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Barak Obama’s shortsighted energy policies in concert with intrusive environmental policies that have prevented the United States from building even one new oil refinery in the last thirty-seven years as well as keeping our country from exploiting its own oil reserves may very soon create a massive oil shortage in this country. The cause? Besides Obama and the environmental lunatic fringe, the cause is WAR! But not the war you’re expecting it might be . . . and, if America is caught napping, blame it 100% on willful ignorance . . . .
Americans as a people, unfortunately are ultra-lazy when it comes to learning about other nations, their cultures and languages around the world. For example, GM put an enormous amount of money into introducing their sporty little Nova into the Latin American markets way back when. It seemed after their studies, PERFECT. It was small and manueverable but roomy inside, got great gas mileage and not too expensive; it was also pretty attractive, GM bigwigs thought Nova was a natural to play out a big winner in South and Central America.
OOOOPS . . . . Nova was a complete bust. After that, the Japanese totally dominated the new car market south of the Rio Grande. Indeed, it was much worse than a bust, it was the laughing stock of Latin America. Why? Consider this, if the Japanese instead of Toyota and Honda had tried to sell Americans a car called “Doesnotgo” would you buy it? Any first year Spanish student in high school should know that “No va” means exactly that, “Won’t run.” That was a costly mistake, one of many that GM made that brought them to their present situation, a mistake built upon gross ignorance. So now our ignorance of Muslim culture may very soon leave us oil-less. NICE!
In a nutshell, here’s the background . . . People who know their Bible, know that the Arabic peoples sprang famously from the loins of Ishmael. Muslims, most Jews and almost all Christians all agree that Ishmael was the first-Arab and the firstborn son of the Jewish prophet Abraham (specifically, the child of Abraham’s wife Sara’s handmaiden, who was named Hagar). As far as is known, Ishmael was the first deliberately circumcized Arab in history. Ishmael is credited in Genesis with living 137 years, hmmmm, giving him lots of time to be fruitful and multiply. After those few factoids, Arabs and Jews have agreed on little else. According to the B’hai faith it was Ishmael and not Abram’s second son Isaac (from Sara) who was almost sacrificed by Abram before his name was changed to Abraham. One of many disagreements.
Ishmael was also the first Prophet of the Muslim tradition, according to the Koran, and all things began with Ishmael. However, the greatest Arab according to Muslim history sprang up roughly 2,300 years later: their Prophet Mohammed. Blending the early Christian and Jewish traditions and oral and written histories (the Bible and Torah) Mohammed, like Christ, is reported to have had direct divine contact and frequent revelations from God. In any case his new religion, Islam, swept the world more quickly than any religion in history. The word “Islam” means “complete surrender to God.” It came to dominate not only the Middle East and much of the Far East including much of India and Indonesia, but much of South Eastern Europe, all of Northern Africa and all of the Iberian Penninsula (Spain and Portugal) by 711 A.D. and reached into France before being stopped by defeat to the Frank King Charles Martell in 732 A.D. which is why the Holy Roman Empire came to be and Iberian history is so different from the rest of Europe and why Spain and Portugal were so advanced while Europe was undergoing its Dark Ages.
Those early Muslims, Moors or Saracens, whatever you wanted to call them, were among the most enlightened and tolerant people in World History, their list of technical advancess and advancements in learning were impressive to say the least. Famous Muslim gifts to Europe include chess, the windmill, trigonometry, wine, the Arabian horse, etc. Religious freedom was universal. Great architectural advances, the zero in number theory came to Europe through them as did algebra and most astronomical advances (these advances stopped at the Pyrenees where the Holy Roman Empire began). It was the most glorious religious accomplishment of all time according to Muslim teaching . . . objectively, they may well be correct.
All Muslims do not agree on how Mohammed died . . . some reports have a headache with death following three days later. But according to one account, the roots of the festering war (which Americans have never heard about) that we’re about to discover occurred roughly a century before Charles Martell’s victory . . . at a lamb and goat dinner in 629 A.D. where the Prophet Mohammed was guest of honor. According to some, he took just one bite of the main course and immediately spit it out, but it was too late. He was poisoned and soon died. He was buried nearby and an empty tomb was placed next to his, for the prophet Jesus, according to Muslim tradition.
But there was this questionable business . . . murder most foul by poisoning, and no one knew or knows who did it. More importantly, in the wake of their prophet’s death, no one knew who should take over and that is the root of many problems we’re seeing today. In the Arabian Peninsula since that day, Muslims have been killing Muslims over that argument ever since. The very first recorded Muslim intolerance and the only recorded Muslim intolerance for centuries was Muslims at each other’s throats.
