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End AARP Membership

me3tv — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:42:57 CST

SAMPLE LETTER TO AARP TO CLOSE OUT ACCOUNT AND MEMBERSHIP AARP 3200 E. Carson St. Lakewood, CA 90712 Dear AARP, Please remove me from your membership rolls. I have lost all confidence in YOUR organization to represent the senior population of our country in any way. Your support of the "so called" Obama National Health Care Bill" is an obvious cash grab for your gap insurance programs and profits. I have yet to see any competetive insurance progams offered through AARP. Further, my projection of future costs to ALL AMERICANS from the proposed health plan will far far outstrip the cost savings that can be obtained by better regulation and free market incentives. This is one more tax - pure and simple - that will take down the ability of business to compete. The eventual government monopoly (agency of the governement) will, like other government agencies - grow to an unresponsive and uncompetetive and costly bureaucracy with no incentive to improve health care or services or products used in the health industry. Why you support this plan when it will rob seniors and even the currently un-insured poor of choices in a free market is incomprehensible to me. The minority party has for years offered plans to improve competition among insurers and hosptitals and yet the current majority party refuses to let these ideas see the light of day. Your own monopolistic grab for cash in the "insurance gap " business is typical of the ruling party's approach to stifle competition and create fifedom's of cash out of government programs that demand high taxation of the American People. Please REMOVE my name from your rolls. Please expunge my membership number. Please stop all mailings for products you support. I do not wish any hint of membership or association to remain and do not wish to be counted among your audience for marketing purposes. I am done with AARP and any company that advertises in your media. Sincerely JOHN AND MARY DOE AARP # 0636xxxxx 3 since 1999 .... 6 main battery street Snuffin , NJ 07000

SAMPLE LETTER TO AARP TO CLOSE OUT ACCOUNT AND MEMBERSHIP

AARP
3200 E. Carson St.
Lakewood, CA 90712

Dear AARP,

Please remove me from your membership rolls. I have lost all confidence in YOUR organization to represent the senior population of our country in any way.

Your support of the "so called" Obama National Health Care Bill" is an obvious cash grab for your gap insurance programs and profits. I have yet to see any competetive insurance progams offered through AARP. Further, my projection of future costs to ALL AMERICANS from the proposed health plan will far far outstrip the cost savings that can be obtained by better regulation and free market incentives. This is one more tax - pure and simple - that will take down the ability of business to compete. The eventual government monopoly (agency of the governement) will, like other government agencies - grow to an unresponsive and uncompetetive and costly bureaucracy with no incentive to improve health care or services or products used in the health industry.

Why you support this plan when it will rob seniors and even the currently un-insured poor of choices in a free market is incomprehensible to me.

The minority party has for years offered plans to improve competition among insurers and hosptitals and yet the current majority party refuses to let these ideas see the light of day. Your own monopolistic grab for cash in the "insurance gap " business is typical of the ruling party's approach to stifle competition and create fifedom's of cash out of government programs that demand high taxation of the American People.

Please REMOVE my name from your rolls. Please expunge my membership number. Please stop all mailings for products you support. I do not wish any hint of membership or association to remain and do not wish to be counted among your audience for marketing purposes. I am done with AARP and any company that advertises in your media.

Sincerely
JOHN AND MARY DOE
AARP # 0636xxxxx 3 since 1999
....
6 main battery street
Snuffin , NJ 07000

The Lawyer Profits Party

me3tv — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:48:09 CST

The Problem Is Identified...

Johnny Carson nailed lawyers with one of his "how cold was it?" jokes! "It was so cold that lawyers were running around with their hands in their own pockets!!" This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. Perhaps this is why so many physicians are conservatives or republicans. The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer. The Republican Party is different. President Bush is a businessman. Vice President Cheney is a businessman. The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers. The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow.. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become "adverse parties" of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers. Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law inAmerica is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing. We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy. Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as "spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you" and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

Johnny Carson nailed lawyers with one of his "how cold was it?" jokes! "It was so cold that lawyers were running around with their hands in their own pockets!!"

This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. Perhaps this is why so many physicians are conservatives or republicans.

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.
Barack Obama is a lawyer.
Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer..
Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
John Edwards is a lawyer.
Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).

Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

Harry Reid is a lawyer.
Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.
President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow..

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become "adverse parties" of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law inAmerica is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as "spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you" and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

Ft. Hood Jihadist by Allen West

me3tv — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:54:43 CST

Gathering of Eagles: NY Fighting the Insurgency at Home Allen West on Fort Hood Massacre November 7, 2009 The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West: This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas . As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004. My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing. A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units. A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation. On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism. There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America , an Army post. We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable. This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack. We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait . We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target. What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing. What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America , and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids. Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive. However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief. We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation. No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”. The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan , Boston Massachusetts , Dallas Texas , and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America . And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded. We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States , one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach . Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia ? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca ? So much for peaceful coexistence. Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools. We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason. There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional. When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone. Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point. The reality of your enemy must become your own. Steadfast and Loyal, Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) .................. Visit ME3TV.org for interviews with American Heroes - Veterans

Gathering of Eagles: NY

Fighting the Insurgency at Home

Allen West on Fort Hood Massacre

November 7, 2009

The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West:

This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas . As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.

My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.

A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.

A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America , an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.

We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait . We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.

What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.

What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America , and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.

Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.

However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.

We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.

No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.

The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan , Boston Massachusetts , Dallas Texas , and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America . And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.

We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States , one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach . Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia ? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca ?

So much for peaceful coexistence.

Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason. There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.

When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.

Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.

The reality of your enemy must become your own.

Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)
..................
Visit ME3TV.org for interviews with American Heroes - Veterans

Pezutti 8

me3tv — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:49 CST

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare.... Giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union , would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States ; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please." *--Thomas Jefferson* OBAMA BOWS BEFORE JAPAN'S EMPEROR Until Obama, no president of the United States in the more than 230 years since the country was founded in 1776 had ever bowed to a member of royalty. ... In each new session of Congress since 1995, John Shadegg, R-Ariz.,) has introduced the Enumerated Powers Act, 'To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.' The highest number of co-sponsors it has ever had in the House of Representatives is 54 and it has never had co-sponsors in the Senate until this year, when 22 senators signed up. The fact that less than 15 percent of the Congress supports such a measure demonstrates the kind of contempt our elected representatives have for the rules of the game -- our Constitution." *--economist Walter E. Williams* That Does Sound Like Grounds for Divorce "Woman Killed by Husband at Work Files for Divorce"--headline, FoxNews.com, Nov.12 'Gay' ex–N.J. governor training to become priest Jim McGreevey resigned office in disgrace, now prepping for Anglican role -- New York Post "As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries. I'm embarrassed that my representatives think that government can subsidize the consumption of medical care without increasing the budget deficit or interfering with free choice. It's a triumph of mindless wishful thinking over logic and experience. The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The notion that a small group of politicians can know enough to design something so complex and so personal is astounding. That they were advised by 'experts' means nothing since no one is expert enough to do that. There are too many tradeoffs faced by unique individuals with infinitely varying needs. Government cannot do simple things efficiently. The bureaucrats struggle to count votes correctly. They give subsidized loans to 'homeowners' who turn out to be 4-year-olds. Yet congressmen want government to manage our medicine and insurance." --columnist John Stossel "Urinate on the Compost Heap to Save the Planet Says National Trust --headline, Daily Telegraph, Nov.13 *HEAT OF THE MOMENT* 200 protest Al Gore event in Florida 'Favorite Green Product? Your money in his pocket' -- Palm Beach Post Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre... Shouting is the new spanking? Hey parents – have you ever raised your voice at your kids? Of course you have... but don't do it in front of the hippies, or they'll be on the phone to child protection services quicker than you can say "tofu." To them, shouting is the new spanking. That's right – it's bad enough that these people have managed to practically outlaw good old-fashioned corporal punishment... now they're going even further, trying to make parents feel bad for raising their voice. "It affects a child," sociologist Murray A. Straus, who did a study on shouting, told the New York Times. "If someone yelled at you at work, you'd find that pretty jarring. We don't apply that standard to children." Of course we don't – they're children! And sometimes, they need to know very explicitly why it's not acceptable to stick their hands in the oven, lick the electric outlets, or sock another kid to steal a toy. Take yelling away, and what's left... stern looks? Somehow, I don't think that'll do the trick, especially with today's kids. While no one should walk through life shouting and screaming, a parent who doesn't raise his voice from time to time is either raising an actual angel or just isn't very good at parenting. Kids need to know that actions have consequences. It's how we keep kids first from hurting themselves, and later from hurting others. So raise your voice if you need to, and don't let anyone tell you different Hollering at the hippies, *William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.* TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND WorldNetDaily Exclusive Obama green-lights land grab in Israel But Jerusalem threatens retaliation if U.N. approves Palestinian state --WND Obama administration looking into nationalizing public transportation system... ... Why do so many American leaders seem ashamed and apologetic about America ? Holding to the view that America is unexceptional and that no idea, policy, belief, or practice is to be preferred over any other is not diversity. Rather, it is thin gruel; unappealing and unappetizing, and it robs us of our strength. Did diversity build and sustain America through world wars and economic challenges? No, it was a firm set of principles held by patriots of many races who were willing to pay the price in money and blood. These days, we seem to be increasingly confronted with people who are the political equivalent of shoplifters: they want the benefits without paying the price. ... I grow weary of having to tolerate everything when none of those making such demands seem willing to tolerate much of what I believe. Shouldn't diversity be a two-way street instead of a roadblock?" --columnist Cal Thomas WEAPONS OF CHOICE WorldNetDaily Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control NRA guests warn international treaty would strip 2nd Amendment rights --WND This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award "Its better to be hated for what you are… than to be loved for what you are not." - Manford Teacher breaks law by posting students' good test scores A Minnesota teacher thought posting the top students' names and test scores was a good move, but a parent complained that showing her son's results was a violation of state law protecting student data. She was right. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) ACatholic priest, a doctor, a rich businessman and an ItalianGuy from New York were waiting one morning for a particularly slowgroup ofgolfers in front of them. The Italian Guy from New York fumed ,'What's with those jerks? We'rewaiting fifteen minutes between shots!' The doctor chimed in, 'I don't know, but I've never seen such poorgolf!' The rich businessman called out, 'Move it, time is money!' The Catholic priest said, 'Here comes the greens keeper. Let's have aword with him. Excuse me, sir!' said the priest, 'What's wrong withthat group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?' The greens keeper replied, 'Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire lastyear, so we always let them play for free anytime.' The group fell silent for a moment. The Catholic priest said, 'That's so sad. I think I will say a specialprayer for them tonight.' The doctor said, 'Good idea. I'm going to contact myophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything that he might beable to do for them.' The rich businessman replied, 'I think I'll donate $50,000 to thefire fighters unionin honor of thesebrave souls!' Theguy from New York said, 'Why the F@#K can't they play at night? *HOLIDAY* *BLUES* Town to celebrate Christmas with no reference to Christianity 'Spectacular' festivities to feature solar-powered disco, continental market, circus, fairy on stilts --The Scotsman Blonde Password... During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password: MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento When asked why such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital. New York's Gov. David Paterson is not happy with the White House's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other enemy combatants to New York for civilian trials, reports WCBS-TV: "This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism isn't just attack, it's anxiety and I think you feel the anxiety and frustration of New Yorkers who took the bullet for the rest of the country," he said. Paterson's comments break with Democrats, who generally support the President's decision. Paterson also said that the White House warned him six months ago this very situation would happen. Whoa, hold on a second, Governor? The White House told you six months ago that they were going to put your constituents through this? Gee, thanks for letting us know. Here's a question: If the White House made up its mind about this six months ago--that would be in May, roughly four months after President Obama's inauguration--why did it wait until last week to make the announcement? That it was the week after an election is bound to raise suspicions that the timing was politically motivated. Poll: Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Bill Bailed-out GM to spend bailout money overseas? $10,000 per Congressional Motors Car Sold Economist Thomas D Hopkins of the Rochester Institute of Technology will publish a study later today for the National Taxpayers Union that finds the cost of the auto bailout amounts to about $10,000 for every vehicle sold. We got an advanced look at the study, which says: The federal government has distributed to the U.S. auto industry thus far some $80 billion of taxpayer funds since December 2008--about $800 per American taxpaying family....Virtually all of the money has gone to just three firms--General Motors, Chrysler and GMAC--with GM alone receiving over $50 billion. Despite this gift of your money, the GAO says that the automakers’ survival as financially viable firms "remains unclear". Business Week reports that "the numbers have been shockingly bad" and Consumer Reports says of Chrysler, "we couldn't recommend any of its products in last year's survey because of mediocre performance, poor reliability, or both." If GM and Chrysler do not survive past next year, says Hopkins : the taxpayer bailout burden could amount to some $10,700 per 2009-10 vehicle sold. That's more than a third of the average price of a new car. The only way for this burden to be lessened, Hopkins writes, is if GM and Chrysler somehow manage to survive without additional bailouts. But those prospects are bleak. Clint Eastwood: America taken over by 'teenage twits' 'The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared' -- New York Daily News Victor Davis Hanson has transcribed the current message belching from the Obama administration: Get Used to an Exceptional President and an Unexceptional Country. … Traffic was moving slow & a car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it. It read: "Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8". Mike's Bible was lying on the dash board & he got it & opened it up to the scripture & read it. He started laughing & laughing. Then he read it to me. I couldn't believe what it said. I had a good laugh, too. Psalm 109:8 "Let his years be few and brief; let others step forward to replace him." Women can't wear pants in Paris Only exceptions in law are for those riding bike, horse -- London Telegraph Colorado medical pot suppliers will have to pay taxes... Report in the Los Angeles Times: Congressional Democrats' intensifying efforts to pay for their healthcare overhaul and provide more relief for consumers are threatening to unravel a White House deal with the pharmaceutical industry and turn one of Washington 's most powerful lobbies against the legislation. Drug makers, which have already spent $110 million lobbying Congress this year, are preparing to make a stand in the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is working to unveil a healthcare bill this week. And senior administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, are warning members of Congress not to antagonize the deep-pocketed industry at a time when a major victory appears to be within reach, according to Democratic aides. Do you trust your health to the Obama administration? To the drug companies? If you answered "yes" to both these questions, you're even crazier than if you answered "yes" to one of them. Slobbering Barney Frank wants to use the interest the government collects from the financial bailout to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay the mortgage. *JOBS 'SAVED OR CREATED' IN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS THAT DON'T EXIST* Sotomayor Breaks with Supreme Court Decorum WASHINGTON -- Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. Since becoming the first Hispanic justice, Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House, and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. A famous jazz composer even wrote a song about her titled "Wise Latina Woman." In short, Sotomayor has become a celebrity — all without having made a single major decision at the nation's highest Why do unions, particularly the SEIU, want the Democrats to pass their healthcare reform? Because the unions will get more power! Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism... NBC’s ObamaVision: ‘Law and Order’ — ‘This Is Why We Need Health-Care Reform’ NBC’s “Law and Order” is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, “Doped” was a farcical equivalent of “Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood.” Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors are worse than drug cartels. The killers in the previous week’s episode on such cartels were more sympathetic than the health professionals. Consumers are portrayed as morons and dupes. Doctor’s have magical (and evil) powers to persuade them to buy this drug against their own better judgment and economic interest. Insurance companies are also evil. What does health-care reform have to do with any of this? When shows just follow talking points it is hard to stay coherent. AP Digs for Dirt in Palin Autobiography; News wire assigns 11 reporters to fact-check former governor's book, but didn't fact-check Obama's... *YOUR* GOVERNMENT AT WORK WorldNetDaily City vote opens women's restroom doors to men But people have chance to speak before 'gender identity' move becomes law --WND Why the left excuses communist horrors Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being master of ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington , D.C. , that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. … Alan Kors, University of Pennsylvania history professor, gave the evening's keynote address. What he revealed about the dereliction and character weakness of academics, intellectuals, media elites and politicians is by no means complimentary, but worse than that, dangerous. Professor Kors said that over the years, he has frequently asked students how many deaths were caused by Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong and their successors. Routinely, they gave numbers in the thousands. Kors says that's equivalent to saying the Nazis are responsible for the deaths of just a few hundred Jews. But here's the record: Nazis were responsible for the deaths of 20 million of their own people and those in nations they conquered. Between 1917 and 1983, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of, 62 million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Zedong and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese. Professor Kors asks, why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned, but not those of socialism and communism? For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers. How much hunting down and seeking punishment for Stalinist and Maoist murderers has there been? In Europe, especially Germany , hoisting the swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. It's acceptable to hoist and march under a flag emblazoned with the former USSR 's hammer and sickle. Even in the U.S., it's acceptable to praise mass murderers, as Anita Dunn, President Obama's communications director, did in a commencement address for St. Andrews Episcopal High School at Washington National Cathedral where she said Mao was one of her heroes. Whether it's the academic community, the media elite or politicians, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism – a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined. Academics, media elites and leftist politicians both in the U.S. and Europe protested the actions and military buildup of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately the breakup of the Soviet Union . Recall the leftist hissy fit when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire and predicted that communism would wind up on the trash heap of history. Professor Alan Kors did not say this, but the reason why the world's leftists give the world's most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic goals, which include government ownership and/or control over the means of production. In the U.S. , the call is for government control, through regulations, as opposed to ownership. Unfortunately, it matters little whether there is a Democrat- or Republican-controlled Congress and White House; the march toward greater government control continues. It just happens at a quicker pace with Democrats in charge. You say, "Come on, Williams, there will never be the kind of socialist oppression seen elsewhere here!" You might be right because Americans have become very compliant with unconstitutional and immoral congressional edicts. But what do you think would happen if some Americans began to rise up and heed Thomas Jefferson's admonition, "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force," and decided to disobey unconstitutional congressional edicts? Walter E. Williams, Ph.D *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* KSM treated like 'crook holding up liquor store' GOP's Pataki says '93 WTC trial aided bin Laden in planning 9/11 attacks --WND … You see, there is so much fuzzy thinking about God and His Will; “It must be God’s Will that this or that happened,” someone will say. But this deals with a God who is absent, who capriciously rules from afar. If we are good, God loves us; if we are bad, He punishes us. This is the way parents have taught Children, preachers have hammered away at congregants. If we go to church, He is happy. If we play golf on Sunday, He is angry or hurt. But, I say, what an anemic sort of God is this! It is all a matter of Principle. We are not punished for our sins. We punish ourselves by them. Sin is its own punishment, and righteousness is its own reward. Going to church makes no difference with God. Praying does not effect or influence God. Nothing you do or fail to do can make God be more than God or less than God. So we go to church and we pray, to help us to accept our Inner Power, to get more in tune with the Creative Process, to release our “Imprisoned Splendor.” But the Spirit is present, unmoved, whether we enter in or not. As Meister Eckert says, “The Prodigal is in the far country, the Father is at home.” We need to relearn the process of prayer. It has involved intercession, exhortation, supplication, and intoned pulpit benedictions. But while worship services have been enacted in a glittering spectacle where the person is a mere spectator, in the end, the communicant has very little sense of communion. *It has become a practice of the absence* of God.** But you see, God is present as a Presence. So the Source of Being, the Creative Flow, does not come to you through ritualistic worship or by pious pronouncements. Jesus says, “…your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him,” [Matt. 6:8] and “…it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” [Luke 12:32] The Father in you is the Activity of God, dynamically expressing at the point of you, which has no other purpose than to work for your highest good. And your need is simply to say, “Yes!” to the process—this inner urge toward Wholeness, to say, “Yes!” to God. … In a very real sense, you have the whole Universe in back of you when you pray. Get the feeling that the whole Universe is breaking through to you, in terms of Healing, of Guidance, of Love and Protection and Security—to simply and willingly say “Yes!” to God. … There is a Great New You seeking expression, because it is the Creative Intention of the Universe to flow forth in you and as you, but you must say, “Yes!” to it. It is the Unborn Possibility in you, the Divine Process within you, the Christ of you. It is your own “Imprisoned Splendor.” And if you really desire to begin again, to be the person you dream of being, then you have the Whole Universe on your side. *© Eric Butterworth* Less than ten years from now, 40% of Americans will be obese. You wanna know why our healthcare costs are increasing? Just look in the mirror you blubberbutts! Door-to-door pot salesman arrested after going to cop's house An intoxicated Anthony Carrazco went door to door looking for a buyer of his 3 ounces of pot. He came upon a cop's home, and the officer said he would be right back. He went to go get his badge and handcuffs." (Brownsville Herald) "President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information. It's the only safe place he could do so without getting heckled. With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students he welcomed unfettered criticism in America . Fierce opposition, he said, made him 'a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear.' How do you say 'You lie!' in Mandarin?" --columnist Michelle Malkin "While in China , President Obama gave a speech. He said that 'being open to criticism makes democracy stronger and makes me a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions I don't want to hear.' Then he went back to trashing Fox News." *--comedian Jay Leno* *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* Schools let students seek secret abortions Parents not notified when 12-year-olds obtain 'confidential' medical procedures --WND Income Redistribution: Ponzi Motors In the first volume increase since January 2008, sales at government-owned GM rose 6.6 percent last month. To celebrate the temporary sales bump driven by the government's Cash for Clunkers rebate debacle -- the one that paid taxpayer money to taxpayers who purchased vehicles -- GM will repay $6.7 billion of the $49.9 billion in federal aid it received. GM has lost $88 billion since 2004 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June. Consistent with the circular reasoning so in vogue with liberal visions of funding ObamaCare by taxing ObamaCare, GM is robbing Peter to pay Peter by repaying the government with money from a government contingency fund. While a glaring departure from the usual liberal schemes of robbing Peter to pay Paul, the ridiculousness of GM's plan is too rich. What's the logic in repaying taxpayer loans with taxpayer dollars? The astounding size of this automotive Ponzi scheme would make even Bernie Madoff blush. In other automotive news, Ford, the only American car manufacturer that isn't beholden to the Obama administration, reported a third-quarter profit of $1 billion. Have you driven a Ford lately? Author: Media Persecutes Palin, Public Embraces Her Since she exploded on the national scene as John McCain’s vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin has been mocked and pilloried by the media elites in New York and Washington, says Matthew Continetti, author of "The Persecution of Sarah Palin." A former soldier in England has been arrested and convicted (and may even go to jail for five years) because he found a gun in his yard and he turned it over to the police. Only government. *DOCTOR'S ORDERS* Senate health plan to cover 31 million, cost $849 billion 'We need 60 votes to get this bill to the floor' --Associated Press "We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst." --Irish novelist C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Ana Marie Cox's "review" of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue," in yesterday's Washington Post, which includes this astonishing disclosure: I cannot claim to have completely read "Going Rogue"--I had to skim the last 150 pages (or more than one-third). I only got the thing into my hands late Monday afternoon with a deadline of early evening. It's terrible, I know, but if I didn't read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have completely written it. Unless he's still alive, our eighth-grade English teacher is surely turning in his grave at the revelation that you no longer have to read a book to review it for one of the country's top newspapers. "If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave." --author John "Birdman" Bryant (1943-2009) The Rich Are Not Americans??? "Americans don't want to shoulder the cost of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul themselves. They think the rich should pay for it." --Associated Press, Nov.17 Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park . "We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council. Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path. Maybe if the SEIU joins forces with the gay-rights extremists, they can finally defeat the scourge of scouting. *ARMED AND DANGEROUS* Police use Taser on unruly 10-year-old girl in her home Officer says mother gave him permission to stun youngster --Associated Press "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." --American author Mark Twain (1835-1910) "Death Tax" May Kill 250,000 Jobs -- Per Year The federal estate tax -- better known as the Death Tax -- destroys between 170,000 and 250,000 potential jobs each year, according to economists at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In fact, the damage may be far worse. Heritage notes that economists Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Cameron T. Smith recently argued that a repeal of the Death Tax would result in the creation of a whopping 1.5 million jobs. Further, job destruction is just some of the harm caused by the Death Tax, Heritage says. The House and Senate may soon begin debate on whether to retain the federal Death Tax. Heritage gives more good reasons for burying it: * The Death Tax discourages savings and investment. Fearing their income will be seized after death, Americans are encouraged to consume it now rather than invest it. * The Death Tax suppresses productivity and wage growth. Discouraging investment makes it harder for businesses to buy new equipment, thus lowering worker productivity and wages. * The Death Tax contradicts one of the pillars of the American Dream. "Most Americans oppose death taxes because they seem so un-American," says Heritage's William W. Beach. "The central promise of American life is that if you work hard, save, and live prudently, you will be assured the enjoyment of your economically virtuous life. There are few other places on the planet where this promise is made (let alone kept), and it -- along with companion promises of political and religious freedom -- has attracted millions of immigrants to the United States . The death tax contradicts the very promise that has attracted so many." The AARP received an $18 million grant in the economic stimulus package for a job training program that has not created any jobs. Here is today's call to 911 that didn't have to be made A 15-year-old boy called 911 after his parents took away his Xbox as punishment. The kid hung up the phone, but police drove to his house to hear his complaint. (Chicago Tribune) Accountability Journalism An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes: Number of AP reporters assigned to story: • ObamaCare bills: 2 • Palin book: 11 Number of pages in document being covered: • ObamaCare bills: 4,064 • Palin book: 432 Number of pages per AP reporter: • ObamaCare bill: 2,032 • Palin book: 39.3 *INVASION USA* Illegal receives probation for 10th violation Judge sentences Mexican deported 9 times to time served in jail for entry into U.S. -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Now we get a dose of race and healthcare ... Rev. Jesse Jackson says, "You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man." Thomas Jefferson likewise stated that if Congress could "do anything they please to provide for the general welfare .. [i]t would reduce the whole instrument [the Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States ; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please." For the simpletons in Congress, Jefferson concluded, "Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them." $100 Million Payoff to Buy Sen. Landrieu's Vote... *WND MONEY* Pelosi: Wall Street tax must be international House Democrats proposing way to pay for job-creating legislation --Reuters Obama's first judicial nominee believes that his decisions as a federal judge can "amend" the U.S. Constitution by adding "footnotes" to it. LOOKING FOR WORK AnIsraelidoctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks." AGermandoctor says, "That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks." ARussiandoctor says "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks." An ILLINOIS doctor, not to be outdone, says. "You guys are way behind. We recently took a man with no brains out of ILLINOIS , put him in the White House for SIX MONTHS, and now half the COUNTRY is looking for work.." College students arrested for not paying mandatory 18% tip They said they got shoddy service, and shouldn't have to tip. “Gratuity is thanking you for your service," says a 22-year-old who was arrested. "You can’t give us terrible, terrible service and expect a tip." (Lehigh Valley Express-Times \|\| Philly.com) ACORN received $200,000 in DOJ funds, report says... House resolution asks Attorney General to appoint special counsel to investigate ACORN... Developing... Lawmakers: New Tax Should Pay for Afghan War And Last... Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recently despite not having done much for peace during his short (but oh so long) nine months in office. During his trip to Asia this week, he added another trophy to his case. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak presented Obama with a Tae Kwan Do outfit complete with the coveted black belt. It remains to be seen whether the black belt will give Obama the courage to win in Afghanistan or to handle terrorism as an act of war rather than a crime, or even to speak without a teleprompter. Still, the president was grateful, considering that his Tae Kwan Do training has encompassed zero long years. Then again, he does have some pretty extensive experience with bowing...

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare....

Giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union , would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless.

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States ;

and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."

--Thomas Jefferson

OBAMA BOWS BEFORE JAPAN'S EMPEROR

Until Obama, no president of the United States in the more than 230 years since the country was founded in 1776 had ever bowed to a member of royalty.

... In each new session of Congress since 1995, John Shadegg, R-Ariz.,) has introduced the Enumerated Powers Act, 'To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.'
The highest number of co-sponsors it has ever had in the House of Representatives is 54 and it has never had co-sponsors in the Senate until this year, when 22 senators signed up.
The fact that less than 15 percent of the Congress supports such a measure demonstrates the kind of contempt our elected representatives have for the rules of the game -- our Constitution."
--economist Walter E. Williams

That Does Sound Like Grounds for Divorce
"Woman Killed by Husband at Work Files for Divorce"--headline, FoxNews.com, Nov.12

'Gay' ex–N.J. governor training to become priest
Jim McGreevey resigned office in disgrace, now prepping for Anglican role
-- New York Post

"As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries.

I'm embarrassed that my representatives think that government can subsidize the consumption of medical care without increasing the budget deficit or interfering with free choice. It's a triumph of mindless wishful thinking over logic and experience. The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The notion that a small group of politicians can know enough to design something so complex and so personal is astounding. That they were advised by 'experts' means nothing since no one is expert enough to do that. There are too many tradeoffs faced by unique individuals with infinitely varying needs.

Government cannot do simple things efficiently. The bureaucrats struggle to count votes correctly. They give subsidized loans to 'homeowners' who turn out to be 4-year-olds. Yet congressmen want government to manage our medicine and insurance."

--columnist John Stossel

"Urinate on the Compost Heap to Save the Planet Says National Trust

--headline, Daily Telegraph, Nov.13

HEAT OF THE MOMENT
200 protest Al Gore event in Florida
'Favorite Green Product? Your money in his pocket'
-- Palm Beach Post

Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre...

Shouting is the new spanking?

Hey parents – have you ever raised your voice at your kids?

Of course you have... but don't do it in front of the hippies, or they'll be on the phone to child protection services quicker than you can say "tofu."

To them, shouting is the new spanking.

That's right – it's bad enough that these people have managed to practically outlaw good old-fashioned corporal punishment... now they're going even further, trying to make parents feel bad for raising their voice.

"It affects a child," sociologist Murray A. Straus, who did a study on shouting, told the New York Times. "If someone yelled at you at work, you'd find that pretty jarring. We don't apply that standard to children."

Of course we don't – they're children! And sometimes, they need to know very explicitly why it's not acceptable to stick their hands in the oven, lick the electric outlets, or sock another kid to steal a toy.

Take yelling away, and what's left... stern looks? Somehow, I don't think that'll do the trick, especially with today's kids.

While no one should walk through life shouting and screaming, a parent who doesn't raise his voice from time to time is either raising an actual angel or just isn't very good at parenting.

Kids need to know that actions have consequences. It's how we keep kids first from hurting themselves, and later from hurting others.

So raise your voice if you need to, and don't let anyone tell you different

Hollering at the hippies,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Obama green-lights land grab in Israel
But Jerusalem threatens retaliation if U.N. approves Palestinian state
--WND

Obama administration looking into nationalizing public transportation system...

... Why do so many American leaders seem ashamed and apologetic about America ?

Holding to the view that America is unexceptional and that no idea, policy, belief, or practice is to be preferred over any other is not diversity. Rather, it is thin gruel; unappealing and unappetizing, and it robs us of our strength. Did diversity build and sustain America through world wars and economic challenges? No, it was a firm set of principles held by patriots of many races who were willing to pay the price in money and blood.

These days, we seem to be increasingly confronted with people who are the political equivalent of shoplifters: they want the benefits without paying the price. ... I grow weary of having to tolerate everything when none of those making such demands seem willing to tolerate much of what I believe. Shouldn't diversity be a two-way street instead of a roadblock?"

--columnist Cal Thomas

WEAPONS OF CHOICE
WorldNetDaily
Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control
NRA guests warn international treaty would strip 2nd Amendment rights
--WND

This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

"Its better to be hated for what you are…

than to be loved for what you are not."
- Manford

Teacher breaks law by posting students' good test scores
A Minnesota teacher thought posting the top students' names and test scores was a good move, but a parent complained that showing her son's results was a violation of state law protecting student data. She was right. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

ACatholic priest, a doctor, a rich businessman and an ItalianGuy from New York were waiting one morning for a particularly slowgroup ofgolfers in front of them.
The Italian Guy from New York fumed ,'What's with those jerks? We'rewaiting fifteen minutes between shots!'
The doctor chimed in, 'I don't know, but I've never seen such poorgolf!'

The rich businessman called out, 'Move it, time is money!'

The Catholic priest said, 'Here comes the greens keeper. Let's have aword with him. Excuse me, sir!' said the priest, 'What's wrong withthat group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?'

The greens keeper replied, 'Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire lastyear, so we always let them play for free anytime.'

The group fell silent for a moment.

The Catholic priest said, 'That's so sad. I think I will say a specialprayer for them tonight.'

The doctor said, 'Good idea. I'm going to contact myophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything that he might beable to do for them.'

The rich businessman replied, 'I think I'll donate $50,000 to thefire fighters unionin honor of thesebrave souls!'

Theguy from New York said, 'Why the F@#K can't they play at night?

HOLIDAY BLUES
Town to celebrate Christmas with no reference to Christianity
'Spectacular' festivities to feature solar-powered disco, continental market, circus, fairy on stilts
--The Scotsman

Blonde Password...

During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password: MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento

When asked why such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

New York's Gov. David Paterson is not happy with the White House's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other enemy combatants to New York for civilian trials, reports WCBS-TV:
"This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism isn't just attack, it's anxiety and I think you feel the anxiety and frustration of New Yorkers who took the bullet for the rest of the country," he said.

Paterson's comments break with Democrats, who generally support the President's decision.

Paterson also said that the White House warned him six months ago this very situation would happen.
Whoa, hold on a second, Governor? The White House told you six months ago that they were going to put your constituents through this? Gee, thanks for letting us know.
Here's a question: If the White House made up its mind about this six months ago--that would be in May, roughly four months after President Obama's inauguration--why did it wait until last week to make the announcement?
That it was the week after an election is bound to raise suspicions that the timing was politically motivated.

Poll: Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Bill

Bailed-out GM to spend bailout money overseas?
$10,000 per Congressional Motors Car Sold Economist Thomas D Hopkins of the Rochester Institute of Technology will publish a study later today for the National Taxpayers Union that finds the cost of the auto bailout amounts to about $10,000 for every vehicle sold. We got an advanced look at the study, which says:
The federal government has distributed to the U.S. auto industry thus far some $80 billion of taxpayer funds since December 2008--about $800 per American taxpaying family....Virtually all of the money has gone to just three firms--General Motors, Chrysler and GMAC--with GM alone receiving over $50 billion.
Despite this gift of your money, the GAO says that the automakers’ survival as financially viable firms "remains unclear". Business Week reports that "the numbers have been shockingly bad" and Consumer Reports says of Chrysler, "we couldn't recommend any of its products in last year's survey because of mediocre performance, poor reliability, or both."
If GM and Chrysler do not survive past next year, says Hopkins : the taxpayer bailout burden could amount to some $10,700 per 2009-10 vehicle sold.
That's more than a third of the average price of a new car. The only way for this burden to be lessened, Hopkins writes, is if GM and Chrysler somehow manage to survive without additional bailouts. But those prospects are bleak.

Clint Eastwood: America taken over by 'teenage twits'
'The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared'
-- New York Daily News

Victor Davis Hanson has transcribed the current message belching from the Obama administration:

Get Used to an Exceptional President and an Unexceptional Country.

… Traffic was moving slow & a car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it. It read: "Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

Mike's Bible was lying on the dash board & he got it & opened it up to the scripture & read it. He started laughing & laughing. Then he read it to me. I couldn't believe what it said. I had a good laugh, too.
Psalm 109:8 "Let his years be few and brief; let others step forward to replace him."

Women can't wear pants in Paris
Only exceptions in law are for those riding bike, horse
-- London Telegraph

Colorado medical pot suppliers will have to pay taxes...

Report in the Los Angeles Times:
Congressional Democrats' intensifying efforts to pay for their healthcare overhaul and provide more relief for consumers are threatening to unravel a White House deal with the pharmaceutical industry and turn one of Washington 's most powerful lobbies against the legislation.

Drug makers, which have already spent $110 million lobbying Congress this year, are preparing to make a stand in the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is working to unveil a healthcare bill this week.

And senior administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, are warning members of Congress not to antagonize the deep-pocketed industry at a time when a major victory appears to be within reach, according to Democratic aides.
Do you trust your health to the Obama administration? To the drug companies? If you answered "yes" to both these questions, you're even crazier than if you answered "yes" to one of them.

Slobbering Barney Frank wants to use the interest the government collects from the financial bailout

to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay the mortgage.

JOBS 'SAVED OR CREATED' IN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS THAT DON'T EXIST

Sotomayor Breaks with Supreme Court Decorum

WASHINGTON -- Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.
Since becoming the first Hispanic justice, Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House, and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. A famous jazz composer even wrote a song about her titled "Wise Latina Woman."
In short, Sotomayor has become a celebrity — all without having made a single major decision at the nation's highest

Why do unions, particularly the SEIU, want the Democrats to pass their healthcare reform?

Because the unions will get more power!

Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism...

NBC’s ObamaVision: ‘Law and Order’ — ‘This Is Why We Need Health-Care Reform’

NBC’s “Law and Order” is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, “Doped” was a farcical equivalent of “Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood.” Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors are worse than drug cartels. The killers in the previous week’s episode on such cartels were more sympathetic than the health professionals.
Consumers are portrayed as morons and dupes. Doctor’s have magical (and evil) powers to persuade them to buy this drug against their own better judgment and economic interest. Insurance companies are also evil.
What does health-care reform have to do with any of this? When shows just follow talking points it is hard to stay coherent.

AP Digs for Dirt in Palin Autobiography; News wire assigns 11 reporters to fact-check former governor's book, but didn't fact-check Obama's...

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
WorldNetDaily
City vote opens women's restroom doors to men
But people have chance to speak before 'gender identity' move becomes law
--WND

Why the left excuses communist horrors

Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being master of ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington , D.C. , that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. …
Alan Kors, University of Pennsylvania history professor, gave the evening's keynote address. What he revealed about the dereliction and character weakness of academics, intellectuals, media elites and politicians is by no means complimentary, but worse than that, dangerous. Professor Kors said that over the years, he has frequently asked students how many deaths were caused by Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong and their successors. Routinely, they gave numbers in the thousands. Kors says that's equivalent to saying the Nazis are responsible for the deaths of just a few hundred Jews. But here's the record: Nazis were responsible for the deaths of 20 million of their own people and those in nations they conquered.
Between 1917 and 1983, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of, 62 million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Zedong and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese.
Professor Kors asks, why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned, but not those of socialism and communism? For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers. How much hunting down and seeking punishment for Stalinist and Maoist murderers has there been? In Europe, especially Germany , hoisting the swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. It's acceptable to hoist and march under a flag emblazoned with the former USSR 's hammer and sickle. Even in the U.S., it's acceptable to praise mass murderers, as Anita Dunn, President Obama's communications director, did in a commencement address for St. Andrews Episcopal High School at Washington National Cathedral where she said Mao was one of her heroes. Whether it's the academic community, the media elite or politicians, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism – a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined.
Academics, media elites and leftist politicians both in the U.S. and Europe protested the actions and military buildup of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately the breakup of the Soviet Union . Recall the leftist hissy fit when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire and predicted that communism would wind up on the trash heap of history.
Professor Alan Kors did not say this, but the reason why the world's leftists give the world's most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic goals, which include government ownership and/or control over the means of production. In the U.S. , the call is for government control, through regulations, as opposed to ownership. Unfortunately, it matters little whether there is a Democrat- or Republican-controlled Congress and White House; the march toward greater government control continues. It just happens at a quicker pace with Democrats in charge.
You say, "Come on, Williams, there will never be the kind of socialist oppression seen elsewhere here!" You might be right because Americans have become very compliant with unconstitutional and immoral congressional edicts. But what do you think would happen if some Americans began to rise up and heed Thomas Jefferson's admonition, "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force," and decided to disobey unconstitutional congressional edicts?
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
KSM treated like 'crook holding up liquor store'
GOP's Pataki says '93 WTC trial aided bin Laden in planning 9/11 attacks
--WND

… You see, there is so much fuzzy thinking about God and His Will; “It must be God’s Will that this or that happened,” someone will say. But this deals with a God who is absent, who capriciously rules from afar. If we are good, God loves us; if we are bad, He punishes us. This is the way parents have taught Children, preachers have hammered away at congregants. If we go to church, He is happy. If we play golf on Sunday, He is angry or hurt. But, I say, what an anemic sort of God is this! It is all a matter of Principle. We are not punished for our sins. We punish ourselves by them. Sin is its own punishment, and righteousness is its own reward. Going to church makes no difference with God. Praying does not effect or influence God. Nothing you do or fail to do can make God be more than God or less than God. So we go to church and we pray, to help us to accept our Inner Power, to get more in tune with the Creative Process, to release our “Imprisoned Splendor.” But the Spirit is present, unmoved, whether we enter in or not. As Meister Eckert says, “The Prodigal is in the far country, the Father is at home.”
We need to relearn the process of prayer. It has involved intercession, exhortation, supplication, and intoned pulpit benedictions. But while worship services have been enacted in a glittering spectacle where the person is a mere spectator, in the end, the communicant has very little sense of communion. It has become a practice of the absence of God. But you see, God is present as a Presence. So the Source of Being, the Creative Flow, does not come to you through ritualistic worship or by pious pronouncements. Jesus says, “…your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him,” [Matt. 6:8] and “…it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” [Luke 12:32] The Father in you is the Activity of God, dynamically expressing at the point of you, which has no other purpose than to work for your highest good. And your need is simply to say, “Yes!” to the process—this inner urge toward Wholeness, to say, “Yes!” to God.
… In a very real sense, you have the whole Universe in back of you when you pray. Get the feeling that the whole Universe is breaking through to you, in terms of Healing, of Guidance, of Love and Protection and Security—to simply and willingly say “Yes!” to God.
… There is a Great New You seeking expression, because it is the Creative Intention of the Universe to flow forth in you and as you, but you must say, “Yes!” to it. It is the Unborn Possibility in you, the Divine Process within you, the Christ of you. It is your own “Imprisoned Splendor.” And if you really desire to begin again, to be the person you dream of being, then you have the Whole Universe on your side.
© Eric Butterworth

Less than ten years from now, 40% of Americans will be obese.

You wanna know why our healthcare costs are increasing?

Just look in the mirror you blubberbutts!

Door-to-door pot salesman arrested after going to cop's house
An intoxicated Anthony Carrazco went door to door looking for a buyer of his 3 ounces of pot. He came upon a cop's home, and the officer said he would be right back. He went to go get his badge and handcuffs." (Brownsville Herald)

"President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information.

It's the only safe place he could do so without getting heckled.

With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students he welcomed unfettered criticism in America .

Fierce opposition, he said, made him 'a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear.'

How do you say 'You lie!' in Mandarin?"

--columnist Michelle Malkin

"While in China , President Obama gave a speech.

He said that 'being open to criticism makes democracy stronger and makes me a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions I don't want to hear.'

Then he went back to trashing Fox News."

--comedian Jay Leno

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Schools let students seek secret abortions
Parents not notified when 12-year-olds obtain 'confidential' medical procedures
--WND

Income Redistribution: Ponzi Motors

In the first volume increase since January 2008, sales at government-owned GM rose 6.6 percent last month. To celebrate the temporary sales bump driven by the government's Cash for Clunkers rebate debacle -- the one that paid taxpayer money to taxpayers who purchased vehicles -- GM will repay $6.7 billion of the $49.9 billion in federal aid it received. GM has lost $88 billion since 2004 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June.
Consistent with the circular reasoning so in vogue with liberal visions of funding ObamaCare by taxing ObamaCare,
GM is robbing Peter to pay Peter by repaying the government with money from a government contingency fund.
While a glaring departure from the usual liberal schemes of robbing Peter to pay Paul, the ridiculousness of GM's plan is too rich.
What's the logic in repaying taxpayer loans with taxpayer dollars?
The astounding size of this automotive Ponzi scheme would make even Bernie Madoff blush.
In other automotive news, Ford, the only American car manufacturer that isn't beholden to the Obama administration, reported a third-quarter profit of $1 billion. Have you driven a Ford lately?

Author: Media Persecutes Palin, Public Embraces Her
Since she exploded on the national scene as John McCain’s vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin has been mocked and pilloried by the media elites in New York and Washington, says Matthew Continetti, author of "The Persecution of Sarah Palin."

A former soldier in England has been arrested and convicted (and may even go to jail for five years)

because he found a gun in his yard and he turned it over to the police.

Only government.

