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Loyal American citizens, those living in the real world, love Freedom and Liberty. They would sooner die than live in a country governed by individuals who would rule them. I happen to be one of those ready and willing to die for my God, my family, my Freedom and Liberty. I am not alone. There are millions of Americans willing to give as much as I to defend their God given right to Freedom, Liberty and happiness. The highest law of the land stands on the side of these people, the United States Constitution. Our founding Fathers considered it so important that every citizen had a right to own and bear arms that they included the Constitution. They did not consider that we would need these weapons to hunt with or defend our homes from criminals. They knew that if the right to own and bear arms was not an undeniable right under the law one day an elected government would try to take arms away from all citizens. They knew that such a government would have only one reason to do this, to put every citizen under their absolute control. It is absolutely imperative that every citizen be able to defend our Constitution and the Freedoms it guarantees. This has never been more evident than it is with our present leadership in Washington. I love my country and its Constitution and would never do anything to harm either. However, I have no respect for the government nor do I, or any other citizen, owe this government any loyalty or anything else. Every citizen owes his or her country whatever each can do for its continued survival and success. This includes protecting the country and its Constitution from politicians. To this end we must never, under any circumstances, allow any attempt to remove arms from American citizens. For those who just cannot understand why gun owners are so dedicated, who do you want to have the power, the people or the tyrants in government? Consider what is happening to citizens in other countries where the people could not own guns, get the picture? If you say "it can't happen here" you are nothing more than ignorant fool.
Art Phillips
veteran
patriot
law abiding (Constitutional laws)
loyal American
Obama is following the desires of his anti-American, absent, drunk of a father who hated the United States. By shifting American money to the third world, by giving away American Power, to those who hate the west, who hate modern civilization and for the most part who hate their own people. He is planeting the seeds of the destruction of human kind. Obama has been blinded by hate for this Country to realize that despite our miss-steps our mistakes and some have BEEN Doozies. AMERICAN CULTRUE... AMERICAN ECONOMIC POWER... AMERICAS UNQUESTIONABLE MILITARY OVER MATCH AGANIST ANY EARTH BASED POWER IS A GLOBAL FORCE FOR GOOD. IF WE FALL.... THE WORLD WILL BE COVERED BY DARKNESS. A DARKNESS FROM WHICH CIVILIZATION MAY NOT RECOVER. LEADERSHIP NOT HOPE
I have been listening to the cacophony of cowardly Republicans jumping all over Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri concerning his comments about rape and abortion a few days ago. I understand that what he said was ill-advised but he tried to answer a very tough question instead of dodging it as most politicians would do. He did manage to make a mess of it but has attempted to make amends in a very humble and honorable fashion. Akin has apologized profusely, explained what he actually meant, explained where he got the information he was basing his statement on, and has also acknowledged that he spoke on facts that he now knows were feasible but questionable. The man made a mistake in the way he stated his point and the entire Republican Party is throwing him to the wolves for it.
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The rich should be taxed more ? There is a better way to help the country and adventure the entire world. Dynastic wealth is a very benefitually to the whole community if it managed correctly. The rich can help the entire population of the U.S.A. By sponsoring public work projects. The rich should be building damns, highways, planting forests rebuilding our decaying infer structure once the envy o...
f the world now a glaring example of the lack of political will and insight and a weakening economy
By maintaining a vast amounts of private wealth governed by a public minded board so much more can be done then any charity. Eventually charities burn through all the donated cash and need more. Dynastic wealth can injecting large some of money into the system which is spent effectively on projects that need to be desperately completely. Would simultaneously put Americans back to work in highly skilled good paying careers. This would allow Americans to save more and spend more. Thus putting other American back to work increasing the tax base. Allowing this nation greater responsibility to the general well being of the country with out borrowing from other nations.
