Bailey for U.S. Congress - Maryland, District 5

I finally discovered who is running against my congressman Steny Hoyer: Collins Bailey. It concerns me greatly that it was so hard to find him. No one that I asked knew. Several searches on Yahoo and Google for various keywords did not return any links that provided the answer. I found what I was looking for from a Yahoo search yesterday for "republican, district 5, maryland" and the first listing took me to a page at Wikipedia.

After doing my homework about Mr. Bailey, I found him to be on the same page as me with regard to government thus far.

I submited a form to find out more information to volunteer for his campaign. This is what I submitted:

"I want to do all I can to remove Steny Hoyer from office. Please let me know how I can help you defeat him.

I have learned about your positions through the material contained on your website, and find you to be precisely inline with my values, standards, and convictions.

...

I have sent several letters to Benjamin Cardin, Barbara Mikulski, & Steny Hoyer on several subjects including the fairness doctrine, drilling for oil, and the bailout of bad mortgages."

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http://baileyforuscongress.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%27s_5th_congressional_district
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Bailey

Finally An Obama Lie-mail

I've heard Obama say numerously that there are emails spreading lies about him being circulated. However, I've never been privy to any. I thought that with more than ten email accounts, I'd surely have received a few. Finally, I received one. (I am somebody.) The only thing is that it's true. Regardless, I marked it as spam and moved on. However, someone on the list replied to all, and after his remarks, I just couldn't resist.

portion of original lie-mail message:

"Obama The Patriot - Removes American Flag From His Plane

The Patriot  Room
Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:11:07 AM by Bill  Dupray

Barack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total  overhaul of his 757. And as
part of the new design, he decided to  remove the American flag from the
tail...
What American running  for President of the United States would  remove the
symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag  with it with a symbol
of himself..."

reply:

Dear LinksSEO,

I think that you must have a warped sense of right. Obama has removed the
flag, probably for any or all of the following reasons;

a) He is not the U.S. president
b) This trip is a campaign trip as a presidential candidate.

If he left the flag on.. There would be those who would say that he is
parading as a U.S. President. He is trying to avoid any controversy...

GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


my reply:

I don't know who LinksSEO is (I marked the original email as SPAM), but
since someone responded to all, I thought I'd through in my two cents.

Obama doesn't have a chance in hell (well that may be the only place he has a chance) of becoming president of the United States. Whether or not he has a flag on his airplane or not is the least of our worries. He's simply a Marxist; a radical socialist; he believes in big government and the redistribution of wealth; the end to personal liberty and God given
rights. That might be OK for some, but not for me, and not in the USA.
We weren't founded on those principals; and for good reason.

I was thinking of sitting this election out, but with such an audacious
anti-patriot radical in the race, it's become necessary to rally the
people in opposition. I urge all American's to vote against Obama and
vote against all members of the House and Senate that are standing in
the way of freeing our lands and waters for drilling, and not in support
of U.S. Congressman Pence's petition to ban the Fairness Doctrine that
threatens our freedom of speech and press; rights protected by the first
amendment to our constitution. (see http://mikepence.house.gov/FairnessDoctrine) Out with Pelosi! Out with
Hoyer! Out with Reid! Out with Clinton! Out with Obama!

It's our government! It's our land! It's our country! It's our freedom!
It's our liberty!

For our children, and the pursuit of happiness for all mankind!

The time of our comfortable complacency is over. Now is the time to
clean house, elect wise people of integrity, and keep a short leash on
our public servants.

Don't Tread On Me,
Hyrum


Another thing, while we're on the topic. I mentioned the fact about not receiving any of the lie-mails to my wife the other day, and she said that she had received one about how Obama turned down an opportunity to visit the hospitalized troops in Iraq while on his world tour. I told her that it was true, and educated her. She was a little taken back, and just said "oh".

Sergeant Josh - A Modern Day Captain Moroni

One of my biggest heroes ever is Captain Moroni who lived around 60 BC in the Americas. The Book of Mormon chronicles his valiant and noble fight for freedom and liberty in defense of his people and country. The events and political atmosphere in which he lived bears great similarities to our present day. In a time when his country was in the midst of ongoing war with invading neighbors and political turmoil, dissension, and insurrection within, Moroni served as Chief Captain, the highest ranking military official of his country. When he became angry with the leader of the opposing political party, Amalickiah, who sought to replace democracy with kings and nobles, he rent his coat and wrote on it the following words: 'In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children'. He called it "The Title of Liberty", hoisted it up on a pole, and caused it to be raised throughout the land to rally the people in defense of their freedom.

While listening to the podcast of The Mark Levin Show, recorded on July 31, 2008, I heard Sergeant Josh (periodic guest of Mark's show) say the following, after Mark asked him about his voluntary pledge to serve a third time (the two previous times in Iraq, now Afghanistan): "My whole thing is, you know, anything that I can do to keep my little girl, or anyone elses kids to have to fight, you know, 20 years down the road, I'm gonna do." When I heard that, it reminded me of Captain Moroni. Sergeant Josh is the type of man that Moroni was.

"And Moroni was a ^astrong and a mighty man; he was a man of a perfect ^bunderstanding; yea, a man that did not delight in bloodshed; a man whose soul did joy in the liberty and the freedom of his country, and his brethren from bondage and slavery; ... a man who did labor exceedingly for the ^awelfare and safety of his people." Alma:48:11-12

"Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto ^aMoroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the ^bdevil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men." Alma 48:17

We are in desperate need of more men of this caliber. My heart felt thanks go out to Josh and all people now serving and whomever has served in the defense of man's God given right to liberty.

links:
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Captain Moroni
Title of Liberty:
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/46
Character:
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/48#11
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/48#17
Sergeant Josh:
Mark Levin Show:
http://marklevinshow.com

Hero Tribute - Sgt. Ryan Patrick Baumann

A young local (Southern Maryland) hero, Sgt. Ryan Patrick Baumann, has paid the ultimate price and I wanted to honor him here.

He was killed in action on August 1, 2008 while serving his country in Afghanistan.

You can follow the links below to learn about Ryan and his service to America and mankind.

I offered the following words of thanks to the family:

Your son's service to our country and to the people of the world in the fight for freedom and liberty is very much appreciated. He paid the ultimate price for us. We are eternally grateful. I pray for your comfort during this difficult time for your family and offer my sincere condolences. "For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and judgment may come upon the wicked; therefore ye need not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are slain; but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord their God." Alma 60:13 "

links:
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obiturary: http://www.brinsfieldfuneral.com/obituaries/dsp_files/dsp_viewobit.cfm?obit_ID=2472
condolences: http://www.brinsfieldfuneral.com/obituaries/dsp_files/dsp_viewcondolences.cfm?obit_ID=2472

What Steny Hoyer is doing to support drilling

Question to my congressman, Steny Hoyer, Maryland 5th District.

What are you currently doing to open up our lands and waters to drilling for oil and to encourage others in the house of representatives to support the same?

I'll share his response when I receive it.

links:
http://hoyer.house.gov/contact/email.asp - to email Steny
http://hoyer.house.gov/contact - Steny's contact-us page
http://hoyer.house.gov - Steny's home page