The Forgotten 4th Verse of America’s National Anthem “The Star Spangled Banner”

From secularstupidest.com

Arranged, performed, and recorded by Darin Southam
Produced, Directed, and Filmed by Darin Southam

Lyrics (Francis Scott Key 1814):

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

One year ago ~ STL. T.E.A Party 1st Birthday

Happy 100th Birthday, President Reagan

St. Louis Tea Party — Greater Fenton Precinct

Who loves America? Who believes this is our last shot to Restore the Republic? You? Awesome!

We need to Get The Vote Out!

Join us in Fenton as we Rally to bring about awareness and name recognition.

Starting Tonight! 10/25/2010

Monday-Wednesday-Friday and Monday, Nov 1. From 5-6pm

Highway 141 and Hawkins Rd (in front of Jiffylube)

Bring family, friends, flags, signs, bullhorns, chairs. . .heck, bring a cooler and make it a dinner picnic!

Bring your Patriotism for one hour.

God Bless You and God Bless America!

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Blessings!

Jen Ennenbach
St. Louis Tea Party
Block Captain– Greater Fenton Precinct

God Save our Heroes

Turn it up & full screen.

Tea Party Homecoming Kicks Off Gateway to November

September 23, 2010

In a bid to inform voters of their Constitutional Rights, and push to get out the vote on November 2, 2010, the Saint Louis Tea Party Coalition is set to host the St. Louis Tea Party Homecoming this Saturday, September 25, 2010.

To kick-off the Homecoming, STLTPC will be unveiling their newest Initiative; Tea Party Treaty. The Tea Party Treaty is a document formed as a contract between the citizens and their Representatives, restoring accountability.

The event will begin at 2 pm with food, refreshments, games, and information. Homecoming is open to the public, and is a family-friendly event. It will be held at the STLTPC Victory Center Headquarters, 4512 Hampton Avenue, St. Louis.

With the continued and growing interest in the Tea Party Movement, key figures of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition will be on hand to welcome and further educate citizens in attendance.

For additional details, contact Jen Ennenbach, Media Liaison, Saint Louis Tea Party Coalition, jen.ennenbach@stlouisteaparty.com or 314-600-5860.

“Those Voices Don’t Speak for the Rest of Us”

Where is Today’s Reagan!!!!
God Help Us!

Aldus Huxley,1962… Enjoy Your Servitude.

Aldus Huxley gave a speech entitled The Ultimate Revolution on March 20, 1962 at the Berkeley Language Center.
He stated :
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Kathleen Sebelius says FL can’t opt out

By Carol Gentry and Jim Saunders
4/23/2010 © Health News Florida
Only hours after the Florida House and Senate voted to “opt out” of the new federal health law, the top U.S. health official said Thursday night that will not be permitted.

Without mentioning any particular state or going into detail, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that state and local officials can vent all they want about a so-called “federal takeover” of health care. But they cannot deny their citizens access to its benefits or requirements, she told the Association of Health Care Journalists.

“They may want to opt out, but they don’t get to opt out all of their citizens who want and need health care,” Sebelius said.

Florida has an estimated 4 million uninsured, most of whom will be covered when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes full effect in 2014.

At least 30 states have passed state constitutional amendment legislation similar to that approved by the Florida Legislature, according to theNational Conference of State Legislatures.

Sebelius said the backlash against the ACA has been ginned up by “misinformation,” much of it deliberate. Thus HHS will be setting up an Internet site to answer frequent questions and a toll-free helpline, similar to that operated for Medicare beneficiaries. HHS staff members present at the conference said they hope to have the Internet site up by July 1 and the help desk soon after.

The opt-out measure passed in the House and Senate on Thursday, a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, will go before voters in the November election. The proposal says, in part, that Floridians may not be forced by law to “participate in any health-care system.”

Dividing along almost strict party lines, the House passed the proposal 74-42, and the Senate followed in a 26-11 vote. Republican supporters say the issue is a matter of freedom and preventing encroachment by the federal government.

