H1N1, The Fishy List and Lots to thinks about

My blog and tweets have been silent lately. My thoughts have been consumed with the many stresses of life. For me to say that the last two weeks have been stressful would be a small statement compared to the reality.

The title of the Blog reads like the latest Fox News Headline. I wish it were and not, MY life. Let me begin to explain.....Our oldest son went back to school, in the first week we were faced with some difficult decisions, that required special testing and not much time for review. The decisions we make affect his entire school career, so they were very important. He handled the situation/schedule changes very well and in the end he showed us all just how brilliant he really is. We are so proud of him. Although, it took a toll on his body. Thursday, he came home and that night began to run a low grade fever. The same day, the school sent a message to all students that there had been a case of H1N1 at our school. We took him to the doctor the next day. They have been advised to test for Flu, but not specifically for H1N1. If they test positive for Flu they assume it is H1N1, because they say it's August and the regular flu isn't here yet. So.........I guess he had it, and we were case number two. We were shocked and the doctor was shocked, he really wasn't that sick then. He did get a little worse but nothing terrible, the fever was the worst of it. Praise God, the rest of the family seems to be doing great, we are a little run down but no fevers. Following the CDC guidelines he will be out of school until next Thursday. So we have that news headline covered. Ughhhh!

Now......"the fishy list." I am sure you have heard of it on the news. Obama's administration wants people to report others for " fishy information" on health care reform. I believe that I am on that list.

I am a new start up blog and as most of you know, I write about freebies, babies, review products I like, and try to help others by sharing things that help me. I also write about the power of God in our lives. On July 25th I shared a post I read by another blogger about the health care plan. As I wrote then:

I was doing my regular web surfing and I came across the guy who is a guru of iphone hacking. I was reading an article from MacWorld and he can hack a 3Gs Iphone in less than 2 minutes. He is absolutely brilliant. I was impressed.......I can't hack anything but my childrens' hair. I noticed on his website he had written about the Obama Healthcare plan and he included a link to see the bill. So I wanted to share it with all of you. His name is Jonathan Zdziarski and I appreciate him putting this out there it is very interesting and scary. Here is what he wrote.

Then I followed it with his bullet points line by line through the health care bill and a link to the bill its self. I am an average American mom trying to drudge through the bureaucracy to the truth. I looked all over the web to try and get information on the health care bill that is so hotly debated on every news station, and any information, both "good" or "bad", has been difficult to find. You don't know who to believe. With all of the news of the members of the House and Senate being investigated on many levels, all of the banks bankrupt, people losing their homes and the housing market upside down, the car industry belly up, America is now in trillions of dollars of debt, and now to think of changing health care to a government system? Who do you trust? I want to trust our President and pray that he would truly do the right thing for our country. I do pray for him and his family. However, I have taken down that blog post. I am shaken and here is why.

On August 5th I received a comment on my blog in rebuttal to the original post. The writer seemed very knowledgeable. Remember, I am looking for the truth so I think it fair to have any one's opinion. I leave the comments and don't think much about it until,... I see on the news that a information TZAR is actually taking names of people like myself who post something opposite to the information they want me to have. At that time, I look back at the analytic information to try to determine where the post originated. I can't see who wrote a post unless they give me that information, but I can narrow the field down to where a post most likely originated, because I don't have a huge deluge of readers yet. The person did put their first initial and last name. I was able to see that there were 3 visits to my site from Washington D.C.! The third day was on August 5th, the same day the rebuttal comment was left. I was shocked! Someone in D.C. felt it important to correct me, and although I can't be 100% sure with my limited resources, it is more than ironic that the comment originated from there. What would you think?

Well, if the person is affiliated with our government and commenting on my blog.....that is a communistic move, not democratic. No longer is it a person's opinion, or impartial information, but a push of propaganda. It is also very, very scary. Especially in light of the request from the White House to target people by taking their names if they are "fishy." What is the purpose in that? What will they do with my name? If a normal citizen comments, that is much different than the highest office in the world,"The President of the Free World", making a list of people who oppose him, or correcting information he doesn't like. If the White House wants to give good information, they need to put it out on the Internet themselves (labeled from The White House) so we all can reference the facts; to set the record straight, with straight answers to each line of the bill. Why try to squelch free speech and opinion or even try to control free information on a blog?

So you can see, I have had a lot on my mind. I am not a politically active person and I don't want to be. I do care about my family and the things that impact our lives, and I worry that the rules are changing. I can't believe that the sheer innocence in looking for information from many sources is being threatened. You may ask yourself why this matters to you because you may not write a blog, publicly voice your opinion, or like me, pass along the information you find. I have a few quotes from Thomas Jefferson I would like you to think about:

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."