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Obama Signs Executive Order Allowing Control Over All US Resources
On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war oremergency.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order’s functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.
Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the “Act”).
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel; – White House
US E-voting System Hacked Within 48 Hrs.
We ave to insist that we go to a paper ballots system with electronic counting so we have a paper trail if disputed.
Clarence
The US e-voting system is reported to have been hacked within 48 hours of the system going live, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. The researchers wrote in a paper that has now been released,
Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server. We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot.
The particular system they were working on was an online development that would allow US citizens abroad to vote via a web site rather than mailing in a ballot or using early voting registration.
The American people should demand a cease and desist on electronic voting, both the current system and the “online voting”. This example is just one of many that show the problems with the system.
If computer hackers can get in and manipulate votes, what would stop someone who doesn’t have to hack the system from manipulating votes?
In modern history we’ve had claims of voter fraud and I guess we always will simply because of the nature of man. However the solution is not to create a system that makes cheating easier, but more difficult. My assessment is that the electronic system is the easiest system to manipulate and we see that demonstrated by the University of Michigan’s report.
Furthermore, electronic voting does not leave a paper trail. Sure we had that entire fiasco in Florida with “hanging chads” and such, but at least we had something to see and touch and determine. In an electronic world we should not trust our votes to digital technology.
Our own government’s web sites have been hacked and shut down or redirected. If government cannot even keep its own sites secure are we sure they can keep online voting secure? I think not.
Tim Brown
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Woman gets jail time for messy yard
Jan. 5. By Msnbc.com staff and wire
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.- A woman who failed to pay a $480 fine for having a messy yard was sentenced to 10 days in jail, but came home a few days early on Thursday to find an overwhelming amount of support from strangers in her community.
Linda Ruggles, a 53-year-old Mount Pleasant, S.C., resident, is a photographer whose business tanked during the recession, The Associated Press reported. She was fined in 2010 after neighbors complained about the debris outside her home.
But when Ruggles' story was published earlier this week in the Charleston Post and Courier, she received some help from unexpected sources.
Ruggles' problems began in 2008, when plans to repair her home stalled and the economy soured. Unopened packages of shingles have sat on her roof for three years, The Post and Courier reported, and she's been collecting scrap metal and other items in her driveway that she hopes to sell to help pay her bills.
The town cited Ruggles for a "clean lot violation" in December 2010 after neighbors complained, saying her mess was driving down their property values.
A municipal judge ordered Ruggles to pay the fine or go to jail for 10 days. Officials say she didn’t pay the fine within 90 days and then ignored court appearances and warnings from the town. After a year of trying to resolve the situation, Ruggles was arrested on Jan. 5.
"We went well beyond what we were required to do," Police Chief Harry Sewell, who told The Post and Courier he even knocked on her door personally in the hopes of finding a solution, said. "We really did take a compassionate approach."
Ruggles told police she couldn't pay the $480 fine because she was using every cent she earned to prevent her home from going into foreclosure. According to The Post and Courier, she has sold blood and even volunteered for medical experiments to keep her home.
Some help from strangers Six days into her jail sentence, however, she was released. Police told The Post and Courier they shaved a few days off of her sentence.
When she came home, Ruggles' messy yard was still there, but many of her problems were about to be alleviated.
A contractor said he would shingle her leaky roof. Landscapers offered to clean up the yard. A realty group wanted to help with other home repairs. All for free.
Others told The Post and Courier they wanted to help with financial donations.
Ruggles, who The Post and Courier reported was happy to learn she also hadn't been fired from her part-time job at a local supermarket while she was in jail, told the newspaper, “I’m really overwhelmed. I’m so thankful and appreciative people want to help.”
Highway Bill Passes and Economic Freedom Suffers
Sen Alexander voted for this bill.
This week the bloated "Highway Bill" was passed in the U.S. Senate. It was a "business-as-usual" plan that spends too much and regulates too much.
The Club was opposed to the passage of the bill itself, and also issued "Key Vote" alerts on some of the amendments offered to the underlying bill. As a Club member, I want you to know how your Senators voted.
First, the Club for Growth urged a "NO" vote on the Menendez/Burr amendment (#1782): This amendment extends current and creates new market-distorting tax incentives for the production, distribution and use of vehicles that run on natural gas. It enlarges an already complicated tax code, and it expands the government's power to pick winners and losers in the private sector.
