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THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET

I feel privileged to have the opportunity to post my "Op-Eds" on this site, my prospective on the heartbreaking events we are witnessing will always be from the prospective of a Christian who is "Not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ" knowing my mission is to take a stand for HIS principals while I yet have the opportunity. 

Our nation is at a crucial crossroads and possibly may have already passed the point of "no return". This Democratic Republic that was given to us to keep "If we can (Ben Franklin)" is slipping from our grasp. Our times are like none other in human history, man's knowledge and technological capabilities are mind blowing. The potential for abuse, corruption, tyranny, on a massive scale are biblical in proportion. Our opposition to sounds of chains being forged for the people of the United States is crucial. We are the last line of resistance and must stand, resist, and let it be known we have the LORD on our side, HIS name is JESUS not Allah! The victory is ours until HIS return...then the liberals can have it! the following is a response to an official correspondence I received from Florida U.S. Rep Ross...

SUPREME COURT FRAUD,OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, COURT CLERKS TREASONOUS WITHHOLDING OF JUDICIAL BRIEFS SUPREME COURT FRAUD,OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, COURT CLERKS TREASONOUS WITHHOLDING OF JUDICIAL BRIEFS

Congressman Ross I just received your reply on Congressional Letterhead to my concern as related to the POTUS fraudulent citizenship evidence. I must say I am extremely disappointed with your seeming "willful" disregard of the mountain of probable cause related to this extremely critical situation. You and those in the Republican controlled House are derelict in you responsibility and in violation of your oath of office "To protect the Constitution from ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC"....YOU AND YOUR WING OF THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED HOUSE OF REPS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DOWNFALL OF THE "LAST GREAT HOPE OF THE FREE WORLD"...DUE TO YOUR LACK OF "REASONABLE" ACTION IN THIS SITUATION

The following poem and illustration is something I feel would cause many in our community to look at our situation through eyes of faith...and pray then get up and get on with the business at hand. S E L A H (means a reflective pause)

THE HORSEMEN RIDE....REV:6

by James Wesley Jr
Do you hear the horsemen?..Horsemen as they ride...can you hear their hoof beats? There's judgment in every stride pain, suffering, agony! These are left behind them...behind them as they go...,But the sound that goes before them as you hear their hoof beats pound are the sounds of Grace & Mercy..These are the Gospel sounds, because of the Blood Jesus shed we have hope & peace inside...we have hope and peace with HIM,"BEFORE THE HORSEMEN RIDE"...

REV. J.M.Wesley Jr.@1988
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By Gregg Houlden

I was thinking yesterday we hardly ever hear explanations as whats going wrong with our economy or Obama's fiscal policy in terms we can all understand. One of the great successes of the 2012 campaign for the DNC was Axelrod’s and his teams ability to get across the “Hope and still needs changing” theme to the great under informed voter at large. I might hate the guys politics but he managed a great team, developed strategies that delivered the message via every medium and totally glossed over the fact his boss was a liar and a cheat.  Frankly, I am impressed. Wish I could say the same thing about Rove and his stupid white boards!

However, back to Economics. So forget Keynes and FDR's “New Deal”, forget the Gold Standard they all have merit to the conversation but to be honest, have no meaning to the low information voter.  I thought I would try and explain in an analogy the basic concept behind the Obama's economic stimulus and recovery plan.

Analogy A (Aimed at Low Information women voters)  The recovery driven bet!

Ms A...look at your partner, yes the one drinking beer in front of the game. Imagine he is managing the family's finances. Right, its getting close to mortgage check posting time and you are wondering why he's so desperately focused on the game. Well what you don't know is your partner thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us therefore, decided that saving is for mugs. Instead he's got a system and is betting the mortgage money with a Vegas Bookie.  But don't worry as soon as The Cardinals beat the Giants by 20 points you can pay the mortgage and if Black 32 comes up, get a new car! Might happen right, so don't worry...trust him?

You then check the mail, Oh OH..one from the Bank, you are in arrears and have a month to pay or lose your family home. Hey Bill what's going on why didn't you pay last months payment? “Its OK babe trust me I have a system..this month the cardinals are going to win!” Oh BTW I put the kids college fund on Black 32...just watch we are going to be rich!

