Change is the only constant ~Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Let Freedom Ring

July 4th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Independence Day

What does Independence Day mean to you?

Let Freedom Ring!

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Category: Fourth of July | 7 Comments »

Change Is The Only Constant

July 3rd, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

I have enjoyed my time off. We all need to take time to regroup and even recoup from the barrage of typically awful news we are bombarded with on a daily basis. Life goes on and we go along with time knowing that tomorrow is not promised any of us.

I was extremely upset with what happened yesterday in Israel. I wrote on how I felt in I Am Fed Up. I will not reiterate what I wrote suffice to say that it is extremely alarming when I find via reading many news papers online and off, listening to the varying news accounts from local and cable news networks, not to mention on the blogs - that people still do not want to accept the gravity of what has happened in our world. Western civilization does hang in the balance and it is not a matter of how to take action, but when. The question remains how long will so many Americans and people around the world keep their heads in the sand like ostriches and ignore what is going on around us?

I was shocked by the attitude of some very liberal Jews that sympathize with the so-called Palestinians and decry that you cannot throw them out of Israel. Perhaps you cannot, but Israel belongs to the Israelis, the Jews. The Arabs chose to leave in 1948 and it was due to the grace and kindness - the unending compassion of the Jews that allowed them reentry when they simply had the right to say no. But the Jews did not say no and now they are being defiled and killed in the most brutal and heinous ways that are unimaginable - and the world still turns a deaf ear and a blind eye.

The world learned nothing from WW11 - unbelievable as that is, history is once again repeating itself and anti-Semitism is at its highest levels globally since WW11. The world should be ashamed of itself. Instead it applauds the heinous acts of the terrorists - the so-called Palestinians calling the Jews squatters and occupiers giving the terrorist’s a license to kill. The world is no longer a civilized place to live in.

I have some web work to do for a friend I am helping to promote their blog. I should be doing this right now. Instead I am here writing this small essay - a compilation of thoughts, because I am not a quitter. Those of you that know me, know I will never give up the good fight or lose faith in the promise that there are good people still amongst us. But we all must be realistic. This is the end of times. Whether you are a believer or not there are none that can deny that the time is drawing near that this world as we know it will forever be changed.

There are no guarantees in this life except one, and I say it all the time, it is below the name of my blog. Change is the only constant.

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Category: A World at War, Anti-Semitism, Israeli struggle, Jihadi Du Jour | 4 Comments »

I Am Fed Up

July 2nd, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Update: I did not plan to post any more today at all. But the title of this post is also fitting for the atrocity that has occurred today in Israel. When in G-d’s Name will all peoples wake up, not just in the United Stated, but around the world? The terrorists are the reason we have to go through so much security at JFK Airport or at O’Hare Airport - then across the pond there is Heathrow Airport and it is not limited anymore to just airports. The terrorists are inventing new ways by the day to kill Israelis and to kill us! It is because of hijackings and homicide bombers we live in the world as it is today and most of this terrorism originates right from the heart of the Israeli Palestinian that is hell bent on killing and annihilating all Jews and infidels.

A freaking bulldozer was used to kill three in Israel today. That same bulldozer politely allowed a car to pass by and when the woman realized that the bulldozer was headed straight for her to run them over - right before she died she threw her baby out of the car, whom is badly injured as a result. What is next? It must stop, it must end. This is not allowable. When is enough - enough? What would you want done if this happened in our streets of D.C. or New York, how about L.A. or even Chicago? But the world blames Israel and wants her to do nothing? I am fed up!

Please take the time to watch this horrific video of this evil manic Palestinian/Israeli terrorist killing innocent Israeli’s.

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It is not enough to draw blood, but now someone wants me to hemorrhage. Some person, unknown to me stole my email from this site and emailed info [at] foxnewsmail.com. I received an email today saying that this email would be attempted again for delivery over the next 48 hours and there was no need for me to respond.