And the Rich actually make a profit into long term. By allowing a toll on any new project to pay the projects back like a public bond. The phenomenon would be self sustaining but the political will must come from the people themselves to demand that the elected representatives stop pandering to who ever feed their election campaigns war chest. And do what's right for the Country. Or better yet elect entirely new blood to clean out the old corrupt, inefficient, under educated under achieving Congress
By maintaining dynastic wealth and properly administrating it. Privately owned national sovereignty funds could be created over night allowing the rich to make even more money simultaneously benefiting the entire country. People and inferstructure, natural resources would all benefit and benefit quickly. Huge amounts of money can be privately maintained can be used for the public good. Dynastic wealth could be used to expand the economy save the middle class and make a profit for the private funds.
By maintaining a vast amounts of private wealth governed by a public minded board so much more can be done then any charity. Eventually charities burn through all the donated cash and need more. Dynastic wealth can injecting large some of money into the system which is spent effectively on projects that need to be desperately completely. Would simultaneously put Americans back to work in highly skilled good paying careers. This would allow Americans to save more and spend more. Thus putting other American back to work increasing the tax base. Allowing this nation greater responsibility to the general well being of the country with out borrowing from other nations.
And the Rich actually make a profit into long term. By allowing a toll on any new project to pay the projects back like a public bond. The phenomenon would be self sustaining but the political will must come from the people themselves to demand that the elected representatives stop pandering to who ever feed their election campaigns war chest. And do what's right for the Country. Or better yet elect entirely new blood to clean out the old corrupt, inefficient, under educated under achieving Congress
By maintaining dynastic wealth and properly administrating it. Privately owned national sovereignty funds could be created over night allowing the rich to make even more money simultaneously benefiting the entire country. People and inferstructure, natural resources would all benefit and benefit quickly. Huge amounts of money can be privately maintained can be used for the public good. Dynastic wealth could be used to expand the economy save the middle class and make a profit for the private funds.
Merriam-Webster’s definition of EXTORTION
1: the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; especially: the offense committed by an official engaging in such practice
2: something extorted; especially: a gross overcharge
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extortion
From Chicago to Madison to Sacramento to Washington DC and points in between:
» Do as we say and nobody gets hurt. Get the picture sweetheart?
Those self-imagined, self-appointed “intellectual elites” within the ”progressive” Democratic Party and their tarnished Oval Office idol insist the 2012 election is a fight for the middle class.
» Union members make up only 12.9% of the middle class. If a smart politician wanted to fight for the remaining 87.1%, they would be against forcing those voters to pay more taxes so government sector unions can enjoy a job where dismissal for incompetence is virtually impossible, Cadillac benefits (with smaller payroll deductions than the private sector) are the norm, and exorbitant salaries and bloated retirement pensions are business as usual.
Government sector unions offer nothing of value to America. The prevention of workplace violations have long been secured by workplace rights legislation. The only value government sector unions have to offer to anyone is to crooked politicians who promise them cushy, taxpayer funded benefits in exchange for campaign funding and guaranteed election turnout.
Can you say criminal quid pro quo?
» You politicians better give us what we want or you will get no union support. Get the picture chum?
For those who propagate the misrepresentation that union’s “fighting for what they believe in” shows character:
» How can anyone truly believe that threatening small business owners with boycotts shows character? Small business owners are people who are hard-working individuals, who have invested overtime hours without pay for weeks, months and years on end in hopes they will achieve the American dream of success, who simply wish to remain neutral in the government sector union’s battle. Bullying and intimidating these people displays character?
To paraphrase former U.S. President Bill Clinton: It depends on what your definition of character is.
» Support us whether you want to or not and nobody’s business gets hurt. Defy us and we’ll do everything in our power to make sure your business fails. Get the picture pal o’ mine?
On the other hand, when Conservatives peaceably assemble to petition their Government for a redress of grievances, they are rabid, violent, hateful extremists…
…and of course, RACIST!!
» What is extreme is acting like $16 trillion in national debt should be of no concern.
» What is extreme is painting Conservative budget plans to cut a $3.7 trillion federal budget by $61 billion (less than 1%) as extreme.