OK a huge simplification but in reality a pretty close approximation as to Obama's fiscal plan. Obama is betting the US economy on a short term recovery, that recovery needs to be deep and deliver 34+% growth in tax revenues before 2015.  The last 4 years have shown stagnant flat growth and in fact a worsening of the disposable income each family has to live on.  Obama pitched the low information voter in 2012 on “it just needs a little more time to work”...In other words “I have a system, don’t worry as soon as Black 32 comes up and the Cardinals win the Super Bowl” America will be rich. Obama is like the Vegas gambler betting the rent money and running up $6bn on his credit card certain his numbers will come up on the next spin of the wheel.

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OPRAH

Oprah, once a member of Rev. Wright congregation, along with the Obama's, will give Harvard speech...

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As many of you know, communicating with our Senators is severely hindered by an archaic firewall they have felt necessary to put up.

I will send this in "plain text" via their protected protocol.

But y'all should know about this communication.

In fact you should each/all send the link of this Post  to your Senators and Representative

(I am currently UN-Represented in 1s District SC) so it only goes to my Senators

Perhaps with a burst of unknown reserve energy I will seek out email addresses for all 16 who wish to

"represent Me" and send this to them also.

Until then,

PLEASE SHARE THIS.... IT IS IMPORTANT

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Sen. L Graham

Sen. T Scott

 

I am writing as a troubled citizen.

The course of our Nation, driven by y’all, is VERY troublesome.

In case this is too long for you to read thru, here is the wrap up

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Strippling Warrior posted a very ominous thought.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-response-to-senator-mccains-pathetic-response/#comment-181280

This begins to address the Gov’t DHS orders for 1.6 BILLION ROUNDS of AMMO and 2700 Light Armored Vehicles (MRAP?)

http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2013/03/dhs-purchases-2700-mraps-to-go-with-their-1-6-billion-bullet-stockpile-2498708.html

 

 PLEASE GIVE US THE TRUTH… PLEASE!

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Now, before you click off, read at least this……….

 we have public blogs trashing Sen. McCain.

Don’t let this happen to you!

Sen. Graham, your alliance with McCain on Immigration makes you especially vulnerable/suspect.

 

You likely don’t have the time or interest to personally review he links that follow.

But, trust me, they should OPEN your eyes.

At least charge your staff with reviewing and reporting on these views ; held by Patriots of America.

Don’t let that happen to you!

Here are some links to a blog and comments in reply.

Don’t let that happen to you!

The main blog………

http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-response-to-senator-mccains-pathetic-response/

 

Questions for Senators… this post from “bobmann101” is LONG but revealing.

Study it.

Don’t let that happen to you!

http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-response-to-senator-mccains-pathetic-response/#comment-180941

 

 

This post asks that you stop being complicit… also LONG but revealing

Don’t let that happen to you!

http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-response-to-senator-mccains-pathetic-response/#comment-181113

 

 

stranger said……. They aren’t listening anymore… We seem to have 535 Dead Fish in Washington.

Don’t let that happen to you!

http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-response-to-senator-mccains-pathetic-response/#comment-181350

 

Strippling Warrior posted a very ominous thought.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-response-to-senator-mccains-pathetic-response/#comment-181280

This begins to address the Gov’t DHS orders for 1.6 BILLION ROUNDS of AMMO and 2700 Light Armored Vehicles (MRAP?)

http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2013/03/dhs-purchases-2700-mraps-to-go-with-their-1-6-billion-bullet-stockpile-2498708.html

 

 PLEASE GIVE US THE TRUTH… PLEASE!

 

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Hobby Lobby May Close

Hobby Lobby May Close

 

By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working
out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture
frames.. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s
living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and
worked according to God’s word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one
of the nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500
locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business
leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.

We’re Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I’ve
always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our
business in harmony with God’s laws, and (2) to focus on people more
than money. And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close early so our
employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on
Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our workers
and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by
God’s grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our
employees. We’ve not only added jobs in a weak economy, we’ve raised
wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start
at 80% above minimum wage.

But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new
government healthcare mandate says that our family business MUST
provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health
insurance. Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause
abortions, which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the
morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might
end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary
to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles
on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to
comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines.

Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our
government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages four years
running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its
business according to its beliefs. It’s not right. I know people will
say we ought to follow the rules; that it’s the same for everybody.
But that’s not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies
from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won’t
exempt them for reasons of religious belief.