I did not send this supposed email and again it was about the issue I retracted here on The Hill due to misinformation. The email I sent to Fox was via my private email, not my public email that I use here on the site. So, that means someone is impersonating me and most likely this is why the email is having delivery problems.

I am fed up with both the right and the left. Very few people are talking. Instead many sadly are just attacking. There is no mutual respect today amongst fellow citizenry. But then why should that surprise us considering how depraved society has become in the United States.

So I am taking today off. I am not visiting any one’s blog and I am not writing a thing. I do have some work that I do from my home to generate an income - since I am needed at home to help my husband who is disabled due Degenerative Disc Disease and an Autistic ten year old son.

It is at a point I am enjoying my web work helping another blogger promote their site more than promoting my own.

I will be back ranting and writing my essays tomorrow, but as for today I need a short breather. Just when I thought everything was cleared up, it is just beginning all over again.

Who ever you are come on, let me kick your butt!

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Category: Politics | 12 Comments »

Stop and Pause - No Fast Forward

July 1st, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Many of my dear readers yesterday not only read, but witnessed some of my pain and frustration in dealing with a blogging issue that should have remained between me and the individual.

Since then she has apologized and I hope she apologized to the innocent victims in her onslaught of what she thought was getting to the truth of an issue regarding a picture I was lead to believe to be an aborted fetus born alive.

I still have not heard back from Fox with their response as to why they printed an article called, “Aborted Fetus Born Alive,” with a picture to prove such, then retracted it with a different story surrounding the very same picture.

I do not need to defend my character. I have been blogging for a long time. Those of you that have been along with me on this cyber ride know that I would not have written the article and published the picture if that is not what I was lead to believe. It is disheartening though that Fox has yet to respond, but I suppose that is life and journalism, blogging and reporting - the media - it can all be so heartless at times.

Yesterday’s incident should just be like water off a ducks back. Instead it put a damper on my mood, my blogging and sadly reminded me how easy it is to assume the worst about people so unfairly when we do not even know them or they us. But it is a reality, a fact that this is what writing and blogging is about. Even if you are blogging on cooking there will be someone who will throw a whammy into your pot pie.

Aside from all this, yesterday was my sweet son’s birthday, which we had decided earlier in the month to celebrate today on my dear husbands birthday. So I am going to buy a nice big birthday cake for them both. I will be cooking their favorite dinner for them too.

My son received his birthday present in part last week, which was a video game he had been vying for. He was thrilled when it arrived via UPS. So we decided since he loves having packages delivered that he could pick out a Lego set of his choice that we would order and have delivered.  And yes, in this case it is okay to love your UPS guy! I have known my UPS guy for five years and he is the best and most reliable UPS delivery guy our family has ever known. Even my husband John loves the guy - so that is saying a whole lot.

We are looking forward to the fun day we have planned ahead of us and thanking G-d just to be here - to be healthy - to have each other, and knowing that our love for each other is what really matters.

You know, all the rest of this stuff is just fluff-n-junk. Today I am just going to stop and pause - no fast forward.

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Category: Blog Affairs, Laylaville | 6 Comments »

PETA Decries The Killing of Cows But Do Not Mention The Mutilation of Abortion

June 30th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

ALL UPDATES CAN BE FOUND BELOW AND WITHIN THE ARTICLE POSTED. THANK YOU.

****UPDATE: I understand a person is tracking back her posting on the below picture stating I have lied to many if not all my blogging associates and friends. She complained I did not post her comments. I did not - because I did not lie. Later today I will show that Fox used this picture in an article they wrote back in May 2008 saying that this baby was aborted, but born alive and as such life saving measures were taken to sustain this innocent life. However, a UK online news agency reports that this baby, same picture, was born to a woman at 22 weeks and life sustaining measures were taken to keep the fetus alive. I will get to the bottom of this. I took Fox at their word since they are at the top of their business. If at the end of the day I find that they mislead he public, I will be the first to retract this photo and inform Fox of their error, which I believed. But I did not lie or fabricate anything. I believed what Fox wrote and believed in the photo they used. I do not appreciate anyone who attacks another’s character and calls themselves being honest. This is hypocritical. Look for an update on this topic after I do my own extensive research at around 3:00 P.M. EDT. Thank you to all that have faith in my abilities to report not only the truth, but to admit when I have erred - should that turn out to be the case.

