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The Reverends Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jim Wallis, and Jeremiah Wright, and Father Michael Pfleger, insist that racism is alive and well in America. And they are right. All they need do is look in their respective mirrors to see some of its most active proponents.
Racism certainly still exists among some whites in the U.S. But anyone who thinks seriously -- and honestly -- about the issue also knows that those people are a dying breed. They never will die out completely, of course. Humans, contrary to liberal belief, never can achieve perfection. But their number is infinitely smaller than the reverends would have us believe.
Or, if such rampant racism still does exist, how do the reverends explain the widespread popularity of Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Michelle Malkin, Herman Cain, Star Parker, J.C. Watts, Ken Blackwell, Marco Rubio, Allen West, or Lloyd Marcus? All are minoritiesl Surely the reverends noticed.
And these people are wildly popular with those the reverends insist are the most insidious racists: conservatives. Can they explain that? Or could it be that conservatives actually do believe in the idea of character over color? The Reverend Jesse, especially, should recall the dream of his friend, the Reverend Martin.
Also consider the outcome of the 2010 midterm elections. A large number of minority conservatives ran for office at both the state and national levels, and many were elected, or else they lost by very narrow margins.
Black or Hispanic conservatives were elected to Congress from South Carolina and Florida -- the Deep South! -- while conservatives, including one Hispanic, won congressional seats in Mexican border districts in New Mexico and Texas and came very close in Arizona. New Mexico has elected this country's first Hispanic female governor, also a conservative. The vast majority of blacks and Hispanics freely admit that they vote liberal, so it simply is not possible that any of the minority candidates could have been elected without significant numbers of conservative white votes.
Of course, racism is not exclusive to America or to whites. It is, in fact, a human trait. It always has existed, and it always will. And true racism cannot be excused. But to some extent and in some respects, every person believes the race he or she was born into is superior to all others. That does not automatically translate into the hatred or denigration of those born to other races.
What it really suggests is we as individuals are happy being exactly what we are, no matter our race. It also suggests that we love, revere, and prefer the culture into which we were born. And why should we not? It was how God created us. Nor does loving our own race mean that we cannot develop friendships with, admire, or love those of other races. It happens all the time in the real world -- if not in the reverends'.
Certainly, racism contributed to yesterday's poverty. Today's poverty has little to do with racism but much to do with culture: the culture of individual responsibility versus the culture of entitlement preached by the reverends. And while the idea of entitlement is not limited to minorities, those who insist that racism causes poverty do not want to hear that poor whites far outnumber poor minorities, and they especially don't want to hear that many poor whites also are conservative.
There also is the inescapable fact that while some native-born Americans of every color seem to languish, most immigrants of every color -- at least those who come here legally -- appear to flourish. The difference, of course, is that those immigrants have not been raised in or indoctrinated with the entitlement mindset, have not been told they cannot succeed without government help, or at least not without the reverends' aid. They are, in fact, grateful to be here, more than willing to work hard and get ahead. Most do.
And it raises the question: do the Reverends and all those who insist racism is rampant in American society -- NAACP President Benjamin Jealous and Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center also come to mind -- in fact help foment bigoted or racist feelings and attitudes among some people, those in whom no ill feelings existed before? If they do, does that not serve the Reverends' true purposes and help explain their motives?
I suggest that the true racists are those who constantly try to pit one race against another -- that those the reverends lead are victims not of white racism, but of a racist game being played by the reverends themselves and those like them. Their constant alarms of "racist" behavior raise fears in those who follow them, and in turn among whites.
The simple fact is that victimization is big business. If it were not, the reverends would not enjoy the incomes they do or the political influence they wield. It is beyond irony that what the reverends actually achieve is the perpetuation of slavery: emotional, intellectual, economic, and, in a sense, physical. It is the slavery of ignorance. And it is exactly what the reverends intend. It gives them power. It gives them wealth. Not their followers -- them.
The tax cut for the Rich is done. Sadly the the majority of American citizens will be hurt by it. The bipartisan Tax Policy Center indicates 53% of citizens will see not benefit from it. 33% will actually pay more in taxes. And that 33% makes less than $30,000. So all you folks on SS will be paying more unless oh and don't forget you aren't going to get a COLA this year. There must be alot more wealth elderly than we know.
Now the folks making over $200,000 they are going to get almost $2000 in tax cuts or 13 times than the extra $140 dollars in taxes the poorest Americans will have to pay. I thought Americans were for the underdog. Who knew we were for stingy.
So much for Christian Charity. the Savior will send us to hell. Jesus say in Matthew 41-46
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Let us begin with the word “logic:” the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference. Now take the word “God:” the creator and ruler of the universe. Take the word “man:” the human individual. Take “human nature:” the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind. “Psycho:” a combining form representing psyche. “Psyche:” the human soul, spirit, or mind. Humans are logical minded.
Now take the word “soul:” the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life: the spiritual principle embodied in all human beings.
Now take the word “religion:” a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as a superhuman agency. “Superhuman:” above and beyond what is human. Who or what makes that determination? Did man make a mistake when he created God? Or did God make a mistake when he created man?
Man creates religions. The science that investigates the principles governing correct and reliable inference, attributable of humans, rejects faith in some superhuman notion without a basis of logic.
Unless the religion or state is all inclusive it does not acknowledge that we humans possess logic. You cannot say that any of the three major religions are all-inclusive in their doctrines and dogmas. America’s Constitution was based on the logical idea that the law is king. The United States has rejected America’s Constitution, and thereby the law of all times.
Jesus did not claim to be superhuman. To the contrary, he turned us away from the divine Caesar idea and toward a new, all-inclusive religion. Jesus: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Mt. 12:28,29). The superhuman United States says, “Don’t bust your bottom working. Come to Uncle Sam and get your welfare check. Let the filthy rich pay you so you who labor can rest.”
It is totally illogical that the United States can take the place of Jesus. The United States is on the same course as Rome was when Jesus uttered the above words. The Tea Party can take credit for puncturing the U. S. gas bag. Keep up the good work.
I’ve just discovered something more on the meaning of words. Take the word “logic.” In numerology, letters reduce to numbers. A=1, B=2, C=3, - - J=10/1, K=11/2, L=12/3, and so on. Logic adds up to 20/2. Here is what we read under 20/2 in Numerology and The Divine Triangle. “20/2, AS A PERSONAL NUMBER VIBRATION. You will be faced with many decisions in your lifetime. You must learn to make judgments based on reason, not appearance. When measuring or sizing up people, see their works and not their reputations. Outward appearance can be deceiving, so you must exercise thoughtfulness before any final judgments are made.”
“You like to control the people in your circle of influence and prefer to shape things to the ends which you deem worthy. Such a position necessitates choices; therefore, you are constantly tested. Should I do this or that? Is it wise to take this path or that path? Shall I go with the new or stick with the old? Deep within, you have an abiding knowledge of opposites; therefore, you are continually confronted with the need to make choices. As a result, your life is one of adaptation and renewal. New plans, new purposes and new ambitions present a continuing scenario demanding decisive action. This cyclical process creates the awakened human personality because the moment of judgment is the same as the moment of awareness. You cannot make a decision until you have weighed and measured all the facts and arrived at an awareness of the situation. Through decisive action you develop yourself and overcome the difficulties in life. Let your conscience guide you. “
The spirit of Christmas, the spirit of Jesus, the brotherhood attributed to the Age of Aquarius—
When the Moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
The choice, love and peace or death and destruction, does logic come from the brain? To know, it is necessary to know human consciousness, as distinguished from other life forms. Human consciousness perceives of good and evil, and various authorities to make a determination; it all depends on the circumstances.
