<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58986991015969299</id><updated>2011-07-08T04:57:03.781-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Glimmers Of Hope</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://glimmer-excerpts.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/58986991015969299/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://glimmer-excerpts.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Andrew Lawrence</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/marglas/als-hat-3.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58986991015969299.post-9042006271090543109</id><published>2009-05-25T11:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T08:55:13.202-08:00</updated><title type='text'>the excerpts</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;Glimmers Of Hope&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa199/andls/glimmercover-150.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;by Andrew Lawrence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The book that exposes the radical liberal agenda&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;available at amazon.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;excerpts ...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Introduction&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I am not a prophet, false or otherwise. Nor do I think I am a prophet. I do not have “visions” nor do I hear strange voices in my head. Can I predict the future? Sort of. What I did in “Glimmers Of Hope” is look at trends that are happening now and then projected the outcome of those trends based on those trends continuing. Obviously, things change, trends change and that makes any prediction subject to a wide margin of error. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Predicting the future is not reliable science; there are too many variables. Predicting the future is more like life planning; looking ahead and planning your life accordingly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The predictions of the future in this book are based on my lifetime of knowledge, experience and forecasting skills. Like life, the future is not set in stone. Anything can happen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size=5 color="green"&gt;&lt;/hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Past, present, future&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The past&lt;br /&gt;I was fortunate to have grown up in America when individual freedom reigned, where individuality and independence was a given, where government interference was not wanted and not tolerated, where education, hard work and merit determined your future. Yes, there were problems. Yes, there was injustice. America was never a perfect place; it was always an experiment. An experiment in freedom … freedom of, and for, the individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The present&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, those days appear to be gone. Replaced by an agenda, an agenda of big government and far-left extremist control over every aspect of American life. YOUR life. It is this agenda, this political plot, if unchecked, that may destroy America by the year 2020.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, in 2009, among other things, America is being taken over by the far-left and most Americans are too busy - or too tired - to see it happening or to do anything about it.  Too busy, too tired or too confused to protect themselves against those that would rob them of their money, their individual freedom and their future. Rob them of the American way of life. Rob them of the promise of the American Dream and the opportunity to earn it and live it. If not stopped, this far-left liberal Agenda will strip away everything that made the U.S.A. into the great promise of the world; America - the land of the free and the home of the brave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The future&lt;br /&gt;I only hope other Americans, enough Americans, wake up in time, wake up and see the approaching future, the possible end of America, and stop the agenda. I only hope it’s not too late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s why this book was written.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size=5 color="green"&gt;&lt;/hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is the “Agenda”?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Agenda” is a plan that includes extremely radical changes that certain powerful left-wing liberal politicians and other highly influential far-left liberal individuals and institutions in America want to impose on the American people. These changes determine what you can and can’t do in your business life, your political life and your personal life. These radical changes involve controlling your behavior, income, education, standard of living, medical care, personal spending, environmental usage and virtually ALL aspects of your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The agenda is: to take over America. To take over America and take away your individual rights and freedoms and replace them with a government imposed reward-and-punishment system, government mandates and government control over YOUR life, YOUR liberty and YOUR pursuit of happiness. And, in exchange for giving up your individual rights, and the freedom to choose how you live, the government is supposed to provide you with “everything” you need. “Everything” being defined, not by you, but by the government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agenda is an Americanized version of socialism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic socialism is defined as the government owning and controlling a country’s means of production, i.e. production of goods and services. Socially, socialism is government control over the behavior of its citizens. Political socialism is the political system whereby the politicians make the rules of society, and rewards and punishments are arbitrarily and dictatorially determined by how well you follow these rules. Socialism stifles or takes away individual merit, individual choices and independence, and replaces them with forced uniformity, forced sameness and forced obedience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size=5 color="green"&gt;&lt;/hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conspiracy or stupidity?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Agenda, is it conspiracy or stupidity? I am not a big believer in conspiracy theories. Nor am I paranoid. I do not subscribe to the idea that a group of  rich and powerful people (left-wing or right-wing) are secretly planning to illegally take over the world. I do believe that people can be astonishingly ignorant or amazingly stupid or wildly misguided or seriously short sighted (no matter how much education they have). I do believe that is the case with those who support the Agenda, an agenda that will destroy the economic, political and social fabric of America. I’m also of the opinion that extreme liberals have good intentions and truly want a better America, a nicer America, a fairer America, a more equal America, a cleaner America. An ideal America. Unfortunately,  though well intended, every item on the far-left Agenda is foolish, childish, not based in reality and, worst of all, will not work. Instead of making America better, the Agenda, if allowed to continue, will soon destroy America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” &lt;br /&gt;                                                     - old proverb&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under normal circumstances, if implemented, the extreme liberal Agenda could be allowed to play out … and fail. However, this time, if the Agenda is allowed to go forward, it may well be irreversible and may well cause the total collapse of America by the year 2020.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may well be the most dangerous time in America’s history. Because, this time, the danger comes from within. This time the danger comes from the government itself. Who is the government? WE are. We, the people, are the government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, we the people, are allowing our country to be taken over, and destroyed, by a far-left liberal minority. Whose fault is that? We have no one to blame but ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size=5 color="green"&gt;&lt;/hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="=1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It’s time&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to give the far-left liberals in America a taste of their own medicine, using reality, logic and facts to expose their extremist ideas as un-American. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to expose far-left liberals for what they are; elite, arrogant and unrealistic … in the extreme. It’s time to expose them as the hippo-crits they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to speak out. It’s time for action. It’s time to stop them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to resist their efforts to take over America and take over our lives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to take back our country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size=5 color="green"&gt;&lt;/hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;Glimmers Of Hope is a must-read book for every American who values their freedom and their future. 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