Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Environmentalists: Proposed fee on smelly cows, hogs angers farmers
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law.
Farmers so far are turning their noses up at the notion, which is one of several put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gases emitted by belching and flatulence amounts to air pollution.
"This is one of the most ridiculous things the federal government has tried to do," said Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, an outspoken opponent of the proposal.
It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Elder Statesman
Barack Obama and the FDR-Great Depression Myth
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Chicago's Murder Rate Double American Soldiers Killed in Iraq
BODYCOUNT IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS:
297MURDERED IN CHICAGO
221KILLED IN IRAQ
OURLEADERSHIP IN ILLINOIS;
SEN.BARACK OBAMA
SEN.DICK DURBIN
REP.JESSE JACKSON, JR.
GOV.ROD BLOGOJEVICH
HOUSELEADER MIKE MADIGAN
ATTY.GEN LISA MADIGAN
MAYORRICHARD DALY
YES,ALL DEMOCRATS!
THANKYOU FOR THE COMBAT ZONE IN CHICAGO.
OFCOURSE THEY ARE BLAMING EACH OTHER. THEY CAN'T BLAME THE REPUBLICANS,BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY!
STATEPENSION FUND $44 BILLION IN DEBT, WORST IN THE NATION.
COOKCOUNTY (CHICAGO) SALES TAX 10.25%, HIGHEST IN THE NATION.
CHICAGOSCHOOL SYSTEM THE WORST IN THE NATION.
THISIS THE POLITICAL MACHINE THAT OBAMA SAYS HE COMES FROM IN ILLINOIS.
ANDNOW ...
OBAMASAYS HE'S GONNA 'FIX' WASHINGTON POLITICS.!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The Constitution Still Matters
For the electors to uphold the Constitution that they're sworn to do with their upcoming vote, they must first know for sure that the candidates meet the basic constitutional requirements for the office of president. He must be a natural-born citizen, at least 35 years old, and have at least 14 years of residency in these United States. That's not a lot to ask. Pretty basic, really.
And pretty easy. Either you are a natural born citizen or you aren't. Just deliver the original birth certificate and everyone can be on their way. That's just what Phillip J. Berg has asked the United States Supreme Court to do. And the Supreme Court has asked for a response from Barack Obama along with the Democratic National Committee and Federal Elections Commission. And they have until Dec. 1 to respond.
Surely a guy couldn't get this far without meeting the basic requirements, could he? Turns out … he could. Especially if the political party whose job it is to verify that their candidate is qualified has a conflict of interest – they want their guy to win.
That's why there's a clamor to see if those basic requirements are actually met.
Not extreme. Not fringe. Just constitutional. Obama says he's qualified? Phil Berg, multiple legal suits and growing number of Americans say: "Prove it."
Why is there any doubt?
Exhibit A: The Grandmother's tape
I was in the delivery room in [Mombosa,] Kenya, when he was born Aug. 4, 1961.This is the link where Obama's grandmother says Barack Obama is a native Kenyan.
– Obama's paternal grandmother
Here's the phone call where Obama's grandmother says Obama was born in Kenya.
While politicians are known for it, grandmothers seldom lie.
Exhibit B: No birth certificate
Experts have called the Certificate of Live Birth posted online a forgery. Phil Berg reported on my Faith2Action radio program yesterday, "It's clearly been altered," which invalidates it, according to the document itself. Berg added that there is no indication even on this certificate as to specifically where the birth took place. And it turns out that Hawaiian law at the time allowed people to register for this non-hospital short form certificate (without a doctor's signature) up to one year from the date of the child's birth.
Exhibit C: The matter of Indonesian citizenship
Only Indonesian citizens could attend Indonesian schools at the time Barack Obama attended school in Indonesia where was registered as Barry Soetoro. His citizenship was listed as Indonesian and his religion as Islam. There was also no dual citizenship at the time.
If he was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, he would have forfeited any U.S. citizenship he may have had, just as when a child is adopted in America, he or she becomes an American.
Exhibit D: Travel to Pakistan
U.S. citizens were prohibited from traveling to Pakistan in 1981 when Barack Obama made his visit – likely with a passport other than a U.S. passport.
Exhibit E: Immigration back to the U.S.
According to Phillip Berg on my radio program yesterday, if Barack Obama went through immigration as he re-entered the United States, he would have become "naturalized," which also would not qualify him to become President. If he did not, said Berg, there is a likelihood that he is now an illegal alien – not even eligible to serve in the U.S. Senate. In fact, Berg suggested there has been no evidence that Barack Obama legally changed his name from Barry Soetoro.