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, said Steinbeck. There is one common denominator in the rich and powerful and the poor and miserable: determination, the former, strong, the latter weak. Enter authorities to make the determination, how to help the weak remain weak and the strong to remain strong.
Where did I get this idea? I observe; I am conscious. Is my conscious awareness in my brain or in a state without boundary? Who or what blocks my awareness? The authorities do what they can to keep people dumbed down and themselves in control, but with determination, there is no way to prevent one from growing in awareness. One can be very much aware of the opportunities to get rich, the opportunities to become powerful, or determined to simply drift on the tides. The drifters are easy prey for the rich and powerful, both in the public and private sectors.
I observed that the public had enjoyed a rising stock market for years. The rich and powerful manipulated the market, enriching themselves, causing the stock market crash in 1929. The Federal Reserve Bank, there to prevent bank failures during economic downturns, caused thousands of banks to fail. This brought on the so-called Great Depression and the rich and powerful Franklin D. Roosevelt to help out the poor and miserable, by keeping them dumbed down as much as possible. Taking from the rich and giving to the poor, I observe, is a marvelous way to stay in control.
I observe that America’s Great Depression spread to Europe. Germany’s Weimar Republic, the same as the Federal Reserve Bank is doing now in America, flooded the market with printing press money. Germany’s currency became worthless. The lesser of the evils turned out to Hitler’s National Socialism, better known as Nazi Germany. The powerful became monsters. I was sent to Germany to eliminate the monsters. I’m a disabled World War II veteran depending on the taxpayers.
Why this sorry state of affairs? Federal Reserve chaiman Ben Benarke says he doesn’t want to do what the Fed did in the 1930s, so he does what the Weimar Repubic did. The Fed’s printing presses are printing trillions of dollars backed by nothing. We have none other than socialist Barack Obama waiting for the day to proclaim himself the answer to our problem. Did you know that he is quietly working now to eliminate the Canadian and Mexican borders? What if, as a result, an American city is wiped out? Obama proves by his acts that he is willing to give millions of American lives to put himself in full control.
Shades of the Weimar Republic, the Wall Street Journal, I observe, says this is the worst Congress ever. Going back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s means of power and control, said Roosevelt shortly after being elected: “While it isn’t written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation.” A Roosevelt Court backed him. Justice Brandeis, a Roosevelt appointee, told us that “property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end.”
Barack Obama doesn’t need Congress, not anymore than Hitler needed the Weimar government. Socialist Barack Obama says he is a Roosevelt Democrat, and that he has a problem with the Constitution. What I observe is a cliff and Barack Obama poised to push me off.
A part of fortune, sensitive points in the astrological chart, and representative of worldly success, and as well health, also as to vocation and career, my astrologer, in 1975, told me that the Sun, Moon, and planets lined up to tell him that people working behind my back to bring me harm would pay a price, and to my reward. I’d gone to this astrologer when I made my decision to cut from the herd and go it alone. Those I left behind did not take kindly to my decision. They did what they could to bring harm to me. My astrologer’s prediction came true. “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Mt. 6:10). My ex-wife and the IRS lost.
Going it alone was going to sea. I purchased a 37 foot live-aboard sailboat I named Bold Venture and set sail on the South Atlantic. Shortly after going to sea, my greater awareness and insight caused me to sense that my help was needed. I sailed straight to three young people who had been snorkeling over a reef. They got caught in a current and were swept out to sea. You could call it a miracle, or you could say that when needed nature provided me with a more developed intuitive capability. Other such experiences followed. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. When I was on my own, there was no one to look to but God. I was given what I needed to survive, and more: to save other lives.
Until I decided to write my memoirs 26 years after my departure from my old life, I had little idea of what my experiences meant. Writing my memoirs was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. A picture was put in place. For the past nine years, first thing in the morning, I write my thoughts. You are reading this morning’s thoughts.
When my astrological chart was produced and explained, it told of the negatives that had led me to the present. It even explained my departure. It predicted my future. I made good the good that could happen. It was a matter of choice.
When you apply the history of America, my life experiences apply. When I departed, went on my own, I was the pioneer seeking a new identity. America’s pioneers made the future happen. Gradually, the individual’s power has been taken by expanding government. The American people are becoming spineless jellyfish. The Tea Partly is representative of my departure. Our individual wills are being tested. It remains to be seen if we will stay the course.
My part of fortune paid. You could call it coincidence. As for me, there have been too many coincidences to call it coincidence. I should not be here to tell my story. I should have gone down in a storm at sea, in the Bermuda Triangle. I survived. During my two years at sea, I saved seven lives from a watery grave, including my own. The kingdom of God is to be distinguished from the kingdom of heaven. God’s will and my will are one. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, We, the people of the United States . . .do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
My astrological chart tells me that the most important thing is my life is partnership. I had been married three times. My third wife walked out in April 1980, taking with her half of what we had in the bank. My astrologer predicted it five years earlier. I should have believed him. Two weeks after wife number three walked out, wife number four walked in, when the last thing in the world I wanted was another wife. I asked my bride to be to join me in a hike to nearby Multnomah Falls. I lived in Portland, Oregon. Our date was on May 18, 1980, the day Mt. St. Helens erupted. The top thousand feet of Mt. St. Helens disappeared. What had been a beautiful snow capped cone suddenly changed to an ugly flat top. Beautiful Spirit Lake was no more. The Toutle River valley was laid to waste. The Columbia River channel was blocked. Thousands of acres of timber lay flat on the ground. This scene gave me a mental picture of what my life had been.
A volcanic eruption 40 times as great as the Mt. St. Helen’s eruption occurred 6,000 years ago, and now one of nature’s most beautiful works, Crater Lake, Oregon, this is a comparison of the past with my present life, you might say my part of fortune. God works in mysterious ways.
Epic FAIL!!
http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2010/12/16/obama-is-failing-does-this-mean-were-not-racist/
Man, do I feel better after reading that!
Well, after a hiatus from any party activity, I have returned to the fold. I am reprising my role as Hunt County Coordinator for the Constitution Party of Texas. After getting my dues in order and talking with Bryan Malatesta, the State Chairman, we decided that I should try to stir something up in and around Hunt County.
Since the Texas Tea Party seems to be supporting the Constitution Party, I decided to see if I couldn't find enough common ground in my area to bring the two groups together. At some point in the future, I am going to try to set up a meeting between the CPOT and the Tea Partiers in the area and see if we can't come up with a plan to rattle the cages of the powers that be.
It should be no secret that the CPOT platform is the most conservative and Christian platform ever conceived since the founders did their thing. I am asking all Tea Party people in Texas to please take some time to actually read the platform and see if you can't bring yourselves to actively support the CPOT. We need to get real Christian conservatives who believe in God, family and country. We need people who are willing to throw their hat in the ring and run for local office under the Constitution Party banner. And, of course, CPOT needs dues paying members. Going head to head against the status quo day in and day out costs money. If you are like me, you get a little miffed at all the groups that want to put their hand in your pocket. But I would say to you, there are those that are worthy of your support. Support the CPOT with a paid membership and support the Tea Party by becoming a Guardian. It is money well spent and I know I sleep better knowing I am actively trying to change things for the better, at least from my perspective.
