br />
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On p. 129 of GR, Sarah continues with her discussion of the early days of her gubernatorial administration in Alaska. <br />
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She writes, "Our approach to moving the gasline forward was both innovative and simple: Explain the importance of gasline development to ordinary Alaskans. And get them involved. That meant our war room became every kitchen table, town hall, classroom, and living room across the Last Frontier. We reached out. We asked citizens, 'These are your resources, so what do you think?'<br />
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"Internally, our natural gas mantra was 'Greenies, Grannies, and Gunnies.'<br />
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"Greenies: Natural gas is the cleanest nonrenewable fuel.<br />
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"Grannies: Production of a domestic supply from Alaska would help those on fixed incomes, such as the elderly, by increasing supply and lowering costs in a more stable price environment. <br />
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"Gunnies: Alaska's energy supplies would help lead America toward energy independence and greater national security.<br />
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"Greenies. Grannies. Gunnies. [italics in original] So Alaskan. So politically incorrect. Perfect."<br />
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Yes!<br />
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And I think that the Governor's expression "So Alaskan. So politically incorrect. Perfect" is itself PERFECT!!<br />
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I would now like to propose, as a parallel and companion to Sarah's Triple-G of perfect political incorrectness for Alaska--I would like to propose a Triple-F for her and for all of America.<br />
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FREEDOM.<br />
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FIREARMS.<br />
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FAITH.<br />
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Echoing the Governor, I think that we may say, "So American, So politically incorrect …<br />
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I won't presume to call it "Perfect," but I think that it works pretty damn well, as will be explained below!!<br />
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1) Freedom: Especially with the criminal actions of the IRS, directed against American Patriots in the last election cycle, we behold threats to our First-Amendment rights. The bastards tried to suppress the voice (and the votes) of Tea Party Patriots! Against the despots and tyrants of DC, we unfurl the banner of Freedom!<br />
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2) Firearms: The Establishment, especially the obamunists, would like to disarm us. They want to take away our guns, in conjunction with stripping us of freedom of speech. Patriots understand that the first two Amendments support and buttress and reinforce each other. Our enemies too know this. <br />
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(We may also encompass a strong national defense under this heading. We have our PRIVATE and PERSONAL guns; then we have the PUBLIC "guns" of the American People, that is, our military might. And this military might, BTW, belongs to the American People, not to the individual who may happen to hold the title and power of Commander-in-Chief at any given moment!)<br />
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3) Faith: The secular humanists, led by their "messiah," their false "god," barack obama, are trying to suppress religion in America. Our Founders, on the contrary, realized that a FREE people must also be a MORAL people. And great political leaders down to our day, including such luminaries as our great President Ronald Reagan and the UK's Prime Minister, Lady Margaret Thatcher, have recognized this truth.<br />
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Now, element # 2, Firearms, comes appropriately in the MIDDLE of the schema given above. We must be FREE (#1) to use them, but FAITH (#3), religion, and morals are necessary to, or at least very conducive to, restraining us from the immoral and irresponsible use of guns<br />
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Thus, numbers 1 and 3 above (BTW, "Faith" is listed as # 3, not in the sense that it is less important than the first two, but rather as a kind of climax and culmination!)--numbers 1 and 3 help to define and demarcate the proper role of and limitations of #2.<br />
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In turn, Firearms, # 2, help to protect and ensure and uphold Freedom and Faith, #s 1 and 3!<br />
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Now, I would like to propose the thought that the Governor, just as she was working on a physical gasline in her time at the helm of the State of Alaska, may be preparing to extend a moral and intellectual "gasline" to all of America.<br />
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I would thus like to adapt her words from the passage above to the situation of our present day, and leading up to 2016 and beyond:<br />
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"Our approach to moving Constitutional Freedom forward was both innovative and simple: Explain the importance of our Constitution to ordinary Americans. And get them involved. That meant our war room became every kitchen table, town hall, classroom, and living room across the lovely length and breadth of the United States of America. <br />
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"We reached out. We asked citizens, 'These are your intellectual and spiritual resources, so what do you think?'<br />
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"Internally, our Constitutional mantra was 'Freedom, Firearms, and Faith' "<br />
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Let's give it a grade of F: FAILURE of obama's attempt to "fundamentally transform" America.<br />
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FREEDOM, FIREARMS … FAITH!!!<br />