In addition, according to U.S. law, from "Dec. 24, 1952, to Nov. 13, 1986," a U.S. natural-born citizen at the time of Obama's birth must be:
- A natural-born citizen;
- Born to two U.S. citizen parents; OR
- If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least 10 years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.
Here's the bottom line: either the Constitution matters or it doesn't. And if we're willing to ignore the constitutional requirements for the highest office in the land, what else are we willing to forgo? That part about free speech? Freedom of the press? Freedom of religion? If we are willing to shred one part of the Constitution, brace yourself to lose the rest.
Matthew 10:26 said it best: "Therefore do not fear them, 'There is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.'" The question is whether it will come in time to avert a Constitutional crisis.
If you are a Democrat or Republican elector who cares about the Constitution even more than your party, please email me directly at jfolger@wnd.com. You are sworn to uphold the Constitution with your vote next month, and making sure the constitutional requirements are met is vital for you to uphold that oath.
Members of Congress also need to step up to the plate since they are the ones responsible to approve the vote of the Electoral College. They can be reached at: 202-224-3121. Seems to me a defender of the Constitution like Rep. Ron Paul would be a natural plaintiff in the case to verify that constitutional requirements have been met. Other members with courage to stand need to stand now or forever hold their peace.
Our Founding Fathers were right; the Constitution is still worth defending. Rise up and speak up while there is still time. Go Phil Berg's www.ObamaCrimes.com and join the fight to defend the Constitution. Please forward this to everyone on your e-mail lists.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
It's Priceless
Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in a world where there were no prices?
If you happened to want a Rolex or a Rolls-Royce, you could just go get one-- or two if you wanted-- and not have to worry about ugly little things like price tags.
There is such a world. It is the world of political rhetoric. No wonder so many people are attracted to that world. It would be a great place to live.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
As an American citizen, while I will show respect to President-elect Obama, I oppose the far-Left and socialistic elements that comprise the centerpiece of his agenda. I recognize that it will take a patriotic and resilient Citizen Resistance to block implementation of this agenda and I join with others who oppose these threats to our liberties.
Understanding Capitalism and the Financial Crisis
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Voters distrust 'diluted' GOP
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
A Prophet in 1964 Predicted Today
Gays and Blacks (and Gay Blacks) Go to War
For gay Democrats, the election was a landslide that swept them up one moment and buried them the next. Enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s victory was overwhelming, especially after eight years of a conservative president who, at times, made gays Public Enemy No. 1. But then the results from Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that nullified the state’s recently declared right of same-sex marriage, came rolling in, and it became clear that one of the country’s most solidly blue states was about to give same-sex marriage the heave-ho.
Now the gay community supports African American candidates, supports civil rights, and what happens? They treat us the same way the country once treated them.
This unusual confluence of events has created a near-perfect study in what happens when minority groups are pitted against one another. As you can see from peeking in on gay and lesbian internet message boards, white gay people are railing against the socially conservative black vote that came out for Obama and may have boosted Proposition 8. Black gays, in turn, are accusing their white gay peers of viscous racism. On one message board on the gay blog Queerty, the conflict is unfolding in real-time. Here are a few excerpts.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Let's Go Back to the Founders For Advice
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago. -Thomas Jefferson
"The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves;
that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom
of the press." Thomas Jefferson
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.-Thomas Jefferson
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.-Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.-Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.-Thomas Jefferson
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.-Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.-Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.-Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Annoy the Media: Go Vote Today!
The latest tactic in this elite media campaign has been to declare the presidential race over in an effort to discourage some voters from going to the polls. After all, if Barack Obama has already won, why should supporters of John McCain even bother to vote?
But this election won't be decided by Keith Olbermann, or CNN, or the New York Times.
It will be decided by you.
So annoy the mainstream media. Remember 2000. Remember how close it was. Remember how every single vote counted.
Go out and vote Republican. Now!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Why are 'born-again' Christians backing Obama?
The Barna Group for research says Obama is statistically tied (43 percent to 45 percent) with Republican John McCain among born-again Christian voters. "Born-again Christians" are defined by Barna as people who say they have made a personal commitment to Jesus and believe they will go to heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. Based on that definition, 48 percent of all voters in this election will be "born-again" Christians.
