American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Opposed to Obama-Care

I found this great site today for the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. They are strongly opposed to Obama-care. There is a wealth of good information at this site. (By the way - did you know that only about 20% of physicians are part of the AMA. So, their endorsement of this Health Care legislation doesn't really reflect what most physicians are thinking.)

http://www.aapsonline.org/

Health Care Action Plan from Teapartypatriots.com

http://teapartypatriots.org/HC.aspx

Check out this excellent source for action items to do this week from the comfort of your own computer screen. You might want to subscribe to these folks because they are a great clearinghouse of up to the minute actions of congress. I'm impressed!

Too Late for Blueberry Sign Up

Ketchikan TEA Party Patriots will NOT be doing a booth at the Blueberry Festival on August 1st.  There were no spaces left and we are 11th on the waiting list.  

The next event will be a tea party on Sept. 12 in solidarity with the Washington D.C. TEA party.  In the mean time we need a planning meeting.  If anyone has any ideas please let us know and please come to the next meeting on Monday, August 17th at 6:00 P.M. Jeremiah's at the Landing.

Keep writing your legislators in the mean time!  Just because they are putting off the health care bill until the Fall doesn't mean we can let up on the pressure.  

National Petition Drive about healthcare

I just heard about this one on SRN News. They are hoping to reach 1 million signatures before Monday. I hope they do! Here's a link to see if you agree.

Please take a minute to sign this petition keeping Government control OUT of healthcare.http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/

Government health care is an oxymoron

On Wednesday last week the article “It’s Not An Option” in Investor’s Business Daily was startling.

“It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision Govwould indeed outlaw individual private coverage.” The article explains that we would be allowed to keep our existing coverage, but we won’t be able to switch to another carrier if moving to another job. And because the government plan will be cheeper than most carriers, businesses will switch to the government plan anyway. By attrition we will all be moving to the government plan.

We were promised otherwise.

We were also promised that this would make health care more affordable.

What is ironic about this is that Medicare is going bankrupt. For years we have been anticipating the baby boomer crunch that would be overwhelming the system. How would we be able to pay for that influx on Medicare? So, the answer that we have come up with is increasing the number of people on government coverage!?! And indeed, the Congressional Budget Office warned last week of escalating costs. How will we pay for that when we haven’t figured out how to cover the cost of Medicare?

Well, of course, the tax payer will be paying for it in increased taxes. Or patients will be paying for it in rationed care. Maybe a combination of the two. How is this an improvement?

Call your representatives and let them know that this is unacceptable!

As Requested: More Pictures of July 4 Float!

Thanks to Kathy for these wonderful shots from the 4th of July Parade!

KETCHIKAN TEA Party's Mission Statement

The Ketchikan Tea Party Patriots are a community committed to standing together - shoulder to shoulder - to preserve our liberty and Constitutional rights by promoting limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free market capitalism.

All government is designed to serve the will of the people, therefore the people must participate by staying informed, voicing their opinions, and voting.

Our next event(s)

Connie would like to get us together on MONDAY, JULY 20, 5 PM, AT JEREMIAH'S to wrap up the July 4 parade float and get feed back on it and see about us participating in 2 more events:



Blueberry Festival on Saturday, August 1



and an event on Friday or Saturday, Sept 11 or 12 to coincide with the TAX PAYER TEA party march on DC. Please RSVP me at ketchikanteaparty@gmail.com to let me know how many are interested in participating and what your ideas are.

We are also working on a Mission Statement for our ad hoc group. Look for details here soon!

A message to all members of Tea Party Patriots

This came from www.teapartypatriots.org
Connie thought someone might be interested in helping out the national organization:


Our small development team needs help to keep pace with the growth of the Tea Party Patriots movement. We're looking for folks with the following qualifications:
LANGUAGES: ASP.NET C#DATABASES: SQL Server 2005DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM: Visual Studio 2008 (Must have own copy) also need Visual Source Safe to be able to access the project.
These positions are voluntary, but could potentially lead to paid independent contractor positions as funding becomes available. However, we're looking for people who are as dedicated to the movement as we are, and we need to start with volunteers.
If you are interested, please send a brief letter with qualifications to robertkgaudet@gmail.com. Please don't be offended if he doesn't respond. We're all buried in email and doing our best to respond to as many people as possible.
Thanks in advance for your willingness to help at a crucial moment in the country's history. You really can make a difference!
Mark Mecklermark@teapartypatriots.orgNational CoordinatorTea Party Patriots, Inc.
Visit Tea Party Patriots at: http://teapartypatriots.ning.com

WE ARE NOW ON TWITTER!

But I need news! Information! Your favorite websites/blogspots. Please send them to this site or our new email: Ketchikanteaparty@gmail.com

Other websites of interest

I have been inundated with requests for me to post some excellent articles and information from various writers and blogs. Here is a short list of some of the sites you may want to check out:



http://smartgirlpolitics.blogspot.com/ Enough said

http://www.patriotpost.us/ America's most widely read Internet-based publication, The Patriot Post, is a highly acclaimed journal advocating individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. Connie really enjoys reading this site.

http://www.alaskateaparty.com/ They are organized up in Wasilla. Had a rally for the 4th of July and had a crowd of over 1000 from the valley area! They have reached out to other Alaska TEA party groups and want us all to connect with each other to us all motivated to influence politics on the local, state and national level

http://www.pjtv.com/ Libertarian leaning, alternate to mainstream news shows. Sometimes irreverend, always thought provoking.

http://www.heritage.org/ The Heritage Foundation is committed to building an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish. These folks know just about everything there is to know.

http://www.getliberty.org/ A project of Americans for Limited Government, gives you the resources to stand up against the tyrannical government.

http://www.americanthinker.com/ American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. Contributors are accomplished in fields beyond journalism, and animated to write for the general public out of concern for the complex and morally significant questions on the national agenda.



This should be enough to get you started on the road to thinking about where we were, are and are going as a nation.

Thanks to Lisa for these pictures

More pictures from the Parade

Construction of the float pictures:

Our Award from The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce

TEA Party Patriots were awarded "Most Creative" Float for the 4th of July parade. Thanks to Connie for all of the pictures. If you have any you would like me to post, or any video, please send them to teapartyketchikan@yahoo.com

A Great Day for a TEA Party Parade Float!

WE WON!

Wow! What a great day and what a great parade in Ketchikan this 4th of July!

Our "US Constitution" float won the MOST CREATIVE Award from the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce! I will post pictures when I get them this week

We handed out over 1000 US Constitutions with our website on them.

So many wonderful people made this great float happen. Connie will get me a list of names and pictures to post this week. In the meantime THANK YOU all for making this a great, inspiring float!

NOW...we will be posting news about a 4th of July follow up meeting and planning for what we would like to do in the future.

WE ARE GETTING EXCITED!

Reminder! Friday, July 3 we will be building the float at Schmolck Mechanical behind the main store on Stedman Street.

Our line up number for the parade is 41. Thanks to Lisa Murkowski and Don Young's office we have about 1000 US Constitutions to hand out with our website listed on the front of each and every booklet!

Line up time is 11:00 am. Please come out and support this wonderful float that Connie and her crew are working so diligently on!

email me at teapartyketchikan@yahoo.com to RSVP!