News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Friday that White House criticism of commentators on his Fox News television channel had served to "tremendously" increase their ratings.
"There were some strong remarks coming out of the White House about one
or two of the commentators on Fox News," Murdoch told the annual
meeting of News Corp. shareholders here.
"And all I can tell you is that it's tremendously increased their ratings," he said. (Breitbart, hat tip R.J. Godlewski)
Muddoch went on to say,"There is a public perception, certainly,
that this government is anti-business," he said. "I'm not saying it's a
correct perception but there is a perception and I think this
perception is hurting the economy. As for the ratings, see for yourself:
Fox dominates third quarter 2009 cable news ratings:
Fox News has pulled off another dominant quarter, claiming the top 10 cable news programs in 3Q 2009 and growing against 3Q 2008, while CNN and MSNBC lost substantial portions of their election-boom audience.
Fox News averaged 2.25 million total viewers in prime time for the
third quarter, up 2% over the previous year. That's more than CNN
(946,000, down 30%) and MSNBC (788,000, down 10%) combined.
"The O'Reilly Factor" led all cable news programs with an average of
3.295 million total viewers for the quarter, up 12% over the previous
year. "Hannity" (2.603 million, up 9%), "Glenn Beck" (2.403 million, up
89%), "On the Record with Greta van Susteren" (2.150 million, up 16%),
and "Special Report with Bret Baier" (1.997 million, up 20%) rounded
out the top five.
Meanwhile, flagship programs at MSNBC and CNN did not sustain their
growth from 3Q 2008: At MSNBC, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"
averaged 1.087 million total viewers, down 12% from the previous year
and "The Rachel Maddow Show" averaged 996,000 total viewers ... (continue reading at Huffington Post)
Full 3Q program rankings below, embedded via DocStoc: (click FULL SCREEN to enlarge)
I am told that the Afghanistan Taliban have sent word to Barack Obama, "Make a deal with us and we will separate ourselves from al-Qaeda." So the ball is in Obama's court. His administration has been floating this trial balloon for several weeks now. Making deals is nothing new. In Iraq we made deals with Sadr, with the sheiks, resulting in the "awakening" and thus leading to the present situation. Will or could this work with the Taliban. I do NOT think so. The Taliban wants strict sharia law, the Iraqis did not. It seems Jesus knew what he was talking about when he warned of building your house on the sand rather than on a firm foundation.
Turkey, long thought to be the model Islamic state: pro-Western, democratic, relatively modern and
secular -- according to Powerline --But since Islamists won control of Turkey's government in
2002, that country has steadily been slipping out of the Western orbit.
A decisive moment came in 2003, when Turkey refused to allow American
forces access to invade Iraq from the north.
Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim
democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and
became a full member of the Iranian axis…On Monday, 11 Turkish government ministers descended on Syria to
sign a pile of cooperation agreements with Iran’s Arab lackey. The
Foreign Ministry didn’t even have a chance to write apologetic talking
points explaining that brazen move before Syria announced it was
entering a military alliance with Turkey and would be holding a joint
military exercise with the Turkish military. Speechless in the wake of
Turkey’s move to hold military maneuvers with its enemy just two days
after it canceled joint training with Israel, Jerusalem could think of
no mitigating explanation for the move. (Caroline Glick, How Turkey Was Lost to the West, Via Instapundit, Murdock Online)
Today a suicide bomber near the Pakistan border killed five senior commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, wounding dozens, and authorities are still counting the dead in what the Washington Post is calling "the most high-profile strike against security forces in an outlaw
region of armed tribal groups, drug smugglers and Sunni rebels known as
Jundallah, or Soldiers of God." Sunni vs Shia.
Reuters is reporting a total at this time of 31 dead, among thosethe deputy head of the Guards' ground forces, General Nourali
Shoushtari, and its commander in Sistan-Baluchestan province, General
Rajabali Mohammadzadeh. Iran's chickens coming home to roost? Update: The Telegraph reports now 49 dead. Iran is blaming the United States and Britain:
Iran has repeatedly blamed both the United States, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan for supporting Jundullah. It has also claimed it has links to
al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
There have also been claims that
Jundullah has American backing through cash allocated by the Bush
administration two years ago to Iranian opposition. The CIA has been
accused of supplying money and weapons to the group.
Britain's alleged involvement has never been detailed. (continue)
The diplomats are feverishly at work behind the scenes: "IRG and GEN Shoushtari being among the 11 critical points, essential to decapitating the
Iranian State, from the top down. The objective: paralysis, under cover of which
who ever is so inclined can move forward. One down, 10 to go." What those other 10 are remains to be seen.
Pakistan has launched another offensive against the Taliban killing 60 militants on the first day of operations. (NPR) The Taliban is fighting back offering heavy resistance and vowing to defeat the Pakistan military: Militants fired on helicopter gunships and attacked Pakistani troops advancing into their main sanctuary near the Afghan border. President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation that triples economic aid to Pakistan, boosting US aid to Pakistan to $7.5 billion over the next five years.
The Taliban and al-Qaeda are not all we need to worry about. Aaron Mannes at The Counterterrorism Blog discusses the Lashkar-e-Taiba - Pakistan's Hezbollah:
One group absent from the concoction of Punjabi groups joining the Pashtun Taliban rebellion
is Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Although it recruits from the same general
area, the other groups are Deobandi (Pakistan’s homegrown Islamic
extremists) whereas LeT is Dar Ahl Hadith, which is basically the
Pakistani-offshoot of the Saudi Wahabis. The theological divisions are
not enormous and there are links. But LeT appears to be more careful
and disciplined in its strategic thinking. It has not been involved in
significant violence within Pakistan and has not taken on the Pakistani
government. It also appears to have independent funding sources
(initial stake money was apparently from Saudi Arabia, but it has since
developed its own fund-raising networks.) (continue reading)
On October 6, members of the Taliban religion of peace sent threatening letters in
Sargodha, Pakistan warning Christian leaders to convert to Islam or
face dire consequences - pay Jizya tax (an Islamic tax imposed on religious minorities) or leave
the country. "If Christians refuse to accept the choices given to them,
the letter explains that they "would be killed, their property and
homes would be burnt to ashes and their women would be treated as sex
slaves."
In Baghdad Iraq, Mustafa Kamal Shibeeb, the Sunni Muslim paramilitary leader's campaign slogan is "Hold on, we are coming" (not to be confused with the old Sam and Dave song "Hold on, I'm coming"). It seems Shibeeb is a fugitive with
murder charges hanging over his head from events at the height of the
U.S. troop buildup two years ago.
Also in Baghdad, hundreds of thousands of Sadrists, supporters the Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr, voted Friday to choose candidates to run in national
elections in January, to restore Sadr's party's
popularity, which was shaken in elections early this year.
In what appears to be good news for Iraq and the US, the U.S. Defense Department says that it's canceling the deployment of
a 3,500-member Army brigade to Iraq in January, amid "improving
security."
It seems there will be a recount of votes in Afghanistan andPresident Hamid Karzai says he may not accept the results, while his supporters began mass demonstrations against "foreign interference". What does this mean for Afghanistan and the US? It seems that John Kerry , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told CBS News
that President Obama's highly-anticipated decision on U.S. military
strategy in Afghanistan hinges on the result of that country's
presidential election.
US President Barack Obama continues to fail to make a decision on the future of Afghanistan. His advisers keep floating trial balloons and the one they seem to favor is being pushed by VP Joe Biden. Biden wants to pull troops out of Afghanistan and be satisfied with lobbing a few missiles from offshore. Toby Harnden in the Telegraph argues thatJoe Biden is the "worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr Wrong". Newsweek and other government media quickly jumped on the bandwagon with articles like "Why Joe is No Joke".
Vice-President Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of history on all the big
questions Want to know how to deal with a momentous issue of war or grand
strategy? You could do a lot worse than check out what Vice-President
Joe Biden thinks – and plump for the opposite.
The Obama administration seems to have time to open up a third front last week with Fox News, and to target Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Obama's brain, Rahm Emmanuel has taken on Fox news saying they are not a news organization because they have "perspective" (video here). Seems Obama has room on his plate to take on the most accurate, most watched news show on the air and the most listened to radio broadcasters, but he can't make a decision on Afghanistan. It also seems Obama has time, along with Maureen Dowd, to express contempt for the Constitution of these great United States.
As I wrote last week, the women and children continue to suffer at the hands of the Taliban. BlackFive shares a personal account "An added perspective on our debate, from an Afghan woman named Wazhma Frogh." If Obama would listen to the Generals and to this Afghan woman rather than Joe Biden, perhaps he would reach the appropriate conclusion. After all, he is the COMMANDER in chief... how about a little decisiveness Obama?
As an Afghan woman who for many years lived a life deprived of the
most basic human rights, I find unbearable the thought of what will
happen to the women of my country if it once again falls under the
control of the insurgents and militants who now threaten it.
In 2001, when the war in Afghanistan began, the liberation of Afghan
women was one of the most important justifications for military
intervention. Has the world now changed its mind about Afghan women? Is
it ready to let them once again be killed and tortured by militants?
Does the world no longer believe in the principles it supported in
2001?
Handing over Afghanistan to those who intend to keep the country
centuries behind most of the world -- to men who do not view women as
human beings -- would not only call into doubt the global commitment to
human rights, it would also raise questions about the commitment of
Western democracies to such rights and to democratic values. (continue reading Washington Post)
The sands are shifting in the Middle East as well as here at home. Time is running out for some serious decisions on the future of America as well as the future of Afghanistan,... and Pakistan, Iran, Israel.
Let me not forget Israel. The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered at the UN Human Rights Council, 12th Special Session Debate on Goldstone Report, Geneva, 16 October 2009 by Col. Richard Kemp.
During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.
Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.
Hamas, like Hizballah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents.
The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights. (continue reading or watch video here, hat tip Israpundit)
Israel is not alone in this media deception, the US has been and continues to be a media target with whom the truth seems to be an illusive mist.
Our future is linked with the Middle East and we need a leader to make the right decisions. Unfortunately I do not believe Obama is up to the task. He seems to continue in campaign mode ... as the sand runs out.
Food for thought:
Here in the US members of the religion of peace are putting needles in pork and sausage, which they won't eat and the infidels will.
White House communications direcor Anita Dunn whines about Fox News for 12 minutes on CNN defending herrecent commentto Time magazine that Fox News is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” : “Let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.” Video from Hot Air.
Noting the inordinate amount of attention Fox devotes to stirring fake controversies like Bill Ayers and ACORN, Dunn explained: (via Think Progress)
The reality of it is that Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.
And it’s not ideological. I mean, obviously there are many commentators
who are conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands
that. What I think is fair to say about Fox is — and certainly
the way we view it — is that it really is more of a wing of the
Republican Party. [...]
They’re widely viewed as, you know, a part of the Republican Party —
take their talking points, put them on the air, take their opposition
research, put them on the air, and that’s fine. But let’s not pretend
they’re a news network they way CNN is.
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Newsbusters does their usual great job of fact checking:
HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR: We talked about conservative
commentators. Let's talk about FOX News. You were quoted in "Time"
magazine as saying of FOX News, that it's "opinion journalism
masquerading as news." What do you mean "masquerading?"
ANITA
DUNN, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Howie, I think if we went
back a year go to the fall of 2008, to the campaign, that it was a time
when this country was in two wars, that we had a financial collapse
probably more significant than any financial collapse since the Great
Depression.
If you were a FOX News viewer in the fall election,
what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and
biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and
something called ACORN.
This is a tremendously
unqualified statement, and easily refuted. Let's do it this way: as
Dunn would later claim Fox was not a real news network like CNN, why
don't we compare how often both networks referred to Ayers and ACORN
last fall?
According to LexisNexis, from September 14 just before the financial
crisis started to Election Day, CNN mentioned Ayers name in 171
segments; Fox mentioned him in 155.
As for ACORN, CNN mentioned
the currently embattled liberal organization during that same time
period in 157 segments; Fox mentioned ACORN in 149.
Nice try, Anita. But that wasn't her only glaring miscue: (continue reading the fact checking at NewsBusters)
No one saw this coming and the reactions are very telling. US President Barack Hussein Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament. The nomination was made after he had been in office for only 11 days. The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on December 10.