Meantime, Barna says 63 percent of "evangelicals" are supporting McCain, while 23 percent are supporting Obama. "Evangelicals" meet the "born-again" criteria, plus seven other conditions, including the belief that salvation is only possible through grace, not works.
The Obama Birth Certificate Rabbit Trail
Leaked Quotes From Obama-LA Times Videogate?
Obama's Plumbers
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Election '08: Ohio Democrats refused to act on ACORN's massive vote fraud. Yet they have time to scour the private records of Joe the Plumber. No wonder Barack Obama finds the Constitution an inconvenience.
Read More: Election 2008
Checks on 'Joe' more extensive than first acknowledged
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Jones-Kelly also has denied any connections between the computer checks on Wurzelbacher and her support for Obama. She donated the maximum $2,500 this year to the Obama campaign.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
If The Shoe Fits Al Franken Wears It
"Considering the stuff Franken has said this campaign and what the Dems, by proxi have said nationally about Palin i.e. the "C" word T-shirt that actually showed up on the Obama website, the shock and offense shown by the Dems is laughable.
Simple question, are the statements/accusations against Franken true - yes or no?
And THAT is all that matters."
Slick Barack's Campaign Financing Machine Exposed
Read on...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Obama's Pro-Choice Hypocrisy With God
Re-reading the doctor's letter, though, I felt a pang of shame. It is people like him who are looking for a deeper, fuller conversation about religion in this country. They may not change their positions, but they are willing to listen and learn from those who are willing to speak in fair-minded words. Those who know of the central and awesome place that God holds in the lives of so many, and who refuse to treat faith as simply another political issue with which to score points.
So I wrote back to the doctor, and I thanked him for his advice. The next day, I circulated the email to my staff and changed the language on my website to state in clear but simple terms my pro-choice position. And that night, before I went to bed, I said a prayer of my own - a prayer that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me."
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Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled "Do Facts Matter?" ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com] ): "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
The Obama Temptation
Read on...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Obama: To Redistribute Wealth We Must Break the Constitution Free From the Constraints Placed In It by the Founding Fathers
Quoting from Barrack Obama 2001:
"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that…..
……I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn’t structured that way."
Go Figure: Obama seeks delay in voter fraud investigation
Barack Obama's presidential campaign is pressuring the Department of Justice to put off a probe of voter registration fraud allegations leveled against the now infamous liberal group ACORN.
Billionaire leftist George Soros funds liberal Catholics
Billionaire investor George Soros is bankrolling liberal Catholic groups that support abortion.
a formal relationship. Donahue contends both groups are "in the pocket of the Democratic Party" and are trying to sell Catholics the notion that they can be opponents of abortion and not seek to overturn Roe v. Wade if they support minimum wage and more welfare benefits.
"George Soros, who's basically an anti-American, far left-wing, pro-abortion, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, is funding the Catholic left. Now, if the Catholic League were getting money from an anti-American, far right-wing, pro-abortion, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic source, we'd be out of business in a New York minute," Donahue says. "By the way, George Soros lavishly funds Catholics for Choice, previously called Catholics for a Free Choice."
Donohue suggests Soros is attempting to make respectable the idea that one can be Catholic and promote abortion. However, Donohue notes Pope Benedict XVI has said some issues for Catholics are non-negotiable -- including abortion.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden
West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment.
"Are you joking?" said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. "No," West said.
West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over.
"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back.
Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.
"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.
McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."
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Friday, October 24, 2008
McCain for President
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 24, 2008; A19
Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.
I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
WORRY ABOUT GAFFETASTIC JOE
IF the prospect of Joe Biden sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency doesn't give you palpitations, you're not paying attention.
Hysterical Sarah Palin-bashers on the unhinged left and elitist right have dominated campaign press coverage and pop culture. They've ridiculed her family, her appearance and her speech patterns. They've derided her character, her parenting skills, her readiness and her intellect.
Meanwhile, the increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden gets a pass. What does the guy have to do to earn the relentless scrutiny and merciless mockery he deserves? Answer: Wear high heels, shoot caribou and change the "D" next to his name to an "R."
BIDEN'S BUNGLES: A BLATANT BIAS
Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate prompted a small wave of warnings about Biden's propensity for gaffes. But no one imagined even in a worse-case scenario such a spectacular bomb as telling donors Sunday to "gird your loins" because a young president Obama will be tested by an international crisis just like young President John Kennedy was.
Scary? You betcha! But somehow, not front-page news.
Again the media showed their incredible bias by giving scattered coverage of Biden's statements.