This disagreement has lasted over thirteen and a half centuries. Sunni Muslims such as the late Saddam Hussein today control Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and many other Middle Eastern countries. Shia Muslims now run Iraq (thanks to U.S. involvement) as well as Lebanon and Syria and most infamously Iran under the vocal nuke-seeking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran, once known as “Persia,” was at one time the greatest empire existing in the world and remembering their glorious history, Iranians chafe at the outrages heaped upon Iran by the hated Sunnis.
The Sunni are the controllers of most of the countries in the Middle East. And the Sunnis are Iran’s most hated rivals. While it’s true, you cannot be a Middle East Muslim without hating Israel . . . but in Shia Muslim eyes the controlling Sunni’s policies of intolerance and torture toward Shia Muslims has created huge amounts of bitterness across the region. For centuries the Shia have been the heavily oppressed underclass citizens in Arabia. In fact, no one knows how many Shia there are because most of the dictators don’t choose to count them during census. Unlike the original Muslim tolerance for religious freedom . . . Sunni schools teach that Shia are not really Islamic people. They’re never given government representation. They can’t marry Sunnis. They can’t testify in trials in the high courts and can’t become judges. They are third-class citizens and frequently locked up, tortured and at a minimum arrested and hassled any time a powerful Sunni feels like it. Sunni schools are institutions conveying religious hatred toward the Shia. Shia Muslims often are also taught to hate their Sunni leaders from birth. Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Shia, wants his nukes for Israel, perhaps, but for Sunnis as well. The region is a lit powder keg and Iran is already the #1 exporter of terror. They’ve kept a Shia revolution in Yemen going for over a decade. They’ve sponsored terrorism in Saudi Arabia; in Iraq; in Afghanistan; the list continues to expand.
While all this is going on, Barack Obama is keeping a tight lid on American oil and has done nothing to quash Iran’s nuke program . . . go figure. One truth is not deniable, all this heating up of intra-Muslim conflict cannot be good for oil supplies, oil prices, or oil-dependent America. So until Washington produces a solar car, Americans may find themselves up the infamous creek without a means of locomotion.
Ya'll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
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I bet Britan, France, and Germany are rueing the day they ever let Greece into the EU. Given Greece's overspending, debt, deliberatitely deceptive accounting, and me-first unions, it was only a matter of time before they showed up, hat in hand, on the EU's doorstep to beg for money.
It is easy for the USA to dismiss the financial troubles of Greece due to size (economically the USA is almost 50 times bigger), but I think there are important lessons for us here, since the causes that are driving Greece to the brink are present here too.
Especially the four I listed 2 paragraphs up.
Government overspending? Oh yeah, we have that! And an out-of-control congress only too willing to push problems into the future (when they all magically get solved). Since our Congress has shown they have no ability whatsoever to live within their means, they clearly need some sort of help. I'll provide some first-steps at the end.
Debt? Got it.
Deliberatitely deceptive accounting? We have this, in at least three different ways:
First, some key government statistics, like unemployment, are politically intentionally misrepresented to give the illusion of of a smaller problem.
Second, much sleight-of-hand goes into making the U. S. Budget look better than it is .
Third, we invented the concept of "to big to fail" , bailing out quasi-private financial firms with taxpayer dollars. (fear of) Failure ensures success. If any business knows they have an Uncle Sam Backstop should they fail, they will not learn the hard lessons they need to be a true success. http://stoptoobigtofail.com/stop/
Me-first unions? This hardly needs explaning... but a big portion of what drove GM to ruin was/is ruinous UAW contracts that effectively add thousands of dollars to the price of any new GM car. LINK
Yes, GM had to stupidly agree to the contracts, so they bear some culpability too.
NEA shows an analogous story. Many teachers have lifetime pensions, often at the same final working salary of the teacher . A pension like this is almost unheard-of in the private sector - but if Uncle Sam is bankrolling it, hey, why not?
School districts add Propositions and Mill Levy Proposals to local ballots, and they like to pretend it will be used for new textbooks and #2 pencils, but the elephant in the room is these underfunded pensions that shouldn't exist.
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So, what should we do? I have three concrete proposals:
1) Starting NOW, eliminate lifetime pensions in government positions. Pensions should be funded like the private sector, with a defined input and a defined output and a low lifetime cap.
2) Eliminate the pay-scale gap between public and private sector - today it is very lopsided in 'favor' of the government LINK .
3) Scale the pay and numbers back by 10% for all federal employees annually, until the budget is balanced.