The final vote tally was 51-47, but it failed because it required a 60-vote hurdle. Republicans voting "YES," against the Club's position: Burr (NC), Chambliss (GA), Coburn (OK), Collins (ME), Isakson (GA) and Snowe (ME). Democrats who supported the Club's stance included Ben Nelson (NE) and Carl Levin (MI).
Second, the Club urged a "YES" on a DeMint amendment (#1589): This amendment eliminates several market-distorting energy subsidies and lowers the corporate tax rate by a commensurate amount of the loophole closures. If signed into law, it will simplify and help flatten the tax code, while reducing the government's ability to cause misallocations of capital by picking winners and losers in the private sector.
The amendment failed 26-72. Republicans voting "NO," against the Club's position included Alexander (TN), Barrasso (WY), Boozman (AR), Brown (MA), Cochran (MS), Collins. (ME), Cornyn (TX), Enzi (WY), Grassley (IA), Heller (NV), Hoeven (ND), Hutchison (TX), Isakson (GA), Lugar (IN), Moran (KS), Murkowski (AK), Roberts (KS), Snowe (ME), and Thune (SD). There were no Democrats who supported our stance.
Finally, the Club urged a "YES" on the DeMint amendment (#1756): This amendment devolves most of the federal highway program back to the states and also greatly reduces the federal gas tax. Over the last several decades, the federal government's role in infrastructure spending has greatly expanded beyond its constitutional limits. Today, it is remarkably inefficient and overly bureaucratic. The proper solution is to return the power back to the states so that spending can be handled more justly and effectively.
The vote failed 30-67. Republicans voting "NO," against the Club's position: Alexander (TN), Barrasso (WY), Blunt (MO), Brown (MA), Cochran (MS), Collins (ME), Enzi (WY), Heller (NV), Hoeven (ND), Johanns (NE), McConnell (KY), Murkowski (AK), Shelby (AL), Snowe (ME), and Thune (SD). Again, there were no Democrats who sided with the Club on this plan.
On the Highway Bill itself, it passed by an overwhelming 74-22. Republicans voting against the Club's stance included Alexander (TN), Blunt (MO), Boozman (AR), Brown (MA), Chambliss (GA), Cochran (MS), Collins (ME), Grassley (IA), Heller (NV), Hoeven (ND), Hutchison (TX), Inhofe (OK), Isakson (GA), Moran (KS), Murkowski (AK), Roberts (KS), Sessions (AL), Shelby (AL), Snowe (ME), Thune (SD), Vitter (LA), and Wicker (MS). All Senate Democrats, except Frank Lautenberg (NJ) who was absent, supported this irresponsible bill.
The Club for Growth believes it's important to hold Republicans and Democrats in Congress accountable for their votes and we intend to keep you informed as Congress continues this session.
When we see the same liberal Republicans and Democrats voting for the same anti-growth policies, we consider it our job to ensure Club members are aware of it. Our hope is that you will then take this critical information and use it to communicate to your friends and family about why they too should support the Club for Growth and its mission of prosperity and opportunity through economic freedom.
Republicans Join Democrats Supporting Colossal Tax Increase
Lamar Alexander and Dick Durbin, the Tax Tag Team
Mark Alexander Publisher, The Patriot Post March 15, 2012 |
Under cover of the Republican Presidential Primary debates about how to defeat Barack Hussein Obama's socialist agenda and his plan to fund the final chapter of that agenda with enormous tax increases, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN, no relation!) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) have teamed up to promote one of the largest tax increases in U.S. history -- a heavy levy on all Internet sales.
The so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act" S. 1832 was first proposed in November 2011 by Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY), and now awaits action in the Committee on Finance. (And you thought all that "fairness" rhetoric was limited to leftists promoting Democratic Socialism.)
Some otherwise erudite conservative senators, such as my friend Bob Corker, have joined Alexander in this errant folly. They are backing the Republican version of the legislation because it is allegedly better than the Democrat version. For the record, I do not consider that to be a legitimate selling point.
Ever since Rep. Ron Paul was able to shed some light on shenanigans of the Federal Reserve Bank during the presidential debates the Fed has been on the defensive. Therefor this latest move on the part of the Fed is no surprise.
Clarence
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/12/2012 16:51 -0400
At least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after an inflammatory interior ministry statement dubbed it “devil worshiping”, activists said.