» What is extreme is describing plans to freezes an already enacted 25% increase in federal government spending as a serious attempt to cut spending.
» What is extreme is classifying brave, self-sacrificing veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq as potential domestic terrorists.
» What is extreme is saying that average, everyday Americans who simply want their government to follow the U.S. Constitution should be considered threats to national security.
» What is extreme is demanding an increase in the U.S. debt limit without restraint ad infinitum.
» What is extreme is a Department of Justice that picks and chooses which laws to enforce based on the White House’s “progressive” political agenda.
» What is extreme is a radical fringe leftist “progressive” Oval Office occupier who truly believes that being anti-Constitutional, anti-free speech, anti-free market, anti-business, anti-traditional energy, anti-religious freedom, anti-gun, pro-illegal immigration, pro-UN treaty restrictions on individual U.S. liberties is somehow in any way shape or form in America’s best interests.
» What is extreme is the empty class warfare rhetoric that “the rich”, those top 5 percent who still pay more than the bottom 95 percent, “don’t pay their fair share” of support to a slothful, bloated, deficit spending, ever expanding, spiraling completely out of control federal bureaucratic nightmare.
» What is extreme is the conscious choice made by big government collectivists to ignore economic realities and force every individual to purchase a commodity that imposes collectivist goals on everyone else.
» What is extreme is the conscious decision made by big government collectivists that the bottom 47 percent who do not pay any income taxes somehow magically qualify to receive an income tax refund.
The United States does not have a revenue problem. The United States has a spending problem. A major spending problem… Recklessly continuing America’s massive deficit spending in the name of “social justice” or “economic justice” is suicidal.
The re-election of one current White House occupant ensures that America will be destroyed via the institutionalized “progressive” left’s Cloward-Piven strategy. By foisting the government sector union failure upon America, what the institutionalized “progressive” left is doing is nothing short of criminal. It is, by definition, extortion.
Instead of being elected to office, they should be imprisoned.
Calling all my friends to help me with this!
Here's a NEW version of the ROMNEY video! If YOU know anybody, PLEASE get it to them !
It's time sensitive and this is the time to do this. My permission is granted to play it at any venue you see fit!
THANKS PATRIOTS !
TODD AKIN'S PHONE NUMBER
Phone Number:
(636) 207-7986
His Email is at this link:
http://www.akin.org/contact
PLEASE CALL OR LEAVE AN EMAIL AT HIS WEB PAGE AND
RESPECTFULLY ASK HIM TO STEP DOWN FROM THE RACE.
WE NEED A MAJORITY IN THE SENATE AND THIS PARTICULAR
RACE IF WE DO NOT GET THE RIGHT REPUBLICAN IN, IT WILL MESS EVERYTHING
UP.
THANKS,
GLORIA
I received this from my husband this am. I know this is a "dead horse" and I am sure many of you have seen this- It is worth repeating. Remember, NEVER confuse a liberal with the facts.
HOW NO ONE GETS A REASSIGNED SS NUMBER
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security number (SSN) is being used by President Obama: Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama's current SSN) on or about March 1977.
Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut . Because of that, his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few reserved for Connecticut residents.
Obama never lived or worked in that state! Therefore, there is no reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042. None whatsoever!
Now comes the best part! Ludwig spent the final months of his life in Hawaii , where he died.
Conveniently, Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.
The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig's death, and because he never received Social Security benefits, there were no benefits to stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised.
The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro simply scoured the probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig's Connecticut SSN for Obama.
Just wait until Trump gets past the birth certificate and onto the issue of Barry O's use of a stolen SSN. You will see leftist heads exploding, because they will have no way of defending Obama.
Although many Americans do not understand the meaning of the term "natural born" there are few who do not understand that if you are using someone else's SSN, it is a clear indication of fraud.