Oh, by the way. Don't worry about those who would tell you that supporting the CPOT is a blow to the Republican Party of Texas. Hell, they need a few good smacks to get them back in line. If enough people abandon the status quo, maybe they will begin to get the idea we are graveyard serious about how we want this country governed and we aren't ready to compromise our principles or honor.
And for those friends and neighbors who are lucky enough to be native Texans, let's show these goonies how Texans handle rascals and no-good politicians. Texans are some of the fiercest patriots around. Maybe we should take time to remember that little fact.
American by Birth, Texan by the Grace of God!
In the U.S., 12 percent of the over 65 age folks say they are in good health, in socialized health care England, only 2 percent, oh, but dear ones, there is much, much more to the Obamacare shim-sham than anyone has ever revealed to you. Lend me your ear. I call it a miracle. You might call it coincidence. I should have died many years ago, or gone to prison, or at best left homeless. At age 85, I’m in good mental and physical health. All of my dreams have come true. Like Glenn Beck, I hit rock bottom and had a bigger than life calling.
Beck’s emotion packed appearance in Wilmington, Ohio yesterday included four miracles, in Beck’s opinion. He said you might call it coincidence. Beck, a recovering alcoholic in his words, feels called upon by God. He is a tremendously popular positive force. Wilmington, after suffering the closing down of a major employer, has managed to keep its spirits up, thanks to the town’s church people. Beck picked Wilmington to bring us to the Christmas spirit. He went there and prayed with them and the miracles he mentioned occurred.
Beck’s enormous popularity is a thorn in the flesh of the establishment. The powers that be are working on removing Beck. I’m no worry. Maybe the one or two who read my tales will be impressed enough to pass them on. At least that’s my hope. But who am I to talk about the Christmas spirit? I believe in Jesus but I’m not a Christian. A Christian preacher told me the Scriptures say I’m not going to be saved. I guess I’m misinterpreting what Jesus said. Maybe I don’t need to be saved. Muslims believe that if you are not a Muslim you go to hell. Do miracles never occur to those of us who don’t attend churches, or synagogues, or mosques? Somebody is wrong. It is quite likely, in my opinion, that all are wrong.
I’m a secular humanist, someone with human values who is not religious. The Bible is not a story of religions; it is the moral story of man. According to Jesus, we are all God’s children. My friends, there are no atheists. Atheists are simply people who have yet to discover who they are, and they are not going to as long as their choices are limited to religion. Tomorrow’s God will be everyone’s god.
After discovering who I was, my spiritual guides put me to the test. I had written the Attorney General of the United States a letter telling him I’d see him in court on my income tax issue. Can you imagine the reaction? How audacious can anyone get! The Attorney General forwarded my letter to the IRS. The IRS determines tax law. Was I mistaken in writing the Attorney General? The IRS, chosen to be the maker and keeper of income tax law, took it upon itself to make me a believer in the income tax by assessing me tax I didn’t owe and freezing my rightful refund of $5,000. Yep, they made me a believer. Beck has nothing on me. The IRS hung itself with its own legal rope. Dear ones, best that you know Tim Geithner is not the maker and keeper of income tax law. Best that you know Obama and his socialist and revolutionary comrades are not the makers and keepers of the law. Joe Smith, the original, is the best authority on the law in the United States.
Here are some of the particulars of the miracle of Joe Smith, the original. I had been self-employed. I was not eligible for unemployment compensation. I took a minimum paying job. My employer withheld 20 percent of my meager pay for Uncle Sam. I was single with no deductions. Can you blame the unemployed for opting for unemployment pay? Why would an entry level worker want to work? He can’t exist on the after tax pay; he can on unemployment benefits. This is marvelous solution for ending free enterprise.
I was locked out for non-payment of rent. You need to know that our federal redistribution agent in Washington, D.C. has it all figured out—how to help itself at the expense of everyone. Eighty-five percent of the American people disapprove of Congress. I not only disapproved, I acted.
To wit: My wife was divorcing me. It’s not like it was in America. Government has a duty to us. My wife didn’t need me. She had Uncle Sam. A good student of the vogue, she had forged her name on a $3,500 check made out to me and cashed it. I had no money. I was locked out of my pad. Was I helpless? We are helpless only if we think we are. Your elected representatives in Washington, D.C. are doing everything possible, taking from the rich and giving to the poor to make you believe you simply must depend on government. The next time you give money to a homeless person think about that.
Thankfully, I was not long without a roof over me. The divorce court, in sympathy with me, ordered that my wife pay my expenses while I awaited the divorce trial. The court awarded me 30 acres of valuable land and a 3,500 square foot home, a barn, and my office building. The court awarded my wife the furniture and what cash was left in the bank, awarded my ex-wife a 25th as much as me. Have you ever heard of anything as unfair? The judge was a member of the old school of thought. You reap what you sow.
My astrologer told me there is a “part of fortune” in my chart that says people who do things behind my back to harm me end by paying a price. Was it simply a coincidence that my ex-wife was awarded a 25th as much as me? Incidentally, my ex-wife conspired with the IRS to cheat me. In fact, she did everything she could to put me on the street, and succeeded. Hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn.
Do you know that you, as a taxpayer, after you have paid the tax, have the authority to take the IRS all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court? The IRS has good reason to think you won’t. As for the Attorney General forwarding my letter to the IRS, his lawyer, the Solicitor General, responded to the Supreme Court that the IRS made a mistake and it had been corrected. Both of these two lawbreakers made a mistake in thinking I would not take the issue to the Supreme Court. The mistake, I think you will agree, was sending my letter to the IRS. Although the Court dismissed me, that didn’t stop me. I took my court record to The Palm Beach Post, a liberal newspaper. As unlikely as you might think, the newspaper investigated the IRS and printed a front page story telling the world that the IRS had wrongfully taxed me, had ignored court orders, and had illegally frozen my tax refund.
Who would have expected this outcome? The Attorney General was proven a bald-faced liar. My case proved that the courts look the other way on taxpayer cases, proved that the United States has turned into a lawless conspiracy. What you must know, my friends, is that on our sweat Washington, D.C, the greatest fraud of all times, and the world’s one superpower, has made the American people’s liberties a shambles. I sure hope I’m not jailed for revealing state secrets, and I hate to spoil your day but we are literally living on borrowed time.
Now for my Christmas story: Before I wrote the Attorney General, I had studied the Constitution. I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. I had a bigger than life calling. The courage of my conviction won. Before I went out on a limb for the forbidden fruit, I had faith that the IRS was going to eat crow. Not only did I win in the divorce trial and beat the Nazi IRS, but the miracles continued. Jesus said in earth as it is in heaven. So Beck took the high road and I took the low road. Jesus said in earth as it is in heaven. I arrived in heaven before ye. Heaven for me is in the tall timber near Mt. Hood. I could not ask for more. There is something to the saying that God helps them who help themselves.
Wikileaks Info Shows Obama Used CIA as “Watermelons”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936289.ece
With Hundreds of Millions of His 'Profits' at Stake
President Seeks Extortive Data
Against Countries Doubting Global Warming
Hillary Clinton is not the only high level American politician embarrassed by Wikileaks revelations. According to documents released by Wikileaks, President Barack Obama employed covert CIA operatives to try to dig up scandalous data on countries opposed to the Copenhagen Climate Treaty which he’d so actively seek to sell to the world in December, 2009. Of course, one month prior to the Copenhagen meetings, the infamous release of tens of thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of East Anglia (England) University which came to be known as “Climategate,” destroyed all of Obama’s dreams of triumphing on the world stage by leading virtually the entire planet into signing a Copenhagen Treaty with far sharper teeth than the nothing paper that the 2009 meeting produced. Shocked by Climategate, Europeans were not enthusiastic about getting involved with more green nonsense (Spain had gone from the #1 European economy in 1997 with 4% unemployment to one of the worst economies in the world with 21% unemployment after their experiment with subsidizing green job creation). Obama, except for a rousing speech against capitalism but praising him by Venezuelan communist leader Hugo Chavez came home from Copenhagen empty-handed.