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On p. 128 of GR, Sarah continues her account of her brave gasline team, and the stand that some of them had made against Governor Frank Murkowski before she came to gubernatorial office. <br />
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She writes, "Evidently, my friend Tom [Irwin] had told Murkowski one too many times that the secret gasline deal he was negotiating with Exxon-Mobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips violated the state's Constitution. Among other things, his approach relinquished state sovereignty, and would unwisely lock in tax rates for decades into the future despite volatility in the markets. <br />
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"Murkowski didn't like being questioned. Tom loved his state too much to be part of something that would ultimately hurt it. So he did what I had done when faced with my AOGCC decision--he left so he could be effective elsewhere. Tom went home to Fairbanks, and the rest of the Magnificent Seven also found other jobs."<br />
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While it would be fruitful to reflect here upon the Governor's courageous and momentous decision of July, 2009, her heroic resignation from the job she loved, the Governorship of Alaska, an act similar to those of Tom Irwin and the other members of the Magnificent Seven, I would like to follow a different path and thread of thought this morning on the above passage.<br />
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I would like to focus on these words, "Murkowski didn't like being questioned" and on these, "Tom loved his state too much to be part of something that would ultimately hurt it."<br />
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What a seemingly simple, and yet in reality stark and world-shaking contrast we behold here between two different kinds of souls, between two worlds of the mind, between two universes of the spirit.<br />
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There are people who manifest a …<br />
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WILLINGNESS to acknowledge their errors and mistakes, and an<br />
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UNWILLINGNESS to do wrong.<br />
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And there are people who manifest an …<br />
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UNWILLINGNESS humbly to acknowledge their errors, their mistakes, their sins, and a …<br />
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WILLINGNESS to do wrong.<br />
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The proud and purblind Murkowski is a type and an example of one of these species of individuals. He "didn't like being questioned." Also, he was willing to take his State down a bad and dangerous path.<br />
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Tom Irwin, by contrast, refused to be party to actions that he deemed and judged to be nocent and noxious to his State. While it is not made explicit here, it may safely be assumed that, in accordance with the moral symmetries traced above, Tom Irwin would be willing humbly to acknowledge faults and errors on his part.<br />
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In this connection, I am reminded of the great King David. Yes, he sinned grievously by sending Uriah to the front lines to be killed, and then taking Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, for his own.<br />
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But what sets David apart from legions of others, what makes him an immortal, is that, when the prophet Nathan confronted him with his great sins, the King did not "kill the messenger," he did not have the prophet murdered to quiet his own conscience--the sort of action that so many other kings and other mighty ones of this world have taken.<br />
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No, he confessed his sins, and his soul lived… he became a Hero of the Lord for All Times!! IMHO, his VICTORY OVER SELF was greater than his victory over GOLIATH!<br />
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Now, we are confronted today, in Washington DC, by a criminal gang that has NOT followed the path of the brave Tom Irwin, who refused to be party to evil schemes. Further, unlike King David, they are refusing to acknowledge the wickedness of their ways in these stirring and momentous days, when a true prophet is hurling their sins and their delicts and their crimes in their teeth!!<br />
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These people, from barack obama on down, are rather like Frank Murkowski.<br />
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First, they were willing to do great evil.<br />
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But we all err sometimes; even David sinned greatly.<br />
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Yes, but today, when a veritable PROPHET OF TRUTH FOR AMERICA IN OUR TIME, SARAH PALIN, HAS ARISEN TO DENOUNCE THEM …<br />
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Will they repent; will they acknowledge their criminal and treasonous acts???<br />
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Will they say, "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"???<br />
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NO.<br />
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Like Frank Murkowski, they do not like to be questioned.<br />
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David, the eternal Servant of the Lord David, bowed his kingly head before the TRUTH OF THE LORD, as enunciated by the Prophet of the All-Highest. He refused to murder the Lord's messenger.<br />
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obama and his thugs, by contrast, will continue trying to smother and extinguish the voice of America's prophet of the twenty-first century.<br />
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They will not succeed. All that they will do is to complete the process of extinguishing their own benighted souls.<br />
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Guys, Sarah sent the proud Frank Murkowski and his political gang packing in 2006.<br />