"It's not April 1, is it?"- White House aide (ABC)
" ... absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize" (TimesOnline)
" ...the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in
its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely
begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for
peace." --Michael Binyon (TimesOnline)
The decision to bestow one of the world's top accolades on a president
less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major
foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps of astonishment from
journalists at the announcement in Oslo.
"The
committee said today that he had “captured the world’s attention”. It is
certainly true that his energy and aspirations have dazzled many of his
supporters. Sadly, it seems they have so bedazzled the Norwegians that they
can no longer separate hopes from achievement. The achievements of all
previous winners have been diminished. --Michael Binyon (TimesOnline)
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza
Strip and opposes a peace treaty with Israel, said the award was
premature at best.
"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he
can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only
made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And
he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and
Muslim causes." [snip]
Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said: "He doesn't
deserve this prize. All these problems -- Iraq, Afghanistan -- have not
been solved...The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."
Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a
conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an
embarrassing "joke." (Reuters)
We're told by White House aides that the president felt "humbled" by the award. I find that very hard to believe that Obama is ever humbled. Obama is in good company with Al Gore and Jimmy Carter.
For the past week or so the Obama administration, with the help of their media friends, have been force feeding the American public to sway public opinion on Afghanistan. My sources tell me that the White House, Obama and Biden, are willing to live with a Taliban rule in Afghanistan...
"the U.S. is amenable to learning to live with Taliban’s return to power,
presupposing it’s part of a National Unity Government. (based on something
resembling elections.) They will publicly hold that to be an issue for the
Afghan people to decide. ... It has been clearly communicated to the Taliban leadership that continued
attacks on U.S. forces runs counter their interest in supporting those, who wish
to affect a major battlefield adjustment as a result of a change in war
objectives."
Peter Baker and Eric Schmitt, writing in the NYT, on President Barack Obama's national security team moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing that the Taliban in Afghanistan do not pose a direct threat to the United States,
“…The
official contrasted that with the Afghan Taliban, which the administration has
begun to define as an indigenous group that aspires to reclaim territory and
rule the country but does not express ambitions of attacking the United
States.”
A first clear indication to points, previously made. They
go on to reference Hekmatyar:
“…The officials argued that while Al Qaeda
was a foreign body, the Taliban could not be wholly removed from Afghanistan
because they were too ingrained in the country. Moreover, the forces often
described as Taliban are actually an amalgamation of militants that includes
local warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Haqqani network or others driven by local grievances rather
than jihadist ideology.”
While Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has argued for months against increasing troops in Afghanistan because Pakistan was the greater priority, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates
have both warned that the Taliban remain linked to Al Qaeda and would
give their fighters havens again if the Taliban regained control of all
or large parts of Afghanistan, making it a mistake to think of them as
separate problems.
I have questions for the Obama administration. You say there are only one hundred or so al-Qadea left in Afghanistan and they are inoperable. How does the Obama administration know this? And if they do know this, that means they eyes on the ground. You can't count something you can't see. And if they can see the al-Qaeda then they can TAKE THEM OUT if they want to. And if they can't see them, how can they make the claim that there are only 100 al-Qaeda in Afghanistan? It's all smoke and mirrors, it's a snow job. They have no idea how many al-Qaeda are in Afghanistan, how to locate and kill them, and they are not worried about it. They just want to make their voters happy.
27 March 2009: (at the time the small footprint not being
in public domain!)
“… could give the Administration a way out,
if such a fallback option were deemed desirable. Certainly it would help pave
the way for the smaller footprint, which is in the works, with an eye on
Pakistan.”
(…“Moreover, as I am given to understand, at this point, U.S.
engagement in Afghanistan is not based on Afghanistan qua se, but with the
objective of deflecting from the potential threat perception of Pakistan’s
collapse and potential Indo-Pak confrontation. Within this context, the
stationing of a deterrent force/ rapid deployment force is
sensible.”)
In re Taliban one is contemplating to take an approach
similar to the approach one took in 2007, when one de-flagged the threat
perception emanating to Sheik al-Sadr. ... In that light, Mullah Omar is no
longer the primary target of the U.S. military effort, Osama is. WH public
affairs will have to square some circles on this, to make the shift palatable.
To make the shift palatable. That's what is happening from the White House, via the media. Read everything you see in the media with this in mind.
At the National Counterterrorism Center at McLean, Virginia, President Obama said on Tuesday that Al-Qaeda has "lost operational capacity" after a series of recent missile strikes and special forces raids -- “Because of our efforts, Al Qaeda and its allies have not only lost
operational capacity, they’ve lost legitimacy and credibility.” --
but vowed to continue pressing the battle to cripple the network around
the world and protect America from future terrorist attacks. (The Caucus) (Transcript of speech here)
What a crock, but everything Obama does and says is what people should expect from an affirmative action president. Afghanistan is going to hell in a hand-basket, our military is dying by increasing numbers every day. The economy continues to decline and nothing Obama promised to do has come true for his faithful -- yet they continue to lap at his heals.
Thanks does not go to anything you did Obama, it goes to those in our counterterrorism agencies who seem to be doing an excellent job finding the bad guys that plan to hurt us. The bad guys that have training and contact with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and the tribal regions of Afghanistan. You know Afghanistan Obama? The place you will not send the needed troops, the place you will not listen to your own hand-picked general about?
Obama previously called the war in Afghanistan critical to curbing terrorism.
Adam Khatib, Mohammed Shamin Uddin and Nabeel Hussain assisted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, convicted last month of conspiracy to murder,... accused of researching the use and purchase of hydrogen peroxide and possessing materials that could be used for terrorism ... in a conspiracy to launch suicide attacks on transatlantic passenger aircraft. (BBC)
The hydrogen peroxide type bombs are the same thing that recently arrested Najibullah Zazi(24-year-old Afghan immigrant) planned on using with backpacks on September 11, 2009. TATP (Acetone peroxide (triacetone triperoxide, peroxyacetone, TATP, TCAP) is a favorite of Islamic terrorists. More on TATP here. We're told that there are at least 12 others the FBI is watching.
Obama aides pointed to the events leading up to the recent arrest of
Najibullah Zazi as a prime example of what they say is the president's
deep involvement in anti-terrorism efforts. [snip]
"The Zazi case was the first test of this administration being able to
successfully uncover and deal with this type of threat in the United
States," a senior administration official said. "It demonstrated that
we were able to successfully neutralize this threat, and to have
insight into it, with existing statutory authorities, with the system
as it currently operates." (Washington Post)
What if the terrorists in waiting had nuclear material or bombs available to them???
Speaking from a conference of America’s Truth Forum in Las Vegas,
Mr. Hamid Mir says there is “no doubt” that al-Liby succeeded in this task
and that dirty bombs and nukes are now in the hands of al Qaeda agents.
In statements that should send shock waves through the U.S.
intelligence community, the Pakistani journalist adds that Anas al-Liby was
on the campus of McMaster in Hamilton, Ontario between 2000 and
2002. Mr. Mir maintains that “it was not difficult” for al-Liby to
steal “eighty kilos” of nuclear material. (by Michael Travis at The Last Crusade)
Hosam Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian living in the United States illegally,
is charged with plotting to set off a bomb at the base of the 60-story
Fountain Plaza office tower in downtown Dallas. (CNN)
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's number two, uses his latest video message to eulogize Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, an accused terrorist, to slam Barack Obama, and to threaten new attacks. (CNN)
Nice going Obama, our first affirmative action president, while you alienate our friends and embolden our enemies you are also increasing the political coffers of Republicans and Conservatives, you are causing freedom-loving Americans to take to the streets, to run for office, to get motivated to make sure you do not get another 4 years in office and that your plans all FAIL.
White House senior adviser David Axelrodmet with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago, according to Politico. I find this extremely interesting. Could it be that Barack Obama and his advisers are finally realizing their mistake in snubbing Fox News? Perhaps the opposite is true. We know how Obama is and I'm sure he cringes every time someone on Fox News digs up the truth about him, one of his czars, or one of his supporting groups like ACORN. Was this a meeting to try and silence Fox?
... officials have expressed pique with what they consider heavy coverage of Obama critics by opinion shows on the news channel.[snip]
Noting coverage on cable’s Fox News Channel, the Fox broadcast network
declined to carry Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress, or
his most recent prime-time news conference. White House officials did
not like that, but say it is not their primary problem with Fox. (Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/27982.html#ixzz0TBqDZJWX)
No, their primary problem with Fox News is that Fox tells the truth, Fox investigates -- unlike the networks who are in the tank for Obama -- and Fox News reports whatever they find, without prejudice, fair and balanced.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Oath of the President of the United States.
To say that we live within challenging times is an understatement of Ivy League proportions. America is under attack from all quarters – from the Islamists who want to conquer the world, from the progressive liberals who want to conquer the Constitution, from Russia who wants to conquer commerce, from China who wants to conquer technology, and from Iran and North Korea who want to conquer the atom. Despite these seemingly insurmountable challenges, President Barack Obama is under direct oath to “preserve, protect and defend” his nation against these barriers to our inalienable rights. Yet, has President Obama carried out his duties to the best of his ability? Apparently not.
First, to defend something, one has to believe in it. Prior to becoming our 44th President, Barack Obama went on record implying that he was at odds with whether the Constitution mandated redistribution of income in relation to civil rights. Furthermore, he allowed his statements to suggest that he felt that the Constitution was archaic and ill suited to govern modern American values. In fact, the U.S. Constitution is very specific and very deliberate in its power. It limits the influence of government upon its citizens, empowers the individual above the state, and – this is most important – it clearly defines the procedures necessary to alter its content. In other words, one simply cannot redefine the meaning of the Constitution without popular (in both numerical and citizenry terms) approval.
Second, the oath itself limits any President’s function to one of preservation, protection, and defense of the Constitution. Here again, President Obama has implied indifference towards his oath of office. In matters of preservation, he seems bent on safeguarding commercial institutions such as banks, auto companies, and insurance enterprises which, under the context of the Constitution, are private endeavors operating under individual risk. The Constitution does not – and cannot – safeguard against any risk; only that individuals are permitted to live with the opportunity of such risks. When it comes to protection, President Obama’s malice towards the Constitution becomes even more pronounced as he has consistently retreats from any attempt to corral those within Congress, the press, and other private institutions who seek to abandon the protections of the Constitution in favor of political agenda. These do so by caricaturizing their opponents as “racists”, “domestic terrorists”, “southern rednecks”, etc. when peaceful protest is the very first of human rights guaranteed by the Constitution. With failure to protect goes an inability to defend and President Obama’s silence towards those who seek to dismantle or rewrite the Constitution affirms his hostility towards this revered document of national law and order.
Third, the mere act of upholding Constitutional law demands that the President respect the consensus of the American people. He cannot serve political agenda because the nation consists of people who did not vote for him as well as those that did. While his policies may be permitted some slant into personal direction, the implications of these policies have to be weighed against the values, morals, and expectations of the entire country. President Obama has confused privilege of office with possession of a blank check to “fundamentally change” a nation far beyond his tenure. When any employee leaves his or her job, they are not permitted to add expenses to the company’s balance sheet and President Obama is nothing more than our temporary employee.
Fourth, the President’s domestic function is not to grant equality – the Constitution does that – but to protect opportunity. An addict of cocaine held on charges of murder is a human, but not an equal. So is someone who sneaks across our borders illegally, but the president must deny them citizen rights and benefits in order to safeguard the opportunities of those who have followed Constitutional and Legislative mandate. This goes for such matters as healthcare as well. President Obama cannot grant insurance universally, merely protect the opportunity for all to access treatment when necessary. In economical terms, the President cannot guarantee that I have transportation to my job, merely that his policies protect the opportunity to have a job at all (through lowering taxes, increasing commercial incentives, protecting free trade, etc.).