Just as the Wikileaks data shows Hillary Clinton seeking diplomats to dig up dirt and embarrassing info on foreign leaders and diplomats; Wikileaks now shows that Barack Obama ordered the CIA to find similar information about whole countries and their supposed despoiling of the environment or coolness about global warming at Copenhagen. According to what Senator James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, told the Daily Caller website: Obama was “desperate to enforce its orthodoxy on global warming.”
Obama, Al Gore, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Franklin Raines, Richard Sandor, Valerie Jarret, Joel Rogers, John Ayers, the Shores Bank of Chicago, several Goldman Sachs bigwigs, and about fifty other well-known progressives stood to make vast fortunes if the United States passed Cap and Trade legislation in concert with world leaders united by a strong accord from Copenhagen. Climategate blew their plans out of the water and then the failure to achieve any consensus on strong global response at Copenhagen shot their scheme to hell. The folks in question all were part of a Chicago area initiative called CCX (the Chicago Climate eXchange) which expected to own the lion’s share of American carbon trading under cap and trade which Sandor estimated at a $10 TRillion yearly industry. In good times the U.S. economy amounts to $15 TRillion. Thus CCX would literally sell the country “blue sky” with its fictitious-based global warming driving carbon trading and drive all prices roughly 67% higher and enjoy commissions on a good part of 40% of the economy for scamming the people with a system that would eventually bankrupt the nation. Thanks to Climategate and Copenhagen the CCX enterprise “dissolved just within the last three weeks. A lot of progressive money was lost in the last thirteen months.
Not surprisingly, the same liberal so-called mainstream media (MSM) in America which refused to run the Climategate story linked above thirteen months ago to date has failed to show the Wikileaks revelation of Obama’s scandal (the link at the top of the blog is to the ultra-liberal London Times’ website which reported the Climategate story accurately but did NOT show this information:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/medieval-warm-period-rediscovered.html
about the biggest fraud in Climategate the deliberate omission of the Medieval Warm Period from CRU calculations). The Wikileaks revelation on Obama ran in England’s The Guardian newspaper which reported that State Department administration officials, acting at the request of the CIA, sent a secret cable asking U.S. diplomats to gather intelligence on other countries’ preparations for the then-pending Copenhagen climate conference. The request also asked diplomats to be on the lookout for indications that countries were not fostering environmental cooperation and for evidence of countries circumventing U.N.-sponsored environmental treaties. In effect, Obama and the diplomats and the CIA were acting as “watermelons.”
A ‘watermelon’ (since the Climategate revelations) is what Europeans call an extreme environmentalist leader. Just as an “Oreo” in the United States is a Black that other Blacks say “is black on the outside but white on the inside” . . . a watermelon is somebody “green on the outside but pink to deep red on the inside.” That is, pretending to be concerned about the environment in order to push an ultra-socialist or Marxist agenda because cap and trade legislation would require an almost totalitarian state to administer. Climategate which was heavily covered in Europe but ignored in America undermined Obama’s Copenhagen hopes and apparently made him desperate. Given all the important data that’s resulted from Wikileaks, Rajjpuut is shocked to find himself saying that Julian Assange has proven himself to be a hero for freedom lovers everywhere . . . this Obama scandal and the similar blackmail-seeking actions of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both revealed by Assange’s Wikileaks, show us an administration that will stop at nothing to advance its progressive/socialist agenda. To them clearly, their foul ends justify whatever super-foul means the opt to employ. Barack Obama is a watermelon. To push his collectivist agenda, he pretends to be environmentally-conscious, but he’s really only interested in the power that accrues to a government that has the power and scope to carry out such a grave assault on freedom as cap and trade would prove to be.
When the cap and trade bill stalled in the U.S. Senate after squeaking through the House of Representatives in the late spring of 2009, and then failed to advance out of the Senate for several months, Obama tried to circumvent the lawmakers and have the Environmental Protection Agency create law by regulatory edict. Shortly afterward the EPA published a regulatory change saying that henceforth Carbon Dioxide would be regarded by their agency as a toxic emission and levels would be controlled by the EPA. Fortunately, the EPA was violating its own charter. Florida and Virginia immediately sued and the short-lived regulation was rescinded because the EPA is not allowed to take anyone else’s studies (such as those of the East Anglia University CRU involved in Climategate) but must do its own research and congress must be allowed to monitor that research. CCX and Obama’s dreams of making a fortune scamming the American people while unveiling a virtual totalitarian state upon us all went up in smoke at the same moment.
According to Daily Caller website, in a leaked Feb. 17, 2010 cable, Michael Froman, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for international affairs, held a meeting with the European Union’s climate commissioner-designate, Conne Hedegaard, seeking to work around “unhelpful countries such as Venezuela or Bolivia” and get the Copenhagen treaty into force. Froman in the cable said the U.S. and E.U. “need to neutralize, co-opt or marginalize, co-opt or marginalize these and others such as Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador.” He also advocated using divide-and- conquer tactics to confront several of the more strident opponents to cap and trade and global warming orthodoxy and other Copenhagen treaty opponents, saying the U.S. and E.U. needed “to better handle third country obstructionism and avoid future train wrecks on climate …”
The Obama administration later cutoff aid to Ecuador and Bolivia last April that would have helped them reach the Copenhagen treaty’s carbon emission targets, citing their opposition to the agreement.
“I think this goes to show that to the left-wing of the Democratic Party, national security means anything you want it to,” former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said. “I think it is certainly a misallocation of priorities to be using intelligence capabilities on something like climate change.” Rajjpuut would say it shows the progressive Democratic leaders are morally bankrupt.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Hello everyone, I know lots of people are psyched with the latest news out of Virginia.. I know I am! I am one of the unlucky residents of Massachusetts who is unable to afford healthcare. My employer doesn't offer it, and instead of the state offering to assist me in purchasing it, they decided to fine me $2,000 in 2009.
I am currently in a court battle with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I know there are many Massachusetts residents who know about my ongoings but I don't believe it's reached nationwide coverage.
The Boston Herald has run several articles on my case, I've been interviewed by several radio shows, and did a quick television interview on NECN.
I should also add that I am representing myself in this lawsuit against the state, considering I cannot afford to hire an attorney. His or her fees would outweigh the cost of the fines anyways. I have filed a Motion for Judgment with the Superior Court and I have a hearing scheduled on January 6th, 2011. I honestly have no idea what's going to happen!
If any of you folks are on Facebook I'd love for you to visit the page I setup to keep people in the loop. Here's the link: Merlina vs. Massachusetts
The state has hired a private law firm to fight me. The latest news from the Herald is that they are paying those lawyers $125/hr to fight my case. It must be nice to have unlimited resources. I on the other hand am just a 29 year old guy who cuts glass for a living in Peabody, MA for a small family business. *sigh*
Keep up the good fight!