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The Lord willing, she will boot the obamunists and their RINO fellow travelers out of power, starting in 2014, and culminating in 2016!!!<br />
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Our voices, our hearts, our swords for SARAHAMERICA!!!! <br />
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Behold: This is what Sarah Palin would, nay, WILL bring to the White House when she is elected as President of the United States. She will work with and unite Americans of all kinds, Republicans, Democrats, Independents.<br />
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I am going to dare to say it:<br />
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barack obama and his commie Chicago enforcers and thugs are not Democrats at all;<br />
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They are not Americans at all.<br />
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They are, in fact, our mortal enemies. If we had any doubts about this at all (we really did not), the events of recent days have safely buried all such uncertainties. They are determined, with a truly hellish fury, to "fundamentally transform" the United States of America … and damn any moral scruples, any laws, any principles, any people that may stand in their way!!<br />
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Now REAL Democrats, IMHO, are people like Pat Caddell, who, during the 2012 campaign, denounced the media as enemies of the American People, and said that they posed a clear and present danger to America.<br />
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We may perhaps even include someone like Bob Beckel in the ranks of genuine Democrats. We disagree with him on many issues, but he at least seems to be an American, IMV. He acted like a GENTLEMAN to our Sarah when she visited the FOX TV show "The Five" in 2012. He used to be pro-"choice," but said recently that he is now pro-life. Hell, he played football in his youth. When I see him, I don't get the creepy, slimy feeling that I am in the presence of something foreign and completely un-American. This IS the sense that I get with obama and his close allies and associates.<br />
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Our dear Governor naturally draws people of good will to her. This phenomenon was true prior to the 2008 VP campaign. Democrats in Alaska were happy to work with her.<br />
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It has been true, in many ways, since 2008. While it is a fact that high-ranking PROFESSIONAL Dem politicos have been compelled by pressure from the national Party (controlled by obama) to shun her, she appeals widely to ORDINARY Americans across the political spectrum. Heck, even Leftist academic Marc Lamont Hill recently praised her. And liberal FOX commentator Juan Williams has had good things to say about the bright and brave Lady Warrior from Wasilla.<br />
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In fact, I am going to present a conjecture. I have no proof of this; it is just something that I suspect.<br />
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It is based on the premise that many people are more WEAK than WICKED. Once the power of the obama mafia is broken (or at least curtailed) it is my hope that many Democrats of good will, especially in the lower political rank-and-file, will gain heart, and will venture to step forward out of the shadows and support her.<br />
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She is so obviously bright, brave, patriotic and … GOOD-HEARTED that, I think, only the truly evil of soul and of spirit will want to oppose her. I think that many are just scared to do so right now!<br />
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Anyway, this is merely speculation on my part.<br />
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The Lord willing, Sarah, in her PRESIDENTIAL MEMOIRS, will be able to say one day, as she does in the above passage about her gubernatorial days, "We were Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, all working together …"<br />
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It will be the dawning of another Reaganesque "Morning in America"!!<br />
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On p. 126 of GR, Sarah is discussing the early days of her gubernatorial administration and, in particular, her gasline team. <br />
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She writes, "So, in my Anchorage office, amidst the family pictures already on my desk, a hide of a grizzly bear shot by my dad draped over the couch, my collection of military coins and flags, and Piper's hand-painted artwork taped to the credenza, we established the ground rules for the gasline team.<br />
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" 'I won't pretend to have all the answers,' I told them, 'and I won't micromanage you. You guys are the experts; that's why I want you here.'<br />
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"I believed then and now that I had the best gasline team ever assembled anywhere."<br />
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Behold here, my friends, the beautiful bond that binds together the Governor and her superb team: TRUST!!<br />
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Indeed trust is that invisible but golden chain that has always bound together free societies and associations of men and women … and always will!!<br />
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The bond of TRUST between husband and wife;<br />
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The bond of TRUST between parents and children;<br />
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The bond of TRUST between friend and friend;<br />
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The bond of TRUST between business partner and business partner;<br />
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The bond of TRUST between teacher and student;<br />
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The bond of TRUST between officer and soldier …<br />
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Just as iron chains and grim gulags and the guns of goons are required to hold slave "societies" together, so good faith and trust hold free societies together.<br />