Fifth, the President is under oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America. The CEO of McDonald’s does not serve the shareholders of Microsoft even if, for instance, each McDonald’s franchise decided to lay in Windows® operating systems and affiliated software. Subsequently, the United Nations, NATO, Geneva Conventions, and all other international courtesies rank beneath the least of American citizens. Once the President (whoever he or she may be) leaves the territory of the United States, they become our nation’s foremost defender and marketer. They cannot dismiss the fact that they are responsible for the good image of all American citizens anymore than the President of Apple Computers can dismiss an iPod® user because they disagree with the consumer’s choice of music. No President has America’s approval to do anything other than preach the goodwill, benefits, and heritage of the population that he serves even if he should disagree with these values. President Obama has consistently argued that America’s past is responsible for other’s faults and misdeeds.
Sixth, the function of President is to humble oneself before their constituency. The Pope, by comparison, responsible for untold billions of souls, leads as a shepherd. President Obama, responsible for defending hundreds of millions of Americans, guides as a narcissist. The more visible a president becomes, the harder it is to step down from the stage. In the grand play of Americana, a president must direct from the off screen wings of the Oval Office. It is not national marketing that creates a hit, but the quality of the act itself. President Obama needs to remain grounded (on Air Force One or otherwise) and allow his nation to soar.
Seventh, an effective president needs to act as if a sheepdog and not as either a wolf or sheep cloaked within the other’s clothing. They need to be warm, friendly, and loyal yet able to sink their canines into any threat against those within their care. Lassie without scars is simply a house pet. At least a Chihuahua will bark like a Doberman when confronted with a threat. President Obama merely yelps when confronting our nation’s enemies: “It was the last dog that pissed on your lawn!” My dog defended me against an adversary forty times his own weight – and won.
With its myriad of self-inflicted wounds, can America under the Obama Presidency survive within the dangerous world of ours? Most emphatically yes – providing that the President take cue from the following:
1. The President must accept that there is evil within the world that cannot be conquered, only eliminated. He must consider America to be the only beacon of light within an otherwise tumultuous sea of chaos and judge his actions accordingly;
2. The president must inform the Islamic world that the U.S. Constitution, as written, is far superior to the Quran and therefore his every function is to safeguard the former over the latter;
3. The president must publicly acknowledge that the road to Middle East peace rests upon the model of modern Israel and not ancient Arabia. A Two-State solution cannot exist if the religion of the one seeks to extinguish the citizenry of the other;
4. The Obama Doctrine must be one in which the ambitions of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela, among others, are kept corralled and padlocked;
5. President Obama must acknowledge that the nuclear threat against the United States is as grave as it has ever been and restore an airborne, continuous thermonuclear deterrence towards any nation that aides and/or abets a Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, or Radiological attack upon its citizens;
6. The president must fully release free market capitalism to shore our competitiveness, our strength, and our determination against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” In a world where only the strong survive, it is not the time to become weak.
When the chief executives of the Big Three automakers flew into Washington aboard corporate jets, the Congress and the President lambasted them for traveling in luxury while seeking taxpayer funds. Well, the President himself is guilty of flying all over aboard our Air Force One on matters less important to our nation. Soon, he will be flying to Copenhagen to argue in favor of the Olympics coming to Chicago. It is highly doubtful that he would make such a journey if the city in question were Dallas. As corrupt as Chicago is, it does not deserve a Super Bowl or World Series let alone an event based upon goodwill and international friendship.
The President of the United States represents the American people – not a clique or sub faction thereof – and therefore must lead according to the desires of the citizens that he serves, as finicky as they may be. His only mandate is to defend the Constitution of the United States of America as written. Otherwise, our whole world may go up in smoke…
R.J. Godlewski is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the privately organized International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and a student of Middle Eastern Terrorism and Explosive Ordnance Disposal operations. He is the author of several novels, books, and professional articles as well as the chief author of the Independent Counterterrorist training program, a free Internet-based effort to involve citizenry in defeating global terrorism. He can be reached via rj@rjgodlewski.com.
The bashing is not just against Sarah Palin, it is against Glenn Beck, and ultimately against you. Sarah Palin gave a speech at theCLSA Investors' Forum in Hong Kong, saying the US government was wasting taxpayers' money and could aggravate poverty and she said US President Barack Obama's
administration worsened an already difficult situation when earlier
this month he slapped duties on Chinese tire imports blamed for costing
American jobs, praising the economic policies of former US President Ronald Reagan (Breitbart) How was her speech received by those present? As the case always is with Sarah Palin, some love her, some hated her.
Some of those who attended praised her
forthright views on government social
and economic intervention and
others walked out early in disgust.
"She was brilliant," said a European delegate, on condition of anonymity. [snip]
Two US delegates left early, with one saying "it was awful, we couldn't stand it any longer". He declined to be identified. [snip]
"It was fairly right-wing populist stuff,' one US delegate said. (read it all)
I'm afraid that Palin may be so bruised and banged up from the Left, if she decides to run for political office again she may not be successful. I hope I'm wrong, because I like Sarah Palin.
The bashing continues from Frank Rich at the New York Times.
With all due respect to Jimmy Carter,
the racist component of Obama-hatred has been undeniable since the
summer of 2008, when Sarah Palin rallied all-white mobs to the defense
of the “real America.”
Rich on Glenn Beck:
... as inchoate and paranoid as that hawked by Father Coughlin during the
Great Depression and George Wallace in the late 1960s. Wallace is most
remembered for his racism, but he, like Beck, also played on the class
and cultural resentment of those sharing his view that there wasn’t “a dime’s worth of difference” between the two parties. [snip]
Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic terrorism
in the form of a new Timothy McVeigh. On this, one fears he knows
whereof he speaks. For all our nation’s unfinished business on race,
racism is not Obama’s biggest challenge during our unfinished Great
Recession. He — and our political system — are being seriously tested
by a rage that is no less real for being shouted by a demagogue from
Fox and a backbencher from South Carolina.
Now Rich moves on to the Americans who are protesting at TEA Parties and speaking out at Town Halls:
Now, as then, a Dixie-oriented movement like this won’t remotely capture the White House. Now, unlike then, it is a catastrophe for the Republicans. The old
G.O.P. Southern strategy is gone with the wind. The more the party is
identified with nasty name-calling, freak-show protestors,
immigrant-bashing (the proximate cause of Wilson’s outburst at Obama)
and, yes, racism, the faster it will commit demographic suicide as
America becomes ever younger and more diverse. (read it all here)
I think maybe Mr. Rich and the left are just jealous of the popularity of people like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, but I could always be wrong. I would bet that the NYT would love to have a readership similar to that of Glenn Beck, Fox News, or even Sarah Palin's email list.
If tossing out the race card doesn't work, people like Rich will stoop to calling anyone who objects to their ideals as freak-show protestors (sic) from the South.
There's only one problem with that, it isn't true (You Lie!) The protesters come from all across this nation, every national background, every race, every religion. The protesters are AMERICANS. This is what scares them. The protesters are all over the great nation, they are upset with folks like Mr. Rich and the Obama administration and their policies. And yes they are upset with many in the Republican party. And they are willing to step out of their comfort zones for the first time and speak out.
Mr. Rich has every right to express his views -- just like we do, and the TEA Party protesters, and Town Hall attendees, and Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, and Joe Wilson... Calling names is what people do when they cannot defend their ideals and cannot have an honest debate on the policies.
Just when you thought Barack Obama couldn’t possibly become more of an
anti-American radical leftist than we already knew he was he decided to
go to the United Nations and trash American exceptionalism along with
our ally Israel and President Bush while conjuring up Al Gorian fear mongering lies about the new catch phrase for global warming; “climate change”. (more on those lies at The Anchoress) (Continue reading full article at the Watcher of Weasels)
I, too, got to thinking, “when did they all disappear?” sitting back here in my office chair, listening to ELO and Scandal music written for my peers. Back in the 1970’s and perhaps most of the Eighties as well, there was not a very bright future for the nation but still we did excel.
Working on our lives without aid from anyone but ourselves. No bailouts needed, no stimulus seeded, no national czar hell. Everyone that I remembered, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, never worrying for one moment whether their world might collapse.
Yet here we are in the Information Age, when ‘instantaneous’ is all the rage, stuck wondering whether we can survive if we don’t communally raise the minimum wage.
Cheap Trick had it right when they said not to give ourselves away, there is far too many in Washington quite willing to lead us astray. You would think that they would listen to those whom they actually serve, but they keep bickering amongst themselves about who’s really got the most nerve.
Tea Parties have crept up all around and yet they do not seem to care, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the progressive liberal media only glorify the likes of Bill Ayers. As for me, I would much rather die than to sacrifice the Stars & Stripes, The American flag that I always serve proudly deserves more than all their socialist hype.
The fact that they cannot understand us proves what little they really know. What could they truly be expecting from the very people that invented rock-and-roll? If they seem caught up within a world full of hysterical mass confusion, at least I broke in my own lyric to break their “mental delusion”.
Besides that last line I have written about dark black clouds and white lightning, but at least in that old song it was drugs that were so frightening. Today I look upon Capitol Hill, this season’s losers, with a measure of doubt, fortunately I can still listen to Cheap Trick and pull my KISS records out.
Freedom is from the right, Conservatives are in the right. We “just seem a little weird”. Progressives are big spenders. Big spenders. Just don’t give your paycheck away…
I consider myself a rather ordinary American. Perhaps, even, a quite mundane one at that. I have held more jobs than I care to remember, from dozens of industries. I have worked as a dishwasher, janitor, librarian’s assistant, computer programmer, robotics technician, truck driver (over the road and oilfield), electrician (Naval, marine and industrial), security guard, beer distributor, machine operator, writer, analyst, paperboy, and the industries I have worked within are nearly as diverse.
After leaving the Navy, I have worked within the tempered glass, toy, automotive robotics, envelope, paper, household goods, refrigerated foods, national defense, oilfield, aerospace, marine…aw, hell, you get the idea. Did I mention that I have lived or worked in half a dozen countries and forty-five states?
I have or have had friends and close acquaintances representing every conceivable group out there. Come to think of it, I am related to people who represent nearly every conceivable group out there as well.
Perhaps the reason that I consider myself so common is that, frankly, I offer no specialties and can relate to just about everyone. My unique differences meld in neatly with everyone else’s peculiarities. I shine best when I am surrounded by the glow of others. Conversely, I am least noticeable when there are merely a few around to notice.
I am, therefore, simply an American because I cannot be defined except through the passion of my spirit. As it should be. Who in their right mind wants to be defined so narrowly? So constrictively? Did Patrick Henry say, “Give me liberty or I’ll take whatever the polls suggest”? Did Nathan Hale say, “I regret that my country has only one life for me to choose”?
Our nation may rest upon defined territorial boundaries but America’s spirit has sailed upon every water upon the globe, soared unto the surface of the moon, and conquered the hearts and imagination of an entire planet. No one can deny that our nation is also much hated – but at least nobody was indifferent to our existence. And that, friends, represents the epitome of glory; the true acknowledgement of universal love.
In the immortal words of singer Neil Diamond: “Got a dream to take them there. They're coming to America. Got a dream they've come to share. They're coming to America.” I would add that they beg, borrow, and steal just to get them here, but nobody’s leaving America.
It is therefore unconscionable that any leader, regardless from whichever state or municipality they hail, would do anything to disrupt our nation’s heritage. Unfortunately, our Congress and the White House are infested with just such people. They do not listen quietly to the spirit of the country. Rather, they shout obscenities and voice charges inconsistent with the duties for which they were elected.
America came about because our forefathers picked a fight with the biggest, baddest bully on the planet in order to establish the principle that “all men were created equal.” We subsequently fought the bloodiest war ever seen at the time – against our very countrymen – to reaffirm that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Who, therefore, in their right mind wants to “change” any of that?
The Obama Administration in general and the progressive liberal Congress in particular, care far more about some two-inch smelt than the most innocent and vulnerable amongst us. They care more about how the rest of the world perceives us than whether the rest of the world can attack us. They spend our trillions carelessly but cannot afford a solitary moment to actually listen to any one of us. They equate us with the likes of Timothy McVeigh and al-Qaeda and as soon as we challenge their assertion, they label us blindly as racists and bigots. Those in Washington are truer to true racism than ninety-nine percent of their constituencies.
As vile as Nancy Pelosi is (equating the Tea Parties with Seventies era radicalism), as imbecilic as Harry Reid is, as criminal as Charlie Rangel is, I place all of America’s current woes directly at the feet of President Barack Obama. He is our Commander-in-Chief, the only elected official selected by the nation as a whole. It is his responsibility to uphold the Constitution, to serve the American people, and to defend our national rights and liberties above all else – to the death, if need be.