I have been receiving threatening and hateful email for the last several weeks concerning a post I published back in May regarding the left believing they are the rights moral compass. The picture I used in the post is the topic of a feverish furry from animal right groups, pro-abortion groups, and far left loons.

Please read the below update regarding the photo and note that I also changed the photo in the original article that caused this disruption. I most certainly at the time of publishing this picture below was under the impression that this was an aborted fetus.

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I am reprinting the picture below because this is a picture of an aborted fetus that was still viable at the time it was aborted and life saving measures were taken to keep this fetus alive. Nonetheless, the left being true to themselves, deceives the masses and wants the right to believe that is is we whom are the liars. However, the image below comes from Fox, a reputable online and cable news network, that is in comparison to CNN or MSNBC.

NOTE: The above photo is not an aborted fetus as I thought. I apologize for any misunderstanding on my part, but the article I viewed on Fox was different than the one printed. I am still searching for that article, but I believe it was retracted. I would never have published the above photo saying that it was an aborted fetus if that is not what I read, but the article at Fox now says otherwise. As I said, I believe it was retracted.

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l truly am appalled when I realize what great lengths the left will go to in defense of their senseless causes, even that of annihilating a generation of innocence via abortion. PETA does not even recognize that blood bath.

PETA has gone so far as to attack Kosher Slaughter Houses in their quest to save the animals. In this case the cow, which by the way if this cow were not so revered and worshiped in India by the Hindus the majority of India would not be starving to death, because they have a surplus of cows. I am positive PETA loves the Indian Hindus for this “gift” as they would most certainly coin it.

The below commentary comes out of The PETA Files along with a video that follows on their site:

Three years ago, we went inside AgriProcessors slaughterhouse—the world’s largest Kosher slaughterhouse—and uncovered close to 300 instances of inhumane slaughter. Workers at that slaughterhouse were ripping the tracheas out of fully conscious cows and watching them writhe in pools of their own blood. As usual when we uncover this kind of abuse, the company hemmed and hawed and tried to pretend that we were making a big deal out of nothing, but despite their unwillingness to accept responsibility for their actions, we had hoped that the widespread public outrage would convince the company that, even among meat-eaters, the treatment of farmed animals is a matter of serious concern that directly affects the bottom line of organizations which refuse to take it seriously. In 2006, the owners of AgriProcessors opened a new kosher slaughterhouse, Local Pride, in Gordon, Nebraska. Sadly, as this video shows, little has been done to help mitigate the suffering of the animals who pay the price for corporate greed. Click here to learn more. And if you’re unable to get all the way through this video without wincing, you can take a pledge to try out vegetarianism here.

This is a butchered cow head:

l do understand that this is not a welcoming site. However, animals were given unto man by G-d to have dominion over and to eat as a means of not only survival, but also, despite what the food fanatics tell you - for the nutrients that are in many meats we eat today - especially beef. Sorry vegans, but red meat is healthy in moderate and lean quantities as is poultry, fish, and other perhaps not as popular meats eaten today and throughout history.

People worship the animal over human life. Many people think nothing of the butchering of the unborn fetus, a live human being - and it is human and alive, because something dead does not grow despite what pro-abortionists and the leftists would want us to believe.

Lets us take a look below at the aborted and butchered fetus and let us all ask, why PETA chooses to save a cow instead of an unborn innocent child?

This photo is heartbreaking and then this horrific photo of a partial birth abortion:

The leftists want to email me about an aborted fetus that was still viable at the time of the abortion and was revived by a caring medical staff - calling me a liar.