There were a few exceptions. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Mika Brzezinski flipped incredulously through the papers, expressing shock at the lack of coverage of Biden's remarks. Guest Dan Rather admitted that if Palin had said it, the media would be going nuts.
So what gives?
Obama Talks Non-Sense on Tax Cuts
Now we know: 95% of Americans will get a "tax cut" under Barack Obama after all. Those on the receiving end of a check will include the estimated 44% of Americans who will owe no federal income taxes under his plan.
In most parts of America, getting money back on taxes you haven't paid sounds a lot like welfare. Ah, say the Obama people, you forget: Even those who pay no income taxes pay payroll taxes for Social Security. Under the Obama plan, they say, these Americans would get an income tax credit up to $500 based on what they are paying into Social Security.
Just two little questions: If people are going to get a tax refund based on what they pay into Social Security, then we're not really talking about income tax relief, are we? And if what we're really talking about is payroll tax relief, doesn't that mean billions of dollars in lost revenue for a Social Security trust fund that is already badly underfinanced?
Want Change? You Got It!
A little over one year ago :
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4) the DOW JONES hit a record high--14,000 +
5) American's were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacations overseas, living large!...
But American's wanted 'CHANGE'! So, in 2006 they voted
in a Democratic Congress and yes--we got 'CHANGE' all right. In the PAST YEAR:
1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ;
2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!;
3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 10% increase);
4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION DOLLARS and prices still dropping;
5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
6) as I write, THE DOW is probing another low~~$2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
YES, IN 2006
AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE...AND WE SURE GOT IT! ...
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS
NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS.
AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE
IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE ALONG WITH A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!
JUST HOW MUCH MORE 'CHANGE' DO YOU THINK YOU CAN STAND?
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Obama's First Crisis: Joe Biden
"Mark my words," Biden told donors at a Seattle fund-raiser Sunday night.
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.
"Watch. We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
"And he's going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it's not going to be apparent initially; it's not going to be apparent that we're right."
Obama's economic advisor a 'big gov't' proponent
During their final presidential debate, Barack Obama rejected John McCain's claim that the Illinois senator's associations with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and the liberal group ACORN are troubling. Obama noted that, on economic policy, he associates with Warren Buffett and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Buffet and Volcker are among the advisers that Obama says "have shaped [his] ideas and who will be surrounding [him] in the White House."
Warren Buffett, another of Obama's closest advisers, has donated
tens of millions of dollars to abortion-related causes.
Powell's Lame Case For Obama
Catfight: Sheehan vs. Pelosi
The political catfight between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and retired-but-now-born-again anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan has great potential to cause chaos among the ranks of the loony left in this country. Here we have Sheehan figuratively ripping at the blouse of Pelosi, who is maddeningly clawing at the camouflaged uniforms of our military men and women in Iraq.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Obamanomics
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18..
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59..
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
"Since you are all such good customers, he said, "I'm going to reduce
the cost of your daily beer by $20."
Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers?
How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?"
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.
But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $50 instead of $59 (15% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before.
And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man.
He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $9!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man.
"I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got nine times more than I!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man.
"Why should he get $9 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison.
"We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor."
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important.
They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists, and college professors, is how our tax system works.
The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Obama Is NOT Pro-American
Pro Americans try to improve themselves.
Pro Americans are NOT unionized against the taxpayers.
The welfare whores and other pieces of human waste [like Obama] that bleed our system dry are NOT pro American.
And they love Obama because he will give them a lifstyle equal to or greater than working people will be able to afford.
And keep in mind Michelle Obama was never proud of America.
Biden Admits How Damaging It Is To Run A "Pro-America" Campaign
The Rich Support McCain, the Super-Rich Support Obama
In Richistan, I wrote about a new political divide emerging among the wealthy. While most Lower Richistani’s ($1 million to $10 million in net worth) were voting Republican, most Middle-and Upper Richistanis (those worth $10 million plus and $100 million plus) were voting Democrat
Lower Richistanis tended to vote almost exclusively based on taxes. But Upper Richistanis placed a higher priority on longer-term societal issues like health care, the environment and education, which are traditional Democrat issues. Some say Upper Richistanis can afford to minimize taxes, since they have plenty of money even after the government takes its share. Others say the ultra-rich have better tax attorneys so they don’t care as much about tax rates.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Obama's Radical Roots And Rules
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: Most Americans revile socialism, yet Barack Obama's poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He's a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.