President Obama is starving tens of thousands of his fellow citizens in the San Joaquin Valley. He is sacrificing the West’s security to Putin’s Russia. He has belittled 270 million American Christians in front of our Islamist enemies. He has fully immersed his presidency within two of the largest organized crime factions within the country – ACORN and SEIU. None of this includes the fact that he has bankrupted our country by stealing trillions of our hard-earned monies to aid his other cronies.
I do not detest President Obama because he is black. Such a distinction is inconsequential. I do not detest President Obama for any mere physical characteristic, or for any background that he hails from. No, the reason that I dislike the president is simply because, as the one person most in position to corral the abusive liberals and defend our nation against its many enemies, President Obama seems content to throw the entire country under the progressive bus in order to satisfy his own selfish ego. At least President George W. Bush, for all his faults, made the world hate us. With Barack Obama as the President, the world is simply indifferent to us – and that can be deadly. The Obama Administration is nothing more than a Presidency run amuck. God help us all.
A mostly forgotten holiday, Constitution Day, September 17 every year. Robert Higgs of The Independent Institute discusses the big TEA Party protest in Washington this past weekend on September 12, 2009 and wonders what's the point in all this demonstrating. The answer Mr. Higgs is the Constitution of the United States of America. All those people are concerned that the Constitution is being trampled, and with it our freedoms as Americans.
As for those of us outside the precincts of the state and its
supporting coalition of special-interest groups, the state wants us to
buckle under to its dictates, shell out the taxes, fees, and fines it
demands from us, and shut up. As long as we faithfully comply with the
first two requirements, it [the state] is willing to cut us some slack on the
third, but only up to the point at which our expressions of grievance
might actually weaken its iron grip on power. So, when I see
demonstrations like the one that just took place in Washington, I
sympathize with the people who’ve gone to the trouble of protesting
against the government’s abuses, but I find myself wondering, Do these
poor souls really think they’ll accomplish something by this protest?(Robert Higgs, The Independent Institute)
The answer lies in the Constitution and is expressed by some of Mr. Higgs readers who suggest that these protests are happening because the people no longer feel that the government is listening to them via other forms of communication like phone calls, emails or letters. From these TEA parties and town hall meetings, grassroots leaders will rise to the top in local and state governments.
This will accomplish the point of the protests ... getting rid of those in Washington who no longer live by or govern by the Constitution and replace them with those who agree with the intent of our Founding Fathers.Example:
Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) held a town hall meeting and
actually had the gall to respond to a constituent's question... a
voter... an American... someone he supposedly represents... an elderly
gentleman... with "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine.". (continue reading and watch the video, amazing)
That gives "vote the bums out" a whole new meaning!
This year, seven states have passed sovereignty resolutions
under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Two
states passed laws nullifying some federal firearms regulations.
Thirteen states now have Medical Marijuana laws in direct opposition to
federal laws. And three states are considering constitutional
amendments allowing residents to effectively opt-out of any future
national health care plan.
What does this have to do with September 17th, Constitution Day? According to Michael Boldin, founder of theTenth Amendment Center,
everything. "The Constitution of the United States was a revolutionary
document," he said. "Before it, no government in history had seen its
duties and restrictions so clearly and carefully defined"
When the Constitution was being considered for ratification, there
was strong opposition from famous American figures that included George
Mason and Patrick Henry. "One major reason for this was a fear of too
much power," said Boldin. "The founding generation spent their lives
toiling under a tyranny - a government without limits," he continued.
"When the Constitution was written, it was done to limit the power of
government. It was created under the principle of popular sovereignty -
that 'We the People' created the government, and all powers not
delegated to it, were retained."
According to the Tenth Amendment Center, the People delegated
approximately 35 powers to the federal government and not included in
those powers are national health care, the creation of free speech
zones, federal gun regulations, the war on drugs, and more.
"The Constitution is not exclusively for either the left or the right.
It established rules for limiting government power so your liberty
would have a better chance of success," continued Boldin. "The founders
created a system of government where the most important and most
difficult issues would be kept close to home, and that's just the
opposite of how things are today. That's why we created the 10-4 Pledge
so people can find candidates for office who believe in the strict
limitations on power that the Constitution stands for."
The 10-4 Pledgeis a set of 10 affirmations and 10 promises for legislators and
candidates. Included in the pledge is an affirmation that "All just
political authority is derived from the People," and a promise that
elected officials will always vote "in favor of the Constitution of the
United States. Every issue. Every time. No exceptions. No excuses."
Already, several prominent candidates have affirmed these positions
as early-signers of the pledge, including Randy Brogdon for Governor of
Oklahoma, Adam Kokesh for US House in New Mexico, and Brandon Creighton
from the Texas House of Representatives and author of HCR-50 - the
Texas Sovereignty Resolution.
About the Tenth Amendment Center: The Tenth Amendment Center,
a Los Angeles-based think tank founded in 2006, acts as an educational
forum on issues related to the 10th Amendment and Constitutional
governance. http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/
1. The People created the federal government to be their agent for
certain enumerated purposes only. The Constitutional ratifying
structure was created so it would be clear that it was the People, and
not the States, that were doing the ratifying.
2. The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as
being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal
government, and also that which is absolutely necessary to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or locally, by the people themselves.
3. The Constitution does not include a congressional power to
override state laws. It does not give the judicial branch unlimited
jurisdiction over all matters. It does not provide Congress with the
power to legislate over everything. This is verified by the simple fact
that attempts to make these principles part of the Constitution were
soundly rejected by its signers.
4. If the Congress had been intended to carry out anything they
claim would promote the “general welfare,” what would be the point of
listing its specific powers in Article I, Section 8, since these
would’ve already been covered?
5. James Madison, during the Constitutional ratification process,
drafted the “Virginia Plan” to give Congress general legislative
authority and to empower the national judiciary to hear any case that
might cause friction among the states, to give the congress a veto over
state laws, to empower the national government to use the military
against the states, and to eliminate the states’ accustomed role in
selecting members of Congress. Each one of these proposals was soundly
defeated. In fact, Madison made many more attempts to authorize a
national veto over state laws, and these were repeatedly defeated as
well.
6. The Tenth Amendment was adopted after the Constitutional
ratification process to emphasize the fact that the states remained
individual and unique sovereignties; that they were empowered in areas
that the Constitution did not delegate to the federal government. With
this in mind, any federal attempt to legislate beyond the
Constitutional limits of Congress’ authority is a usurpation of state
sovereignty - and unconstitutional.
7. Tragically, the Tenth Amendment has become almost a nullity at
this point in our history, but there are a great many reasons to bring
it to the forefront. Most importantly, though, we must keep in mind
that the Founders envisioned a loose confederation of states – not a
one-size-fits-all solution for everything that could arise. Why? The
simple answer lies in the fact that they had just escaped the tyranny
of a king who thought he knew best how to govern everything – including
local colonies from across an ocean.
8. Governments and political leaders are best held accountable to
the will of the people when government is local. Second, the people of
a state know what is best for them; they do not need bureaucrats,
potentially thousands of miles away, governing their lives. Think about
it. If Hitler had ruled just Berlin and Stalin had ruled just Moscow,
the whole world might be a different place today.
9. A constitution which does not provide strict limits is just the
thing any government would be thrilled to have, for, as Lord Acton once
said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
10. We agree with historian Kevin Gutzman, who has said that those
who would give us a “living” Constitution are actually giving us a dead
one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the
encroachments of government power. (from The Tenth Amendment Center)
One final note: Keep in mind that Barack Obama is trying to get legislation passed to FORCE you to either buy health insurance (probably ending up being a government run health plan) or paying huge fines to his government. There is nothing Constitutional about this -- nothing.The Constitution is under attack which means your freedoms are under attack.
Looking at the latest events in the debate (pfft) on health care here in the united States, I must quote William Kristol of the Weekly Standard where he asks if this is a ""Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" (i.e., "What the f--") Presidency". Kristol was of course writing about the situation in Afghanistan where Jim Jones, visiting the newly installed military commanders in Afghanistan
in late June, told General Stanley McChrystal that if he
requested more troops any time soon, Obama would have a "Whiskey Tango
Foxtrot" (i.e., "What the f--") moment. I don't use that kind of language, but there's not a day that goes by since Obama took office that I don't ask "What?", as in "what are these people in Washington doing today to destroy this country?" Let's review:
Just one week after President Obama's speech to Congress, opposition to his health care reform plan has reacheda new high of 55%according to a Rasmussen poll.(hat tip Hyscience)
This is the poll number that drives supporters of Obamacare crazy:
Eighty-nine percent of Americans in a June 2008 ABC News/USA
Today/Kaiser Family Foundation survey said they were satisfied with
their health care. Put another way, more than 270 million Americans
(I'm including kids) are reasonably happy with the system of medical
care in this country. Other polls have found the same level of
satisfaction.
The Real Cost of ObamaCare:
Wily Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), who styles himself a deficit hawk, has asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)to look at the costs of Obamacare over 20 years rather than 10.
This will help us see right through the usual Democrat trick where
they hide the true cost of a bill by artificially lowering its impact
during the initial years.(PoliPundit)
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting if Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul
plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would
think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were
adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. (A View From The Right)
As I've noted several times in recent days, the Democrats' strategy of
trying to pass Obamacare by smearing its opponents as "racists" rather
than by debating the plan's alleged benefits would be politically
inept, even if it were not immoral. Confirmation comes from today'sRasmussen survey,
which finds that only 12 percent of Americans agree with the Democrats'
claim that "most opponents of President Obama's health care reform plan
are racist." Even among Democrats, that absurd view is not widely held. (John at Powerline)
CZARS: Interesting, the newest czar is being called a "point person". By any other name, they are still the same -- un-Constitutional.(Hat tip Michelle Malkin)
ACORN:
Oversight: ACORN's Cash for Hookers:
As the Senate votes to de-fund Acorn, add pimping,
tax evasion and human trafficking to voter fraud paid for with taxpayer
dollars and you have an organized criminal enterprise. It's time to
investigate.(Investors Business Daily)
Telegraph: 'How conservative pranksters made idiots of Obama's favorite left-wing charity ACORN (Hyscience)
I'm really getting sick of Blacks, their Liberal friends and their friends in the media, using the race card every time they don't agree with something the rest of us say. I'm also sick of certain groups, like Muslims, pushing for special treatment here in the US. We are all supposed to be Americans, equal. I'm not talking about all Blacks, or all Muslims, so don't get your feathers all ruffled. You know exactly who I am talking about.
We were told that once we elected a Black President of the United States of America, specifically Barack Obama, that America would see the advent of a post-racial society.
It did not happen. In fact, the reverse happened. As Lawrence Auster predicted, "Obama's election would increase black aggression, black anti-white hostility, and the black sense of entitlement." We are bordering on restriction of free speech here in the USA, and it has already happened in other countries.
Tossing out the word "racism" when no racism exists is a slap in the face to those who truly know what racism is. Real racism involves the idea thatone's own race is superior and has the right to rule another; discrimination, hatred or intolerance of another race.Real racism is hurtful and real racism leads to violence.
I would advise the media, politicians in Washington, and the Obama Administration in particular -- refrain from stooping so low and refrain from using the race card where no racism exists. It isn't good for the country, it isn't good for the world, and it isn't good for any of us personally. I don't care what race, religion, heritage, or even political persuasion a person is. I care about people as individuals, I care about their morals, their values. I care about American values and freedoms. What Anne Applebaum says in her article "Chipping Away At Free Speech" about certain companies and groups, is also applicable to the race and religion situations here in the US.
In fact, each time an American company caves to illiberal pressure, the
atmosphere is worse for everyone else. Each alteration made in the name
of placating an illiberal group or government makes that group or
government stronger. What seems a small lapse of integrity now might
well loom larger in the future.
There was a time in this country where the media actually investigated things and then somewhat printed the facts. Those days are basically gone except for a handful of print media, cable TV and some talk radio. Indeed the inverse is actually the case -- some in the media are making up the news as they go along, with talking points from their chosen in Washington.In fact, they pick and choose what to report on and what to ignore, what fits their agenda and what doesn't.