Iraq’s Moral Police released a chilling statement on the interior ministry’s website condemning the “emo phenomenon” among Iraqi youth, disturbingly declaring its intent to “eliminate” the trend.
“The ‘Emo phenomenon’ or devil worshiping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible since it’s detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger,” the statement read.
“They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities,” it continued.
Religious extremists caught onto the interior ministry statement, and have been harassing and killing teenagers with “strange” or “emo” appearances.
A group of armed men dressed in civilian clothing led dozens of teenagers to secluded areas a few days ago, stoned them to death, and then disposed their bodies in garbage dumpsters across the capital, according to activists.
The armed men are said to belong to “one of the most extremist religious groups” in Iraq.
“First they throw concrete blocks at the boy’s arms, then at his legs, then the final blow is to his head, and if he is not dead then, they start all over again,” one person who managed to escape told Al-Akhbar.
FOOD INSURANCE
We live in a period of uncertainty and food is at the core of our survival.
For many of us raising our own food is out of the question so what can be done?
American ingenuity, as always, is coming to the rescue. An idea is born that is sweeping the nation. It is called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). A CSA is a business model through which non-farmers purchase a share or half-share of a real farmers harvest sometimes even before the crops are planted. The farmers like the plan because it assures them a market for there produce at an agreed price. CSA’s keep food dollars and productive farms in the community where they stimulate the local economy.
Tennessee CSA’s are accepting customers now for the spring-summer season. For a directory of CSA’s go to: www.picktnproducts.org
Is Ron Paul Revolution Still Alive and Well??
Many Ron Paul supporters are somewhat disappointed at the result achieved in Tennessee with only 9% of the electorate. I believe they have much to be joyful for. As a rule historically it takes only 10% of the electorate highly organized and motivated to steer the ship of state.
As you may recall in the 08 elections Ron Paul was the only one talking about restoring our Constitution as the supreme law of the land. For this he was sometimes even ridiculed.
This year it appears every time a politician opens his mouth he at least gives lip service to restoring constitutional government. In fact, just about every organization that sprung up after the election of Obama is now focused on restoring constitutional government. So you see they have already begun to change the course of history. Years ago I discovered that the best way to educate the electorate was to run for public office. This gives you much free exposure and a bully pulpit to teach to an inquisitive electorate.
Even if they don’t win the battle to get Ron Paul elected they will still win their war to restore constitutional government.
We should all operate in an educational mode reeducating the electorate on the virtues of individualism, personal freedom, property rights, constitutional limited government, constitutional wars, free markets, sound money, individual responsibility, local control of education, and lower taxes. Rebuilding government from the bottom up rather than from the top down. We have to undue a 100-year effort to bring into existence a Socialist New World Order tyranny.
U.S. Troops Killed by Afghans They Armed & Trained
Filed under MIDDLE EAST, NEWS, WARAs the Koran burnings in Afghanistan and the deadly uprising that followed dominate the headlines, another important issue — perhaps the elephant in the room — is being largely overlooked: American and NATO soldiers are regularly being killed by members of the very same Afghan police and army they are arming and training. And the number of deadly incidents is on the rise.
Just in the last two weeks, more than a few Americans have been killed by the Afghan regime’s forces they are supposed to be allied with — known as the Afghan National Police (ANP) and the Afghan National Army (ANA). Tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars have already been pumped into Afghanistan’s “security” apparatus.
Last Thursday, two more U.S. soldiers became the latest victims of the scheme to arm and train Afghan forces. Staff Sgt. Jordan Bear, 25, and Spc. Payton Jones, 19, were killed by two Afghan soldiers and an accomplice at a joint military base in southern Kandahar, according to officials cited in news reports.
Parents Frustrated With Government School Failure Want Control
March 7, 2012 by Sam Rolley
Frustrated with the failed bureaucracy that has left one local school operating less-than-satisfactorily, parents in the small desert town of Adelanto, Calif., have decided to take over the school and fix its problems themselves.
Through a 2010 California law, the parents are working up a petition that will allow them to do such things as fire the school’s principal, close the school and reopen it as an independent charter.
“We just decided we needed to do something for our children,” Doreen Diaz, a parent organizing the trigger effort told The Washington Post. “If we don’t stand up and speak for them, their future is lost.”
According to the newspaper, Diaz’s daughter attends Desert Trails Elementary where last year two-thirds of students failed the State reading exams, half were not proficient in math and 80 percent failed the science exam. The school has reportedly for the past six years been ranked among the bottom 10 percent of schools in the State.