A loud Thank you to our military and verterans! check the website - please share.
Veteran Defenders of America
PRESS RELEASE
Vets are Mobilizing to Face Radical Islam
Brigitte Gabriel
American Veterans are getting mobilized nationwide through Veteran Defenders of America (VDA) to face the threat of the rise of radical Islamic terrorists in the homeland. ACT! for America, the nation’s largest national security organization with 80,000 members and 380 chapters nationwide, is launching Veteran Defenders of America and organizing the Veterans. The combined forces will provide organizational and strategic synergy that will optimize the effectiveness of patriotic Americans protecting their community.
CALL SANDY NOW at 516-735-5468 or e-mail Sandy to schedule interviews with Brigitte Gabriel and Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (sandy@mystic-art.com)
MG Paul E. Vallely
Brigitte Gabriel, President of ACT! for America, and Major General Paul Vallely (U.S. Army, ret.), head of Stand Up America have teamed up together to speak to the media about this venture.
“There are 18 million veterans in the United States all highly trained in many areas,” says Brigitte Gabriel. “This training came at a high cost to the taxpayers and we have heard loud and clear from veterans that they still want to put this training to good use in the volunteer service to their country.”
With the arrest of over 50 home grown Islamic terrorists in the last 12 months plotting to kill Americans and commit terrorist attacks on American soil, it has become clear that concerned Americans must be the eyes and ears in their community, working with first responders to protect their community.
Veterans have training, skills and experience that uniquely enable them to respond to our government’s message that encourages family and community preparedness, citizen awareness and service to our families and our communities. From detecting suspicious activity prior to a crisis to helping with emergency management should a crisis occur, America’s veterans are being actively mobilized nationwide.
“I meet veterans everywhere who are concerned about threats to our security and our cherished liberties, especially the threat of radical Islam,” says Major General Paul Vallely. “As veterans, we swore an oath to defend our nation, and Veteran Defenders of America is going to give veterans a new vehicle to be the eyes and ears of freedom. I am proud to join hands with my good friend and fellow patriot, Brigitte Gabriel, in this exciting new venture!”
“Veterans are my heroes,” proclaims Ms. Gabriel. “I lost the country of my birth to radical Islam, so like our veterans, I know freedom isn’t free. I am honored to be partnering with General Vallely in this clarion call to veterans – America needs you!”
They Must Be Stopped by Brigitte Gabriel
Great things are happening---- Tea Party Americians have come together to restore our Constitution and return our Republic to Government of the people, for the people and by the people.
Tea Party Americans please sign and share the following nonviolence pledge there are now 41,693 signatures since Friday.
author Glenn Beck: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/39452/
I believe Progressives are deliberately baiting, harassing and lying about Tea Parties for one purpose. They call us racists and violent because they're just waiting for us to crack and become violent. Progressives do fear the power of the people and they are desperate because they see we will not sit down and shut up. Violence is what they want to create THEIR great American crisis. Any sign of violence on our part and they'll send out their thugs to physically beat us down and believe me that's the last thing we want. Tea Parties will get best results through passive agressive asembly and dissent. Peaceful reistance was proven successful in the 1960s civil rights movement. Our numbers are growing we need to pivot and turn another corner. "Courage to Peacefully Resist" is not easy or for the weak, it's the action of honorable, brave, strong and powerful Patriot Activists. Passive peaceful resistance takes character and fortitude.
See Gerald merit's great blog on Tea Party Patriots.ning.com "Courage to Resist"
Unfortunately Lame stream, Shame stream media in the tank with Administration/Congress and civilian Progressives are not doing their job. Guess we have to do it for them. Post the following words as our new mantra all over the web (twitter, facebook,email & everywhere you go) It will not only spread our truth loud and clear it will probably bug them.
Not Racist, Not Violent, Not Silent Anymore!
More thoughts . . .
as we have the primary coming up in may. and grayson behind in the polls the courier journal just came out this morning with a story about dr. paul being supported by extremist like sara palin and the teaparty. grayson must be getting desperate his attack are getting worse . we need to get all of these career politicians out of office. and thats what grayson is ,he is not the solution to the problems , he is part of the problem
Darwin was (Plenty) Wrong, while Lamarck’s now Resurrected,
"Faith Healing" and What that Means to You
It is a well-known LIE common among the simple-minded that so-called "soft sciences" like sociology, psychology, human-goal attainment, etc. are subject to far greater change than that taking place in the hard sciences. The soft-sciences have long been considered ever-shifting ground compared to “hard science” explanations of how the world works. Of course, that's totally bogus, a lot more change takes place in the hard sciences a lot faster.