PETA decries the butchering of cows.

Something is very wrong here and it is becoming more evident daily that the depravity of man is merciless.

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Category: PETA, abortion | 17 Comments »

Sunday - A Much Needed Day Off

June 29th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

I need a day off and what a better day than the Lord’s day. This is a day the Lord has made and I will be glad and rejoice in it. I am going to church later this morning and I am going to bask in the presence of the Lord and thank Him for all He has given us all - life with much love.

Have a wonderful Sunday and browse down to read my most recent posts and updates. There too is the archive, which is rich with articles and posts I have written.

Be blessed dear friends and have a wonderful Sunday. I will be back here on Monday as always.

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Category: Politics | 4 Comments »

What the……………….

June 28th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Some people are so small minded and petty it is beyond even trying to reason with them. I received an e-mail yesterday riddled with accusations and hate. The woman did not dare leave a comment here on The Hill as she has on others articles - noted after a Google Search proved she is a hot head. She even referred to herself as a WASP in one comment.

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The so polite and intelligent email. Also, note that I omitted the first part of her e-mail address. But I am sure had I not displayed this much class and allowed it to stand there are many that would have relished in giving this imbecile a piece of their mind.

Her name only showed up two times on my Google Search:

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Such intelligent comments too, oh my:

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She left her comment in reference to an article about U.S. Rep Lloyd Doggett who was injured back in April 2008.

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Flo left her second lovely comment on an article about whether Hillary Clinton was leaving the presidential race or not.

This Flowannabe more or less claimed she would search my family history because she new hers. Ironically she spelled my last name with an ending “s” instead of the “z” as my married name is spelled: Gonzalez. Obviously she may have thought I am Hispanic, but most know that my last name is more Puerto Rican than Mexican. Most also know my husband is an American born Puerto Rican. But since this bimbot wants to search my family history I will give her three clues.

  1. My original maiden name, which should have been Khan, a derivative of Cohen, was changed to Kanas when my great grand father immigrated to Lithuania from Germany.
  2. On my mothers side they are of Croatian decent and Greek since my grandmother’s grandfather was Greek - hence why her maiden name was Prelas.
  3. My final clue is simply this: learn how to spell.

Oh, and by the way, to answer your question - I appreciate the Alex Haley “Roots” - know your family history - but I have long known who my family is and I am extremely proud of them all.

Now for the moral of this, if you do not support Barack “Hussein” then your blog and you are attacked personally.  Actually my being called a “rag” is a first for me.  I believe wringing it out on Flo was worth it though.  The Flobees and Sheehan’s of this world are gifts that keep giving and besides, laughter is good like a medicine.

Lighten up Flobee - life is just too short.

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Category: Insanity Du Jour | 6 Comments »

Rachel’s Story: Part 1

June 27th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Note: All names, dates, places of residence and countries have been changed to keep the anonymity for safety and security reasons.

Rachel was born and raised in Bethlehem, Israel to a Jewish family. While she was in college she met and fell in love with a Palestinian man by the name of Khalid.

From the moment they laid eyes on one another they fell instantly and madly in love. Of course they kept their relationship secret. Rachel’s parents would never agree to her dating a Palestinian. For Khalid his dilemma was different. For Rachel to be accepted into his family she must become a Muslim.

For two years they kept their relationship hidden from their families until they were spied at a local cafe together by Rachel’s Uncle Bibi who immediately reported to her father that he had seen her with a Palestinian male at a known Arab cafe. You can imagine how Rachel’s family felt betrayed after finding this out. They forbade her to ever see Khalid again. But Rachel had other ideas.

Graduation from college by this time was only weeks away for them both. Rachel managed to get word to Khalid that her Uncle had seen her with him at the cafe and told her father. Now they could no longer meet but must communicate secretly through Khalid’s friend Amir.