If the parents are successful, they are seeking to get preschool classes, a longer school day, a computer lab, every teacher to have a master’s degree, a full-time librarian and clean, working restrooms, among other things at the school. The district school superintendent says the demands are impossible to meet because of financial constraints.
Parents in other school districts throughout the Nation have taken similar steps. The Florida Legislature is voting on a parent trigger this week, and at least a dozen other States are weighing similar measures this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Totalitarianism is on the rise every where because advocates of big government have taken leadership control of the power centers within every society. Power centers are organizations and social groupings such as political parties, labor unions, church groups, media centers, and professional societies-that hold political power based on their claim to represent their members and on their ability to lead public opinion. It has taken many years for them to achieve this dominance over society, but they have succeeded. It does no good to complain or to theorize about what should be done. As long as advocates of big government hold power, nothing will change.
An educational campaign strategy should be used by more candidates in order to bringing this understanding to the electorate, only then can we bring about change.
Supreme Court Okays Teachers’ Right to Ridicule Student’s Christianity in Class
Back in 2009, Chad Farnan was a sophomore at Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo, California. One of his classes was Advanced Placement European History which was taught by James Corbett.
Nearly every day in class, Corbett, who had taught at the school for the past 20 years, would ridicule and harass Farnan about his Christian and creationist views. One of the statements made by Corbett in the classroom in front of Farnan’s fellow students was,
“When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth.”
After repeated verbal abuse in front of his classmates, Farnan filed suit against the teacher in December 2007. He accused the teacher of promoting hostility to Christians in the classroom and in promoting ‘irreligion over religion’ which is a violation of the First Amendment.
In the original trial, the judge found Corbett guilty of violating the First Amendment by denigrating Farnan’s Christian faith while in the classroom. US District Court Judge James Selna said,
“Corbett states an unequivocal belief that Creationism is ‘superstitious nonsense.’ The court cannot discern a legitimate secular purpose in this statement, even when considered in context.”
The case was appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the most liberal court in the entire US. In keeping with their liberal history, the Ninth Circuit Court overturned the District Court’s ruling declaring that the teacher had a qualified immunity since there was no precedent of any case where a teacher had been held liable for anti-religious statements and those statements been ruled to be unconstitutional.
The case then appealed to the US Supreme Court in hopes that they would make a precedent setting ruling to defend the religious rights of students in public schools. This past week, the US Supreme Court announced that they will not hear the case, thus making the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling will stand as the final decision.
A precedent in this case has been set, but not the one hoped for. The precedent that was set allows teachers to verbally abuse, ridicule and harass the religious beliefs of any student and they can do so in the classroom in front of other students.
Yet on the opposite side of the issue, courts have upheld restrictions placed on students expressing their religious views in the classroom. They are not allowed to defend their beliefs but are now forced to sit and take the abuse from the faculty.
Freedom of speech and religion now only applies to anti-Christians and Muslims, but not for Christians.
Read more: Supreme Court Okays Teachers’ Right to Ridicule Student’s Christianity in Class - Godfather Politics http://godfatherpolitics.com/3998/supreme-court-okays-teachers-right-to-ridicule-students-christianity-in-class/#ixzz1oAsdITJi
Essential Education
We are happy to announce the return of the highly successful Legislature for Dummies series of classes. These exciting classes will provide valuable information and training on how to operate within the state legislative system as a grassroots citizen lobbyist. They are geared to all tea party, 9-12, and conservative activism groups and individuals who have an interest in working with and within our state legislature to ensure that "We the People" have a voice in the process. This is a must have class if you intend on being active within the 107th General Assembly or if you just want a foundational understanding of how our state legislature operates and how legislation is crafted and becomes law. These classes are presented by former State Representative Susan Lynn and will include a workbook and other valuable resources. We will be offering both the Legislation 101 and 102 classes on Saturday March 3rd at the Embassy Center at 612 Due West Ave. in Madison TN. The classes are $15.00 each. The Legislature 101 class will begin at 8:30am and go until 10am. The Legislature 102 class will begin at 10:30 and go until 12 noon. If you had attended the 101 class in the past you can register for just the 102 class to complete the course. We also have a package deal for both classes for $25.00. To register for these classes please go HERE. http://legislature.eventbrite.com/