Till relatively recently, biology and especially genetics, had been considered a semi-soft science. There were the experiments of Gregor Mendel pubished in 1866; and before that there was Darwin’s book “The Origin of the Species published in 1859, the year before Lincoln’s election and little else had changed. Darwin’s ideas were considered more troubling because they dealt with life capable of movement (animals and apes and men); but Mendel’s was actually relatively hard science that could be replicated by observers. Darwin’s “Natural Selection” (largely sexual selection) misnamed by the press as “Survival of the Fittest” was, after all, only a theory.
Till relatively recently, biology and especially genetics, had been considered a semi-soft science. There were the experiments of Gregor Mendel pubished in 1866; and before that there was Darwin’s book “The Origin of the Species published in 1859, the year before Lincoln’s election and little else had changed. Darwin’s ideas were considered more troubling because they dealt with life capable of movement (animals and apes and men); but Mendel’s was actually relatively hard science that could be replicated by observers. Darwin’s “Natural Selection” (largely sexual selection) misnamed by the press as “Survival of the Fittest” was, after all, only a theory.
In fact, however, biologic theory has also galloped apace. There came in the late 19th and early 20th century discovery of chromosomes and genes and much later DNA. Today biology is considered a much harder science and genetics (with the publishing of the human genome) is by most of the great unwashed all wrapped up into a neat little package called “bio-tech” which definitely sounds like a hard, hard science to the point of virtually being an industrial art so that the term “designer genes” has become much more than a play on words. Rajjpuut, to that says, slow down, Pilgrim, slow down.
It turns out today, however, that in many respects biology, as a hard science, is going back to the drawing board. For one thing, Charles Darwin in his later writings said that he regretted having given nature (meaning “genetics” -- the word genetics didn’t exist in his time) too much credit and to have sorely underestimated the effects of nurture and the environment in shaping life. Wow, the misnomer term “survival of the fittest” in popular thinking certainly sounds like a “struggle,” a battle just to live and then above that a struggle to ensure survival by living long enough and fighting hard enough to overcome others in unrelenting battle and viola! to mate . . . and yet the great Darwin is saying, "I didn’t give the environment enough credit." Think on that, if you want to disappear down Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole . . . the fittest by genetics isn't necessarily the fittest overall and nurturing "group dynamics" and nature itself play a greater role . . . Rajjpuut has often insisted the greater truth might be "Survival of the Luckiest," surely Darwin didn't mean that?
As it turns out from the more recent ideas placed into mathematical form by a scientist named John Nash (Nobel Prize Winner and the subject of the movie “A Beautiful Mind”) now-a-days extrapolated into biology and even evolutionary theory, cooperation (including nurturing) seems to be every bit as important to survival and reproduction of the individual and the group as fierce competition does. Survival of the most blessed? Most beloved?
And then there is the amazing fact that the scientists (virtually all of them men until the last fifty years) did what women are often accusing men of doing: they thought (figuratively) with their gonads and not with their brains. Or, more precisely, they put the center of control (and dare Rajjpuut say, “intelligence”) in a living cell (the smallest indivisible unit of life itself) in the cell nucleus. As it turns out, that idea from our high school biology classes is totally wrong: the center of cell intelligence is their external membranes where they interact with the world and the cell’s nucleic areas are actually predictably enough “the gonads” of the cell.
More importantly, for the thinking populace, knowing about all these recent changes in the field of biology, we can now examine a little idea published in 1867 which was nothing more or less than highly emphasized “survival of the fittest” extrapolated onto the societies of man himself in a poorly conceived book published in 1867 “Das Kapital” subtitled “a critique of political economics” by Karl Marx with large chunks of editing by Friedrich Engels. Marx said specifically, he intended to make a science of understanding human economy as related to politics and to reveal to the world an understanding of the evolution of political-economic life forms. He began at what he called the “cell” level and worked his way continually broader from there until he was talking about the “struggle for existence” between capital and labor (the business owner and the worker). Marx postulated a survival of the fittest occuring between economic-political systems across the broad sweep of history all around the world, never ceasing. He raked capitalism over the coals and talked about the benefits of socialism which would definitely outlast and defeat capitalism and eventually the final triumphant result of all these political-economic systems battling away over time: tah, dah! creation of the communist utopia where “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” had replaced the barbaric animal exploitation and battling which Marx claimed was the fundamental fact propping up all capitalism.
Marx, of course, never paused to see all the co-operation necessary for capitalist entities to grow and prosper, the subject of this brief and poignant essay . . . .