Michael Anthony Merlina
Pelosi, Reid, Progressives Practice
One More Christmas Rape upon Voters
You may recall that just 43 days ago, America’s voters showed their extreme dissatisfaction with the powers that be (and "business as usual") in the country's seats of government. Besides attacking incumbents in general on the national and state level . . . Democrats (as the party controlling the House, Senate and Oval Office) netted a loss of 63 seats in the House of Representatives; 6 Senate seats; 7 governors; and at the state house level some 692 individual state congressmen were lost. Depending upon how you crunch those numbers this was the biggest disaster suffered by one of the major political parties since 1938 (on the national scene) or 1928 (nationally plus state-by-state).
Despite this comeuppance aimed at big, out of control government and even bigger out of control spending . . . Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have set their gangs loose upon the American public with nothing less than voter rape and murder of the Constitution in mind . . . .
Item: The Pelosi-led house has still not passed a budget and has no plans to do so, in defiance to their Constitutionally-mandated role in Washington.
Item: With the biggest tax-hike in the history of the country scheduled for January, 1, 2011 (when the Bush Tax Cuts all expire), Nancy Pelosi -- who’s had four years to deal with this matter -- has still not passed an extension to those tax cuts.
Item: Without any openness, bi-partisanship or concern for the voters, the Harry Reid led Senate has produced a 1924-page Omnibus spending bill costing $1.1 TRillion in new spending and featuring 6036 earmarks at a cost of $87 Billion.
Item: Before passing an extension to the Bush tax cuts; the House has produced another huge bill aimed at effectively grabbing off 8% of all western lands and killing jobs in the logging; mining; fishing; and recreational industries to appease the radical environmentalists supporting the Democrats. At present roughly 49% of all far western lands now belong to the federal government; and another 10% of this land is under severe federal usage-restraints. Thus if this bill becomes law, 7/12 of all far western land will be removed from the tax rolls of the states and added to the bankruptcy that Obamacare’s new state mandated Medicaid costs will produce would move bankruptcy of ALL 50 of the United States back from 2024 to 2021.
Item: Also attached to the Green-takeover bonanza would be a huge amount of acreage along the southern border with Mexico turned into wildlife sanctuaries which would prohibit Border Patrol Agents from operating there and thus effectively opening the floodgates to illegal immigration even wider than they already are. This occurs one day after a Border Control Agent was killed by illegal aliens in the United States.
Item: Congress is refusing to look at a bill which would undo all the harm done to central California vegetable and fruit farming by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision to suspend irrigation to protect the 3” Delta Smelt population. Occasionally, smelt die by swimming close to the piping intake and getting sucked in. Some parts of Fresno County suffered 40% unemployment thanks to this EPA edict.
Item: Once again Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is placing huge bills before the senators that no one has read; bills which the public knows nothing about; and once again Reid is planning to keep them voting through Christmas Eve on his pork-laden; big spending bills. Doesn’t it all make you proud to be an American?
Item: Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Justice Department last year gave Christmas-celebrants such heat, is now suing a school district for not allowing a Muslim teacher to take off (without pay) to travel to Mecca as part of a pilgrimage that all Muslims are encouraged to take some time in their lives (like maybe after retirement?). Mr. Holder’s decisions 1) to NOT win a case already won by the (the New Black Panther defendants refused to show up in court) Bush administration concerning voter intimidation at a Philadelphia polling place; 2) and his decision to attack Arizona for passing a law to control illegal immigration; 3) and his decision to try 9/11 attack planner KSM in New York City; 4) and his decision to Mirandize the Underwear Bomber and get him to clam up and lawyer-up before intelligence operatives could deal with him . . . have got patriotic Americans wondering who’s the biggest threat: our Justice Department or the terrorists?
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
THIS IS AN URGENT UPDATE FROM ROY BECK, President of NUMBERSUSA.ORG - if you see your reps listed below please contact them and tell them NO!!
Reid Says Amnesty Vote Pushed Off To Early Next Week
GOOD NEWS -- No New YES Votes For DREAM Amnesty
BAD NEWS -- Talk of hiding amnesty inside giant spending & tax bills
See below for our latest target list for today.
HERE'S THE UPDATE IN BRIEF FOR TODAY:
Massive pro-amnesty pressure this week has failed to get a single new YES vote. Congratulatons to all of you who have been phoning with practical and rational comments about the DREAM amnesty. Just as last week, we would beat that amnesty if the vote were held in the Senate today. But we can't stop phoning because Senate leaders are trying to give pro-amnesty advocates every moment possible to find the last of the 60 votes they need.
No. 2 Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) now is pushing the DREAM Act amnesty vote out of this week and he says likely early next week. Nonetheless, he continues to claim that the amnesty vote is a higher priority for the Senate leadership than all but three or four of the long wish list they have before Christmas.
Reid also indicates that if amnesty doesn't pass before Christmas he may bring Senate back between Christmas and New Year's. He also has suggested he might bring the old Senate back on Monday and Tuesday after New Year's for the final two days before the Congress that was elected in November takes over. He knows that an amnesty has zero chance of passing in the newly elected Congress, so he seems intent on holding the old Congress around as long as he needs to get an amnesty to the President's desk.
Danger of hiding amnesty inside larger bill during the Lame Duck? The ILW.com website for immigration lawyers carried some fascinating comments this week about the desperation among pro-amnesty advocates. In giving three reasons why the nation's attorneys should support the DREAM amnesty was: "a not-insignificant fraction of DREAM beneficiaries will need legal counsel, one of the few bright spots on the horizon for law firms suffering from the Great Recession." While noting that Reid still doesn't have the votes to pass the DREAM amnesty on its own, "If DREAM passage is to be ensured, the sure-fire method is to attach it to a must-pass bill. Two such bills are currently in play and DREAM could conceivably be attached to either. The bills are of course, the tax cut bill and the Continuing Resolution for Appropriations for FY 2011. . . even serious discussion about attaching DREAM to the must-pass bills would go a long way to getting the 60 votes on the stand-alone bill."
TOP PHONE TARGETS TODAY
UNDECLARED BUT LEANING YES
202-224-3121
ALASKA
Sen. Murkowski (R)
No statement on her web site and no media quotes. Daily Kos says multiple whips counts have her as a likely supporter. Most of the PRO-amnesty groups are counting her as a YES.
LOUISIANA
Sen. Landrieu (D)
She indicates that the House bill needs to be considered because it has some changes (suggesting that she will claim the House bill closes loopholes). She talks of major concern for the "children."
MICHIGAN
Sen. Stabenow (D)
She was a certain YES on cloture to start debate. But she has not indicated whether she would vote YES to end debate and thus pass the bill. She is up for re-election in 2012 in a state that turned sharply Republican in the 2010 elections. Now (as noted above), we are facing only a cloture vote to END debate. PRO-amnesty forces count her as theirs. But I don't think she has to be at all.
MISSOURI
Sen. McCaskill (D)
McCaskill has a wide-ranging interview on her web site. Appears to be leaning toward yes but its non-committal. She says (1) we have never punished children, (2) this is a different bill than the one I voted against, and (3) if this bill is more narrowly drawn, I will take a serious look at it. She needs to be reminded that any amnesty support will certainly show up when she tries to be re-elected in 2012 by a state that went sharply Republican in the 2010 elections.
NORTH DAKOTA
Sen. Dorgan (D)
He was a certain YES on cloture to start debate. But he has not indicated whether he would vote YES to end debate and thus pass the bill. Now (as noted above), we are facing only a cloture vote to END debate. In the past, he has been one of our most reliable NO votes on amnesty. But he is retiring and acting squishy. PRO-amnesty forces are counting him as theirs. I don't think that has to be true at all.