DOCTOR'S ORDERS
Senate health plan to cover 31 million, cost $849 billion
'We need 60 votes to get this bill to the floor'
--Associated Press

"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
--Irish novelist C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Ana Marie Cox's "review" of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue," in yesterday's Washington Post, which includes this astonishing disclosure:
I cannot claim to have completely read "Going Rogue"--I had to skim the last 150 pages (or more than one-third). I only got the thing into my hands late Monday afternoon with a deadline of early evening. It's terrible, I know, but if I didn't read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have completely written it.
Unless he's still alive, our eighth-grade English teacher is surely turning in his grave at the revelation that you no longer have to read a book to review it for one of the country's top newspapers.

"If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave."
--author John "Birdman" Bryant (1943-2009)

The Rich Are Not Americans???
"Americans don't want to shoulder the cost of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul themselves. They think the rich should pay for it."
--Associated Press, Nov.17

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park .

"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path.
Maybe if the SEIU joins forces with the gay-rights extremists, they can finally defeat the scourge of scouting.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Police use Taser on unruly 10-year-old girl in her home
Officer says mother gave him permission to stun youngster
--Associated Press

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
--American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Death Tax" May Kill 250,000 Jobs -- Per Year

The federal estate tax -- better known as the Death Tax -- destroys between 170,000 and 250,000 potential jobs each year, according to economists at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

In fact, the damage may be far worse. Heritage notes that economists Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Cameron T. Smith recently argued that a repeal of the Death Tax would result in the creation of a whopping 1.5 million jobs.

Further, job destruction is just some of the harm caused by the Death Tax, Heritage says.

The House and Senate may soon begin debate on whether to retain the federal Death Tax. Heritage gives more good reasons for burying it:

* The Death Tax discourages savings and investment. Fearing their income will be seized after death, Americans are encouraged to consume it now rather than invest it.

* The Death Tax suppresses productivity and wage growth. Discouraging investment makes it harder for businesses to buy new equipment, thus lowering worker productivity and wages.

* The Death Tax contradicts one of the pillars of the American Dream. "Most Americans oppose death taxes because they seem so un-American," says Heritage's William W. Beach.

"The central promise of American life is that if you work hard, save, and live prudently, you will be assured the enjoyment of your economically virtuous life. There are few other places on the planet where this promise is made (let alone kept), and it -- along with companion promises of political and religious freedom -- has attracted millions of immigrants to the United States . The death tax contradicts the very promise that has attracted so many."

The AARP received an $18 million grant in the economic stimulus package

for a job training program that has not created any jobs.

Here is today's call to 911 that didn't have to be made
A 15-year-old boy called 911 after his parents took away his Xbox as punishment. The kid hung up the phone, but police drove to his house to hear his complaint. (Chicago Tribune)

Accountability Journalism
An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3

INVASION USA
Illegal receives probation for 10th violation
Judge sentences Mexican deported 9 times to time served in jail for entry into U.S.
-- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Now we get a dose of race and healthcare ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson says,

"You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man."

Thomas Jefferson likewise stated that if Congress could

"do anything they please to provide for the general welfare

.. [i]t would reduce the whole instrument [the Constitution] to a single phrase,

that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States ;

and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil,

it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."

For the simpletons in Congress, Jefferson concluded, "Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them."

$100 Million Payoff to Buy Sen. Landrieu's Vote...

WND MONEY
Pelosi: Wall Street tax must be international
House Democrats proposing way to pay for job-creating legislation
--Reuters

Obama's first judicial nominee believes that
his decisions as a federal judge can
"amend" the U.S. Constitution by adding "footnotes" to it.

LOOKING FOR WORK

AnIsraelidoctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."

AGermandoctor says, "That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks."

ARussiandoctor says "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."

An ILLINOIS doctor, not to be outdone, says.
"You guys are way behind. We recently took a man with no brains out of ILLINOIS , put him in the White House for SIX MONTHS, and now half the COUNTRY is looking for work.."

College students arrested for not paying mandatory 18% tip
They said they got shoddy service, and shouldn't have to tip. “Gratuity is thanking you for your service," says a 22-year-old who was arrested. "You can’t give us terrible, terrible service and expect a tip." (Lehigh Valley Express-Times || Philly.com)

ACORN received $200,000 in DOJ funds, report says...

House resolution asks Attorney General to appoint special counsel to investigate ACORN... Developing...

Lawmakers: New Tax Should Pay for Afghan War

And Last...

Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recently despite not having done much for peace during his short (but oh so long) nine months in office.
During his trip to Asia this week, he added another trophy to his case. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak presented Obama with a Tae Kwan Do outfit complete with the coveted black belt.
It remains to be seen whether the black belt will give Obama the courage to win in Afghanistan or to handle terrorism as an act of war rather than a crime, or even to speak without a teleprompter.
Still, the president was grateful, considering that his Tae Kwan Do training has encompassed zero long years.
Then again, he does have some pretty extensive experience with bowing...

the CZARS of Obama

me3tv — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:02:18 CST

Look at this group of misfits and morons!! If you aren't scared yet, you are NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Who they are andwhat they want to do.

OBAMA'S CZARS
CZAR	Czar Position	Summary
Richard Holbrooke	Afghanistan Czar	Ultra liberal anti gunformer Gov. of New Mexico.Pro Abortion and legal drug use.Dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery	Auto recovery Czar	Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks.Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley	AIDS Czar	Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, includingcomplete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin	Border Czar	The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno -to keep borders open to illegal'swithout interference from US
David J. Hayes	California Water Czar	Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, "Progress Policy". No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom	Car Czar	Auto Union worker.Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross	Central Region Czar	Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal	Domestic Violence Czar	Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist.Supported male castration.Imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske	Drug Czar	devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm.Supports legalization of all drugs
Paul Volcker	E conomicCzar	Head of Fed Reserveunder Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy. Member of anti business "Progressive Policy" organization
Carol Brower	Energy and Environment Czar	Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois	Faith Based Czar	Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownershiplobbyist.
Cameron Davis	Great Lakes Czar	Chicago radicalanti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for "Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink." No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member(what does that tell us?)
Van Jones	Green Jobs Czar	(since resigned).. Black activistMember of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Partywho said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.
Daniel Fried	Guantanamo Closure Czar	Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism.Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
Nancy-Ann DeParle.	Health Czar	Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
Vivek Kundra	Information Czar	Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails.(hello?)
Todd Stern	International Climate Czar	Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming.Anti- US business prosperity.
Dennis Blair	Intelligence Czar	Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile programas "provocative". Chair of ultra liberal "Council on Foreign Relations" which blames American organizations for regional wars.
George Mitchell	Mideast Peace Czar	Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into "2 or 3 " smaller more manageable plots". (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual"special rights" advocate
Kenneth Feinberg	Pay Czar	Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs.(horribly true)
Cass Sunstein	Regulatory Czar	Liberal activist judge believesfree speech needs to be limited for the "common good".Essentially against1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times -like private gun ownership and right to free speech.
John Holdren	Science Czar	Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.
Earl Devaney	Stimulus Accountability Czar	Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .
J. Scott Gration	Sudan Czar	Native ofDemocratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations,asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
Herb Allison	TARP Czar	Fannie May CEOresponsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
John Brennan	Terrorism Czar	Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs.Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military
Aneesh Chopra	Technology Czar	No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals.Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan
Adolfo Carrion Jr..	Urban Affairs Czar	Puerto Rican bornAnti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxeson middle class to pay for minority housing and health care
Ashton Carter	Weapons Czar	Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other "policy"
Gary Samore	WMD Policy Czar	Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other "policy".

How lucky are we that these are the people who are helping President Obama in the RUNNING of our country and the White House?

ARE YOU MAD YET?

Please pass this on and EDUCATE your family, friends and neighbors!

Look

Social Security - See Clearly Now

me3tv — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:58:39 CST

Social Security - An EXCELLENT SUMMARY!

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary, No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,

Now 7.65% on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,

No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,

Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democrat Party.
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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democrat Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That's right!

Jimmy Carter and the Democrat Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!!

REDLEG's LINKS

me3tv — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:47:52 CST

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/140492/Million-hit-by-plague-worse-than-swine-flu-

ivans report new mysterious plague

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/obamas_nyc_show_starring_khali.html

obamas nyc show

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114957

obamas shadow goverment

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703792304574504020025055040.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

meet the healthcare rationing people

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6917831.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

iran thugs desecrate neda soltans grave

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/110508-0/

even the ivans noticed-from pravda

VETERAN LINKS WWII

me3tv — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:19:34 CST

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/index.html

LUFTWAFFE

http://www.ww2.dk/

http://web.me.com/dryan671/ordersofbattle/Welcome.html

http://www.centuryinter.net/midway/Carrier_Squadrons/Torpedo_Eight/in_color.html

corregidor today

http://corregidorisland.com/index.html

best corregidor site

http://corregidor.org/btty_histories/control/open.htm

pshs

http://www.philippine-scouts.org/index.html

corregidor bataan u tube search-lots of stuff

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=corregidor+bataan&aq=3&oq=corregidor

excellent orbats of ww2

http://niehorster.orbat.com/

ww2 jap pics but others there

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/37442-5/784_japan_nankingfoto_2010&imgrefurl=http://www.ww2incolor.com/japan/784_japan_nankingfoto_2010.html&usg=__OW50P0HKsQwos66U1h-GfXcap9o=&h=318&w=500&sz=43&hl=en&start=20&tbnid=jL_m-hONUjYq_M:&tbnh=83&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djapanese%2Bww2%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

bataan account

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~ehimchak/surrender.html

japs

http://www.nesa.org.uk/fb/bcc.japanesewarcrimes.htm

al schmidt

http://www.nettally.com/jrube/schmid.htm

200th ca bataan

http://reta.nmsu.edu/bataan/timeline/1941.html

another 4th marines corps monograph good source

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/npswapa/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003140-00/sec2.htm

phillipine campaign

http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/pi/PI.htm

more bataan/corregidor good source for crests units etc

http://www.vfwpost7591.org/Bataan.html

4th marines

http://www.fourthmarinesband.com/photos_philippines.htm

ww2 plane site-cryllic text but excellent pics and art check out

http://airwar.hihome.com/gwp/gwp-usa.htm

had to add this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZs61VCJvTg

hope you can use and enjoy these let me know what you think

mike

Veterans Day Tribute

me3tv — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:29:09 CST

This is my tribute to our service men, past and present.

Also to some of the great friends I have been fortunate to meet.

God Bless Them All! God Bless You All! You are ALL great American's!

John A. Leynes Jr.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

(Long message with pictures, be sure to scroll to the end.)

I am late with my Veteran's tribute, but I have a good excuse. I spent most of the day yesterdaywith a remarkable man I met recently. Without too much of my usual introductions, the man is William (Bill) Ingram Jr. I met him in the parking lot of the Ace Hardware store a few weeks ago. I noticed his car had an Ex-POW tag. I introduced myself and thanked him for his service. I asked him where he was held prisoner, and he answered Burma. I knew immediately what he had endured. Bill agreed to do an interview with me, and that is what I had been doing for most of the day. His story is astonishing. I am making a videoif youmay want to see his story. For 85 years of age, Bill has a remarkable constitution, outlook and memory, not to mention he is a most friendly and warm individual. Bill went into the Navy at 17 in mid 1941, to follow his brother Bob, whom he hoped to serve with on the USS Houston, Heavy Cruiser CA-30. As aSeaman 2nd Class, he had a shortsail into hell. The USS Houston was sunk in the battle of the Java Sea. Most went down with the ship. Bill was captured by the Japanese, and went directly to the POW work campsbuilding theBurma railroad. He was there until the war ended. He stayed in the Navy after allhe endured,and retired as a Chief Boson's Mate 20 years later.I can't say enough about this wonderful man! Thank you Chief!

BMC, US Navyretired, Bill Ingram Jr.

(Picture taken yesterday, 11Nov 2009 age 85!)

Four men from the little town of Archer, Florida, Father &, Uncles, WWII.

The banner was created by our Grandmother Velma Crevasse Leynes and hung in the

window of "the old homeplace" until they all returned, which they all did. Thank You!

Uncle Lamar went in at Anzio, Italy. He saw the gates of hell open before him.

Williams make headlines in service of our country. William Westervelt Sr. WWII.

Patton's Army, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne. I did not get to meet him. Thank you William!

I went to High School with his son Scott, now retired Lt. Col. Westervelt, USMC.

Scott is currently serving in civilian capacity,so he says,in Baghdad, Iraq.

Scott, right below, onright, with his brother, middle, and Scott's son at left.

They have an Americanfamily tradition. Thank you, Westervelts!

William Hafford Sharp, USS Indianapolis Survivor. The "Indy" delivered the

first atomic bomb to Tinian Island and were sunk enroute to Philippines afterwards.

Theyfloated in thedeep Pacific for five days before rescue, with virtually nothing.

Thank you Hafford!

Lt. General,Franklin Hagenbeck, another 1967 Forrest High School Graduate.

Presently Superintendent, US Military Academy, West Point.

Thank you Buster!

Colonel E. C. Carlson, US Army Retired, Gainesville, Florida. Thank you!

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090630/ARTICLES/906301002

See video at bottom ofGainesville Sunarticle about Dr. Carlson.

ColonelJohn Frketic, US Army Retired, Forrest High School 1967.

John is now doing military contract work. He says he occasionally

still does some work for a company in Langley, Va. Thank you!

Several of my cousins and I served in the US Armed Forces.

Notably one Bennie Shelton Boyles, a USArmysmoke generator repairman.

I used tokid him about his assignment. During a discussion with

Colonel John Frketic, I mentioned this. He immediately corrected me

about the significant importance of this critical assignment, essentially,

"you can't destroy what you can't see."

Shelton, I will never again make light of this. Thank you!

Brother Jerry Leynes,Pilot, Lieutenant,served in the US Navy.

Jerry, on left,and my father John Sr. Thank you!

Cousin Lee Leynes served in the US Coast Guard, Thank you!

Cousin Harry Gillean served in theUS Coast Guard, Thank you!

Cousin Arthur Hugh Still served in theUS Navy, Thank you!

Cousin Jack Malloy served in theUS Army, Thank you!

I served in the Naval Air Reserves, Patrol Squadron VP-62, NAS Jax1967 - 1975.

Iwas an aircrew member on P2V Neptune & P3 Orion Submarine Patrol Bombers.

If I have missed any of my family, I sincerely regret the omission. Thank you too!

Forrest High School 1967 Graduates:

Tom Monell served in theUSNaval Air Reserves, Patrol Squadron VP-62, NAS Jax, Thank you.

Wayne Thomas served intheUS Navy, Thank you!

Many of our classmates paid the ultimate price in Viet Nam, you know who they are.

I thank them and their families.

I have to mention David Googe, who received FIVE Purple Hearts for his courage. Thank you David.

I hope you all had a meaningful Veterans Day!

John

Special Projects

me3tv — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:50:35 CST

Old Florida Pictures - 1880 - 1903
MORE Florida Photo Archves

More photos of Florida long ago.

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Jimmy Carter: Wilson's Obama Outburst Racist

Democrat invokes *** over Wilson outburst
Suggests people will don 'white hoods' if congressman not rebuked
--Fox News

MINORITY REPORT
Limbaugh: Race rules all in Obama's America
'It was white Americans that ran off Van Jones'
--RushLimbaugh.com

HOUSE RULES BAN 'LIAR', 'HYPOCRITE', 'INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST'

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
--Greek philosopher Plato (c. 428-348 B.C.)

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
-- English writer G. K. Chesterton

WND MONEY
Young adults likely to pay big share of reform's cost
Under-30s who use care least to be forced to subsidize others
-- Washington Post

"We warned of things to come, of the danger inherent in unwarranted government involvement in things not its proper province. What we warned against has come to pass. And today more than two-thirds of our citizens are telling us, and each other, that social engineering by the federal government has failed. The Great Society is great only in power, in size and in cost. And so are the problems it set out to solve. Freedom has been diminished and we stand on the brink of economic ruin…
No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex, centralized society. Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, galloping inflation, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite..."
– -Ronald Reagan

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary,

too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

--Thomas Jefferson

WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED

For those who are unaware, at a military theater, the National Anthem is played before every movie.

This is written from a Chaplain in Iraq :

I recently attended a showing of 'Superman 3' here at LSA Anaconda. We have a large auditorium we use for movies, as well as memorial services and other large gatherings. As is the custom back in the States, we stood and snapped to attention when the National Anthem began before the main feature. All was going as planned until about three-quarters of the way through The National Anthem the music stopped.

Now, what would happen if this occurred with 1,000 16-22 year-olds back in the States? I imagine there would be hoots, catcalls, laughter, a few rude comments; and everyone would sit down and call for a movie.. Of course, that is, if they had stood for the National Anthem in the first place.

Here, the 1,000 Soldiers continued to stand at attention, eyes fixed forward. The music started again. The Soldiers continued to quietly stand at attention. And again, at the same point, the music stopped. What would you expect to happen? Even here I would imagine laughter, as everyone finally sat down and expected the movie to start.

But here, you could have heard a pin drop. Every Soldier continued to stand at attention. Suddenly there was a lone voice, then a dozen, and quickly the room was filled with the voices of a thousand soldiers, finishing where the recording left off:

"And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."

It was the most inspiring moment I have had here in Iraq .. I wanted you to know what kind of Soldiers are serving you here. Remember them as they fight for you!

Pass this along as a reminder to others to be ever in prayer for all our soldiers serving us here at home and abroad. Many have already paid the ultimate price...

Written by Chaplain Jim Higgins
LSA Anaconda is at theBallad Airport in Iraq, north of Baghdad

Obama Grants More Rights to Gitmo Detainees

ACORN STRIKES BACK By Neal Boortz

The mainstream media also had a hard time covering the ACORN scandal that hit last week. To my knowledge, FOX was the only channel carrying the story that went a little something like this: James O'Keefe video tapped his counseling session with an ACORN employee. He posed as a pimp and brought along a "prostitute" and was advised by an ACORN employee how they could get loans for their prostitution business, etc.
Somehow, the revelation of this video turned into an issue of race.
Here's a statement released by Margaret Williams, a board member of Maryland 's ACORN office: It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage.
Here's another statement from ACORN's chief organizer Bertha Lewis. She says that conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the "Willie Horton for 2009." She also says, "We are the boogeyman for the right wing and its echo chambers."
The latest? Now ACORN is claiming that the video was altered and in no way represents what went on in that office in Baltimore .

PEW: Public's Trust Of Media Hits 20-Year Low...

Bad News for Media: More Believe They're Biased
NEW YORK -- More bad news for journalists: The percentage of people who believe their work is inaccurate and biased continues to grow.
Nearly two-thirds _ 63 percent _ of Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press believe that news stories are often inaccurate. That's a flip from when Pew first asked that question in 1985, when 34 percent of respondents believed stories were frequently inaccurate.
Pew also found that 74 percent of respondents believe stories tend to favor one side of an issue over another, up from 66 percent two years ago

CZAR WARS
Obama school-'safety' chief: How to jam homosexuality
'If Radical Right can succeed in portraying us as preying on children, we will lose'

President Obama's choice to monitor school safety once boasted that he introduced homosexual advocacy into the school system in Massachusetts by manipulating the message presented to lawmakers.
The revelations about Kevin Jennings, who was named assistant deputy secretary for the office
of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the U.S. Department of Education, come just as several of Obama's "czars" have come under scrutiny for their actions, opinions and affiliations.

©2009WorldNetDaily

In the prayer for healing, don’t reach for God.
God isn’t to be reached. God IS.
Remember, wherever God is, the Whole of God must be.
So, the Whole of God is in you and is the very Force that is expressing as you.
This is not something to pray for. It is something to be still and know, and thus, to pray from.
Begin with the realization of your Wholeness, and then let the light of this feeling radiate through your entire body.
© Eric Butterworth

"Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism
when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.
The cure for apathy is comprehension."
- John Dos Passos

2,000 girls suffer effects from cervical-cancer shot
12-year-olds experience convulsions, fever, paralysis from vaccine
-- London Telegraph

EGAD! DO I AGREE WITH CLAIRE MCCASKILL ON SOMETHING? By Neal Boortz

Looks like it. I heard McCaskill yesterday speaking out about these advertisements on cable television for scooters. She says many of these scooters are for people who don't need them. She's right. They're just fatasses who don't want to walk. You folks would be shocked to know how much our government spends on these things. Hint ... look way past hundreds of millions.

The European official responsible for banning incandescent light bulbs turns out to be a former communist.
That sounds about right.

Of course, there is the matter of retirement, which is the greatest shock that the system can sustain. There is no reason for either retirement or the shock of retirement. It depends upon attitudes. The important thing is not what happens to the person, but what happens within him. If one is in the Flow of Life, he will live creatively in work or in retirement, either one. If he’s out of the Flow, his life will be a study in frustration and boredom, even if he has a steady job. When we live life from the outside, goals tend to be acquisitional, rather than personal. So, when it seems that doors are closing to us in opportunities to acquire the plums and plaudits of the world, we tend to start to enclose ourselves in shells. Like the little child, we’re standing on our own hose.
To me, the great mistake of retirement is planning to do nothing. A study was made of centenarians, people who have lived to one hundred years old, and they found that not one retired-to-do-nothing person ever lived to be one hundred years old. All of them had worked and continued to work and had responsibilities and continued to be active. Certainly, we need to make plans for life changes, but every stage should include activities of work—work that is organic, work that is a part of your life, work that is meaningful. We must work at the process of keeping ourselves alive and fully functioning. That doesn’t happen to us. It is not chance. It is something we do by plan. Society may mandate retirement from a particular job, but no one can force your withdrawal as an integral part of the Universe. As I say, often: You may be fired from a job, but you can never be fired from the Universe.
© Eric Butterworth

DAY OF INFAMY 2001
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
U.N. snubs 9/11 remembrances
Body regularly honors Hiroshima dead, but ignores New York City victims
--WND

I GOT A QUESTION FOR THOSE PEOPLE By Neal Boortz

Obama says "What are you going to do? What's your answer? What's your solution?" He then goes on to say that the Republicans have no plan; they've presented no alternatives; all they want to do is make sure there's no reform.
This, of course, is a lie .. and Obama knows it. He also knows that the neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times will challenge the president by presenting the GOP options that are already on the table.
Just a few examples?

Expand health savings accounts.
Allow individual consumers to deduct the cost of their health insurance from their taxable income, just as their employers do.
Controls on medical malpractice suits.
Allow individuals to buy insurance across state lines.
Allow like groups to combine their numbers to buy large group health insurance policies.
Expand the treatment authority of nurse practitioners
End absurd state imposed insurance mandates that drive insurance costs up.

Rep. Dianne Feinstein believes that it is her job to "[change] the way the country's biggest insurers do business."

Do you know that in some states it is actually illegal for an employer to pay for a health insurance policy that will actually be owned by the employee? In other words, the employer cannot buy an insurance policy for an employee that the employee would be able to take with him when he leaves or changes jobs. You have to ask yourself why this particular law would have been passed. Easy: because if you actually own the policy it increases your independence. These politicians simply are not going to take any actions that will increase individual independence. The motive force behind governance at the federal level is to create and expand dependency. So ... to respond to Obama's "What's your answer?" rant ... let's talk about changing this particular law.

Men with long fingers drive faster
'Hormone exposure in the womb might increase traffic violations in later life'
-- London Telegraph

Warfront With Jihadistan: ROE Cost Lives

We send our best and bravest off to fight the enemies of liberty while our politicians tie one hand behind the troops' back, essentially giving aid and comfort to the enemy. That aid and comfort, of course, are the Rules of Engagement (ROE) that define when, where and how our soldiers can fight and kill the enemy. The enemy has no such rules, which all too often leaves our troops unnecessarily exposed to enemy fire on the one hand, or exposed to prosecution by U.S. lawyers on the other, a choice that leads to uncertainty and, therefore, death on the battlefield.
Last week, when four U.S. Marines were killed in an ambush while training Afghan soldiers, the ROE were to blame. Eight Afghan troops and the Marine commander's Afghan interpreter also died in the ambush and the subsequent battle that took place in the village of Ganjgal , near the Pakistan border.
The Marines came under heavy fire from jihadis hidden in the hills near the village, where women and children were helping to replenish the insurgents' ammunition. Citing the new ROE implemented by the Obama regime, designed to minimize Afghan civilian casualties, U.S. commanders repeatedly rejected calls from the Marines for artillery and air support aimed at the jihadis, who were dug into the slopes around the village but not in the village proper.
The lack of air support led to a fierce firefight and directly contributed to the Marines' deaths. This is nothing short of criminal.

"As the late Nobel Laureate Professor Milton Friedman said, '[I]nflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.'
Thinking of inflation as rising prices permits politicians to deceive us and escape culpability. They shift the blame saying that inflation is caused by greedy businessmen, rapacious unions or Arab sheiks.
Instead, it is increases in the money supply that cause inflation, and who is in charge of the money supply? It's the government operating through the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Treasury. ...."
-- George Mason University economics professor Walter E. Williams

JUST A QUESTION By Neal Boortz

If Obama is so focused on health care reform, could someone please tell me why there are so many parts of the ObamaCare plan that benefit labor unions and promote unionization?
Just another indication that this is not about health care, it's about control --- and paying off your friends.

“Federal tax incentives have created a world in which the vast majority of people get health insurance through their employers. Then to really screw ordinary Americans, the tax code actually punishes people who don't get their health insurance through an employer by denying individuals the tax deduction for health insurance that their employers get. ....

If Democrats really wanted people to be able to purchase health insurance when they move or lose a job as easily as they purchase car insurance and home insurance (or haircuts, dog walkers, cars, food, computers), they could do it in a one-page bill lifting the government controls and allowing interstate commerce in health insurance. This is known as 'allowing the free market to operate.'

--columnist Ann Coulter

Teen threatens to rape, kill teacher if whole class doesn't get A+++
Is that even a real grade? (WPIX.com)

An analysis by Chris Edwards) of the Cato Institute found that federal civilian employees are a group not exactly hit hard by the recession. They now have an average compensation package (wages plus benefits) that doubles the average compensation package found in the private sector. Furthermore, it's an overall disparity that's increased over the last eight years.
In relating his findings, Edwards notes, "The result [of a lack of fiscal restraint during the Bush administration] has been an increasingly overpaid elite of government workers, who are insulated from the economic reality of recessions and from the tough competitive climate of the private sector."
While federal employees tend to complain about their pay scale -- which is "only" about 60 percent higher than the private sector's -- it's telling that they quit their jobs much less often than do those in the private sector. Obviously few are forced out because the federal government never shrinks in size, and, as the data show, federal employees are loath to give up their gold-plated benefit packages.

Immigrants, anchor babies weigh down Obamacare
Exclusive: Virgil Goode reveals who imposes greatest strain on health system
--WND

The World Health Organization (WHO) after changing the definition to fit current conditions, declared a "Level 6" pandemic in mid-June, 2009. The CDC and WHO are now predicting that the H1N1 "Swine Flu" will be back this fall in a new and deadly form.
They also say that a new vaccine will be ready for deployment at the very time when the H1N1 Pandemic virus circulates around the globe and are proposing universal (mandatory) vaccination, starting with our most vulnerable: the very young and the very old. At the July 9, 2009 "flu summit," the President stated: "We want to make sure that we are not promoting panic... the most important thing ....is to make sure that state and local officials prepare now to implement a vaccination program in the fall..."
You Could be Jailed for Refusing Swine Flu and Regular Flu Vaccinations
The United States Emergency Medical Powers Acts and Federal legislation, including the Patriot Acts I, II and III, BARDA and others provide for mandatory vaccination or drugging. No exemptions (religious or otherwise) are provided. Those who refuse will be classified as felons at the State level, subject to immediate incarceration and quarantine of indefinite length in jails or other facilities reserved for such "vaccine refusers." In a frightening "Big Lie" propaganda move, those who doubt the effectiveness of unproven, uninsurable vaccines are being called " Vaccine Resisters" and being equated to a new form of "terrorism."
Those who refuse at the Federal level will be subject to immediate incarceration and quarantine of indefinite length, probably in FEMA camps set up across the US .
That means that untested, potentially lethal vaccines and dangerous drugs like Tamiflu could be forced upon people who do not wish them and who would face incarceration or worse if they choose not to accept them. The CDC has said that there would be no exemptions and that there would be "a certain amount of human wastage". Instead, we demand the right to Self-Shield in our own homes!
No Drug Company Liability for Side Effects!
The uninsurable vaccines produced for the bioengineered Swine Flu Pandemic will not have been tested in any meaningful way by the time they are delivered into our bodies and those of our children in the fall of 2009, if the World Health Organization and CDC are to be believed.
Vaccine manufacturers are exempt, thanks to Congress and the FDA, from any legal liability for damage or death from these dangerous, uninsurable drugs.

Pharmacy worker sues over "robbery drill" that traumatized her
Since the staged holdup, the 46-year-old woman has been seeing a therapist, has suffered from insomnia, and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She stayed home from work on the anniversary of the "robbery drill" and takes meds for depression, anxiety, and panic disorder. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NANNY STATE: Now NYC wants to ban SMOKING in PARKS!

… We must realize that hell is not a place, but a state of consciousness and the devil is not a person, but a mythical collector of the hidden luxury tax of negative thinking. As one person said recently, “My doctor tells me I have a nervous disorder that affects my mental and physical wellbeing. I’m supposed to avoid any situation that might cause tension or anxiety. I go along, real well, and then I get involved in some big project that has problems, and then, ‘Pop!’ there’s ‘the devil to pay.’” “What can I do?” he asks. Well, what can he do? He can alter his thoughts He may have problems in his work, but he’s not obligated to worry about them, to get upset in the face of challenges. Remember, the Gospel says Jesus came preaching, “…the Kingdom of God is at hand.” [Mark 1:15] The “Kingdom” refers to the opposite of Hades (not to see). It is means to see the Whole of things. As the Apostle Paul says in the immortal 13th Chapter of First Corinthians, “We know [see] in part,…but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.” [1 Corinthians 13:9-10, KJV] You are seeing darkness, but when you turn on the light, darkness disappears. There are no “evil forces” lying in wait for man. Man is the master of his mind, but he is often a poor master, giving in to irritation and tension, going on frequent emotional binges. As the Quaker man said, “Why should I let the person or the condition decide how I’m going to think or act.”
Heaven is an experience of Wholeness, and anyone can live in this experience if he can control his emotions and direct them into higher avenues of expression. Hell is an experience of darkness and frustration. One who represses his emotions or perverts them into destructive channels is building up for a mental, nervous, and physical breakdown, just as certainly as if he were to take a morning dosage of arsenic in his coffee…
© Eric Butterworth

WorldNetDaily
Soldier ordered not to challenge Obama's eligibility?
Army doctor claims she was barred from answering judge's call to court
--WND

DOCTOR'S ORDERS
How 'bout a real single-payer system?
Thomas Sowell: Back in the day, people paid their own medical bills – and survived
--WND

Now Joe Wilson is a racist as well. He didn't yell "you lie" at Obama because Obama was lying .. he did it because Obama is black. Read this from Newsbusters.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the Black Press of America, which is a non-partisan 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has decided to show its disapproval of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" remarks by canceling a convention in the state
"Rep. Wilson's remarks were racist, disrespectful and a disingenuous violation - not only of President Obama - but to the institution of the presidency and only solidified our position and the importance in not spending Black dollars where Black people are not respected," NNPA Chairman Danny J. Bakewell Sr. said in a statement.

First we had "hate speech." Now we have "hate tweets."

Tom Tancredo: Wilson Was Right on Illegals

“There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”
When Obama made his speech, there were a number of glaring and intentional loopholes to the Democrat’s pretend ban of illegal aliens in the House healthcare bill HR 3200.
Virtually every single means tested government program requires that applicants are screened by the “Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements” [SAVE] program to ensure that they are not illegal aliens.
But this provision is not included in HR 3200. This is not an oversight. Republicans twice introduced Amendments to require the SAVE program be implemented, and it was voted down by the same Democrats who hypocritically added the clause that ostensibly barred illegals.

Superintendent asked to step down after not airing Obama Speech...

Treasury: Cap-and-trade to cost $200 billion annually
Department memos prove legislation would pose significant burden to economy
-- Washington Times

Pathway to Heaven
Last week we discussed the "Liverpool Care Pathway," Britain 's socialized scheme for dying patients. London 's Daily Mail reports an audit of the pathway finds that "more than a quarter of families are not told when life support is withdrawn from terminally-ill loved ones":
Peter Millard, emeritus professor of geriatrics at the University of London, said: "The risk as this is rolled out across the country is that elderly people with chronic conditions like Parkinson's or respiratory disorders may be dismissed as dying when they could still live for some time.

"If patients tell their doctors that they wish to die at home, that shouldn't be taken as an excuse not to treat them in hospital if their condition deteriorates but they still might recover with proper care. ...

"Discussions about the future of patients are being bypassed; the supportive nature of hospitals has gone. We are hearing complaints from all round the country.

"Governments have got rid of respite care and geriatric wards, so we're left with a crisis. The Government has said let's develop a service to help people die at home--what they should be doing is helping them live. Only when death is unavoidable should you start withdrawing treatment.

"The problem is that there isn't enough discussion between doctors and patients and their relatives. Nobody is talking to them."
It's OK, though. According to former Enron adviser Paul Krugman: "In Britain , the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false."

Mark Levin Book Hits One Million in Sales; Never Reviewed by NYT, WASHINGTON POST...

"The Obama team is saddled with a foundering health-care strategy.

But it has a fallback plan -- relying on the sheer dimwitted gullibility of the American public.

How stupid do they think we are?

... Stupid enough not to be offended at how contemptibly stupid they think we are."

--National Review editor Rich Lowry

JUST PLAIN NUTS
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Newest video ACORN confession: 'I shot him'
Employee tells undercover reporter about running prostitution ring, setting stage for self-defense killing
--WND

ABC's Gibson 'didn't know' about ACORN scandal
Anchor tells radio audience 'maybe that's just one you leave to the cables'
--Real Clear Politics

NBC anchor criticizes ACORN 'entrapment'
Reacts to video of employees giving advice on how to evade tax laws
--Newsbusters

Regarding the Obama birth issue, Paul Hollrah believes the issue can beresolved by Obama answering one simple question:

What passport did he use when he was shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi ?

Follow Up Questions Include:

So how did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket,suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world
trip just a month later?

And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi , what passport was he offering when he passed throughCustoms and Immigration?

The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers.

It makes the debate over Obama's citizenship a rather short and simple one.

Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20?

A : Yes, by his own admission.

Q: What passport did he travel under?

A: There are only three possibilities.

1) He traveled with a U.S. Passport,
2) He traveled with a British passport, or
3) He traveled with an Indonesia passport.

Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. Passport in 1981?

A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list in 1981.

Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport.

If he were traveling with a British passport that would provide proof

that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims.

And if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove

that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held,British or American,

prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a "natural born" American citizen between 1981 and 2008.

Given the destructive nature of his plans for America, as illustrated by his speech before Congress and the disastrous spending planhe has presented to Congress, the sooner we learn the truth of all this, the better.

84 times

The Democrats say if you want to keep your insurance, you can.
But then why do they require so much of you in order to let you keep your plan?
The Democrats' healthcare legislation uses the word "require" 84 times focusing on what should be your rights.

Heartbreak 'increases heart attack risk'...

Docs question safety of swine flu vaccine

Before you roll up your sleeve to get that Swine Flu vaccine shot, keep in mind that the doctor who's sticking you with that needle probably opted not to get the shot -- because he or she was too afraid of side effects.

At least that's the case in Hong Kong where about half of health workers passed on inoculations for the H1N1 virus in the middle of the biggest panic over the would-be pandemic.

The reason: they doubted its effectiveness AND its safety.

The Hong Kong docs also claimed that they were concerned about the impact that any illness that THEY might contract would have on the nation's ability to respond to a pandemic. But you've got to wonder... what do they know that we don't?

Here in the West, the official party line is that all healthcare workers will be among the first to receive the vaccination for Swine Flu since they are the first line of defense against the sickness. But even the British Medical Journal admits that inoculating a nation's healthcare forces will be difficult if these workers "don't believe that vaccine to be safe and effective."

Yet one more reason to keep those sleeves rolled down.

Taxed by the prospect of even more taxes,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

NEWS ANALYSIS
45% of doctors would quit under Obamacare
Poll contradicts AMA claims medical profession backs proposed overhaul
--Investor's Business Daily

Mr. Baucus proposes penalties ranging to $3,800 on families without mandatory health care insurance.

If the Baucus scheme works, it could be applied to other public policy dilemmas.

We could cure homelessness, for example, by imposing stiff fines on the homeless who refuse to buy houses.

(That would spur the housing market, too.)"

-- Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden

Van Jones not fired - just transferred to another division of Soros Inc
You did not suffer under the delusion that Democrats are ashamed of their America-haters, cretins, adulterers, racists, perjurers, thieves, tax cheats, and other criminals, did you? Did you now?
September 6 - Van Jones resigns under pressure as Obama's 'Green Jobs Czar'.
September 9 - He's back at the Center for American Progress, where he was previously a Senior Fellow.
Make no mistake. Van Jones is well taken care of.

Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year...

Good Help Is Hard to Find
Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck also aired the San Bernardino Acorn tapes last night, and in introducing them, he made an excellent point:
America, ask yourself this question. Either ACORN has the most corrupt hiring practices, lowest standards or you just can't find anyone in the inner city that's a decent human being.

Now, I don't believe that one. I don't think ACORN wants to make that case. Really? Well, that's the case you'd better make, ACORN.
But the previous day, National Public Radio's Frank James had offered precisely that excuse:
It's also important to keep in mind that ACORN's workers are coming from the same low-income neighborhoods the organization serves, with all that entails--poor schools, high crime and the sorts of social problems that have been documented for decades.

So the flaws conservatives are pointing out about ACORN are not so much problems associated with that organization per se but more about the problems of being poor and minority in urban America
It's hard to see how James's casual assumption that corruption is the predictable result of "being poor and minority" is anything other than invidious bigotry. Further, even if one assumes for the sake of argument that Acorn is a mere passive embodiment of "social problems," how exactly does that get it off the hook? Acorn is supposed to ameliorate those problems, is it not?

The White House is apparently

collecting and storing comments and videos

placed on its social-networking.

The media is “going to find themselves completely irrelevant very shortly if they don't pick up these stories.

You can't let these gigantic stories go by in this atmosphere ….

You can't ignore it. It won't make it go away."

Glenn Beck

The SADS Rule

Dr. Laura,

I want to share with you what I called the SADS rule while my son was being supported by my husband and me. This rule was provided to him early and he was reminded of it frequently. Today he is a 25 year old non-smoker, social drinker, non-drug using responsible member of society. I am very proud of him.

So here is the SADS rule. No Sex, Alcohol, Drugs, or Smoking while I am supporting you. This speech goes with the rule:

The law requires you to have food; it does not have to taste good.

You have to have a bed; it does not have to be comfortable.

You need to be clothed; they do not have to be stylish or fit exactly.

Your extra activities are privileges not rights. I can take them away and will not be put in jail.

College assistance from us is only available when the SADS rule is obeyed.

Any questions or negotiations are not tolerated. All other rules can be discussed.

With so many people asking you how to handle their children with shack ups coming to their home this may help. While my son is not in a relationship should he decide shacking up is for him (I don't think it is) he will know the issue has been decided many years before without question.

The SADS Mom!

Sunstein: 'Desirable' to give U.S. wealth to poor nations
Regulatory chief echoes ousted Van Jones on promotion of 'environmental justice'
--WND

A little child once said, “Faith is believing what ain’t so.” Of course, this is not exactly true.
This thing called “faith” has been greatly misunderstood. The Anglo-Saxon root from which we get the word means, “to live by.” So, faith is not a theory that we hold to, but a power that holds to us. It’s a level of thinking by which we actually become a part of the all-encompassing Infinite Mind of God. On this level, our mental capacity is expanded somewhat, even as the sunlight enables the flower to unfold, budding into full bloom. Capacities hitherto undreamed of are released, and the way is opened to confidence, to creativity, and to success.
… Faith is a perception that is born of intuition. The world will always give you tuition, but you must take time to cultivate intuition. There will appear to be limits, and the limits that the world sets on us are, “You’re too old,” “You’re too young,” “There is too little time,” “There is not enough money.” But intuition can always reveal a way, a means, a magic solution to the seemingly impossible. Fact-thinking reveals many closed doors. Faith-Thinking will show us where the keys are. Fact-thinking reveals empty vessels. Faith-Thinking reveals receptacles waiting to be filled by Divine Action. As the Bible says, “And my God shall supply every need of yours, according to His riches….” [Philippians 4:19]
… What is the great desire of your heart? Think about it. What would you like more than anything else? Create a vacuum for the Spirit to rush in. Create a receptacle. Reach out to your desire. Form a picture of it in your mind, a picture that is not emptiness, but a possibility, a picture that will become an attracting force to draw the desire to you. See it clearly. See it as already accomplished. See yourself as doing that which you would like to do, as actually being what you would like to become, as having what you would like to have.
Believe, and let that believing consciousness go out ahead of you and lead the way. And, I can assure you, amazing things will happen. Whether or not a miracle takes place, in terms of a demonstration of the realization of what you want right now, doesn’t matter. But something very wonderful will manifest—great overcoming, great changes. The important thing is that you will be different. You will see differently. Something will gradually unfold in your life, making the whole process of faith a reality to you. As Santayana wrote, think “the thought divine.” Think big, think broad, think expansively, think good, and let the Faith Consciousness become a whole way of thinking. Faith-Thinking will lead you into the greatness of life that you envision for yourself.
© Eric Butterworth

Here's a little reminder: ACORN was a creation of the Community Reinvestment Act.

In other words .. the government.

Maxine Waters believes that the media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists, like people who attend tea party rallies. She believes that it is not enough for African-Americans ... or as us non politically correct people like to say, "blacks" ... it is not enough for blacks to cry racism against these people. What we really need to do is use the media to expose their racist bias.
Here is how it went in her own words: "I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed ... I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers ... I think it's not enough for African-Americans to say what they think, what they suspect ... I think that if you put the microphones in front of them, if you do the interviews, they'll tell you what they believe, what they think."

Mainstream Media Misses ACORN, Czars, Tea Parties, Other Scoops — Bias or Incompetence?

THE TRUTH ABOUT CAP-AND-TRADE By Neal Boortz

Assuming that the healthcare debate would overshadow this piece of news, the Obama administration came to a startling conclusion about its cap-and-trade plan.
It has concluded that this cap-and-tax scheme ... which has NOTHING to do with global warming ... would cost taxpayers $200 billion a year.

Girl refuses to read "modern masterpiece" for English class
The 16-year-old girl is offended by parts of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," which uses imagery such as phone sex and masturbation. One school board member sides with her, saying: "As a parent I would never let my kid read that." (St. Petersburg Times)

Yikes! "Cost of Government Day" Later Than Ever Before

The average American had to work a record 224 days this year to pay his or her share of the cost of government.

That's the shocking claim of Americans for Tax Reform, a non-partisan organization that works for smaller taxes and smaller government

Each year ATR calculates "Cost of Government Day." That's the day of the calendar year when the average American worker is -- finally! -- finished paying off his or her share of the total cost of federal, state and local government spending and regulation.

This year, Cost of Government Day didn't arrive until August 12 -- the latest date ever. That means it took, according to ATR, an astounding 224 days before the average American had earned enough to meet the costs imposed on them by government.

Put another way, in 2009 the cost of government consumes a whopping 61.34 percent of national income.

Climate protesters go to home of skeptical BBC reporter; Dump six bags of horse manure on his front lawn...

Seven Steps to Free-Market Health Care Reform

President Obama is wrong in arguing for a government takeover of American health care system. But he is right that the U.S. health care system is desperately in need of major reform.

Libertarians, while critical of the president's plan, must also be strong advocates of reform -- based on free markets, competition, common sense, consumer choice, and liberty -- that will make health care better and far more affordable for all.

The libertarian Cato Institute has created a Web site, Cato On Health Care Reform, that offers great resources for battling the takeover and arguing for freedom-based reform.

From that site, here are Cato's seven steps for free-market health care reform:

1. Let individuals control their health care dollars, and free them to choose from a wide variety of health plans and providers.