Let's all get this information out to everybody on our mailing lists.. If the voters of this great nation can succeed in bringing this lying, deceitful, cheating, corrupt, impostor to justice it will be the biggest and best news in decades for our country and the world. **************************************************************************************************** Very Interesting Bit of Detective Work;
1. Back in 1961, people of color were called 'Negroes.'
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security number (SSN) is being used by President Obama: Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama's current SSN) on or about March 1977.
Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut . Because of that, his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few reserved for Connecticut residents.
Obama never lived or worked in that state! Therefore, there is no reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042. None whatsoever!
Now comes the best part! Ludwig spent the final months of his life in Hawaii , where he died.
Conveniently, Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.
The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig's death, and because he never received Social Security benefits, there were no benefits to stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised.
The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro simply scoured the probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig's Connecticut SSN for Obama.
Just wait until Trump gets past the birth certificate and onto the issue of Barry O's use of a stolen SSN. You will see leftist heads exploding, because they will have no way of defending Obama.
Although many Americans do not understand the meaning of the term "natural born" there are few who do not understand that if you are using someone else's SSN, it is a clear indication of fraud.
Let's all get this information out to everybody on our mailing lists.. If the voters of this great nation can succeed in bringing this lying, deceitful, cheating, corrupt, impostor to justice it will be the biggest and best news in decades for our country and the world. **************************************************************************************************** Very Interesting Bit of Detective Work;
1. Back in 1961, people of color were called 'Negroes.'
So how can the Obama 'birth certificate' state he is 'African-American' when the term wasn't even used at that time?
2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father.
No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in " Kenya , East Africa ". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the " British East Africa Protectorate".
3. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity Gynecological Hospital ".
No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in " Kenya , East Africa ". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the " British East Africa Protectorate".
3. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity Gynecological Hospital ".
This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called "KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively. The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978?
Resources: http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx
Resources: http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx
Post-colonial history (from Wikipedia) http://en.wikipediaorg/wiki/History_of_Kenya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya
Why hasn't this been discussed in the major media?
FOR ROMNEY AND RYAN, THEY WILL NOT LIE TO YOU LIKE OB.
FOR ROMNEY AND RYAN, THEY WILL NOT LIE TO YOU LIKE OB.
This administration accused the Republican candidate Romney of outsourcing jobs while he was restructuring companies. What this administration does not want you to understand (political muddying of the water and how they like to do that) is that by allowing illegal aliens to enter the U.S. they are in effect outsourcing but some folks call it insourcing since these illegals are taking jobs for reduced wages from American citizens who would be paid a higher wage. Too much of the money being made by illegals is being transferred out of the U.S. in lieu of being recirculated within the U.S. thus creating more economic problems for the U.S. What all past administrations do not publicize is that our Balance of Payments Deficit has been negative for many, many years. We have been buying more that we have been selling to other countries resulting in a deficit. Does this deficit matter? You bet, as it is one more contribution to the demise of our economy. Some people state that we need to allow foreigners into the country and I believe that is legitimate as long as they come in legally and abide by the law. Other folks state that it does not matter since we need more younger people to support the growing older population and that is why the Administration and all previous administrations allowed illegals to cross the border without a challenge. If that is the case we Americans have only ourselves to blame as collectively the U.S. has had well over 50 million abortions since Roe versus Wade. We are self destructing. Americans need to realize that the Bible and the 10 Commandments were given to us by God as a very realistic and practical blueprint for living. If we continue to snub our nose at the Creator and His laws we will suffer even more as time goes on. He knows what is best for us that is why He has provided the Bible, Christian Tradition, Churches, priests, ministers and Rabbis, etc for us so that we will have life and have it more abundantly and ultimately save our souls. Sincere prayer to our Creator equals enlightenment! Why do we need enlightenment from our Creator? Can you really depend on the media and the biased educational system to provide enlightenment. In reality, most of them provide brainwashing for their hidden agendae and most of us swallow it, hook, line and sinker. Only the Creator will provide us with the truth because He is truth, itself. Something to think about and it would not hurt to pray sincerely to our Creator for enlightenment! What have you got to you lose?