We now live in a world where Obama can grandstand about Professor Gates
and a racist cop, or call Kanye West a jackass, or call his own
grandmother a typical white person while trying to deflect from sitting
in reverend Wright's church for years, and there is no outrage
whatsoever from the moral authority police.(continue reading)
Victor Davis Hanson has an excellent article where he spares no one (hat tip Fore-Left). He says:
And then something strange and quite unexpected happened. The
Democrats nominated a charismatic African-American, won the presidency,
after obtaining large majorities in Congress, and suddenly became the
Establishment, demanding respect for the Commander in Chief in direct
proportion to their efforts to deny respect to his predecessor. Then
just as suddenly two tropes appeared after January 20th of this year:
One—cannot we all get along? We deplore this resort to barbarism and crudity.
Two—if you dare sound off like we just did, then you are now a racist. [snip]
The solution, of course, is for the majority to simply say enough is
enough, and declare a personal code of decency: “I will not stoop to
smear and slur, won’t interrupt a speaker, won’t call anyone a Nazi,
won’t do to others what they’ve done to me.” Only that sort of code
will end the craziness. (continue)
If only! As one commenter says: "But to use the vernacular of the times, “Fat chance.”"
Okay, sometimes I get annoyed with Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly. Big surprise, I know. My complaints center less on his show than the personality’s committed neutrality. I dislike people who show no passion – even if they are on the television. Nevertheless, let’s not get into my personal critiques. My irritation is from listening him today address the concerns that the progressive liberals would use the “race issue” to denounce the 9/12 Tea Party in Washington this past Saturday. I agree with Brit Hume – there is no race discrepancy because, as Mr. Hume acknowledged, America is an overwhelmingly Caucasian nation.
According to the U.S. Census from 2000, there were 281,421,906 total Americans living within this country of which 211,460,626 were white and 34,658,190 were black. There were actually 35,305,818 Hispanics which places them second on the “race list”, but let us concentrate on the black and white issue because that’s what was addressed within the context of The O’Reilly Factor and for which the progressive liberals seem destined to wrap the Obama Presidency around.
If only approximately 12% (.1231538457) of the U.S. population is black and using the questionable figure of 75,000 in Washington as reported by the police and fire authorities, at the extreme limits, there could have been only 9,000 blacks in attendance at the 9/12 Tea Party if it were conducted in perfect racial equilibrium. Now, let us consider, for a moment, that 75,000 white people were in attendance. This suggests that for every white American in attendance at the event, 2,819 whites did not show up. If this figure, again, were considered under racial perfection, for every black in America that showed up in attendance, 3,851 would not have shown up. This could show that less blacks were in attendance per the white ratio and therefore charges of racism would ensue.
What the progressive liberals do not like to suggest, however, is that a vast majority of blacks are being held down by progressive administrations managing America’s principle cities. In other words, if the 12% of the black citizens within this great nation of ours were all healthy adults, with good paying jobs, and vacation time away from work, it is questionable on whether you could get an equal match versus white attendance. And herein you get your charges of racism.
Naturally, not all blacks are adults. Many are poor and cannot even show up to vote without aid let alone travel to Washington, D.C. The same might hold true for Hispanics. I am willing to consider, however, that the “over abundance” of white folk in D.C. has very little to do with race and much more to do with success – but not from the monetary perspective. I wonder how many black Americans educated through lackluster urban public schools are even familiar with U.S. history to the point where they would consider Big Government as unconstitutional. Could be that this applies to Hispanics as well.
Of course, this is all a bunch of nonsense anyway. Americans cannot be defined by sex, or skin color, or education, or bank account, or whether they legally arrived or were graciously born. America exists so that none of these trivial things matter. When you define a country down to its core individuals, you cannot judge based upon what people are anymore than you can separate people by how they think.
Estimates range from 75,000 people in attendance on upwards to a whopping 2 million. All of which were mad as hell about government intrusion within their lives and they were tired of taking it. Yet, they were still not so mad as to start rioting and trashing their nation’s capital. Perhaps there is a lesson in all of this for the 25% of the country that is not “racist, redneck, domestic terrorists”. The Great Tea Race concluded in 1866 – and it involved sailing ships.
ACORN received more than $53 million in U.S. funds since 1994, last week, the U.S. Census Bureau told the group it did not want its help boosting participation in next year's census, and now the Senate is denying them funds. I understand that the undercover "pimp and prostitute" producer and actor, have many more videos and tomorrow Big Government.com will reveal the latest video -- which is supposed to be worse than anything we have previously seen. Looking forward to it. Kudos to these two young people.
Joe Wilson has been vindicated, even by the White House and MSM. Illegals will be covered by the new health care bill, in fact they are already covered, since States receive compensation from Washington for treating illegals already. Read it all at Sweetness and Light.Obama still expects to get his bill passed and soon.
Joe Wilson's two words "You Lie" are worth more than a million dollars in donations to his campaign fund. You go Joe! The Left is so upset all they could do is hack Wilson's website and keep it down for 5 hours. Isn't that petty!
Texas State Cemetery Committee Chairman Scott Sayers of Austin wants to
talk to ex-president George W. Bush and wife Laura, about upgrading their present burial sites to elsewhere in the East
Austin cemetery.Why? Bush's posthumous potential as a tourist attraction. (Statesman)
Over two million people attended the TEA Party in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 12, 2009, according to the Mail Online. Sense of Events notes:
Remember, this was a crowd of people from all over the country estimated at up to two million. (And as Chicago Boyz blogpoints out, "Two million people with jobs…".)
That makes the demonstration yesterday one of the largest ever held in
the capital, if not the largest. Even if the two million estimate is
100 percent off, it's still a million people, still ranking as one of
the largest ever.
So getting up to two million people to show up in DC at the same time
for the same purpose - no matter what that purpose might be - has got
to be a story of foremost newsworthiness, right? Right? (read it all and see front page images of the MSM's non reporting here)
And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama:
Via Prisca
An Obama supporting mother takes a trip to Guantanamo Bay detention center. She is amazed at how well the prisoners are treated and now doesn't want Obama to close Gitmo. Riehl World has the story.
"Far from
Islamophobia, what actually happened after 9/11 was a wave of
Islamophilia second only to Obamamania for its lack of rational
foundation and utopian faith in symbolism over reality" (Jihad Watch)
On the proposed health care reform, Hyscience tells it like it is:
After several years of telling others that we need to take active measures in protecting this great nation of ours, when the National Tea Party Express was scheduled to arrive within neighboring Brighton, Michigan, I knew that I just had to participate. I mean, it would be pretty hypocritical of me to challenge others but not drive a mere eight miles away to partake of history, right?
Although the weather was threatening, I grabbed my camera and my mother, both of which have seen at least a decade of life, and headed over to a town that both of us were quite familiar with as there are relatively few shopping opportunities – outside of Kroger and a dollar store or two – unless we choose Brighton. Neither of us expected much, even though we knew that Livingston County had zero Democrats on the last local ticket.
Our first hint that our estimates would be incorrect was when we pulled into town and saw dozens of people walking the sidewalks wielding umbrellas. Few people walk nowadays; fewer still prefer to do so while the clouds are opening up. A line of cars turned south on Main Street, hinting at the crowds that would attend.
Actually, I had planned on attending the 5:30 P.M. Troy stop of the Express because that was the location that most of my emails announced, but when I read further I discovered that Brighton was to be the previous event and so thought to myself, “Hell, that’s just down the road. No need to fight Interstate-96 for an hour.” Troy had undoubtedly changed in the twelve years that I had been away from Michigan and, well, attending a Tea Party within your own county does deny the liberals a chance for labeling me as “bussed in Astroturf”.
Of course, there was “Astroturf” there, but it was those who supported President Obama’s agenda. It was amazing to notice how many people who bore professionally produced signs also sported nice, clean, new United Auto Workers jackets. My own sign was rather simply made – too cheaply produced to bother taking a photograph of it though many in attendance did. I held a buck piece of neon orange poster board and on one side I wrote:
“I LOST MY WIFE TO CANCER WHEN WE LOST HEALTH INS. BUT I WILL NOT LOSE AMERICA TO OBAMA CARE!”
On the reverse side, I used my black Sharpie® to write a quote from Mark Twain:
“PATRIOTISM IS SUPPORTING YOUR COUNTRY ALL THE TIME, AND YOUR GOVERNMENT WHEN IT DESERVES IT.”
We were fortunate enough to arrive near the gazebo where the Tea Party organizers would assemble, though I could not see Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher from less than fifty feet away. I heard his message though, and it was inspirational: defend America, support our troops, do it for our children.
Our perch near the Mill Pond around which the Tea Party assembled was tight, perhaps a bit too tight as the man who was standing next to me found out to his embarrassment. One step just a bit too far and he went into the drink. I helped fish him out but lost my own hat in the process. By the time a third individual used his sign to retrieve my cap, laughter from the Astroturf secured on the far side of the pond filled the air. No problem – at least at the moment they have the freedom in which to laugh. It might have been nervousness on their part anyway; in a crowd of perhaps 2,000 – 4,000 people they were outnumbered by at least ten to one. Of course, they could afford to laugh. It was not
their scraped shins that bled profusely and they probably never shed any blood in defending our liberties either.
There were other operatives working amongst the crowd. One guy who dwarfed me both in height and muscle took a quick look at my sign and whined about his brother needing a kidney transplant or something and not being able to procure it. He might have been telling the truth, but if I had ever seen a union stooge – and I grew up surrounded by them – he was one. He obviously paid very little attention to the words written boldly upon my makeshift sign and I could have told him that it took Sara an entire year to be placed upon Social Security Disability – for an illness that was an automatic disability – but I was preoccupied with thoughts on how I could trip him into the old Mill Pond.
The crowd was large and well spirited. The music was inspiring even if the acoustics were terrible. The rain came and went, then the torrential downpours came and went. They lasted just a bit longer than the brief flyby of the News 7 (ABC) chopper. The Fox helicopter remained filming for the better part of an hour. I took as many photographs of them as they undoubtedly did of us but, alas, my poor archaic camera is ill suited to take pictures during Biblical deluges.
Although one of the Fox News participants of the Tea Party – strangely, I cannot remember his name – is a native of our little Brighton, they were surprised over the turn out. The two Tea Party Express buses got stuck within their own traffic jam. I thought that I had seen a component of the mainstream media appear, but it was merely a Waste Management garbage truck. My error.
My eighty-two year old mother waited an entire lifetime to become a “redneck, uneducated, domestic terrorist” but even she got tired and so we left a few minutes before the scheduled 5:30 P.M. conclusion to the program. As we crossed the footbridge spanning the Mill Pond we came across Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard who is currently running for Governor of our illustrious state. It was the first time that I had ever met the man, but the surprise was on him a bit. My cousin served as his campaign manager back when Mr. Bouchard ran for U.S. Senate. Small world. I guess anything can happen within this great nation of ours.
At the stroke of midnight on Saturday night of Labor Day weekend,like the night crawler he is, Van Jones resigned his position in the Obama Administration. Just in time for President Barack Hussein Obama II to arrive back at the White house Sunday morning from his vacation. As the Jawa Report says, just 30 more czars to go.Bub Bye Van.
Jones says he is only resigning because of the vicious smear campaign waged against him. No Mr. Jones, it was because bloggers (yes bloggers) like Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, and then reporters like Aaron Klein and others picked up the rock to reveal who you really are. From under the rock, to under the bus, it was inevitable. Must be mighty crowded under there.
Van Jones is finished
as far as the Obama administration goes, but what about all those
others, not just the czars, Obama has hired with very similar
backgrounds and questionable associations? Can we get busy exposing
them and point them toward the bus too? I sure hope so.
Thank you Glenn Beck and all who fought to get the truth out about Van Jones. Right, Wing-Nut adds:
Big congratulations to Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit,( God forbid the WaPost should actually name a conservative blogger), who's living the dream right now.