So, Hobby Lobby and my family are forced to make a choice. With great
reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund
for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate
before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court,
but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important
than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than
turning a profit.

My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing
our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but
the government is going to make that much more difficult. The
government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and
following the law. I say that’s a choice no American and no American
business should have to make.

The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your
fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies
but will not except Christian organizations including the Catholic
church.

Since you will not see this in the liberal media, please pass this on
to all your contacts.

Sincerely,

David Green

CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

“The wisdom that comes from above is, first, pure, then
peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits,
without uncertainty or insincerity.” – James 3:17

 

Source: http://connect.freedomworks.org/news/view/353481?destination=node%2F353481

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When Citizens Do Not Trust Government?

There is a disturbing trend that is hard to miss. It is one that nobody wants to think about but one that is becoming harder and harder to ignore. When Obama ran for President in 2008 he mentioned that we cannot depend on the military or police to defend us against national security threats. We need a National Security Force just as large an powerful as our military, he said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gwaAVJITx1Y  These days the internet is full of conspiracy theories; some seem a bit over the top, some of the claims seem questionable but underneath it all there is enough verifiable truth to be alarming.

Rand Paul asked the Senate why Federal Bureaucrats need SWAT Teams to enforce just laws?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kT8waPM9yYw

The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up to fight something but it certainly is not illegal aliens. Who is DHS preparing to fight or defend against and who are they planning to defend?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/26/if-assault-weapons-are-bad-why-does-the-dhs-want-to-buy-7000-of-them-for-personal-defense/

What kind of warrants will DHS be serving that requires a SWAT Team in an armored vehicle and what is it that must be done that the FBI, State Police and local SWAT Teams cannot handle?

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/obama-dhs-purchases-2700-light-armored-tanks-to-go-with-their-1-6-billion-bullet-stockpile/  

 

The Federal Government, originally intended to take care of things States could not handle in a way intended to avoid affecting our day to day lives, is now inserting itself into everything we say and do. In other words the Federal Government is, in fact, attempting to control everything about our lives. They want to decide what we eat, what healthcare we get, what we drive and they want to disarm the civilian population while ramping up the ability of every federal agency except the conventional military to handle an armed conflict.

 

What conflict might that be and who is the threat? If the danger is foreign wouldn't a well armed militia go a long way toward protecting our country from physical invasion or even Jihadists? If the danger were missiles, how would the hand held weapons and crowd control devices they seek help? If they seek to aid US citizens in emergencies or disasters wouldn't field hospitals, doctors, nurses, ambulances, rescue vehicles and vaccines be more important than bullets and armament?

 

Whatever the plan, “the most transparent administration in history” is not sharing it with us and that is enough to sound an alarm. At this point job one must be to do everything possible to protect our second amendment rights. To that end I would suggest you support theSecond Amendment Foundation which was instrumental in halting the gun confiscations in New Orleans following Katrina and The National Rifle Association  which has been our best defense and most powerful advocate for many years. Whatever you do, pretending that nothing is wrong can only lead to disaster.

 

PS

When considering whether or not you “really need” a semiautomatic personal defense weapon (assault riffle), think about whom you might have to defend yourself from. If you think you will need to defend yourself against someone who has one, you need one!

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Who Runs This Show Anyway?

Much to the surprise of Members of the U.S. Congress—and possibly of the members of the Syrian opposition as well—Kerry announced that the U.S. will be supplying $60 million in food and medical supplies to the rebels fighting the brutal civil war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Read more: http://conservativebyte.com/2013/03/u-s-aid-to-syrian-rebels-takes-congress-by-surprise/#ixzz2MaesekG6

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Tea Party: Come Together

4063396503?profile=originalMy late momma taught my siblings and I to never put family business in the street. However, my Tea Party family must deal with this issue if we are to accomplish our mission to halt Obama's tyranny and transformation of America into his socialist/progressive dream. The issue of which I speak is unity.


Early in our Tea Party movement four years ago, I was shocked to encounter turf wars and various selfish agendas. The people, the patriots who invest time and money for the movement, are not the problem. I am talking about some in leadership positions.