IBD Series: The Audacity Of Socialism
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's choice of the word "change" as his campaign's central slogan is not the product of focus-group studies, or the brainstorming sessions of his political consultants.
One of Obama's main inspirations was a man dedicated to revolutionary change that he was convinced "must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, nonchallenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future."
Saul Alinsky, circa 1946: Like Obama, he wanted "change."
Sen. Obama was trained by Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in 1940 by the radical organizer Saul Alinsky. In the 1980s, Obama spent years as director of the Developing Communities Project, which operated using Alinsky's strategies, and was involved with two other Alinsky-oriented entities, Acorn and Project Vote.
On the Obama campaign Web site can be found a photo of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom with "Power Analysis" and "Relationships Built on Self Interest" written on the blackboard — key terms utilized in the Alinsky method.
The far-left Alinsky had no time for liberalism or liberals, declaring that "a liberal is (someone) who puts his foot down firmly on thin air." He wanted nothing less than transformational radicalism. "America was begun by its radicals," he wrote. "America was built by its radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its radicals." And so, "This is the job for today's radical — to fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame to fight. To say, '. . . let us change it together!' "
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Obama’s Tax Cuts Raise Taxes Starting At $25,000; Small Businesses Equally Screwed *UPDATED*
Arithmetically Challenged
Sorry, I don’t have time tonight to pontificate. I’m on a special assignment.
Question: Barack Obama said if the economy is weak he’d consider delaying his tax proposals. Isn’t that an admission that his tax plan only serves to limit economic growth regardless?
Just be sure to read this if you think Obama will actually be cutting your taxes: Obama’s 95% Illusion.
Those of us in the reality-based community have known this all along: Obama will give you a welfare check and then raise your taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts expire. All this magic starts at just $25,000 a year courtesy of The Chosen One.
Now read this if you own a small business, just read this: Obama’s Tax Plan and Small Businesses.
Wake up before it’s too late. As Rush said today, “This isn’t about ‘gross’ or ‘net’ [earnings], this is about [being] ’screwed’ or ‘free’.”
By a margin of 4-11%, depending on the poll, Americans are in favor of being screwed by socialism. Coincidentally, Obama’s tax plan stands to benefit only about the same percentage of Americans.
Finally, more (shiny video, longer shinier video) evidence that Obama is a socialist with visions of income redistribution:
JESSE JACKSON: Under Obama 'decades of putting Israel's interests first' would end...
PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.
He promised "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy - saying America must "heal wounds" it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the "arrogance of the Bush administration."
The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end.
Obama plan: tax cuts or Demogrants?
BREITBART: Obama High: No child left benign
Andrew Breitbart
Monday, October 13, 2008
Elected officials in Chicago made international news last week by proposing to create a public high school for gay, lesbian and transgender students.
The Pride Campus of the School for Social Justice is set to open with 600 students in 2010, and its curriculum promises to "teach the history of all people who have been oppressed and the civil rights movements that have led to social justice and queer studies."
Yet no American journalist covering the presidential race has queried the Chicago-based Sen. Barack Obama about this radical development in education reform: a key issue to which the young senator has committed much of his public life and all of his executive experience.
From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Obama oversaw the Annenberg Challenge, a nearly $100 million Chicago-based education-reform group co-founded by unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
Nor has any intrepid mainstream-media reporter looked into a greater trend across the United States in segregating public school students by politically correct "victim" class for the explicit purpose of indoctrinating children in "social justice." This loaded political term has been preached by such Obama allies and mentors as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Rev. Michael Pfleger and Mr. Ayers: committed left-wing agitators all, and all off-limits to the working press.
So what exactly is "social justice"? This past Martin Luther King Day, a group of social-welfare students at the University of California at Berkeley got together and took a stab at defining it:
"Social justice is a process, not an outcome, which (1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities and responsibilities; (2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice; (3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential; (4) and builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action."
Fitting the narrative, the Social Justice High School in Chicago was created in an act of political protest. The first words on its main campus' Web site at the "About Us" tab make it clear that public funds are intended to develop future Moveon.org and ACORN-style activists: "On May 13th, 2001, fourteen community residents of Little Village neighborhood staged a nineteen-day hunger strike demanding the construction of a new high school."
The protesters back then chanted: "Construyan la escuela ahora!" ("Build the school now!"), and victory was theirs. It was "Si, Se Puede" in action, the Spanish-language Obama chant, and also, not at all coincidentally, the slogan of self-described "social justice" activist Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union.