Via Amir both Rachel and Khalid devised a plan that they would run off together after their graduation. Both applied for passports and both filed the proper forms that would allow them a visa’s into the United States. Once in the U.S. they planned to plea for assylum due to religious intolerance in Israel regarding mixed marriages.

Amir had some underground connections with some sympathetic Fatah members and was able to get them money not only for plane fare, but enough money to sustain them so they would be able to obtain housing here until they could find jobs once in the United States. Everything was going as planned and both were pleased to find out that once in the United States they could marry without any problems and or complications due to their very different backgrounds.

Rachel felt some guilt about abandoning her family as well as Khalid did about leaving his family, but their love for each other drove them to decide to do this desperate act. Both young and naive they believed idealistically that love would over come all and that eventually their families would learn to accept the decision they chose to make for their life course.

So after graduating college, after all the family celebrations, when things seemed to quiet down and the parents of both Rachel and Khalid believed their now grown child would be seeking employment, quietly - discretely - with only one bag in hand for each - Amir met Rachel and Khalid at 1:00 A.M on a Monday and drove them both to the Tel Aviv airport Sde Dov, in the northwestern part of the city where they boarded a flight to the United States. They acted as strangers at the airport, going through customs and boarding the plane. It was not until much later once the flight took off and had a layover at Heathrow Airport in the U.K. did they let their guard down.

Once they arrived on U.S. soil they were free. They both realized they had liberties available to them that they never had in Israel and they intended to make use of these liberties wisely. Their first course of action was to marry, which they did within days of arriving in New York City.

They managed then to secure a small apartment in Manhattan and both sought obtaining assylam in the United States for religious reasons. After some months this was granted them by immigration services.

Both Rachel and Khalid wrote to their families so that they would not worry. Rachel never again heard from her family, they disowned her. Khalid’s family tried to be more understanding and asked him to return home, but when he refused they too disowned him.

All these two souls had were each other and in the early years they clung to each other. Sadly, unbeknownst to Rachel this would change subtly over the years to come and she would live to regret the day she met Khalid.

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Rachel’s Story: Part 11 will posted during this up-coming week.

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Category: A Story Worth Telling | 8 Comments »

Insane Politics

June 26th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

I know I do not need to remind any one of my readers just how insane politics can be. I am at a point where I view very little via even Fox News. It is not only redundant, but many times it is not even informative. Fox on many occasions has been worse than MSNBC with their bias’s on several issue. There is no fair and balanced unless, like I have said so many times, you enjoy sleeping with the enemy from time to time.

Obama has gone way to far in calling James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, to the carpet for his remarks about this political race and Obama. I do not have to remind any of you just how arrogant Obama is. Obama was misquoting the Bible and Dr. Dobson, as a student of the Bible, had to stand up and point out that Obama’s comments were Biblically wrong. To this Obama gets an attitude.

This is a nobody junior Senator from Illinois that sat in the pews of Reverend Jeramiah A. Wright for twenty years on Chicago’s South Side attending Trinity Church. He was not only mentored by him, but married by him, his two daughters were baptized by him - he sat in the pews that listened with eager ears to the bigotry that abounds in so many Black churches today. He also considered the Roman Catholic Priest, Michael Phleger a mentor and an advisor. He hung out with Ayers and only G-d knows who else that has a reputation of bigotry and hate - not to mention anti-American sentiments. Obama’s Pastor Wright endorsed Louis Farrakhan the Leader of Islam in the United States. But Obama has the gall to criticize James Dobson?

It is not just Obama either. John McCain disassociated himself from Pastor John Hagee a known staunch supporter of Israel and conservative values. Why? Because Pastor Hagee said, “The Catholic Religion has sent more people to hell than any other religion.” That is the truth if you follow the Second Commandment, “Thou shall worship no idols before thee.” I think praying to Mary the mother of Jesus or paying for a prayer to St. Jude for whatever qualifies as idol worship - exactly why I am no longer a Catholic, thank G-d.