LEANING NO BUT PROBABLY NEED MORE ENCOURAGEMENT
202-224-3121
These Senators' staff continually tell our members that they will vote NO. But based on past performance, on current pressure from PRO-amnesty forces in their states, etc., our Hill Team believes they need lots more phone calls thanking them for their expected NO vote and reminding them why they are taking the ethically and practically correct position.
MAINE
Sen. Collins (R)
Sen. Snowe (R)
MONTANA
Sen. Baucus (D)
NORTH CAROLINA
Sen. Hagan (D)
NORTH DAKOTA
Sen. Conrad (D)
202-224-3121
Please make those calls. We can win this, like we have beaten every amnesty in every year since 2000.
KEY MESSAGES IN ALL PHONE CALLS TO SENATORS WHO ARE SYMPATHETIC TO THE DREAM ACT POSTER CHILDREN
Keep this in mind about Senators who are Undeclared, or who say they will vote NO but are squishy, or who say they will vote YES but are potentially movable to NO:
They all are sympathetic to the poster children of the DREAM Act -- those are the minority of potential amnesty recipients who were brought to the U.S. by their parents when they were infants or toddlers and who are now good high school or college students.
You will gain nothing with the Senators we are trying to reach today by being negative about these students.
Instead, you have to approach these Senators on the basis of practicality. Perhaps the poster children do deserve consideration in the future but not before the enforcement is put in place to stop future illegal immigration. Your argument is that it is not possible in this rushed Lame Duck session to create and pass an amnesty that is limited to the deserving and which will stop future unfair illegal labor competition to unemployed Americans.
My thought is that it would be helpful today for every phone call to make the same pitches to Senators who are sympathetic to the poster children of the DREAM amnesty:
No matter how sympathetic these students may be, you can't give out another mass amnesty without fixing the weak enforcement that allowed their parents to bring them here and keep them here for years and years. DREAM has ZERO enforcement.
The DREAM Act amnesty includes no requirement that jobs be shut off to the millions of future illegal aliens who will bring THEIR children and put them in this exact same predicament that DREAM puports to resolve. It is totally irresponsible to the 22 million unemployed Americans to give out a big amnesty without requiring mandatory verification to keep illegal aliens from holding jobs.
This is the line in the sand you are asking every Senator to draw . . .
. . . . . The line is that whatever one's feelings about the merits of some illegal aliens for an amnesty, no amnesty should be even talked about until the border is secure against continued mass illegal immigration and our jobs are secure from illegal aliens being able to take them from Americans.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR PICKING UP THAT PHONE ONCE AGAIN,
I learn from Logan Rideout that this is Bill of Rights Day, the 219th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Says Logan, “The Founding Fathers understood that when left to its own devices, government will eagerly trample the individual God given rights of the people and that it was their duty as enlightened leaders to protect at all cost the humanity of law and the freedom of the individual.”
I’m not an “enlightened leader,” at least by public acclamation, but this peon taxpayer employed Amendment Five to take my case to the U. S. Supreme Court. We can either fly with eagles or fall into the abyss. I don’t see the Bill of Rights as a Muslim views them. I see them as my personal rights, and not only that but my personal responsibility to protect at all costs.
Glenn Beck of Fox News pointed out that the stages of grief begin with anger. The nation has never been more divided and angry. This is because the American people have been looking to “enlightened leaders” for their answers, not to the Bill of Rights as a personal responsibility. Putting myself in the place of an “enlightened leader,” I would conjure up a solution for the problems we face, knowing that there would be much disagreement. I would force society to adhere to my dictates, by whatever means it took, knowing that the end would justify the means. As a consequence of “enlightened leaders,” what we see is not a pretty picture.
Beck gives us many examples of what is wrong and what we need to do as individuals, but he has never brought to our attention the subtle workings of the universe. Beck, taught by “enlightened leaders,”is in the limelight. I’ve learned from personal experience. I’m not a lawyer but I did something most lawyers can’t do. Because I know the law, I appeared before the Supreme Court. I remained a peon taxpayer, out of sight, out of mind, a nobody from nowheresville.
Beck speaks of Thomas Jefferson and the self-evident truth that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. Noble words, but the self-evident truth he doesn’t explain is that our Creator is by reason and nature a total rejection of supernatural revelation. God, as told by Beck, is a wholly manmade concoction, and meant to control you. Fine for Beck but not for me, or for that matter, Jefferson. The view held by Jefferson was that we are meant by our Creator to be inner directed; government is here to serve our needs, not to direct us, and the same for the church. In no way do we have “enlightened leaders.” It’s a Muslim idea.
External authority—Sharia Law—naturally puts the cart before the horse because otherwise you would be your own authority. The only reason we need external authority is because we always have. Actually, it goes against your nature. You were not created to jump through authority’s hoops. We are leaving the Age of Pisces and external control, entering the Age of Aquarius. Aquarians are self-directed.
Deepak Chopra, M.D. brought to my attention that the ancient sages of India reasoned so is the microcosm so is the macrocosm. Modern science, by examination of the subatomic world, the aspects of matter, observes that we humans have the power to turn light waves into tiny packets of energy called photons. Photons are directed by the eye to the brain, processed, and we see a tree. Electrons are processed in a TV set and we see a moving image of something taking place on the other side of the planet. By magic, we manufacture atomic bombs. We have the power to direct the material. Yep, seeing is believing, but reality is not the world we see, my friends. Our material progress has far outpaced our spiritual growth. The last thing we need is authorities and their ungodly laws. They are leaving us in danger of annihilating ourselves.
Being retired and nothing better to do with my time, I decided to write my memoirs. We live mostly in the present. By looking back at my past, events began to connect. My wife Karen had taken an interest in astrology and excited my curiosity. In Astrologer’s Handbook, Karen had placed my initials next to “Saturn trine Pluto.” I read that this trine “gives the natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized,” and that it “favors those who work in such fields as physics, the occult, magic, astrology, or systems of meditation.” What a coincidence!
It was amazing the way things were connecting. I was writing my memoirs when something came to mind I wanted to look up in the Bible. Karen’s Scofield Reference Bible had a large Concordance. For some unknown reason, I read Scofield’s Introduction and underlined a couple of his thoughts. (1) “The saying that ‘anything may be proved by the Bible’ is both true and false—true if isolated passages are used; utterly false if the whole divine revelation is in view.” (2) “The Dispensations are distinguished, exhibiting the majestic, progressive order of the divine dealings of God with humanity, ‘the increasing purpose’ which runs through and links together the ages, from the beginning of the life of man to the end in eternity. Augustine said: ‘Distinguish the ages and the Scriptures harmonize.’”
With Scofield’s above mentioned thoughts on my mind, I happened to run across The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life by Evan Harris Walker, who was a brain doctor and quantum physicist. He recently passed on. Dr. Walker, under “A God for Tomorrow,” wrote: “The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic of reality.”
Speaking of a God for tomorrow, in Astrologer’s Handbook, under “Aquarius,” the sign of brotherhood and fraternity, key words, humanitarianism, independence, originality, I was deep in these thoughts when Karen called me from her office to tell me to turn on the TV. I saw the World Trade Center collapsing, under Muslim law, not God’s law. In saying “in earth as it is in heaven” (in the Lord’s Prayer) as Jesus predicted, if you want God to be in charge of your life, look within and find the divine constitution for righteous government. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was pure law, no in-betweens, direct from our Maker and Keeper. God is not Muslim, Christian, or Jew. How far down do we go before we become aware of God’s law?