“The fact that we have to have this debate in the United States of America is troubling and bizarre,” said Rep. Mike Horner, R-Kissimmee.

Democrats said the proposal’s supporters have spent more time trying to prevent expansion of coverage than they have on solving the state’s health-care problems.

“That is the folly of this moment, and this constitutional amendment is misguided in the extreme,” said Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach.

The measure is primarily aimed at part of the health-reform law that will eventually require people to buy health insurance or face financial penalties — a concept known as the “individual mandate.” Republicans in Tallahassee and other state capitals have launched numerous efforts to allow people to opt out of the requirement since the Democrat-controlled Congress passed it last month.

At the same time, Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum has launched a separate legal battle challenging the federal law. That lawsuit is pending.

Democrats have repeatedly argued that the legislative attempts to allow Floridians to opt out of the federal law would violate the so-called “supremacy clause” of the U.S. Constitution. That clause generally gives precedence to federal law over state law when conflicts occur.

“We should not step on the United States Constitution, and that’s what you are doing now,” Davie Democrat Martin Kiar said during the House debate today.

But supporters dispute that the supremacy clause bars the state from allowing people to avoid the individual mandate. “The supremacy clause does not say the feds control the states,” Melbourne Republican Ritch Workman said.

Supporters also say that even if the proposal ultimately is found to violate the supremacy clause, it would remain in place to protect Floridians from future state health-care requirements. As an example, it would prevent Florida from approving coverage requirements similar to those in Massachusetts.

More broadly, however, Palm Harbor Republican Peter Nehr said it is the Legislature’s duty to “step up and reassert the rights of Floridians.”

St.Louis Tax Day Tea Party 04/15/2010

Be a Liberty Evangelist

St. Louis Tea Party Coalition

The time for standing in a park and yelling is almost over.  The country needs your boots on the ground right now.

The tea party lives and breathes to make a difference at the ballot box.  We fight to destroy the left. We’re not a garden club that meets once a week to admire each others tulips.  Yet, on Tuesday, in a year that is supposedly overflowing with conservative emotion, only 18 percent turned out to vote in St. Louis County.  And most of them were liberals!

As Dr. Gina Loudon noted, “Every tax increase on the ballot  . . . passed.”

Image: Battle of Mobile Bay

So, I have to ask:  Are you going to fight for your country like a patriot, or are you going to let the communists end the American experiment? On their terms?

I think I know the answer.  But it’s time to act. 

We need to build an army of soldiers.  Soldiers who are willing to be trained.  Soldiers who will recruit more soldiers. Soldiers who will march door to door, into malls, and through parks and fairs spreading the word of freedom.

We need an army of Liberty Evangelists. 

Will you be one? 

Here’s what we need:

• Update your information by clicking here.  Please provide your interests for volunteering, your cell phone number, and your zip code at minimum.
• Commit to getting five friends or family to join the Tea Party. 
• Attend Liberty Evangelist training in your area when it’s offered.
• We need 10 patriots to pledge $1000 each to fund the start of this campaign.  We’ll get other donations later. This is to create training and tools for the Liberty Evangelists.
• Be ready to march.

I will sound the call to arms again at the Jefferson County Tea Party this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Arnold City Park. 

(BTW, if your name is not on the top line of this email, you need to update your account settings. 

Why is this so important?

As I’ve said for a long time, now, if we do not make a HUGE difference in Congress this year, the 2012 elections may not matter.  America’s life or death election is less than seven months away, and frankly, we’re not ready yet.  We proved that on Tuesday.  

But we will be ready in August and November.  I know you won’t let your country down. I know you won’t let this remarkable year of grassroots uprising be for naught.  I know you will rise to the occasion.  

Next week, my oldest son leaves for Navy boot camp.  He’s the third generation to make that lonesome, frightening journey.  He’ll do well, I know.  He’s an American, and soon to be an American fighting man. 