My point being, who is McCain to tell Pastor Hagee, a Pastor for 50 years now what is religiously correct or not correct? Could John Hagee go there and tell McCain how he should conduct his campaign and stop being a flip flop regarding off shore drilling? No matter what you believe one thing is for sure, religion and politics do not mix.

People claim there is separation of church and state, yet nothing to that effect can be found in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or any amendment thereafter. A letter Thomas Jefferson penned, now called, “The Wall of Separation,” referred only to the separation of the colonies from the Church of England. People need to get their history facts straight.

That being said, if religion was not important to 90% of Americans as the left would want you to believe well knowing that 90% believe religion is important, why the need to separate church and state other than for modern day transgressions like sex, pornography, child rape and murder and every other sick lifestyle under the sun. No one wants to be accountable.

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Category: Barack Obama, Campaign Trail, Christians, John McCain, Politics, Religion | 7 Comments »

The Dummest Question Ever Asked By CNN

June 25th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

How dumb is CNN or should I really ask, how dumb are some American people? CNN has seriously posed the below question. Is Obama black or biracial? Topix has published this question and they have generated 2,711 responses.

Ironically a commenter accused the liberal CNN of trying to create a racial divide. I find that comment disingenuous considering that the race card is only being played because Obama “Hussein” played this card himself from day one. He said he would not be the candidate of race - all the while planning to do exactly that and gender sympathy and garner votes by doing so. But is he really that clever?

CNN: Is Barack Obama black or biracial?

With a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, Obama is the nation’s first biracial candidate for president. The media, however, have continually called Obama the nation’s first major party “black candidate,” saying he could make history as the first “black president.” But is that accurate?

The answer to both questions can be found in reading the 2,711 responses from Americans around the nation.

Yes, Obama is that clever because he knows just how dumb so many Americans are. Sadly the majority of these Americans are not intelligent, illiterate, spell horribly, and swear like sailors. People like this will vote for a man like Obama because they are so naive, do not self-educate, they self-deprecate and believe Obama is their messiah - the answer to change. The sick part is that they really are that dumb and do not realize that he is a Judas, not their messiah.

Race is an issue because Obama himself has made this so. With all of McCain’s political and social correctness the Obama camp made sure to cling to every word and gesture to misconstrue it into some sort of racial slur or bigotry of the worse kind. Yet Obama has made many references to white people and not once does a white person whine or demand that he retract his words spoken.

The arrogance of Obama is beyond tolerable. He himself is a bigot. He cringes at his own upbringing and the fact he was raised by white grandparents. He can tout all he wants that he has Mid-Western values, but the only values he truly has is his self-grandiose ego that tells himself that he is so important.

Liberals are using Obama in just the same way they used Cindy Sheehan. Watch when he loses the election in November, yes watch and see just how quickly they throw Obama under the bus next to Sheehan.

Maybe they can share notes.

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Category: Barack Obama, Campaign Trail, News, Politics | 10 Comments »

Insecure People Should Not Blog

June 24th, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Why in the world do people write soap opera articles ranting and raving about the woes in this nation if they do not believe that what they write will not only be read, but hopefully exact a change? That sort of thinking seems so defeatist and negative to me. It cripples you before one even learns to walk.

In all the years I have written articles, been critiqued, turned down, sometimes published, at times paid for my writings, other times pro bono just to get what I wrote out there - I took the chance that people would either accept or reject my views.

Everyone rants - I rant. However, for a rant to be effective and to bring readers into your world and to also understand where you are coming from you must remain as much as possible - objective. Our feelings are not facts and our thoughts are subject to change depending on the subject, the situation, and what it is you are trying to say.

Perception is a huge factor in all we write. How we perceive what we write and how others reading what we wrote - sometimes, but not always, we find that we can be misunderstood, misinterpreted, but not because the reader is attacking the author. It is the way the reader perceives what was presented. You try your best, but at times you will find that you are not always understood. That’s called life.