In writing my memoirs, my thoughts went back to World War II. I was on the high seas heading for the invasion of Japan’s main island when Truman gave the order to drop the atom bombs. World War II ended. My life was spared. I recalled my anger in 1975. My business enterprise of 25 years was on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me. I blamed it all on the lying frauds in Washington. The IRS had mistakenly put me on the street in the name of tax. World War II didn’t solve our problems, not by a long shot. The United States is turning Nazi.
It came to me that my life was spared for a reason. Government takes from the individual because it has that power. That is hardly a duty. It is up to us, individually, to solve our problems. It is not the government’s duty to make dependents of us by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Self- serving politicians have lawlessly rejected the Constitution and taken it upon themselves, according to the legal judgments of frauds on the bench, to rule in light of the current needs, as government sees the need. Hitler was legal. When I read the Constitution, and felt that voices of the past were speaking to me, encouraging me to act. My anger turned into a bigger than life calling.
I went to sea. Miracles occurred. I left the sea in 1977 captain of my ship. In the year 2010, at age 85, if my life could be any better I don’t know how. It wasn’t redistribution of our national energy that made my life good. It was the power potential that exists in every individual that made my life good. Go ahead and see it the way a Muslim sees it if you must. I feel compelled to tell it the way I see it.
America is looking at hard times ahead. Take what you are told with a grain of salt. Beck was at rock bottom. Beck tells you what he did that turned his life around. I tell you want I did. Do what Beck says. Don’t take it from him, or me. Learn for yourself who you are and what you are about. You will be astonished at the power you possess if you believe that God’s kingdom is in you, not in your religion. Instead of worrying about what is to become of you, believe it is on earth as in heaven. The sooner you spread the word that we are our brother’s keeper, the sooner we cross the threshold to our intended future.
I hope everyon finds this as interesting as I did.
As we celebrate the 219th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights today on December 15, it is imperative that we take a moment to reflect upon and embrace the forethought of our Founding Fathers and apply their wisdom to the context that we live in today. This collection of ten amendments to the United States Constitution are what guarantee the sanctity of our individual rights and freedoms and what in the end sets America apart from any nation before or since.
The Founding Fathers understood that when left to its own devices, government will eagerly trample the individual God given rights of the people and that it was their duty as enlightened leaders to protect at all cost the humanity of law and the freedom of the individual. They declared for people everywhere that a government by the people must not infringe on the basic human rights of man to speak, worship, and assemble with whom they choose, and that ultimate power and authority rests in the hands of the governed not those that would govern.
When we look at the world landscape 219 years later we can see that the Bill of Rights has allowed America to live true to its design and serve as the best laboratory for freedom and liberty the world has ever seen.
Having suffered the tyranny of Syria’s Hafez Assad, it was this promise that brought my family to America in the mid-1960’s. My grandfather and father fought from inside and outside of Syria for a greater Middle East that recognized universal human rights, freedom, and democracy. But the secular fascism of today’s Bashar Assad, Hosni Mubarak, and Mouamar Qaddafi, is not the only despotism from that area of the world. More and more we are seeing the rise of political Islam (Islamism) as a growing force of oppression within the Muslim consciousness.
My fight today against Islamist radicalism and its supporting Islamist organizations is born from this struggle and will only be won when American Muslims fully embrace the central principles of religious freedom, individual rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and most importantly the Establishment clause, all of which are embodied within the Bill of Rights.
Like America’s fight for freedom from Britain’s monarchy or even America’s fight against communism in the cold war, our war with Islamist radicals is an ideological battle for the individual rights of man. The unifying force behind Muslim radicals is an adherence to the ideology of political Islam and a belief in Islamic supremacy. Just as it was the duty of the Founding Fathers to protect the individual with the creation of the Bill of Rights, it is our duty today as Americans and particularly American Muslims to defeat the pervasive ideology of political Islam and embrace the freedoms and liberty that the American Constitution has guaranteed.
As American Muslims we must accept the mantle of responsibility to bring our faith into modernity and use the example set forth by the Founding Fathers of how faith can thrive when it allows its practitioners the individual freedom to worship as they choose with no faith test for governance.
We must also remember that our nation was built on the ability to openly discuss dissenting opinions on any subject including religion and not allow a victim mindset and political correctness to stifle our ability to solve our problems.
The Bill of Rights is the seminal moment in the fight for individual liberty. Today it is easy to take its importance for granted unless we understand what we lose without its protection. Americans must remember that this document lives so long as we maintain a vigil over its promise and embrace the protection that it guarantees.
Dr. Jasser, a medical doctor and a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, is the founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy based in Phoenix, Arizona.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/12/15/muslims-view-rights-day/
This Dream Act got a boost from 8 turn coat Republicans in the House - they have sided with the Illegals. This must be met with the strongest response and we are all facing an adversary that will do anything to win - LA RAZA (the Race.)
Please send this link to all of your friends and compel them to go here, sign up and start sending the message to your representatives that you DEMAND that they stop this lame duck congress from passing this garbage.
Numbers USA is a one stop shop for doing out reach to your reps and it is quick and easy.
Let's stop this. Other wise you can kiss America as we know it GOODBYE.
God Bless!
RFS
Beckah was silent as they pulled away from the family's Christmas party. She had smiled and joked with family and friends, but her friend Linda, being the observant and wise sage she was, called Beckah aside and asked her why she wasn't eating. Beckah, responding like a brave soldier, said she was just a little under the weather. She knew that if she said anything that all, the frustration, fear, anger, and panic might came rolling out in one great weeping gush of tears, rage, sobbing, and convulsing panic.
She and her husband Jack had both been out of work for four months. The money was gone, the electric bill due, and the car payment was behind. They had sold everything they could, hocked jewelry, and dropped every unnecessary services they could. Jack had worked every odd job he can find, but it wasn't enough. It barely kept food on the table. By this time next month, the house would be in foreclosure, and in three months they would be out on the street. They had no family to move in with, no prospects, no jobs on the horizon, and the economy was still looking very grim. Meanwhile, government was still spending on everything but the economy. It was hopeless absolutely hopeless.
Finally home, Beckah just wanted to collapse. She went to her room drew a warm bath, sunk down in the tub, and cried. For the first time in years Beckah found herself praying ... really praying; the kind of praying she did when she first became a Christian. And while no jobs magically appeared on the horizon, after a good cry and a lot of prayer, there was a tiny speck of peace just knowing that she could still talk to God.
Ho, Ho, Ho! Tis the season to be hustled falalalalalalalala. Normally, this is the time of the year when everybody is standing around with their hands outstretched, from the department stores to the charities. Everybody is reminding you of all you deserve, all you should be thankful for, and "give."
Well, they are half right, that is, if your electricity isn't in danger of being turned off, your house payment has been made, and you have a job to go to every morning. If this is the current situation in which you find yourself, then you are indeed blessed because presently there are about 30 million of our fellow Americans who don't have anywhere to go when they wake up in the morning.
No! I am not going to hustle you for even one dime. I am not going to tell you to give to me, or this worthy charity, or that worthy charity. There are some great charities out there, but you should decide where your money goes. As for me ... I'm going to do something different this year. I'm going directly to the source of the need and cutting out the middle man.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to give to the Salvation Army and Wounded Warriors, but this year I am going to do something different. According to the National Retail Federation Americans spent $504 billion in 2009 during the Christmas holidays. Chances are that number will be about the same this year.