Obama: "Spread the Wealth Around"
OBAMA: “Spread the wealth around”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owA2geM8OGg
For all of you who try to argue that Obama is not a socialist….here it is…
Shockingly, he has come out and said it.
This is so against everything we stand for as a nation. It is not the governments’ job to take our money to give everybody behind us a chance at success. It is the responsibility of everybody behind us to take advantage of the opportunity in America to succeed…JUST LIKE WE DID…
It is also not the governments’ job to take our money to “spread the wealth around”.
This is pure unadulterated SOCIALISM, America.
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=980671
Teenager Freddie Johnson said he was offered smokes and dollar bills to fill out voter registration cards.
Multiple registrants tell Cuyahoga County Elections Board ACORN workers begged for signatures
Monday, October 13, 2008
Learn more about Barack Obama and Joe biden
| Learn more about Barack Obama and Joe biden by visiting: www.MeetBarackObama.com and www.NotYourAverageJoseph.com |
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Steve Branchflower's Conflict of Interest, Wow Does He Work for Obama?
Don't get me wrong, he seems like a stand-up guy from what I'm reading, but his resume (posted by the Anchorage Daily News) casts serious doubt on whether the legislators who hired him really wanted a fair investigation. Branchflower, who served as an Assistant District Attorney in Anchorage from 1974-1998, held numerous positions which required him to work extremely closely with the Anchorage Police Department, where Walt Monegan would become chief in 2001. He provided legal advice to APD officers, trained APD officers, and was even a co-founder of the APD's Homicide Response Team. His wife also worked as a detective for the APD, not retiring until 2002, meaning that she worked under Walt Monegan. In short, it seems impossible to believe that Branchflower, whose entire career was wrapped up in his relationships with the APD, and his detective wife did not have at least some professional relationship with Walt Monegan, who was obviously one of the city's top cops. Mrs. Branchflower also briefly came out of retirement to work as a cold case detective for the Alaska State Troopers.
Now, I want to make it very clear that I have absolutely no desire to besmirch the good names of Mr. or Mrs. Branchflower. Both seem to have been exemplary public servants. However, the appointment of an investigator with such close ties to the Anchorage PD is puzzling considering that the case revolves around the firing of the state's leading cop (and a former APD chief) . Branchflower's appointment does nothing to assuage the fears of those who were worried that the legislature would attempt to use this issue to launch a biased and unjustified witch hunt. If Investigator Branchflower wants the public to take him seriously, he needs to start by answering one big question: What (if any) relationship did he have with Walt Monegan in Anchorage and how does he intend to remain unbiased in investigating his wife's former boss?
That said, my bigger question is not for Branchflower but for the legislators who dragged him into this mess: are there not qualified lawyers in Alaska who can't be easily linked to a party in the investigation? What was your vetting process, and was it designed to find a truly unbiased investigator or just someone who you thought was likely to go along with an unfounded effort to lynch the governor? If it was the latter, I certainly hope that Mr. Branchflower proves you wrong.
And now for the biggest question: does the Alaskan media have the guts to ask tough questions of anyone other than Sarah Palin?
Palin Exonerated But Mind Controlled Press Won't Believe IT
Investigator Stephen Branchflower:
"Today's report showed that the governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan," Meg Stapleton, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, said in a written statement.
Stapleton added that the panel's report shows that the inquiry was partisan and that Palin and her husband, Todd Palin, were "completely justified in their concern regarding Trooper Wooten, given his violent and rogue behavior."
Panel: Obama Abused His Power in Almost Everything He Does
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Pollster: Don’t believe the Dem hype
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Understanding Neo-Communism…
Americans for Tax Reform: Obama Admits His Tax Hikes Would Harm Economic Growth
In a reversal, Obama now admits his tax hike plan has consequences
What Obama doesn't want you to know
Some examples of Obama's extremism in the Illinois Senate, as provided by The Washington Times :
- Obama was the only senator not to support a bill "to report suspected child abuse while protecting the identity of the facility or person providing the information." The bill passed 54-0-1 -- the one being Obama, who voted "present." It passed the Illinois House 117-0.
- Obama voted present "on a bill in committee requiring criminals to serve consecutive sentences for separate crimes involving convictions for severe bodily harm or sexual assault, but didn't vote at all when the measure came to the floor." The bill passed the Senate 54-0 and the House 118-0.