Being sincere is not enough. When you write in an accusatory manner, you receive reactions less than favorable. To become indignant and or insulted by others who may not always agree only goes toward proving that the author is insecure. As a writer I must not only believe in what I am writing, but I also must take responsibility for it. Understanding this bit of knowledge you will know that your words affect others either positively and or negatively - sometimes even when you mean well. It’s just the way it is. It is a normal part of journalism, reporting, and blogging. It is only as rough as you allow it to be and or how insecure you feel about what you write and the comments you receive. It takes maturity and wisdom to know when to speak, when to let it go, but more importantly when to educate.

Just because on blogs the privilege of commenting is given credence for discussion that does not mean you must always agree - that you cannot engage in banter and disagreement as long as it is respectful. The problem for most is they are so insecure when they are questioned they lose sight of themselves, their goals, what they wrote and become arrogant and self-righteous - becoming cryptic is not above some blogger’s. I have seen this too often.

Insecure people should not blog if they have not learned the cardinal rule of blogging. By allowing comments you concede to learn to agree to disagree. If you cannot do this then it is best to not blog. Or at the very least turn off your comments if a blogger just cannot handle the notion that someone just might not agree with them. You need to develop a tuff skin. But that is life and if we all agreed, all the time - how boring would that be?

My advice, and I rarely ever give advice on anything here at The Hill, especially blogging, is just this:

If you cannot stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.

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Can Obama’s Money Buy Him Love?

June 23rd, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

Can Obama’s money buy him love? Only time will tell but I thought this was a rather interesting take on that posed question:

As a presidential candidate, Obama has proven he’s “better, stronger, faster” than any other Democrat in the race. He’s the Six-Hundred Million Dollar Man.

As the late Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen once said, “A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking real money.” But what can Obama and the Democrats do with all the money they expect to raise?The post-Watergate campaign rules, one national consultant reminded me, tried to keep both candidates in the general election to the same general level of spending. These rules, written largely by Democrats, were supposed to keep the playing field level by keeping the competition about ideas and issues, not who had the most money.

Is Obama trying to buy the election? He threatens to outspend McCain by six — perhaps eight — to one. Now, rather than engage in a “Great Debate” about America’s future, Obama is trying to win through tactics.

Since Nixon, most candidates have followed a predictable strategy: Run an ideological campaign during the primaries to lock up your base — then move to the center for the general election.

This allows resources to be husbanded for fall campaign spending to increase turnout among people who only might vote — including self-described independents, youth voters and so-called presidential-year voters, who only come out “when it’s really important.”

A Nixon-sized war chest lets Obama smash the mold with a five-tiered campaign appealing to specific voter groups, each of whom responds to messages based on self-identification.

The first campaign will be aimed at traditional Democrats; Obama would have to run this one regardless of money on hand. It needs to appeal to traditional liberals — upper income, highly educated urban and inner suburbanites are already behind Obama — and traditional Democrats, the working class voters who helped Sen. Hillary Clinton win Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In this kind of campaign, the big question would normally be: “Do we run a 50-state campaign like Reagan ‘84 or do we campaign, like Bush and Kerry, based on the Electoral College?” Unlimited money means that’s not a problem — and Obama is free to launch four additional campaigns, the first aimed at Republicans.

His first post-primary TV spot is a case in point. While similar to Bill Clinton’s first ad in the 1992 general election, it does more. One top Republican ad consultant I talked to said, “Obama jumped across the 50-yard line and is now on Republican turf” with that TV spot that speaks of tax cuts and welfare reform. …These appeals will be countered strongly by Republicans who see this approach as disingenuous.”

The next campaign is for African-Americans already excited by the first black presidential candidate. This key here is mobilization, which will occur largely in black churches using faith and values messages and on urban media, driving up turnout while still breaking eight or nine to one in favor of the Democrats.