A major Tea Party website banned me from posting because I mentioned another Tea Party group. I thought, aren't we all on the same team? I quickly learned that we were not. Some opportunists joined the Tea Party simply because it was the hot new thing.


Then there are the single issue folks. If your Tea Party group does not channel all of it's efforts to the issue of which I am most passionate, I quit!


Let us not forget the doom and gloom folks. Their emails are as followed, “Lloyd you are an idiot for even trying to make a difference. Both parties are hopelessly corrupt.” No one, I repeat, no one can foresee the future well enough to be completely fatalistic. Numerous times in my life, when all hope appeared to be lost, God intervened. Thus, I have learned to move forward always attempting to do the right thing and deliver my best at whatever God has put in front of me to do.


The Bible says,One can put a thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand to flight.” (Deuteronomy 32:30) In other words, our efforts are greatly increased when we work together.


Round one of the battle to restore America is over - Socialism won via Obama's reelection. As we enter round two, it is more crucial than ever that we put aside pettiness and selfishness. We must come together to save the greatest nation on the planet. Am I talking about sacrificing core beliefs? Absolutely not.


Patriots, there will always be issues on which we disagree. Such is human nature. Someone said if you find a perfect church, please do not join it because you will mess it up. I am simply asking that we be more diligent in finding common ground – areas in which we do agree and work together for the greater good.

Ronald Reagan said, “There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.” Patriots, I do not care who gets the credit. I just want to see stronger opposition to Obama's agenda.


Obama and company are destroying our country folks. America can not survive with us fighting about who gets to sit on the front row.

Please do not think that I am being Mr High & Mighty preaching to you. In my youth, I made the mistake of making certain situations about me resulting in embarrassing consequences. When you come to a situation thinking, how can I help, and how can I make a positive difference, good things happen for all involved.


Brothers and sisters, the battle is much, much bigger than us. America, freedom and liberty are at stake.

Someone should organize Tea Party Unity rallies – groups across America coming together showing solidarity in our shared mission to restore America.


Do not allow one group to hog the stage – each Tea Party group should be equally represented. Do not allow an ego driven long winded knucklehead speaker who is disrespectful of their allotted time assignment to hijack the rally. The rallies must be about serving the attendees and not about individual egos or agendas. We can no longer waste time, energy and resources on such selfish nonsense.


Every time the Obama media hears negative news and in-fighting in the Tea Party, they have an orgasm. Since our inception, Obama's media has tried to portray white Tea Party members as redneck racists against a black president and black members such as I as Uncle Tom sellouts.


Karl Rove recently revealed that the Tea Party is also in the cross-hairs of the GOP.


So brothers and sisters, it is our patriotic duty to be on our best behavior. Cease in-fighting and come together focused on achieving our divinely inspired common goal of restoring America back to the vision of our Founding Fathers and the Constitution.


If we, the Tea Party, do not save America, no one will. God Bless.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee

LloydMarcus.com

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This is an eye opener for another worthless criminal government organization. Homeland Security is yet another example of bloted government, extremely expensive and obviously a total waste of time. They have not discovered one reasonable terrorist threat yet do very well at stealing stuff and feeling people up. I know that one bad apple does not spoil the whole bunch, oh wait, one bad apple does spoil the whole bunch.

http://blackburn.house.gov/uploadedfiles/blackburn_tso_report.pdf

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The Obama Justice Department is arguing in the United States Supreme Court that children do not need mothers.

The Justice Department’s argument on the superfluity of motherhood is presented in a brief the Obama administration filed in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, which challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that amended California’s Constitution to say that marriage involves only one man and one woman.

The Justice Department presented its conclusions about parenthood in rebutting an argument made by proponents of Proposition 8 that the traditional two-parent family, led by both a mother and a father, was the ideal place, determined even by nature itself, to raise a child.

The Obama administration argues this is not true. It argues that children need neither a father nor a mother and that having two fathers or two mothers is just as good as having one of each.

“The [California] Voter Guide arguably offered a distinct but related child-rearing justification for Proposition 8: ‘the best situation for a child is to be raised by a married mother and father,’” said the administration’s brief submitted to the court by Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr.

Read more from this story HERE.