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
And the enablers of Marx throughout modern history, the Keynesian economists who advocate inflation as a most useful tool for governments (actually, it turns out, only for totalitatian governments) also have overlooked tranquility and cooperation in their understanding of the world of real micro- and real macro-economics . . . put even more briefly . . . .
http://jim.com/econ/chap01p1.html
http://jim.com/econ/chap02p1.html
And summed up into a whole consistent theory here:
Returning from Marxism based upon the ill-conceived "survival of the fittest" notions, it now appears that strange Frenchman our high school teachers used as a strawman in postulating the FACT of EVOLUTION based upon Darwin’s work, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was possibly much more right than Darwin was and he was right almost sixty years before Darwin’s book. His speech of May 11, 1800, at the Paris Natural History Museum set forth Lamarck’s theory of evolution which was every bit as systematic as Darwin’s was but earlier and included soft-evolution as part of the process. When we were kids, the biology profs made fun of Lamarck saying that according to him if you cut off the tails of two mice and bred them . . . of course their offspring would NOT be tailless so Lamarck was an utter fool . . . and continuing on with a lot of such nonsense that, naturally, a close reading of Lamarck shows he never said or meant. Lamarck, like Darwin, made mistakes but he was first, and today's up to the minute science may actually be proving, he was actually better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck
Lamarck, coming much earlier than Darwin and living in mostly religiously-orthodox France rather than more worldly Britain as Darwin did, was the object of much hate and derision. Despite all this he stuck by his guns and remained true to evolution. Lamarck stressed two main themes in his biological theories. First, it was the environment which gives rise to changes in animals. He cited examples of blindness in moles, the presence of teeth in mammals and the absence of teeth in birds as evidence of this principle. Secondly, life is structured in an orderly manner and that many different parts of all bodies make it possible for the organic movements of animals. Thirdly, the whole process is the result most usually of great, great amounts of time. Although he was not the first thinker to advocate organic evolution, he was the first to develop a truly coherent evolutionary theory. He outlined these theories regarding evolution first in his Floreal lecture of 1800, and then in three later published works:
- Recherches sur l'organisation des corps vivants, 1802.
- Philosophie Zoologique, 1809.
- Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, (in seven volumes, 1815-1822)
It now appears that Lamarck was largely correct, that the environment (as Darwin said in the last years of his life -- and which obviously includes nurturing) is a much more prominent cause of evolution than recent thinking led us to believe; and that Darwin was wrong about the role of savage competition as the single largest driving force in shaping evolution, to wit cooperation within a group and even cooperation within the environs themselves play a much greater role than Darwin might ever have conceived. And for those of you who read our first link above (the little "I, Pencil" essay) it definitely appears that Marx totally missed the boat, basing his ideas upon Darwin’s faulty model of evolution and the faulty term “survival of the fittest,” he created a winner-take all model in which only the ends mattered, the end totally justified the dialectical-materialism to come. That is the world that Barack Obama was raised in, courtesy of his mother Stanley Ann Dunham and his grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, and his birth-father Barak without a 'c' Hussein Obama, Sr. and that world view (where the glorious state can seriously consider 100% taxes**) is finally and inalterably proven wrong here and now.
For more on the biological background in a format accessible to the layman: try (Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.’s book “The Biology of Belief” which received “The Best Science Book of 2006” award, one of several stimulating works tying cooperative evolution, quantum-physics and psychology together. In a certain sense, we have returned to square one: “it is done unto us, in accordance with our faith.” Of course, now it’s possible to say that faith has a scientific explanation . . . and that evolution is no longer a theory, but a provable fact and they're both part of God’s Design. And, yes, there is clear scientific evidence of the power of faith healing, placebos, and medical miracles of the sort that certainly until now were not considered "hard science." It's all akin to the History Channel showing from translators that the term "Red Sea" was a mis-translation and that it just meant a big river of the time and then going to the river in question and finding tons of ancient military artifacts such as chariots and shields and swords and finding out about an earthquake that took place at the time. Where does faith leave off and science begin? Why not enjoy both? What an amazing world we live in!
Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** as shown here at the link below, in the words of Barak Obama, Sr. but not mentioned in his son's first autobiography "Dreams from My Father" what the real dreams of his father were . . . .
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
If anyone can read this information and then not vote them out, then they have a loose screw floating around upstairs. We can not trust any of them. They need to know that we do not trust any of them. And they need to know that we are going to continually watch them moving forward. And if they do not serve us we will throw them out.
Our goal is to replace all 545 members of our federal government, oh that would be 546 with the Vice President.
