Friday, September 14, 2012

Watching the "Mitt the Man" Glenn Beck show today. I will share what happened as it goes along: Glenn starts with what we have heard from the media. The dog story, the rich guy... He wanted Mitt last time because of finances, this time he was Glenn's third pick. Mitt has not been to Glenn's show for years and he is not here to do his bidding but Glenn says he will tell the truth...

We have heard lies over and over again even through the lie of omission which lie the MSM is guilty of today. The story of Romney is amazing. Obama talks of being his brother's keeper, but leaves his brother in a hut. Mitt doesn't just dig into his big pockets, he helps people in all his ways.

Then Glenn runs down all attacks against Mitt, does not support the troops, no foreign policy, no concern for minorities, keeps his money overseas, thinks corporations are people, tax cuts for the wealthy, won't reveal tax returns, and outsource jobs. Let's try out nonfiction, Mitt doesn't like to toot his own horn. Here are some stories the MSM just must have missed.

In the mid 1990's, Mitt closed up shop and headed down to New York to look for an employee's lost daughter. He flew 50 people down to New York to look for her. He set up a command center and printed up flyers to help find her. They found her in a situation, in the basement of a teenage boy who was hiding her from his parents and she was high on Ecstasy, that could have been really ugly if they had not found her right when they did.

Compared to George Obama who needed help from someone and turned to Dinesh D'Sousza to help him. He felt he could not ask his brother.

There are many, many stories: The Nixon family had four of their six children in a terrible car accident. Coming home from a Church activity, they were in a total roll over car accident. Both sons were paralyzed and all kids were in three different hospitals. They knew of Mitt but were not friends. He had been their Stake President, but was no longer, the boys had been in rehab late into the fall and were coming home. Christmas was approaching and it had been a fun time for the family in the past but this Christmas they had nothing to give. Mitt called them out of the blue and asked if he could come over to their home and visit with the boys. The Romneys, Mitt, Ann, and their three youngest boys, came over on Christmas Eve with arms full gifts and presents. It was a surprise to the boys and they were in total shock. They stayed with them and opened the presents with them. One of the boys received a boombox and was elated. Mitt continued to help out with fundraising for this family and one day Mitt pulled their dad over and he said he would pay for their whole college education. What were the Romney's doing on Christmas eve? Instead of skiing, instead of vacationing, they were serving others.

Bryce Clark, Mitt was his Stake President. Bryce was an alcoholic and doing drugs. His dad was a big guy in the LDS Church, he runs BYU Idaho. At 19 it was expected of him to go on a mission but he knew he was not worthy and no one else knew. He lied in his interview and later realized he had made a big mistake and set up an appointment to meet with Mitt. He went over to his house and felt like he was in for a dressing down and to be told he was a loser but that is not what happened. He took him into his den and said, I know what you are going to say, let's not talk about that. I want you to know, you are not alone, I will be here for you and you are not the only one who struggles. You are not measured by the good on this side and the bad on that side, we are measured by, "Are we trying to improve?". You being here tonight qualifies you as being a Saint (what a member of our church call ourselves)." Mitt always made him feel better and included. He wrote him letters over the years and was there when he blessed his first child.

When Mitt was campaigning for Senate, he visited a center for Veterans with 500 homeless vets. While there he asked if he could look through the books. He did so for 30 minutes. Then as he was leaving, he asked what they needed. The man who ran it said milk. Mitt quipped, "Well maybe they need to learn how to milk a cow." Well that took off and the MSM ran with it. Mitt later called to apologize for any embarrassment he may have caused and told him he would try and make it right. Then every week the center would receive shipments of milk with the bill paid. The milk man would not tell him who paid it. This went on for months and then years. Finally the milk guy was going to retire and on his last day they convinced him to tell them who it was and it was Romney. He wrote him a thank you note and let him know how he effected 10,000's of vets who were struggling. Then a few years later when Mitt became Governor, he met with him to review their needs and Mitt gave him exactly what they needed because he remembered looking at the books.

Mitt will be the mechanic who will fix this country... Reed Fisher, had a fire go through his neighborhood in the California fires. Matt contacted him and asked if he could help do something for him. He said there is nothing much left but we did have a pine tree stump that needed to be removed. So he told them to come over to help remove that pine tree. Reed went out to get some food for the guys and came back to a black Suburban and among those helping out, was a candidate for the President of the United States, Mitt Romney. Mitt had just jumped into the car as Matt was leaving. I saw that this was a father who could help with his son. He had asked him if he would like some breakfast, Mitt replied, "Maybe later, gotta get this stump out..." Matt expressed to him that he enjoyed the chance to help out because this is something we as boys don't get to do much with dad anymore (kind of the like the other side of the coin that Mitt described at the Convention...just one more chance to work with your dad and be his son.) Glenn wraps it up by saying, If Mitt can do that, I can do better.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Will the Three Branches of the Governemnt Disappear?

Yes I still watch Glenn Beck. I can't stand his taste in Presidential Candidates, but he and those who work for him are good sources of information. Yesterday was a good example. I watched Glenn's report on a Gallup poll from 2011 which ranks institutions that people trust: Glenn's article These stats caught my eye: Great deal%/Somewhat%/Very Little%... The U.S. Supreme Court 37/41/20...The Presidency 35/ 28/36...Congress 12/40/48 This poll was taken in June 2011. Think about what has happened the past nine months since then. What do you think the numbers would be today? What is going to happen when the Supreme Court overturns bad law in the Healthcare bill? Congress is now a laughing stock because they have not passed a budget, their whole reason for existing, since April 2009. When was the last time they declared a war before we sent troops via the White House? Who is really jazzed by the constant nit picky details about the President? Remember when we went weeks without hearing about George W. Bush and we were fine with that. My conclusion yesterday was that we are being set up to hate our three branches of government to do what? Replace them.