Read more: http://joemiller.us/2013/03/doj-children-do-not-need-and-have-no-right-to-mothers/#ixzz2MZuO90CV

Read more: http://joemiller.us/2013/03/doj-children-do-not-need-and-have-no-right-to-mothers/#ixzz2MZuD5cUW

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Add this to GE closing the last Incandescent Light Bulb plant in the USA and opening new plant in China to make Compact Fluorescent Lights of CFL's.

Obama's Green Energy investments creating far more jobs in China and Mexico than in the USA.

But Obama cheers Jeffrey Immelt on...

I thought this guy was supposed to help create jobs in the USA....Not in China!

Obama Jobs Czar Closing Wisconsin G E Plant Moving It To CHINA

Obama has guaranteed over a $ Billion in loans to GE, but GE paid no US Taxes while sheltering overseas profits.

Over 60% of GE employees are not Americans.

Obama Jobs Czar Closing Wisconsin G E Plant Moving It To CHINA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/...
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Bob Woodward’s alleged “threat” from the White House has touched off a storm of conservative support for the Washington Post editor, and has forced the Obama administration onto the defense. It also may have opened up a floodgate of information — information that suggests that, even if Woodward himself was not threatened or abused, other less venerable reporters have faced such treatment.

The New York Post reports:

This administration is more skilled and disciplined than any other in controlling the narrative, using social media to circumnavigate the press. On the flip side, our YouTube culture means even the slightest gaffe can be devastating, and so you have an army of aides and staffers helicoptering over reporters.

Finally, this week, reporters are pushing back. Even Jonathan Alter — who frequently appears on the Obama-friendly MSNBC — came forward to say he, too, had been treated horribly by the administration for writing something they didn’t like.

White House Allegedly Calls Reporters B h, C t And A hole Regularly, Report Suggests

Jonathan Alter (Photo Credit: Weaselzippers)

“There is a kind of threatening tone that, from time to time — not all the time — comes out of these guys,” Alter said this week. During the 2008 campaign swing through Berlin, Alter said that future White House press secretary Robert Gibbs disinvited him from a dinner between Obama and the press corps over it.[...]

“I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c–t, a–hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.”

This is not the first piece of evidence that the Obama administration is excessively concerned with pressuring reporters. Back in February, stories began to circulate that the Obama administration’s manner of controlling the White House press pool had frustrated many reporters for being excessively strict and thin-skinned.

Fox News Host Bret Baier also drew accolades for forcing the President to answer tough questions in an interview – an exchange that left President Obama visibly testy. Finally, as we at TheBlaze reported in April of last year, St. Louis news station KMOV-TV induced the President to react somewhat angrily to a critical question about the economy.

Nevertheless, nothing quite so harsh as throwing obscenities at reporters has been suggested to have happened until now. Certainly, the idea of White House officials calling female reporters “b—h,” “c–t” or “a–hole” is cause for concern, especially in an administration has repeatedly accused its opponents of sexism.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/03/b-h-c-t-reporters-open-up-about-obscenities-and-abuse-from-obama-spokespeople/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

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It's like I have been saying for years, this is the agenda, this is the objective. Islam in America.
We are above the law of the land' WND, March 3, 2013

Muslim's stunning claim at Texas rally for Islam

A leader for the Texas branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations has told a crowd at a rally for Islam that members of the faith really shouldn’t be bound by American law.

“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” said Mustafa Carroll, the executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch, a keynote speaker as the recent rally.

The event was a rally in Austin, a part of the nationwide effort to hold “Muslim Capitol Day” events.

CAIR itself has been under investigation for its documented ties to terrorist organizations in the past.

  • CAIR funded the Holy Land Foundation, which was used to funnel money to Hamas. President Bush shut down Holy Land Foundation, which CAIR called “unjust” and “disturbing.”
  • CAIR denied Osama Bin Laden was behind 9/11, even though Bin Laden said so on camera.
  • CAIR demanded removal of a billboard in Los Angeles in 1998 that described Osama bin Laden as “the sworn enemy,” saying that this description was “offensive to Muslims.” [Osama had by this point released his Declaration of War on the United States.]
  • CAIR called the conviction of the 1993 WTC bombers “a travesty of justice.”
  • CAIR called the conviction of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh who planned to blow up New York City landmarks, a “hate crime.”
  • CAIR labeled the extradition order for suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marook “anti-Islamic” and “anti-American.”