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Think of the scene evoked in the brief passage cited above.<br />
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What a stark and searing contrast Sarah's wonderful gasline team makes, in the court and hall of our imaginations, with barack obama's coterie and cabal of criminals!!<br />
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Let us look at them now with the powerful eyes of picturesque perception.<br />
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We see the bright, beautiful young Governor of Alaska and half a dozen or so other patriotic Alaskan and American stalwarts sitting around a table, preparing to do glorious things both for their home State and for all of the United States.<br />
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Then we see a shady and sick and slick "community organizer" and his partners in usurpation, in thuggery, in tyranny sitting around a "table," literal or figurative, plotting how to "fundamentally transform," that is, how to overthrow and destroy, the United States of America, while simultaneously lining their own putrid pockets.<br />
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On the one side we see light, grace, intelligence, TRUST;<br />
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On the other side we see darkness, crime, stupidity, and treason … and a gang the members of which would quite readily stab each other in the back to ensure their own survival.<br />
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On the one side we see patriotic Americans, with the light of love of country in their pellucid eyes;<br />
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On the other side we see traitors and Communists, with the shaded night of sin and corruption and death in their fell and fallacious eyes.<br />
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At the head of one table we see a born leader and brilliant light of inspiration;<br />
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At the head of the other table we see a plant, a media creation, a "Trojan Horse," groomed for years and years by the enemies of America for this time and for this moment.<br />
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AMERICA WILL HAVE SARAH OF ALASKA; away with obama and all the thugs of obama and all the lies of obama and all the works of obama.<br />
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LONG LIVE SARAHAMERICA!!!<br />
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On p.125 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of her gubernatorial agenda, starting on her first day in office. She writes, "Construction of a gas pipeline to transport this safe, clean energy supply to the Lower 48 was originally authorized by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 1979. <br />
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"At the time, a lot of folks had high hopes. Not only would the pipeline become a second economic pillar for the state, creating jobs and development opportunities, but it would reduce our dependence on foreign supplies and therefore our reliance on unfriendly nations."<br />
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Let us note the breadth of vision that is hidden within the confines of these seemingly simple words. ALL levels of society would be helped by the proposed gas pipeline: Families ("jobs"); local communities ("development opportunities"); the state ("a second economic pillar for the state"); the nation as a whole ("reduce our dependence on foreign supplies and therefore our reliance on unfriendly nations").<br />
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Further, if families have jobs; if local communities enjoy development opportunities; if the state is sustained by multiple economic pillars; if the nation is not so dependent on foreign sources of energy, then many problems are obviated and avoided. We, as human beings, consist of body and soul. The peaceful existence of individuals, of families, of cities, of states, of the nation depends both on a sound economic basis, and on a sound moral basis. <br />
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The passage cited above refers primarily to strengthening the economic base. But it contains moral implications too. If families have jobs, there is less temptation to crime. If larger social units are set on a sound footing, there is less of an opening for those redistributionist policies that, while masking as "social justice," are really UNSOCIAL INJUSTICE. This is because justice consists in giving to each person his due, what he or she has merited and earned. <br />
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However, redistribution of wealth unjustly takes away the just fruit of the labor of some, and hands it to others. It is thus injustice. <br />
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Further, such tyrannical policies cause friction and resentment; they tear away at the social bonds that hold the social fabric together. They are thus unsocial. Therefore, the "social justice" of the Left is really unsocial injustice. Policies like those promoted by Governor Palin in Alaska, on the contrary, tend to foster TRUE social justice.<br />
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Finally, I would like to suggest that the Governor, just as she promoted the building of a gas pipeline to the Lower 48, has also been working on constructing a MORAL pipeline to the same Lower 48.<br />
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I am no scientist, but, as I understand it, oil and natural gas are formed in the bowels of the Earth under the pressure of gravity. In much the same way, the glorious Alaskan character of Sarah and of her family has been formed and fashioned both under the pressure of the often harsh living conditions of the Great Land, and also under the brutal attacks on the Governor by the wicked political Establishment that is headquartered in Washington DC, both obamunists and RINOs.<br />
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Not just oil, not just natural gas will be sent flowing and frolicking to the hungry markets of the Lower 48, but truth and courage and justice and optimism and patriotism will flow to hearts that are hungry and yearning for these timeless values and verities.<br />
