Hurry...Last Day To Take The Founding Fathers Poll

Tomorrow is the last day to take the Founding Fathers poll.  Who is your favorite?  Let us know!!

Amazing Talent: Rhodes Design Group

Bringing Nichola Originals to market and defining the brand Stand Up. Be Read. TM, has been a collaborative effort on many fronts and involved many players. It all started with an idea and Rhodes Design Group was able to convert it into graphics and scope a brand. They are amazing at what they do!! Find out more about them and their work at

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A New Day in America?

And so its the morning of Monday 3/22/2010. I woke up feeling different, like someone died and I know I won't 't see them again. Its a new age in America, freedom as we knew it will never be, what will it bring? History tells us what it will bring. I don't want to believe it....I don't want my children to experience it...I don't want to change my business practices because of it.... All these feelings swirl because I'm being forced to give what is mine and give it to someone else. But don't I do that already willfully and gladly? Don't most Americans do that already?

The Health care Bill is not about better health care it is about forced charity: in the definition of Pelosi - bundled up and packaged as if it is the continuation of the Founding Fathers' will. Please don't insult my intelligence. You couldn't be more wrong. This is so against their intentions and declaration when the United States of America became an independent nation. What Pelosi said last night didn't make sense, to combine the goals of the Health care bill with the Founding Fathers and Constitution. So much so, that she stumbled and had to look back at her notes. I was embarrassed for her.

Another quote from Ronald Reagan....

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist.'

Obama and Pelosi refer to Democrats voting for the bill as being for the people's welfare and Republicans who don't vote for it, well, they are just out for themselves. How wrong you are!!! No one became self reliant being given entitlements and handouts all their life....but those who are given opportunities to create themselves and earn an honest living excel.

Lets hope...hope that we can find a way back to a free America, free to make choices for our own lives, choices for our own children, choices to give and be charitable in our own way.

Verify, Then Trust

9 votes needed here, 13 votes needed there....and amoung the circus it's not about the policy but about who can be bought and bribed. So sad...and I ask, how did we get here.

Today I read a little about Ronald Reagan and his relations with the Soviet Union. During which he used the phrase Trust, but Verify...he used that phrase alot especially when dealing with the Soviet Union and when asked why he always repeated the phrase, he responded "because I like it."

That phrase didn't start with Ronald Reagan and it has been used by lots of people since. I feel much the same as Reagan felt working with the Soviets, but it is with my country's leaders. We, the people, took our eye off the ball and blindly trusted our leaders, never feeling the need to verify; after all we had the protection of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on our side.

Look where we are now. Politicians gasp at the notion that we the people are now asking the tough questions and demanding to be heard. It is amazing to see the disregard to states' rights and the noise about how they, politicians, are the grantors of the people's rights. I feel like this country has been sucker punched by both side of the isle!

I also like the phrase trust, but verify; but I'll twist the phrase around a tad - verify, then trust...with a watchful eye.

A call to action: Let's assemble, rally, and pull together to turn this ship around and get this country back on course. Then vote for leaders who have demonstrated and verified that they govern based on Constitutional principles and who honor this country's place in history.

Will Our Country Transform This Week?

Its time to push harder, fight with more viligance...get the phone lines fired up with calls to your representatives!! There is no time to waste!!! CAll NOW!!!

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No.1, December 19, 1776

Ready, Set, Launch...

Its count down to the launch of our new website! See a preview at http://www.standupberead.com/. Our photoshoot was a success thanks to our fabulous models (nothing but the best...true all American young adults - Macy, Kelsey, and Kevin) and Hollie Lytle of Lytlefoto, http://www.imageryforlife.com/ for capturing the story!!

Soon the site will be graced with the Faces of Stand Up. Be Read.TM and stories of young adults taking a stand to restore American ideals.

Samuel Adams: The Rights of the Colonist 1772

The Rights of the Colonists by Samuel Adams, 11/20/1772 brought tears to my eyes knowing how close we are to loose the Republic and all for which our Founding Fathers fought. But it also brought hope in my heart knowing that the few leaders who have been fighting the honorable fight now have the power of the people behind them to push back the transformation. We've all heard the phrase 'the sleeping giant has awaken'...we must stay awake, stay alert, be viligant, question with boldness, assemble, be heard!!!

The Rights of the Colonists by Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting 11/20/1772
http://www.constitution.org/bcp/right_col.htm

Cradle to Grave Agenda

I've come across this quote many times and it is so true. Take the emotion out of the issue and look at the wasted money pouring into programs ill utilized on those who have become dependent on the government with no motivation to support themselves and improve their life style. Stop the government's cradle to grave agenda already!!

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766