Here is the article, read it, learn from it, and act on it:
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Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Everything on the Republican contract is a problem created by Congress. Too much bureaucracy? Blame Congress. Too many rules?
Blame Congress. Unjust tax laws? Congress wrote them.
Out-of-control bureaucracy? Congress authorizes everything bureaucracies do. Americans dying in Third World rat holes on stupid U.N. missions? Congress allows it. The annual deficits?
Congress votes for them. The $4 trillion plus debt? Congress created it.
To put it into perspective just remember that 100 percent of the power of the federal government comes from the U.S. Constitution. If it's not in the Constitution, it's not authorized.
Then read your Constitution. All 100 percent of the power of the federal government is invested solely in 545 individual human beings. That's all. Of 260 million Americans, only 545 of them wield 100 percent of the power of the federal government.
That's 435 members of the U.S. House, 100 senators, one President and nine Supreme Court justices. Anything involving government that is wrong is 100 percent their fault.
I exclude the vice president because constitutionally he has no power except to preside over the Senate and to vote only in the case of a tie. I exclude the Federal Reserve because Congress created it and all its power is power Congress delegated to it and could withdraw anytime it chooses to do so. In fact, all the power exercised by the 3 million or so other federal employees is power delegated from the 545.
All bureaucracies are created by Congress or by executive order of the president. All are financed and staffed by Congress. All enforce laws passed by Congress.
All operate under procedures authorized by Congress. That's why all complaints and protests should be properly directed at Congress, not at the individual agencies.
You don't like the IRS? Go see Congress. You think the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agency is running amok? Go see Congress.
Congress is the originator of all government problems and is also the only remedy available. That's why, of course, politicians go to such extraordinary lengths and employ world-class sophistry to make you think they are not responsible.
Anytime a congressman pretends to be outraged by something a federal bureaucrat does, he is in fact engaging in one big massive con job. No federal employee can act at all except to enforce laws passed by Congress and to employ procedures authorized by Congress either explicitly or implicitly.
Partisans on both sides like to blame presidents for deficits, but all deficits are congressional deficits. The president may, by custom, recommend a budget, but it carries no legal weight. Only Congress is authorized by the Constitution to authorize and appropriate and to levy taxes. That's what the federal budget consists of: expenditures authorized, funds appropriated and taxes levied.
Both Democrats and Republicans mislead the public. For 40 years Democrats had majorities and could have at any time balanced the budget if they had chosen to do so. Republicans have had majorities and could have, if they chose, passed a balanced budget. Every president, Democrat or Republican, could have vetoed appropriations bills that did not make up a balanced budget. Every president could have recommended a balanced budget. None has done either.
We have annual deficits and a huge federal debt because that's what majorities in Congress and presidents in the White House wanted. We have troops in various Third World rat holes because Congress and the president want them there.
Don't be conned. Don't let them escape responsibility. We simply have to sort through 260 million people until we find 545 who will act responsibly.
Journalist Charley Reese (now retired) was part of the Orlando Sentinels staff for three decades from 1971 to 2001, during which time he (among other duties) penned a thrice-weekly column which was distributed to other newspapers nationwide by
King Features Syndicate.
During the 1980s Reese wrote the first version of an editorial opining that 545 people (i.e., the President of the United States, plus all the members of Congress and the Supreme Court) "are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country," and he has amended, updated, and republished that piece several times since then.
The version cited above is taken from the 7 March 1995 edition of the Orlando Sentinel, where it ran under the title "Looking for Someone to Blame? Congress Is a Good Place to Start."
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As you can see. There is clearly a point of intersection between Washington DC and all of our government problems. If we change out who is running the show we can get real change, the change we want, not Obamacare and socialism. However, we will have to wait out the supreme court justices as they are locked in until they retire. In the future we need supreme justices that will rule based upon the written constitution and not of their own legislation.
But for now pass this information around and get your friends, neighbors, and relatives to clearly understand where the power lies. Currently it is in the 545 that are in Washington. In November 2010 it once again lies with the people, on that Day we the people have the ultimate power for one day and one day only!!! If we do not use this power we will lose it. It is that simple.
Bob Casper
One of the problems with our system of government is the accumulation of laws over the past 200+ years.
We clearly need a Constitutional Amendment requiring that all laws expire after a certain amount of time (say 7 years).
Obvious laws such as making it illegal to commit murder and other violent crimes would have no problem in being renewed. More contentious laws due to their dubious constitutionality such as Gun Control Laws..would expire and most likely not be renewed.