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SARAH AND ALASKA: PIPELINES OF LIFE; PIPELINES OF LIBERTY; PIPELINES OF LOVE OF COUNTRY!!! <br />
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On p. 124 of GR, Sarah is entering upon her first full day as Governor of Alaska. She writes, "It was my first day in office, and my core gasline team and I were meeting to kick off our top agenda item. The governor's office has one particularly enviable view, south across the city toward the beautiful mountains of Chugach State Park. <br />
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"From one window I could also see an active volcano, and from another window, Mount McKinley. We overlook Cook Inlet, abundant with sea life, including salmon, halibut, and beluga whales, all safely coexisting with offshore oil rigs for the last thirty years. <br />
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"Almost symbolically, my office also looked directly into the towering gold-mirrored building occupied by the oil giant Conoco-Phillips. This mélange of views served as a constant reminder of my mission in office to develop our state's resources in the best interests of the environment and of the people--including getting a gasline built."<br />
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While it would be fruitful for us to reflect upon several possible themes inspired by this passage, such as the complete compatibility between true and careful environmentalism on the one hand, and responsible resource development on the other hand, or upon the looming battles with "big oil" that confronted the Governor as she entered upon her office, I would like to focus this fine early morning on one phrase from the passage: "mélange of views."<br />
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Just as an individual can enjoy a "mélange of views" on the physical level, as Sarah did from her lofty (seventeenth floor!) seat in the Governor's office, so we can imbibe such vistas on the political and even the spiritual levels. <br />
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Further, a great statesman or woman, a great mind, is able to seize upon the multiple and individual fragments of quotidian events and bind and weave them into the harmonious whole of a VISION. Many VIEWS can lead to one VISION!!<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FONM-H6emxwrEfAB9fTlDRaF4cO1R8lkEDe811jqOa_50VID4Wtgmhc1qk-F4Ga3wAdau0Nm4ifyCAFMEUx8TffDGEha0dGqDeFE-AeMgnrQc2CIfsRdcqEKeY6sOmRhyphenhyphengPHP1IePm4/s1600/views.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FONM-H6emxwrEfAB9fTlDRaF4cO1R8lkEDe811jqOa_50VID4Wtgmhc1qk-F4Ga3wAdau0Nm4ifyCAFMEUx8TffDGEha0dGqDeFE-AeMgnrQc2CIfsRdcqEKeY6sOmRhyphenhyphengPHP1IePm4/s400/views.PNG" width="400" /></a></div>Just as the Governor enjoyed her "mélange of views" from the gubernatorial seat in Alaska, so, I believe, she has absorbed a DUAL mélange of views through her experiences of the last four or five years. <br />
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First, in her VP campaign of '08, in her book tour of '09, in her many campaign activities for Tea Party candidates in '10, in all her vigorous and valiant activities since then, she has seen and visited vast stretches of this country of ours, and has met thousands upon more thousands of good, honest, ordinary, hardworking Americans. She thus possesses, IMV, a broad and all-encompassing VISION of America in the beauty of her diversity and her unity.<br />
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Second, and even more profoundly, her many sufferings through all these years, sufferings at the hands of obamunists, sufferings at the hands of RINOs, sufferings at the hands of Hollywood, sufferings at the hands of the lamestream media, sufferings at the hands of false "friends," this "mélange of views" of the dire straits of our nation, these diverse and doleful sufferings have bestowed and conferred upon her, IMHO, a VISION that will help her, someday soon God willing, to lead America out of the darkness of the bleak obama years and into the bright and bracing sunlight of another Reaganesque Morning in America.<br />
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She knows the "patient"; she knows the remedies required to resuscitate and revivify the patient!!<br />
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Just as the exalting and exhilarating vista of views from her gubernatorial office in Alaska helped to inspire and inform her vision for the Great Land, so, I think, her panoramic picture of the state of the Union, and of the state of the minds and the hearts of the People of that Union is helping her to form and conceive a UNIFYING AND LIBERATING VISION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.<br />
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Proclaim Liberty Throughout The Land--Proclaim President Sarah Palin, Mother of Her Country!!!<br />
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On p. 123 of GR, Sarah continues with her description of the night of her inauguration as Governor of Alaska. She writes, "Piper sat happily for most of the ceremony, her bright red dress unruffled and her new black patent leather shoes swinging. Her sisters had placed a tiny toy tiara on her head and told her to be patient. <br />
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"She hung in there with just a hint of weariness, though she never got bored with her dress. She wore it to all the inaugural events and never tired of dancing in it."<br />
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Like Piper, WE too must be patient in this present hour, a figurative "hour" whose actual length and extension we cannot now know.<br />
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Like Piper, WE too sometimes feel touched with "just a hint of weariness."<br />
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I know that I, in company with so many of you, wanted the Governor to run for President for 2012. In fact, I presented a piece at the end of last year on what the concept of "SARAH 2012" meant to me and, I think, to so many Americans. However, I do believe that she is guided and directed by the Hand and Might and Wisdom of the Good Lord. <br />