I am not censoring anyone with half a brain. My blog is moderated simply because I don't have the time to "debate" with morons. There has been far too much of that already. We seem to spend all our efforts arguing rather than doing something about the mess we are in. I will continue to moderate for a while just to get a feel for the responses. However, unlike the politicians, I WILL NOT change my opinions simply because I think it's what people want to hear. I am 70 years old. I am a rabid originalist when it comes to the Constitution. I am a dues paying member of the Tea Party, unlike some here. I am an Oathkeeper and I am county coordinator for the Constitution Party. My heros are Justices Scalia and Thomas and anyone serving in the military. These are the people who are willing to put it on the line or go against the grain rather than just complain and talk.
I am too old to be in politics so I do what I can trying to influence others to see the light. We are light years away from the America of the revolution. Not technologically, that is a given, but spiritually and ethically. We have traded freedom to be ourselves for the security of being spoon fed from cradle to grave. There are still patriots willing to walk the walk. I pray that I can meet some of them and encourage them to keep up the good fight. Obama is not the problem. The problem is we let him happen. We are to blame not Obama. He is simply doing what any good despot would do. The sooner we realize that we are the problem and the ONLY solution the sooner we regain our freedom.
I hope you are right about Romney/Ryan. Perhaps I am more cynical. I am a student of human nature. Once Romney gets the essentially unlimited power of the presidency, there is nothing to stop him from his own brand of big government and spend, spend, spend. We are no longer a nation of laws but a nation of executive orders (ie: dictatorship). It is terrifying that the Constitution and government/civics classes are no longer taught in schools (for the most part). The problem here is not the crooked politicians but the fact that the electorate is uninformed and ignorant of how things are supposed to work. Worse, they no longer take their sovereignity seriously. We are the rulers by God, not the federal government! After the revolutionary war the heirarchy was deemed to be:
God
The People
The Sovereign States
The Limited Federal Government
Now the heirarchy is:
The Federal Government
Everything and everyone else.
God and the people are not a factor except as a source of production and money.
I suspect the Romney will be more of the same. More benign perhaps but still a gentle despot who is primarily looking out for his own interests. He is a politician, he can do nothing else. I am reminded of the story of the frog and the scorpion.
This is probably all a moot discussion. I look for Obama to anull the elections, or declare a national emergency and set aside the Constitution and Congress, or perhaps just simply declare himself President for Life. He is capable of anything. He has proven that he considers himself above that pesky Constitution and the common law.
GreyTigerTX
8/21/12
Howdy all! It’s fair week in SE Washington. We have bands such as Foghat and REO Speedwagon playing. So, is that good? Well, it tells me how old I am. I took my fiancée to see REO; been married over 26 years. And Foghat? I saw them on their farewell tour – in 1978! So is this good or bad?
Any hoo,..
Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again rejoice! ~ Philippians 4:4
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epocha when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period." --George Washington, Circular to the States, 1783
On face value, George’s statement is sad. At no other time in history did man better understand the rights of man? Really? Well, for a very long time, this was true. Our founders had exceptional vision most of us would agree was given to them as a gift from God. And we know how effective they were at utilizing that gift. But what about now? Many people don’t (or won’t) understand. They don’t pay attention outside the snippets of lies presented in such a nice package on the national ‘evening news’ broadcast. But, there has been a growing swell of understanding by those who do nothing more than pay attention, and say we have had enough. Before the last 4 or 5 years, maybe as far back as ten or even twenty, how many times had you heard the phrase unalienable rights? How many knew more than the first line or two from the Declaration of Independence, or part of the Preamble of the Constitution? And now; how much do you know of these documents? HOW MANY HAVE A FAVORITE LINE?? I do. Article IV, Section 4 – “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.” (BTW, When the President is whistled over the brow of a US Naval ship, he is announced “United States Arriving”).