- Obama voted present on a bill "making it harder for abusive and neglectful parents to regain custody of their children." The Senate vote was 57-0-1, with the lone wolf being Obama.
- Obama skipped a vote on a bill "to prohibit convicted sex offenders from serving on school boards." It passed without him, 58-0 in the Senate and 106-0 in the House.
The Obama Ayers Press Log
September 02, 2008
Annenberg, Ayers And Obama In The Weekend News
Barack Obama, unrepentant Weatherman Bill Ayers, and their link through their years of effort together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was in the news over the weekend.
First, the beginning of the Long Walkback was noted by Steve Diamond (Dean of the Annenberg story):
Perhaps realizing that there is no hope on the Ayers issue, the Obama campaign began its strategic retreat today. They trotted out a local ally in the Chicago school wars, Linda Lenz, to begin the effort. Her job: admit finally that, in fact, there was some kind of relationship between Ayers and Obama after all but "it ain't no big thang."
And over to Ms. Lenz herself:, who relies on the fact that Bill Ayers has been mainstreamed back into Chicago civic life:
In other words, Obama does, indeed, know Bill Ayers as more than just a guy from the neighborhood. So do a host of civic leaders in Chicago. For example, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge board included Susan Crown of the General Dynamics Corp. family; Patricia Graham, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Arnold Weber, past president of Northwestern University and of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. Indeed, just about everyone active in Chicago school reform in the early days saw Ayers as a colleague. No one ever accused them of being radical because of their association with Bill Ayers.
Whatever one thinks of Ayers’ actions 40 years ago, there is nothing to condemn, and much to admire, about his leadership and commitment over the past 20 years in making schools better places to teach and learn. And there is nothing to condemn, and much to applaud, in Obama’s close association with those efforts.
Well, fine - we eagerly await the day when Obama steps forward and expresses pride in his long, failed association with Bill Ayers as they worked together on public school reform. Meanwhile we continue to wonder - if Obama is so proud of this, why the cover-up?
Clarice Feldman of The American Thinker notes the commencement of the walkback and awaits Obama's arrival at the reparations trap.
Up in Minnesota the Post-Bulletin highlights the media infatuation with Obama and passes this along to their readers:
Or consider Obama's association with Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, members of the notorious Weather Underground. The Ayerses bombed the Pentagon during the turbulent '60s and are unrepentant about this terrorist past.
Obama launched his political career at their home, and served as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation Ayers founded. But major media have been almost completely uninterested in the story.
Imagine if John McCain had a similar relationship with a right-wing militia leader who had bombed a federal building.
Down Georgia way the Augusta Chronicle tells us "What Obama Doesn't Want You To Know", with highlights of his liberal voting record and this about Ayers:
Meanwhile, as stories come out about his having learned at the feet of socialists and even a communist, Obama has tried to downplay his connections to admitted domestic terrorist William Ayers ('a guy who lives in my neighborhood,' Obama said in a primary debate). But in papers from Ayers' "Chicago Annenberg Challenge" released just this past week after a long battle, it appears the association between Obama and Ayers was much deeper. Obama served on the organization's board for years, for a time as chairman. And Ayers hosted Obama's first campaign fund-raiser.
"They in fact were partners in various entities and regularly exchanged ideas," writes Investor's Business Daily , "including on how to turn Chicago schools into re-education camps to create a generation of social revolutionaries."
Obama isn't just ignoring or running from his past. He's actively trying to cover over it: His campaign has threatened TV stations with their broadcast licenses for running ads noting Obama's link to Ayers.
In Utah the Daily Herald focuses on Ayers in "The company Obama keeps":
Since [Obama] has done so little, we can't very well judge him by his deeds.
National leaders must convey a sense of who they are and what they believe. Think of Ronald Reagan or Harry Truman, for example. But that's where Obama fails. And that's why his friendships and associations are so important and why his association with William Ayers is so troubling.
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Obama and Ayers attended the same board meetings, retreats and at least one press conference, and met and talked often from 1995-2001. And the 132 boxes of Annenberg papers may yet yield more information.
It's no wonder that Obama's campaign tried to block release of the papers by the library, and has tried to censor ads about the Ayers-Obama relationship.
How could a man who wants to be president work so closely with an unrepentant terrorist? We know how a Harry Truman or a Ronald Reagan would react to a former leader of a group who took the side of America's enemies, and who boasts even now of doing so.
Michael Barone tells us that "Three ghosts haunt Barack": Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and the Born Alive abortion bill.