We are all American fighting men and women.  Every one of us.  We have in our being the stuff of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin. Farragut and Patton.  And we KNOW that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that when some s.o.b. tries to take away those rights, we will RISE UP and JOIN with our fellow Americans to SLAP DOWN that tyrant like a yappie dog!

Well, folks, that tyrant has come.  That tyrant has three heads–Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.  We are going to smack that tyrant down, but we need the tools to so.  One of those tools is the Army of Liberty Evangelists, and YOU are ONE of that ARMY.

Join now.  Evangelize liberty.  Recruit your friends.  

Damn the torpedoes, Smedley; full steam ahead!  

Sincerely,
Bill Hennessy

P.S.  This weekend’s Tea Party events in Collinsville, Il, featuring BigGovernment.com editor-in-chief Mike Flynn, and in Arnold, MO, featuring Dana Loesch, are important events, not to be missed. This is the kick-off of campaign season.  Please take a couple of hours to get prepared for a tough year of battle against the forces of forced collectivism.  We need YOU, your family, and your friends involved to win. Please don’t let America down.

Copyright (C) 2009 St. Louis Tea Party Coalition All rights reserved.

“Others want to know why I am voting against it.”

 

This week my offices have been inundated with thousands of calls, emails and faxes about H.R. 3590, the Democratic majority’s health care bill.

Some people want to know more about what is in the bill. Others want to know why I am voting against it.

That’s why I’ve released a series of short web articles on the 2400 page health care bill, describing some of my concerns about it. Check out:

H.R. 3590 – Individual Mandate

H.R. 3590 – How much will health care reform really cost? 

H.R. 3590 – “Pay or Play” Mandate

H.R. 3590 – Reconciliation: Just the Facts!

H.R. 3590 – Sweetheart Deals

H.R. 3590 – Abortion Funding

You can also visit my website for more detailed information about the health care reform principles I support and alternative legislation I have co-sponsored.

Right now, it looks like a vote on H.R. 3590 will occur on Sunday afternoon. I will be working through the weekend and getting you the latest details via Facebook, Twitter & my website.

Thank you for your input during this important time for our country.

 Sincerely,

W. Todd Akin

A courageous Colombian man standing for the liberty he came to this country for.

St.Louis Tea Party’s First Birthday

St.Louis Tea Party’s First Birthday was attended by more than 1500 American Patriots. People Gathered on the Steps of the Gateway arch to celebrate the accomplishments of the Tea Party’s First Year.

Dana Loesch.

Bill Hennessy.

James Stewart.

Jim Hoft.

Michelle Moore.

Jon Burns.

Stephanie Rubach.

Dr Gina Loudon.

America is Good, repost because I like it.

America is Good.

Why is this a controversal statement? Why are there Americans who believe it to be false? Human beings cherish Freedom above all else..for themselves, for the neighbors not so much. Like the kids in the back seat ” Bobby’s touching me!!” we can’t leave each other alone.
Our Founding Fathers gave us the Constitution, a document that states what the Government can and can’t do. It limits what government can do. Our president says the constitution doesn’t go far enough. Not only should it say what government can’t do to us ” But what government must do on our behalf”…
Freedom.
Leave me alone.
Let me succeed on my own.
Or FAIL on my own.
Stop touching me.
America is the only country ever to grant this much freedom to the average citizen so how can someone say that america is NOT good? Perspective?
They look at america and see rich fatty fat so’s that don’t deserve what they have. They look at poor country’s on the tv and they see little kids playing in the sewer running down the middle of the street. emotionally that’s not fair. It must be America’s Fault.
Before our constitution every country in the world was run just like that poor country on tv. It’s not america’s fault.
A book called ” the five thousand-year leap ” states that our constitution propelled our country forward by allowing average citizens the opportunity to succeed or fail without limits.
Our Government feels the need to do its job, I would be much happier if they would just sit and do nothing, They must look busy or else we might not need them.
America left alone, the people can take care of themself, The more the government does the more it messes it up.
Oh and that Obama money your waiting for is going to come out of your OWN back pocket.