"I like making liberals shoot guns -- I just don't think we should be
allowed to bring them home," Maddow said. "It's like I mean you go to
the carnival you know, like the roller coasters -- it's fun. But that
doesn't mean you get one to come home with. Doesn't mean you get to do
your own home roller coaster -- just leave it there, it's a game."(more and video)
What an idiot. These homeowners might argue with Ms. Maddow. Four armed teenagers attempted a home invasion, two are now dead, one is seriously injured, and the fourth is in jail. The three citizens inside the home are all unharmed, thanks to their personal weapons, ability to defend themselves, and quick reaction. (more)
Sorry Ms. Maddow, it is NOT a game, it is self-defense.
Hunters are planning to stock up on bullets, shells, shotguns, rifles and handguns which will be sold without the 6 percent state sales tax or
local sales taxes Friday through Sunday thanks to Louisiana's new "sales tax holiday". What a great idea. (more)
In California,a bill that would ban gun shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City is expected to go before the state Assembly by Sept. 11. On September 11. I wonder if this was intentional or by accident. (more)
Have a great Labor Day weekend. Get out there and enjoy yourself, take advantage of your freedoms while you still can. Talk to your friends, family, neighbors and help them understand that these freedoms are under attack by an administration that hires people who hate this country.
The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines,
emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter,
MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”
In the course of investigating procurement by the White House New Media office, NLPC discovered a 51-page solicitation of bids that was filed
on Friday, August 21, 2009. Filed as Solicitation # WHO-S-09-0003, it
is posted at FedBizzOps.com. Click here to download a 51-page pdf of the solicitation. (more)
Actually the White House wants to collect ALL your personal information.
Liberals who run our institutions of higher learning are literally bankrupting our states,
going nuts with "equity,diversity, and inclusion; we keep dumping more money into government run schools that keep
getting worse, who are increasingly using Liberal text books, and now
on September 8, 2009, all children in government run schools will be forced to watch President Barack Obamatell them to get up out of their seats and 'do' something. Michelle Malkin wonders if your children are being used as Political Guinea Pigs for Change.Bill Ayers must be proud.
Imagine the impact and power of the President of the United States entering the school room via TV or computer, instructing your child to do ... something. What choice do you have? Keep you kids at home?
Obama will undoubtedly talk about the urgent need for government run health care to go along with all those other government run programs that are working so well. Massachusetts has tried it, they're broke, it isn't working, and now they are cutting back on health care for illegals. Oh, the horror. Obama are you listening??? Obama Adviser Van Jones says Republicans "are assholes". (video here) At least he's willing to say out loud what he really things. Free speech and all....Oh wait: Obama thugs instruct on how to disrupt town hall meetings and keep you from asking YOUR questions.(video here) No wonder in a generic congressional ballot,Republicans lead continues to increase.
While Americans here at home are fighting to save our Constitutional rights and Conservative freedoms, and Obama is crippling the CIA, things are getting worse around the world.
Hezbollah is expanding it's terror world wide, according to an Arab government official who said, "They will be making front page news soon. They are just waiting for the orders to act – they are not in a hurry".Erick Stakelbeck said,
"... the official had high praise for U.S. intelligence services but
questioned Washing on's political will in fighting and winning the long
war against global jihadism."
Libya warned the United Kingdom that if the Lockerbie bomber died in
prison in Scotland, it would have "catastrophic effects for the
relationship between Libya and the U.K.," documents declassified
Tuesday show.So, the UK knuckled and Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi was released and Libya is set to flaunt the Lockerbie bomber's release at the climax of
today's celebrations marking Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's 40 years in
power. Oh yes, Prime Minister Gordon Brown says it's all Scotland's fault.
Other important stuff:
Dick Cheney for President in 2012? I don't think so, but I see a bright future for his daughter, Liz Cheney.
I believe it is imperative to make the American public aware that Obama has the
authority to suspend the constitution, confiscate our guns, round us up and move
us to FEMA camps, forcibly inoculate, seize all communications media,
etc.
"The Executive Orders" is the first in a series of three. Number two will be
"The Marxist President" and number three will be "Steps to Socialism." --Nancy Matthis
Barack Hussein Obama already has the legal authority to enslave the
United States citizenry. That power was allocated to the office of
President of the United States in a series of executive orders signed
into law one by one throughout the last several administrations.
The persuasion for enacting these orders was to
postulate some imaginary crisis that MIGHT occur — devastating hurricane, massive terrorist attack, virulent pandemic, and
define draconian authority for the president to deal with the hypothetical emergency.
The tools for a Marxist takeover of the United States are already in place. All that remains is to manufacture a crisis
to trigger the implementation of these executive powers. Hurricanes are
still random events of nature, so the socialist revolutionaries in the
executive branch must look at the other two options.
The sudden attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
that we are currently witnessing will weaken our ability to forestall a
terrorist attack. The vaccine for the H1N1 virus being forced on the
citizens without adequate testing has the lethal ability to CAUSE a pandemic. So the flashpoint for implementing the “new order” may be one of these two catastrophes.
Most citizens are blissfully ignorant of the state defined by the
executive orders, one in which the government can forcibly take control
of every aspect of their lives. They are preoccupied with the
activities of everyday life — working, raising their children, going to
church, enjoying their vacation days. Those of us who have
become aware of the “clear and present danger” must alert everyone to
the scope of these executive orders — before it is too late.
And this must be done immediately, in light of the power grab
currently being undertaken by the Obama administration. In a bill
currently before the Senate, Obama is seeking authority to shut down the Internet. Note that he
already has the power to suspend the Constitution and to nullify habeas
corpus and all other personal liberties and rights, which would include
the power to confiscate our guns.
The Executive Orders
Here’s a partial list of executive orders that already have the
force of law — The FEMA list of Presidential Executive Orders. All of
these were in place before Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of
office:
#10995 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS — Seizure of all communications media in the United States.
#10997 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR — Seizure of all electric power, fuels, and minerals, both public and private.
#10998 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE — Seizure of all food supplies and resources, public, and private, all farms and farm equipment.
#10999 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
— Seizure of all means of transportation, including personal cars,
trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways,
seaports and waterways.
#11000 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR
— Seizure of all American population for work forces under federal
supervision, including dividing families as necessary according to
governmental plans.
#11001 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE — Seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
#11002by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE POSTMASTER GENERAL — Empowers the Postmaster General to register all men, women and children in the U.S.
#11003 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY — Seizure of all airports and aircraft.
#11004 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING CERTAIN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR
— Seizure of all housing and finance authorities, to establish Forced
Relocation. Designates areas to be abandoned as “unsafe,” establishes
new locations for populations, relocates communications, builds new
housing with public (’tax-payers’) funds.
#11005 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION — Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, public and private.
#11051 by John Kennedy, 1962: PRESCRIBING RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING IN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
— Provides the Office of Emergency Planning complete authorization to
put the above orders into effect in times of increased international
tension or economic or financial crisis.
#11490 by Richard Nixon, 1969: Assigning emergency preparedness functions to Federal departments and agencies — Combines Executive Orders #11001 to #11005 and #11051 into a single Executive Order.
#11921 by Gerald Ford, 1976: Adjusting Emergency Preparedness Assignments to Organizational and Functional Changes in Federal Departments and Agencies
— F.E.M.A. is authorized to develop plans control energy, prices and
wages, credit and the money supply to U.S. banks in the event of a
‘National Emergency.’ Congress may not review a President’s decision to enforce a ‘National Emergency’ for six months. (emphasis mine)
#12656 by Ronald Reagan, 1988: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
— The National Security Council given authority to determine requisite
emergency powers (increased domestic surveillance, isolation of
communities, restriction of movement for groups and individuals in the
USA, control of airspace, use of the national guard to enforce laws and
seal borders).
#12919 by Bill Clinton, 1994: NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS
— “National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness” delegates
authorities, responsibilities and allocations of F.E.M.A.’s Executive
Orders for the confiscation of ALL PROPERTY from the American people,
and their re-location and assignment to ‘labor’ camps. This Executive
Order also supersedes or revokes eleven (11) previous Executive Orders
[from 1939 through 1991] and amends Executive Order #10789 and #11790.
The declaration of a ‘National Emergency’ by the President may
immediately lead to the implementation of all or part of these
provisions and if he so desires he may implement martial law, suspend
the Constitution, nullify habeas corpus and all other personal
liberties and rights.
Last week I posed several unanswered questions concerning the release of Lockerbie bomberand Scotland's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Today the press has started asking some of those same questions and the answers are not pretty.
First, I said there is a rumor out there that al-Megrahi isn't really sick, that he does not have cancer and is not going to be dead within 3 months as we were told. Now we are told that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had less than three months to live.
No one knows who this doctor is, whether he/she is actually a prostate cancer specialist, or if he/she was employed by the Libyan government or Megrahi's legal team, according to The Scotsman.
JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to
reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of
the Lockerbie bomber ...
Labour and Conservative politicians have demanded the Scottish
Government publish details of the doctor's expertise and qualifications, ...
The evidence provided by the doctor is crucial as compassionate release
under Scots law requires that a prisoner has less than three months to
live.
Yesterday al-Megrahi was rushed to a Tripoli hospital and the media were conveniently provided with video and still pictures of him in a hospital bed with a doctor(?) in scrubs and mask hovering over him. I suppose the celebrations at the airport on his arrival and all the meetings with dignitaries was too much for him???
Second, I brought up the question that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have known and been complicit in a deal, release of the terrorist for a huge oil deal, two years prior to the release. Now EuroNews is reporting:
The UK government has denied a “back door deal” was done although
leaked letters show ministers did agree in 2007 to include him in a
possible prisoner transfer because of what was called national
interests.
The UK TImes Online, via Sweetness and Light,make it clear that the deal was made and finalized only after guarantees that al-Megrahi would be released, confirmed byletters sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland.
Third, how much about the release and the oil deal did the US know and when did they know it? This question still remains unanswered. I'm hoping Washington was out of the loop on this one, because Americans are rightly angry and protesting the visit of Libyan leader to the US.
Also still unanswered are my questions on Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, on the foreign front and questions on the health care bill(s), the Obama Czars, and who's really in control in the White House. I look forward to the media investigating these subjects soon.
PERFECT ENEMY: The Law Enforcement Manual of Islamist Terrorism
(Available in October) By Dean T. Olson
On September 11, 2001, America’s 700,000 law enforcement officers were
forcefully introduced to a new era in policing after Islamist
terrorists perpetrated the most savage and horrific terrorist violence
ever on American soil. In spite of the post 9/11 proliferation of
information about Islamist terrorism, many law enforcement officers
remain uninformed about the nature, scope, and reality of this threat.
Even the FBI (America’s lead law enforcement agency in the struggle
against Islamist terrorism) fails to arm its agents with accurate and
comprehensive information to understand this patient, merciless, and
fanatical foe. This manual was prepared to address this knowledge void
by explaining the underlying politico-religious motivations that drives
Islamist terrorism.
It contains chapters that explain Islamist
terrorism and describe the history of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
The tenets of Islam and the ideology used to justify terrorist
atrocities ranging from suicide/homicide bombings in Israel to the
slaughter of school children in Beslan, Russia are documented. The
history of Jihad, the oldest and most successful international Islamist
group in the world, and how this group has established an effective
subversive apparatus in America that works tirelessly to dismantle our
democratic freedoms is described.
The text explains that by using a
“soft” form of Jihad, this group seeks to destroy Western ideals and
democracy with the goal of replacing them with a fascist totalitarian
ideology to obtain world domination and the forced imposition of a
seventh century politico-religious system of law. The radicalization
process that can lead apparently well-integrated Muslim citizens to
terrorism is discussed, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist
groups.
A summary of comprehensive information detailing the Islamist
groups active within America and the dangers they pose to Homeland
Security is provided. In addition, the Appendices contain an Arabic
Name Analysis, Ritual Prayer-Salat, Jihad Holy War Verse in the Koran,
Jihad campaigns in history, “The Last Night” letter by Muhammad Atta
who was the leader in the 9/11 attacks, and an explanatory memorandum
on the general strategic goal for the Muslim Brotherhood in North
America.