2. Move away from a health care system dominated by employer-provided health insurance. Health insurance should be personal and portable, controlled by individuals themselves rather than government or an employer. Employment-based insurance hides much of the true cost of health care to consumers, thereby encouraging over-consumption. It also limits consumer choice, since employers get final say over what type of insurance a worker will receive. It means people who don't receive insurance through work are put at a significant and costly disadvantage. And, of course, it means that if you lose your job, you are likely to end up uninsured as well.

3. Changing from employer to individual insurance requires changing the tax treatment of health insurance. The current system excludes the value of employer-provided insurance from a worker's taxable income. However, a worker purchasing health insurance on their own must do so with after-tax dollars. This provides a significant tilt towards employer-provided insurance, which should be reversed. Workers should receive a standard deduction, a tax credit, or, better still, large Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for the purchase of health insurance, regardless of whether they receive it through their job or purchase it on their own.

4. We need to increase competition among both insurers and health providers. People should be allowed to purchase health insurance across state lines. One study estimated that that adjustment alone could cover 17 million uninsured Americans without costing taxpayers a dime.

5. We also need to rethink medical licensing laws to encourage greater competition among providers. Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, midwives, and other non-physician practitioners should have far greater ability to treat patients. Doctors and other health professionals should be able to take their licenses from state to state. We should also be encouraging innovations in delivery such as medical clinics in retail outlets.

6. Congress should give Medicare enrollees a voucher, let them choose any health plan on the market, and let them keep the savings if they choose an economical plan. Medicare could even give larger vouchers to the poor and sick to ensure they could afford coverage.

7. The expansion of "health status insurance" would protect many of those with preexisting conditions. States may also wish to experiment with high risk pools to ensure coverage for those with high cost medical conditions.

OUTBREAK!
Boston launches flu-shot tracking
City to pinpoint areas of low rates of vaccination
-- Boston Globe

If I Didn't See It, It Didn't Happen

Dr. Laura,

At my weekly mommy & me group, I recently heard of a disturbing new trend. Mothers are instructing day care workers that under no circumstances are they to tell them of any milestones (first coo, laugh, step, etc) that their child achieves during the day. Why? Because as "mother" they "deserve" to see it first. But instead of bothering to BE THERE to see these milestones they are just going to pretend that the first time they see it is the first time it happened. Not only that but I have heard of mothers screaming and yelling at the staff because these instructions were overlooked. And all this is talked about as if this is a BRILLIANT idea!

This is yet another way that the modern mom is able to pretend that her child's life stops and starts at her convenience. If I don't HEAR about the milestones then I don't have to feel GUILTY for missing them...right?

E.

I figured out a long time ago that I've got more money when I don't have debt.
It's a pretty simple formula, isn't it?
If you want to build wealth, you have to get out of the payment business
.

Don't try to figure out how much debt you can get into. Instead, figure out how much debt you can get out of!
Dave Ramsey

CZAR WARS
Sunstein: Obama, not courts, should interpret law
'Beliefs and commitments' of nation's leader should supersede judges
By Aaron Klein ©2009WorldNetDaily
The interpretation of federal law should be made not by judges but by the beliefs and commitments of the U.S. president and those around him, according to President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
"There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him," argued Sunstein.

According to a recent survey, 87% of businesses would cut employee benefits

if the Democrats pass their healthcare bill (assuming that it will increase their costs).

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT, PART II By Neal Boortz

We all know of the disaster that occurred, thanks in large part to the Community Reinvestment Act of the 1970s. This is the brilliant idea that government would require financial institutions to lend to unqualified borrowers. Long story very short ... eventually this policy led to the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to the economic difficulties we're facing today.
So what is the logic emanating from Washington today? Let's EXPAND the scope and power of the Community Reinvestment Act.
Yesterday, Barney Frank held a hearing on the "Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009." The bill's purpose is "to close the wealth gap in the United States " by increasing "home ownership and small business ownership for low- and moderate-income borrowers and persons of color."
And, according to this column by Byron York, "It would also make CRA more explicitly race-based by requiring CRA standards to be applied to minorities, regardless of income, going beyond earlier requirements that applied solely to low- and moderate-income areas."

World celebrities sing to stop global warming...

Marcus Aurelius, the very wise Roman Emperor in the 2nd century, obviously understood the folly of fear, he says: “Let others pray not to lose their children. Let me pray not to fear to lose them.” You can say the same in terms of our jobs. Don’t pray that we will not lose our job, but pray that we will not be afraid of losing our job. Let us not pray not to catch the flu, for instance, but pray that we will not have fear of the flu, which is the real virulence involved.
I read something interesting, recently, by Dr. Hollingsworth of Columbia University . He says: “If we could convince people that the art of living consists in control of attention. And that if, with every problem in life, you were to make a habit of freeing yourself from the fear of consequences by putting your attention on the control of sequences of thought and action, you would transform your relation to life.” What a great truth this is. Keep your mind free from indulging in the fear of consequences. For instance, “What if?” And keep your mind stayed on setting up the right sequences of thought that will produce good results. As Emmett Fox used to say, “Don’t think about the problem, think about God.” “What if I lose my job?” “What if I don’t have enough money?” “What if I miss that bus when I’m in such a hurry?” Keep your thoughts on the positive and set up a chain of sequences that will lead to positive consequences—a tremendous realization!
Dr. Emerson, the great surgeon of Boston —who, incidentally, was a son of Ralph Waldo Emerson—was once asked how he could stand the strain after he just completed an operation on a woman in a very serious condition. He said, “But, you see, it’s not my responsibility whether the patient gets well or not. This is up to God. It’s up to me to simply be the best surgeon I can be, each instance I work on a patient.” In other words, he was free of fear of negative consequences, because he controlled the sequences with every bit of his ability. The key is to keep the mind stayed on the positive, a mind full of Truth. As wise old Confucius once said, “A man filled with truth hath power over heaven and earth, God and devils. Nothing in the universe can influence him. Water and fire cannot cause him to fear.”
When you become conscious, even to a limited degree, of your Oneness with Universal Mind, your ability to call upon It for anything you need, it will make a new person of you, and gone will be fear, forever.
© Eric Butterworth

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention."
- Jim Rohn

UPDATE: New Government Policy Imposes Strict Standards on Garage Sales Nationwide..

Incidentally, here is a shocking fact: Yesterday, 26 members of the Congressional Black Caucus--25 in the House and one, Ronald Burris, in the Senate--voted against resolutions to defund Acorn, the scandal-plagued advocacy group. Two additional Black Caucus members voted "present" in the House, and one was absent.
§ Only seven Congressional Black Caucus members voted to defund Acorn, and here's the honor role.
That is to say, fewer than 1 in 4 Black Caucus members voted to stop spending taxpayers' money on an organization that has been caught on video at least five times offering advice on how to practice slavery.

Massachusetts RAISES TAXES ON DOGS...

San Fran Mayor To Tax Retailers Who Sell Soda...

Pezutti's Politics

me3tv — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:56:49 CDT

Gary Pezutti periodically summarizes the masses of email he receives with all the good stories and the good links that make political discourse efficient. So no more 500 emails a week from dozens of email fanatics that feel compelled to pass along the latest dire story of the nation's demise. Now it is all in one place - easy to skim - easy to read from the page or from the links. Thanks , Gary.
Vic Campbell www.me3tv.org

PEZUTTI ONE .................... First Half 2009
PEZUTTI TWO ....................APRILf 2009
PEZUTTI THREE ............... JUNE 2009
PEZUTTI FOUR ................. JULY 2009
PEZUTTI SIX ....................... SEPT 2009

I'm TIRED

me3tv — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:18:23 CDT

"I'm Tired" by Robert A. Hall.... found from a post at TartanMarine .... "I'm Tired - from a former congressman": www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it. I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money. I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros, and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won't multiculturalism be beautiful? I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to. I believe "a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin." I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government. I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene($40M), but that think Obama's, at the costof $600M,was wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with two years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004. I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue, or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance. I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global` warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough. I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I ** sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana. I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military... Those are the citizens we need. I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the` uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years-and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the` blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear. I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers-bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the" Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet as well. I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers, and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor. Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing. I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems. Yes, I'm ** tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter. Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the` Massachusetts State Senate.

"I'm Tired"

by Robert A. Hall.... found from a post at TartanMarine .... "I'm Tired - from a former congressman": www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com

I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros, and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won't multiculturalism be beautiful?

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.

I believe "a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin." I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois.

I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.

I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene($40M), but that think Obama's, at the costof $600M,was wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with two years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue, or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global` warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.

I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I **** sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military... Those are the citizens we need.

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the` uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years-and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the` blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers-bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the" Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet as well.

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers, and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I'm **** tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the` Massachusetts State Senate.

Glenn Beck on Youtube

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Posted on Saturday, August 29, 2009 10:22:49 AM by jcsjcm Just in case you didn't have cable news or missed some episodes, here is the whole week of Glenn Beck placed on youtube by BuckFarack. It is in 9 minute intervals without any commercials. Thank you for placing this series on for us.
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2 posted on Saturday, August 29, 2009 10:23:14 AM by jcsjcm (Upholding the Constitution til my last breath

Always remember to be humble!
You are only a visitor, subject to recall at any moment. You are no more than a speck of dust within the scope of time, space and eternity. All granted by the good grace of your creator.

No country ever taxed itself in to prosperity; unfortunately way too many politicians think it is possible.

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"Health care cannot be a right, because rights cannot come from government. At best, they can be protected by government. The founders understood this, which is why our Bill of Rights is really a list of restrictions on the government in Washington ." *--National Review editor Jonah Goldberg* The Myth of "46 Million Uninsured" by Sharon Harris "[W]e've got to admit that the free market has not worked perfectly when it comes to health care, because you've got a lot of people who are really getting hurt: 46 million uninsured..." So said President Obama on June 11. Proponents of radical health care "reform" repeat "46 million are uninsured" (or "15% of the American population is uninsured") like a mantra, arguing, like President Obama, that it proves the free market doesn't work in health care. However, a closer examination shows that number is highly misleading -- indeed, downright deceptive. Following are some facts you can use to challenge and refute this widespread claim. First, the origin of the number. The "46 million uninsured" figure comes from a study by the Bureau of the Census. According to that study: "In 2007, there were 45.7 million people in the U.S. (15.3% of the population) who were without health insurance for at least part of that year...." However, of that estimated 45.7 million uninsured people in the U.S. in 2007: * An estimated 6.4 million of them are the "Medicaid undercount." That is, they actually are on either Medicaid or S-CHIP, but mistakenly told the Census taker they were not. Thus they are actually insured. * Another 4.3 million are eligible for free or heavily subsidized government health insurance (either Medicaid or SCHIP), but simply have not yet signed up. If they go to an emergency room or free clinic, they will automatically be enrolled by the provider after receiving medical care. * 9.3 million or more are not U.S. citizens. Yes: almost 20 percent of the "46 million uninsured" are, in fact, citizens of other nations currently living in the U.S., either documented or undocumented. (Some estimates put the figure at 25%.) Despite this, you routinely hear that "46 million Americans" (implying U.S. citizens) are uninsured. I have great respect for immigrants, but I do not believe the government should force taxpayers to pay for their health insurance. * 10.1 million have incomes more than 3 times the poverty level. For a single person that means their income exceeded $30,600 in 2007. For a family of four, that would be $62,000 or more. Almost 18 million of the uninsured in America -- that's 38 percent of them -- earn more than $50,000 per year; almost 10 million of them earn over $75,000 per year. The typical uninsured citizen makes more than the average U.S. income. The overwhelming majority of these people obviously can afford health care coverage under our current system. * 5 million are adults between ages 18 and 34 and without children. Young singles of this age are, on the whole, extremely healthy; insurance companies refer to them as "the Invincibles." Foolishly or not, many have simply made a deliberate choice not to invest money in health insurance at this stage in their lives. What does that leave? Just 10.6 million people who are U.S. citizens; who make incomes less than 300% of poverty; who are not eligible for a taxpayer-subsidized health insurance program; and who are not childless adults between the extremely healthy ages of 18 and 34. That's about... 3% of the total U.S. population. And even some of that 3% are only temporarily without insurance; for example, they may be between jobs, or looking for another policy, or only temporarily unable to afford coverage. Further, they still have access to care; federal law prohibits hospitals from denying treatment to persons who come to an emergency room. Bottom line: the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens have health insurance, and many who do not can afford it, but, for one reason or another, have chosen not to buy it this time. The percentage who cannot afford or otherwise get health insurance is very small. The Obama administration is proposing unprecedented new government controls over the existing system -- for a problem largely centered around a tiny percentage of the population. Would people support such radical changes if they knew the story behind the numbers? I don't think so. It's up to us to get that message out to the public -- while we still can. "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson "It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." --novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "Suffice it to say that if government attempts to control our total medical spending, sooner or later, it will have to control us. ...The belief that [politicians] can take care of us is rank superstition. Who will save us from these despots? What Adam Smith said about the economic planner applies here, too: The politician who tries to design the medical marketplace would 'assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.'" --ABC's "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel *GLOBAL COOLING* 3,000 low-temp records set in July Pennsylvania sees rare mercury drop of 10 degrees --Accuweather Germany calls carbon tariffs 'eco-imperialism'... Nebraska Legislators seek to assert state sovereignty By Martha Stoddard LINCOLN — At least three Nebraska lawmakers want to send a message to the federal government: Butt out of state business. Next year they will see if a majority of their colleagues agrees. The senators are working on resolutions asserting Nebraska 's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Nebraska wouldn't try to secede from the union under their proposals but would go on record objecting to federal laws that they say go beyond constitutional authority. “My goal here is to shine light on the fact that the federal government is overstepping its bounds,” said State Sen. Tony Fulton of Lincoln . “We would be making a statement on behalf of Nebraska .” The tension between states' rights and federal authority has been a repeated theme in U.S. history, starting with arguments among the founding fathers. Interest in states' rights is spreading as the federal government has taken over businesses, mandated driver's license security measures and proposed a public health care program. Seven states passed resolutions this year affirming their sovereignty, and resolutions were introduced in 30 others. Some states have filed lawsuits or taken legislative action to challenge federal laws. In Iowa , State Senate Republican leader Paul McKinley of Chariton offered a resolution this year calling on the federal government to “cease and desist” in issuing mandates that go beyond what the 10th Amendment allows. The body's Democratic majority has kept the resolution alive but bottled up in committee. The movement's rise followed the election of President Barack Obama. Most of its supporters, though not all, can be found in conservative camps, such as libertarian talk-show host Glenn Beck and his conservative Web site. The states passing resolutions all voted Republican in the 2008 presidential election. Online petitions urge Nebraska 's state lawmakers to act. “Either states can use the Constitution to maintain the power they have always had, or they can give it up,” said Gregory Boyle of Omaha , who started one online petition this spring. SARAH'S WARNING: BE WARY OF BIG GOV *TAKES SHOTS AT MEDIA* "Isn't the point of the Democrats' push to reform the health care system based on establishing health care as a right? That's what the politicians say of course. But in reality the result will be the exact opposite. Part of the problem is that most Americans don't understand what a right is. A right is not a guarantee that the government (i.e., other people) will provide you something for free. We have the right to engage in religious expression, but that doesn't mean that the government pays for the construction of the church. We have the right to peacefully assemble, but the government doesn't promise to supply your transportation. You have the right to keep and bear arms, but don't expect the government to provide you with a free firearm and bullets. You have the right to free speech, but the government won't grant you free radio or TV air time. What makes something a right is not whether the government can force somebody else to pay for it. *What defines something as a right is whether the government can or cannot prohibit you from doing it.* (President Obama notoriously called these 'negative liberties'.) If the government can't stop you from doing it, then it's a right." --columnist Rich Hrebic *NEWS FOCUS* Big Brother eyes your Blackberry More privacy lost with every high-tech gadget bought --ABC News "A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand." - Clarence Thomas TAXING GOLD-PLATED PLANS By Neal Boortz While the White House is not so crazy about the idea of taxing employee benefits, what it now considering is a plan to tax "gold-plated, Cadillac" insurance policies. A top White House official told the POLITICO, "A premium charge on top of the most expensive packages is one of the ways to ensure that there's a lid on health-care costs ... The president believes this is an intriguing idea." Even Barack Obama himself says, "What's being talked about now, I understand, is the possibility of penalizing insurance companies who are offering super, gold-plated Cadillac plans." What an idea here! Once they get this in place they why not spread it to other areas of the market place? I have one great idea already! How about taxing "gold-plated" housing! Now there's an idea that any Democrat could fall in love with in a heartbeat. Here's how it would work. While there are so many Americans who cannot afford a basic one bedroom, one bath house of their own, how can it be fair that some Americans can go out there and buy a five-bedroom, five-bath mansion? The obvious solution here would be to pass a special tax on "gold-plated" mansions and then use the money to help the poor, poor, pitiful poor buy a home of their own! Hey! And once we get this in place for homes we can go after expensive automobiles! Yeah! I can see it now! A tax on "gold-plated" automobiles to help the great unwashed be able to afford transportation. What a wonderful new Democrat idea we have here. I just can't wait to see it expanded. Conyers: 'What Good is Reading the Bill If It's a Thousand Pages Long?' Are We Sure the Scientists Aren’t Just Getting Lonelier? “Women Getting More Beautiful, Say Scientists”--headline, Daily Telegraph ( London ), July26 "The economy is so bad that ... -- CEOs are now playing miniature golf.” -- Even people who had nothing to do with the Obama administration aren't paying their taxes.” -- If the bank returns your check marked 'insufficient funds,' you call them and ask if they meant you or them.” -- Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer and Citigroup.” -- McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.” -- Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.” -- A truck of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .” -- The most highly paid job now is jury duty.” -- Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.” -- People in Africa are donating money to Americans.” -- Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.” -- The Mafia is laying off judges.” -- Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 congressmen." And finally ... -- Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Hey, neat! The guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear!" Obesity-related conditions 'account for 9.1% of all medical spending'... *MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH* Nurse forced to abort sues hospital 35-year-old Catholic: 'It felt like a horror film unfolding' -- New York Post The governor of Arizona questions the effectiveness of the stimulus package. Then he gets a letter from Obama's transportation secretary threatening to cut off some of his projects funded by stimulus dollars. "... Isn't food important? Why not 'universal food coverage'? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us 'free' food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the 'food crisis' in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan. Instead of making health care more like the DMV, how about we make it more like grocery stores? Give the poor and tough cases health stamps and let the rest of us buy health care -- and health insurance -- on the free market." --columnist Ann Coulter Obama 2004: Bush Rushed Legislation Through Congress Without Allowing Time to Read, Debate ... *THE FATS OF LIFE* Bill Clinton chows down at obesity conference Orders double burger, onion rings, French fries, apple-pie milkshake --ABC News Obamacare Means Over a Dozen New Federal Entities Perry Threatens States Rights Fight Over Healthcare By:Dan Weil Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that, if President Obama’s healthcare plan passes, he may fight its adoption in Texas using the 10th Amendment’s protection of states’ rights. During a radio interview with Dallas conservative talk show host Mark Davis Thursday, Perry predicted he wouldn’t be the only governor to take that stance, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. "I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare," Perry said *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* Report: Government health care failed in Tennessee 'Gold-plated free government plan' triggered doubling in insurance rates --WND FLASHBACK: 'As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate'... Glenn Beck: President Obama Is a Racist Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." His remarks came during a discussion of Obama's reaction to the arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates is black and was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white policeman over a misunderstanding about a break-in at Gates' home. An Obama spokesman, William Burton, said the White House had no comment on Beck. Beck's statement was challenged on the air by Fox host Brian Kilmeade, who noted that most of the people who work for the nation's first black president are white. "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist." Beck wondered, during the discussion, what other president would immediately jump on the police for their actions in the case. Obama said in a news conference that he believed the police acted stupidly in the case, but later backtracked from the statement and invited Gates and the police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, to the White House for a conciliatory meeting later this week. COP SAYS OBAMA LOST HER VOTE 'I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again'... Obama, Gates and black guilt Ben Shapiro: They have both 'benefited from white largesse' --WND A NATION OF BLUBBERBUTTS By Neal Boortz One third of American adults are obese. Visual observations would point you to a higher number. But it didn't always used to be this way. The obesity rate in America has risen 37% from 1998 to 2006, this according to a study published by the journal Health Affairs. Along with expanding waste lines comes .. you guessed it .. expanded healthcare costs. Obesity-related health spending has doubled in one decade to $147 billion. That's because being a lardass has its consequences: diabetes, heart disease, scooters. All of these things cost money. In fact, obese people can expect to pay an average of $1,400 more every year than a normal person on medical expenses. I don't have a problem with that. They chose to gorge and live an unhealthy lifestyle, and they should be made to pay for the consequences. OK ... so here's a suggestion. Senator Looser (John Kerry) is proposing a tax on what he calls "gold-plated" health care plans. Well, these plans aren't the problem. If some people work harder than others and can thereby afford more comprehensive healthcare plans ... why should they be punished? If Kerry and the rest of his Democrat sycophants think they can lower healthcare costs through taxation, how about a fat tax? The VAT seems popular with these people .. why not a FAT? The Fat Accumulation Tax. The heavier you are the more taxes you pay to cover the cost of your extra medical care. CDC Chief: Soda Tax Could Combat Obesity... PAPER: Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare... The Constitution provides, through Article V, a means by which the Constitution can be altered. My question to my fellow Americans whether they are liberal or conservative: Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to manage the economy? I'd also ask that question to members of the U.S. Supreme Court. I personally know of no such amendment. What we're witnessing today is nothing less than a massive escalation in White House and congressional thuggery. Secure in the knowledge that the American people are compliant and willing to cast off the limitations imposed on Washington by the nation's founders, future administrations are probably going to be even more emboldened than Obama and the current Congress. Walter E. Williams, Ph.D Aussie Geologist says global warming is 'new religion of First World urban elites'... *INVASION USA* Jury OKs hospital's deportation of injured illegal Alien sued for false imprisonment after $1.5 million spent on care over 3 year period --Associated Press Jesus, whose conquering spirit never faltered in any of his disappointments or suffering and persecution (and he had a lot of it), left us an unforgettable statement. He said: “In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” [John 16:33, ASV] *In other words, he was saying that this was a level of consciousness that we can all experience, and that we must* do this. And he said, “follow thou me.”** [John 21:22] Follow in the development of this same awareness, this same level of life, the same attitude, the same consciousness in yourself. You, too, must know that, although there may be tribulation in your world, you can rise above it by keeping your consciousness on a higher level. You can be joyous and positive and at the same time be effective. *© Eric Butterworth* "Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault." - Dag Hammarskjöld Bill Maher: U.S. Stupid If It Can Elect Sarah Palin How about this one for government waste: $8.7 million for a "cultural exchange program" to connect whalers in Massachusetts with their whaling ancestors in Alaska and Hawaii . I'M SORRY, BUT THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THAT IS AN 'INAPPROPRIATE RISK' By Neal Boortz This Friday the House is going to vote to ban corporate pay practices at financial firms. What kind of pay practices? Anything that the government deems to be an "inappropriate risk." What exactly is considered an "inappropriate risk." Well that is for the government - that means bureaucrats -- to decide. People like Barney Frank or other government hacks will suddenly be in charge of determining what pay practices are appropriate for financial firms in this country. This is a prime example of our imperial federal government run amuck. We are talking about unprecedented power in the hands of the federal government. This is power that would have our Founding Fathers spinning around like they were on a rotisserie. Slobbering Barney says, "If the risk pays off, you make money ... and if the risk doesn't, you suffer no penalties. Heads you win, tails you break even. It's like selling lottery tickets that only cost you money if they pay off." Yep. That's the man who is going to be in charge of regulating corporate pay for our financial system. His bill would ban any "risky" compensation that could threaten the "safety and soundness" of our economy. This is a wholesale attack on economic liberty and free enterprise, and it is exactly what you would expect of the Democrat party and a president who, in writing, professed his affinity for Communism and Marxism. You folks with the Obama bumper stickers? Thanks a pantload. How about a conversation on race hoaxes? Ann Coulter: 'Left is defending powerful black man's attack on powerless white man' --WND "[Henry Louis] Gates should enjoy a cool one and then file suit, assuming he has legal grounds to do so. We Americans are often mocked for being overly litigious, but we are not nearly litigious enough. In the right circumstances, filing suit can be a way to pursue social justice, and that makes it thoroughly ethical." --New York Times Magazine "ethics" columnist Randy Cohen on Gates and the Cambridge police "Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism. They benefit politically, financially, and socially. Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades." --economist Thomas Sowell Attorney General Eric Holder says he was racially profiled years ago. The nation's first black attorney general, Holder tells ABC News that, as a college student, he was stopped by an officer while driving and told to open his trunk for a search. The nation's top law enforcement officer was asked about racial profiling in light of the debate over the arrest earlier this month of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home by a white officer. "[T]he president's response to Gatesgate actually sheds a lot of light on his approach to health care and other issues, for this reason: Obama adopts his positions before knowing what he is talking about." --columnist Mona Charen I am sure you have heard the idea that if you're a senior you need tosuck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Let's take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon. So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 4bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives. Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals aday, a roof over your head and all the health care you need! New teeth,great! Need glasses, no problem.New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart? Well bring it on. And who will bepaying for all of this. The same government that just told you thatyouare too old for health care. And, since you are a prisoner, you don'thave to pay any income tax. Study: Tanning beds as deadly as arsenic Risk of skin cancer jumps by 75% when people start using devices before age 30 --Associated Press THIS STORY IS JUST SICKENING By Neal Boortz We have heard a lot about obesity this week, thanks to the revelation that almost 10% of Americans' healthcare spending is due to blubberbutts. Then the Democrats promise that their healthcare bill will fund "the fight" against obesity. Then I read a story like this, from the UK , and I can't help but think, "Coming soon to the United States ." A 25-year-old woman by the name of Laura Ripley was such a lardass that the government considered her disabled. So the taxpayers fork over $15,000 so she can have a weight loss surgery. She loses enough weight to the point where the government no longer considers her disabled. Now Laura Ripley is throwing a fit. Do you know why? Because the government reduced her welfare checks because she is no longer disabled. Now she says that she can't afford healthy food and she is starting to gain weight. *HEAT OF THE MOMENT* Germans hoarding traditional light bulbs Manufacturers make bundle from efforts to circumvent EU ban --Der Spiegel This is a good way to put it: Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites. "I am willing to accept the notion that the Surgeon General can be the poster-woman for a national effort to lose weight. That would be swell. But, if we accept that theory, then Obama should appoint: -- a junkie as Drug Czar, -- a person whose license has been suspended as Secretary of Transportation, -- a deserter as Secretary of Defense, -- a slum lord heading HUD and, -- Bernie Madoff as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. I was going to add 'tax cheats in the U.S. Treasury' but Obama has already done that." *political* *analyst Rich Galen* Hawaii residents now taxed on Vegas winnings even if they lose Lawmaker says something had to be done to address state's budget deficit -- Honolulu Advertiser Senators Dodd, Conrad Received VIP Mortgages — Report IS HEALTHCARE A RIGHT? By Neal Boortz House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (a moonbat Democrat) is going to introduce a constitutional amendment that would establish healthcare as a "right" for all Americans. He says, "We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, 'Is health care a constitutional right? I mean, do you have a right to health care in the American system of government or not?" He goes on to say, "Well, we believe that people do and we're introducing a constitutional amendment just to make it real clear so that you don't have to infer or assume that that's a given and all that." Look ... it's this simple: In order for you to receive health care someone else has to either expend time or property. To claim a "right" to health care is to claim a "right" to someone else's time… .. that is, a right to a portion of their life: whatever portion of their life it takes for them to either render the health service or produce the medical implement or drug that is being used. Hate to break this to you ... but who in the hell do you think you are to claim a portion of someone else's life as YOURS? SURPRISE! NEWSWEEK reporter joins Obama administration... SHOCK: OBAMA COVER OF TIME MAG NEXT WEEK; 12TH TIME IN PAST 12 MONTHS... With poll numbers plummeting, Obama returns to bashing Bush... Obama Poll Tallies Plummet Faster Than Carter's "Every doctor knows, as I did when I practiced years ago, how much unnecessary medical cost is incurred with an eye not on medicine but on the law. Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings. Yet you cannot find it in the Democratic bills. And Obama breathed not a word about it in the full hour of his health-care news conference. Why? No mystery. The Democrats are parasitically dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers." --columnist Charles Krauthammer Stimulus Jobs In Oregon -- Last Only One Week... "As conservatives get to call universal health care 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private for-profit healthcare 'soulless vampire bastards making money off human pain.' The more people who get sick and stay sick, the higher their profit margins, which is why they're always pushing the Jell-O." --HBO's Bill Maher "Fear is the foundation of most governments." *--John Adams* BARNEY FRANK IS AT IT AGAIN By Neal Boortz Yesterday Barney Frank threatened the banks. Yep he says that if the banks do not volunteer to save more homeowners from foreclosure, Congress is going to force them. All hail the imperial federal government! This is the bill that would allow bankruptcy judges to modify home loans. He also says that his committee will not consider any legislation to help banks with lending unless there is a "significant increase" in mortgage modifications. Promise you this ... as soon as bankruptcy judges are allowed to modify the provisions of home loans, including the principal balance due, mortgage interest rates will be on the way up. Way up 'THEY ARE THE VILLIANS': Pelosi lashes out against insurance companies... It's the media's fault: Senate Dems say media 'created' health deadline... Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner explains what President Obama won’t tell you about the Democrats’ plan: It is a plan that imposes huge new costs on American businesses and makes it more difficult to hire new workers. It is a plan that limits Americans' choices and would almost certainly lead to the eventual rationing of care. It would do nothing to reduce health-care costs and could increase insurance premiums for millions of Americans. And, it is a plan that the head of the Congressional Budget Office says adds significantly to the federal budget deficit. Meanwhile, Cato senior fellow William Poole makes an all-too-often-missed point in Forbes: “A basic fact is being ignored amid all the spilt ink in the healthcare debate: A nation cannot afford state-of-the-art health care for everyone.” Michael Jackson to get Nobel Peace Prize? "Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich." --American author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) Cato senior fellow Ilya Shapiro explains how he would vote: Given Sotomayor's repeated rejection of the idea that law is or should be objective or discernible from written text, her inability in oral and written testimony to even state a position on important cases and legal doctrine beyond an acceptance of precedent— by which she would no longer be bound in her new role—leaves me with an abiding concern about the damage she could do to the rule of law in this country *Echoing that sentiment, senior fellow Doug Bandow argues in The American Spectator:* Sonia Sotomayor appears to be a decent person and a capable jurist. But her oft-expressed radical ideas and dismissive treatment of fundamental liberties suggest that she is likely to be a less measured justice than judge. The rule of law, and thus the original constitutional system based on individual liberty and limited government, would suffer. Venezuela: 'Freedom of expression must be limited'... Obama Goes Easy on Shoe Bomber The Obama Justice Department has withdrawn the "special administrative measures" imposed at the federal prison in Colorado against "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, the jihadist who tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001. Special administrative measures (SAMs) are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when "there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others." National Review Online's Andy McCarthy writes: "So the would-be suicide bomber went on a hunger strike and got results: a cave-in from the Obama Justice Department." McCarthy quotes an opinion piece by Debra Burlingame, a former attorney and a director of the National September 11 Memorial Foundation, appearing in Thursday's Wall Street Journal: "In a hand-written complaint, [Reid] asserted that he was being illegally prevented from performing daily 'group prayers in a manner prescribed by my religion.' Yet the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence [the supermax Colorado prison] reads like a Who’s Who of al-Qaida’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; 'Millennium bomber' Ahmed Ressam; 'Dirty bomber' Jose Padilla; Wadih el-Hage, Osama Bin Laden’s personal secretary, convicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed 247 people." McCarthy observes: "The human-rights Left is already incorporating their fabulously successful smear-Gitmo strategy in their attack on our civilian prisons. Even Reid's hunger-strike is page one in the Gitmo playbook . . . "Detainee policy in the Obama/Holder Justice Department is now being shaped by former Human Rights Watch lawyer Jennifer Daskal, who thinks incarceration is tantamount to torture." "The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." *H.L. Mencken* How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon , where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months. But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime. In order to comply with federal law, Iowa is forcing cities to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to determine whether sewers should be considered historic and indefinitely preserved. There is a wonderful story that is told among mountain people that I would like to share with you: An old man wandered into a country store, and he saw something he had never seen before. It was a mirror. He picked it up and looked into it, and he said, “Why that’s the spitting image of my Uncle Zeke!” He was so delighted with the mirror that he bought it and took it home. But because his wife’s family was, at the time, feuding with Uncle Zeke, he hid the mirror under some hay in the barn. But from time to time he stole out and would uncover the mirror from its secret place, and he would look at it again. And he would say, “Yep, that sure is Uncle Zeke.” He was real proud of his possession, of course, and yet embarrassed for fear that his wife would find it. Well, one day his wife became quite suspicious of his many trips to the barn, and so she investigated. She came across the mirror (now you see, she had never seen a mirror before, either) so she looked into it and said, “Aha! So that’s the woman he’s been seeing!” … The world has for us what we will have of it. We experience only what we see, and what we see, we really are. The Cosmic Mirror of life reflects the faces that we make in our moods—the faces that we make at life, the faces that we make at people. Sunny and smiling or sour and irritable, we find the world a true copy of our own state of consciousness, our changing moods, our feelings. Nature is susceptible: she laughs with those who laugh, and she weeps with those who weep. If we rejoice and are glad, the very birds seem to sing more sweetly. But, to the sad and sour there is sudden gloom on nature’s face. The sun may be smiling, but not in their hearts. The birds may be singing, but they break the heart of the sullen soul. Nothing will be found in the world that is not first found within ourselves. As Emerson says, “That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none.…We find in people the qualities that our own prevailing characteristics call forth.”... *© Eric Butterworth* "Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." - Richard Bach In an interview on July 23, ABC's Terry Moran asked Obama to give his definition of victory in Afghanistan . Sounding like the misinformed and spineless jellyfish he is, the Milquetoast Messiah responded by saying, "I'm always worried about using the word 'victory' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur." Leaving aside the fact that Hirohito did not even attend Japan 's surrender ceremony, let alone sign the surrender documents, the U.S. victory in WWII is not a thing to avoid repeating, as The One strangely seems to imply. More disturbingly, these were not the words of a commander in chief whose responsibility is the safety of the nation. These were the words of a community organizer, imbued with today's spirit-killing self esteem snake oil, telling all the local youth soccer teams, "Hey, it's OK if you lose, 'cause you're still winners in my book!" Democrats' Healthcare Strategy: Attack Insurance Industry Slammed by polls showing their party and president losing ground in the healthcare debate, Democrats plan to launch an all-out counterattack during the August recess aimed at portraying insurance companies as immoral "villains.” Dem memo plots message war.. UPDATE: Speaker Will Keep 'Villain' Money... "Audit the Fed" Bill: Support is Snowballing -- had reached and passed the 218 co-sponsors needed for a majority. The bill continues to gain steam. As we go to press, HR 1207 has an incredible 279 co-sponsors of Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve -- HR 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act. This includes EVERY Republican member of Congress and 101 Democrats -- a whopping 64% of the House membership. That's tantalizingly close to the 290 votes needed for a veto-proof majority. HR 1207's companion bill in the Senate -- S 604, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009 -- also continues to win support, with 20 co-sponsors, almost all signing on in the past few weeks. These bills would, according to Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, "pull back the curtain from [the] secretive and unaccountable Federal Reserve." And the public is wildly in favor of the idea. A brand-new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that a whopping 75% of Americans favor auditing the Fed -- and making the results available to the public. According to Rasmussen: "The new survey finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans in every demographic category -- including age, gender, political affiliation, race and income... favor auditing the Fed to make its secretive deliberations public." Nearly a century after the Fed was founded, we may at long last actually get a good long look behind that curtain. "[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." --James Madison Rudy to Obama: 'Shut Up' Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama's health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity. He also offered, in response to the president's hope that the Gates arrest would be a "teachable moment," this: "He's actually right. It is teachable. Here's the lesson: Shut up." Obama's First Six Months: By the Numbers July 17, 2009 marked President Barack Obama's first six months in office. Americans for Tax Reform, a non-partisan group that works for lower taxes and smaller government, marked the occasion by assembling the following numbers to evaluate Obama's performance: 10: Number of years it will take to double the national debt under the Obama budget. 16: Number of days it took Obama to break his central campaign promise to not raise "any form" of taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000 per year by signing an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco. (The median income of smokers is $36,000 per year.) 153: Number of days it took Obama to abandon his campaign promise to allow the public to view legislation on his desk for five full days: "When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing." 500: Number of Fortune 500 companies who would ship jobs abroad as a result of Obama's proposed double taxation of American companies overseas. 0: Number of developed countries that have a higher corporate income tax rate than the United States (we're tied with Japan at 40%). 33%: The percentage of families filing a tax return that had zero or less in income taxes paid (making it mathematically impossible to cut taxes for "95 percent of working families"). 800,000: Minimum number of Americans attending anti-Big Government tea parties since Obama's inauguration. 'Clunkers' Program Running Out of Cash... Car dealer: 'If they can't administer program like this, I'd be concerned about health insurance'... UPDATE: HOUSE APPROVES $2B MORE... QUESTION: What common ground do liberals and libertarians have? What are some of their differences? MARY RUWART’SSHORT ANSWER: The best way to learn the similarities and differences between liberals and libertarians is to check out the World's Smallest Political Quiz. The Quiz chart shows, broadly, where and how liberals and libertarians agree and disagree. To simplify a bit, liberals tend to agree with libertarians on many issues of personal freedom, and differ most sharply with libertarians on issues of economic freedom. For example, Nat Hentoff is one of America 's greatest defenders of free speech and the First Amendment. He's a liberal. However, he so strongly agrees with the uncompromising libertarian defense of free speech that he recently became a Senior Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. Libertarians and many liberals want to protect religious liberty, Fourth Amendment rights, sexual freedom, and personal privacy. Many liberals agree with libertarians that the Drug War is a failure and should be ended. The ACLU, like many other liberal organizations, agrees with libertarians that the current effort to impose a national ID upon America is wrong. For those liberals who oppose a military draft, and U.S. military intervention abroad, libertarians are staunch and reliable allies. That's a lot of common ground! The Quiz also indicates where liberals tend to disagree with libertarians. Libertarians strongly believe in a free-market economy, where people are free to do as they wish with their labor, their property, their money, and their businesses, as long as they don't initiate force against others. Liberals tend to favor far more government control over people's money, property, and the economy. Again, the place to begin exploring this issue is the World's Smallest Political Quiz. Enjoy taking the Quiz -- and share it with your friends! One final point: In my comments I'm using the word "liberal" in the modern American sense. In the 19th century, the word "liberal" meant something quite different than it does today -- it referred to a broadly libertarian philosophy of small government, free markets, personal freedom and peace. This "liberalism" was the philosophy of the American Revolution. Indeed, even today, many libertarians refer to themselves as "classical liberals." And in Europe , the term "liberal" is often used in this older sense.) Feds: Don't Arrest Illegals; Sheriff Arpaio: Yeah Right

"Health care cannot be a right, because rights cannot come from government.

At best, they can be protected by government.

The founders understood this, which is why our Bill of Rights

is really a list of restrictions on the government in Washington ."

--National Review editor Jonah Goldberg

The Myth of "46 Million Uninsured" by Sharon Harris

"[W]e've got to admit that the free market has not worked perfectly when it comes to health care, because you've got a lot of people who are really getting hurt: 46 million uninsured..." So said President Obama on June 11.

Proponents of radical health care "reform" repeat "46 million are uninsured" (or "15% of the American population is uninsured") like a mantra, arguing, like President Obama, that it proves the free market doesn't work in health care.

However, a closer examination shows that number is highly misleading -- indeed, downright deceptive. Following are some facts you can use to challenge and refute this widespread claim.

First, the origin of the number. The "46 million uninsured" figure comes from a study by the Bureau of the Census. According to that study: "In 2007, there were 45.7 million people in the U.S. (15.3% of the population) who were without health insurance for at least part of that year...."

However, of that estimated 45.7 million uninsured people in the U.S. in 2007:

* An estimated 6.4 million of them are the "Medicaid undercount." That is, they actually *are* on either Medicaid or S-CHIP, but mistakenly told the Census taker they were not. Thus they are actually insured.

* Another 4.3 million are eligible for free or heavily subsidized government health insurance (either Medicaid or SCHIP), but simply have not yet signed up. If they go to an emergency room or free clinic, they will automatically be enrolled by the provider after receiving medical care.

* 9.3 million or more are not U.S. citizens. Yes: almost 20 percent of the "46 million uninsured" are, in fact, citizens of other nations currently living in the U.S., either documented or undocumented. (Some estimates put the figure at 25%.) Despite this, you routinely hear that "46 million Americans" (implying U.S. citizens) are uninsured. I have great respect for immigrants, but I do not believe the government should force taxpayers to pay for their health insurance.

* 10.1 million have incomes more than 3 times the poverty level. For a single person that means their income exceeded $30,600 in 2007. For a family of four, that would be $62,000 or more. Almost 18 million of the uninsured in America -- that's 38 percent of them -- earn more than $50,000 per year; almost 10 million of them earn over $75,000 per year. The typical uninsured citizen makes more than the average U.S. income. The overwhelming majority of these people obviously can afford health care coverage under our current system.

* 5 million are adults between ages 18 and 34 and without children. Young singles of this age are, on the whole, extremely healthy; insurance companies refer to them as "the Invincibles." Foolishly or not, many have simply made a deliberate choice not to invest money in health insurance at this stage in their lives.

What does that leave? Just 10.6 million people who are U.S. citizens; who make incomes less than 300% of poverty; who are not eligible for a taxpayer-subsidized health insurance program; and who are not childless adults between the extremely healthy ages of 18 and 34. That's about... 3% of the total U.S. population.

And even some of that 3% are only temporarily without insurance; for example, they may be between jobs, or looking for another policy, or only temporarily unable to afford coverage. Further, they still have access to care; federal law prohibits hospitals from denying treatment to persons who come to an emergency room.

Bottom line: the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens have health insurance, and many who do not can afford it, but, for one reason or another, have chosen not to buy it this time. The percentage who cannot afford or otherwise get health insurance is very small.

The Obama administration is proposing unprecedented new government controls over the existing system -- for a problem largely centered around a tiny percentage of the population.

Would people support such radical changes if they knew the story behind the numbers?

I don't think so. It's up to us to get that message out to the public -- while we still can.

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary,
too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
--Thomas Jefferson

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings.
Where there's service, there's someone being served.
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters.
And intends to be the master."
--novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"Suffice it to say that if government attempts to control our total medical spending, sooner or later, it will have to control us.
...The belief that [politicians] can take care of us is rank superstition. Who will save us from these despots?
What Adam Smith said about the economic planner applies here, too:
The politician who tries to design the medical marketplace would 'assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.'"
--ABC's "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel

GLOBAL COOLING
3,000 low-temp records set in July
Pennsylvania sees rare mercury drop of 10 degrees
--Accuweather

Germany calls carbon tariffs 'eco-imperialism'...

Nebraska Legislators seek to assert state sovereignty By Martha Stoddard
LINCOLN — At least three Nebraska lawmakers want to send a message to the federal government: Butt out of state business. Next year they will see if a majority of their colleagues agrees.
The senators are working on resolutions asserting Nebraska 's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.
Nebraska wouldn't try to secede from the union under their proposals but would go on record objecting to federal laws that they say go beyond constitutional authority.
“My goal here is to shine light on the fact that the federal government is overstepping its bounds,” said State Sen. Tony Fulton of Lincoln . “We would be making a statement on behalf of Nebraska .”
The tension between states' rights and federal authority has been a repeated theme in U.S. history, starting with arguments among the founding fathers.
Interest in states' rights is spreading as the federal government has taken over businesses, mandated driver's license security measures and proposed a public health care program.
Seven states passed resolutions this year affirming their sovereignty, and resolutions were introduced in 30 others. Some states have filed lawsuits or taken legislative action to challenge federal laws.
In Iowa , State Senate Republican leader Paul McKinley of Chariton offered a resolution this year calling on the federal government to “cease and desist” in issuing mandates that go beyond what the 10th Amendment allows. The body's Democratic majority has kept the resolution alive but bottled up in committee.
The movement's rise followed the election of President Barack Obama. Most of its supporters, though not all, can be found in conservative camps, such as libertarian talk-show host Glenn Beck and his conservative Web site. The states passing resolutions all voted Republican in the 2008 presidential election.
Online petitions urge Nebraska 's state lawmakers to act.
“Either states can use the Constitution to maintain the power they have always had, or they can give it up,” said Gregory Boyle of Omaha , who started one online petition this spring.