There are plenty of other problems..but I think this is one of the main reasons why things go to hell over time: is accumulation of outdated and/or unconstitutional legislation
As we listen to Obama's lastest cries again for "civility" in order to pass another of his power grabs, it reminds me of the cries "Bush lied, people died", and other horrific statements. It's another weak attempt to bury over a year of polarization, and is the unveiling of a man in conflict. You can always tell what the libs are up to by what they accuse you of doing (Ann Coulter). It's okay to oppose the government when the libs are not in power (à la Hillary), but when the libs are in power and you oppose the government, you're the party of "No", a racist, a terrorist, and more recently -- seditious! Oh my.
FIVE LIES WE LIVE WITH -- http://bit.ly/9LtSkK
I say the best blogs are those that have the fewest comments. It means you have the most agreement. The politician ponzi scheme is to divide and conquer. It’s the law of might makes right. The Constitution is base on the “Higher Law,” the law we humans live by. Dale Robinson, speaking of the law we humans live by, said, “I don’t care who gets the glory as long as we can restore our nation.” To what? Is it not to our Constitution?
Says Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, senior judicial analyst for Fox News, “We are carving America’s tombstone, ‘This was for your own good.’” Who says? We don’t say this was for your own good. In Lies the Government Told You, Napolitano suggests that the two party system seeks to preserve power by manipulating the mainstream media, by controlling campaign money, and those candidates nominated—all for the cause: power and control of the American people. Little gets done that Washington doesn’t like.
In my blogs, I refer to the “higher law,” the occult and metaphysical, the cutting edge of science. I’ve said that all of my dreams have come true. I’m opposed to the ritualistic, the doctrinaire, the law in practice: the end result justifies the means.
How do we, the people, know who to vote for? If we don’t like what we see, we vote for the other political party’s candidate, and find ourselves going from the frying pan to the fire, because we are listening to the politician, who has proven, whether Republican or Democrat, that he is not representing us. He is representing his own best interests. By listening to one side only, we are effectively being led down a garden path.
I tell you my dreams have all come true by looking within for my answers? Is mine a fairytale? Does Washington, D.C. know better than you know what is good for you? Judge Napolitano says government is feeding you a pack of lies. Who is more trustworthy, you or the Federal Government? I suppose you could say government gives you a good life if you don’t mind taking another’s right in the process. Government does not give you anything it doesn’t take from another. Bottom line: it’s class warfare—taking from those who have and giving it to those who don’t. It’s called the law of the jungle. What else? The choice: The Constitution or the law of the jungle.
The world is populated with two types: truth-seekers & truth-deniers. When truth-deniers outnumber truth-seekers, tyrants rise & reign. These truth-deniers are the soil in which the seeds of tyrants & tyranny spring forth. Populations that see no further than their clan’s comforts can easily be taken down the path of destruction.
While we fight these tyrants, we must realize they did not come out of nowhere. They rose because the average person is completely selfish. Self-centered individuals are the roots that grow & sustain evil weeds in leadership.
Selfish, small personalities sell out in the workplace & the home; causing trouble; either through committing it directly, or indirectly, by refusing to oppose the evils evident each day in their own environment. What is going on in the workplaces & the homes becomes what naturally populates the governing bodies.
The dysfunctional parenting of huge portions of the US population is responsible for producing decadent youth, who become decadent adults….continuing the cycle. Our nation is now filled with the results of promiscuity over the last several decades. No nation prospers through individual irresponsibility.
The buck stops in the home! Though constant screams resound with blame that the schools, the media, etc. are responsible for America’s problems; a sensible person knows that the parenting in this nation has no resemblance to the parenting of generations that produced great American populations.
Truth-seekers do not rise from a generation that blamed everyone but themselves for the character of their children. Truth-deniers do!
Spoiling children, & acting as tho’ they are faultless, is the opposite behavior of generations that correctly recognized children were sinners who needed strong discipline, intense character training, & purified hearts. Children are born selfish; a fact truth-deniers abhor!
Children are constantly taught they are little gods who dare not be reprimanded or spanked. They learn early to seek the punishment of anyone who finds fault with them. They know how to play emotions & tell lies.
It has become the norm to make idols of children. Any attempt to discipline them is tantamount to abuse. Anyone brave enough to discipline will find themselves threatened with punishment. The natural tyranny of a child’s nature will prevail through this idiotic system. This forms the soil of rebellion perfect for the production & rise of political tyrants.
America is now in this sorry predicament. Like an addict that cannot give up their drug, the nation continues to raise selfish children; excusing & exonerating them from all personal responsibility. How do you build a great nation on immorality & populations created through the scourge of promiscuity? Add to this the masses of aliens flooding America, with populations already strongly founded on decadent child-rearing, & destruction is assured.