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Indeed, I think that a Celestial Game of Chess is now being played out on a board the broad and extensive spaces of which occupy, not the limited confines of sixty-four squares, but the entire breadth and length and majesty of the fifty States of the <i>Res Publica Americana</i>. <br />
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Further, because the fate and fortunes of the entire world are intimately bound up with and tied to those of America, we may fairly say that this "chessboard" encompasses and embraces the entire globe.<br />
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Now, as anyone knows who has played a little chess, it is often the pawns and knights and bishops that are the first forces to be marshaled and deployed; the rooks and the QUEEN are often (though not invariably) held in reserve.<br />
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I would like to think of our Sarah, even in a Republic, as the Queen on the chessboard of this great contest. Like the multifaceted and powerful queen in chess, the Governor, with her brilliant and multiple talents and abilities in so many areas--stateswoman, orator, political analyst, political warrior, humorist, writer, woman of the People, huntress of the enemies of America, etc.--like the chess queen, our brilliant Sarah possesses broad powers on many depths and levels.<br />
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It seems that the Lord is holding the QUEEN in reserve for the right and destined and critical hour and moment.<br />
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We often grow impatient and weary and discouraged, and perhaps never more so than on THAT day, 5 October, 2011, and in the days and weeks that followed it.<br />
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In fact, the Governor's act on that autumn day in 2011 may have constituted a Great Gambit.<br />
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A gambit in chess, of course, is the sacrifice of a piece in the present moment for a great gain, yes for triumph, at the end of the match.<br />
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With the clarity and integrity of vision that can often only be supplied and furnished by retrospect, we may someday see that day in October, 2011, not as the END of a dream, but as the BEGINNING of one!!<br />
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Patience is asked of us as we await, in hope and in prayer, the Governor's eventual inauguration as President of the United States of America.<br />
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<i>IN PATIENTIA VESTRA POSSIDEBITIS ANIMAS VESTRAS</i> (Luke 21: 19)--In your patience you shall possess your souls.<br />
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I would like to discuss two words and concepts from this passage, "strength" and "order."<br />
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Order is rooted in the RELATION in which things stand to each other. To take a simple example, there is all the difference between the sentences "The man kills the bear" and "The bear kills the man" because of the ORDER of the words. The order establishes, for the English language, the subject of each sentence and the direct object.<br />
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In the sphere of society, it is crucial to define the RELATION in which various units or entities stand to each other.<br />
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There is a principle in Catholic Philosophy known as the Principle of Subsidiarity. This principle is one of the foundations of our Constitutional belief in LIMITED GOVERNMENT. The word "subsidiarity" derives from the Latin word "subsidium," "support, assistance, aid, HELP, protection." <br />
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The idea is that LARGER units of society exist to HELP and SUPPORT, not to DOMINATE over, smaller units, and especially the family. From this truth flows the principle that larger units, especially the federal or national government, should not carry out those functions that can better be handled at the family, local, or State levels.<br />
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The family and the People do not exist for government; government exists for the family and the People.<br />
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From this principle flows the proper RELATIONSHIP between and among various societal entities.<br />
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The family is helped and supported by the city or town or local government; the local government does not dominate the family.<br />
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The local community is helped and supported by the State government; the State government does not dominate the local community.<br />
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The State is helped and supported by the federal government; the federal government does not dominate the State.<br />
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We do not delegate to larger units those matters that can best be handled by smaller units.<br />
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So, for example, the FAMILY is primarily responsible for the education of children.<br />
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On the other hand, the federal government certainly possesses some legitimate functions, especially that of national defense, a responsibility that cannot effectively be shouldered by smaller units of society.<br />
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The ideal for society, then, is that each of its units be STRONG and healthy, but that each remain within its proper and ORDERED sphere and orbit.<br />
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STRENGTH AND ORDER!!<br />
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NOW, IMHO, OUR SARAH IS A MODEL AND EXEMPLAR OF STRENGTH ON EVERY LEVEL OF SOCIETY:<br />