SARAH'S WARNING: BE WARY OF BIG GOV

TAKES SHOTS AT MEDIA

"Isn't the point of the Democrats' push to reform the health care system based on establishing health care as a right?
That's what the politicians say of course. But in reality the result will be the exact opposite.
Part of the problem is that most Americans don't understand what a right is.
A right is not a guarantee that the government (i.e., other people) will provide you something for free.
We have the right to engage in religious expression, but that doesn't mean that the government pays for the construction of the church. We have the right to peacefully assemble, but the government doesn't promise to supply your transportation. You have the right to keep and bear arms, but don't expect the government to provide you with a free firearm and bullets. You have the right to free speech, but the government won't grant you free radio or TV air time.
What makes something a right is not whether the government can force somebody else to pay for it.
What defines something as a right is whether the government can or cannot prohibit you from doing it. (President Obama notoriously called these 'negative liberties'.) If the government can't stop you from doing it, then it's a right."
--columnist Rich Hrebic

NEWS FOCUS
Big Brother eyes your Blackberry
More privacy lost with every high-tech gadget bought
--ABC News

"A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society

prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech

after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand."

- Clarence Thomas

TAXING GOLD-PLATED PLANS By Neal Boortz

While the White House is not so crazy about the idea of taxing employee benefits, what it now considering is a plan to tax "gold-plated, Cadillac" insurance policies. A top White House official told the POLITICO, "A premium charge on top of the most expensive packages is one of the ways to ensure that there's a lid on health-care costs ... The president believes this is an intriguing idea."
Even Barack Obama himself says, "What's being talked about now, I understand, is the possibility of penalizing insurance companies who are offering super, gold-plated Cadillac plans."
What an idea here! Once they get this in place they why not spread it to other areas of the market place?
I have one great idea already! How about taxing "gold-plated" housing! Now there's an idea that any Democrat could fall in love with in a heartbeat. Here's how it would work. While there are so many Americans who cannot afford a basic one bedroom, one bath house of their own, how can it be fair that some Americans can go out there and buy a five-bedroom, five-bath mansion? The obvious solution here would be to pass a special tax on "gold-plated" mansions and then use the money to help the poor, poor, pitiful poor buy a home of their own!
Hey! And once we get this in place for homes we can go after expensive automobiles! Yeah! I can see it now! A tax on "gold-plated" automobiles to help the great unwashed be able to afford transportation.
What a wonderful new Democrat idea we have here. I just can't wait to see it expanded.

Conyers: 'What Good is Reading the Bill If It's a Thousand Pages Long?'

Are We Sure the Scientists Aren’t Just Getting Lonelier?
“Women Getting More Beautiful, Say Scientists”--headline, Daily Telegraph ( London ), July26

"The economy is so bad that ...

-- CEOs are now playing miniature golf.”

-- Even people who had nothing to do with the Obama administration aren't paying their taxes.”

-- If the bank returns your check marked 'insufficient funds,' you call them and ask if they meant you or them.”

-- Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer and Citigroup.”

-- McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.”

-- Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.”

-- A truck of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .”

-- The most highly paid job now is jury duty.”

-- Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.”

-- People in Africa are donating money to Americans.”

-- Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.”

-- The Mafia is laying off judges.”

-- Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 congressmen."

And finally ...

-- Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Hey, neat! The guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $750 billion disappear!"

Obesity-related conditions 'account for 9.1% of all medical spending'...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Nurse forced to abort sues hospital
35-year-old Catholic: 'It felt like a horror film unfolding'
-- New York Post

The governor of Arizona questions the effectiveness of the stimulus package.

Then he gets a letter from Obama's transportation secretary threatening to cut off some of his projects funded by stimulus dollars.

"... Isn't food important?
Why not 'universal food coverage'?
If politicians and employers had guaranteed us 'free' food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the 'food crisis' in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan. Instead of making health care more like the DMV, how about we make it more like grocery stores?
Give the poor and tough cases health stamps and let the rest of us buy health care -- and health insurance -- on the free market."
--columnist Ann Coulter

Obama 2004: Bush Rushed Legislation Through Congress Without Allowing Time to Read, Debate ...

THE FATS OF LIFE
Bill Clinton chows down at obesity conference
Orders double burger, onion rings, French fries, apple-pie milkshake
--ABC News

Obamacare Means Over a Dozen New Federal Entities

Perry Threatens States Rights Fight Over Healthcare By:Dan Weil
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says that, if President Obama’s healthcare plan passes, he may fight its adoption in Texas using the 10th Amendment’s protection of states’ rights.
During a radio interview with Dallas conservative talk show host Mark Davis Thursday, Perry predicted he wouldn’t be the only governor to take that stance, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
"I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare," Perry said

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Report: Government health care failed in Tennessee
'Gold-plated free government plan' triggered doubling in insurance rates
--WND

FLASHBACK: 'As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate'...

Glenn Beck: President Obama Is a Racist

Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."
His remarks came during a discussion of Obama's reaction to the arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates is black and was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white policeman over a misunderstanding about a break-in at Gates' home.
An Obama spokesman, William Burton, said the White House had no comment on Beck.
Beck's statement was challenged on the air by Fox host Brian Kilmeade, who noted that most of the people who work for the nation's first black president are white.
"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."
Beck wondered, during the discussion, what other president would immediately jump on the police for their actions in the case. Obama said in a news conference that he believed the police acted stupidly in the case, but later backtracked from the statement and invited Gates and the police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, to the White House for a conciliatory meeting later this week.

COP SAYS OBAMA LOST HER VOTE

'I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again'...

Obama, Gates and black guilt
Ben Shapiro: They have both 'benefited from white largesse'
--WND

A NATION OF BLUBBERBUTTS By Neal Boortz

One third of American adults are obese. Visual observations would point you to a higher number. But it didn't always used to be this way. The obesity rate in America has risen 37% from 1998 to 2006, this according to a study published by the journal Health Affairs. Along with expanding waste lines comes .. you guessed it .. expanded healthcare costs.
Obesity-related health spending has doubled in one decade to $147 billion. That's because being a lardass has its consequences: diabetes, heart disease, scooters. All of these things cost money. In fact, obese people can expect to pay an average of $1,400 more every year than a normal person on medical expenses. I don't have a problem with that.
They chose to gorge and live an unhealthy lifestyle, and they should be made to pay for the consequences.
OK ... so here's a suggestion. Senator Looser (John Kerry) is proposing a tax on what he calls "gold-plated" health care plans. Well, these plans aren't the problem. If some people work harder than others and can thereby afford more comprehensive healthcare plans ... why should they be punished?
If Kerry and the rest of his Democrat sycophants think they can lower healthcare costs through taxation, how about a fat tax?
The VAT seems popular with these people .. why not a FAT? The Fat Accumulation Tax. The heavier you are the more taxes you pay to cover the cost of your extra medical care.

CDC Chief: Soda Tax Could Combat Obesity...

PAPER: Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare...

The Constitution provides, through Article V, a means by which the Constitution can be altered. My question to my fellow Americans whether they are liberal or conservative:

Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to manage the economy?

I'd also ask that question to members of the U.S. Supreme Court. I personally know of no such amendment.

What we're witnessing today is nothing less than a massive escalation in White House and congressional thuggery.

Secure in the knowledge that the American people are compliant and willing to cast off the limitations imposed on Washington by the nation's founders, future administrations are probably going to be even more emboldened than Obama and the current Congress.
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D

Aussie Geologist says global warming is 'new religion of First World urban elites'...

INVASION USA
Jury OKs hospital's deportation of injured illegal
Alien sued for false imprisonment after $1.5 million spent on care over 3 year period
--Associated Press

Jesus, whose conquering spirit never faltered in any of his disappointments or suffering and persecution (and he had a lot of it), left us an unforgettable statement. He said: “In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” [John 16:33, ASV]
In other words, he was saying that this was a level of consciousness that we can all experience, and that we must do this.
And he said, “follow thou me.” [John 21:22]
Follow in the development of this same awareness, this same level of life, the same attitude, the same consciousness in yourself.
You, too, must know that, although there may be tribulation in your world, you can rise above it by keeping your consciousness on a higher level.
You can be joyous and positive and at the same time be effective.
© Eric Butterworth

"Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal

do not prove that the ideal is at fault."
- Dag Hammarskjöld

Bill Maher: U.S. Stupid If It Can Elect Sarah Palin

How about this one for government waste:

$8.7 million for a "cultural exchange program" to connect whalers in Massachusetts with their whaling ancestors in Alaska and Hawaii .

I'M SORRY, BUT THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THAT IS AN 'INAPPROPRIATE RISK' By Neal Boortz

This Friday the House is going to vote to ban corporate pay practices at financial firms.
What kind of pay practices? Anything that the government deems to be an "inappropriate risk." What exactly is considered an "inappropriate risk." Well that is for the government - that means bureaucrats -- to decide. People like Barney Frank or other government hacks will suddenly be in charge of determining what pay practices are appropriate for financial firms in this country. This is a prime example of our imperial federal government run amuck. We are talking about unprecedented power in the hands of the federal government. This is power that would have our Founding Fathers spinning around like they were on a rotisserie.
Slobbering Barney says, "If the risk pays off, you make money ... and if the risk doesn't, you suffer no penalties. Heads you win, tails you break even. It's like selling lottery tickets that only cost you money if they pay off." Yep. That's the man who is going to be in charge of regulating corporate pay for our financial system. His bill would ban any "risky" compensation that could threaten the "safety and soundness" of our economy.
This is a wholesale attack on economic liberty and free enterprise, and it is exactly what you would expect of the Democrat party and a president who, in writing, professed his affinity for Communism and Marxism.
You folks with the Obama bumper stickers? Thanks a pantload.

How about a conversation on race hoaxes?
Ann Coulter: 'Left is defending powerful black man's attack on powerless white man'
--WND

"[Henry Louis] Gates should enjoy a cool one and then file suit, assuming he has legal grounds to do so.
We Americans are often mocked for being overly litigious, but we are not nearly litigious enough.
In the right circumstances, filing suit can be a way to pursue social justice, and that makes it thoroughly ethical."
--New York Times Magazine "ethics" columnist Randy Cohen on Gates and the Cambridge police

"Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism.

They benefit politically, financially, and socially. Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades."

--economist Thomas Sowell

Attorney General Eric Holder says he was racially profiled years ago.
The nation's first black attorney general, Holder tells ABC News that, as a college student, he was stopped by an officer while driving and told to open his trunk for a search.
The nation's top law enforcement officer was asked about racial profiling in light of the debate over the arrest earlier this month of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home by a white officer.

"[T]he president's response to Gatesgate actually sheds a lot of light on his approach to health care and other issues, for this reason:

Obama adopts his positions before knowing what he is talking about."

--columnist Mona Charen

I am sure you have heard the idea that if you're a senior you
need tosuck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care.

A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore.

You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes,
heart problems, etc. Let's take care of the young people. After all,
they will be ruling the world very soon.

So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 4bullets.
You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives.
Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals aday,
a roof over your head and all the health care you need!

New teeth,great! Need glasses, no problem.New hip, knee, kidney,
lung, heart? Well bring it on. And who will bepaying for all of this.

The same government that just told you thatyouare too old for health care.

And, since you are a prisoner, you don'thave to pay any income tax.

Study: Tanning beds as deadly as arsenic
Risk of skin cancer jumps by 75% when people start using devices before age 30
--Associated Press

THIS STORY IS JUST SICKENING By Neal Boortz

We have heard a lot about obesity this week, thanks to the revelation that almost 10% of Americans' healthcare spending is due to blubberbutts. Then the Democrats promise that their healthcare bill will fund "the fight" against obesity. Then I read a story like this, from the UK , and I can't help but think, "Coming soon to the United States ."
A 25-year-old woman by the name of Laura Ripley was such a lardass that the government considered her disabled.
So the taxpayers fork over $15,000 so she can have a weight loss surgery.
She loses enough weight to the point where the government no longer considers her disabled.
Now Laura Ripley is throwing a fit. Do you know why?
Because the government reduced her welfare checks because she is no longer disabled.
Now she says that she can't afford healthy food and she is starting to gain weight.

HEAT OF THE MOMENT
Germans hoarding traditional light bulbs
Manufacturers make bundle from efforts to circumvent EU ban
--Der Spiegel

This is a good way to put it:

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites.

"I am willing to accept the notion that the Surgeon General can be the poster-woman for a national effort to lose weight. That would be swell.

But, if we accept that theory, then Obama should appoint:

-- a junkie as Drug Czar, -- a person whose license has been suspended as Secretary of Transportation,

-- a deserter as Secretary of Defense,

-- a slum lord heading HUD and,

-- Bernie Madoff as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

I was going to add 'tax cheats in the U.S. Treasury' but Obama has already done that."

political analyst Rich Galen

Hawaii residents now taxed on Vegas winnings even if they lose
Lawmaker says something had to be done to address state's budget deficit
-- Honolulu Advertiser

Senators Dodd, Conrad Received VIP Mortgages — Report

IS HEALTHCARE A RIGHT? By Neal Boortz

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (a moonbat Democrat) is going to introduce a constitutional amendment that would establish healthcare as a "right" for all Americans.
He says, "We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, 'Is health care a constitutional right? I mean, do you have a right to health care in the American system of government or not?" He goes on to say, "Well, we believe that people do and we're introducing a constitutional amendment just to make it real clear so that you don't have to infer or assume that that's a given and all that."
Look ... it's this simple:
In order for you to receive health care someone else has to either expend time or property.
To claim a "right" to health care is to claim a "right" to someone else's time…
.. that is, a right to a portion of their life: whatever portion of their life it takes
for them to either render the health service or produce the medical implement or drug that is being used.
Hate to break this to you ... but who in the hell do you think you are to claim a portion of someone else's life as YOURS?

SURPRISE! NEWSWEEK reporter joins Obama administration...

SHOCK: OBAMA COVER OF TIME MAG NEXT WEEK; 12TH TIME IN PAST 12 MONTHS...

With poll numbers plummeting, Obama returns to bashing Bush...

Obama Poll Tallies Plummet Faster Than Carter's

"Every doctor knows, as I did when I practiced years ago, how much unnecessary medical cost is incurred with an eye not on medicine but on the law.

Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings.

Yet you cannot find it in the Democratic bills.

And Obama breathed not a word about it in the full hour of his health-care news conference.

Why? No mystery. The Democrats are parasitically dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers."

--columnist Charles Krauthammer

Stimulus Jobs In Oregon -- Last Only One Week...

"As conservatives get to call universal health care 'socialized medicine,'

I get to call private for-profit healthcare 'soulless vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

The more people who get sick and stay sick, the higher their profit margins, which is why they're always pushing the Jell-O."

--HBO's Bill Maher

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

--John Adams

BARNEY FRANK IS AT IT AGAIN By Neal Boortz

Yesterday Barney Frank threatened the banks. Yep he says that if the banks do not volunteer to save more homeowners from foreclosure, Congress is going to force them. All hail the imperial federal government!
This is the bill that would allow bankruptcy judges to modify home loans.
He also says that his committee will not consider any legislation to help banks with lending unless there is a "significant increase" in mortgage modifications.
Promise you this ... as soon as bankruptcy judges are allowed to modify the provisions of home loans, including the principal balance due, mortgage interest rates will be on the way up.
Way up

'THEY ARE THE VILLIANS': Pelosi lashes out against insurance companies...

It's the media's fault: Senate Dems say media 'created' health deadline...

Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner explains what President Obama won’t tell you about the Democrats’ plan:
It is a plan that imposes huge new costs on American businesses and makes it more difficult to hire new workers.
It is a plan that limits Americans' choices and would almost certainly lead to the eventual rationing of care.
It would do nothing to reduce health-care costs and could increase insurance premiums for millions of Americans.
And, it is a plan that the head of the Congressional Budget Office says adds significantly to the federal budget deficit.
Meanwhile, Cato senior fellow William Poole makes an all-too-often-missed point in Forbes: “A basic fact is being ignored amid all the spilt ink in the healthcare debate: A nation cannot afford state-of-the-art health care for everyone.”

Michael Jackson to get Nobel Peace Prize?

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor.

Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."

--American author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)

Cato senior fellow Ilya Shapiro explains how he would vote:
Given Sotomayor's repeated rejection of the idea that law is or should be objective or discernible from written text,
her inability in oral and written testimony to even state a position on important cases and legal doctrine beyond an acceptance of precedent—
by which she would no longer be bound in her new role—leaves me with an abiding concern about the damage she could do to the rule of law in this country

Echoing that sentiment, senior fellow Doug Bandow argues in The American Spectator:
Sonia Sotomayor appears to be a decent person and a capable jurist.
But her oft-expressed radical ideas and dismissive treatment of fundamental liberties suggest that she is likely to be a less measured justice than judge.
The rule of law, and thus the original constitutional system based on individual liberty and limited government, would suffer.

Venezuela: 'Freedom of expression must be limited'...

Obama Goes Easy on Shoe Bomber

The Obama Justice Department has withdrawn the "special administrative measures" imposed at the federal prison in Colorado against "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, the jihadist who tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
Special administrative measures (SAMs) are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when "there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others."
National Review Online's Andy McCarthy writes: "So the would-be suicide bomber went on a hunger strike and got results: a cave-in from the Obama Justice Department."
McCarthy quotes an opinion piece by Debra Burlingame, a former attorney and a director of the National September 11 Memorial Foundation, appearing in Thursday's Wall Street Journal:
"In a hand-written complaint, [Reid] asserted that he was being illegally prevented from performing daily 'group prayers in a manner prescribed by my religion.' Yet the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence [the supermax Colorado prison] reads like a Who’s Who of al-Qaida’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; 'Millennium bomber' Ahmed Ressam; 'Dirty bomber' Jose Padilla; Wadih el-Hage, Osama Bin Laden’s personal secretary, convicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed 247 people."
McCarthy observes: "The human-rights Left is already incorporating their fabulously successful smear-Gitmo strategy in their attack on our civilian prisons. Even Reid's hunger-strike is page one in the Gitmo playbook . . .
"Detainee policy in the Obama/Holder Justice Department is now being shaped by former Human Rights Watch lawyer Jennifer Daskal, who thinks incarceration is tantamount to torture."

"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."

H.L. Mencken

How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy?

In Oregon , where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus,

Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.

But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week.

After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data.

By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.

In order to comply with federal law,

Iowa is forcing cities to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to determine

whether sewers should be considered historic and indefinitely preserved.

There is a wonderful story that is told among mountain people that I would like to share with you:
An old man wandered into a country store, and he saw something he had never seen before. It was a mirror. He picked it up and looked into it, and he said, “Why that’s the spitting image of my Uncle Zeke!” He was so delighted with the mirror that he bought it and took it home. But because his wife’s family was, at the time, feuding with Uncle Zeke, he hid the mirror under some hay in the barn. But from time to time he stole out and would uncover the mirror from its secret place, and he would look at it again. And he would say, “Yep, that sure is Uncle Zeke.” He was real proud of his possession, of course, and yet embarrassed for fear that his wife would find it. Well, one day his wife became quite suspicious of his many trips to the barn, and so she investigated. She came across the mirror (now you see, she had never seen a mirror before, either) so she looked into it and said, “Aha! So that’s the woman he’s been seeing!”
… The world has for us what we will have of it. We experience only what we see, and what we see, we really are. The Cosmic Mirror of life reflects the faces that we make in our moods—the faces that we make at life, the faces that we make at people. Sunny and smiling or sour and irritable, we find the world a true copy of our own state of consciousness, our changing moods, our feelings. Nature is susceptible: she laughs with those who laugh, and she weeps with those who weep. If we rejoice and are glad, the very birds seem to sing more sweetly. But, to the sad and sour there is sudden gloom on nature’s face. The sun may be smiling, but not in their hearts. The birds may be singing, but they break the heart of the sullen soul.
Nothing will be found in the world that is not first found within ourselves. As Emerson says, “That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none.…We find in people the qualities that our own prevailing characteristics call forth.”...
© Eric Butterworth

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.

What you choose to do with them is up to you."
- Richard Bach

In an interview on July 23, ABC's Terry Moran asked Obama to give his definition of victory in Afghanistan .

Sounding like the misinformed and spineless jellyfish he is, the Milquetoast Messiah responded by saying,

"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."

Leaving aside the fact that Hirohito did not even attend Japan 's surrender ceremony, let alone sign the surrender documents, the U.S. victory in WWII is not a thing to avoid repeating, as The One strangely seems to imply.

More disturbingly, these were not the words of a commander in chief whose responsibility is the safety of the nation.

These were the words of a community organizer, imbued with today's spirit-killing self esteem snake oil, telling all the local youth soccer teams, "Hey, it's OK if you lose, 'cause you're still winners in my book!"

Democrats' Healthcare Strategy: Attack Insurance Industry
Slammed by polls showing their party and president losing ground in the healthcare debate, Democrats plan to launch an all-out counterattack during the August recess aimed at portraying insurance companies as immoral "villains.”

Dem memo plots message war..

UPDATE: Speaker Will Keep 'Villain' Money...

"Audit the Fed" Bill: Support is Snowballing
-- had reached and passed the 218 co-sponsors needed for a majority.

The bill continues to gain steam. As we go to press, HR 1207 has an incredible 279 co-sponsors of Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve -- HR 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act.

This includes EVERY Republican member of Congress and 101 Democrats -- a whopping 64% of the House membership. That's tantalizingly close to the 290 votes needed for a veto-proof majority.

HR 1207's companion bill in the Senate -- S 604, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009 -- also continues to win support, with 20 co-sponsors, almost all signing on in the past few weeks.

These bills would, according to Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, "pull back the curtain from [the] secretive and unaccountable Federal Reserve."

And the public is wildly in favor of the idea. A brand-new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that a whopping 75% of Americans favor auditing the Fed -- and making the results available to the public.

According to Rasmussen: "The new survey finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans in every demographic category -- including age, gender, political affiliation, race and income... favor auditing the Fed to make its secretive deliberations public."

Nearly a century after the Fed was founded, we may at long last actually get a good long look behind that curtain.

"[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects.

It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."

--James Madison

Rudy to Obama: 'Shut Up' Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama's health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity.
He also offered, in response to the president's hope that the Gates arrest would be a "teachable moment," this:
"He's actually right. It is teachable. Here's the lesson: Shut up."

Obama's First Six Months: By the Numbers

July 17, 2009 marked President Barack Obama's first six months in office.

Americans for Tax Reform, a non-partisan group that works for lower taxes and smaller government, marked the occasion by assembling the following numbers to evaluate Obama's performance:

10: Number of years it will take to *double* the national debt under the Obama budget.

16: Number of days it took Obama to break his central campaign promise to not raise "any form" of taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000 per year by signing an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco. (The median income of smokers is $36,000 per year.)

153: Number of days it took Obama to abandon his campaign promise to allow the public to view legislation on his desk for five full days: "When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing."

500: Number of Fortune 500 companies who would ship jobs abroad as a result of Obama's proposed double taxation of American companies overseas.

0: Number of developed countries that have a higher corporate income tax rate than the United States (we're tied with Japan at 40%).

33%: The percentage of families filing a tax return that had zero or less in income taxes paid (making it mathematically impossible to cut taxes for "95 percent of working families").

800,000: Minimum number of Americans attending anti-Big Government tea parties since Obama's inauguration.

'Clunkers' Program Running Out of Cash...

Car dealer: 'If they can't administer program like this, I'd be concerned about health insurance'...

UPDATE: HOUSE APPROVES $2B MORE...

QUESTION: What common ground do liberals and libertarians have? What are some of their differences?

MARY RUWART’SSHORT ANSWER: The best way to learn the similarities and differences between liberals and libertarians is to check out the World's Smallest Political Quiz.

The Quiz chart shows, broadly, where and how liberals and libertarians agree and disagree. To simplify a bit, liberals tend to agree with libertarians on many issues of personal freedom, and differ most sharply with libertarians on issues of economic freedom.

For example, Nat Hentoff is one of America 's greatest defenders of free speech and the First Amendment. He's a liberal. However, he so strongly agrees with the uncompromising libertarian defense of free speech that he recently became a Senior Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.

Libertarians and many liberals want to protect religious liberty, Fourth Amendment rights, sexual freedom, and personal privacy. Many liberals agree with libertarians that the Drug War is a failure and should be ended. The ACLU, like many other liberal organizations, agrees with libertarians that the current effort to impose a national ID upon America is wrong.

For those liberals who oppose a military draft, and U.S. military intervention abroad, libertarians are staunch and reliable allies.

That's a lot of common ground!

The Quiz also indicates where liberals tend to disagree with libertarians. Libertarians strongly believe in a free-market economy, where people are free to do as they wish with their labor, their property, their money, and their businesses, as long as they don't initiate force against others. Liberals tend to favor far more government control over people's money, property, and the economy.

Again, the place to begin exploring this issue is the World's Smallest Political Quiz. Enjoy taking the Quiz -- and share it with your friends!

One final point: In my comments I'm using the word "liberal" in the modern American sense.

In the 19th century, the word "liberal" meant something quite different than it does today -- it referred to a broadly libertarian philosophy of small government, free markets, personal freedom and peace. This "liberalism" was the philosophy of the American Revolution. Indeed, even today, many libertarians refer to themselves as "classical liberals." And in Europe , the term "liberal" is often used in this older sense.)

Feds: Don't Arrest Illegals; Sheriff Arpaio: Yeah Right

Val Finds DIFFERENT Illegals in TX

me3tv — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:15:49 CDT

FROM VAL

Did you know there's a small town outside of San Antonio, Texasthat's
converted a nursing home into a shelter for illegals? At first I I
objected, however, upon visiting the facility, I found every single illegal
there were children. Yesss, CHILDREN!!

They literally escaped from their home country leaving family or having had
family killed in uprisings to find a new life in America. Their stories
were of determination and courage.

What are we doing with them? Are we helping them realize their dream?
No, not at all.

We're sending them back --- no home to return to. Someare
considered traitors in their country and will be executed or sent to
prison. These are CHILDREN as young as 9 & as old as 16.

Of course, my maternal instinct kicked in and I wanted to bring them all
homewith me. I asked how one went about getting guardianship,
sponsoring them, adopting them. I was told they ineligible because they
had no documentation. I was asked to donate luggage so they could be sent back
with a change of clothes.

These places are hidden (for the children's protection I was told) all over
this country. Do we hear it on the news? Not a
whisper........ I left sick at heart and ashamed of the "system".
This country has evolved to a societythinking they are entitled to
whatever they want and not having to earn it.

Think about those kiddos risking their lives to come to America, the land
of opportunity, the next time you hear about another freebie program.
There ARE people in this world that want to earn the privilege of being an
Americanyet we turn them away. How does that make YOU feel?

Val
CA30ng@aol.com
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Pezutti THREE

me3tv — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:00:06 CDT

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had just failed an entire class. -------------------------------------------- That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. Budget chief: Doctors fees not paid for in Obama bill... "Halfway into 2009, Americans have turned more control of their lives over to government and politicians than ever before in history. This proposed health care reform, through subsidies and expansion of Medicaid, would put tens of millions of new Americans on welfare. The result is predictable. Many more citizens with incentives to stay poor and dependent The rest of us will transfer a major part of our freedom to manage our own private lives over to bureaucrats." *--columnist Star Parker* Obama: African Americans 'More Fundamentally Rooted in the American Experience'... "[S]ome members of Congress ... intend, as the New York Times puts it, 'to reinvent the nation's health care system.' Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system." *--columnist John Stossel* White House misses deadline on spending cuts report... … delays Guantanamo report... UPDATE: Administration Delays Key Budget Report... "The president's good friend, Al Gore, who stands to clean up, thanks to the Cap and Trade bill, has long campaigned for the greening of America . How long will it take people to wake up to the fact that his major concern is the greening of Al Gore? For good measure, the greedy oaf recently compared the battle over global warming to the war against the Nazis. And, to think, some folks thought PETA was over the top when they compared a chicken farm to Auschwitz ." --columnist Burt Prelutsky Hillary Apologizes to India for Global Warming India 'rejects key scientific findings on global warming' -- vows not to cut emissions... Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality The public discussion of inequality in the United States , and no doubt elsewhere, is marked by a lack of clarity and precision. Few commentators — even those who are professional economists — speak clearly about what the various measures of economic inequality do and do not tell us. In a new study, Cato scholar Will Wilkinson challenges many common assumptions about equality and political morality that appear again and again in textbooks, media reports, and public discussions. Wilkinson’s study was profiled by online writers for *The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Economist,* National Review and more. Wilkinson writes: Income inequality can indeed be reduced in a stroke by taxing the wealthy more heavily. It was, very likely, reduced in a stroke by the recent financial collapse. But just as there is no point in wanting less income inequality just for its own sake, there’s no point in cheering when the income gap narrows, since the income gap was never the problem. The problem is that too many people in our society do not have reason to be glad that they live under these institutions rather than others. Too many Americans struggle to find decent work, and struggle to raise their families without a toxic sense of physical and economic insecurity. Too many Americans are held captive by the state for acts that should not be crimes. Too many migrant workers are abused because our laws leave them vulnerable to abuse. Too many live in fear of losing what they have achieved by courageously venturing far from home to find opportunity. Too many children are denied the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind necessary to take advantage of the stupendous variety of opportunities that would otherwise be available to them. This is not okay. And it is not okay for intellectuals and policymakers to waste time and energy worrying that some people, who have had the opportunity to make the most of our institutions, have done too well. It doesn’t help. Nor does it help to encourage people to concentrate on differences in income, or to resent them. Demoralization and resentment are not what people need. Obama Targets Wealthy With Huge Tax Bomb Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. In but another example of the left using the constituion when it suits them: Obama is pleading the fifth amendment... refusing to provide answers as such would be self incriminating... game set and match... classic left wing hypocrites the constitution applies only when it suits them. Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals This whole comment underscores one of the things that bothers us most about Obama. He says that slavery is "relevant" to today's humanitarian crises in places like Darfur and Congo . For the sake of argument, let's accept that this is true. What are we supposed to do? Well, we're supposed to "never forget" slavery, to "think about it," to improve "the way it's taught," to "widen the lens," to "make sure we're all reflecting." Oh, and he wants "every child to think about" it. By Obama's lights, then, it would seem that understanding slavery is important because it yields an endless supply of endless abstractions with which to respond ineffectually to contemporary humanitarian crisis. While every child is thinking about this stuff, is the president of the United States doing anything? What the other obits won't tell you about Cronkite 'Most trusted' newsman pushed radical agenda --WND Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... During the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? No? Bottom line ... We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. It was very simple .. And at the time everybody thought it very appropriate... The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. So how did this government bureaucracy work out? NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER .. THE BUDGET FOR THIS DEPARTMENT IS $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?' Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy... And NOW _ we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to government? May G o d Help Us !!! U.S. demands halt to Jerusalem building project Netanyahu: 'Imagine if someone suggested Jews cannot live in New York' --WND In an article in the “Harvard Business Review,” Frederick D. Randall points to the fact that businesses often look about and compete for creative talent, while overlooking the virtually untapped asset of the natural creativity of the average executive, who may well be trapped by a system that suppresses it. He says that, “While it is true that some individuals have shown great creative capacity, it is also true that every person has creative potential.” He adds that, “The vast creative force does not really need to be developed, because it is already there; it only needs an atmosphere in which it may freely emerge.” …The one supreme fact of the universe is that it is the nature of the Infinite to create; it is the nature of humans to be creative. We are creative because each of us is an expression of Creative Mind. By ourselves, we create nothing; we are actually co-creators with God, simply letting a Creative Process flow through us. Professor Alfred North Whitehead* reached this conclusion: “God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. This Creative Principle is everywhere...the creation is a continuing process. … Insofar as man partakes of this Creative Process does he partake of the Divine of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives the death of the body to the point of irrelevancy. His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his grandeur.” … Humankind does not really create anything. All that has been achieved came out of Creative Mind. You are an identity in that Creative Mind and a channel through which it may express. But, at any time along life’s way, when people have achieved some tremendous thing they simply had a need and attuned their minds to Divine Ideas. The Universe teems with life and action and is prolific with ideas. We outline the need, and the Creative Process fills it Maybe our problem is that we don’t always know what the need is, and we do not have a consciousness of the Divine All-Sufficiency to fulfill it. Therefore, we do not make the commitment or have the discipline to tie the two together. The Creative Process is the means by which all things are done that have been done…all things. It matters not whether this Process is engaged in solving a problem of mathematics, creating miniature electronic circuits, working with wood, organizing inspiring sequences of words, phrases, and sentences, or the enjoining of certain mixed tonal sequences, the function for each is precisely the same. Therefore, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Edison, Michelangelo have all used the same faculties of Creative Thought, the same potential for Creative Thought, that is within you and within me. The media were different in each of them, and they may be different in terms of your need and my need, but we all become creative as we get into the Flow of Creativity. … Much of our creativity is inhibited because we don't think what we want to think. We don’t have the daring to open our minds and think originally. We may want to be successful, to achieve a particular goal, but we are conditioned to failure because of the facts of our experience—because of the habit patterns of consciousness. And that word “consciousness” is important. This is the key. You may be one with Creative Mind, and limitless potential may be waiting to be released through you. But you will only experience the Flow of Creativity to the degree that you can accept It through your faith, your vision, and your consciousness. “Within you is the unborn possibility of limitless experience, but yours is the privilege, and the responsibility, of giving birth to it.” *- Eric Butterworth* The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending $60,000 of its stimulus money to post road signs stating that these projects were funded by the federal stimulus money. There are some very easy private sector options that could be tried before the government takes the whole ball of wax over .... and if you want just a few easy examples, here you go: Allow insurance companies to tailor health care policies to the specific needs of the customers. I, for instance, do not need maternity protection or coverage for alcohol rehab. Allow consumers to purchase health insurance companies across state lines. Widen the availability of medical savings accounts. Allow consumers to deduct the cost of insurance from their taxable income. Allow doctors, nurses and medical suppliers to take a credit against any income taxes due for the market value of services provided free to those living at or below the poverty level. There ... that took about 30 seconds. All viable private-sector options, yet none are on the table for the Democrats in Washington . This isn't about improving our health care. This is all about taking OVER your health care and making you that much more dependent on government. Housing complex votes to ban smoking ... inside homes 'As long as tobacco is a legal product, people should be allowed' --Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Wisconsin And speaking of businesses .. the House Democrat plan also plans to impose a penalty of 8% of payroll if employers do not offer health insurance. This will be the case for all but the smallest of businesses. According to this editorial in the Miami Herald, a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found that 20 percent of its respondents would simply shut down if they were faced with this choice. They couldn't afford it. One out of four said they would replace full-time workers with part-time workers in order to avoid having to pay anything. Now this is change you can believe in! Remember, folks. Elections have consequences. VIEW star Whoopi Goldberg questions moon landing... Do you need any more evidence that Whoopi Goldberg is a demented moonbat? "It's about time we constitutionally mandate the Federal Government to do what every American family must do, and that is balance its budget. That doesn't mean taking more out of your pocket by raising taxes. ... We the people, deserve to know that our jobs, paychecks, homes, and pensions are safe from the taxers and regulators of big government." --Ronald Reagan Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill Publishes extensive study on 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness' --WND Engaged to Be ‘Married’ The Jerusalem Post has an interview with a member of the Basij, the teen militia that enforces the Iranian regime’s will. Even with what we knew about the Basij’s brutality, this is shocking: He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.” In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard--essentially raped by her “husband.” “I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said. Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?” ”Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die. ”I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.” When President Obama asks the Iranian regime for “engagement,” does he understand its concept of “marriage”? Agriculture Sec. Vilsack: 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'... FOOD LION PRICE: $.79 Lb... FED STUDY SPIKED: Dangers of cell phone use by drivers great, growing; States should consider ban... WASHINGTON -- The watchdog overseeing the federal government financial bailout says the government's maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007 could total nearly $24 trillion, or about $80,000 for every American. The teachers unions in New York City want parents to stop hiring private assistants to help with their child's education. You can guess why .... 'Health care' is not 'medical care' Thomas Sowell spotlights political rhetoric that smothers facts in reform debate --WND Obamacare side effect: Medical travel James Lewis: Underground economy overseas will be happy to provide us services --The American Thinker Our insight does not render us capable of judging current happenings as to whether they are good or not good. We tend to pick out things that strike us wrong as isolated, unreasonable happenings. But things work together to formulate a pattern that ultimately unfolds in our lives. Looking back, we can pick out things that have gone together to create a beneficial situation. At the time they happened, it is very difficult to see any Cosmic Pattern forming. Yet pieced together and evolving, these things may have a tremendous result, which we can hardly foresee at the beginning or even imagine at the time. Seeds of blessing are hidden in all that can be described as crises or catastrophes—seeds of blessing. In the most trying, even tragic, experience there is the possibility of good as an outworking, and the end result of course depends upon our attitude, upon the way we deal with it. Insisting that a situation is “simply awful,” as we so often do, and holding to the attitude that “this is terrible,” thwarts the seed of blessing and quite often points the way to the negative thing that we continue to see it as being. But, acknowledging the truth about it, insisting that good is present in all things and situations, will tune in your consciousness, your mind, your whole thought process to the Divine Activity of unfoldment. … In every person’s life there have been instances that seem completely hopeless and shattering and at the time It takes a lot of perception and patience to see blessings and gains in such experiences. But we can learn to see hidden values in what appears to be useless, negative, even forbidding and ugly. You see, we are creatures of choice. We are free to go down into defeat, if we permit ourselves to do so, or we are free to transform the seemingly unwanted experience into something good, simply by holding to the realization that “All Things Work Together for Good,” and that we attract only that which we can turn into a blessing. *… Our need is to know that life is good—not made up of good and* evil, happiness and unhappiness, joy and grief, but simply, LIFE IS GOOD. There certainly is a great deal of immediate factual truth in such comments as, “Well, you can’t win `em all,” or “Into every life some rain must fall.” But the deep fundamental truth is that life is good and that all things—all things, even seeming loss and failure and pain and darkness—all things are about the means of leading you to the greater awareness that life is good…and you only have to open your eyes. One of the most important lessons in life is the realization that it is not the adversity experienced or the crisis encountered or the disappointments or the heartaches met that determine what life becomes to us, but it is the attitude with which we meet these things. Eric Butterworth N.O.'s Nagin Wants Census Credit for Ex-Residents "A new report by the Lewin Group (commissioned by the Heritage Foundation) finds that the House Democrats' health care bill would shift more than 83.4 million Americans from private health care coverage to the government plan. To put that in perspective, that would mean that nearly half (48.4 percent) would lose their private health coverage." YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK FDA can't figure out its own budget 'We have to be able to talk about the funds we need, and how we're using the money' --Associated Press Thomas Sowell asks: Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient? Looks like some Democrats are feeling the heat for their support of this government-run healthcare scheme. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin hosted a townhall meeting the other night on healthcare. When one particular audience member got upset about this healthcare bill stepping on our ... freedoms ... Senator Cardin's response was, "I just think the overriding public interest is to require you and everyone in this country to have health insurance." So there you go. Now our Senator's are voting based on what they believe would be best for the "public's interest." Don't you just love it when some political hack uses the word "require?" I'll tell you what the federal government ought to require. It ought to require that every person respect the rights of every other person, and to desist from the use of force or fraud in any attempt to violate another person's right to life, liberty or property. Beyond that, butt out. Census: Voter Turnout in 2008 Lowest in 12 Years ELECTION 2008 Voting rate dips as older whites stay home About 64% of nation's eligible voters cast ballots in November --Associated Press Dumbing down at the Naval Academy The U.S. Naval Academy's PowerPoint display explains diversity by saying, "Diversity is all the different characteristics and attributes of individual sailors and civilians which enhance the mission readiness of the Navy," adding that: "Diversity is more than equal opportunity, race, gender or religion. Diversity is the understanding of how each of us brings different skills, talents and experiences to the fight – and valuing those differences. Leveraging diversity creates an environment of excellence and continuous improvement to remove artificial achievement barriers and value the contribution of all participants." Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, says that "diversity is the No. 1 priority" at the academy.** Diversity at the Naval Academy , as at most academic institutions, is not about equal opportunity but a race and sex spoils system to achieve what the Navy brass see as a pleasing race and sex mix. They accomplish that vision by the removal of "artificial achievement barriers." Let's go over what the Naval Academy sees as an artificial achievement barrier. A black candidate with B and C grades, with no particular leadership qualities, and 500 on both portions of the SAT, is virtually guaranteed admittance. A white student, who's not an athlete, with such scores is deemed not qualified. Many black students are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport , R.I. , which is a one-year post-secondary school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when students don't make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward. Minority applicants with SAT scores down to the 300s and with Cs and Ds grades (and no particular leadership or athletics) are also admitted after a remedial year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School . Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the academy for 22 years, teaches a remedial English class and finds that in his spring 2009 class, most of NAPS's students earn Cs and Ds and many are on probation. About seven years ago, professor Fleming was on the admissions board, where the standing instruction is not to write anything down because "everything is 'FOI'able" – meaning it can be demanded under the Freedom of Information Act. Such an instruction highlights the dishonesty of race preferences. The dishonesty doesn't stop there. The academy will go to great lengths to retain black students. When Fleming charged a black student with plagiarism, he was not properly informed of the hearing and subsequently the student's peer group found him not guilty. Honor violations by black students are usually "remediated." I suspected that the Naval Academy 's diversity agenda would give rise to resentments, so I asked professor Fleming about it. He said there are two levels of resentment. Some black students, who were admitted to the academy meritoriously on the same basis as white students, resent the idea of being seen as having the same academic qualities as blacks who were given preferential treatment, in other words being dumb. Another level of resentment comes from white students who see blacks as being admitted and retained at lower levels of academic performance and being treated with kid gloves. If these whites openly complained about the unequal treatment, they would run the risk of being labeled as racists. This is one of the unappreciated aspects of preferential treatment. It runs the risk of creating racist attitudes, and possibly feelings of racial superiority, among whites and others who were formerly racially neutral. Colleges and universities with racially preferential admittance policies are doing a great disservice to blacks in another, mostly ignored, way. By admitting poorly prepared blacks, they are helping to conceal the grossly fraudulent education the blacks receive at the K through 12 grades. Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., Here's another statistic for you. By the end of this fiscal year, Sept. 30, 2009, our federal government will have spent $11 billion every day. ... and you wonder why I am worried about the future of this country. *THOSE EVIL, PROFIT-MAKING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS* By Neal Boortz If it were up to the Democrats, financial institutions receiving bailout money should be chastised for making a profit. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't we be rooting and cheering for companies like Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan to succeed? Barack Obama's National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers wants to make real sure that these financial institutions know who to thank for making a profit. He says, "Prudent financial institutions will recognize that the profits they're enjoying are in part a reflection of the commitment government and the broader society have made to the financial system that has enabled them to enjoy those profits." That's right .. you companies better enjoy those profits and remember that if it wasn't for the government you would be nothing! All hail the Imperial Federal Government of the United States ! Whatever you become in life you own to your beneficent government! Katie Couric compares self to Cronkite CBS anchor describes 'grief from both sides' of aisle --Newsbusters "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong THE DISCIPLINE OF RIGHT PLANTING IN THE FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES – There is a legend about a man who dreamed of himself standing in a field with no boundaries. He asked an approaching stranger, “What is this field called?” and he was answered, “Why, it is the Field of Possibilities, called that because it is possible for all things to grow in it. There is no evil so terrible nor good so great that cannot be grown here, no sorrow so cruel, no joy so entrancing that cannot be harvested from this field, no poverty so overwhelming, no riches so grand that have not been garnered here.” So said the stranger about this field of possibilities. Looking around him, the man saw men and women everywhere, some were burdened by great sorrows and troubles, others were free and joyous, some suffered from dreadful pain, others were radiant with health. So the man asked the stranger, again, “Why is it that some gather good from this field, and others gather evil?” and the reply was, “You see my friend, each reaps according to the seed he has planted. Each seed yields a harvest after it’s own kind. The field called the Field of Possibilities, is also called the Field of Life.” Yes, all about us lays this Field of Life. It has unlimited possibilities. Our life is always in the process of bearing harvest. Life is energy, life is power, it must yield, it must produce. We are immersed in it and we cannot prevent it from producing, but we can determine by our actions what it will bring forth, good or evil, joy or sorrow, life or death. This is God’s privilege conferred upon us in the statement, “—concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” [Isaiah 45:11] A pencil may be used to draw a figure that is ugly, and the same pencil may be used to draw a figure that is beautiful. It is merely a question of how the pencil is used. So it is with our thought, with our consciousness. We are called to the discipline of right thinking and right speaking — the right use of the Law of Mind at all times, to call forth the positive out of the Field of Infinite Possibilities. Before you and your life stretch the limitless possibilities of good in every direction, and you can unfold them according to your consciousness, as you will. If you think positive thoughts, you’re going to begin to see the positive influence along your life’s way. If you think negative thoughts, there will be a negative influence. You have the choice and you’re constantly exercising it in one way or another. All about us lies this great Field of Life— the Infinite, Unlimited Possibilities of experience. What are we going to do with it? *© Eric Butterworth* Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions... "Today, we're spending like we're Paris Hilton, regulating like we're Ralph Nader, nationalizing like we're Hugo Chavez, printing money like we're the Weimar Republic and taxing like we're, well, the Democratic Congress." --former Georgia Democrat Sen. Zell Miller Bernanke says Fed can take on supercop role... F. L. Lawson once wrote: “If the weathervane points north, it does not bring the north wind, it is a sign that the wind is already blowing”. In the same way, our praying does not bring God’s action—it is proof that God is already moving in and through us. The very act of prayer is the Activity of God. Prayer is simply letting God be God in you. *© Eric Butterworth* GOVERNMENT MOTORS sales fall 22%... *ACORN Sues to Overturn Pa. Voter Fraud Law* PITTSBURGH -- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit in Pittsburgh seeking to strike down a Pennsylvania law used to prosecute former voter-registration workers. Wednesday's lawsuit names Attorney General Tom Corbett and county District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. as defendants. In May, Zappala charged five fired ACORN workers and two other people with collecting or submitting bogus forms so workers could meet an alleged daily quota. All seven defendants are awaiting trial. ACORN officials have denied using quotas and say the state law penalizes them for using performance standards. © 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed REPORT: Feds have spent $79 billion on global warming policies,research... Cronkite: Jimmy Carter 'Smartest President' The real legacy Cronkite leaves behind in American journalism is not likely to be discussed or even admitted to by his acolytes. It is the legacy of a journalist who abandoned his obligation to report the facts and instead injected himself and his opinions into every story. He editorialized the news, and created a sad standard that is now emulated by network news anchors, cable news reporters, and newspapers across the country. The truth is now subjective. As Walter would say, "And that's the way it is." But that's not the way it should be. *WorldNetDaily* *Exclusive* Mr. President, we have a problem Obama recalls Apollo 11 splashdown in Hawaii – while he lived in Indonesia --WND All the problems with the American health care system come from government intervention, so naturally the Democrats' idea for fixing it is more government intervention This is like trying to sober up by having another drink. *By Ann Coulter* … You see, one of the basic tenants of Truth study is that each person is the living embodiment of his or her inner conviction of life. Every such conviction or idea contains within itself an embryo, so to speak, of all the conditions that are required to manifest it. So when it is manifest, it is a faithful reproduction of the primary ideas the person has entertained. The reproductive process has been successful. In other words, the person has successfully embodied his or her idea. Now, this is true of all of us. Our lives show forth that which we feel life really is. We may protest that this is not so, but, as Jesus says, “Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” [Matt. 7:20] One of the most important things to keep in mind is that the process of creation functions for us all the time—it is continuously active. It responds directly to the impress of our thinking. And since our thinking is virtually continuous, its response also is continuous. Regardless of the direction in which we aim our thoughts and regardless of character of our deep seated convictions, the act of thinking—entertaining such convictions—sets the Creative Process in motion to produce the object of our thought, and in this we are successful. We make effective use of the Creative Power of the Universe and achieve faithful results. You see, if we can understand this, a rich person and a poor person are really alike. They both are successful. Because they both have successfully embodied their inner convictions in their experiences. For that matter, the same is true of a healthy person and an ailing person, or a happy person and an unhappy person, of a high executive and a laborer, of a worker and a loafer. Each one, certainly unconsciously, has called on the Universal Power that has faithfully responded to the directed impress of his or her basic thinking. … The Creative Process will never produce a result that is opposite to an idea which is impressed on it Jesus had this in mind when he said, “Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” [Matt. 7:16] In other words, there is only one way to control the workings of this power It is to control the means by which it is directed: our thinking process. As we revise, alter, and uplift the trend of our habitual thought, the action of the Creative Process alters correspondingly…and it is as simple as that. … If you do not like the conditions in your world, then I say, change them! Make a new world for yourself. You can do it because your world is the manifestation of your own thoughts, change these and you have changed your world. If only you would impress this fact on yourself: through your thought, you create. *©Eric Butterworth* *WorldNetDaily* *Exclusive* Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short' Health plan provision demands 'end-of-life' counseling --WND Did you know that one of Barack Obama's campaign promises was to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011? Yeah, that'll really work wonders for our economy. But advocates for the minimum wage increases love to use this phrase "the working poor." I'm sorry, folks but nobody in their right mind should expect for you to raise a family earning minimum wage. If you do, you are a low-life. You are a failure. "The working poor" is just a fancy way of masking that reality. But with this minimum wage increase, it looks like we are going to have less "working poor" people to worry about and more plain 'po people. Probably good news for the Democrats. Millions in India are excited about the solar eclipse. Its all they're talking about.... Which makes tomorrow the worst possible day to need tech support. --Jimmy Fallon The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting. What a scam. *AND WHAT OF THE UNINSURED?* By Neal Boortz What's the number we hear tossed around? Let's settle on 47 million. OK, a few questions: How many of the uninsured are illegal aliens. Answer ... about 25% of them. They came here illegally, they stay here illegally, they work here illegally ... and we're supposed to be upset that they can't afford health insurance? If they get hurt patch them up and send them home. How many of the uninsured are young and just not buying health insurance because they think they're pretty much bulletproof right now? I've seen estimates as high as 20 million .. almost one-half of the uninsured. Hey, they made their choice ... let them suffer the consequences. Why do I have to sacrifice my health care freedom because some nimrods decide it is more important to pay for that new BMW and the flat screen TV than it is to take care of their health needs. How many of the uninsured are eligible for Medicaid or Medicare and just haven't signed up for it? Millions. So ... sign them up? Instead of taking over our health care, get these people signed up and take care of them under the programs we already have. And how many of the uninsured are in a transitional state ... moving from one job to another and waiting for the new policy to kick in. Millions more. We're going to turn out health care system over the government because of people changing jobs? How about just passing some laws that make health care insurance more portable? Remember .. there are solutions out there. The only solution acceptable to the Democrats is one that makes government more powerful. *BORN IN THE USA ?* Lou Dobbs: Hawaii destroyed Obama birth certificate 'They say the state government discarded the original document ... some 8 years ago' --CNN Dems: Military will be 'dragged into conflict if global climate change goes unchecked'... Justice: Investigations of Thee, but Not of Me The Justice Department has summarily dumped charges of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members related to their acts of voter intimidation on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia . The Bush Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the three men, one of whom was brandishing a nightstick, while they stood in front of a polling station spouting racist remarks and threatening people who were trying to go inside Witnesses, including civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, called it blatant voter intimidation. But Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have allowed the case to disappear. All that came of it was a measure that bars the nightstick wielding Malik Zulu Shabazz, a virulent racist Nation of Islam lieutenant, from being within 100 feet of a polling place for three years -- meaning he can be back, nightstick in hand, for Obama's re-election bid in 2012. All-too-often, what is held to be thinking is simply the act of rearranging our prejudices. *©Eric Butterworth* DOCTOR'S ORDERS WorldNetDaily Exclusive Why won't Congress enroll in gov't health care? Democrats exempt themselves from own 'reform' --WND One day a florist wentto a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'Icannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went toopen his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door. Later, a cop comes infor a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left theshop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door. Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop. The next morning, whenthe barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut. And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it. Looters take from producers for the benefit of the moochers who vote for the looters. Faith and Family: ABC Normalizes Perversity ABC's "Primetime Family Secrets" aired Tuesday night, featuring a family in which the father went through a sex change. Though Ted Prince became "Chloe" last year, his wife stayed with him. The couple's two sons, age seven and six, are learning to deal with the change. ABC's Juju Chang addressed the affects on the boys, saying, "Now, developmental psychologists will tell you that if you have honest, open, frank and age-appropriate conversations, the boys will be just fine." How "fine" are the boys? One boy explained, "She had a girl inside her and so she went on a surgery to get, get it out." Pointing to a family photo, he added, "And this is our other mom that used to be a dad." Sure, the boys "will be just fine." How sad that because of their father's narcissistic gender-disorientation pathology, these boys will grow up without a father. And shame on ABC for glorifying and attempting to normalize it. *WorldNetDaily* Obama czar pick: 'Raving animal rights nut' Nominee advocated hunting ban, giving creatures right to file lawsuits --WND Constitutional historian Kevin R.C. Gutzman summed it up: "[F]ederal officials don't care about a good historical argument concerning the meaning of the Constitution. Their view is that the states exist for the administrative convenience of the federal government, and so of course any conflict between state and federal policy must be resolved in favor of the latter. This is another way of saying that the 10th Amendment is not binding on the federal government." Americans who value liberty will have to do more than hope for change. The Michigan Democratic Party is considering asking voters to raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour. That'll work out real well for their economy. My God. Are these people really that stupid? Obama Knocks News Cycle, Then Controls it President Barack Obama may knock the so-called “news cycle,” but he has also manipulated it and ridden on its bandwagon more than any other president. During their first four months in office, Bill Clinton gave 11 interviews and George W. Bush gave 18. Meanwhile, Obama chalked up a whopping 43, according to a report in the New York Times. In fact, Obama’s “exclusive” interviews have come so fast and furiously that he once dished out “exclusive” interviews to Jim Lehrer of PBS, Katie Couric of NBC in just four days. Overall, in comparable points in their terms, Obama has divvied out three times as many interviews as George W. Bush and held four times as many prime-time news conferences as Bill Clinton. We get the leadership we deserve Exclusive: Steve Deace indicts the church, GOP for helping give us Barry Soetoro --WND SHOWDOWN: TEXAS MAY REJECT NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE... *'Scofflaw' Obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police?* One reason Barack Obama may think the Cambridge Police Department is "stupid" is that he has a grudge against the law enforcement agency. Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge , and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets. In all Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations -- and never paid 15 of them until he was exposed by a local Massachusetts newspaper as a scofflaw. According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade -- and only felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking tickets as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had just failed an entire class.
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That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D!