CAIR also had on its advisory board Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the attempted 1993 WTC bombings. It was the same Siraj Wahhaj who was asked to deliver the “Juma,” or invocation at the Democratic National Convention for President Obama. He also once remarked, “It is my duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Quran.”

According to the website about the event, Muslims from around Texas went to the Capitol in Austin to “promote civic and political activism throughout the wider Muslim community.”

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China Deal Benefits Obama Donors

China Deal Benefits Obama Donors

Administration-approved takeover by Chinese oil company provides Obama backers windfall

BY: Andrew Evans
March 2, 2013 4:59 am

The government watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Treasury Department for records pertaining to the department’s decision to grant a Chinese government-backed company access to oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, a move that will benefit Obama donors.

The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) reached a “definitive agreement” with Nexen, Inc., a Canadian energy company, announced on July 23, 2012, to buy all of the company’s outstanding public shares. Nexen has holdings in the Gulf of Mexico and Canada, giving the Chinese government access to millions of barrels of Keystone XL and Gulf reserve oil.

Nexen’s holdings in the Gulf, coupled with the Chinese government’s ownership of CNOOC, meant the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States had to approve the takeover, which it did on Feb. 12.

The secretaries of several major executive departments—including treasury, state, defense, and homeland security—sit on the committee.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information on the deal in November, but the Treasury Department did not reply within the mandatory 20 days. Judicial Watch then filed suit on Feb. 14 to get access to the documents.

Judicial Watch noted that several prominent fundraisers and donors to President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign stood to make a windfall profit from the Chinese corporation’s expansion in their press release announcing the suit.

David Shaw founded D.E. Shaw and Co., which massively increased its shares in Nexen in the third quarter of 2012, according to its SEC reports. Nexen’s stock rose almost 50 percent the week of the announcement, which was early in the third quarter.

Shaw bundled between $200,000 and $500,000 for the Obama campaign in 2012. He also sits on a presidential advisory council, Judicial Watch noted. D.E. Shaw and Company did not return a request for comment.

Frank Brosens is another prominent Democratic supporter who stood to gain significantly from the merger. His firm Taconic Capital bought at least 6 million shares in Nexen in the third quarter of 2012 but sold all of them by the end of the year. Taconic did not return a request for comment on their investment strategy.

Brosens, like Shaw, has close ties to the current administration. He was reportedly Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s first choice to run the bailout program in 2009, and was a major donor to the Democratic National Committee in the 2012 cycle. He also bundled between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama’s campaign in 2012.

Judicial Watch also pointed out several other organizations with close ties to the administration stood to gain from the merger.

The lawsuit comes as the president’s campaign-apparatus-turned-dark-money-advocacy group has come under scrutiny for providing donors access to the president.

“With one ill-chosen action, the Obama administration has managed to undermine our strategic interests and reward its corporate cronies,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, in the released statement.

The Treasury Department did not return a request for comment.

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Why isn't the CFR in history books?

Hardly one person in a thousand has ever heard of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was formally established in Paris in 1919 along with its British counterpart the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). The CFR and the RIIA can trace their roots back to a secret organization founded and funded by Cecil Rhodes, who became fabulously wealthy by exploiting the people of South Africa. Rhodes is the father of Apartheid.

Read More:http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/cfr_history.htm

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ICE union head on deporting welfare-dependents: ‘We are not permitted to enforce that statute. Period’

The legal prohibition on new immigrants becoming primarily reliant on government assistance for subsistence — or public charges — is never enforced, Chris Crane, an ICE agent and president of the ICE agent’s union told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon.

“It is certainly part of what we are supposed to be doing, it is definitely a federal statute within the [Immigration and Nationality Act],” he said when asked about the enforcement of the century-old public charge restriction. “However I will say this: that in my career, I have never seen or heard of the charge being applied in any case to anyone.”

Crane — whose union is in the midst of a lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, ICE Director John Morton, and U.S. Customs and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas over the administration’s changes to immigration policy — noted that even officers who have been in the agency longer than his ten years have told him they have never seen or heard it employed.