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On the family level, she is a wonderful wife, mom, daughter, sister, and grandmother. Indeed, IMV, her bringing of her precious Trig into this tired old world in April of 2008, instead of murdering him, as so many political hacks, both Lefties and RINOs, would have done, is THE act that brought down on her head the fury and the obloquy and the odium of the pampered, corrupt, venal, white-collared savages of the Establishment--this and her unerring ability to prick the pompous balloon of the little "messiah" of the Left, barack hussein obama.<br />
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On the local level, she was an effective mayor of her hometown of Wasilla.<br />
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On the State level, she was a brilliant Governor of Alaska, who accomplished more in about two-and-a-half years than most State governors ever do.<br />
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On the national level, I firmly believe that she will become, not only President of the United States of America, but a great, a beloved, an unforgettable resuscitator and restorer of the Res Publica Americana--a heroine for the ages: Our Esther; our Eowyn (Tolkien), our St. Jeanne d'Arc!!!<br />
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As I bring this piece to a close, let us observe the dual effect of the expressive phrase "Mother of Her Country."<br />
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First, it serves to TIE TOGETHER the first and the last of the societal units that were discussed above, Family and Country, into a harmonious whole.<br />
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Second, it serves, through the connotative connection to George Washington, Father of His Country--it serves to TIE TOGETHER the past to the present and to the future, 1776 to 2013-2016.<br />
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Sarah Louise Heath Palin of Wasilla, of Alaska, of America will help to restore a United States built upon Strength and upon Order; built upon Character and upon Constitution; built upon Power and upon Beauty.<br />
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OUR SARAH: A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS!!!<br />
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On p. 121 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of her inauguration as Governor of Alaska, and she continues with her observations about the Alaskan Constitution.<br />
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She writes, "Thanks to our state's simple and concise founding documents, our founding mothers and fathers had provided a level of opportunity and prosperity that other states, even other countries, could only dream of. I believed then--and still do now--that in addition to God's grace, the credit for Alaska's prosperity should be given to our Constitution's framers.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHeoFDD-r7ty95l1p9Hn5YIpNQGgWoP5OeH0J91jdJgPamaMHSIqru1K2fhAgO5uuKS7jfA4RqooGGCstSguKhErrTu0Whk2AUlDNeN0Vk90q4jSYSQEy5iYwdxzd-IjG6VkRGmoe_Tc/s1600/22.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHeoFDD-r7ty95l1p9Hn5YIpNQGgWoP5OeH0J91jdJgPamaMHSIqru1K2fhAgO5uuKS7jfA4RqooGGCstSguKhErrTu0Whk2AUlDNeN0Vk90q4jSYSQEy5iYwdxzd-IjG6VkRGmoe_Tc/s1600/22.PNG" /></a></div>"We chose as our venue the Carlson Center, the arena where the Nanooks, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' hockey team, play. Looking up at the team banners hanging overhead, I remembered the many days I'd spent in this arena, cheering young athletes, keeping score and compiling stats, bandaging bruised bodies, organizing their journeys up north and then home again after the games.<br />
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"During the ceremony, floorboards protected the ice, which was covered with fresh blade marks carved by kids who were full of hope and goals and energy. Instead of a sterile conventional venue, the arena was the perfect place for our inauguration celebration."<br />
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Indeed, as we have often observed in the course of these reflections on GR, it is frequently not just what the Governor writes, but the ORDER in which she writes, the things that she chooses to place in close collocation one to the other, that shed a bright and brilliant Northern Light on the truth of her life and on the truth of things!!<br />
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What we may call her <i>ARS DISPONENDI</i>, her Art of Arranging, her Art of Setting in Order, is one of the salient features both of her beautiful writing and of her brave, patriotic life!!<br />
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So, what is the theme of this page? It is the FERTILE versus the STERILE!!<br />
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The SIMPLE Alaskan Constitution has engendered abundant fruits of peace and prosperity for Alaskans.<br />
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The SIMPLE Carlson Center has nourished many young athletes (and cf. her contrasting of the Carlson with "a sterile conventional venue").<br />
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The "simple and concise" Constitution!!<br />
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The simple shouts and joy of youngsters!!<br />
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Let us briefly posit two contrasts.<br />
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"Simple and concise": Do you hear that, Nancy Pelosi?? Do you hear that, Harry Reid??<br />
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Your abomination of a "healthcare bill," "obamacare," is anything but "simple and concise." LIARS will often attempt to hide and conceal their malevolent designs and intentions under the cloak of a useless fog and cloud and prolixity of obfuscating and deceptive words!!! (This is not to condemn ALL works of length and bulk--just look at the magisterial biography of Sir Winston Churchill, for example, by William Manchester and Paul Reid. It is long, but it uses length to a GOOD purpose, not a deceiving one!!)<br />
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The Alaskan Constitution has been FERTILE.<br />