No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

Budget chief: Doctors fees not paid for in Obama bill...

"Halfway into 2009, Americans have turned more control of their lives over to government and politicians than ever before in history.

This proposed health care reform, through subsidies and expansion of Medicaid, would put tens of millions of new Americans on welfare.

The result is predictable. Many more citizens with incentives to stay poor and dependent

The rest of us will transfer a major part of our freedom to manage our own private lives over to bureaucrats."

--columnist Star Parker

Obama: African Americans 'More Fundamentally Rooted in the American Experience'...

"[S]ome members of Congress ... intend, as the New York Times puts it,

'to reinvent the nation's health care system.'

Let that sink in.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business

actually think they can reinvent the health care system."

--columnist John Stossel

White House misses deadline on spending cuts report...

… delays Guantanamo report...
UPDATE: Administration Delays Key Budget Report...

"The president's good friend, Al Gore, who stands to clean up, thanks to the Cap and Trade bill, has long campaigned for the greening of America .

How long will it take people to wake up to the fact that his major concern is the greening of Al Gore?

For good measure, the greedy oaf recently compared the battle over global warming to the war against the Nazis.

And, to think, some folks thought PETA was over the top when they compared a chicken farm to Auschwitz ."

--columnist Burt Prelutsky

Hillary Apologizes to India for Global Warming

India 'rejects key scientific findings on global warming' -- vows not to cut emissions...

Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality

The public discussion of inequality in the United States , and no doubt elsewhere, is marked by a lack of clarity and precision. Few commentators — even those who are professional economists — speak clearly about what the various measures of economic inequality do and do not tell us. In a new study, Cato scholar Will Wilkinson challenges many common assumptions about equality and political morality that appear again and again in textbooks, media reports, and public discussions. Wilkinson’s study was profiled by online writers for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Economist, National Review and more.
Wilkinson writes:
Income inequality can indeed be reduced in a stroke by taxing the wealthy more heavily. It was, very likely, reduced in a stroke by the recent financial collapse. But just as there is no point in wanting less income inequality just for its own sake, there’s no point in cheering when the income gap narrows, since the income gap was never the problem.
The problem is that too many people in our society do not have reason to be glad that they live under these institutions rather than others. Too many Americans struggle to find decent work, and struggle to raise their families without a toxic sense of physical and economic insecurity. Too many Americans are held captive by the state for acts that should not be crimes. Too many migrant workers are abused because our laws leave them vulnerable to abuse. Too many live in fear of losing what they have achieved by courageously venturing far from home to find opportunity. Too many children are denied the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind necessary to take advantage of the stupendous variety of opportunities that would otherwise be available to them.
This is not okay. And it is not okay for intellectuals and policymakers to waste time and energy worrying that some people, who have had the opportunity to make the most of our institutions, have done too well. It doesn’t help. Nor does it help to encourage people to concentrate on differences in income, or to resent them. Demoralization and resentment are not what people need.

Obama Targets Wealthy With Huge Tax Bomb

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending.

This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.
In but another example of the left using the constituion when it suits them:
Obama is pleading the fifth amendment... refusing to provide answers as such would be self incriminating... game set and match... classic left wing hypocrites the constitution applies only when it suits them.

Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals

This whole comment underscores one of the things that bothers us most about Obama. He says that slavery is "relevant" to today's humanitarian crises in places like Darfur and Congo . For the sake of argument, let's accept that this is true. What are we supposed to do?
Well, we're supposed to "never forget" slavery, to "think about it," to improve "the way it's taught," to "widen the lens," to "make sure we're all reflecting." Oh, and he wants "every child to think about" it.
By Obama's lights, then, it would seem that understanding slavery is important because it yields an endless supply of endless abstractions with which to respond ineffectually to contemporary humanitarian crisis. While every child is thinking about this stuff, is the president of the United States doing anything?

What the other obits won't tell you about Cronkite
'Most trusted' newsman pushed radical agenda
--WND

Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
..... During the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? No?
Bottom line ... We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
It was very simple .. And at the time everybody thought it very appropriate... The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
So how did this government bureaucracy work out?
NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER .. THE BUDGET FOR THIS DEPARTMENT IS $24.2 BILLION A YEAR.
IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'

Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy...

And NOW _ we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to government?

May G o d Help Us !!!

U.S. demands halt to Jerusalem building project
Netanyahu: 'Imagine if someone suggested Jews cannot live in New York'
--WND

In an article in the “Harvard Business Review,” Frederick D. Randall points to the fact that businesses often look about and compete for creative talent, while overlooking the virtually untapped asset of the natural creativity of the average executive, who may well be trapped by a system that suppresses it. He says that, “While it is true that some individuals have shown great creative capacity, it is also true that every person has creative potential.” He adds that, “The vast creative force does not really need to be developed, because it is already there; it only needs an atmosphere in which it may freely emerge.”
…The one supreme fact of the universe is that it is the nature of the Infinite to create; it is the nature of humans to be creative. We are creative because each of us is an expression of Creative Mind. By ourselves, we create nothing; we are actually co-creators with God, simply letting a Creative Process flow through us. Professor Alfred North Whitehead* reached this conclusion: “God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. This Creative Principle is everywhere...the creation is a continuing process. … Insofar as man partakes of this Creative Process does he partake of the Divine of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives the death of the body to the point of irrelevancy. His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his grandeur.”
… Humankind does not really create anything. All that has been achieved came out of Creative Mind. You are an identity in that Creative Mind and a channel through which it may express. But, at any time along life’s way, when people have achieved some tremendous thing they simply had a need and attuned their minds to Divine Ideas. The Universe teems with life and action and is prolific with ideas. We outline the need, and the Creative Process fills it Maybe our problem is that we don’t always know what the need is, and we do not have a consciousness of the Divine All-Sufficiency to fulfill it. Therefore, we do not make the commitment or have the discipline to tie the two together. The Creative Process is the means by which all things are done that have been done…all things. It matters not whether this Process is engaged in solving a problem of mathematics, creating miniature electronic circuits, working with wood, organizing inspiring sequences of words, phrases, and sentences, or the enjoining of certain mixed tonal sequences, the function for each is precisely the same. Therefore, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Edison, Michelangelo have all used the same faculties of Creative Thought, the same potential for Creative Thought, that is within you and within me. The media were different in each of them, and they may be different in terms of your need and my need, but we all become creative as we get into the Flow of Creativity.
… Much of our creativity is inhibited because we don't think what we want to think. We don’t have the daring to open our minds and think originally. We may want to be successful, to achieve a particular goal, but we are conditioned to failure because of the facts of our experience—because of the habit patterns of consciousness. And that word “consciousness” is important. This is the key. You may be one with Creative Mind, and limitless potential may be waiting to be released through you. But you will only experience the Flow of Creativity to the degree that you can accept It through your faith, your vision, and your consciousness.
“Within you is the unborn possibility of limitless experience, but yours is the privilege, and the responsibility, of giving birth to it.”
- Eric Butterworth

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending $60,000 of its stimulus money

to post road signs stating that these projects were funded by the federal stimulus money.

There are some very easy private sector options that could be tried before the government takes the whole ball of wax over .... and if you want just a few easy examples, here you go:

Allow insurance companies to tailor health care policies to the specific needs of the customers. I, for instance, do not need maternity protection or coverage for alcohol rehab.

Allow consumers to purchase health insurance companies across state lines.
Widen the availability of medical savings accounts.
Allow consumers to deduct the cost of insurance from their taxable income.
Allow doctors, nurses and medical suppliers to take a credit against any income taxes due for the market value of services provided free to those living at or below the poverty level.

There ... that took about 30 seconds. All viable private-sector options, yet none are on the table for the Democrats in Washington .

This isn't about improving our health care.

This is all about taking OVER your health care and making you that much more dependent on government.

Housing complex votes to ban smoking ... inside homes
'As long as tobacco is a legal product, people should be allowed'
--Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Wisconsin

And speaking of businesses .. the House Democrat plan also plans to impose a penalty of 8% of payroll if employers do not offer health insurance.
This will be the case for all but the smallest of businesses.
According to this editorial in the Miami Herald, a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found that 20 percent of its respondents would simply shut down if they were faced with this choice. They couldn't afford it. One out of four said they would replace full-time workers with part-time workers in order to avoid having to pay anything.
Now this is change you can believe in! Remember, folks. Elections have consequences.

VIEW star Whoopi Goldberg questions moon landing...

Do you need any more evidence that Whoopi Goldberg is a demented moonbat?

"It's about time we constitutionally mandate the Federal Government to do what every American family must do, and that is balance its budget.

That doesn't mean taking more out of your pocket by raising taxes. ...

We the people, deserve to know that our jobs, paychecks, homes, and pensions are safe from the taxers and regulators of big government."

--Ronald Reagan

Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Publishes extensive study on 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness'
--WND

Engaged to Be ‘Married’
The Jerusalem Post has an interview with a member of the Basij, the teen militia that enforces the Iranian regime’s will. Even with what we knew about the Basij’s brutality, this is shocking:
He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.”
In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard--essentially raped by her “husband.”

“I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said.

Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?”

”Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.

”I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”
When President Obama asks the Iranian regime for “engagement,” does he understand its concept of “marriage”?

Agriculture Sec. Vilsack: 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'...

FOOD LION PRICE: $.79 Lb...

FED STUDY SPIKED: Dangers of cell phone use by drivers great, growing; States should consider ban...

WASHINGTON -- The watchdog overseeing the federal government financial bailout

says the government's maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007

could total nearly $24 trillion, or about $80,000 for every American.

The teachers unions in New York City want parents to stop hiring private assistants

to help with their child's education.

You can guess why ....

'Health care' is not 'medical care'
Thomas Sowell spotlights political rhetoric that smothers facts in reform debate
--WND

Obamacare side effect: Medical travel
James Lewis: Underground economy overseas will be happy to provide us services
--The American Thinker

Our insight does not render us capable of judging current happenings as to whether they are good or not good. We tend to pick out things that strike us wrong as isolated, unreasonable happenings. But things work together to formulate a pattern that ultimately unfolds in our lives. Looking back, we can pick out things that have gone together to create a beneficial situation. At the time they happened, it is very difficult to see any Cosmic Pattern forming. Yet pieced together and evolving, these things may have a tremendous result, which we can hardly foresee at the beginning or even imagine at the time.
Seeds of blessing are hidden in all that can be described as crises or catastrophes—seeds of blessing. In the most trying, even tragic, experience there is the possibility of good as an outworking, and the end result of course depends upon our attitude, upon the way we deal with it. Insisting that a situation is “simply awful,” as we so often do, and holding to the attitude that “this is terrible,” thwarts the seed of blessing and quite often points the way to the negative thing that we continue to see it as being. But, acknowledging the truth about it, insisting that good is present in all things and situations, will tune in your consciousness, your mind, your whole thought process to the Divine Activity of unfoldment.
… In every person’s life there have been instances that seem completely hopeless and shattering and at the time It takes a lot of perception and patience to see blessings and gains in such experiences. But we can learn to see hidden values in what appears to be useless, negative, even forbidding and ugly. You see, we are creatures of choice. We are free to go down into defeat, if we permit ourselves to do so, or we are free to transform the seemingly unwanted experience into something good, simply by holding to the realization that “All Things Work Together for Good,” and that we attract only that which we can turn into a blessing.
… Our need is to know that life is good—not made up of good and evil, happiness and unhappiness, joy and grief, but simply, LIFE IS GOOD. There certainly is a great deal of immediate factual truth in such comments as, “Well, you can’t win `em all,” or “Into every life some rain must fall.” But the deep fundamental truth is that life is good and that all things—all things, even seeming loss and failure and pain and darkness—all things are about the means of leading you to the greater awareness that life is good…and you only have to open your eyes.
One of the most important lessons in life is the realization that it is not the adversity experienced or the crisis encountered or the disappointments or the heartaches met that determine what life becomes to us, but it is the attitude with which we meet these things.
Eric Butterworth

N.O.'s Nagin Wants Census Credit for Ex-Residents

"A new report by the Lewin Group (commissioned by the Heritage Foundation)
finds that the House Democrats' health care bill would shift more than 83.4 million Americans
from private health care coverage to the government plan.
To put that in perspective, that would mean that nearly half (48.4 percent) would lose their private health coverage."

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
FDA can't figure out its own budget
'We have to be able to talk about the funds we need, and how we're using the money'
--Associated Press

Thomas Sowell asks:

Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care

or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient?

Looks like some Democrats are feeling the heat for their support of this government-run healthcare scheme. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin hosted a townhall meeting the other night on healthcare. When one particular audience member got upset about this healthcare bill stepping on our ... freedoms ... Senator Cardin's response was,
"I just think the overriding public interest is to require you and everyone in this country to have health insurance."
So there you go. Now our Senator's are voting based on what they believe would be best for the "public's interest."
Don't you just love it when some political hack uses the word "require?" I'll tell you what the federal government ought to require.
It ought to require that every person respect the rights of every other person, and to desist from the use of force or fraud in any attempt to violate another person's right to life, liberty or property.
Beyond that, butt out.

Census: Voter Turnout in 2008 Lowest in 12 Years

ELECTION 2008
Voting rate dips as older whites stay home
About 64% of nation's eligible voters cast ballots in November
--Associated Press

Dumbing down at the Naval Academy

The U.S. Naval Academy's PowerPoint display explains diversity by saying, "Diversity is all the different characteristics and attributes of individual sailors and civilians which enhance the mission readiness of the Navy," adding that: "Diversity is more than equal opportunity, race, gender or religion. Diversity is the understanding of how each of us brings different skills, talents and experiences to the fight – and valuing those differences. Leveraging diversity creates an environment of excellence and continuous improvement to remove artificial achievement barriers and value the contribution of all participants." Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, says that "diversity is the No. 1 priority" at the academy.
Diversity at the Naval Academy , as at most academic institutions, is not about equal opportunity but a race and sex spoils system to achieve what the Navy brass see as a pleasing race and sex mix. They accomplish that vision by the removal of "artificial achievement barriers." Let's go over what the Naval Academy sees as an artificial achievement barrier. A black candidate with B and C grades, with no particular leadership qualities, and 500 on both portions of the SAT, is virtually guaranteed admittance. A white student, who's not an athlete, with such scores is deemed not qualified.
Many black students are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport , R.I. , which is a one-year post-secondary school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when students don't make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward. Minority applicants with SAT scores down to the 300s and with Cs and Ds grades (and no particular leadership or athletics) are also admitted after a remedial year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School .
Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the academy for 22 years, teaches a remedial English class and finds that in his spring 2009 class, most of NAPS's students earn Cs and Ds and many are on probation. About seven years ago, professor Fleming was on the admissions board, where the standing instruction is not to write anything down because "everything is 'FOI'able" – meaning it can be demanded under the Freedom of Information Act. Such an instruction highlights the dishonesty of race preferences. The dishonesty doesn't stop there. The academy will go to great lengths to retain black students. When Fleming charged a black student with plagiarism, he was not properly informed of the hearing and subsequently the student's peer group found him not guilty. Honor violations by black students are usually "remediated."
I suspected that the Naval Academy 's diversity agenda would give rise to resentments, so I asked professor Fleming about it. He said there are two levels of resentment. Some black students, who were admitted to the academy meritoriously on the same basis as white students, resent the idea of being seen as having the same academic qualities as blacks who were given preferential treatment, in other words being dumb. Another level of resentment comes from white students who see blacks as being admitted and retained at lower levels of academic performance and being treated with kid gloves. If these whites openly complained about the unequal treatment, they would run the risk of being labeled as racists. This is one of the unappreciated aspects of preferential treatment. It runs the risk of creating racist attitudes, and possibly feelings of racial superiority, among whites and others who were formerly racially neutral.
Colleges and universities with racially preferential admittance policies are doing a great disservice to blacks in another, mostly ignored, way. By admitting poorly prepared blacks, they are helping to conceal the grossly fraudulent education the blacks receive at the K through 12 grades.
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.,

Here's another statistic for you.
By the end of this fiscal year, Sept. 30, 2009, our federal government will have spent $11 billion every day.
... and you wonder why I am worried about the future of this country.

THOSE EVIL, PROFIT-MAKING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS By Neal Boortz

If it were up to the Democrats, financial institutions receiving bailout money should be chastised for making a profit. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't we be rooting and cheering for companies like Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan to succeed?
Barack Obama's National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers wants to make real sure that these financial institutions know who to thank for making a profit. He says, "Prudent financial institutions will recognize that the profits they're enjoying are in part a reflection of the commitment government and the broader society have made to the financial system that has enabled them to enjoy those profits."
That's right .. you companies better enjoy those profits and remember that if it wasn't for the government you would be nothing!
All hail the Imperial Federal Government of the United States ! Whatever you become in life you own to your beneficent government!

Katie Couric compares self to Cronkite
CBS anchor describes 'grief from both sides' of aisle
--Newsbusters

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
- Lance Armstrong

THE DISCIPLINE OF RIGHT PLANTING IN THE FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES – There is a legend about a man who dreamed of himself standing in a field with no boundaries. He asked an approaching stranger, “What is this field called?” and he was answered, “Why, it is the Field of Possibilities, called that because it is possible for all things to grow in it. There is no evil so terrible nor good so great that cannot be grown here, no sorrow so cruel, no joy so entrancing that cannot be harvested from this field, no poverty so overwhelming, no riches so grand that have not been garnered here.” So said the stranger about this field of possibilities. Looking around him, the man saw men and women everywhere, some were burdened by great sorrows and troubles, others were free and joyous, some suffered from dreadful pain, others were radiant with health.
So the man asked the stranger, again, “Why is it that some gather good from this field, and others gather evil?” and the reply was, “You see my friend, each reaps according to the seed he has planted. Each seed yields a harvest after it’s own kind. The field called the Field of Possibilities, is also called the Field of Life.”
Yes, all about us lays this Field of Life. It has unlimited possibilities. Our life is always in the process of bearing harvest. Life is energy, life is power, it must yield, it must produce. We are immersed in it and we cannot prevent it from producing, but we can determine by our actions what it will bring forth, good or evil, joy or sorrow, life or death. This is God’s privilege conferred upon us in the statement, “—concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” [Isaiah 45:11]
A pencil may be used to draw a figure that is ugly, and the same pencil may be used to draw a figure that is beautiful. It is merely a question of how the pencil is used. So it is with our thought, with our consciousness. We are called to the discipline of right thinking and right speaking — the right use of the Law of Mind at all times, to call forth the positive out of the Field of Infinite Possibilities. Before you and your life stretch the limitless possibilities of good in every direction, and you can unfold them according to your consciousness, as you will. If you think positive thoughts, you’re going to begin to see the positive influence along your life’s way. If you think negative thoughts, there will be a negative influence. You have the choice and you’re constantly exercising it in one way or another. All about us lies this great Field of Life— the Infinite, Unlimited Possibilities of experience. What are we going to do with it?
© Eric Butterworth

Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions...

"Today, we're spending like we're Paris Hilton,

regulating like we're Ralph Nader,

nationalizing like we're Hugo Chavez,

printing money like we're the Weimar Republic

and taxing like we're, well, the Democratic Congress."

--former Georgia Democrat Sen. Zell Miller

Bernanke says Fed can take on supercop role...

F. L. Lawson once wrote:
“If the weathervane points north, it does not bring the north wind, it is a sign that the wind is already blowing”.
In the same way, our praying does not bring God’s action—it is proof that God is already moving in and through us.
The very act of prayer is the Activity of God. Prayer is simply letting God be God in you.
© Eric Butterworth

GOVERNMENT MOTORS sales fall 22%...

ACORN Sues to Overturn Pa. Voter Fraud Law
PITTSBURGH -- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit in Pittsburgh seeking to strike down a Pennsylvania law used to prosecute former voter-registration workers.
Wednesday's lawsuit names Attorney General Tom Corbett and county District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. as defendants.
In May, Zappala charged five fired ACORN workers and two other people with collecting or submitting bogus forms so workers could meet an alleged daily quota. All seven defendants are awaiting trial.
ACORN officials have denied using quotas and say the state law penalizes them for using performance standards.
© 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

REPORT: Feds have spent $79 billion on global warming policies,research...

Cronkite: Jimmy Carter 'Smartest President'

The real legacy Cronkite leaves behind in American journalism is not likely to be discussed or even admitted to by his acolytes.
It is the legacy of a journalist who abandoned his obligation to report the facts and instead injected himself and his opinions into every story.
He editorialized the news, and created a sad standard that is now emulated by network news anchors, cable news reporters, and newspapers across the country.
The truth is now subjective. As Walter would say, "And that's the way it is." But that's not the way it should be.

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Mr. President, we have a problem
Obama recalls Apollo 11 splashdown in Hawaii – while he lived in Indonesia
--WND

All the problems with the American health care system

come from government intervention,

so naturally the Democrats' idea for fixing it is more government intervention

This is like trying to sober up by having another drink.

By Ann Coulter

… You see, one of the basic tenants of Truth study is that each person is the living embodiment of his or her inner conviction of life. Every such conviction or idea contains within itself an embryo, so to speak, of all the conditions that are required to manifest it. So when it is manifest, it is a faithful reproduction of the primary ideas the person has entertained. The reproductive process has been successful. In other words, the person has successfully embodied his or her idea. Now, this is true of all of us. Our lives show forth that which we feel life really is. We may protest that this is not so, but, as Jesus says, “Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” [Matt. 7:20]
One of the most important things to keep in mind is that the process of creation functions for us all the time—it is continuously active. It responds directly to the impress of our thinking. And since our thinking is virtually continuous, its response also is continuous. Regardless of the direction in which we aim our thoughts and regardless of character of our deep seated convictions, the act of thinking—entertaining such convictions—sets the Creative Process in motion to produce the object of our thought, and in this we are successful. We make effective use of the Creative Power of the Universe and achieve faithful results. You see, if we can understand this, a rich person and a poor person are really alike. They both are successful. Because they both have successfully embodied their inner convictions in their experiences. For that matter, the same is true of a healthy person and an ailing person, or a happy person and an unhappy person, of a high executive and a laborer, of a worker and a loafer. Each one, certainly unconsciously, has called on the Universal Power that has faithfully responded to the directed impress of his or her basic thinking.
… The Creative Process will never produce a result that is opposite to an idea which is impressed on it Jesus had this in mind when he said, “Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” [Matt. 7:16] In other words, there is only one way to control the workings of this power It is to control the means by which it is directed: our thinking process. As we revise, alter, and uplift the trend of our habitual thought, the action of the Creative Process alters correspondingly…and it is as simple as that.
… If you do not like the conditions in your world, then I say, change them! Make a new world for yourself. You can do it because your world is the manifestation of your own thoughts, change these and you have changed your world. If only you would impress this fact on yourself: through your thought, you create.
©Eric Butterworth

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short'
Health plan provision demands 'end-of-life' counseling
--WND

Did you know that one of Barack Obama's campaign promises was to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011? Yeah, that'll really work wonders for our economy.
But advocates for the minimum wage increases love to use this phrase "the working poor." I'm sorry, folks but nobody in their right mind should expect for you to raise a family earning minimum wage. If you do, you are a low-life. You are a failure. "The working poor" is just a fancy way of masking that reality. But with this minimum wage increase, it looks like we are going to have less "working poor" people to worry about and more plain 'po people.
Probably good news for the Democrats.

Millions in India are excited about the solar eclipse. Its all they're talking about....

Which makes tomorrow the worst possible day to need tech support.

--Jimmy Fallon

The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting. What a scam.

AND WHAT OF THE UNINSURED? By Neal Boortz

What's the number we hear tossed around? Let's settle on 47 million. OK, a few questions:
How many of the uninsured are illegal aliens. Answer ... about 25% of them. They came here illegally, they stay here illegally, they work here illegally ... and we're supposed to be upset that they can't afford health insurance? If they get hurt patch them up and send them home.
How many of the uninsured are young and just not buying health insurance because they think they're pretty much bulletproof right now? I've seen estimates as high as 20 million .. almost one-half of the uninsured. Hey, they made their choice ... let them suffer the consequences. Why do I have to sacrifice my health care freedom because some nimrods decide it is more important to pay for that new BMW and the flat screen TV than it is to take care of their health needs.
How many of the uninsured are eligible for Medicaid or Medicare and just haven't signed up for it? Millions. So ... sign them up? Instead of taking over our health care, get these people signed up and take care of them under the programs we already have.
And how many of the uninsured are in a transitional state ... moving from one job to another and waiting for the new policy to kick in. Millions more. We're going to turn out health care system over the government because of people changing jobs? How about just passing some laws that make health care insurance more portable?
Remember .. there are solutions out there. The only solution acceptable to the Democrats is one that makes government more powerful.

BORN IN THE USA ?
Lou Dobbs: Hawaii destroyed Obama birth certificate
'They say the state government discarded the original document ... some 8 years ago'
--CNN

Dems: Military will be 'dragged into conflict if global climate change goes unchecked'...

Justice: Investigations of Thee, but Not of Me

The Justice Department has summarily dumped charges of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members related to their acts of voter intimidation on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia .
The Bush Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the three men, one of whom was brandishing a nightstick, while they stood in front of a polling station spouting racist remarks and threatening people who were trying to go inside
Witnesses, including civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, called it blatant voter intimidation.
But Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have allowed the case to disappear.
All that came of it was a measure that bars the nightstick wielding Malik Zulu Shabazz, a virulent racist Nation of Islam lieutenant, from being within 100 feet of a polling place for three years -- meaning he can be back, nightstick in hand, for Obama's re-election bid in 2012.

All-too-often, what is held to be thinking is simply the act of rearranging our prejudices.
©Eric Butterworth

DOCTOR'S ORDERS
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Why won't Congress enroll in gov't health care?
Democrats exempt themselves from own 'reform'
--WND

One day a florist wentto a barber for a haircut.

After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'Icannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went toopen his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes infor a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left theshop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning, whenthe barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.

Looters take from producers

for the benefit of the moochers

who vote for the looters.

Faith and Family: ABC Normalizes Perversity

ABC's "Primetime Family Secrets" aired Tuesday night, featuring a family in which the father went through a sex change. Though Ted Prince became "Chloe" last year, his wife stayed with him. The couple's two sons, age seven and six, are learning to deal with the change.
ABC's Juju Chang addressed the affects on the boys, saying, "Now, developmental psychologists will tell you that if you have honest, open, frank and age-appropriate conversations, the boys will be just fine."
How "fine" are the boys? One boy explained, "She had a girl inside her and so she went on a surgery to get, get it out." Pointing to a family photo, he added, "And this is our other mom that used to be a dad."
Sure, the boys "will be just fine."
How sad that because of their father's narcissistic gender-disorientation pathology, these boys will grow up without a father.
And shame on ABC for glorifying and attempting to normalize it.

WorldNetDaily
Obama czar pick: 'Raving animal rights nut'
Nominee advocated hunting ban, giving creatures right to file lawsuits
--WND

Constitutional historian Kevin R.C. Gutzman summed it up:
"[F]ederal officials don't care about a good historical argument concerning the meaning of the Constitution.
Their view is that the states exist for the administrative convenience of the federal government, and so of course any conflict between state and federal policy must be resolved in favor of the latter.
This is another way of saying that the 10th Amendment is not binding on the federal government." Americans who value liberty will have to do more than hope for change.

The Michigan Democratic Party is considering asking voters to raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour.

That'll work out real well for their economy.

My God. Are these people really that stupid?

Obama Knocks News Cycle, Then Controls it
President Barack Obama may knock the so-called “news cycle,” but he has also manipulated it and ridden on its bandwagon more than any other president.
During their first four months in office, Bill Clinton gave 11 interviews and George W. Bush gave 18. Meanwhile, Obama chalked up a whopping 43, according to a report in the New York Times. In fact, Obama’s “exclusive” interviews have come so fast and furiously that he once dished out “exclusive” interviews to Jim Lehrer of PBS, Katie Couric of NBC in just four days.
Overall, in comparable points in their terms, Obama has divvied out three times as many interviews as George W. Bush and held four times as many prime-time news conferences as Bill Clinton.

We get the leadership we deserve
Exclusive: Steve Deace indicts the church, GOP for helping give us Barry Soetoro
--WND

SHOWDOWN: TEXAS MAY REJECT NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE...

'Scofflaw' Obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police?

One reason Barack Obama may think the Cambridge Police Department is "stupid" is that he has a grudge against the law enforcement agency.
Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge , and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets.
In all Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations -- and never paid 15 of them until he was exposed by a local Massachusetts newspaper as a scofflaw.
According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade -- and only felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking tickets as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

Charles Krauthammer - New Economy

me3tv — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:32:48 CDT

This is from apersonwho recently attended a Dr. Charles Krauthammer lecture:

Subj: Charles Krauthammer Speech/Comments on the ‘New Economy’ & Barack Obama

To my friends & associates:
Last Monday was a profound evening, hearing Dr. Charles Krauthammer speak to the Center for the American Experiment. He is a brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright & careful in his analysis, & never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fearmonger nor an extremist in his comments & views. He is a fiscal conservative, & has a Pulitzer prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News & writes weekly for the Washington Post. The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have shared this w/ many of you & several have asked me to summarize his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically & internationally. Even 2 Dims at my table agreed w/ everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded & have not ‘drunk the Kool-Aid’, feel free.

Here is his resume from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer

A summary of his comments:

1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a ‘cool customer’ who doesn't show his emotions . It's very hard to know what's ‘behind the mask’. Taking down the Clinton dynasty from a political neophyte was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.

2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan & Clinton. He has a way of making you think he's on your side, agreeing w/ your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attn. to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!

3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, incl. dismantling capitalism. He can’t be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, & wants to ‘level the playing field’ w/ income redistribution & punishment of the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada.

4. His 3 main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, & NAT’L HEALTHCARE by the Fed. govt. He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap & trade will add costs to everything & stifle growth.Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary ishealthcare program, because if you make it FREE & add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, thecosts will go thru the roof. The only way to control costs is w/ massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada. God forbid.

5. He’s surrounded himself w/ mostly far-left academic types.No 1 around him has ever run even a candy store. But they’re going to try & run the auto, financial, banking & other industries. This obviously can’t work in the long run.Obama’s not a socialist; rather a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution.He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left.Again, watch what he does, not what he says.

6. Obama doesn’t really see himself as President of the USA, more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries & their agendas. He sees moral equivilency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany & England was a prime example of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made erro rs. This is the 1st President ever who has chastised our allies & appeased our enemies!

7. He’s now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (& pain) will not ‘come due’ until after he’s reelected in 2012. He’d like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, & hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, & Mr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcicis t.

8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. We’re ‘pining’ for another Reagan, but there’ll never be another like him. He believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in Feb.) are the future of the party.Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage.Sarah Palin is sincere & intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts & info if she’s to be a serious candidate in the future.We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller govt., personal responsibility, strong nat’l defense, & states’ rights.

9. The current level of spending is irresponsible & outrageous.We’re spending trillions that we don’t have.This could lead to hyper inflation, depression or worse.No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity.The media is giving Obama, Reid & Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda.But eventually the bill will come due & people will realize the huge bailouts didn’t work, nor will the stimulus pkg.These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama’s allies, unions & the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.

10. The election was over in mid-Sept. when Lehman brothers failed. Fear & panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, & the war was grinding on indefinitely w/o a clear outcome. The people are in pain, & the mantra of ‘change’ caused people to act emotionally.Any Dim would have won this election; it w as surprising is was as close as it was.

11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Dims continue to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it’ll be a dogfight.It’ll all be about the economy.

I hope this gets you really thinking about what's happening in Washington & Congress. There’s a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, & he encourages us to keep the faith & join the loyal resistance.The work will be hard, but we’re right on most issues & can reclaim our country, before it's far too late.

Veteran Stories and History at www.buzzcreek.com .. visit if you have some time.

