One last chance ...

It's been awhile, dear friends. The health care "Reform" debate has raged onward, and none of us have given up. My life has become more complex, and the scope of folks to talk to much larger. I've begun  working harder on my personal future.

The Congressional Democrats appear to have decided to stop listening, as if a childish insistence that the polls are wrong will allow them to skate past the People. It's obvious that they wish us to give up, to concede and shut up. So I have a simple idea.

Some years ago, I read a novel that introduced a novel idea to resister your vote, a very direct method of doing so. That novel introduced the idea of taking up your flashlight, your lighter, even your candle, turning off every light you could.

Then, at the appointed hour, you and yours step outside and light 'em up! From space, any orbiting satellite "spy" camera could count the light sources, and directly register your opinion.

Yeah, so it's corny. Yes, your neighbors would immediately know what your real feelings are. So what.
If they don't already know, you've already failed, my friends. And the call to "Go to the Moon!" was corny, too.

But, if we all decide to do it, it could work. I'm going to do it. If you decide to join me, and wish to urge others to join in, go to the Facebook Groups page "Shine a Light Against Health Care Reform!"

Don't give up without making your opinion known!

Update from the Front Lines; Visalia, 2.9.09, Pro-Health Care ReForm Demonstration from the "Con" side.

From our Roving Correspondent, C. Brooks Nielsen

Wednesday, Sept 2, 9 p.m.
Just got back from the Visalia street rally. Tea Party folk gathered at the last minute to offer another side to a preplanned organized Obamacare demonstration.
There we were, signs a-waving, cheering the honks and waves of passersby, almost as big a showing on our side of the street as the candle-bearing group that spent most of its time in a huddle listening to speakers in their midst.
We agreed we'll get together again locally on 9/12 to cheer on those of us there tonight who will be representing us in D.C. for the finale of the Tea Party Express.
Life is good when you know it!
cbn

From The U.S Sect. Of Education, July 2, 2009 : "Dear Partners in Reform ..."

"... when inflexible seniority and rigid tenure rules that we designed put adults ahead of children—then we are not only putting kids at risk—we're putting the entire education system at risk. We're inviting the attack of parents and the public—and that is not good for any of us. I believe that teacher unions are at a crossroads. These policies were created over the past century to protect the rights of teachers but they have produced an industrial factory model of education that treats all teachers like interchangeable widgets ..."

This incredible "Mea Culpa" statement was buried deep within the hypnotic rhetoric, hand shaking, backslapping and, incredible as it might seem, butt kicking of the Sect.'s July 2nd address to the NEA. Arne Duncan, erstwhile "Genius" (sic) and Sect. of Education, spent way too much time and way too many words telling the Teachers Union that "... we have to be willing to change ..."

Be informed, go read the entire address at Remarks of Arne Duncan to the National Education Association—Partners in Reform

But be warned, you'd best print it out, and use a pen for the high lights.

Additional Link : U.S. Dept. of Education

I'm not going to be-Labor the point, but it all comes down to "sending out the shill", as we used to say in the sales biz. As they say in the Human Resources Dept. here at the NObama Register, it was "Kiss 'em, Kick 'em". Unfortunately, the We he's talking about, and are most interested in, have a line of bull that seems to be based on avoiding responsibility for themselves.

What a pity, eh? It might not be good for Us ... just remember that actually means Them.