So, there are a lot of things going wrong with our government. Our federally elected employees have run amok. We have charged them with managing our national affairs. And they are blowing it. So, here we are, set to make a change; many changes. Changes are to be made because our employees have not performed up to our expectations. We need to clean house, and hire people with integrity to perform the tasks given them by the governed. We the People have that power. Nowhere else on earth, at no other time in known history have a people been able to do that without war. There are those around who feel this absence of aggression may change this election year. I happen to believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that we will prevail, our Constitution will prevail, and The United States of America will remain as one united land. American Exceptionalism is not dead. It has had a headache. It’s time to massage the temples, take the medicine to correct what is wrong. Exceptionalism has some pains, but the pain will go away. There is nothing to fear, as they say. So let’s rejoice! Paul’s words to the Philippians can be very encouraging here. Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again rejoice! No matter what may lay before us, we will prevail, as long as we maintain our faith, our principles and our values. Summer is almost over. Autumn is just around the corner. It’s time to rejoice!
Take care, God bless and especially at this time in history,
STAND WITH ISRAEL!!!
Tom Kiley
CBS News) Let's start with a few facts about guns and shootings and deaths.
Lately, there have been far too many shootings of innocent people by crazy
people. We can go back to Virginia Tech or Tucson, Ariz., or look just
recently to Aurora, Colo., and to Wisconsin and the Sikh Temple.
Too many crazy, homicidal people have lethal weapons. And you might say
there should be very strict gun control - and for crazy people, there should
be.
On the other hand, you might look at this little set of facts.
In Sandpoint, North Idaho, where I live for most of the summer, it's
extremely easy to buy a gun. You can buy them at stores and at gun shows, or
just at yard sales. Yet there are almost no gun deaths in Bonner County,
Idaho.
The last ones of note in North Idaho were done by the FBI at Ruby Ridge, and
that's a different story.
On the other hand, in my beloved Los Angeles, where I live most of the year,
there's extremely strict gun control. It's a real project to buy a gun.
Here, we have gang shootings and death by guns on a terrifying scale. In my
native city of Washington, D.C., the same goes: Strict gun control and lots
of shootings.
The same goes for Chicago. Strict gun control and a lot of killing.
Obviously, Sandpoint, Idaho, is a very much calmer place than Chicago, and
I'm not saying that people in Chicago should be allowed to just tote guns in
their cars the way many can, and do, in North Idaho.
But my point is that there is nothing easy or simple about the relationship
between gun control and crime. If a man had started shooting in a crowd in
North Idaho, probably several men in the crowd would have shot him down
immediately. Maybe a woman, too.
I'm not for vigilante law enforcement. But I am also not for government
disarming everyone but criminals.
I have never understood the flaw in the argument that when guns are
outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. And, of course, there are already
laws against murder.
The whole problem of guns and killings is complex, and saying "gun control,"
or being angry at the NRA simply does not get us very far.
I wish I had a better solution, but I don't, and as far as I know neither
does anyone else
America faces attacks upon its economic well-being, its historic values, principles and traditions, the very moral fabric of its society and the supreme law of the land, the United States Constitution. The enemy attacks from within the American education system, in movies, on television, in newspapers, magazines and from within local, state and federal government.
Where are the defenders of the American way of life? Where are the defenders of America's culture? Where are the defenders of equal protection under the law? Where are the defenders of the Constitutional Republic?
They are certainly not to be found within the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where the nomination and eventual confirmation of two activist radical fringe left “progressive” Supreme Court Justice nominees were allowed by Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, who justified his votes by saying “Elections have consequences”. Certainly not within the Federal Court system, where Arizona’s legally passed defense of land and law was overruled by Bill Clinton appointed U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. Certainly not among “Conservative” television pundits, who continue to allow flat out, bold faced lies spoken by radical fringe left “progressive”
pundits go unchallenged.
Where are the heroes?