So this year I'm not going to go to Macy's, or Dillard's, or Radio Shack, or Penny's, or Sears, or any of the other stores for my Christmas shopping. This year I am going to wrap presents and give them to my family and friends. And inside those presents will be the story of a family that we helped in their name. The present might read like this:
Bob and Cathy, instead of a bottle of wine this year, please accept our gift of a Christmas meal for a mom and her three kids whose husband is serving in Afghanistan. She is "living" on about $18,000 per year. My gift to you is a gift to them. Knowing you as I do, I know you will be thrilled with this present.
To Family: As you open this present, I wanted you to know that Katie and I talked about it and decided this year that we were going to do things a little different. We knew some friends that were unemployed. They had no money, no hope, and nowhere to turn.
Because of their dire circumstances, this year we've decided to spend our entire Christmas budget on two families. So, let me tell you what our family got you for Christmas. We got you payments for family one. There was a shiny new house payment for Jack. And for Beckah, we lavished her with two car payments, and for the kids we got the very latest in utility payments so they could watch their television, and a full blown Christmas dinner. And here's the best part ... no assembly required.
And for our kids, we got Don and Cindy caught up on their house payment, paid the cell phone bill, in case an employer called someone could answer, and as a stocking stuffer we made them a wonderful Christmas dinner. Hope that all of this fits under the tree. I'll tell you, Katie and I have gotten pretty good at shopping because every one of these presents fits perfectly. There was not one exchange of any gift we got this year. They were all just the right size.
Now that's Christmas. Can you imagine if everyone, all three hundred plus million of us, would just take 25% of our Christmas spending and help an unemployed family what that would mean to them and to the economy? It would mean a $125 billion stimulus to the economy without spending one cent of tax money.
And churches, you can help too. With all the special offerings taken this time of year, and all the extra money you bring in, why not adopt a few families this year? You can't help everybody, so why not really help a few. But be careful, pick out only families that are worthy of such a blessing. Make sure the parents are good role models for their kids, that they are just down with the economy, and not "professionally" unemployed.
Come on businesses ... you can help. How about you tradesmen? This Christmas why not give the gift of a patched roof, or fixed plumbing, or a replaced window for a worthy family in your area?
And you department stores ... how about a free appliance for a needy family? And car dealers ... we haven't forgotten about you! Do you know what the gift of a good running car would mean for a young family struggling to get to the new job they finally found after 18-24 months of endless job interviews? It would mean the world to them.
Listen, you don't have to do the job alone. There are 340 million of us out here. This won't solve all of our problems. Long term we need to fix the economy with a constitutional budget, free enterprise, and honest dollars, but in the meanwhile, this will help.
It will help the people you share with; it will help the economy; it will help ease the family's burden; and, more than anything, it will help you. Those of us who still have somewhere to go when we wake up in the morning, it will help us remember how blessed we really are. It will help us remember who we are as a people. It will help us remember what America and Americans are really all about.
My countrymen, my friends, my fellow patriots, you are needed now more than ever to help us pull this country together. I know it is Christmas and nobody wants Mr. Scrooge lurking about casting humbug over their holiday cheer. However, I believe that we are under attack in so many ways that there is little hope of coming through this situation whole.
George Soros and his fellow traitors, both in and out of government, are attacking our monetary system and have involved the Chinese in their seditious plot. The dollar collapse may be inescapable. The dark heart of militant Islam has set its sights on America. The world is spinning madly out of control and there is little we can do about it. The system is about to reset. When it does, one of two systems will arise from the ashes of that ruin. It will either be the cold, hard, New World Order of an international oligarchy of thugs and tyrants, or ...
You and I will have laid the ground for rebuilding the American community again on those first principles, which include all of us caring and sharing with the rest of our family, friends and neighbors; not as a commune, but as individuals who care about each other and giving others a helping hand. This is not about government programs, this is about human kindness.
This year I hope you will consider the gift of Americans helping Americans. Nobody needs to know the family's name you help. For that matter, nobody even needs to know what you did unless you want to tell them. But by your kindness you may be the only lifeline to the desperate household of a neighbor or family member in our scared nation, and the only lifeline back to the America we once knew. We don't need government to take care of us. All we need is We ... us to take care of the U.S.
Remember ... there was no welfare office when Mary and Joseph showed up in Bethlehem. She did not seek free medical care from the government. Nor did she kill her baby because it was inconvenient. She brought into a world, darkened with sin and sadness, the light of all mankind.
This was prophesied 700 years before the birth of the Messiah back in the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah 9:6: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7: Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
And Luke says in his classic Christmas description in Luke 2:
1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5. To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were
accomplished that she should be delivered.
7. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 
11. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
17. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
18And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
19But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
20And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
This may not be, and, in fact, probably is not, the time of the real birth of the Savior, but this is when we celebrate His birth as a nation, so let's make the best of it. Let us truly celebrate Christmas with those around us this year with the gift of blessing others at Christmas. Really, how much stuff do you need? It's just stuff. Will it be remembered in July? Probably not. But if you make a car payment, or pay a utility bill for a struggling family, do you think that will be remembered in July? I would venture to say, that gift will be remembered twenty years from now and will be listed forever in eternity.
Let this be the year when we all say, "Bah humbug!" to advertisers, bankers, and the typical Christmas hustlers and give the gift that will be remembered in eternity, the gift of kindness ... perhaps the gift of economic survival for a military family, unemployed family, relative or friend in your life.
And while you're out running around and you stop to grab a bite to eat, look around for one of our brothers or sisters in arms, and quietly buy their meal. You don't have to tell them or say a word, just pay quietly and I guarantee you will feel more Christmas in that moment than in ten hours of shopping.
Finally, this year give yourself the greatest gift of all. Gather your family together round a crackling fire, bring out the hot chocolate sing a few Christmas songs, and as a family on your knees thank God that you are together, safe, warm, blessed beyond anything most of the world could ever comprehend. Build memories, faith and love amongst yourselves. None of us knows how many more of these Christmas' we will have.
So ... what will it be this year ... the usual Christmas Hustle or ...
The Greatest Christmas Ever?
Mr. Boehner and the other members of the Republican Leadership,
Some of you were not on the chopping block this election cycle, but you might be next go around...I just want to point a couple of things out that you should keep in mind until 2012.
These are not threats, they are reminders so that you dont lose your focus between here and then.
All those new people? We sent them up there. All those cronies and insiders who are packing their bags to go home? We did that too. You need to look at this from where we stand - we did it once, and we can damn sure do it again - we will do even more next time, as we have almost two years to work on our agenda, and we are going to be watching you.
Yep, you have a nationwide network of auditors looking at your every move. If you care about this country, thats great, thats what we want, but if all you care about is your politcal future, you should factor this into your equations for success. We didnt put your party back into power because we like you or trust you. YOU ARE ON PROBATION.
We didnt send you all back up there to make nice with socialists.
We didnt send you up there to compromise away our national security, our financial future or our childrens hopes and dreams.
We sent you up there to STOP THE MADNESS!!
You skilled politicians be very careful with how you treat our house and our government, because it doesnt belong to you. It belongs to US, and it is on loan to you for the next two years. If you want to keep the positions you hold, then mark these words well...otherwise, it might be YOU packing up your office next time around.
