It has taken me awhile to comment on the shooting of George Tiller, mostly due to the fact that I did not want to sound as though I condone what happened. However I just read Ann Coulter's commentary "49 Million to Five," and it gave me the courage to say what I really think. What Scott Rhoeder did was against the law so it was wrong. What Tiller did was maybe not against the law but it was more than just wrong, it was morally abhorrent. Tiller being killed does not change what he dedicated his life to. What Rhoeder did also does not change what the pro-life movement is about; the promotion and protection of life. What Rhoeder did in a single act was wrong but it was not as wrong as the thousands of evil acts committed by Tiller. By saying this I do not approve of what Rhoeder did but it is the truth, the thousands of innocent lives taken by Tiller had no "choice" in being aborted, but Tiller chose his path, and you reap what you sow

Again unions are fighting for things that are completely against the foundations of this country. In reading the bargaining updates for the CWA with AT & T, the website states the union rejects the Company's proposal of Pay for Performance. This is because the union rejects anything they see as not fair. A while back employees who had perfect attendance through the year were given gift certificates to local restaurants or movie tickets, this was gotten rid of by the union, because it was not fair to those who had to miss work. I have made comparisons with unions and communism, I would just compare it with socialism if it was not for the forceful intimidation that union leaders like to use. The above is just another reason why this is not a difficult comparison to make. In a free enterprise capitalist system there are incentives to be more productive. In a socialist system it does not matter what you do or how well you do it, the outcome will be the same. That is why in general union workers as with government workers are less productive as a whole. Not to say all government and union workers are not productive but those who are the most productive are brought down by those who are not, therefore on average there is less productivity. Pay for Performance is just one more thing the Union Leaders will not stand for because they would no longer have jobs.

There is a lot of talk right now about the proposed card check bill which would take away one of our most fundamental rights in a democracy, the secret ballot. The entire point of the secret ballot is to disallow intimidation in the voting process. One should vote for who or what they want without fear of reprisal or ridicule. What I find ironic is the Democrats who so espouse their support for civil rights are the ones that support this card check proposal. According to a recent Rasmussen poll only nine percent of non-union workers think they would like to work for a union. I am curious to know how many union employees would prefer not to work for a union especially when they are being intimidated into striking without hearing both sides. I have never worked for a union but my husband does and they are actually in the process of bargaining for their contract and are most likely going to go on strike. He works for AT & T, and almost every day I look on the CWA website to see what is going on. If the contract negotiations did not have such an economic impact on my own life it would be funny to read. There is so much propaganda, and they actually have the audacity to have signs that say "tear down the wall." Now I do not want to compare unions to communism but one must admit they use many of the same tactics. The rules do not apply to the Union Leaders that apply to the workers, they get paid no matter what and quite well. It appears to me since they are not fighting for true injustices they have to rear their ugly heads every couple of years to seem relevant. I would hazard to guess not a one has any economic background, not including a Marxist background. They would rather have the company lay off more employees and/or go bankrupt then give in to anything. They say the company is not willing to negotiate, and they are able to say this because they follow the same logic as most Democrats, since bipartisanship is only when the Republicans give in to the Democratic proposals, the company is only negotiating if they give in to every whim of the union. Every body else in the country knows health care costs are going up, but the union for some reason does not think the employees using said services should pay more. Again another correlation with communism. Everybody should get the same no matter what, except the leaders of the party, I mean union. To get back to the CWA website with all their half truths, they do not actually give specifics as to what the company is proposing they just use weighted, vague terms to make the workers feel slighted. I wish AT & T would use some propaganda of their own and explain their side of the negotiations, but that is considered intimidation, and if anybody knows what intimidation is, it is Union Leaders.

Every day I turn on the news I hear one more reason to say goodbye to California. This makes me very sad as a native Californian. I was born and raised in California as were both my parents, and my maternal Grandmother. My boys were born here as well and I assumed the tradition would go on. However I am afraid I may have to say goodbye. I do not want to give up and leave, because that is part of the problem. The last few years California has actually seen it's population go down. When asked why people leave, there are various reasons, the taxes, the public schools, the illegal aliens, the cost of living and so on. These are very important issues to me as well but at what point do we say it is a lost cause? Can we ever get back to normalcy or are we so over run by special interests? Between the open border crowd, the climate change crowd, the pro-union crowd there is no room for the conservative Christian middle class crowd. Who is standing up for us? I want to stand up for us and fight for my state, but I think many people are so apathetic and disillusioned they think one person can not change. We are so busy working and raising our kids that we do not have time to go protest every other thing, and we are so busy that so much is slipping away. More and more of our income is being taken away, and thus more of our freedoms. I want to scream from the mountain tops but I have to go take my son to school.

I remember as a child hearing the sun was going to explode in a billion years and being frightened. I did not understand the concept of a billion years but I understood the world ending. The idea of teachers purposely scaring children with false information in the name of global warming, makes me angry. My six year old should not have to worry about the world ending. When they are older they are not allowed to be scared by the truths of abortion because that is propaganda. What kind of backwards world is teaching kids that having your thermostat set at seventy is wrong but abortion is a choice. What happened to teaching kids the three R's? Now they are teaching the liberal three R’s, recycling, racism, and rights.