Are they only to be found within the American people? Is defense of the nation's values, principles, and way of life left up to We The People?
If so, so be it. If it’s up to Patriotic Americans to preserve, protect and defend their nation, their culture, their land of laws, their values, their traditions, their moral fiber and their Constitution, they couldn’t be in better hands.
Americans fought and won independence from tyrannical monarchal government in the Revolutionary War. Americans fought and won against racist attempt to divide the nation during the Civil War. Americans fought and won the struggle against the tyrannical forces of Fascism in World War II. Americans fought and won the Cold War against the tyrannical Communist forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Now America is engaged in a war of ideas here on its own soil. To win, Americans need not fire a single shot. There are more Americans than there are "progressives".
Stand firm in your resolve. Do not ever back down. Be an American hero.
Make sure that this November, you and your American brethren go to the polls in record numbers and vote the radical fringe left “progressive” extremists who seek to destroy your country out of office.
This is not just any old election. November’s election is the battleground for America’s very survival. We The People are responsible for the outcome. To honor those passed who fought to defend America. To preserve the future for you, your children and your grandchildren. Go to the polls and ensure the outcome of this November’s election.
Whether or not it was sought, now is the time for this generation to become the new Greatest Generation. Americans are up to it. It’s in America's DNA.
America, show the world what you are made of.
http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/where-are-americas-heroes/
From my Cuban friend ;
When I was about 9 years old I remember asking my dad about Castro. I asked, "Is Castro a good guy or bad?"
Dad said he couldn't tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana at the time. Dad was in the Army and stationed there.
Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question! Ike was president.
This past July 4th, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba. Our dinner conversation was starkly different from most.
This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960's. His family was more fortunate than most, as they were able to bring a suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary paradise.
Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, fresh ears of sweet corn and watermelon. This is a menu shared with family and friends nationwide while celebrating the birth of our beloved America on the Fourth of July.
We began with a simple discussion about our country, and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the rulers in Washington.
But then he said it. The sentence flowed naturally from our refugee guest. I assume it was unplanned. But it carried the weight of a freight train. "You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist."
We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical."
The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, "You mean just like Barack Obama?"
He responded; "Yes, just like Barack Obama." He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your guns. We all complied."
I also remember my uncle saying: “Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries. He will never come and take our family hardware store!!” But that is exactly what happened. Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And that four-bedroom home you own...it is now our property too. You have to move yourself and the five children into those two rooms of the house, because others are moving in here with you."
The lesson learned from this discussion, is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office, they can take totally unexpected turns.
If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors or Chrysler would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society, would be evaporating, just like it did in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960's.
Dad said he couldn't tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana at the time. Dad was in the Army and stationed there.
Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question! Ike was president.
This past July 4th, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba. Our dinner conversation was starkly different from most.
This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960's. His family was more fortunate than most, as they were able to bring a suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary paradise.
Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, fresh ears of sweet corn and watermelon. This is a menu shared with family and friends nationwide while celebrating the birth of our beloved America on the Fourth of July.
We began with a simple discussion about our country, and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the rulers in Washington.
But then he said it. The sentence flowed naturally from our refugee guest. I assume it was unplanned. But it carried the weight of a freight train. "You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist."
We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical."
The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, "You mean just like Barack Obama?"
He responded; "Yes, just like Barack Obama." He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your guns. We all complied."
I also remember my uncle saying: “Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries. He will never come and take our family hardware store!!” But that is exactly what happened. Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And that four-bedroom home you own...it is now our property too. You have to move yourself and the five children into those two rooms of the house, because others are moving in here with you."
The lesson learned from this discussion, is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office, they can take totally unexpected turns.
If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors or Chrysler would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society, would be evaporating, just like it did in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960's.