Pezutti ONE

me3tv — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:47:15 CDT

Gary Pezutti puts these together about every few weeks. Better than a zillion emails! Kind of like a blog but better.
2009 - First Half FOX News' Major Garrett was the first and only reporter to ask Press Secretary Robert Gibbs what the White House's reaction is to Nancy Pelosi's accusation that the C.I.A. lied to her. Gibbs said President Obama is "keeping the American people safe by looking forward." Garrett reminded Gibbs this is a serious matter, leading Gibbs to respond that he will not "R.S.V.P" to get involved. Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's criticisms. His message: We didn't mislead Congress; stay focused on your job. Panetta's note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office. Here's the key graph: "Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing “the enhanced techniques that had been employed.” Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened." GINGRICH: Pelosi 'Lied,' 'Despicable,' 'Dishonest,' 'Vicious,' 'Trivial'... PELOSI VS. CIA... THEY LIED TO ME! 'Congress Was Misled'... Flustered... Video... Fuzzy... Dems: CIA briefers may have broken law... Senator: 'Why would the CIA brief on methods not used?'... Pelosi: What Did She Know, And When? FBI Agent: Obama Making Another 9/11 'Inevitable' Video: Bond: Obama, Pelosi Destroying CIA Morale *WorldNetDaily* ACORN born in leftist revolution Originated in strategy to 'hasten the fall of capitalism' --WND Gingrich: Obama Lawyers Defended Terrorists The Obama administration is taking dangerous risks with the nation's security, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday, by relying on attorneys who defended terrorists in private practice instead of the judgment of CIA officials who've been fighting them since the 9/11 attacks. "When you look at the Obama administration, the number of attorneys they have appointed who were defending alleged terrorists -- I mean, there’s this weird pattern where the Bush people wanted to defend Americans and were pretty tough on terrorists,'' Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday. "These guys are prepared to take huge risks with Americans in order to defend terrorists,'' Gingrich said of Obama's key legal advisors. "Holder’s firm has 17 alleged terrorists that they’re representing on a pro bono basis, for no fee," Gingrich said of Attorney General Eric Holder. "It’s the largest single thing they were doing for free -- was defending Yemenis. I think there are five different attorneys in the -- in the Justice Department appointed by Obama who had direct -- their firms were defending alleged terrorists." Gingrich called on the administration to release every possible document on harsh interrogation tactics to determine if they in fact worked in keeping Americans safe these last eight years. *© 2009 Newsmax* Obama to media: You all voted for me, except Fox President delivers zingers at annual journalists' dinner -- Washington Post HEAT OF THE MOMENT WorldNetDaily 'Smoking gun' leaves holes in CO2 debate EPA criticized for findings based on politics, not science --WND DID YOU KNOW ..... By Neal Boortz ... that Democrats are working for legislation that would automatically register to vote anyone who obtains a driver's license or who qualifies for welfare benefits? There is no move to automatically register anyone who actually obtains a job, becomes successful and pays taxes. ... that three-quarters of the budget "cuts" that Obama identified in his new budget come from defense spending, not discretionary domestic spending? ... that one species of bat has a tongue that is 150% longer than its body? It cannot, however, breathe through the top of its head ... so what's the point? ... that the people who make Hotwheels and Matchbox cars made more money last year than the people who make Fords, Chryslers and Chevys? ... that there are strong rumors that Nancy Pelosi is conjuring up a plan to place a tax against all outstanding pension and 401K plans? ... that you use about 50 pounds of toilet paper a year? We are 7 percent of the world's population, yet we use half of the toilet paper. Even more since January 20th. ... that the feds are cranking up some new mortgage programs designed to get low-income people into the wonderful world of home ownership? In other words, plans to make sure people who can't afford to buy a home can buy a home. This is what got us in trouble in the first place. ... that the Republican party has absolutely nothing going for itself right now! OK. So you knew that one. Budget deficit to top $1.8 trillion; 4 times 2008's record... Government borrowing 50 cents for every dollar it spends... Weak tax receipts... ORSZAG: DON'T BLAME OBAMA.. OBAMA'S JUSTICE ... WHAT'S IN STORE By Neal Boortz To understand just what kind of a Supreme Court Obama wants, just read this column from the Weekend editi8on of The Wall Street Journal. Back in 2001 a Chicago radio station interviewed the future president. The subject somehow turned to the Supreme Court. Obama told the listeners that he was disappointed that the Supreme Court has done little more than just defending peoples "formal rights." Obama wished that the Court had spent some more time addressing "more basic issues of political and economic justice." Uh oh. There's that "justice" word again. To me "justice" is when someone gets what they deserve. To the left "justice" is when someone gets what they want. And just what economic justice issue did Obama want the Supreme Court to spend more time addressing? Well .. how about "redistribution of wealth?" That's right! Back in 2001 Obama was telling how he wanted the Supreme Court to be a player in efforts to take money from those who earned it to hand to those who did not. There's Obama's Supreme Court ... taking wealth from those who earned it and giving it to those who want it. There's still more change you can believe in. Blacks must confront homophobia Leonard Pitts Jr.: Our conservatism is, quite literally, killing us --Common Dreams Notre Dame alumni withhold nearly $14 million Obama invite focuses attention on 'eroding the Catholic heritage and foundation' --Life News TOO BIG TO FAIL By Neal Boortz Last week, Obama's economic advisors had a meeting with representatives from banks, hedge funds and financial groups. These groups had suggested to the president that if the government insisted on regulating industries, that the task should be divided among various regulators. But that doesn't seem to be what the White House is going for. It wants a single independent regulator to monitor system-wide risk, and that one regulator "should be given better visibility into all institutions that pose a risk to the financial system, regardless of what business they are in." So we aren't just talking the financial industry here. We are talking about any company that the government feels is too big to fail and would pose a risk to the financial system. Who in Congress has been chosen to lead the task for drafting legislation for such a supercop?? None other than slobbering Barney Frank. This legislation, according to tax cheat Tim Geithner will include an "aggressive" package of reforms for the financial industry. That includes a fundamental overhaul of how the industry pays its senior executives. In other words, those evil bonuses will be a thing of the past. This is a massive proposed increase in the control privately-owned businesses by government. But I don't have to tell you that, do I? What you may not know, however, is what you call this type of economic system --- a system where business is owned privately but run by the government. The word would be Fascism. *THE FATS OF LIFE* Greed, not laziness, explains obesity epidemic Experts say increased intake of calories to blame -- London Telegraph Italy chamber makes illegal immigration a crime 'We don't understand why we have to keep them all here' --Associated Press Is the Fair Tax really fair? Dear Dave, What exactly is the Fair Tax, and how is it different than the system we currently have in place? Evan Dear Evan, The basic premise of the Fair Tax is that it's immoral to tax someone's income. If you work and make money, that money should be all yours. That may be a shocking statement in today's socio-political climate, but I think it's a reasonable statement. For all intents and purposes, the Fair Tax is basically a sales tax .. People would only pay taxes on items they buy, except for food, basic clothing and other kinds of necessities. This system would do away with the IRS, its massive mountain of regulations and its thousands of employees. It would also eliminate the need for the 401(k) and Roth IRAs, because you could just save your own money The argument against the sales tax is that it's regressive. This means it's more of a burden on poor people, because they would pay a higher percentage of their overall income. But there's a valid counter-argument. As I make more money, I also save more, give more and spend more. And if I spend more under the Fair Tax system, then I'm actually paying much more in taxes! More than anything, proponents of the Fair Tax are saying that our current method of taxation is wrong. They also believe that as much money, if not more, could be raised with a properly implemented national sales tax as with an income tax. Keep in mind that nothing this side of Heaven is perfect. We'd see a lot of job losses if the Fair Tax system were put in place. Tax preparation services and things like that would simply cease to exist, but it would also take a lot of the politics and special interest garbage out of the system. Some people want you to think that Fair Tax supporters are against taxes or government in any form, and that's just not true. The rallies that have been held lately were made up largely of people who are against government waste, deficit spending and debt. In part, the income tax is designed to motivate people to do certain things the federal government wants them to do, and the rallies are also against the idea of making government the big daddy with answers to everyone's problems. Dave Ramsey Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care... Kids born to unwed moms hit record high Report finds U.S. unmarried births top 40%, up 25% since '02 --ABC News DOES WHERE YOU LIVE AFFECT YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOM? By Neal Boortz The Mercatus Center of George Mason University has released a study ranking the states compared to their level of personal freedom. Some of the most liberal US states rank the lowest when it comes to personal freedom. Lordy, what a surprise? The study says that it is the "first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres." Here are some of its findings: The freest states in the country are New Hampshire , Colorado , and South Dakota , which together achieve a virtual tie for first place. All three states feature low taxes and government spending -- and middling levels of regulation and paternalism. New York is the least overall free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland . When weighing personal freedom alone, Alaska is the clear winner, while Maryland brings up the rear. As for freedom in the different regions of the country, the Mountain and West North Central regions are the freest overall -- while the Middle Atlantic lags far behind on both economic and personal freedom. In the age of Obama these disparities simply cannot be allowed to exist. US to borrow 46 cents for every dollar spent... George Will had another excellent column over the weekend, and a listener brought this paragraph of that column to my attention. In "Democracy in America ," Alexis de Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by "an immense, tutelary power" determined to take "sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate." It would be a power "absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident and gentle," aiming for our happiness but wanting "to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness." It would, Tocqueville said, provide people security, anticipate their needs, direct their industries and divide their inheritances. It would envelop society in "a network of petty regulations -- complicated, minute and uniform." But softly: "It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them" until people resemble "a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." Read it a couple of times. When you fully understand what de Tocqueville wrote find a government-educated friend and try to explain it to them. Obama Slashes CHRYLSER's Advertising Budget by Half.. CLOSING LOOPHOLES By Neal Boortz As expected, the Obama administration revealed more changes to the tax code yesterday. One of the many ways the government plans to get more of your money is by closing tax loopholes for all those evil rich people .... A senior administration official says, The proposals "take on what we believe are a series of unjustifiable loopholes, unjustifiable tax breaks that we simply cannot afford." That who cannot afford? The imperial federal government? Is it entitled to this money that is earned by you, the taxpayers? What they are really saying is that this money belongs to us .. and we just can't afford to let the people who earned it keep it. "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." *- Dr. Wayne Dyer* Gun Control Barack Obama at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas , asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started toslowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence. Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.' Then, littleBubba Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said: ''Well, dumbass, stop clapping!! Biden: Unions Are Way to Rebuild Middle Class I Am A Feminine-ist Hello Dr. Laura, I just wanted to express my appreciation for your efforts to help us recover from the scourge of feminism. I am the co-destroyer of two marriages (they were both mine, just to be clear), and I credit my astoundingly successful efforts at destruction to the vitriolic feminist propaganda. I was taught, in both word and example, by my mother and her mother all of the things you have written in your books about The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands, marriages and relationships. I guess because of my human short-comings I saw in them and the immature attitudes (brought to you by: Feminism-Ruining Lives Around the World!), I decided not follow them. I've changed my mind! I am currently unavailable for dating while I finish raising my two daughters, so I'm using your books to arm myself and adjust my attitudes BEFORE I inflict myself on some perfectly good man. And I will be using your books as references as I teach my girls about how to be real women for their men in the future. … So I have declared myself to be a Feminine-ist, because I am at last coming to value femininity as the beautiful and soft counterpart to masculinity, a trait that is not so slowly being strangled out of our men. I'm making myself into a REAL woman, so I'll be ready for a REAL man, when the time comes. Thanks again. C. Students offered counseling after jocks pull popcorn prank Three college students are accused of setting off a dorm fire alarm with burning popcorn after they tied the doors shut to several dorm rooms. Nobody was hurt, but counseling services are being offered to traumatized students. (New Britain Herald) Dictionary.com: 'Narrow-minded' means 'conservative' --WND Exclusive-- Cybill Shepherd: Mormons, Catholics Responsible for Prop 8 Cybill Shepherd, while touting her passion against discrimination, told Fox News that Mormons and Catholics represented the key to success for California ’s Proposition 8. The initiative, which prohibits gay marriage, was passed in November with support from 52.2 percent of California voters. Asked by Fox News who was to blame for that result, the famous actress said, “The Mormons and Catholics Most of the money came from Utah , it’s very unfortunate." She didn’t bother to blame African Americans, who voted for the proposition to the tune of 70 percent, according to CNN exit polls. Shepherd also may be unaware that President Obama opposes same-sex marriage. She told Fox she is pleased with his effort. "I think he is working hard at it, I really do. I am just so encouraged by Iowa and Vermont .” Gay marriage has been legalized in Iowa and will be legal in Vermont starting Sept. 1. Shepherd says her commitment to gay rights originated in the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King. *By:Dan Weil / Newsmax* WorldNetDaily Exclusive 'Gay' gene claim suddenly vanishes American Psychological Association revises statement on homosexuality --WND Question: Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants? AND MY FAVORITE: ANSWER: That's right! JAMES EARL CARTER, JR. (jIMMY CARTER) (DEMOCRAT, TERM OF OFFICE: JANUARY 20, 1977 TO JANUARY 20, 1981 AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IMMIGRANTS MOVED INTO THIS COUNTRY, AND AT AGE 65, BEGAN TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THESE PAYMENTS TO THEM, EVEN THOUGH THEY NEVER PAI D A DIME INTO IT! "Damn", have you ever seen a Jack-ass eating briers..! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of Awareness will be planted and maybe changes WILL evolve! ... Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so. But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to? Actions speak louder than bumper stickers. AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!! WorldNetDaily Exclusive Congressman: 'Deviancy' protected by 'hate crimes' Warns 'anything you imagine' coming under 'Pedophile Protection Act' --WND Question: Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants? ANSWER: That's right! JAMES EARL CARTER, JR. IMMIGRANTS MOVED INTO THIS COUNTRY, AND AT AGE 65, BEGAN TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THESE PAYMENTS TO THEM, EVEN THOUGH THEY NEVER PAI D A DIME INTO IT! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!! Environmental alarms raised over consumer electronics; Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear? Disagree with Obama and you're anti-American? Ben Shapiro reminds readers: 'Every tyranny begins with a few simple steps' --WND NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF OBAMA CHEERLEADERS By Neal Boortz The Media Research Center did an analysis of the lamestream media's coverage of Obama's first 100 days. Guess what? Turns out that they have done a great job of sending tingles up their legs but a lousy job acting as watchdogs. MRC analysts looked at all 982 broadcast evening news stories about Obama and his administration from Inauguration Day (January 20) through April 29. Here are some of the interesting, though not surprising, things that they found: - Obama's first 100 days were defined by massive spending, aggressive intervention in the private sector and proposals for a huge expansion of the federal government. Yet none of the networks aired a single story on whether Obama's policies were pushing the U.S. toward socialism, and no reporter used the term "socialist" to describe Obama. - Not only that, network reporters never used the word "liberal" to describe either Barack Obama or his agenda during the first 100 days. - The networks lavished good press on every major initiative of the early Obama administration, including the massive stimulus package, all of the various bailouts, health care, stem cells, the environment and foreign policy. - In the days before the President unveiled his unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget -- with a record-shattering $1.75 trillion deficit -- four out of five statements on the evening newscasts parroted the White House spin that Obama was a deficit fighter. - Reporters treated Obama's hugely expensive $787 billion stimulus bill to mainly positive coverage (58 percent positive, 42 percent negative). - The networks applauded Obama's decision to use taxpayer money to fund embryo-destroying stem cell research (82% positive coverage). - Network coverage of Obama's mortgage bailout was also positive -- 59% of statements supported the bailout or wanted even more intervention, compared to 41% who opposed the bailout as unfair to responsible homeowners. - Reporters heavily skewed their coverage in favor of the President's actions on global warming (78% positive). - President Obama's decision to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan was greeted by nearly unanimous (91%) positive coverage -- a far cry from the highly negative coverage of President Bush's successful troop surge in Iraq two years ago. - Like Obama and the Democrats, the networks went on a feeding frenzy against big corporate bonuses. The networks aired six times more statements forwarding the "infuriated" reaction to business (104) than criticized politicians' grandstanding (16). - The networks spent days decrying AIG's $165 million bonuses, but hardly mentioned the $210 million in bonuses handed out by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the bailed-out mortgage giants with strong Democratic ties). ABC and NBC completely ignored the Fannie and Freddie bonuses, while the CBS Evening News gave it 27 seconds. They made him. They must support him. FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU WorldNetDaily Exclusive Rabbi to pope: Go split Rome Pontiff slammed for comments in support of Palestinian state --WND THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRINKS By Neal Boortz I have it on good authority that those Brinks home alarm systems will absolutely not work unless it's a white guy trying to break into your home. Never in the history of Brinks advertising on television has anyone other than a white guy been shown breaking into a home. If you live in an area where someone not white might actually break into your home you might want to look into another alarm system. Specter 'Shocked' by Reaction to GOP Betrayal Specter Signals He'll Support Card Check Two Papers in One! § "In its closing months, the Bush administration is pulling out all the stops in its eight-year effort to undermine the Endangered Species Act. In mid-August, the administration proposed two dangerous regulatory changes. One would free the government from considering the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on polar bears and other imperiled wildlife."--editorial, New York Times, Oct.25, 2008 § § "Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has upheld a Bush administration finding that the Endangered Species Act is not a suitable tool for restricting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threatening the polar bear and its habitat. We agree, with this codicil:..."--editorial, New York Times, May13, 2009 Obama Eyes Bank Pay Overhaul; Curb Compensation Across Finance... GEITHNER EYES SMALL BANKS GOVERNMENT MOTORS: CHINESE-MADE CARS TO USA! By TOM KRISHER DETROIT (AP) - As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House. The reports, which GM will neither confirm nor deny, could mean trouble because GM is supported by $15.4 billion in U.S. government loans, largely due to the Obama administration's desire to preserve the company's 90,000 U.S. jobs. The United Auto Workers charged last week that the Detroit automaker intends to almost double over the next five years the number of vehicles it imports to the U.S. from Mexico , South Korea , China and Japan . "GM should not be taking taxpayers' money simply to finance the outsourcing of jobs to other countries," Alan Reuther, the union's Washington lobbyist, wrote in a letter to U.S. lawmakers. This is typical government for you .... The US will pay $2.6 million to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. Your tax dollars at work. Daydreamers solve problems faster? Scans show 'default network' inside brain becomes more active --Agence France-Presse “The administration is ‘cherry-picking’ evidence to appease its political friends. With the Obama administration and their allies attacking the [intelligence community] you can be sure they're going to go back into that risk-averse mode and we're going to be a lot less safe." - GOP Sen. Kit Bond. Poll: Obama Still Fails to Beat Reagan's Numbers "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."** --Thomas Jefferson Be Kind and Sweet and Smile a Little Dear Dr. Laura My mother recently told me that, when I was a child, she and Dad went to see a therapist who told them to each write a list of what they were needing from the other person. Upon their return, my mother, armed with her list, went first. Apparently it was a rather long, angry list, going on and on, complaining about all the things she wanted him to change, stop doing and start doing. My mother said when the turn came to my dad, who, at that point with tearful eyes, read his not-so-long list, it said "Be kind and sweet and smile a little". My dad has passed away, but I hope to learn from his words. "Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting." - Herbert Samuels 'Buy black' experiment becomes movement Many try to patronize only businesses owned by African-Americans --Associated Press Palin Blasts 'Liberal Attacks' on Miss California By:Rick Pedraza Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin calls the feeding frenzy surrounding Miss California Carrie Prejean “despicable” and says she can relate to her as a "liberal target." "The liberal onslaught of malicious attacks against Carrie Prejean for expressing her opinion is despicable," Palin said in a statement released to the media Wednesday. Prejean has since been a target of the liberal media for declaring to contest judge and gay blogger Perez Hilton her opposition to same-sex marriage. "What I find so remarkable is that these politically-motivated attacks fail to show that what Carrie and I believe is also what President Obama and Secretary Clinton believe –– that marriage is between a man and a woman," Palin says. "Our Constitution protects us all –– not just those who agree with the far left," she adds. Obama says that our current deficit spending "unsustainable." Gee, ya think? So what is he doing about ... spending more taxpayer money. *WorldNetDaily* Obama worked with ACORN voter project Represented group in effort to get mortgages for subprime buyers --WND We Stand by Our Stereotype Imagine opening the New York Times and reading a story that begins as follows: Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, an angry black man, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor. Never happen, right? The description of the gunman as an "angry black man" is an invidious stereotype, presumptively irrelevant even if true, and if relevant (e.g., if the crime was racially motivated), to be explained in a sensitive way, not just thrown in like that. So, here is the actual Times lead paragraph, with the words we changed in bold: Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor. It seems some stereotypes are perfectly acceptable to the editors of the New York Times. According to this column in the Wall Street Journal, Organized labor has become by far the most powerful political force in government. *WorldNetDaily* *Exclusive* Another ACORN scandal – in a funeral home? Group operating out of small building donated $33 million to Obama campaign --WND Fix It Again, Tony "The new Chrysler-Fiat partnership will get around U.S. restrictions on executive pay by having its top officers deemed Fiat employees," the Detroit Free Press reports: The new Chrysler is among the first companies to fall under rules outlined in February by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, for companies getting "extraordinary assistance" from the Treasury that would cap pay for top executives at $500,000, excluding restricted shares of stock. The final rules for the limits have not been released.... Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has already indicated he will replace Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli. But under the deal, any of Chrysler's top officers can be deemed a Fiat employee who's "seconded" to Chrysler, and therefore take pay from Fiat beyond any Treasury cap. In our view, this whole deal is an abomination. The government should not be bailing out Chrysler or its unions; if it cannot make cars profitably, it belongs in bankruptcy court. That said, we have to admire the Chrysler execs' sense of humor in using Fiat to evade a fiat. *WorldNetDaily* *Exclusive* Question about Ayers stifled at press briefing Gibbs tells reporter he already asked 1 question this week --WND Obama is worried about what credit card companies do to consumers. He has nothing to say about consumers ripping off credit card companies. Pay your bill on time and you won't have to pay either any penalties or interest. Simple as that. … Quite possibly, the reason we don’t let ourselves go in the matter of belief is that we fear disappointment, or we feel the reactions of others if what we believe in doesn’t materialize. It is like fearing the situation of backing a losing horse; after all, people will think you are pretty stupid for not betting on a winner. But, the art of believing requires courage and a spirit of adventure. In other words, why not believe in the transcendence of life? You have nothing to lose. You can affirm, “I believe all things are possible with God.” Can’t you say this? “All things are possible with God. I believe this.” Then you can take a further chance and go on to state, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” It’s not too hard to say the words. Is it much harder to believe that they are true? I mean…just to believe it! Act as if it were true! You see, faith is simply a way of thinking. You are going to think in some way or other, regardless. You are going to say, “I can’t possibly do it” or, on the other hand, you can say and think, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” You are going to do it one way or the other. So, why not take the positive? Why not affirm the Truth? What do you have to lose? Jesus had some astounding things to say about faith. He says, “If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall…say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.” [Matt. 21:21] So, you see, faith is no more or less than a way of thinking and seeing. It is the willingness to work in the dark—to walk a trail that the heart can see, even when the eye cannot. It is knowing that there is an ocean when you have seen a brook. It is knowing there is a Universe, because you have seen a star. It is knowing that there is a Father of all mankind, because you have seen a man. … Do you know that you are living your life by faith, right now? It’s true! You are living by faith! Whether you realize it or not, all things in life are done according to faith. If you have faith in the worst, the worst will happen…and this fulfills itself all too often. Actually, it is common to prepare for the worst. Like a battle commander in war, we are always ready to retire to previously prepared positions. This is not lack of faith…it is faith. It is faith in reverse. It simply shows that we all have some sort of beliefs…and beliefs eventually express themselves in reality... We are told to “practice the presence of God,” but more often we practice the absence of God by talking about our particular mountain, our particular obstacle. It could be said that the most widespread disease of our time is what I like to call, “I can’t-itis.” “I can’t-itis.” It is contracted very early in life. It is usually taught to us by our elders. It is a song that has neither rhyme nor reason. And yet, we can hear it chanted continuously in our presence: “I can’t, because I’m poor.” “I can’t, because I’m sick.” “I can’t, because I don’t have the ability.” “I can’t, because I don’t have the opportunity.” “I can’t, because I’m too young.” “I can’t, because I’m too old.” “I can’t…!” “I can’t…!” “I can’t…!” Jesus has one simple suggestion for this disease, he says, “Be thou removed.” The “mountain” is in your own consciousness—not in what you see “out there,” but what you see from. “Be thou removed.” Remove the obstacle! Remove the block! Remove the “I can’t” attitude! … Believe! Faith within you is a potential that is always present. **The art of believing…one of the most important lessons to learn in life! © Eric Butterworth 'I'm a child of God, gotta do the right thing' Struggling single mom facing eviction returns $271,000 after bank error --KOMO-TV, Seattle The Postal Service has raised the price of their product because fewer people are using it. Only in the wonderful world of government would this type of reasoning prevail. Dear Friend, As you know, I am no fan of socialized medicine. Of course, President Obama is -- he's a big fan of any excuse to get the government poking its nose into peoples' business. But it turns out there's a major hitch to Obama's goal of massive healthcare reforms: there aren't enough doctors to provide the massive amount of health care the president is promising. It's a wonderful irony: more and more of our best and brightest have been deliberately steering clear of medical careers because it's too much of a hassle. Time was when there were 50 applications for every open spot in medical school. The Annals of Internal Medicine reported that there will be a shortage of 200,000 doctors in the U.S. in the next 20 years. But the health care manpower crisis may have already arrived. Federal officials are already unnerved by the shortage, and are scrambling for ways to boost the number of physicians. In the Obama administration's view, there are millions of uninsured who are already lining up for the "free" health care provided by the president's promised legislation. The light is finally going on that these new medical demands cannot possibly be met with the current population of doctors in the U.S. "We're not producing enough primary-care physicians," Obama said at a recent White House health care forum. "The costs of medical education are so high that people feel they've got to specialize." This is a half-truth. It's true that America has a downturn in primary care docs, but it's not just because of the cost of getting a med school education. Sorry, Mr. President. I know that this little jab at U.S. education costs dovetails nicely with your Let-Taxes-Pay- For-Everything worldview. But the reality is, there are fewer doctors because bright kids realize that there is very little financial reward to medicine. Think about it: would-be doctors face 12 or more years of study, at a tremendous cost (med school loans can tally as much as $140K)... only to face ungrateful patients who sue, and the resulting huge malpractice insurance costs. And don't forget that docs are routinely persecuted by county, state, and federal boards for not toeing the line on the type of medicine they practice. Obama correctly points out that more medical students are pursuing the more lucrative path of medical specialties. According to Sen Max Baucus (D-Montana), "Primary-care physicians are grossly underpaid compared with many specialists." In the face of the shortage, Obama and his team have cooked up some possible fixes -- all of which come with their own problems. One idea is to boost the amount of Medicare payments to primary care doctors - a proposal that has sparked rage among medical specialists who (correctly) claim that this picks their collective pockets. What's more, this will only serve to increase the amount of medical costs that Obama himself has pledged to help tamp down. Other proposals include increasing enrollment in med schools... but no one is suggesting exactly how to do this. The government quick fix for this could be similar to affirmative action policies of the 1960s and 1970s,which sought to boost the enrollment of African-Americans in U.S. colleges by mandating lower academic standards. At the college level, this is just plain wrong. At the med school level, it's downright dangerous. Is it really going to do anyone much good if we can say we have an adequate number of doctors if they're less talented? Some are saying we should spread out the existing supply of doctors by increasing the use of physician's assistants and nurse practitioners. With all due respect to those who happen to be nurse practitioners or physicians assistants: they are not doctors. The schooling to become qualified as one of these professions is certainly difficult, but falls far short of an M.D. This "solution" won't really solve anything -- there will still be an inadequate number of legitimately qualified physicians. Obama seems to think that community health clinics could solve the problem, and has been allocating untold millions to these facilities. But the truth is, these clinics are not immune to the doctor shortage, and they too are having a difficult time finding staff. It's going to become more and more obvious to those in this administration and the American people that Obama cannot merely wave his Hope-and-Change wand and make real-world problems disappear. If Obama wants his plan to work, he'll need more doctors. And more doctors mean that his health care proposals can only be realized at an astronomical cost to the American taxpayer. Sadly, Obama has not yet let astronomical costs get in the way of his overhaul of the American way of life. Never short on my supply of the truth, William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. "When all is said and done, more is said than done." - Lou Holtz Gallup: More Americans Pro-Life Than Ever Before A new poll shows Americans are identifying increasingly with the position of protecting human life, a trend that has been rising steadly since Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey began asking about the subject in 1995. **************** **************** Pence: Cap-and-Trade 'Declaration of War,' to Cost US Families $3,100/Year...(and Al Gore is set to be a billionaire from the sweat of their backs) ( ( (and(and Holding Your Heart Close To Mine Below is a letter from a deployed soldier to his son on his son's first birthday…. I know you don't remember this, but this isn't the first birthday of yours I have missed....You were born a month early, and I was on a two week deployment 3 states over, and didn't get in until the next day. I got there as fast as I could, but it was evening before I arrived. When I walked in, you were in a crib, with all sorts of wires on you... Your Daddy, was very scared. The doctors told me that because you had been born early, your little lungs were still developing, and you were scared of this new world and your little heart was beating too fast. I sat by your bed for hours, holding your tiny fingers, telling you of all the fun we were going to have, and praying that you would be okay... but your little heart wouldn't stop beating so fast. Finally a wise old nurse came in and said she saw what was wrong. She repositioned the wires so that I could hold you. Then she told me to hold your heart close to mine, so that you could feel my heart beat, and realize that everything was going to be okay. So I leaned back in the rocking chair, and put your little chest up against mine. At first your heart felt like a little jackhammer that was about to beat through your chest but oh so slowly, your heart began to hear mine and you relaxed, and your little heart finally slowed down to a normal beat and for the first time since I met you, I watched you contentedly fall asleep. I wish I was with you today. I wish I could promise you that I will never miss another of your birthdays...but soldiers can't make such promises, because duty calls often. But I can promise this, that no matter where you are in the world, no matter how scary it seems, or how confused you are, you will never have to worry. Because no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, from the day you were born until the day I die...I will be holding your heart close to mine. With all my love, Your Daddy I am this soldier's mom and I cried when I read this. I am so proud of him and his wife and their daughter and son. I just had to share this letter with you. Lelia - Proud mother of deployed American Soldier Democrat Rep. John Dingell tells Al Gore, "Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax -- and it's a great big one." There is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term: This year's term was: Political Correctness The winner wrote: "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." Sen. Reid: Obama Told Me, 'I Have a Gift' BORN IN THE USA ? Long as we're declassifying things ... Pam Meister calls on Obama to release long-form birth certificate, college records --Family Security Matters FIRST 100 DAYS By Neal Boortz The Fox News crowd had a panel on this morning to discuss Obama's achievements. What's the best they could come up with? He's perfected his brand and he's likable. He has a high popularity rating. He passed the most expensive spending package in history ... one written by the congress, not by him. These are achievements? This is the best this esteemed Fox panel could come up with? For right now let's just say that the people who will really remember these first 100 days will be your children and grandchildren. They are the ones who will be paying the bills while living in a country where achievement is no longer rewarded. "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." - Sir Laurens van der Post REPORTERS PASS THE TEST: GRADED 'A' BY WHITE HOUSE PRESS SPOKESMAN... … got this from my little old cousin in Illinois I have 4 extra tickets for the Robbie Knievel (son of Evel Knievel)event at"The Palace” in Auburn Hills , MI this Friday. He's going to try to jump 1000 Obama supporters with a bulldozer. Should be a good time! Let me know... Evening Newscasts Have Covered Obama More Than Bush & Clinton Combined... MEDIA MATTERS WorldNetDaily Exclusive U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine' Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail --WND How laws have replaced civility A civilized society's first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions and moral values. Behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. The failure to fully transmit values and traditions to subsequent generations represents one of the failings of the so-called greatest generation. Behavior accepted as the norm today would have been seen as despicable yesteryear. There are television debt relief advertisements that promise to help debtors to pay back only half of what they owe. Foul language is spoken by children in front of and sometimes to teachers and other adults. When I was a youngster, it was unthinkable to use foul language to an adult; it would have meant a smack across the face. Back then, parents and teachers didn't have child-raising "experts" to tell them that "time out" is a means of discipline. Baby showers are held for unwed mothers. Yesteryear, such an acceptance of illegitimacy would have been unthinkable. To see men sitting whilst a woman or elderly person was standing on a crowded bus or trolley car used to be unthinkable. It was common decency for a man to give up his seat. Today, in some cities there are ordinances requiring public conveyances to set aside seats posted "Senior Citizen Seating." Laws have replaced common decency. Years ago, a young lady who allowed a guy to have his hand in her rear pocket as they strolled down the street would have been seen as a slut. Children addressing adults by first names was unacceptable. You might be tempted to charge, "Williams, you're a prude!" I'd ask you whether high rates of illegitimacy make a positive contribution to a civilized society. If not, how would you propose that illegitimacy be controlled? In years past, it was controlled through social sanctions like disgrace and shunning. Is foul language to or in the presence of teachers conducive to an atmosphere of discipline and respect necessary for effective education? If not, how would you propose it be controlled? Years ago, simply sassing a teacher would have meant a trip to the vice principal's office for an attitude adjustment administered with a paddle. Years ago, the lowest of lowdown men would not say the kind of things often said to or in front of women today. Gentlemanly behavior protected women from coarse behavior. Today, we expect sexual harassment laws to restrain coarse behavior. During the 1940s, my family lived in North Philadelphia's Richard Allen housing project. Many families didn't lock doors until late at night, if ever. No one ever thought of installing bars on their windows. Hot, humid summer nights found many people sleeping outside on balconies or lawn chairs. Starting in the '60s and '70s, doing the same in some neighborhoods would have been tantamount to committing suicide. Keep in mind that the 1940s and '50s were a time of gross racial discrimination, high black poverty and few opportunities compared to today. The fact that black neighborhoods were far more civilized at that time should give pause to the excuses of today that blames today's pathology on poverty and discrimination. Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we've become. Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., The children of illegal aliens cost Los Angeles County $44 million in welfare just in the month of March. Republicans blamed for swine flu 'A Bush-appointed accountant is running the [HHS] department' --Politico The media loves Obama. Studies show that he has received more positive media coverage in his first 100 days than Clinton and Bush combined. This is easy to understand. The media had a large part in creating Barack Obama. Bernie Goldberg had it right with the title of his book, "A Slobbering Love Affair." Since the media had a large part in creating Obama, accepting the fact that he is less than a stellar president constitutes an admission that the media got it wrong. Not gonna happen. Top Dem Congressman Wants Mileage-Based Tax On Vehicles... If you have dreams or expectations that your children might have the same opportunities to work hard, achieve and excel in this country; if you think that your children will be able to use their talents to create wealth and use that wealth to create a lifestyle free of financial stress .. these first 100 days have been a disaster. If you believe that America's greatness comes from the incredible dynamic of free people working cooperatively with one another in a society based on the rule of law with individual and economic freedom, then this first 100 days has been a train wreck. You believe in socialism? A great first 100 days. You believe in capitalism? A horrible first 100 days. You believe in individualism? A bad first 100 days. You believe in collectivism? A grand first 100 days. You're proud of your country? A depressing first 100 days. You think your country is the focus of evil? A wonderful first 100 days. You believe in federalism? The first 100 days were a disaster. You believe in an omnipotent federal government? The first 100 days were wonderful. You think a president should be elected on substance? Bad first 100. You think a president should be elected on style? Great first 100. Perhaps you can add to the list through your comments. ACORN Aims for 1 Million ‘Member Families’ Carville: Democrats Will Rule for 40 Years A MILEAGE TAX** By Neal Boortz Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar has decided that he wants Congress to enact a mileage tax. Yep. A mileage-based tax on cars and trucks would help offset the fact that federal gasoline tax revenues are in decline. Oberstar doesn't want to waste time on pilot programs. He sees that as a waste of time that could be spent collecting tax revenue! He wants this passed now so that the government can start paying for highway program. However, a congressionally mandated commission estimated that switching to a vehicle-miles traveled tax would take a decade to put in place on a national level. Here's the danger. Oberstar and his buddies in the congress would just love to have both the mileage tax and the present federal taxes on gasoline. They're talking tax increases here .. not just a different way of raising the same revenue. Oh how Democrats love tax increases. Oh ... and stand by for the program to prevent this tax from affecting the poor, poor pitiful poor. *NEWS FOCUS* Dying no reason to end social life 'Boomers are looking at the funeral as a form of self-expression' -- Tampa Tribune YOU AREN'T GOING TO BELIEVE THIS By Neal Boortz In Washington DC you can get a ticket for parking your car in your own driveway. There is a law that states, "Any area between the property line and the building restriction line shall be considered as private property set aside and treated as public space under the care and maintenance of the property owner." So basically, property owners in DC do not own the land between their front door and the sidewalk. While property owners are responsible for taking care of this plot of land, they technically do not own it. It is considered "public space." So if you pull into your own driveway, but do not pull your car far enough up so that it is flush with your house or building, technically your car is on "public land" and you can get a ticket. You can bet your buns that the city has been taking full advantage of this. So what do you do if you want to be able to park your car so that its nose sticks out passed your home? You have to go to the government and lease the your property back from the city government. . Unbelievable. Only government. FAA Memo: Feds Knew Flyover Would Cause NYC Panic; Threatened Sanctions Against NYPD & Mayor's Office If Secret Got Out... So if voters differ so fundamentally with the president on the very essence of his program, why do they accord him high ratings? They are like the recently married bride who took her vows 100 days ago. It would be a disaster for her life if she decides that she really doesn’t like her husband. But she keeps noticing things about him that she can’t stand. It will be a while before she walks out the door or even comes to terms with her own doubts, but it is probably inevitable that she will. … And then will come his heavy lifting. He has yet to raise taxes, regiment healthcare or provide amnesty for illegal immigrants. He hasn’t closed down the car companies he now runs and he has not yet forced a 50 percent hike in utility bills with his cap-and-trade legislation. These are all the goodies he has in store for us all. By Dick Morris Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times Eight years after Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, American 9- and 13-year-olds are doing measurably better on standardized tests. Good news? Not necessarily. The New York Times report on NCLB carries the headline "'No Child' Law Is Not Closing a Racial Gap." Fair enough. If the law is helping white kids but doing nothing for blacks, that doesn't seem right. Only that isn't what's happening, as you learn from reading the actual report: The achievement gap between white and minority students has not narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the No Child Left Behind law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according to results of a federal test considered to be the nation's best measure of long-term trends in math and reading proficiency. Between 2004 and last year, scores for young minority students increased, but so did those of white students, leaving the achievement gap stubbornly wide, despite President George W. Bush's frequent assertions that the No Child law was having a dramatic effect. So minority kids are doing better than before. But because white kids are also doing better, and therefore the "gap" remains, the Times suggests the law is a failure. By this measure, it would have been better to pass a law that only benefits minorities than one that benefits everyone. Radio Shack employee arrested after punching a customer Leigh Carey was trying to return a purchase, but the employee wouldn't let him. Carey asked to talk to a manager, and that's when the employee started punching him. (WEAU-TV) Global Warming on the Rocks Al Gore said Tuesday the world must act quickly to slow the melting of the world's polar ice packs and glaciers before it reaches a critical rate for global warming. But it turns out the world acted very quickly indeed, as Germany 's Radio Bremen reports (translation here): The research aircraft "Polar 5" today concluded its Arctic expedition in Canada . During the flight, researchers measured the current ice thickness at the North Pole and in areas that have never before been surveyed. The result: The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than scientists had suspected. Normally, newly formed ice measures some two meters in thickness after two years. "Here, we measured ice thickness up to four meters," said a spokesperson for Bremerhaven 's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Is it possible that global warming is neither a catastrophe waiting to happen nor a fraud but merely the result of confusion induced by the metric system? *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* Censors for talk radio expected within 90 days Leader of public awareness campaign warns of 'Arctic blast' against free speech --WND Obama decided that he was going to address all you evil right-wingers who got out there to protest of tax day. When asked a question about fiscal discipline (something Obama knows nothing about) and entitlement reform, here is what he had to say: "Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around ... let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security. But ... let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act." So there you have it. If you watch FoxNews or attended a tea party .. Obama would like to have a "serious" conversation with you. A recent Rasmussen poll shows that 77% of U.S. voters say that they prefer a free market economy over a government-managed economy. Then why in the hell did so many of these people vote for Barack Obama? DEMS GIVE OBAMA HIS BUDGET By Neal Boortz The House has adopted the Looter in Chief's budget. The cost: $3.4 trillion. There is nothing sophisticated about this budget. The only thought process that went into this mess is "what can we spend and who gets to spend it." One rule ... spending must increase the dominance of government in our lives. Hang on, folks. This is just the beginning, based on the expansion of government that will necessarily happen because of the policies included in this budget. What kind of policies? I'm talking about Obama's agenda to ensure that Americans look to the government for their healthcare needs. Making Americans dependent on the government for their healthcare will be an incredibly expensive task, thanks to the taxpayers. It will not make our healthcare system in this country any more efficient or cost-effective. In truth, it isn't supposed to. The goal here is not cost effectiveness. The goal is to make people dependent on government. The goal is enslavement. What does this mean for your grandchildren? Well, deficits under Barack Obama, thanks to budgets like this, will rise to as much as $17 trillion by the end of 2014. Read that again, folks. We are talking $17 trillion. Just last year, the Democrats were whining about a $455 billion deficit. Beyond healthcare, the budget also includes funding for green energy and tax increases for the filthy, evil rich making more than $200,000 a year. There is absolutely nothing to celebrate here. The parasite class may feel good about the government lifting even more responsibility off their shoulders ... but future generations of Americans are going to read about the freedom and opportunity that used to be ... and wonder what went wrong. Truth be told ... Obama, that's what. The budget resolution passed the House with absolutely zero Republican support. Point: If it had been Bush's budget the Republicans would have supported it ... so don't sing Republican praises too loud. A more amazing fact is that 17 Democrats voted against the budget. You'll enjoy Nancy Pelosi's reaction to the passage of this budget resolution. She says, "Today, for the first time in many, many years, we have a president's budget ... that is a statement of our national values." Did you catch that? This is a "statement of our national values." What values would those be, Nancy ? Bigger government ... redistribution of wealth ... government dependency ... government control of the private economic sector ...funding "green" industries based on the global warming hoax ... replacing the free market system with government controls and regulations .... This is a big government, anti-individualism budget. BOHICA *QUEERLY BELOVED* N.Y. guv: Guilt drives 'gay'-marriage foes Paterson slams 'leaders of faith' over violence, discrimination against homosexuals -- New York Daily News *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* House agrees to muzzle pastors with 'hate crimes' plan 'This is first time protected status given to whatever sexual orientation one has' --WND I can't shake that poll of Europeans last year where we learned that 58% of Europeans wanted a weaker America . Barack Obama is giving Europe exactly what it asked for. The North Korean gargoyle is taking advantage. Why Not Take Away Its Credit Card? "Police Shoot, Kill Charging Pit Bull"--headline, Charlotte Observer, April28 Yet another Confederate flag controversy (this one in Minnesota ) Dozens of school staff members have signed a petition asking the school board ban a student's Confederate flag decal on his pickup truck. One teacher says: "We regulate hoods and we regulate hats yet we allow a symbol that is clearly designed to intimidate another group." (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Bullying Dr. Laura - The call today from a woman who's daughter had stuck up for a bullied classmate struck a chord. When my now 2nd grader was in kindergarten he was bullied. He came to me crying. I went to the teacher and she said, "Your child just needs to learn to stick up for himself. I'm not going to get involved." I told my boy that the next time the bully hit him (because that's what was going on) to hit him back. Hard. About two days later I got a call from the principal. My son was in the office because he had hit the boy all right. He hit him with a chair. I told the principal that I had spoke with his teacher a couple of days prior and what she said to me. I told the principal I told my boy he is to defend himself. The principal said that the teacher and my son both said the other child had pushed him down and kicked him first. I asked the principal which was worse: my five year old picking up a small plastic chair and hitting the other kid or the teacher knowing he was being picked on and never doing anything about it? My son did not get anything from the principal other than a "please don't hit with chairs". He also received a hall pass to go to the principal directly if he was bullied again. From his dad and me he got a high five and his favorite dinner. R. *ANIMAL KINGDOM* Scientists: Freeing Willy was wrong thing to do Say killer whale proved unable to interact with his own species or find food --New Scientist It was once said that a black man would be president ----WHEN PIGS FLY. 100 days into Obama's term -- SWINE FLU. As far back as 1930, Sir James Jeans, the eminent scientist, said, and I quote: “Thirty years ago, we thought, or assumed, that we were heading toward an ultimate reality of a mechanistic universe, a fortuitous jumble of atoms, destined to perform meaningless dances for a time, under the action of blind, purposeless forces, and then fall back to become a dead world. Today there is a wide measure of agreement that the stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality, with the universe beginning to look more and more like a great thought than a great machine.” A tremendous concept: “looking more like a great thought than a great machine” Just as a man must have an ideal before he can bring it into manifestation, so it is with God’s Creation. Only after a man has built thought pictures of the house, can he follow this with the actual construction of the house that becomes a home. So, in the first chapter of Genesis, God’s creation of man is the “inner” or the “ideal” creation, made in the Image-Likeness of God, which He pronounces as “very good.” [Genesis 1:31] This was, and is, the direct offspring of the Divine Mind—God’s idea of a Perfect Man, begotten only of God, and not of human invention, evolution, environment, or heredity. This is the “Christ,” the “I AM.” No matter where a person may find himself in evolution, he should never forget that in involution he is a Perfect Being, formed in the Mind of God, and this Divine Pattern is always present at the heart and root of him. This is the pattern. This is the plan. It is his—the perfect image of himself as God sees him. Then, God rested…and the plan began to unfold. And we quote: “And the Lord God created man out of the dust of the ground.….” [Genesis 2:7] “…and called their [his] name Adam.” [Genesis 5:2] “Called their [his] name Adam.” In a sense, Adam was the original “atom” from which all things have come. In its intended form, Adam is not a proper name at all. It simply means “man,” in a generic sense. All men were formed from the “dust of the ground.” Now, if this seems to be a miracle, your life or mine is no less a miracle, for, chemically, our bodies are created from “the [literal] dust of the ground.” All the elements of the sustaining food we eat come from the soil. So man is created from “the dust of the ground.” To argue about the historical value of Genesis is to totally miss the point—to completely misunderstand what the Scripture is all about... So in this “evolution,” man has come a long way, and his progress has been made possible by the peculiar forces of his curiosity and his discontent. Man is restless. He is ever searching, reaching, questioning, yearning, otherwise he would still be living in caves. There is something of you that is fulfilling the “Promethean Urge”—this tremendous drive, the up-searching something, which is constantly causing you to lift up, to rise up, to climb up to the heights of your own Divine Potential. *© Eric Butterworth* British airline removes Israel from digital map Report: Move made to avoid offending Muslim passengers -- Israel National News Poll: Support for legal abortion drops to 15-year low Is Obama's advocacy sparking shift to pro-life side of debate --Life News In Minnesota, the Star Tribune did a little poll. It found that two-thirds of people would want the government to seize wealth from rich people in order to help solve the state's budget woes. But then when it comes to raising taxes on everyone ... not just the filthy rich ... 60% of Minnesotans say absolutely not. So taxing the rich is OK. Other taxes that are popular with Minnesotans are those on tobacco and alcoholic beverages. But they aren't done there ... 57% of people believe that corporations should pay higher taxes. Higher taxes? Are these people completely brain dead? Do they not understand the fact that the United States already has outrageously high corporate tax rates? Of course they don't; because you are talking about the government educated dumb masses. You are talking about people who believe that evil rich people and greedy corporations don't pay their "fair share" in taxes. And you're talking to people who are so uneducated and obtuse that they don't understand that all taxes paid by businesses filter down to the people who ultimately purchase whatever that business is producing at the retail level. I'll say it again: At the core of most, if not all, of the problems facing our country today you will find a public that is so uneducated that they just can't understand basic concepts of governance and economics. Government schools were designed to create a populace that was educated just to the point that they would be good government subjects and good employees. Government education has been a massive success. *MONEYNETDAILY* U.S. 'swimming in natural gas' New Louisiana discover equivalent of 18 years of current oil production --Wall Street Journal When Obama has to fill an open seat in the FCC, who better to appoint than the oldest daughter of South Carolina race-pimp Senator James Clyburn. From the desk of Donny Ferguson May 1, 2009 Dear , Make no mistake about it. Barack Obama wants to cancel your private health insurance plan and force you into government-run health care. Don’t believe me? Just ask Illinois Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, an Obama colleague from his days as Illinois senator and strident opponent of free market capitalism. She’s been caught on tape making comments that should make every Americans who values his or her freedom very, very angry. In an April 18 speech that was caught on tape, she and a cheering crowd of socialist activists praised Obama’s plan, saying “the goal of health care from is not to protect the private health insurance industry” but to seize absolute control over the health care of every man, woman and child in America. She regaled the crowd with a story of her debating a man from “the private insurance industry” and how she lectured him on how he and every American who doesn’t support government-run health care “have every reason to be frightened!” The stakes couldn’t be higher. Not only do Barack Obama, Jan Schakowsky and other politicians want to stamp out capitalism, they want to do it with a government-run health care bureaucracy already proven to increase death rates from treatable illnesses. *TECHNETDAILY* Debut for world's fastest camera 6 million snaps per second --BBC News A hospital in Nashville has agreed to pay a former employee $70,000 in damages for denying him time off so that he could make a pilgrimage to Mecca. ************************* CNN ASKS PALIN DADDY IF SEX WAS IN THE HOUSE... WorldNetDaily Exclusive Killer 'green' bill to slaughter U.S. economy Obama drains lifeblood from financial system with climate legislation --WND Liberal actress says tea parties were racist Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance. "Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House," she said on MSNBC's "The Countdown" with Keith Olbermann Thursday evening. "This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that." Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions. The actress went on to describe the brain size of typical "right-winger, Republican or conservative or your average white power activist." "Their synapses are misfiring. ... It is a neurological problem we are dealing with," she said. This isn't the first time she's offered this analysis, either. Ms. Garofalo said similar things about Alaskan GOP Governor Sarah Palin's brain last February in an interview with an environmental blog. The actress went on to bash the GOP on MSNBC Thursday because it had "crystallized into the white power movement" as well as Fox News, which she said has captured the "Klan demo[graphic].” Stay slim to save the planet! BLAME THE MEDIA ... I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF** By Neal Boortz A lot of people out there have a rough time accepting responsibility for their own actions. If you spend too much ... if you run up a huge balance on your credit card ... it just must be somebody's else's fault, right? It would seem that this is so. A new Harris Poll tells us that most - not just some, but most ... Americans believe the media is in some part responsible for the current economic crisis. And how would that be? Because the media, through advertising, made these poor pitiful people go out there and buy things they couldn't afford. Fifty-four percent of these Americans actually blame talk shows as having some responsibility. This brings smiles to those handsome leftist faces out there. The mantra of the left is that people cannot be held responsible for their actions and that government, therefore the government must be there to take care of them. The more you think about this the more depressing it gets. Barack Obama is going to join the push "to stop the marketing of credit in ways that addicts people to it." Yeah, because it is all the credit card companies fault and not the fault of the people who spend beyond their means. Besides .. now the government is in charge of all bank marketing practices. An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism." "All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A." After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.... *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* *How Obama actually delayed* pirate rescue SEAL team deployment stalled 36 hours, hampered by limited rules of engagement --WND OBAMA'S WORST CABINET APPOINTMENT** By Neal Boortz After careful analysis, and many instances of mind-numbing stupidity ... I have determined that Janet "Nitwit" Napolitano is Barack Obama's worst cabinet appointment. Just take this little moment she had over the weekend. An interview on CNN has Napolitano explaining why Democrats want to investigate Sheriff Joe out there in Maricopa County Arizona. See if you can catch what is so blatantly wrong with this statement: Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in that statement, because he knows that there aren't enough law enforcement officers, courtrooms or jail cells in the world to do what he is saying. What we have to do is target the real evil-doers in this business, the employers who consistently hire illegal labor, the human traffickers who are exploiting human misery. And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well. Did you catch it? Ok, I'll spell it out for you: "crossing the border is not a crime per se." And this is from our head of Homeland Security? Hey, Amigos! All you people down there on the border just waiting to cross! Forget about visas! Forget about going to those pesky and troublesome little checkpoints. Just walk on over! It's not like that is illegal or anything! Viva Napolitano! War Basher, Al-Qaida Apologist Wins DOD Post According to our federal government's clean air laws, carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases officially "endanger public health and welfare." The far-reaching implications of this is huge, folks. A naturally occurring and essential gas in our atmosphere is endangering our health. This is about money. Watch. Nancy Pelosi wants to set up a commission to investigate the failures of Wall Street, similar to what was done after the crash in 1929. No commission, however, to investigate congressional failures. A few of the reductions suggested by Cato Institute’s “Handbook for Policymakers, Seventh Edition.” • Avert the oncoming fiscal crisis in Social Security by indexing initial benefits to changes in prices, instead of wages. Saves $47 billion annually by 2018. Without reforms like this, the program will go bankrupt or force trillions of dollars in destructive new taxes or borrowing. • Turn Medicare into a block grant and freeze federal spending, forcing states to pursue cost-cutting reforms. Saves $227 billion annually by 2018. • Eliminate the Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration, a $352 million corporate welfare program. • Eliminate the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, another $369 million in corporate welfare. • Eliminate the Energy Department’s nuclear energy research programs, $695 million in welfare that should be undertaken by nuclear energy investors. • Turn Head Start over to private charities, saving $687 million annually. Since its inception Head Start has shown no substantive increase in inner-city literacy rates. • Eliminate the Bureau of Indian Affairs, saving nearly $2.5 billion a year. • Eliminate funding for the United Nations and other international programs, saving nearly $1.6 billion annually. • Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation, saving $350 million annually. • Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, $278 million a year in welfare for wealthy arts patrons. • Eliminate the Small Business Administration, $530 million in welfare for businesses. • Eliminate the $935 million a year in Postal Service subsidies and force them to further privatize operations. Those are just a few cuts, a “twelve step program” if you will, which alone save taxpayers $282.3 billion. That comes out to $921.78 in savings for every man, woman and child in America , and there would be a lot more savings than that to come with even more reductions. "I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew… and then chew it." - William DeMille *WorldNetDaily* CNN reporter refers to Hitler as Bush 'lookalike' Correspondent who blasted anti-Obama protester compares GOP president to Nazi --WND Jon Sinton was the president of Air America . Air America was a miserable failure. Nobody likes to be at the controls of miserable failure. Sucks to be Sinton. So, it would seem that Jon Sinton is lashing out ... lashing out at talk radio. Against the advice of several friends I'm putting a link to Sinton's screed here. If you must, read this! Caution: Sinton has been stung. His ego is bruised and he is lashing out at those evil conservative talk shows that decimated his baby. Sinton came up with some statistics in his column. He says "The dirty little secret of right-wing talk radio is that the audience is largely male, almost exclusively white and averages 67 years of age." He cites no research, expecting us to take these figures at face value. Sorry ... no can do. As a matter of fact, I have some figures that I'll actually source for you! These numbers come from the Talk Radio Research Project as published in Talker's Magazine. Talker's has been gathering these statistics for many years now, so they're worth a look. Let's go through a few Sinton points from his whiney little column and compare them to the real world: Sinton says the audience is "largely male." Talker's says that the audience is 57% male and 43% female. If that counts as "largely male" than I'm largely handsome. Then Sinton says that the audience is "almost exclusively white." Hmmmm. The Talker's research shows the talk radio audience to be 63% white, 20% black and 10% Hispanic. This would mean that blacks listen to talk radio in numbers larger than their share of the U.S. population. Largely white? Yes .. but with an overrepresentation of black listeners. I can understand why Sinton left that little goodie out. Doesn't fit well into his imaginary world. The audience "averages 67 years of age." A little ageism there, but let's check the Talker's research. The audience breakdown shows that 63% of the talk radio listening audience is between 24 and 64 years old. Twenty-eight percent of the listeners are older than 55 and of that group only 7% are over 65. Nine percent and younger than 15. The numbers for my show skew even younger. Clearly I'm no math whiz, but how can the average age of talk radio listeners be 67 when only 7% of the listeners are over 65? This sounds rather like the way liberals and Democrats compute poverty statistics. It also sounds like Sinton's a liar. Poor guy .. just can't get over his failures. One out of every ten people born in Mexico lives in the United States. If you're shocked, you're not paying attention. *WorldNetDaily* Pentagon official blames U.S. for al-Qaida attacks Worked for George Soros, argued for government control of media --WND Parting company: The road to secession Texas Gov. Rick Perry rattled cages when he suggested that Texans might at some point become so disgusted with Washington's gross violation of the U.S. Constitution that they would want to secede from the union. Political hustlers, their media allies and others, who have little understanding, are calling his remarks treasonous. Let's look at it. When New York delegates met on July 26, 1788, their ratification document read, "That the Powers of Government may be resumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power, Jurisdiction and right which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments of the government thereof, remains to the People of the several States, or to their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same." On May 29, 1790, the Rhode Island delegates made a similar claim in their ratification document. "That the powers of government may be resumed by the people, whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness: That the rights of the States respectively to nominate and appoint all State Officers, and every other power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by the said constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States or to the departments of government thereof, remain to the people of the several states, or their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same." On June 26, 1788, Virginia 's elected delegates met to ratify the Constitution. In their ratification document, they said, "The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will." As demonstrated by the ratification documents of New York , Rhode Island and Virginia , they made it explicit that if the federal government perverted the delegated rights, they had the right to resume those rights. In fact, when the union was being formed, where the states created the federal government, every state thought they had a right to secede – otherwise there would not have been a union. Perry is right when he says that there is no reason for Texas to secede. There are indeed intermediate actions short of secession that states can take. Thomas Jefferson said, "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." That suggests that one response to federal encroachment is for state governments to declare federal laws that have no constitutional authority null and void and refuse to enforce them. While the U.S. Constitution does not provide a specific provision for nullification, the case for nullification is found in the nature of compacts and agreements. Our Constitution represents a compact between the states and the federal government. As with any compact, one party does not have a monopoly over its interpretation, nor can one party change it without the consent of the other. Additionally, no one has a moral obligation to obey unconstitutional laws. That's not to say there is not a compelling case for obedience of unconstitutional laws. That compelling case is the brute force of the federal government to coerce obedience, possibly going as far as using its military might to lay waste to a disobedient state and its peoples. Finally, here's my secession question for you. Some Americans accept and have respect for the 10th Amendment, which reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Other Americans, the majority I fear, say to hell with the 10th Amendment limits on the federal government. Which is a more peaceful solution: one group of Americans seeking to impose their vision on others or simply parting company? *Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.,* PAPER: Senator's husband cashes in on crisis... Feinstein sought $25 billion for agency that awarded contract to spouse... The Labor Department has decided to throw some love to the unions by repealing a last minute Bush regulation that would have increased scrutiny of union finances to help root out financial corruption. As the economy lags, the Army is getting more and more selective. They announced this week they will no longer accept drug addicts and felons. So if you're drug addict or a felon, you’re not welcomed in the United States Army. The good news: There's always Congress, the NFL, and show business. President Barack Obama held his first full Cabinet meeting yesterday. He told his Cabinet to ensure that “every taxpayer dollar is spent wisely.” There was one embarrassing moment when he had to explain to the Cabinet what a taxpayer was. *Jay Leno* WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE WorldNetDaily Exclusive $800,000 payments to King children? No comment Funds going for 'use' of image, words for National Mall memorial --WND IT'S EARTH DAY By Neal Boortz Barack Obama and the Democrats are determined to make people more dependent on the government. This is how they retain power… by creating a massive government system to regulate climate change. With "global warming" legislation comes the promise of new welfare programs. After all, it is a proven fact that climate change legislation is going to increase the cost of energy in this country. But this isn't a concern to Democrats for two reasons. One .. because ignorant voters will continue to vote for them based on the fact that they brought real change to our government and are trying to prevent the world from a total meltdown! The other is because the Democrats will create entitlement programs to ensure that the poor, poor pitiful poor and the parasite (Democrat) class do not see any energy cost increases. Meanwhile, our government schools are ensuring that we are raising a generation completely brainwashed into believing in this man-made global warming hoax. A new survey shows that one out of every three American children between the ages of six and 11 fear that our planet will not exist when they grow up. Guess who is the most anxious about an Al Gore-scripted apocalypse? Minority children. 75% of black children and 65% of Hispanic children believe that the earth will be "irrevocably damaged" by the time they are adults. Your government at work. I guess South Carolina 's James Clyburn is right ... global warming does seem to affect minorities more than whites. Misbehaving parents forced to watch soccer games from afar "We have taken a strong stance," says the head of the girls' soccer league. "It's important. This isn't the World Cup. And for the parents to be shrieking on the sidelines and belittling people goes against everything we're trying to do." (Washington Post) … One of the things that I think is so important to know is that each of us begins in life as a potential to be released and unfolded. There is within every person, the unborn possibility of limitless experience, and ours is the privilege, as well as the responsibility, of giving birth to it. And the basis of our life, then, is the constant process of growth and overcoming. However, unfortunately, by the conditioning process of parental training and education, we are subjected to a false assumption that we begin life in emptiness and that we go forth into Life to be fulfilled. So that, about as soon as we are able to, we are fitted (in a figurative sense) with a little “begging bowl.” And we’re sent out into life with our little begging bowls. We go to our parents and we beg for love and we beg for affection and we beg for attention and we beg for the fulfillment of our physical desires and wants and needs. We take our little begging bowl, and we go off to church or religious school and we beg for spiritual insights and for ethics and morality and so forth. We take our little begging bowls off to school, and we beg for ideas, for facts, for information, for education. And then we take our little begging bowls out into the marketplace, and we beg for jobs and for money and for the means of giving satisfaction to our lives. So, all of our lives, according to this basic and false assumption, we devote ourselves to finding fulfillment. So, we look for excitement. We look for love. … We begin life as Whole Creatures, and the Wholeness is expressed and experienced in part. But, if we are experiencing less than wellness or Wholeness in our outer expression, the only way to find fulfillment is … to find the way of releasing our inherent Potential. Remember, always within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience and ours is the privilege of giving birth to it. *Eric* "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T Washington Barrack Obama and his PR machine are dishonest when they repeatedly tell us that this is the worst economy since the great depression. It is not, and this is the worst financial fear mongering I have ever seen. It is intentionally designed to create the "crises" that justifies power grabs and pork expenditures that we, the people, would otherwise never allow. The data is clear. This is not the worst economy since the great depression. It is not even close to the numbers of that period and in fact, the actual numbers tell us it is not even up to the disaster that Ronald Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter left Reagan a misery index of 20.11 (the unemployment number plus the rate of inflation) Bush left Obama with a misery index of 7.77. Using this metric Ronald Reagan had three times the mess that Obama has. Carter left Reagan with close to 10 percent unemployment Obama inherited less than 7percent. Reagan walked into 20 percent interest rates Obama has 3.25 percent interest rate Carter bequeathed Reagan a 13 percent inflation rate Bush leaves Obama a 3.86 percent inflation rate. Both leaders inherited a mess. The difference is in how Ronald Reagan and Barrack Obama approached their crises and, as always, the final proof will be in their outcomes. Janet Napalatano blames Canada for 9/11 hijackers? PAPER: 'How did she get her job?'... The border for dummies National Post Published:Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo. In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack. All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked. Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders." Just what does that mean, exactly? Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada 's border to Mexico 's, suggesting they deserved the same treatment. Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona . So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out. Napolitano: Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime Steve King: Obama and Chavez Birds of a Feather President Obama, who warmly greeted Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas meeting last week, actually has something in common with the South American strongman, says Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. “Here are two world leaders who in the last month have nationalized huge private sector companies,” King tells C-SPAN. In Obama’s case, he “effectively” nationalized General Motors and Chrysler, ordering GM to fire its chief executive and telling Chrysler to merge with Fiat, the Congressman says. As for Chavez, “he nationalized one of the great American company’s facilities – Cargill’s rice facility – in Venezuela just about a month ago,” King explains. Obama and Chavez “have done the same thing to private business,” he says. “And I think that image will soak into the minds of investors around the world on where they want to put their money.” Cap-and-Trade May Cost Households $3,900/Yr. Rasmussen: 59 Percent Believe Bailouts Bad Idea Here's the lead paragraph of an April 15 Associated Press dispatch: "Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged 'tea parties' around the country Wednesday to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts." We defy anyone to find an AP story on a left-wing protest that begins by telling readers who "whipped up" the demonstrators. The worst offenders have been on CNN. NewsBusters.org describes an exchange on the April14 episode of "Anderson Cooper 360": After CNN's senior political analyst David Gergen remarked that Republicans were "searching for their voice" after two electoral losses, Cooper quipped, "It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging." This Web site is publihsed by a family newspaper, so suffice it to say that "tea-bagging" is gay slang for a sexual act that would indeed inhibit articulation. If you want a more precise definition, go to UrbanDictionary.com--or to this NewsBusters item, which describes a puerile rant by MSNBC's David Shuster--best known for being temporarily banished from the screen last year after making a vulgar joke at Chelsea Clinton's expense--sitting in for Keith Olbermann on April13. Sample: For most Americans, Wednesday, April15 will be Tax Day. But in our fourth story tonight: It's going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they're going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS WorldNetDaily Teaching homosexuality, no parents needed School district launches website promoting 'gay' pride in classrooms --WND FDA OKs 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds -- without a doctor's prescription... 545 PEOPLE vs. 300,000,000 By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices =545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red . If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess! *Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.* *HEAT OF THE MOMENT* Green group calls for 1-child policy Wants Australia's 22 million reduced to 7 million to tackle climate change --Australian Associated Press CBSNEWS: Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel... TOO BIG TO FAIL By Neal Boortz The government is now considering limiting the size of banks so that they will never be "too big to fail." This brilliant idea comes from FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair. It was only a matter of time, folks. Now we're going to launch a policy that private businesses cannot become so large that their failure would have an adverse affect on our economy. And who gets to decide when a business is too large? Why, that would be the political class. The government. Do we get the chance to decide that government is to large? Apparently not. Never Invest in Sink Stocks "Bank Fears Sink Stocks"--headline, WSJ.com, April20 *Sen. Kerry aims to rescue newspapers; Calls for hearings on BOSTON GLOBE...* *WorldNetDaily Exclusive* 'Gay' advocates attack those who don't support cause 'My wish for you is that your children grow up to hate you' --WND URGENT: OBAMA GRACES COVER OF 'TIME' [FOR 13TH TIME IN PAST YEAR]...