TODAY America is reaping the results of the rotten child-rearing ideologies of the past decades. We are ripe for takeover; having raised kids who are now adults with enormously selfish, cowardly natures; ready to applaud any fraud.
The solution is NOT to keep chanting the lying mantra that childhood is innocent perfection; but to realize children are selfish sinners who must be corrected before the whole nation reaps the destruction that selfishness automatically brings.
The globalists, & the impostor in the White House, were once spoiled-rotten kids. These liars, thieves, & destroyers practiced their rebellion to perfection during their childhood. They grew up in a nation that found no fault in them because they were kids. Now they are poised like serpents to send their toxins into every life.
This nation now reaps the destruction that selfish, truth-denying parents, raising selfish, truth-denying kids, produces.
Voters elect those who reflect themselves.
Sharia Banking in America
Islam in our schools
Obsession Radical Islam
The Third Jihad
Islams real threat to America and our way of life is through the voting process as well as it's relentless attacks on any anti Islamic activity.
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There have been accusations by people on the "Main-stream Media" that Glenn Beck's comments are 'Seditious'. Here is my feelings on the subject.
Here are two quotes by Samual Clemens:
"In times of change, the Patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
"For in a Republic, who is 'the country?' Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why? The government is merely a servant- merely a temparary servant; it cannot be its perogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. It's function is to obey orders, not originate them."
This nation would not have survived this long if what is happening today was adapted when it began and it will collapse if it continues. Beck is revealing something that scares the hell out of the left. With that said, here is another quote for you Mister Glenn Beck...
Will Rogers:
"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will travel twice as far."
In Elaborate TARP Funds Shuffle
GM Ads Claim Bailout "Paid Off"
A top Senate Republican is angry with the Obama administration for not refuting General Motor’s recent claim to having paid off its bailout five years ahead of schedule. Vice President Joe Biden immediately chimed in that GM’s effort was “a great accomplishment” as soon as the ads began running. And so far no one from the adminstration has admitted that GM is putting a hoax over on the taxpayeers. Once proud General Motors now finds itself in boiling hot water over a blatantly false advertisment featuring GM Chairman and CEO Ed Whiteacre claiming the troubled car company has “repaid” its bailout from the taxpayers “in full.” The Federal Trade Commission quickly moved to investigate the claim all the while Republicans on Capital Hill were going bonkers over the clearly murky statements. The Obama administration has not responded to charges that GM was falsifying advertising in order to gain unwaranted trust from consumers while government watchdogs say that the automaker may have “technically paid off the bailout money by dipping into a separate pot of bailout funds the equivalent of a slush fund which also came from the U.S. Taxpayers. “Truth in advertising” laws prohibit commercials which are “likely to mislead consumers.”
Supposedly “too big to fail,” GM’s TV spot irritated viewers with common sense. The former auto-giant since the bailout has shown very little profit, how was this possible? "We have repaid our government loans in full — with interest — five years ahead of the original schedule," said Whitacre in the ad, while asking Americans to give the bankrupt company “another look.” Top senate Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa said GM was misleading taxpayers by using a special escrow account to repay the loan. His charge was backed up by TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky who told Fox News as well as the senate finance committee that Grassley was correct, GM used bailout money to pay back the federal government. Grassley described the whole thing as “nothing more than an elaborate TARP money shuffling.”
Not only is all the TARP money NOT paid off by GM, but the company is not Whitacre’s company anyway. 61% is owned by the U.S. Government and 12% is owned by the Canadian Government and GM is definitely NOT yet solvent, still racked by debt and so far unable to turn a profit (and hasn’t done so since 2004) GM received a $52 infusion of money from the federal government in 2009. Grassley, meanwhile has written a letter with his findings to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and asked for more information about why the company was allowed to use bailout money to repay bailout money and how much of the remaining escrow funds GM would be allowed to keep. Since GM received the equivalent of over $14,000 per automobile in bailout funds, how it can keep from turning a profit is beyond Rajjpuut’s simple power to add or detract. Rest assured, however, no actual profit was made and no actual GM money was used in “paying off the bailout.” In fact, Rajjpuut, is betting that Chrysler, who received a bailout simultaneously with GM is no where nearer to solvency than it was a year ago and GM's solvency is still very much up in the air. Stupidity like Whitacre's little charlatan ad stunt is surely not going to be earning any consumer confidence for GM in the near future and Rajjpuut expects him to be handed his hat within a month.
Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