But the news of injustice keeps increasing; Black Panthers are not charged with wrong doing by the U.S. Department of Justice because their crimes are against whites; The bond holders of GM are stripped of their assets without being given due process by the government; Car Dealerships are closed without due process; Governmental leaders are bribed in full daylight, only to have all investigations of the crimes stifled by the Attorney General; The U.S. borders are overrun with crime and illegal activity, and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers while the innocent are killed and overrun; When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed and threatened as racists and bigots. They are sued by the very administration entrusted with enforcing the law.
Without the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution is a sham!! Without the rule of law, our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe. As an author recently and so eloquently explained in her most recent book, "a culture of corruption has replaced honest government" (Michelle Malkin).
The only way this problem will be fixed, is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens that want to be treated equally, must come together and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law...end now!! And yes, it can happen if we all pull together.
The only way this problem will be fixed, is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens that want to be treated equally, must come together and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law...end now!! And yes, it can happen if we all pull together.
May God save the United States of America!
If you're a Christian in these United States of America, you're probably next on the list. History bares that out.
If you're a Christian in these United States of America, you're probably next on the list. History bares that out.
The real problem here is, the boy from Cuba did manage to make it to the U.S. Today he and we will not have any place to escape to except death!
The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'
Note from Senior Management:
Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.
It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.
It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.
It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.
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Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.
The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976.
Front cover (outside) - note Barack Obama listed in alphabetical order
Front cover (inside)
Jay Acton no longer represents Obama. However, Jane Dystel still lists Obama as a client on her agency's website.
According to the booklet itself, the text was edited by Miriam Goderich, who has since become Dystel's partner at Dystel & Goderich, an agency founded in 1994. Breitbart News attempted to reach Goderich by telephone several times over several days. Her calls are screened by an automated service that requires callers to state their name and company, which we did. She never answered.
The design of the booklet was undertaken by Richard Bellsey, who has since closed his business. Bellsey, reached by telephone, could not recall the exact details of the booklet, but told Breitbart News that it "sounds like one of our jobs, like I did for [Acton & Dystel] twenty years ago or more."
The parade of authors alongside Obama in the booklet includes politicians, such as former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill; sports legends, such as Joe Montana and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and numerous Hollywood celebrities.
The reverse side of the page that features Barack Obama includes former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and early-1990s "boy band" pop sensation New Kids On the Block.
Acton, who spoke to Breitbart News by telephone, confirmed precise details of the booklet and said that it cost the agency tens of thousands of dollars to produce.
He indicated that while "almost nobody" wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom "the agents deal[t] with on a daily basis," were "probably" approached to approve the text as presented.
Dystel did not respond to numerous requests for comment, via email and telephone. Her assistant told Breitbart News that Dystel "does not answer questions about Obama."
The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.
The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.
David Maraniss's forthcoming biography of Obama has reportedly confirmed, for example, that a girlfriend Obama described in Dreams from My Father was, in fact, an amalgam of several separate individuals.
In addition, Obama and his handlers have a history of redefining his identity when expedient. In March 2008, for example, he famously declared: "I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."
Several weeks later, Obama left Wright's church--and, according to Edward Klein's new biography, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, allegedly attempted to persuade Wright not to "do any more public speaking until after the November [2008] election" (51).
Obama has been known frequently to fictionalize aspects of his own life. During his 2008 campaign, for instance, Obama claimed that his dying mother had fought with insurance companies over coverage for her cancer treatments.
That turned out to be untrue, but Obama has repeated the story--which even the Washington Post called "misleading"--in a campaign video for the 2012 election.
The Acton & Dystel biography could also reflect how Obama was seen by his associates, or transitions in his own identity. He is said, for instance, to have cultivated an "international" identity until well into his adulthood, according to Maraniss.
Regardless of the reason for Obama's odd biography, the Acton & Dystel booklet raises new questions as part of ongoing efforts to understand Barack Obama--who, despite four years in office remains a mystery to many Americans, thanks to the mainstream media.
Larry O'Connor contributed to this report.
Amazon/Kindle Part 5: Is Outsourcing A National Security Issue?