A few weeks ago on This Week with George Stephanopoulos congressman Barney Frank said people do not volunteer to fight sexually transmitted diseases therefore it is a job and therefore has reason to be part of the "stimulus" package. Between porn masters Larry Flynt and Joe Francis requesting to be part of the stimulus package and now Frank thinking anything that is a job should be a part of the stimulus we should all say hello to not only government cheese but government porn and family planning. This man who was in charge of one of the biggest government regulated disasters in history thinks we should regulate even more. He actually even says that no regulations was the problem. As it has been said before just because you call a dog a cow does not make it a cow. You can call money given to those who do not pay taxes a tax cut but it does not make it so. Government oversight and quasi regulation is the biggest scam in the world. This is the governments way of forcing bad policy without getting their hands dirty. Tax cuts do not fight fires but apparently less syphilis does. I have been STD free my entire life, should I get a rebate for that? Actually I guess since my husband and I actually pay federal income tax we are selfish to want to get any of our money back. This month I have to pay the California DMV seven hundred dollars in car registration fees and my two thousand dollar tax refund from the same state is being delayed. Yet the state is asking to be part of the bail out to further give benefits and services to those who do not pay any taxes. I will end this rant with a quote I heard today, I found it very fitting during this time especially. "The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else."

I guess Wal-Mart haters have reached a new low, it is now Wall -Mart's fault that people have no respect or even an ounce of humanity in them, that they do not give even a second look to a man on the floor being trampled to death. Anybody who does not find this entire situation deeply troubling is deeply troubled. I was already disgusted by this man being killed by people who wanted a good deal on things they do not need with money they do not have then I read an this article by Ann Zimmerman in the Wall Street Journal, "Wal-Mart Assailed on Death". It starts off with Wal-Mart should have better crowd control and that there is already a lawyer for the for the victim's family. Of course the family’s lawyer wants Wal-Mart to be at fault because there is no money in suing a private person or persons who are actually responsible. Reading this article my dismay quadrupled, the only people at fault for this incident are the customers who shoved their way in to the Long Island store that morning. This incident exemplifies so many problems with this society, lack of personal responsibility, un wavering materialism, selfishness and inhumanity. Would they have noticed if it was a dog they were stampeding? The idea that Wal-Mart is responsible for a greedy disgusting mob murdering one of its employees, I think adds even more insult to this man's death.

I had thought that we were moving towards a different view on abortion in this country. I believed with technology when one could see the beating heart of a child at seven weeks gestation one would see that as a living growing being not to be destroyed. However our elected leadership ignore the facts and have complete disregard for the unborn. Our new leadership fights against true choice. Real choice can only occur with full information and disclosure, but they do not want women seeking abortions to have any information that may dissuade them from getting an abortion. I find it disgusting that there are people who fight against women getting information about the side effects mentally and physically of abortion. Not to mention they are some of the people who now want pictures of a "Smokers' lungs" on cigarette packs. Why don't they put pictures of aborted babies on abortion doctors' smocks? Now there is news of the availability for Planned Parenthood gift certificates for the holidays. I thought that gift certificates for plastic surgery was the lowest our society would go but clearly not. Now Obama’s people are also counting the days until they can spend tax payer money to destroy embryos. We are supposed to be so enlightened but we can not see the darkness of destroying the young and innocent. What is becoming of our humanity?

I am having a hard time getting my mind wrapped around the abortion by anybody, at any time at any cost crowd. I can not believe with the technology today anybody could think it was not a life one is destroying. I do not know what is worse if the people who voted for Obama did not know his record on abortion, or if they just did not care. I have talked to people who say they are "very" pro-life but still voted for Obama, because they are not one issue voters. I am not either but how can they with good conscience support a man who was not even willing to save a child born despite the mother and doctors attempt to kill it. Even non-religious people should see something wrong with that. I was listening to Laura Ingraham today and she was talking about an abortion doctor who after thousands of abortions had a crisis of conscience and decided it was wrong. What is unbelievable is that there were people out there who in turn wanted to destroy him for changing his mind. How is it considered radical to not want to kill unborn children? Should it not be considered radical to let a baby die in a dumpster because the mother decided she did not want to have it? I have been told I should be able to understand both sides of an issue, but I can not. With other issues sometimes there are good intentions behind it, like the old saying if you are under thirty and a conservative you have no heart, if you are over thirty and a liberal than you have no brain. There is no heart behind pro-abortionists, there are no good intentions, only selfish heartless ideals. I am very concerned with the judges who will be nominated over the next four years. I am even more concerned about the amount of children who will not have the opportunity to make any choices.

Why is it that we still have politicians thinking taxing the rich can grow the economy. In watching Obama on the O'Reilly factor last night I could not believe it when he said "if I can afford it, why not pay more." Well to that I say go ahead and pay more on your taxes but do not force me to. Taxing success is not going to help anyone. You have people who work less because they do not want to move up a tax bracket. Is it not common sense to think that is bad for the economy? People should think the harder they work, the more they make the better, not the other way around. As O'Reily attempted to point out, if you tax capital gains people will invest less, that is just common sense. But what about punishing those who work hard and do well? The way our system is now the middle class gets the brunt of everything. There are so many tax breaks and benefits for those under a certain income level, that if you are middle class it as though you make less. Case and point, I make my 1st graders lunch every day, if I was to have him buy lunch at school it would cost me $495 for the entire year. Yet someone who makes less and does not have to pay for their kids lunch saves $495 per child. Then you move on to utilities where they get breaks so there is no incentive to use less energy because they can use twice as much as me and pay the same amount. I set my thermostat at 79 degrees in the summer, not because I do not want to make the planet warmer but because I do not want to have a thousand dollar electric bill. Those are just a few examples of the unfairness of the system. Liberals try to say the system is tipped to the rich, which in some cases is true but our tax code is definitely tipped to the poor. Taxes that they consider regressive are really a misnomer. It is a fair tax because everyone is taxed the same regardless of how much or how little they make. For example liberals like to say a flat sales tax is regressive, but since food is not taxed, the extras are and the more you make the more you are going to spend on extras. Regardless of all else our tax code should not punish prosperity, the government should be a boost not a hindrance to our success.