Gary Pezutti puts these together about every few weeks. Better than a zillion emails! Kind of like a blog but better.

2009 - First Half

FOX News' Major Garrett was the first and only reporter to ask Press Secretary Robert Gibbs what the White House's reaction is to Nancy Pelosi's accusation that the C.I.A. lied to her.

Gibbs said President Obama is "keeping the American people safe by looking forward."

Garrett reminded Gibbs this is a serious matter, leading Gibbs to respond that he will not "R.S.V.P" to get involved.

Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's criticisms.
His message: We didn't mislead Congress; stay focused on your job.
Panetta's note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office. Here's the key graph:
"Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing “the enhanced techniques that had been employed.”
Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened."

GINGRICH: Pelosi 'Lied,' 'Despicable,' 'Dishonest,' 'Vicious,' 'Trivial'...

PELOSI VS. CIA...

THEY LIED TO ME!

'Congress Was Misled'...

Flustered... Video...

Fuzzy...

Dems: CIA briefers may have broken law...

Senator: 'Why would the CIA brief on methods not used?'...
Pelosi: What Did She Know, And When?
FBI Agent: Obama Making Another 9/11 'Inevitable'
Video: Bond: Obama, Pelosi Destroying CIA Morale

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ACORN born in leftist revolution
Originated in strategy to 'hasten the fall of capitalism'
--WND

Gingrich: Obama Lawyers Defended Terrorists
The Obama administration is taking dangerous risks with the nation's security, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday, by relying on attorneys who defended terrorists in private practice instead of the judgment of CIA officials who've been fighting them since the 9/11 attacks.
"When you look at the Obama administration, the number of attorneys they have appointed who were defending alleged terrorists -- I mean, there’s this weird pattern where the Bush people wanted to defend Americans and were pretty tough on terrorists,'' Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday.
"These guys are prepared to take huge risks with Americans in order to defend terrorists,'' Gingrich said of Obama's key legal advisors.
"Holder’s firm has 17 alleged terrorists that they’re representing on a pro bono basis, for no fee," Gingrich said of Attorney General Eric Holder. "It’s the largest single thing they were doing for free -- was defending Yemenis. I think there are five different attorneys in the -- in the Justice Department appointed by Obama who had direct -- their firms were defending alleged terrorists."
Gingrich called on the administration to release every possible document on harsh interrogation tactics to determine if they in fact worked in keeping Americans safe these last eight years.

© 2009 Newsmax

Obama to media: You all voted for me, except Fox
President delivers zingers at annual journalists' dinner
-- Washington Post

HEAT OF THE MOMENT
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'Smoking gun' leaves holes in CO2 debate
EPA criticized for findings based on politics, not science
--WND

DID YOU KNOW ..... By Neal Boortz

... that Democrats are working for legislation that would automatically register to vote anyone who obtains a driver's license or who qualifies for welfare benefits? There is no move to automatically register anyone who actually obtains a job, becomes successful and pays taxes.
... that three-quarters of the budget "cuts" that Obama identified in his new budget come from defense spending, not discretionary domestic spending?
... that one species of bat has a tongue that is 150% longer than its body? It cannot, however, breathe through the top of its head ... so what's the point?
... that the people who make Hotwheels and Matchbox cars made more money last year than the people who make Fords, Chryslers and Chevys?
... that there are strong rumors that Nancy Pelosi is conjuring up a plan to place a tax against all outstanding pension and 401K plans?
... that you use about 50 pounds of toilet paper a year? We are 7 percent of the world's population, yet we use half of the toilet paper. Even more since January 20th.
... that the feds are cranking up some new mortgage programs designed to get low-income people into the wonderful world of home ownership? In other words, plans to make sure people who can't afford to buy a home can buy a home. This is what got us in trouble in the first place.
... that the Republican party has absolutely nothing going for itself right now! OK. So you knew that one.

Budget deficit to top $1.8 trillion; 4 times 2008's record...
Government borrowing 50 cents for every dollar it spends...
Weak tax receipts...
ORSZAG: DON'T BLAME OBAMA..

OBAMA'S JUSTICE ... WHAT'S IN STORE By Neal Boortz

To understand just what kind of a Supreme Court Obama wants, just read this column from the Weekend editi8on of The Wall Street Journal. Back in 2001 a Chicago radio station interviewed the future president. The subject somehow turned to the Supreme Court.
Obama told the listeners that he was disappointed that the Supreme Court has done little more than just defending peoples "formal rights."
Obama wished that the Court had spent some more time addressing "more basic issues of political and economic justice."
Uh oh. There's that "justice" word again. To me "justice" is when someone gets what they deserve. To the left "justice" is when someone gets what they want.
And just what economic justice issue did Obama want the Supreme Court to spend more time addressing? Well .. how about "redistribution of wealth?" That's right! Back in 2001 Obama was telling how he wanted the Supreme Court to be a player in efforts to take money from those who earned it to hand to those who did not.
There's Obama's Supreme Court ... taking wealth from those who earned it and giving it to those who want it.
There's still more change you can believe in.

Blacks must confront homophobia
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Our conservatism is, quite literally, killing us
--Common Dreams

Notre Dame alumni withhold nearly $14 million
Obama invite focuses attention on 'eroding the Catholic heritage and foundation'
--Life News

TOO BIG TO FAIL By Neal Boortz

Last week, Obama's economic advisors had a meeting with representatives from banks, hedge funds and financial groups. These groups had suggested to the president that if the government insisted on regulating industries, that the task should be divided among various regulators. But that doesn't seem to be what the White House is going for. It wants a single independent regulator to monitor system-wide risk, and that one regulator "should be given better visibility into all institutions that pose a risk to the financial system, regardless of what business they are in."
So we aren't just talking the financial industry here. We are talking about any company that the government feels is too big to fail and would pose a risk to the financial system. Who in Congress has been chosen to lead the task for drafting legislation for such a supercop?? None other than slobbering Barney Frank.
This legislation, according to tax cheat Tim Geithner will include an "aggressive" package of reforms for the financial industry. That includes a fundamental overhaul of how the industry pays its senior executives. In other words, those evil bonuses will be a thing of the past.
This is a massive proposed increase in the control privately-owned businesses by government. But I don't have to tell you that, do I?
What you may not know, however, is what you call this type of economic system --- a system where business is owned privately but run by the government. The word would be Fascism.

THE FATS OF LIFE
Greed, not laziness, explains obesity epidemic
Experts say increased intake of calories to blame
-- London Telegraph

Italy chamber makes illegal immigration a crime
'We don't understand why we have to keep them all here'
--Associated Press

Is the Fair Tax really fair?

Dear Dave,

What exactly is the Fair Tax, and how is it different than the system we currently have in place?

Evan

Dear Evan,
The basic premise of the Fair Tax is that it's immoral to tax someone's income. If you work and make money, that money should be all yours. That may be a shocking statement in today's socio-political climate, but I think it's a reasonable statement. For all intents and purposes, the Fair Tax is basically a sales tax ..

People would only pay taxes on items they buy, except for food, basic clothing and other kinds of necessities. This system would do away with the IRS, its massive mountain of regulations and its thousands of employees. It would also eliminate the need for the 401(k) and Roth IRAs, because you could just save your own money
The argument against the sales tax is that it's regressive. This means it's more of a burden on poor people, because they would pay a higher percentage of their overall income. But there's a valid counter-argument. As I make more money, I also save more, give more and spend more. And if I spend more under the Fair Tax system, then I'm actually paying much more in taxes!
More than anything, proponents of the Fair Tax are saying that our current method of taxation is wrong. They also believe that as much money, if not more, could be raised with a properly implemented national sales tax as with an income tax. Keep in mind that nothing this side of Heaven is perfect. We'd see a lot of job losses if the Fair Tax system were put in place. Tax preparation services and things like that would simply cease to exist, but it would also take a lot of the politics and special interest garbage out of the system.
Some people want you to think that Fair Tax supporters are against taxes or government in any form, and that's just not true. The rallies that have been held lately were made up largely of people who are against government waste, deficit spending and debt. In part, the income tax is designed to motivate people to do certain things the federal government wants them to do, and the rallies are also against the idea of making government the big daddy with answers to everyone's problems.
Dave Ramsey

Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care...

Kids born to unwed moms hit record high
Report finds U.S. unmarried births top 40%, up 25% since '02
--ABC News

DOES WHERE YOU LIVE AFFECT YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOM? By Neal Boortz

The Mercatus Center of George Mason University has released a study ranking the states compared to their level of personal freedom. Some of the most liberal US states rank the lowest when it comes to personal freedom. Lordy, what a surprise? The study says that it is the "first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres."

Here are some of its findings:

The freest states in the country are New Hampshire , Colorado , and South Dakota , which together achieve a virtual tie for first place. All three states feature low taxes and government spending -- and middling levels of regulation and paternalism.
New York is the least overall free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland .
When weighing personal freedom alone, Alaska is the clear winner, while Maryland brings up the rear.
As for freedom in the different regions of the country, the Mountain and West North Central regions are the freest overall -- while the Middle Atlantic lags far behind on both economic and personal freedom.

In the age of Obama these disparities simply cannot be allowed to exist.

US to borrow 46 cents for every dollar spent...

George Will had another excellent column over the weekend, and a listener brought this paragraph of that column to my attention.
In "Democracy in America ," Alexis de Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by "an immense, tutelary power" determined to take "sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate."
It would be a power "absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident and gentle," aiming for our happiness but wanting "to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness."
It would, Tocqueville said, provide people security, anticipate their needs, direct their industries and divide their inheritances.
It would envelop society in "a network of petty regulations -- complicated, minute and uniform." But softly: "It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them" until people resemble "a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
Read it a couple of times. When you fully understand what de Tocqueville wrote find a government-educated friend and try to explain it to them.

Obama Slashes CHRYLSER's Advertising Budget by Half..

CLOSING LOOPHOLES By Neal Boortz

As expected, the Obama administration revealed more changes to the tax code yesterday. One of the many ways the government plans to get more of your money is by closing tax loopholes for all those evil rich people ....
A senior administration official says, The proposals "take on what we believe are a series of unjustifiable loopholes, unjustifiable tax breaks that we simply cannot afford."
That who cannot afford? The imperial federal government? Is it entitled to this money that is earned by you, the taxpayers?
What they are really saying is that this money belongs to us .. and we just can't afford to let the people who earned it keep it.

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do,

there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Gun Control
Barack Obama at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas , asked the audience for total quiet.
Then, in the silence, he started toslowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence.

Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.'

Then, littleBubba Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said:
''Well, dumbass, stop clapping!!

Biden: Unions Are Way to Rebuild Middle Class

I Am A Feminine-ist

Hello Dr. Laura,

I just wanted to express my appreciation for your efforts to help us recover from the scourge of feminism. I am the co-destroyer of two marriages (they were both mine, just to be clear), and I credit my astoundingly successful efforts at destruction to the vitriolic feminist propaganda. I was taught, in both word and example, by my mother and her mother all of the things you have written in your books about The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands, marriages and relationships. I guess because of my human short-comings I saw in them and the immature attitudes (brought to you by: Feminism-Ruining Lives Around the World!), I decided not follow them. I've changed my mind!

I am currently unavailable for dating while I finish raising my two daughters, so I'm using your books to arm myself and adjust my attitudes BEFORE I inflict myself on some perfectly good man. And I will be using your books as references as I teach my girls about how to be real women for their men in the future.

… So I have declared myself to be a Feminine-ist, because I am at last coming to value femininity as the beautiful and soft counterpart to masculinity, a trait that is not so slowly being strangled out of our men. I'm making myself into a REAL woman, so I'll be ready for a REAL man, when the time comes.

Thanks again.
C.

Students offered counseling after jocks pull popcorn prank
Three college students are accused of setting off a dorm fire alarm with burning popcorn after they tied the doors shut to several dorm rooms. Nobody was hurt, but counseling services are being offered to traumatized students. (New Britain Herald)

Dictionary.com: 'Narrow-minded' means 'conservative'
--WND Exclusive--

Cybill Shepherd: Mormons, Catholics Responsible for Prop 8

Cybill Shepherd, while touting her passion against discrimination, told Fox News that Mormons and Catholics represented the key to success for California ’s Proposition 8.

The initiative, which prohibits gay marriage, was passed in November with support from 52.2 percent of California voters.

Asked by Fox News who was to blame for that result, the famous actress said, “The Mormons and Catholics Most of the money came from Utah , it’s very unfortunate."

She didn’t bother to blame African Americans, who voted for the proposition to the tune of 70 percent, according to CNN exit polls.

Shepherd also may be unaware that President Obama opposes same-sex marriage. She told Fox she is pleased with his effort.

"I think he is working hard at it, I really do. I am just so encouraged by Iowa and Vermont .” Gay marriage has been legalized in Iowa and will be legal in Vermont starting Sept. 1.

Shepherd says her commitment to gay rights originated in the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King.

By:Dan Weil / Newsmax

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
'Gay' gene claim suddenly vanishes
American Psychological Association revises statement on homosexuality
--WND

Question: Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:
ANSWER: That's right! JAMES EARL CARTER, JR. (jIMMY CARTER) (DEMOCRAT, TERM OF OFFICE: JANUARY 20, 1977 TO JANUARY 20, 1981 AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
IMMIGRANTS MOVED INTO THIS COUNTRY, AND AT AGE 65, BEGAN TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THESE PAYMENTS TO THEM, EVEN THOUGH THEY NEVER PAI D A DIME INTO IT!
"Damn", have you ever seen a Jack-ass eating briers..!

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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of Awareness will be planted and maybe changes WILL evolve! ... Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so. But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.
AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!!

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Congressman: 'Deviancy' protected by 'hate crimes'
Warns 'anything you imagine' coming under 'Pedophile Protection Act'
--WND

Question: Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants?

ANSWER: That's right! JAMES EARL CARTER, JR.
IMMIGRANTS MOVED INTO THIS COUNTRY, AND AT AGE 65, BEGAN TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THESE PAYMENTS TO THEM, EVEN THOUGH THEY NEVER PAI D A DIME INTO IT!
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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!!!

Environmental alarms raised over consumer electronics; Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear?

Disagree with Obama and you're anti-American?
Ben Shapiro reminds readers: 'Every tyranny begins with a few simple steps'
--WND

NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF OBAMA CHEERLEADERS By Neal Boortz

The Media Research Center did an analysis of the lamestream media's coverage of Obama's first 100 days. Guess what? Turns out that they have done a great job of sending tingles up their legs but a lousy job acting as watchdogs.
MRC analysts looked at all 982 broadcast evening news stories about Obama and his administration from Inauguration Day (January 20) through April 29. Here are some of the interesting, though not surprising, things that they found:
- Obama's first 100 days were defined by massive spending, aggressive intervention in the private sector and proposals for a huge expansion of the federal government. Yet none of the networks aired a single story on whether Obama's policies were pushing the U.S. toward socialism, and no reporter used the term "socialist" to describe Obama.
- Not only that, network reporters never used the word "liberal" to describe either Barack Obama or his agenda during the first 100 days.
- The networks lavished good press on every major initiative of the early Obama administration, including the massive stimulus package, all of the various bailouts, health care, stem cells, the environment and foreign policy.
- In the days before the President unveiled his unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget -- with a record-shattering $1.75 trillion deficit -- four out of five statements on the evening newscasts parroted the White House spin that Obama was a deficit fighter.
- Reporters treated Obama's hugely expensive $787 billion stimulus bill to mainly positive coverage (58 percent positive, 42 percent negative).
- The networks applauded Obama's decision to use taxpayer money to fund embryo-destroying stem cell research (82% positive coverage).
- Network coverage of Obama's mortgage bailout was also positive -- 59% of statements supported the bailout or wanted even more intervention, compared to 41% who opposed the bailout as unfair to responsible homeowners.
- Reporters heavily skewed their coverage in favor of the President's actions on global warming (78% positive).
- President Obama's decision to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan was greeted by nearly unanimous (91%) positive coverage -- a far cry from the highly negative coverage of President Bush's successful troop surge in Iraq two years ago.
- Like Obama and the Democrats, the networks went on a feeding frenzy against big corporate bonuses. The networks aired six times more statements forwarding the "infuriated" reaction to business (104) than criticized politicians' grandstanding (16).
- The networks spent days decrying AIG's $165 million bonuses, but hardly mentioned the $210 million in bonuses handed out by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the bailed-out mortgage giants with strong Democratic ties). ABC and NBC completely ignored the Fannie and Freddie bonuses, while the CBS Evening News gave it 27 seconds.
They made him. They must support him.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Rabbi to pope: Go split Rome
Pontiff slammed for comments in support of Palestinian state
--WND

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRINKS By Neal Boortz

I have it on good authority that those Brinks home alarm systems will absolutely not work unless it's a white guy trying to break into your home.
Never in the history of Brinks advertising on television has anyone other than a white guy been shown breaking into a home.
If you live in an area where someone not white might actually break into your home you might want to look into another alarm system.

Specter 'Shocked' by Reaction to GOP Betrayal

Specter Signals He'll Support Card Check

Two Papers in One!
§ "In its closing months, the Bush administration is pulling out all the stops in its eight-year effort to undermine the Endangered Species Act. In mid-August, the administration proposed two dangerous regulatory changes. One would free the government from considering the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on polar bears and other imperiled wildlife."--editorial, New York Times, Oct.25, 2008
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§ "Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has upheld a Bush administration finding that the Endangered Species Act is not a suitable tool for restricting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threatening the polar bear and its habitat. We agree, with this codicil:..."--editorial, New York Times, May13, 2009

Obama Eyes Bank Pay Overhaul; Curb Compensation Across Finance...

GEITHNER EYES SMALL BANKS

GOVERNMENT MOTORS: CHINESE-MADE CARS TO USA! By TOM KRISHER

DETROIT (AP) - As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.
The reports, which GM will neither confirm nor deny, could mean trouble because GM is supported by $15.4 billion in U.S. government loans, largely due to the Obama administration's desire to preserve the company's 90,000 U.S. jobs.
The United Auto Workers charged last week that the Detroit automaker intends to almost double over the next five years the number of vehicles it imports to the U.S. from Mexico , South Korea , China and Japan .
"GM should not be taking taxpayers' money simply to finance the outsourcing of jobs to other countries," Alan Reuther, the union's Washington lobbyist, wrote in a letter to U.S. lawmakers.

This is typical government for you ....

The US will pay $2.6 million to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. Your tax dollars at work.

Daydreamers solve problems faster?
Scans show 'default network' inside brain becomes more active
--Agence France-Presse

“The administration is ‘cherry-picking’ evidence to appease its political friends.

With the Obama administration and their allies attacking the [intelligence community]

you can be sure they're going to go back into that risk-averse mode and we're going to be a lot less safe."

- GOP Sen. Kit Bond.

Poll: Obama Still Fails to Beat Reagan's Numbers

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

--Thomas Jefferson

Be Kind and Sweet and Smile a Little

Dear Dr. Laura

My mother recently told me that, when I was a child, she and Dad went to see a therapist who told them to each write a list of what they were needing from the other person.

Upon their return, my mother, armed with her list, went first. Apparently it was a rather long, angry list, going on and on, complaining about all the things she wanted him to change, stop doing and start doing.

My mother said when the turn came to my dad, who, at that point with tearful eyes, read his not-so-long list, it said "Be kind and sweet and smile a little".

My dad has passed away, but I hope to learn from his words.

"Life is like a mirror.

If you frown at it, it frowns back.

If you smile at it, it returns the greeting."

- Herbert Samuels

'Buy black' experiment becomes movement
Many try to patronize only businesses owned by African-Americans
--Associated Press

Palin Blasts 'Liberal Attacks' on Miss California By:Rick Pedraza
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin calls the feeding frenzy surrounding Miss California Carrie Prejean “despicable” and says she can relate to her as a "liberal target."
"The liberal onslaught of malicious attacks against Carrie Prejean for expressing her opinion is despicable," Palin said in a statement released to the media Wednesday.
Prejean has since been a target of the liberal media for declaring to contest judge and gay blogger Perez Hilton her opposition to same-sex marriage.
"What I find so remarkable is that these politically-motivated attacks fail to show that what Carrie and I believe is also what President Obama and Secretary Clinton believe –– that marriage is between a man and a woman," Palin says.
"Our Constitution protects us all –– not just those who agree with the far left," she adds.

Obama says that our current deficit spending "unsustainable."

Gee, ya think? So what is he doing about ... spending more taxpayer money.

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Obama worked with ACORN voter project
Represented group in effort to get mortgages for subprime buyers
--WND

We Stand by Our Stereotype
Imagine opening the New York Times and reading a story that begins as follows:
Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, an angry black man, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
Never happen, right? The description of the gunman as an "angry black man" is an invidious stereotype, presumptively irrelevant even if true, and if relevant (e.g., if the crime was racially motivated), to be explained in a sensitive way, not just thrown in like that.
So, here is the actual Times lead paragraph, with the words we changed in bold:
Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
It seems some stereotypes are perfectly acceptable to the editors of the New York Times.

According to this column in the Wall Street Journal,

Organized labor has become by far the most powerful political force in government.

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Another ACORN scandal – in a funeral home?
Group operating out of small building donated $33 million to Obama campaign
--WND

Fix It Again, Tony
"The new Chrysler-Fiat partnership will get around U.S. restrictions on executive pay by having its top officers deemed Fiat employees," the Detroit Free Press reports:
The new Chrysler is among the first companies to fall under rules outlined in February by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, for companies getting "extraordinary assistance" from the Treasury that would cap pay for top executives at $500,000, excluding restricted shares of stock. The final rules for the limits have not been released....

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has already indicated he will replace Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli. But under the deal, any of Chrysler's top officers can be deemed a Fiat employee who's "seconded" to Chrysler, and therefore take pay from Fiat beyond any Treasury cap.
In our view, this whole deal is an abomination. The government should not be bailing out Chrysler or its unions; if it cannot make cars profitably, it belongs in bankruptcy court.
That said, we have to admire the Chrysler execs' sense of humor in using Fiat to evade a fiat.

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Question about Ayers stifled at press briefing
Gibbs tells reporter he already asked 1 question this week
--WND

Obama is worried about what credit card companies do to consumers.

He has nothing to say about consumers ripping off credit card companies.

Pay your bill on time and you won't have to pay either any penalties or interest.

Simple as that.