Another campaign is targeted at Hispanics.

Obama has to go beyond the “Si Se Puede” (Yes, we can) farm workers message and You Tube hip-hop videos and discuss faith and values, pocketbook issues and military service if he expects to appeal to culturally conservative, business-minded Latino voters.

These voters gave George W. Bush 44 percent of their vote in 2004, but they don’t like party labels and, candidly, don’t much like the Republicans these days either after the congressional GOP’s ham-handed attempts at anti-immigrant immigration reform.

The last is the biggest long shot: evangelicals, and Obama is already reaching out to them. Though thought of as “extremely conservative,” they are broadening their concerns about social justice issues and the environment. Their new-realized concerns intersect with Obama’s message, creating a coalition of interests that could prove useful.

Well, truth be told it seems money can buy you almost anything these days - including love.

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Sunday Edition: Blacks Need To Stop Lying

June 22nd, 2008 by Layla Elizabeth Gonzalez

I am calling Whoopi Goldberg out on the carpet. Last week on The View she made remarks while Michelle Obama was a guest stating that most Blacks seen on television are viewed as having a gold tooth or a space between their teeth and are thugs. Okay so that is her opinion. But just today I viewed a commercial for one of the top brand makers of Blackberry’s making political satire out of the Bush Administration. The commercial depicted Condaleeza Rice as having a space between her teeth and one of them was gold. I found the whole commercial offensive, and distasteful - not to mention completely disgusting. Of course the leftist slant was so evident you would have to be deaf and blind not to get it.

Now if this particular commercial was poking fun at Obama and his not so lovely wife, Michelle, the world would be coming to an end until the commercial was pulled, apologies made and all people involved were fired. But this is how it is in our leftist society that calls wrong - right and right -wrong.

I am weary of hearing both Blacks and Whites on the both sides of the spectrum saying this is an historic election because Barack “Hussein” is a Black man. Obama is only partially black, like a quarter black only. He is majority White and Arab. There are dark Arabs but they are not considered Black.

Another case in point is Spike Lee of Jungle Fever fame who managed to find another White man to blame. Lee implied Clint Eastwood, Hollywood icon, was being racist because he failed to star any Blacks in his recent WW11 epic. Spike Lee knows right well that Blacks were discriminated against in the military up until the end of WW11.

I said many times that it is absurd that Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice are not revered and respected amongst Blacks. No, instead they are “Uncle Tom’s” and the kissers of White mans butts that do not deserve respect from the Whoopi Goldberg’s of the world. And by the way, for a woman who came out of the ghetto to make millions in Hollywood - she is the epitome of proof that you can take the person out of the ghetto - but that you cannot take the ghetto out of the person. Goldberg is as classless as her first name.

Blacks need to do as Bill Cosby suggests, stop blaming White people and take responsibility for themselves. It begins first with oneself, it takes education, it takes morality and strength - then you pass this down to your children who will hopefully continue the cycle. No one gets a free pass.

Obama uses the race card as does his classless wife. When she was hosted on The View, at the end of the segment instead of doing a high five like most women of the times with no class do, she did what is commonly done in Chicago amongst the classless thugs. Ball up your hand in a fist then go around the group hitting the other persons balled fist.

I can just see Michelle as First Lady greeting dignitaries with a fist full and Obama cringing at the National Anthem with his hands at his sides instead of the right hand on his heart. Both of these individuals are supposedly educated. Yet both display classless actions that are completely inconsistent with that of an education at the prestigious Harvard.

So it is time the Blacks stop lying and calling it like it really is. It was a Republican President that set them free and died for it. Abraham Lincoln. Blacks throughout American history have made much progress and history many times over - but Obama is not the Blacks road to success and change any more than Whoopi Goldberg is the voice for change.

Blacks need to quit listening to the party of lies - the Democrats - that always promise the world, but deliver nothing but disaster and higher taxes.

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