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The obamunist "obamacare" "law" can engender only death, euthanasia in particular; can engender only misery; can engender only confusion, can engender only chaos. It is STERILE; it is DEATH-DEALING; it is DEAD--just like the minds and hearts and souls that conceived and created it.<br />
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Now let us contrast the Carlson Center, which has been the scene of so many trials and triumphs of young athletes, and which was the scene of the beautiful inauguration of Governor Sarah Palin, let us contrast the Carlson with Denver's Invesco Field on 28 August, 2008, the night of obama's 2008 DNC acceptance speech.<br />
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As Sarah has so memorably pointed out, once the roar of the crowd died away, once the Styrofoam Greek columns were hauled away, what was left???<br />
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NOTHING BUT THE EMPTY, STERILE, DEAD WORDS OF A GREAT DECEIVER, barack obama, domestic enemy of the United States of America.<br />
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Let us then, Brothers and Sisters, do all that lies within the compass of our various capacities and resources and powers, let us do all that we can to turn the minds and hearts of our fellow citizens away from the sterile and dead persons and policies of "leaders" like obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the GOP Establishment, and bring them into the bracing and noble orbit of the Lady of the North Country. <br />
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Her life, like the Constitution of the State she loves so much, has already brought forth abundant fruits of joy, hope, courage, strength, and peace for her fellow Patriots during a bleak and blight-filled era.<br />
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And just wait until she places her hand on the Holy Bible, and takes the Presidential Oath of Office!!!<br />
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It will be like America rising out of the tomb that has been prepared for her by her dire enemies.<br />
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ARISE, SARAHAMERICA; ARISE TO BATTLE; ARISE TO VICTORY!!!!!! <br />
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On p. 120 of GR, Sarah talks about "Triumph on November 7, 2006!"--her great victory in the race for the Governorship of Alaska. She then turns to the inauguration. <br />
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She writes, "All through Alaska's history, the inaugural swearing-in had taken place in the capital city of Juneau. But in a break with tradition, I selected Fairbanks, the Golden Heart City, as the location for the December 4 ceremony. The fiftieth anniversary of statehood would take place during our term, so we wanted to celebrate the Alaska Constitution, which was written in Fairbanks."<br />
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How profoundly significant, how indicative of the philosophy and the spirit of Alaska's and America's Sarah are these words!!<br />
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She innovates, and she returns to roots, sources, foundations at the same time!!<br />
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<i>NOVA ET VETERA</i>: Things new and things old!!<br />
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One thought that leaped immediately into my mind when I first read these words back in the autumn of '09 was: When she begins the great work of her Presidency, might she perhaps hold her inauguration, not in corrupt Washington, DC, but in the City of the Drafting and Signing of the American Constitution, Philadelphia?<br />
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Whether or not she chooses to take such a course in the future, I think that this Alaskan act of hers in 2006 is a wonderful example of bold innovation and simultaneous fidelity to traditions and roots. The Governor made a deep and profound statement with this choice of the locale for her inauguration, a statement about the GOLD and youthful vigor of the spirit and the ROCK of foundations. She goes to Alaska's "Golden Heart City"; she also goes to the spot where the legal and Constitutional foundation blocks for Alaskan Statehood were set firmly into place.<br />
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I have always sensed this about Sarah: She is sort of ageless. She is both modern, in the best sense of that term, and yet very much a traditionalist too.<br />
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Look, for example, at what her election as POTUS would mean and signify. She would be the first woman President--the modern, innovative aspect--yet simultaneously she would be taking America back to her Constitutional roots and sources--the "ancient" aspect!!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Consider also her use of modern social media as a potent weapon in America's war against the bleak and blighted regime of barack hussein obama--look at the powerful Facebook "missiles" that she has launched against the "president's" "fundamental transformation" of our country. Yet the message that she delivers by this most modern of means is an ancient and timeless one!<br />
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The Governor herself possesses the mysterious qualities of the old and the new. If, no dare I say WHEN she is elected our President in 2016, she will be fifty-two years old. I think that, as we watch our new President-Elect on that triumphant and liberating evening in November, we will behold and witness a lady who combines great beauty and youth with <i>GRAVITAS </i>(yes, Mr. Karl Rove!!), the gravitas of a world stateswoman.<br />
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I believe that we all owe a debt and duty of gratitude and of thankfulness to the Lord for giving America, in this dangerous and decisive hour, a brave, fearless, beautiful Patriot Soul!!<br />
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Our Youthful Warrior, Sarah!<br />
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Our Veteran Warrior, Sarah!<br />
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Our Ageless Warrior, Sarah!<br />
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Our Sarah; America's Sarah!<br />
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