… Quite possibly, the reason we don’t let ourselves go in the matter of belief is that we fear disappointment, or we feel the reactions of others if what we believe in doesn’t materialize. It is like fearing the situation of backing a losing horse; after all, people will think you are pretty stupid for not betting on a winner. But, the art of believing requires courage and a spirit of adventure. In other words, why not believe in the transcendence of life? You have nothing to lose. You can affirm, “I believe all things are possible with God.” Can’t you say this? “All things are possible with God. I believe this.” Then you can take a further chance and go on to state, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” It’s not too hard to say the words. Is it much harder to believe that they are true? I mean…just to believe it! Act as if it were true! You see, faith is simply a way of thinking. You are going to think in some way or other, regardless. You are going to say, “I can’t possibly do it” or, on the other hand, you can say and think, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” You are going to do it one way or the other. So, why not take the positive? Why not affirm the Truth? What do you have to lose?
Jesus had some astounding things to say about faith. He says, “If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall…say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.” [Matt. 21:21] So, you see, faith is no more or less than a way of thinking and seeing. It is the willingness to work in the dark—to walk a trail that the heart can see, even when the eye cannot. It is knowing that there is an ocean when you have seen a brook. It is knowing there is a Universe, because you have seen a star. It is knowing that there is a Father of all mankind, because you have seen a man.
… Do you know that you are living your life by faith, right now? It’s true! You are living by faith! Whether you realize it or not, all things in life are done according to faith. If you have faith in the worst, the worst will happen…and this fulfills itself all too often. Actually, it is common to prepare for the worst. Like a battle commander in war, we are always ready to retire to previously prepared positions. This is not lack of faith…it is faith. It is faith in reverse. It simply shows that we all have some sort of beliefs…and beliefs eventually express themselves in reality... We are told to “practice the presence of God,” but more often we practice the absence of God by talking about our particular mountain, our particular obstacle.
It could be said that the most widespread disease of our time is what I like to call, “I can’t-itis.” “I can’t-itis.” It is contracted very early in life. It is usually taught to us by our elders. It is a song that has neither rhyme nor reason. And yet, we can hear it chanted continuously in our presence: “I can’t, because I’m poor.” “I can’t, because I’m sick.” “I can’t, because I don’t have the ability.” “I can’t, because I don’t have the opportunity.” “I can’t, because I’m too young.” “I can’t, because I’m too old.” “I can’t…!” “I can’t…!” “I can’t…!” Jesus has one simple suggestion for this disease, he says, “Be thou removed.” The “mountain” is in your own consciousness—not in what you see “out there,” but what you see from. “Be thou removed.” Remove the obstacle! Remove the block! Remove the “I can’t” attitude!
… Believe! Faith within you is a potential that is always present. The art of believing…one of the most important lessons to learn in life!
© Eric Butterworth

'I'm a child of God, gotta do the right thing'
Struggling single mom facing eviction returns $271,000 after bank error
--KOMO-TV, Seattle

The Postal Service has raised the price of their product because fewer people are using it.

Only in the wonderful world of government would this type of reasoning prevail.

Dear Friend,

As you know, I am no fan of socialized medicine. Of course, President Obama is -- he's a big fan of any excuse to get the government poking its nose into peoples' business. But it turns out there's a major hitch to Obama's goal of massive healthcare reforms: there aren't enough doctors to provide the massive amount of health care the president is promising.

It's a wonderful irony: more and more of our best and brightest have been deliberately steering clear of medical careers because it's too much of a hassle. Time was when there were 50 applications for every open spot in medical school. The Annals of Internal Medicine reported that there will be a shortage of 200,000 doctors in the U.S. in the next 20 years. But the health care manpower crisis may have already arrived.

Federal officials are already unnerved by the shortage, and are scrambling for ways to boost the number of physicians. In the Obama administration's view, there are millions of uninsured who are already lining up for the "free" health care provided by the president's promised legislation. The light is finally going on that these new medical demands cannot possibly be met with the current population of doctors in the U.S.

"We're not producing enough primary-care physicians," Obama said at a recent White House health care forum. "The costs of medical education are so high that people feel they've got to specialize."

This is a half-truth. It's true that America has a downturn in primary care docs, but it's not just because of the cost of getting a med school education. Sorry, Mr. President. I know that this little jab at U.S. education costs dovetails nicely with your Let-Taxes-Pay- For-Everything worldview. But the reality is, there are fewer doctors because bright kids realize that there is very little financial reward to medicine.

Think about it: would-be doctors face 12 or more years of study, at a tremendous cost (med school loans can tally as much as $140K)... only to face ungrateful patients who sue, and the resulting huge malpractice insurance costs. And don't forget that docs are routinely persecuted by county, state, and federal boards for not toeing the line on the type of medicine they practice.

Obama correctly points out that more medical students are pursuing the more lucrative path of medical specialties. According to Sen Max Baucus (D-Montana), "Primary-care physicians are grossly underpaid compared with many specialists."

In the face of the shortage, Obama and his team have cooked up some possible fixes -- all of which come with their own problems.

One idea is to boost the amount of Medicare payments to primary care doctors - a proposal that has sparked rage among medical specialists who (correctly) claim that this picks their collective pockets.

What's more, this will only serve to increase the amount of medical costs that Obama himself has pledged to help tamp down.

Other proposals include increasing enrollment in med schools... but no one is suggesting exactly how to do this. The government quick fix for this could be similar to affirmative action policies of the 1960s and 1970s,which sought to boost the enrollment of African-Americans in U.S. colleges by mandating lower academic standards. At the college level, this is just plain wrong. At the med school level, it's downright dangerous.

Is it really going to do anyone much good if we can say we have an adequate number of doctors if they're less talented?

Some are saying we should spread out the existing supply of doctors by increasing the use of physician's assistants and nurse practitioners. With all due respect to those who happen to be nurse practitioners or physicians assistants: they are not doctors. The schooling to become qualified as one of these professions is certainly difficult, but falls far short of an M.D. This "solution" won't really solve anything -- there will still be an inadequate number of legitimately qualified physicians.

Obama seems to think that community health clinics could solve the problem, and has been allocating untold millions to these facilities. But the truth is, these clinics are not immune to the doctor shortage, and they too are having a difficult time finding staff.

It's going to become more and more obvious to those in this administration and the American people that Obama cannot merely wave his Hope-and-Change wand and make real-world problems disappear.

If Obama wants his plan to work, he'll need more doctors. And more doctors mean that his health care proposals can only be realized at an astronomical cost to the American taxpayer. Sadly, Obama has not yet let astronomical costs get in the way of his overhaul of the American way of life.

Never short on my supply of the truth,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

- Lou Holtz

Gallup: More Americans Pro-Life Than Ever Before
A new poll shows Americans are identifying increasingly with the position of protecting human life, a trend that has been rising steadly since Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey began asking about the subject in 1995.

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Pence: Cap-and-Trade 'Declaration of War,' to Cost US Families $3,100/Year...(and Al Gore is set to be a billionaire from the sweat of their backs) ( ( (and(and

Holding Your Heart Close To Mine

Below is a letter from a deployed soldier to his son on his son's first birthday….

I know you don't remember this, but this isn't the first birthday of yours I have missed....You were born a month early, and I was on a two week deployment 3 states over, and didn't get in until the next day.

I got there as fast as I could, but it was evening before I arrived. When I walked in, you were in a crib, with all sorts of wires on you... Your Daddy, was very scared. The doctors told me that because you had been born early, your little lungs were still developing, and you were scared of this new world and your little heart was beating too fast.

I sat by your bed for hours, holding your tiny fingers, telling you of all the fun we were going to have, and praying that you would be okay... but your little heart wouldn't stop beating so fast.

Finally a wise old nurse came in and said she saw what was wrong. She repositioned the wires so that I could hold you. Then she told me to hold your heart close to mine, so that you could feel my heart beat, and realize that everything was going to be okay.

So I leaned back in the rocking chair, and put your little chest up against mine. At first your heart felt like a little jackhammer that was about to beat through your chest but oh so slowly, your heart began to hear mine and you relaxed, and your little heart finally slowed down to a normal beat and for the first time since I met you, I watched you contentedly fall asleep.

I wish I was with you today. I wish I could promise you that I will never miss another of your birthdays...but soldiers can't make such promises, because duty calls often. But I can promise this, that no matter where you are in the world, no matter how scary it seems, or how confused you are, you will never have to worry. Because no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, from the day you were born until the day I die...I will be holding your heart close to mine.

With all my love,
Your Daddy

I am this soldier's mom and I cried when I read this. I am so proud of him and his wife and their daughter and son. I just had to share this letter with you.

Lelia - Proud mother of deployed American Soldier

Democrat Rep. John Dingell tells Al Gore,

"Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax -- and it's a great big one."

There is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term:

This year's term was: Political Correctness The winner wrote:

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority,

and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,

which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Sen. Reid: Obama Told Me, 'I Have a Gift'

BORN IN THE USA ?
Long as we're declassifying things ...
Pam Meister calls on Obama to release long-form birth certificate, college records
--Family Security Matters

FIRST 100 DAYS By Neal Boortz

The Fox News crowd had a panel on this morning to discuss Obama's achievements. What's the best they could come up with?

He's perfected his brand and he's likable.
He has a high popularity rating.
He passed the most expensive spending package in history ... one written by the congress, not by him.

These are achievements? This is the best this esteemed Fox panel could come up with?
For right now let's just say that the people who will really remember these first 100 days will be your children and grandchildren.
They are the ones who will be paying the bills while living in a country where achievement is no longer rewarded.

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than

when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
- Sir Laurens van der Post

REPORTERS PASS THE TEST: GRADED 'A' BY WHITE HOUSE PRESS SPOKESMAN...

… got this from my little old cousin in Illinois

I have 4 extra tickets for the Robbie Knievel (son of Evel Knievel)event at"The Palace” in Auburn Hills , MI this Friday.

He's going to try to jump 1000 Obama supporters with a bulldozer.

Should be a good time!

Let me know...

Evening Newscasts Have Covered Obama More Than Bush & Clinton Combined...

MEDIA MATTERS
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U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine'
Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail
--WND

How laws have replaced civility

A civilized society's first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions and moral values. Behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. The failure to fully transmit values and traditions to subsequent generations represents one of the failings of the so-called greatest generation.
Behavior accepted as the norm today would have been seen as despicable yesteryear. There are television debt relief advertisements that promise to help debtors to pay back only half of what they owe. Foul language is spoken by children in front of and sometimes to teachers and other adults. When I was a youngster, it was unthinkable to use foul language to an adult; it would have meant a smack across the face. Back then, parents and teachers didn't have child-raising "experts" to tell them that "time out" is a means of discipline. Baby showers are held for unwed mothers. Yesteryear, such an acceptance of illegitimacy would have been unthinkable.
To see men sitting whilst a woman or elderly person was standing on a crowded bus or trolley car used to be unthinkable. It was common decency for a man to give up his seat. Today, in some cities there are ordinances requiring public conveyances to set aside seats posted "Senior Citizen Seating." Laws have replaced common decency. Years ago, a young lady who allowed a guy to have his hand in her rear pocket as they strolled down the street would have been seen as a slut. Children addressing adults by first names was unacceptable.
You might be tempted to charge, "Williams, you're a prude!" I'd ask you whether high rates of illegitimacy make a positive contribution to a civilized society. If not, how would you propose that illegitimacy be controlled? In years past, it was controlled through social sanctions like disgrace and shunning. Is foul language to or in the presence of teachers conducive to an atmosphere of discipline and respect necessary for effective education? If not, how would you propose it be controlled? Years ago, simply sassing a teacher would have meant a trip to the vice principal's office for an attitude adjustment administered with a paddle. Years ago, the lowest of lowdown men would not say the kind of things often said to or in front of women today. Gentlemanly behavior protected women from coarse behavior. Today, we expect sexual harassment laws to restrain coarse behavior.
During the 1940s, my family lived in North Philadelphia's Richard Allen housing project. Many families didn't lock doors until late at night, if ever. No one ever thought of installing bars on their windows. Hot, humid summer nights found many people sleeping outside on balconies or lawn chairs. Starting in the '60s and '70s, doing the same in some neighborhoods would have been tantamount to committing suicide. Keep in mind that the 1940s and '50s were a time of gross racial discrimination, high black poverty and few opportunities compared to today. The fact that black neighborhoods were far more civilized at that time should give pause to the excuses of today that blames today's pathology on poverty and discrimination.
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society.

Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we've become.
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.,

The children of illegal aliens cost Los Angeles County $44 million in welfare just in the month of March.

Republicans blamed for swine flu
'A Bush-appointed accountant is running the [HHS] department'
--Politico

The media loves Obama. Studies show that he has received more positive media coverage in his first 100 days than Clinton and Bush combined.
This is easy to understand. The media had a large part in creating Barack Obama.
Bernie Goldberg had it right with the title of his book, "A Slobbering Love Affair."
Since the media had a large part in creating Obama, accepting the fact that he is less than a stellar president constitutes an admission that the media got it wrong.
Not gonna happen.

Top Dem Congressman Wants Mileage-Based Tax On Vehicles...

If you have dreams or expectations that your children might have the same opportunities to work hard, achieve and excel in this country; if you think that your children will be able to use their talents to create wealth and use that wealth to create a lifestyle free of financial stress .. these first 100 days have been a disaster.
If you believe that America's greatness comes from the incredible dynamic of free people working cooperatively with one another in a society based on the rule of law with individual and economic freedom, then this first 100 days has been a train wreck.
You believe in socialism? A great first 100 days.
You believe in capitalism? A horrible first 100 days.
You believe in individualism? A bad first 100 days.
You believe in collectivism? A grand first 100 days.
You're proud of your country? A depressing first 100 days.
You think your country is the focus of evil? A wonderful first 100 days.
You believe in federalism? The first 100 days were a disaster.
You believe in an omnipotent federal government? The first 100 days were wonderful.
You think a president should be elected on substance? Bad first 100.
You think a president should be elected on style? Great first 100.
Perhaps you can add to the list through your comments.

A MILEAGE TAX By Neal Boortz
Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar has decided that he wants Congress to enact a mileage tax. Yep. A mileage-based tax on cars and trucks would help offset the fact that federal gasoline tax revenues are in decline. Oberstar doesn't want to waste time on pilot programs. He sees that as a waste of time that could be spent collecting tax revenue! He wants this passed now so that the government can start paying for highway program. However, a congressionally mandated commission estimated that switching to a vehicle-miles traveled tax would take a decade to put in place on a national level.
Here's the danger. Oberstar and his buddies in the congress would just love to have both the mileage tax and the present federal taxes on gasoline. They're talking tax increases here .. not just a different way of raising the same revenue. Oh how Democrats love tax increases.
Oh ... and stand by for the program to prevent this tax from affecting the poor, poor pitiful poor.

NEWS FOCUS
Dying no reason to end social life
'Boomers are looking at the funeral as a form of self-expression'
-- Tampa Tribune

YOU AREN'T GOING TO BELIEVE THIS By Neal Boortz
In Washington DC you can get a ticket for parking your car in your own driveway.
There is a law that states, "Any area between the property line and the building restriction line shall be considered as private property set aside and treated as public space under the care and maintenance of the property owner."
So basically, property owners in DC do not own the land between their front door and the sidewalk. While property owners are responsible for taking care of this plot of land, they technically do not own it. It is considered "public space." So if you pull into your own driveway, but do not pull your car far enough up so that it is flush with your house or building, technically your car is on "public land" and you can get a ticket.
You can bet your buns that the city has been taking full advantage of this.
So what do you do if you want to be able to park your car so that its nose sticks out passed your home?
You have to go to the government and lease the your property back from the city government. .
Unbelievable. Only government.

FAA Memo: Feds Knew Flyover Would Cause NYC Panic; Threatened Sanctions Against NYPD & Mayor's Office If Secret Got Out...

So if voters differ so fundamentally with the president on the very essence of his program, why do they accord him high ratings? They are like the recently married bride who took her vows 100 days ago. It would be a disaster for her life if she decides that she really doesn’t like her husband. But she keeps noticing things about him that she can’t stand. It will be a while before she walks out the door or even comes to terms with her own doubts, but it is probably inevitable that she will.

… And then will come his heavy lifting.

He has yet to raise taxes, regiment healthcare or provide amnesty for illegal immigrants.

He hasn’t closed down the car companies he now runs and he has not yet forced a 50 percent hike in utility bills with his cap-and-trade legislation.

These are all the goodies he has in store for us all.

By Dick Morris

Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times

Eight years after Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, American 9- and 13-year-olds are doing measurably better on standardized tests. Good news? Not necessarily. The New York Times report on NCLB carries the headline "'No Child' Law Is Not Closing a Racial Gap."
Fair enough. If the law is helping white kids but doing nothing for blacks, that doesn't seem right. Only that isn't what's happening, as you learn from reading the actual report:
The achievement gap between white and minority students has not narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the No Child Left Behind law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according to results of a federal test considered to be the nation's best measure of long-term trends in math and reading proficiency.

Between 2004 and last year, scores for young minority students increased, but so did those of white students, leaving the achievement gap stubbornly wide, despite President George W. Bush's frequent assertions that the No Child law was having a dramatic effect.
So minority kids are doing better than before.
But because white kids are also doing better, and therefore the "gap" remains, the Times suggests the law is a failure.
By this measure, it would have been better to pass a law that only benefits minorities than one that benefits everyone.

Radio Shack employee arrested after punching a customer
Leigh Carey was trying to return a purchase, but the employee wouldn't let him. Carey asked to talk to a manager, and that's when the employee started punching him. (WEAU-TV)

Global Warming on the Rocks
Al Gore said Tuesday the world must act quickly to slow the melting of the world's polar ice packs and glaciers before it reaches a critical rate for global warming.
But it turns out the world acted very quickly indeed, as Germany 's Radio Bremen reports (translation here):
The research aircraft "Polar 5" today concluded its Arctic expedition in Canada . During the flight, researchers measured the current ice thickness at the North Pole and in areas that have never before been surveyed. The result: The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than scientists had suspected.

Normally, newly formed ice measures some two meters in thickness after two years. "Here, we measured ice thickness up to four meters," said a spokesperson for Bremerhaven 's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
Is it possible that global warming is neither a catastrophe waiting to happen nor a fraud but merely the result of confusion induced by the metric system?

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Censors for talk radio expected within 90 days
Leader of public awareness campaign warns of 'Arctic blast' against free speech
--WND

Obama decided that he was going to address all you evil right-wingers who got out there to protest of tax day. When asked a question about fiscal discipline (something Obama knows nothing about) and entitlement reform, here is what he had to say:
"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around ... let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security. But ... let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."
So there you have it. If you watch FoxNews or attended a tea party .. Obama would like to have a "serious" conversation with you.

A recent Rasmussen poll shows that 77% of U.S. voters say that they prefer a free market economy over a government-managed economy.

Then why in the hell did so many of these people vote for Barack Obama?

DEMS GIVE OBAMA HIS BUDGET By Neal Boortz
The House has adopted the Looter in Chief's budget. The cost: $3.4 trillion. There is nothing sophisticated about this budget. The only thought process that went into this mess is "what can we spend and who gets to spend it." One rule ... spending must increase the dominance of government in our lives. Hang on, folks. This is just the beginning, based on the expansion of government that will necessarily happen because of the policies included in this budget.
What kind of policies? I'm talking about Obama's agenda to ensure that Americans look to the government for their healthcare needs. Making Americans dependent on the government for their healthcare will be an incredibly expensive task, thanks to the taxpayers. It will not make our healthcare system in this country any more efficient or cost-effective. In truth, it isn't supposed to. The goal here is not cost effectiveness. The goal is to make people dependent on government. The goal is enslavement.
What does this mean for your grandchildren? Well, deficits under Barack Obama, thanks to budgets like this, will rise to as much as $17 trillion by the end of 2014. Read that again, folks. We are talking $17 trillion. Just last year, the Democrats were whining about a $455 billion deficit.
Beyond healthcare, the budget also includes funding for green energy and tax increases for the filthy, evil rich making more than $200,000 a year. There is absolutely nothing to celebrate here. The parasite class may feel good about the government lifting even more responsibility off their shoulders ... but future generations of Americans are going to read about the freedom and opportunity that used to be ... and wonder what went wrong. Truth be told ... Obama, that's what.
The budget resolution passed the House with absolutely zero Republican support.
Point: If it had been Bush's budget the Republicans would have supported it ... so don't sing Republican praises too loud.
A more amazing fact is that 17 Democrats voted against the budget. You'll enjoy Nancy Pelosi's reaction to the passage of this budget resolution. She says, "Today, for the first time in many, many years, we have a president's budget ... that is a statement of our national values."
Did you catch that? This is a "statement of our national values." What values would those be, Nancy ? Bigger government ... redistribution of wealth ... government dependency ... government control of the private economic sector ...funding "green" industries based on the global warming hoax ... replacing the free market system with government controls and regulations ....
This is a big government, anti-individualism budget. BOHICA

QUEERLY BELOVED
N.Y. guv: Guilt drives 'gay'-marriage foes
Paterson slams 'leaders of faith' over violence, discrimination against homosexuals
-- New York Daily News

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
House agrees to muzzle pastors with 'hate crimes' plan
'This is first time protected status given to whatever sexual orientation one has'
--WND

I can't shake that poll of Europeans last year where we learned that 58% of Europeans wanted a weaker America .

Barack Obama is giving Europe exactly what it asked for.

The North Korean gargoyle is taking advantage.

Why Not Take Away Its Credit Card?
"Police Shoot, Kill Charging Pit Bull"--headline, Charlotte Observer, April28

Yet another Confederate flag controversy (this one in Minnesota )
Dozens of school staff members have signed a petition asking the school board ban a student's Confederate flag decal on his pickup truck. One teacher says: "We regulate hoods and we regulate hats yet we allow a symbol that is clearly designed to intimidate another group." (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Bullying

Dr. Laura -

The call today from a woman who's daughter had stuck up for a bullied classmate struck a chord.

When my now 2nd grader was in kindergarten he was bullied. He came to me crying. I went to the teacher and she said, "Your child just needs to learn to stick up for himself. I'm not going to get involved." I told my boy that the next time the bully hit him (because that's what was going on) to hit him back. Hard.

About two days later I got a call from the principal. My son was in the office because he had hit the boy all right. He hit him with a chair. I told the principal that I had spoke with his teacher a couple of days prior and what she said to me. I told the principal I told my boy he is to defend himself. The principal said that the teacher and my son both said the other child had pushed him down and kicked him first.

I asked the principal which was worse: my five year old picking up a small plastic chair and hitting the other kid or the teacher knowing he was being picked on and never doing anything about it?

My son did not get anything from the principal other than a "please don't hit with chairs". He also received a hall pass to go to the principal directly if he was bullied again.

From his dad and me he got a high five and his favorite dinner.

R.

ANIMAL KINGDOM
Scientists: Freeing Willy was wrong thing to do
Say killer whale proved unable to interact with his own species or find food
--New Scientist

It was once said that a black man would be president ----WHEN PIGS FLY.

100 days into Obama's term -- SWINE FLU.

As far back as 1930, Sir James Jeans, the eminent scientist, said, and I quote: “Thirty years ago, we thought, or assumed, that we were heading toward an ultimate reality of a mechanistic universe, a fortuitous jumble of atoms, destined to perform meaningless dances for a time, under the action of blind, purposeless forces, and then fall back to become a dead world.
Today there is a wide measure of agreement that the stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality, with the universe beginning to look more and more like a great thought than a great machine.” A tremendous concept: “looking more like a great thought than a great machine”
Just as a man must have an ideal before he can bring it into manifestation, so it is with God’s Creation. Only after a man has built thought pictures of the house, can he follow this with the actual construction of the house that becomes a home. So, in the first chapter of Genesis, God’s creation of man is the “inner” or the “ideal” creation, made in the Image-Likeness of God, which He pronounces as “very good.” [Genesis 1:31]
This was, and is, the direct offspring of the Divine Mind—God’s idea of a Perfect Man, begotten only of God, and not of human invention, evolution, environment, or heredity. This is the “Christ,” the “I AM.” No matter where a person may find himself in evolution, he should never forget that in involution he is a Perfect Being, formed in the Mind of God, and this Divine Pattern is always present at the heart and root of him. This is the pattern. This is the plan. It is his—the perfect image of himself as God sees him.
Then, God rested…and the plan began to unfold. And we quote: “And the Lord God created man out of the dust of the ground.….” [Genesis 2:7] “…and called their [his] name Adam.” [Genesis 5:2] “Called their [his] name Adam.” In a sense, Adam was the original “atom” from which all things have come. In its intended form, Adam is not a proper name at all. It simply means “man,” in a generic sense. All men were formed from the “dust of the ground.” Now, if this seems to be a miracle, your life or mine is no less a miracle, for, chemically, our bodies are created from “the [literal] dust of the ground.” All the elements of the sustaining food we eat come from the soil. So man is created from “the dust of the ground.”
To argue about the historical value of Genesis is to totally miss the point—to completely misunderstand what the Scripture is all about...
So in this “evolution,” man has come a long way, and his progress has been made possible by the peculiar forces of his curiosity and his discontent. Man is restless. He is ever searching, reaching, questioning, yearning, otherwise he would still be living in caves. There is something of you that is fulfilling the “Promethean Urge”—this tremendous drive, the up-searching something, which is constantly causing you to lift up, to rise up, to climb up to the heights of your own Divine Potential.
© Eric Butterworth

British airline removes Israel from digital map
Report: Move made to avoid offending Muslim passengers
-- Israel National News

Poll: Support for legal abortion drops to 15-year low
Is Obama's advocacy sparking shift to pro-life side of debate
--Life News

In Minnesota, the Star Tribune did a little poll.
It found that two-thirds of people would want the government to seize wealth from rich people in order to help solve the state's budget woes. But then when it comes to raising taxes on everyone ... not just the filthy rich ... 60% of Minnesotans say absolutely not.
So taxing the rich is OK. Other taxes that are popular with Minnesotans are those on tobacco and alcoholic beverages. But they aren't done there ... 57% of people believe that corporations should pay higher taxes.
Higher taxes? Are these people completely brain dead? Do they not understand the fact that the United States already has outrageously high corporate tax rates? Of course they don't; because you are talking about the government educated dumb masses. You are talking about people who believe that evil rich people and greedy corporations don't pay their "fair share" in taxes. And you're talking to people who are so uneducated and obtuse that they don't understand that all taxes paid by businesses filter down to the people who ultimately purchase whatever that business is producing at the retail level.
I'll say it again: At the core of most, if not all, of the problems facing our country today you will find a public that is so uneducated that they just can't understand basic concepts of governance and economics.
Government schools were designed to create a populace that was educated just to the point that they would be good government subjects and good employees.
Government education has been a massive success.

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U.S. 'swimming in natural gas'
New Louisiana discover equivalent of 18 years of current oil production
--Wall Street Journal

When Obama has to fill an open seat in the FCC, who better to appoint

than the oldest daughter of South Carolina race-pimp Senator James Clyburn.

From the desk of Donny Ferguson

May 1, 2009

Dear ,

Make no mistake about it. Barack Obama wants to cancel your private health insurance plan and force you into government-run health care.

Don’t believe me? Just ask Illinois Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, an Obama colleague from his days as Illinois senator and strident opponent of free market capitalism.

She’s been caught on tape making comments that should make every Americans who values his or her freedom very, very angry.

In an April 18 speech that was caught on tape, she and a cheering crowd of socialist activists praised Obama’s plan, saying “the goal of health care from is not to protect the private health insurance industry” but to seize absolute control over the health care of every man, woman and child in America.

She regaled the crowd with a story of her debating a man from “the private insurance industry” and how she lectured him on how he and every American who doesn’t support government-run health care “have every reason to be frightened!”

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Not only do Barack Obama, Jan Schakowsky and other politicians want to stamp out capitalism, they want to do it with a government-run health care bureaucracy already proven to increase death rates from treatable illnesses.

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Debut for world's fastest camera
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A hospital in Nashville has agreed to pay a former employee $70,000 in damages

for denying him time off so that he could make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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CNN ASKS PALIN DADDY IF SEX WAS IN THE HOUSE...

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Killer 'green' bill to slaughter U.S. economy
Obama drains lifeblood from financial system with climate legislation
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Liberal actress says tea parties were racist

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.
"Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House," she said on MSNBC's "The Countdown" with Keith Olbermann Thursday evening. "This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that."
Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions.
The actress went on to describe the brain size of typical "right-winger, Republican or conservative or your average white power activist."
"Their synapses are misfiring. ... It is a neurological problem we are dealing with," she said. This isn't the first time she's offered this analysis, either. Ms. Garofalo said similar things about Alaskan GOP Governor Sarah Palin's brain last February in an interview with an environmental blog.
The actress went on to bash the GOP on MSNBC Thursday because it had "crystallized into the white power movement" as well as Fox News, which she said has captured the "Klan demo[graphic].”

Stay slim to save the planet!

BLAME THE MEDIA ... I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF By Neal Boortz
A lot of people out there have a rough time accepting responsibility for their own actions. If you spend too much ... if you run up a huge balance on your credit card ... it just must be somebody's else's fault, right?
It would seem that this is so. A new Harris Poll tells us that most - not just some, but most ... Americans believe the media is in some part responsible for the current economic crisis. And how would that be? Because the media, through advertising, made these poor pitiful people go out there and buy things they couldn't afford. Fifty-four percent of these Americans actually blame talk shows as having some responsibility.
This brings smiles to those handsome leftist faces out there. The mantra of the left is that people cannot be held responsible for their actions and that government, therefore the government must be there to take care of them.
The more you think about this the more depressing it gets.

Barack Obama is going to join the push "to stop the marketing of credit in ways that addicts people to it."

Yeah, because it is all the credit card companies fault and not the fault of the people who spend beyond their means.

Besides .. now the government is in charge of all bank marketing practices.

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism."

"All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A." After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that....

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How Obama actually delayed pirate rescue
SEAL team deployment stalled 36 hours, hampered by limited rules of engagement
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OBAMA'S WORST CABINET APPOINTMENT By Neal Boortz
After careful analysis, and many instances of mind-numbing stupidity ... I have determined that Janet "Nitwit" Napolitano is Barack Obama's worst cabinet appointment. Just take this little moment she had over the weekend. An interview on CNN has Napolitano explaining why Democrats want to investigate Sheriff Joe out there in Maricopa County Arizona. See if you can catch what is so blatantly wrong with this statement:
Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in that statement, because he knows that there aren't enough law enforcement officers, courtrooms or jail cells in the world to do what he is saying.
What we have to do is target the real evil-doers in this business, the employers who consistently hire illegal labor, the human traffickers who are exploiting human misery.
And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.
Did you catch it? Ok, I'll spell it out for you: "crossing the border is not a crime per se." And this is from our head of Homeland Security?
Hey, Amigos! All you people down there on the border just waiting to cross! Forget about visas! Forget about going to those pesky and troublesome little checkpoints. Just walk on over!
It's not like that is illegal or anything! Viva Napolitano!

War Basher, Al-Qaida Apologist Wins DOD Post

According to our federal government's clean air laws, carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases officially "endanger public health and welfare."

The far-reaching implications of this is huge, folks.

A naturally occurring and essential gas in our atmosphere is endangering our health.

This is about money. Watch.

Nancy Pelosi wants to set up a commission to investigate the failures of Wall Street, similar to what was done after the crash in 1929.

No commission, however, to investigate congressional failures.

A few of the reductions suggested by Cato Institute’s “Handbook for Policymakers, Seventh Edition.”

• Avert the oncoming fiscal crisis in Social Security by indexing initial benefits to changes in prices, instead of wages. Saves $47 billion annually by 2018. Without reforms like this, the program will go bankrupt or force trillions of dollars in destructive new taxes or borrowing.
• Turn Medicare into a block grant and freeze federal spending, forcing states to pursue cost-cutting reforms. Saves $227 billion annually by 2018.
• Eliminate the Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration, a $352 million corporate welfare program.
• Eliminate the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, another $369 million in corporate welfare.
• Eliminate the Energy Department’s nuclear energy research programs, $695 million in welfare that should be undertaken by nuclear energy investors.
• Turn Head Start over to private charities, saving $687 million annually. Since its inception Head Start has shown no substantive increase in inner-city literacy rates.
• Eliminate the Bureau of Indian Affairs, saving nearly $2.5 billion a year.
• Eliminate funding for the United Nations and other international programs, saving nearly $1.6 billion annually.
• Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation, saving $350 million annually.
• Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, $278 million a year in welfare for wealthy arts patrons.
• Eliminate the Small Business Administration, $530 million in welfare for businesses.
• Eliminate the $935 million a year in Postal Service subsidies and force them to further privatize operations.

Those are just a few cuts, a “twelve step program” if you will, which alone save taxpayers $282.3 billion.

That comes out to $921.78 in savings for every man, woman and child in America , and there would be a lot more savings than that to come with even more reductions.

"I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew… and then chew it."
- William DeMille

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CNN reporter refers to Hitler as Bush 'lookalike'
Correspondent who blasted anti-Obama protester compares GOP president to Nazi
--WND

Jon Sinton was the president of Air America . Air America was a miserable failure. Nobody likes to be at the controls of miserable failure. Sucks to be Sinton. So, it would seem that Jon Sinton is lashing out ... lashing out at talk radio. Against the advice of several friends I'm putting a link to Sinton's screed here. If you must, read this! Caution: Sinton has been stung. His ego is bruised and he is lashing out at those evil conservative talk shows that decimated his baby.
Sinton came up with some statistics in his column. He says "The dirty little secret of right-wing talk radio is that the audience is largely male, almost exclusively white and averages 67 years of age." He cites no research, expecting us to take these figures at face value. Sorry ... no can do.
As a matter of fact, I have some figures that I'll actually source for you! These numbers come from the Talk Radio Research Project as published in Talker's Magazine. Talker's has been gathering these statistics for many years now, so they're worth a look. Let's go through a few Sinton points from his whiney little column and compare them to the real world:

Sinton says the audience is "largely male." Talker's says that the audience is 57% male and 43% female. If that counts as "largely male" than I'm largely handsome.
Then Sinton says that the audience is "almost exclusively white." Hmmmm. The Talker's research shows the talk radio audience to be 63% white, 20% black and 10% Hispanic. This would mean that blacks listen to talk radio in numbers larger than their share of the U.S. population. Largely white? Yes .. but with an overrepresentation of black listeners. I can understand why Sinton left that little goodie out. Doesn't fit well into his imaginary world.
The audience "averages 67 years of age." A little ageism there, but let's check the Talker's research. The audience breakdown shows that 63% of the talk radio listening audience is between 24 and 64 years old. Twenty-eight percent of the listeners are older than 55 and of that group only 7% are over 65. Nine percent and younger than 15. The numbers for my show skew even younger. Clearly I'm no math whiz, but how can the average age of talk radio listeners be 67 when only 7% of the listeners are over 65? This sounds rather like the way liberals and Democrats compute poverty statistics. It also sounds like Sinton's a liar. Poor guy .. just can't get over his failures.

One out of every ten people born in Mexico lives in the United States.

If you're shocked, you're not paying attention.

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Pentagon official blames U.S. for al-Qaida attacks
Worked for George Soros, argued for government control of media
--WND

Parting company: The road to secession

Texas Gov. Rick Perry rattled cages when he suggested that Texans might at some point become so disgusted with Washington's gross violation of the U.S. Constitution that they would want to secede from the union. Political hustlers, their media allies and others, who have little understanding, are calling his remarks treasonous. Let's look at it.
When New York delegates met on July 26, 1788, their ratification document read, "That the Powers of Government may be resumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power, Jurisdiction and right which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments of the government thereof, remains to the People of the several States, or to their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same."
On May 29, 1790, the Rhode Island delegates made a similar claim in their ratification document. "That the powers of government may be resumed by the people, whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness: That the rights of the States respectively to nominate and appoint all State Officers, and every other power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by the said constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States or to the departments of government thereof, remain to the people of the several states, or their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same."
On June 26, 1788, Virginia 's elected delegates met to ratify the Constitution. In their ratification document, they said, "The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will."
As demonstrated by the ratification documents of New York , Rhode Island and Virginia , they made it explicit that if the federal government perverted the delegated rights, they had the right to resume those rights. In fact, when the union was being formed, where the states created the federal government, every state thought they had a right to secede – otherwise there would not have been a union.
Perry is right when he says that there is no reason for Texas to secede. There are indeed intermediate actions short of secession that states can take. Thomas Jefferson said, "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." That suggests that one response to federal encroachment is for state governments to declare federal laws that have no constitutional authority null and void and refuse to enforce them.
While the U.S. Constitution does not provide a specific provision for nullification, the case for nullification is found in the nature of compacts and agreements. Our Constitution represents a compact between the states and the federal government. As with any compact, one party does not have a monopoly over its interpretation, nor can one party change it without the consent of the other. Additionally, no one has a moral obligation to obey unconstitutional laws. That's not to say there is not a compelling case for obedience of unconstitutional laws. That compelling case is the brute force of the federal government to coerce obedience, possibly going as far as using its military might to lay waste to a disobedient state and its peoples.
Finally, here's my secession question for you. Some Americans accept and have respect for the 10th Amendment, which reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Other Americans, the majority I fear, say to hell with the 10th Amendment limits on the federal government. Which is a more peaceful solution: one group of Americans seeking to impose their vision on others or simply parting company?

Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.,

PAPER: Senator's husband cashes in on crisis...
Feinstein sought $25 billion for agency that awarded contract to spouse...

The Labor Department has decided to throw some love to the unions

by repealing a last minute Bush regulation

that would have increased scrutiny of union finances to help root out financial corruption.

As the economy lags, the Army is getting more and more selective. They announced this week they will no longer accept drug addicts and felons. So if you're drug addict or a felon, you’re not welcomed in the United States Army. The good news: There's always Congress, the NFL, and show business.
President Barack Obama held his first full Cabinet meeting yesterday. He told his Cabinet to ensure that “every taxpayer dollar is spent wisely.” There was one embarrassing moment when he had to explain to the Cabinet what a taxpayer was. Jay Leno

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$800,000 payments to King children? No comment
Funds going for 'use' of image, words for National Mall memorial
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IT'S EARTH DAY By Neal Boortz
Barack Obama and the Democrats are determined to make people more dependent on the government. This is how they retain power… by creating a massive government system to regulate climate change. With "global warming" legislation comes the promise of new welfare programs. After all, it is a proven fact that climate change legislation is going to increase the cost of energy in this country. But this isn't a concern to Democrats for two reasons. One .. because ignorant voters will continue to vote for them based on the fact that they brought real change to our government and are trying to prevent the world from a total meltdown! The other is because the Democrats will create entitlement programs to ensure that the poor, poor pitiful poor and the parasite (Democrat) class do not see any energy cost increases.
Meanwhile, our government schools are ensuring that we are raising a generation completely brainwashed into believing in this man-made global warming hoax.
A new survey shows that one out of every three American children between the ages of six and 11 fear that our planet will not exist when they grow up.
Guess who is the most anxious about an Al Gore-scripted apocalypse?
Minority children. 75% of black children and 65% of Hispanic children believe that the earth will be "irrevocably damaged" by the time they are adults.
Your government at work.
I guess South Carolina 's James Clyburn is right ... global warming does seem to affect minorities more than whites.

Misbehaving parents forced to watch soccer games from afar
"We have taken a strong stance," says the head of the girls' soccer league. "It's important. This isn't the World Cup. And for the parents to be shrieking on the sidelines and belittling people goes against everything we're trying to do." (Washington Post)

… One of the things that I think is so important to know is that each of us begins in life as a potential to be released and unfolded. There is within every person, the unborn possibility of limitless experience, and ours is the privilege, as well as the responsibility, of giving birth to it. And the basis of our life, then, is the constant process of growth and overcoming. However, unfortunately, by the conditioning process of parental training and education, we are subjected to a false assumption that we begin life in emptiness and that we go forth into Life to be fulfilled. So that, about as soon as we are able to, we are fitted (in a figurative sense) with a little “begging bowl.” And we’re sent out into life with our little begging bowls. We go to our parents and we beg for love and we beg for affection and we beg for attention and we beg for the fulfillment of our physical desires and wants and needs. We take our little begging bowl, and we go off to church or religious school and we beg for spiritual insights and for ethics and morality and so forth. We take our little begging bowls off to school, and we beg for ideas, for facts, for information, for education. And then we take our little begging bowls out into the marketplace, and we beg for jobs and for money and for the means of giving satisfaction to our lives. So, all of our lives, according to this basic and false assumption, we devote ourselves to finding fulfillment. So, we look for excitement. We look for love.
… We begin life as Whole Creatures, and the Wholeness is expressed and experienced in part. But, if we are experiencing less than wellness or Wholeness in our outer expression, the only way to find fulfillment is … to find the way of releasing our inherent Potential. Remember, always within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience and ours is the privilege of giving birth to it.
Eric

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life

as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T Washington

Barrack Obama and his PR machine are dishonest when they repeatedly tell us that this is the worst economy since the great depression.

It is not, and this is the worst financial fear mongering I have ever seen. It is intentionally designed to create the "crises" that justifies power grabs and pork expenditures that we, the people, would otherwise never allow.

The data is clear. This is not the worst economy since the great depression. It is not even close to the numbers of that period and in fact, the actual numbers tell us it is not even up to the disaster that Ronald
Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter left Reagan a misery index of 20.11 (the unemployment number plus the rate of inflation)

Bush left Obama with a misery index of 7.77. Using this metric Ronald Reagan had three times the mess that Obama has.

Carter left Reagan with close to 10 percent unemployment

Obama inherited less than 7percent.

Reagan walked into 20 percent interest rates

Obama has 3.25 percent interest rate

Carter bequeathed Reagan a 13 percent inflation rate

Bush leaves Obama a 3.86 percent inflation rate.

Both leaders inherited a mess. The difference is in how Ronald Reagan and Barrack Obama approached their crises and, as always, the final proof will be in their outcomes.

Janet Napalatano blames Canada for 9/11 hijackers?

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The border for dummies

National Post Published:Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.

In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.

All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.

Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders."

Just what does that mean, exactly?

Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada 's border to Mexico 's, suggesting they deserved the same treatment. Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona . So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out.

Napolitano: Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime

Steve King: Obama and Chavez Birds of a Feather
President Obama, who warmly greeted Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas meeting last week, actually has something in common with the South American strongman, says Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
“Here are two world leaders who in the last month have nationalized huge private sector companies,” King tells C-SPAN.
In Obama’s case, he “effectively” nationalized General Motors and Chrysler, ordering GM to fire its chief executive and telling Chrysler to merge with Fiat, the Congressman says.
As for Chavez, “he nationalized one of the great American company’s facilities – Cargill’s rice facility – in Venezuela just about a month ago,” King explains.
Obama and Chavez “have done the same thing to private business,” he says. “And I think that image will soak into the minds of investors around the world on where they want to put their money.”

Cap-and-Trade May Cost Households $3,900/Yr.

Rasmussen: 59 Percent Believe Bailouts Bad Idea

Here's the lead paragraph of an April 15 Associated Press dispatch: "Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged 'tea parties' around the country Wednesday to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts." We defy anyone to find an AP story on a left-wing protest that begins by telling readers who "whipped up" the demonstrators.
The worst offenders have been on CNN. NewsBusters.org describes an exchange on the April14 episode of "Anderson Cooper 360":
After CNN's senior political analyst David Gergen remarked that Republicans were "searching for their voice" after two electoral losses, Cooper quipped, "It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging."

This Web site is publihsed by a family newspaper, so suffice it to say that "tea-bagging" is gay slang for a sexual act that would indeed inhibit articulation. If you want a more precise definition, go to UrbanDictionary.com--or to this NewsBusters item, which describes a puerile rant by MSNBC's David Shuster--best known for being temporarily banished from the screen last year after making a vulgar joke at Chelsea Clinton's expense--sitting in for Keith Olbermann on April13. Sample:

For most Americans, Wednesday, April15 will be Tax Day. But in our fourth story tonight: It's going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they're going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals.

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
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Teaching homosexuality, no parents needed
School district launches website promoting 'gay' pride in classrooms
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FDA OKs 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds -- without a doctor's prescription...

545 PEOPLE vs. 300,000,000
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices =545 human beings out of the 300 million
are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress
delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce
a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.
The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker,
who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.
I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power
of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject;
to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists
disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

HEAT OF THE MOMENT
Green group calls for 1-child policy
Wants Australia's 22 million reduced to 7 million to tackle climate change
--Australian Associated Press

CBSNEWS: Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel...

TOO BIG TO FAIL By Neal Boortz
The government is now considering limiting the size of banks so that they will never be "too big to fail." This brilliant idea comes from FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair. It was only a matter of time, folks.

Now we're going to launch a policy that private businesses cannot become so large that their failure would have an adverse affect on our economy. And who gets to decide when a business is too large? Why, that would be the political class. The government.

Do we get the chance to decide that government is to large?

Apparently not.

Never Invest in Sink Stocks
"Bank Fears Sink Stocks"--headline, WSJ.com, April20

Sen. Kerry aims to rescue newspapers; Calls for hearings on BOSTON GLOBE...

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'Gay' advocates attack those who don't support cause
'My wish for you is that your children grow up to hate you'
--WND

URGENT: OBAMA GRACES COVER OF 'TIME' [FOR 13TH TIME IN PAST YEAR]...