Perfect Enemy
provides unbiased and accurate information to acquaint our law
enforcement officers and Homeland Security officials with the Islamist
mindset and threat. Knowing our adversaries is a fundamental first step
in defeating their violent intentions and ensuring our survival, peace,
and safety.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface Transliteration of Arabic Names Islamic Source Materials Use of Pseudonyms and Noms de Guerres
Introduction — Deserving Victory
Chapter One — Islamist Terrorism: Back to the Future Chapter Two — A Brief History of Muhammad and Islam Chapter Three — Islam: A Critical Examination Chapter Four — Perfect Enemy: Islam’s Dark Side Chapter Five — Islamic Ideology: Deploying the Undead Chapter Six — Jihad: Islam’s Trojan Horse Chapter Seven — The Muslim Brotherhood: Progenitor of Islamist Terrorism Chapter Eight — The Islamist Fifth Column Chapter Nine — Radicalization: Producing Homegrown Terrorists Chapter Ten — Islamist Terrorist Organization in the Homeland Chapter Eleven — Conclusion and Final Comments
Appendices Appendix A — Arab Naming Conventions (LAPD) Appendix B – Prayer Ritual Appendix C — Ablution Ritual Appendix D — Violent Surahs in the Qur’an Appendix E — The “Last Night Letter” of Muhammad Atta Appendix F — The Muslim Brotherhood Europe Project Appendix G — The Muslim Brotherhood American Project Appendix H — Jihad in History
Remember last April when Nancy Pelosi was cornered exposing her hypocrisy on the enhanced interrogation techniques used against terrorists? She had been crying how evil Bush was and pretending she was in the dark on the issue. The CIA let the world know she had been briefed on the techniques and that they were being used. She claimed the CIA was lying.
“In that or any other briefing we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel opinions that they could be used,”
Uh oh!Documented evidence has surfaced! In a report given to congress by the National Intelligence Director this week, on September 4th 2002 Nancy Pelosi was briefed. Her name is in the column stating:
“Briefing on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah,
background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs
that had been employed.”
Now new evidence has surfaced. In the Attorney General’s war against the CIA
for using these enhanced techniques, documents have been revealed
showing Pelosi’s hands are not as clean as she would like people to
believe.
The newly declassified CIA report on the
interrogation of Islamist terrorists notes “in the fall of 2002, the
agency briefed the leadership of the Congressional Intelligence Oversight Committees on the use of both standard techniques and EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques).”
The CIA, according to the report, “continued to brief the leadership of the Intelligence Oversight Committees on the use of EITs and detentions in February and March 2003.”
And here’s the zinger: “The general counsel says that none of the participants expressed any concern about the techniques or the program . . . .”
For months, Speaker Pelosi has claimed she and other high-ranking Democrats in Congress who were briefed by the CIA during President Bush’s first term “were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used.”
Others present with her at CIA intelligence briefings, like former House Intelligence Committee Chairman and CIA director Porter Goss, say otherwise.
Her credibility was also rattled by the revelation that Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat who succeeded Pelosi as ranking Democrat on the House intelligence panel, sent a classified letter to the CIA in February 2003 objecting to EITs.
Speaker Pelosi’s behavior reeks of the kind of cynicism and hypocrisy Americans have become used to seeing in Washington.
Her liberal instincts were to object to the CIA’s tough interrogation of terrorists.
But those briefings took place not long after the 9/11 attacks; the
war in Afghanistan, home to al-Qaida and shelter for Osama bin Laden,
was going well; and the Iraq War had not yet begun.
So there was no way for an ambitious politician like Pelosi to know which way the political winds would end up blowing.
At the time, President Bush was basking in popularity, and the
nation was in lockstep behind his aggressive approach to waging the
global war on terror — including in Iraq. For all Pelosi knew, it might stay that way for many years to come.
So she stayed quiet, keeping her options open. Now, with Democrats
running the whole show in Washington and a Justice Department poised to
criminalize CIA interrogators in a politicized national security witch
hunt, she has chosen to revert to those liberal instincts.
Solid evidence showing what we already knew. Pelosi is a hypocritical liar. She should be held accountable.
Fellow blogger Torrance Stephens says, "I am located in a country where folks don’t seek out information and
merely report and re-report what others state without thorough
evaluation."He is absolutely correct and thus it is difficult to find accurate information on many local, national and world events. For one thing, our media is working on a shoestring budget, many publications closing their doors, there are many areas of the world where we have no reporters on the ground to 'report'. Of course, actual reporting of facts without personal slant or commentary is also hard to find these days.
On Scotland's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, there are several important unanswered questions popping up.
First, there is a rumor out there that al-Megrahi isn't really sick, that he does not have cancer, which was the reason he was released. Supposedly he only has three months to live. What proof do we have to either prove or disprove this? Dry Bones Blog in cartoon form asks, "If he's not dead in three months, will they kill him ... just to be fair?"
Second, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown claimed ignorance and rejected the idea that the Brits could have stopped the Scots from releasing al-Megrahi. But now there are questions out there that Brown may have known and been complicit in a deal two years prior to the release. Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi said, "... it was "not a secret" that his father inked a
2007 prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) with Britain's then-Prime
Minister Tony Blair at the same time the two governments were signing
favorable oil and trade deals. ... Lockerbie is history. The next step is fruitful and productive business with Edinburgh and London." Third, how much about the release and the oil deal did the US know and when did they know it? I feel sure that there are reporters out there somewhere investigating this, because inquiring minds want to know.
We've seen with the proposed health care bill that real research and investigative reporting is being done by average Americans, because we can't depend on the media. Same goes for all those czars and others hired by Barack Obama, paid with tax dollars, and investigated and approved by no one ... except the American people. Who is really running the show in the White House?
What's the situation in Iraq since American military pulled back? Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the latest bombing there, but my source who actually knows first hand what's going on, says Saudi Arabia and Iran are the ones causing the recent problems in Iraq. The Iraqi people, business owners (especially women) are worried about what will happen when the US completely pulls out. Many questions need to be answered about who is meddling in Iraqi affairs and who it is that might destroy what our American military have given their lives for.
You see, Yemen is a strategic country on the Gulf of Aden
and the fighting is near the border with Saudi Arabia. I do not know if
it has been proven yet, but reports have been coming out over the past
few years asserting that Al Qaeda fighters using the nation as a base
to launch attacks all across the Middle East. What do know is that this
may be bigger than our political and media class suspect. I mean it may
just be a proxy war, fought in a poor nation by two wealth nations
-Iran's Shiite-led government and its Saudi Arabia Sunni government.
Yemen
has retorted that Iran is funneling weapons and money to the
rebels. At the same time, Iran's news media have alleged that Saudi
military forces have joined Yemeni troops in fighting the rebels. And
like most places in the region, it is asserted that the Shiites (42% of
Yemen's 23 million people), who want a return to the clerical rule
abolished in the national revolution of 1962, and also claim to be a
persecuted minority. (continue)
Mr. Stephens thinks there are way too many unanswered questions about Yemen, concluding:
"But I guess since it ain’t on the news, it is not important, I am just
afraid when it actual start, that tens of thousands will be dead, that
more extremist will be trained, and Obama will be looking George W,
Bush azz backwards."
I guess we'll have to wait and hope someone will do some investigative reporting....
I'm not a regular watcher of Glenn Beck on Fox News, but I did tune in today. If I didn't understand what he was talking about and if I was not an informed Conservative, I might think he was a conspiracy nut. My friends, we have reached a time in American history where what would normally seem like crazy conspiracy is actually fact. He's doing a special one week series on our current situation that is just amazing.
Apparently American television viewers agree, because the ratings put other shows, even Fox shows, and other networks to shame. Check the numbers for yourself. You can listen to audio/video at his web site. He poses questions, shines the light of day on the Obama administration and it's shadow government. On Friday, August 28, 2009, he will be presenting solutions, actions that you as an average American can take to halt this disastrous takeover of America by Barack Obama and his thugs.
How we ever got in the situation we are presently in is beyond me. But here we are nevertheless. We cannot depend on our politicians to protect us, so we must take actions ourselves.
Beck is going behind the scenes of the Obama administration. He discussed with Michelle Malkin, the massive national security force Obama plans to build, the funding provided for it, and WHY does Obama need this security force??? Who will be the target of this security force??? The "angry mobs" at tea parties or town halls??? Those who cling to their religion and guns?
Beck's 912 project has captured the hearts of Americans. Politicians should take notice. If Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh were to run for political office against ANYBODY else, they would win by a landslide. This should tell both wimpy Republicans and Democrats something.
Glenn Beck's book Common Sense has been on the top of the best seller list of all categories of books for ten weeks now. That should tell politicians and the MSM something too.
Certain networks are in the tank for Obama, always have been. They choose their news, what fits the Obama agenda, they choose what ads they will run, whether they suit the Obama agenda... I thought it was the responsibility of a "news" organization to report facts and events, not to carry the water of the Democrat party. Silly me. There are reports that some sponsors of the Glenn Beck show have withdrawn their support, but it hasn't hurt his viewing numbers one bit. My gut is a little worried about Fox keeping Beck on board... time will tell.
Ramadan Mubarak. Obama ignores National Day of Prayer, but gives special message to Muslims. . .
With the virtual dummy-card assistance of George Stephanopoulos, along
with the blind support of other media elites during his campaign for
President, Barack Hussein Obama was able to remind enough American
voters that he is a Christian.
But if actions speak louder than
words, Former Israeli Prime Minister Assistant and expert on Middle
Eastern culture, Avi Lipkin, says one can make a sound argument that
there is more to Mr. Obama’s name than he would have us believe.
Since
taking office a few short months ago, Obama has taken unusually, if not
conspicuously, great measures to ingratiate himself with the Islamic
international community—from a world-stage speech in Cairo, Egypt, in
which he apologetically promised everyone that America is not at war
with Islam, to his latest videotape broadcast of glad Ramadan tidings
to Muslims everywhere.
For Lipkin and other interested
observers, all this love for Islam isn’t the issue. It is this in
tandem with other actions, or inactions, the “Christian” President has
taken toward the Israeli and Christian communities—from his
administration’s staunch demand for an end to Jewish settlements in the
West Bank, to his omission of any reference to Christian persecution in
the Middle East, while he had the floor in Cairo, to his apparent
appeasement game with a nuclear-ambitious Iran. (Special Guests)
Crime 1: Another multi-billion dollar subsidy for Government Motors.
When Obama stole Chrysler
from its stockholders and gave it to his union cronies, we knew he
would take every opportunity to waste taxpayer dollars trying to keep
this lead balloon afloat. The Cash for Clunkers subsidy is just
particularly egregious, since it works by subsidizing the last people
in the world who need a subsidy: those who are well off enough to be
buying new cars in the midst of a deep recession. Talk about a middle
class welfare program!
Crime 2: Eliminating
Government Motors’ competition by gratuitously slagging an expected
750,000 perfectly good used cars in the sub-$4500 price range.
The Obamacrats aren’t just subsidizing cars for the well-to-do. They are destroying
the cars that the less well-off are in the market for, driving up used
car prices as part of their effort to make new cars more attractive:
Some
parts may be kept but the engine and drive-train must be destroyed.
Specifically the engine will be injected with a liquid glass solution
to permanently disable the engine and it will be the responsibility of
the dealer to make sure this is done to the engine.
Injected
with liquid glass? Sounds like a Quentin Tarentino murder fantasy, and
the reality isn't any prettier. Witness Obama's procedure for
destroying the would-be cars of the non-wealthy:
Here
is another one, a spiffy-looking Volvo that holds out for 4-plus
minutes. Some clunker, and check out the row of semi-new cars lined up
to go next:
Take
THAT all you graduate students, newlyweds, store clerks, aspiring
actors, single moms, non-deadbeat dads, warehouse workers, journalists,
hippies, and other assorted poor relations. You want a car, you can
scrape together your savings for a down payment on the privilege of
paying hundreds of dollars a month to Government Motors for FIVE YEARS,
just like everybody else.
How big is this crime?
A
very substantial portion of the population NEVER buys a new car. I, for
instance, have never bought a new car, and I never expect to. Why would
I, when California has the best used car market in the world? In the
last 10 years I have bought two 1984 Toyota Vans, one with 45,000
miles, one with 115,000 miles, each for $1500. Both still run great.
One is set up as a work vehicle. One converts from passenger van to
camper. No new vehicles would serve as well, or look as sharp.