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal wants Obama to come clean on the Three Horseman of the Obamalypse:
Obama Should Come Clean On Ayers, Rezko And the Iraqi Billionaire
And finally, here is some coverage of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in the NY Times...
Psych! They still have not mentioned the Chicago Annenberg Challenge by name in a story although they braced their readers for shocks to come with this from Jim Rutenberg on August 27:
The fight may move to another front this week.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr. Obama’s involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr. Ayers.
All the news that's fit to print! The Times also has provided one bit of blog coverage at the Opinionator.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
My Country ‘Tis NOT of Thee Anymore….
Congressional “Leaders” like Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Chuck Schumer and other assorted CRIMINALS are disregarding the overwhelming ‘Will of the People’ and pursuing a course of action according to their own personal agendas and objectives.
Even the two favored Job Applicants, John McCain and Barack Hussein Obama are calling for quick movement to pass legislation to “resolve the Nation’s economic ‘crisis’”.
President George W. Bush, along with Treasury Secretary (and former Goldman Sachs CEO) Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, have been demanding that we, the American people, bail out Wall Street’s poor judgment and risk-taking, to the tune of $700 billion.
SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. That’s a lot of money, folks. Close to ten thousand dollars per American household, by averages. Now, be honest with yourself: When was the last time the U.S. Government gave us an honest price tag for anything?
This legislation, which the United States Congress has not even DISCLOSED to the American public, will likely end up costing U.S. Taxpayers TENS OF TRILLIONS of dollars.
Our Financial System isn’t ALL that’s BROKEN
Think about this for a moment, dear reader….
- We elect Senators and Representatives to, well, REPRESENT us in Congress. Voters elect people to these positions based on who the majority believe will best serve the interests of their State’s citizens. To enact the ‘Will of the People’, if you, uh, will.
- These elected officials are then supposed to go to work every day, making decisions and voting for legislation based on what their constituents (that’s you and me) want to have happen in Congress.
- Despite HUGE evidence that most Americans do NOT want taxpayer money being spent on the greed, corruption, and criminal activity of bankers, lenders, brokers and other Wall Street moguls, they are ALL determined to pass some sort of legislation to ‘rescue’ these firms from financial ruin.
This isn’t new. If you take the time to watch what happens in Congress every single day, you’ll see that these people serve their Corporate masters and not the American People. It’s just not something that’s pointed out directly in your face on the nightly news.
Your Opinion is Worthless
Failure to execute the will of the voters is equal to failing to do the job for which they were hired. When you and I engage in this kind of behavior, we’re fired. Out of work. Jobless. When these criminal politicians ignore the voice of the American public and do what they’re told by the highest campaign contributors, we simply smile and re-elect them. In a sense, we’re getting the corruption we deserve.
Right now, most of you are even determined to vote for either John McCain or Barack Hussein Obama when BOTH of these elitist criminals are planning to vote in direct contradiction to the desires of you, the voters. And yet on November 4th, you’re going to cast your vote for one of them anyway. They make eloquent speeches, talk about huge ‘change’ in Washington, but here in the next few days they’re going to send you a very clear signal:
“We don’t care about anything but getting elected, and once we’re elected we’re going to do what we damned well want to do. The only thing significant to me about you, John Q. Public, is your vote. Once we have that, all we want from you is your tax dollars. Your opinions do not matter to us, at all.”
Read on...
Bailout Bill: The Biggest Pork Ever
| Bailout type | Cost to taxpayers (Source: Reuters) |
|---|---|
| Financial bailout package approved this week | up to or more than $700 billion |
| Bear Stearns financing | $29 billion |
| Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalization | $200 billion |
| AIG loan and nationalization | $85 billion |
| Federal Housing Administration housing rescue bill | $300 billion |
| Mortgage community grants | $4 billion |
| JPMorgan Chase repayments | $87 billion |
| Loans to banks via Fed's Term Auction Facility | $200 billion+ |
| Loans from Depression-era Exchange Stabilization Fund | $50 billion |
| Purchases of mortgage securities by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | $144 billion |
| POSSIBLE TOTAL | $1.8 trillion+ |
| NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS PER U.S. CENSUS | 105,480,101 |
| POSSIBLE COST PER HOUSEHOLD | $17,064+ |
"Al Franken frequently uses vile, obscene language himself. So these ads are in keeping with the man. As the old saying goes, "If the shoe fits,wear it." Seems to me that Franken would do the same thing, strolling in his comfortable shoes."