Read the rest of the story: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/13/ice-union-head-on-deporting-welfare-dependents-we-are-not-permitted-to-enforce-that-statute-period/

 

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By Oscar Y. Harward

 

When we watch and listen to President Obama on any day, anyone with any prior recorded speeches, memory, and/or other experience must come to a decision that as President Obama says one thing today is, perhaps, opposite of his expressions of yesterday and/or yesteryear. 

 

It appears President Obama’s decisions include lack of professionalism in leadership, his appointments, etc., as well as in improving our weakened economy.  President Obama’s political decisions are near most ‘opposite thinking’ of any and all successful decisions that have been fruitful in working so well for our economy in more than 200 years.  Additionally, we read, see, and hear of catastrophes within the Justice Department, National Security, tax-evasion appointees, and the $831 billion ‘Stimulus’ potential frauds; many involve approving America’s taxpayers’ money awarded to friends and donors of the White House and Capitol Hill Democrats.

 

After more than four years of blaming President George Bush for Obama’s failing economy, President Obama is now blaming Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans for his own political and fiscal failures.  When will this ‘childlike’ President accept any of his own irresponsibility? 

 

While President Obama’s friend and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has, in four consecutive years, failed to pass a Senate ‘budget’ as required by law, President Obama continues to praise Sen. Reid’s failures of Constitutional law.

 

President Obama’s record illustrates how our economy continues to slump as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics with ‘U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force unemployment heights’ nears ‘depression’ levels of 14.4% as managed under Obama’s failed political and fiscal policies.

 

Additionally, President Obama’s political policy failures seem to be based on National Security. Obama’s team lacks competence exposing failures of Embassy employees, who were under a terrorist attack for seven hours that left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. nationals to die on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya; and without the US Consulate’s requested assistances for help.

 

Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration continue to focus on, not what the failures were and/or what may have prevented these lives, but to repeat that this Administration’s efforts are to make sure it doesn’t happen again.  There were serious failures as if some on the Obama team may have been unknowing, uncaring, intoxicated, and/or on drugs, rather than being knowing, caring, sober, alert, and on the job. 

 

News reports say President Obama, himself, never had any telephone communications during this time frame.  American servants deserve more than as was provided these four Americans as they were dying in this instance.

 

Lest we forget Fast and Furious!  Evidence may prove that several associates in President Obama’s administration, including the US Justice Department, and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) acted in the Fast and Furious plot while selling and/or approving the sale of automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols, to a ‘Mexican drug cartel’; weapons that were used in ‘murdering’ at least 3 innocent Americans and hundreds of Mexicans. Our Justice Department and/or ATF had devised a scheme in an attempt to blame U.S. firearms manufacturers as scapegoats for this criminal violence.

 

There are even more continuing failures.  Are you confused?  From President Obama’s News Transcript on March 1, 2013, President Obama says, “Look, we've already cut $2.5 trillion in our deficit.”  How, what, where, and when has President Obama cut $2.5 Trillion?  Please, show the facts!  

 

The National debt has increased by more than $6 trillion since President Barack Obama took office, marking the largest increase under any president in history.

 

US Government and Obama’s Deficits are for: FY 2010: $1.293 Trillion; FY 2011: $1.300 Trillion; FY 2012: $1.089 Trillion; and FY 2013* $901 Billion (Note: Federal Deficit is budgeted.)  The National debt under President Obama’s ‘clock’ has now exceeded $6 Trillion.

 

Lastly, while President Obama continues to promise and repeatedly claims ‘transparency’, he and his administration practice the opposite.  Worse of all, he is failing America and our citizens and our children on all social, fiscal, and national security issues.

 

May God Bless America!

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The Sequester Pimple

I don't take credit for this, but........

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From a Tea Party Blog

Comment by Don MacDermid 21 hours ago

Unbelievably dangerous person,  proving we have robots in offices of high honor - in both parties.

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Putting citizens to work and breaking the oil monopolies adds$1.5 trillion to the economy, enough to end Obama’s progressive “defecate” spending &&&  The $85 billion sasquatch goes away!

Through all of the current deception, chaos, and hatemongering, not one legislator or the president has considered anything real!

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In a few short lines Don showed where productive leaders could add $1.5 TRILLION to our economy; not counting the Taxes our bloviated president harps on.

But, let's be FAIR!

Like Don.... let's NOT pick on the President.

....... not one legislator or the president has considered anything real!

WHAT will you do about this?

Contact your politician

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