My
two uber-vans, one extra-dirty from its recent 2000 mile trek to
Seattle and back. (Shasta, Crater Lake, Boeing Museum of Flight, Blue
Angels, Olympic Peninsula, Fort Stevens, Oregon Dunes, North Coast, and
back across the Golden Gate. Ain’t that America?)
The
vehicles that are being gratuitously destroyed are newer than my two
vans (which are just outside the 25 year age limit) and they are up to
three times the price. For instance, the immensely popular Toyota
Previa vans (1990-96) all qualify.
A
good California Previa with a hundred thousand miles left on it sells
for two to three thousand dollars. The government's offer of 35-45
hundred is outbidding the market even on these top quality used
vehicles. Cash for Clunkers is a misnomer. Some bottom-of-the-barrel
cars will be turned in, but the rules insure that most will not be
these “clunkers.”
To qualify, a car must
have been registered the name of the new car buyer for the last 12
months and it must have been insured for the last 12 months. These
actively-used cars of people who buy new cars are the quality core of
the used car market. Most “clunkers” will be perfectly good cars that
would be prize possessions for a half million less well-off Americans,
wantonly destroyed only because the Obamacrats prefer that they be
destroyed. Dollar for dollar, this is the equivalent of trying to solve
the glut of housing foreclosures by purchasing the houses with taxpayer
money then burning them down.
Any Obama supporter who claims to
be motivated by distributional justice, go soak your head. You want to
subsidize the better off? Be as stupid as you want. But don’t go
destroying en masse what the less well-off need to survive.
All justified by a lie
Obama’s
excuse for decimating the last two generations of used vans, SUV’s,
pick-up trucks and full size cars is the global warming hoax. The
ascendancy of Obama is, in his own narcissistic vision:
...the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Energy consumption must be curtailed in the extreme:
…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
It
is all about CO2 and the phony global warming industry that Vice
President Al Gore created with $10b of seed money when he pioneered and
administered the executive branch’s global warming portfolio (now
called “climate change,” since the earth stopped warming 10 years ago).
Gore’s appointees have directed almost all of the full $79b
that the U.S. has spent on climate science since 1989, and they don't
care at all whether CO2 is actually warming the planet. Their real
motivation is an eco-religious belief that economic activity is
gobbling up the natural world, so that for the natural world to
survive, economic activity must contract.
To these high priests
of green religion, CO2 is the perfect fall guy, no matter how
insignificant its actual impact on climate. If the CO2 released by
fossil fuel burning can be framed as a threat to the planet, that
provides a rationale for drastically curtailing human economic
activity, thereby stopping economic activity from gobbling up the
natural world, whether or not CO2 itself actually has any harmful
effects.
CO2 alarmists reject the scientific method
We
can say with nearly complete certainty that the bulk of 20th century
warming was NOT caused by CO2. This is because we know what DID cause
the warming: the “grand maximum” levels of solar-magnetic activity that obtained for most solar cycles between 1930 and 2003.
Numerousstudies
have found a high degree of correlation (.6 to .8) between
solar-magnetic activity and global temperature. That is, solar-magnetic
activity "explains" statistically 60-80% of global temperature change
on all time scales. That degree of correlation, observed over thousands and millions
of years, HAS to be causal, and the causation can only go one way. It
is not the temperature of the earth that is causing sunspots.
What
is not well understood is HOW solar-magnetic activity drives global
temperature. We just know that it does, just as before Einstein we did
not know what mechanism causes massive objects to fall towards each
other, we just knew that they do.
We actually have some pretty
good theories of how solar-magnetic activity drives global temperature
but set that aside. The eco-religionists, who thanks to Al Gore control
ALL of the research funds for the “climate change” industry, use
uncertainty about HOW solar-magnetic activity drives global temperature
as an excuse for completely omitting the solar-magnetic variable from
their models. They explicitly put theory over data, exactly the
opposite of the scientific method, which says that data is always
supposed to trump theory.
This anti-scientific method
misattributes to CO2 the warming caused by high 20th century levels of
solar-magnetic activity. Put solar-magnetic activity back into the
equation, attributing to it what warming has historically been
correlated with high levels of solar-magnetic activity, and the levels
of warming that could possibly be attributable to CO2 become small. In
particular, they become benign.
Warming in general is good. When
Greenland was green, civilization prospered, as did plants and other
living things. Nothing gobbles up the natural world like ice. It is
only by claiming that CO2 could cause some unprecedented “runaway
warming” that the alarmists have been able to present CO2 as dangerous.
Stop misattributing solar-magnetic warming to CO2 and that possibility
is off the table.
The dominant driver of global climate is
solar-magnetic activity and any modicum of warming we can get out CO2
is all to the good. If our fossil fuel burning has the side effect of
making our warm times a little warmer and our cold times a little less
cold, that is a happy bit of luck for a world that ALWAYS seems to be
colder than the optimum, with the next glacial period due any Millennia.
Proof that the IPCC completely omits the solar-magnetic variable
Just look at any of the IPCC assessment reports. They all include the following graphic (slightly updated over the years): (click image to enlarge)
From the 4th Assessment Report (figure 2.4 on page 39 of the Synthesis Report).
The
only "natural" climate influence accounted by the IPCC is "solar
irradiance," which means visible light and other electro-magnetic
radiation. It does in any way include the solar-magnetic flux, which is
completely omitted from all IPCC models, even though every climate
scientists knows full well that, according to the raw data, magnetic
effects are the primary driver of global temperature.
EVERY
educated person who accepts CO2 alarmism on the authority of the global
warming anti-scientists is failing the most basic due diligence.
Technically,
the alarmists’ anti-scientific inversion of theory and evidence takes
the form of what is called “omitted variable fraud,” where the omission
of any important explanatory variable causes its explanatory effect to
be misattributed to whatever correlated variables are included (in this
case CO2 which, like solar activity, also went up in the 20th century).
This is the most basic, the most common, the most familiar form of
statistical fraud. Everyone who has ever studied not just any physical
science but any social science at any moderately high level is fully
competent recognize for themselves the statistical fraud that is being
committed by the CO2 alarmists.
The educated Democrat-voting
elites who are pushing to unplug industrial capitalism on the authority
of alarmist anti-scientists have an obligation of due diligence to
check for themselves whether the facts of the matter are beyond their
own competence, and they are ALL failing this basic obligation. They
are just assuming that they have to accept on authority that the
survival of the planet requires the radical curtailment of CO2, when
even a quick look at the facts reveals that the statistically most
important variable is omitted from the alarmist models.
Why this
willingness uncritically enlist as foot-soldiers for the destruction of
modernity? Because like the CO2 anti-scientists themselves, these
Democrat elites also don’t care whether CO2 is actually a threat. They
too are eco-religionists who are glad for any excuse to curtail the
economic growth that according to their presumptions is gobbling up the
natural world.
Wrong about economics too
Of
course the eco-religionists are also wrong about economic growth being
bad for the environment. Economic growth creates and is created by
technological advance, and it is technological advance that is allowing
mankind and the natural world to both thrive at once. Economic activity
is not the enemy of the natural world. It is the salvation of the
natural world.
Having dedicated their intellectual resources to
maintaining their religious presumptions instead of following reason
and evidence, our Democrat elites have become pure political animals in
the lowest sense, driven entirely by their lust for power. Every
excuse, be it phony concern for distributive justice or phony concern
for the environment, is wielded with complete dishonesty, utterly
heedless of how distributive justice or the environment are actually
affected, until all that is left is their ultimate presumption: that
the one thing most necessary is that THEY have power.
This
pathology finds its epitome in President Obama. Cash for Clunkers is
just one paltry multi-billion dollar program, but the same
coming-and-going perversity is manifest in Obama’s larger jihad against
CO2—his push for cap and trade legislation. If we would uncork energy,
the economy would rebound tomorrow, but Obama is determined to close
the energy spigot down, not open it up.
Anybody who thinks this
recession is ending is out of their minds. Obama is draining the oil
and pouring in the silica slurry. If you want to hear where the economy
is headed, listen to the “squirk” from the end of the Obama-car-death
video, when the engine jerks at the end of the hangman’s rope.
This is the sound of a valuable helper being sacrificed by government
to the false idols of green religion. It isn’t just barbarous. It is a
clear violation of the establishment clause. Execute the worst human
criminals, yes, but Mission Solano has it right: “No Death Penalty for Cars!”
--UPDATE--
I received the following email concerning donating your old cars to charity, it sounds like a great idea so please read and check out their website:
Hi
Debbie,
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Seriously. Like nobody could have predicted this stunt.
CNN Gladly Reports on Lib Plant Posing as Wingnut
That black man holding the sign is allegedly a Dingel (D) supporter
and was busted by bloggers doing the job the state run media refuses to
do.
The mainstream media has been riding the tails of their sources at the Huffington Post and Daily Kos to beat the flames of right wing Klan like crazies opposing health care.
Note how “professional journalists” can’t pick up and report real stories such as the following:
We know that the real protesters are genuine. Question for all you
Obama supporters. When the hell are you going to wake up? If Democrats
have to go this far to fool you into believing their crap how far are
they willing to go when you actually start questioning them yourselves?
Ooops, wait. You have already been marginalized because many in
opposition are not conservatives. You are as nutty and Un-American as all of us according to Pelosi and Steny Hoyer.
So much for the notion that theses Congressional leaders support you.
That went out the window the minute you strayed off the farm!
Speaking of weasels we have yet another new contest underway. The
following articles were submitted by the council search for the best
weasel expose of the week. Check back on Friday for results.
Note from Debbie: I know you are all frustrated at the dirty politics coming from the Obama administration. But take a few minutes to step back, clear your mind, think about something else for a little while, maybe have some ice-cream or something decadent, or maybe indulge in the Forget Obama Martini:
Forget Obama Martini
2 parts Cranberry Cosmopolitan martini mix, preferably Baja Bob's sugar free mix 1 part Gin 1/2 part dry Vermouth (or sweet if you prefer)
Place in shaker with ice, shake vigorously, strain into glass, forget Obama...
Hubby pointed out a road sign today I had never seen before. The road we were driving on had just been re-paved -- I'm not sure it even needed to be repaved, but that's another story. The sign said "Road Work - recovery.gov". Yes Tennessee prostituted herself and took money, our wimpy leaders were probably drooling all over themselves at how they could spend all that dough. But I would be willing to bet no new jobs were created by the paving of that road, no stimulus was provided, and I also bet the same thing is happening across this nation.
What's The Stimulus Got To Do With IT???
Economy: July's drop in the jobless rate sent a flutter of
optimism through the financial markets that the economy is starting to
recover. But don't let the politicians fool you into thinking they had
a role in the improvement. [snip]
Claims that higher taxes and a total of $2 trillion in stimulus, TARP
and bailout spending this year have turned the economy around are
unconvincing. Indeed, they're farcical.(Investors Business Daily)
Are We In America or Amerika?
Public Debate: Democrats, bloodied over their attempt to force
health care "reform" on Americans, are looking more unreasonable and
hysterical by the day. This isn't healthy for the republic.
"I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of
talking," the president said Thursday at a political rally in Virginia.
"I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."
So much for the promises of bipartisan lawmaking. So much for open
discussion. So much for understanding who really caused the "mess" in
the first place. Like Al Gore claiming the debate about global warming
is over, the White House simply wants to shut down dialogue over who
controls more than one-seventh of the economy. [snip]
We are not advocating violence, though coercive government is at its
core violent as the state is required to resort to force to ensure that
its directives aren't violated.
But we do support our fellow citizens' right to express their rage
at an injustice, particularly if it makes lawmakers uncomfortable.
Shouldn't Americans bristle when their independence is threatened, when
a federal official, in this case White House deputy chief of staff Jim
Messina, says party leaders "will punch back twice as hard" when voters
merely show their displeasure?
The freedom the protesters are defending can sometimes be messy and
imperfect. A lack of freedom, however, is eternally oppressive. It is
an unrelenting prison that poisons the human spirit, even when cloaked
in allegedly humane programs such as government-run health care. (Investors Business Daily)
Your darn right, fighting to keep our freedoms can get messy, loud, and even ugly -- but it's our right, it's our freedom to speak out. Let the townhall meetings continue!
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