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                  Anti Obamacare activists given new life with U.S. Supreme Court order

                               for new hearing on Obamacare religious school challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court has breathed new life into the anti Obamacare movement by ordering the 4th U.S. Circuit Appeals court to hear Liberty University’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. The university had brought an action against having to implement the law on the grounds of equal protection and religious freedom. President Obama insisted during the presidential campaign that religious freedom would not be inhibited or an issue for religious colleges and religious organizations would have to consider.

According to Fox News, the school is challenging being forced to provide insurance which pay for birth control against the institution’s constitutional rights. Liberty University and many opponents firmly believe that religious institutions are protected from having to adhere to this constitutional violation under the free exercise of religion clause in the First Amendment.

It appeared that many had seemingly resigned themselves to being victimized by the June U.S. Supreme Court decision as well as the recent reelection of Obama which appeared to defeat overturning the bill. But, legal sanity still prevails in the form of state leaders that are now openly opposing the merits of the law with renewed determination.

A number of republican governors are not waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to analyze the tea leaves in order to take concerted action against this draconian and oppressive federal interventionist law. The governors refuse to have their citizens burdened as Governor Kasich of Ohio warned, “States do not have any flexibility to build and manage exchanges in ways that respond to unique needs of their citizens or markets.”

Monday, November 26th, according to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, over 16 states have already indicated that they will not be implementing Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges in their states. In fact, Ohio governor John Kasich was joined by Texas governor Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Sean Parnell of Alaska, and John Heineman of Nebraska, among others in opposition to state-run health exchanges.

In effect, these governors are providing the lead for Obamacare battleground opponents who can slow down and eventually reduce the implementation of the most odorous and oppressive aspects of the bill.

Democrats who have been doing the happy dance over the reelection of President Obama should slow down that roll to a “wait and see” crawl. More and more states and their citizens will rally against full implementation of the law based upon being deprived of their right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Others will seek protection of their religious freedom under the 1st Amendment.

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Surprise! Surprise!

And this comes as new news how? At what point do we fully understand that there is only one party in Washington DC? The RepubliCrats are there to get rich while screwing the rest of us. They will say and do anything to accomplish this goal. Lying and deception come as naturally to  DC politicians as breathing. When do we grow a pair and put a stop to the pilliaging and rape of our country? When do we march on DC and kick the miscreants out of the people's Congress and the people's WhiteHouse? I suspect never. I don't see anyone willing to get their hands dirty, and, you can't handle poop without getting some on your hands.

Unless the Republic of Texas resurrects itself, I will remain here and watch the country I grew up in go down the tubes because the citizens haven't got what it takes to make it right. We will continue to let the takers dictate to the payers. We will continue to elect people to government whose only purposes are the ones stated above. Our collective shame is disgusting. Our apathy even more so.

GreyTigerTX

11/26/12

 Act Now!

By Peter Paton

The Call has gone out amongst decent law abiding American citizens for a Re-Run of the Presidential Election, on the grounds that there was colossal State to State Election fraud, organized and managed by Democrat Agents of the Obama Regime. The discovery of 8000 Absentee Military Votes in  Congressman Allen West’s District has sparked the clamor for a Re Run, which is being mirrored and echoed up and down the country, along with reports of frequent multiple voting by illegals being bussed in to Swing States, along with highly suspicious and dubious reports of 141% of Obama Vote happening in States.  There were also various reports of Black Panther mobs at the Polls bullying and intimidating voters, and facilitating electoral impersonation and fraud by their proxies and accomplices. Another thing that must be banned is the Vote by Mail and Proxy Vote Systems which can be manipulated to their great advantage by criminal syndicates, hell bent on electing their candidate.

Further focus is centering on the suspect electronic voting system SCTYL, as numerous Conservative voters  State Wide  reported their vote for Romney changed to Obama. This flawed system is outsourced to a Spanish Company owned by George Soros, the Arch Backer of Barack Hussein Obama. Equally the specter of alleged early voting irregularities are also widespread throughout the whole country, rendering the whole Presidential Election Null and Void in the eyes of many.

This Grand Scale Larceny and Voter Fraud perpetrated on the American people must be righted, and the GOP, Electoral State Commissions and SCOTUS must order a Re-Run of the Presidential Election, otherwise we are living in a Banana Republic under the Obama Regime, with the prospect of much worse and more punitive measures being levied upon American Citizens, by an allegedly undemocratically elected POTUS and Senate.

When the Re-Run is held, and it must be in the interests of Democracy and Justice, there must be stringent voter Picture ID in all 50 States, with the introduction of the Election Ink System used in many countries abroad to stamp out Multiple Voting by fraudsters. Additionally there must be a Police and Military presence at every polling station in America to deter  and detect Election Fraud, if we are ever going to be able to hold an honest and accurate election in America again.

Peter Paton is an International PR and Strategic Adviser

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I can't stay in this blue state any longer! It is possible we may end moving right of this country depending on what happens but for right now we are moving to Id. It is a red state! Moving somewhere between Bonner Ferry and Sandpoint. My old stomping grounds! Do I miss it!  Still some degree of freedom left and will possibly be moving off grid! Ye Haw!  I wish I could make it happen now! Gonna write the dems in this state to let them know we are moving and taking our tax dollars with us, let them know they will have to rob someone else and that I will finally have representation!

                                              Will Hillary Clinton damage 2016 presidential run with Benghazi attack

                                      cover up Congressional committee testimony

Typically, when most liberal political kingmakers pontificate about the next Clinton to grasp the presidential mantle, it is done with an air of obvious entitlement.  Hillary Clinton has positioned herself for this office ever since her days as a staff attorney for the House Judiciary Committee, which was investigating Watergate.

It was in the congressional backrooms that Hillary, began a pattern of alleged deceitful behavior that would serve her through many a state and federal prosecutorial investigation.  These investigations followed her and her husband, Bill Clinton from Arkansas to the White House, and now beyond.

Yet, the most onerous of Hillary claims has been linked to a web of mangled White House storylines concerning Benghazi Consulate security, attack, murders and what the president knew and when did he know it.

Fabrication of events is not new for Hillary Clinton, and according to her former boss Jerry Zeifman, who was “counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee,”  Hillary Clinton was fired from her position on the committee as a s...

 

The mainstream media kept this embarrassing side note out of the public eye when her husband, Bill Clinton ran for President in 1992 and in her own run for the U.S. seat from New York in 2000.

Yet, Jerry Zeifman, seemed compelled to alert the nation about Hillary Clinton, who in 2006 was making coordinated moves to run for President in 2008.  In his book, “Hillary Pursuit of Power,” he stressed, while working on the Judiciary Committee, Clinton, “… engaged in a variety of self-serving unethical practices in violation of House rules."

Therefore it should be of surprise to no one that she was caught up in purported lies while First Lady of Arkansas as well as First Lady of the United States.  These scandals included in Whitewater illegal activities, the Travelgate cover up and her conveniently manufactured lie about coming under attack while visiting Bosnia.

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I grew up having to defend my Blackness from primitive White racists where I grew up. The only definition I've ever accepted of me is my own- NOT what others attempt to impose.

I grew up having to defend my Blackness from primitive White racists where I grew up. The only definition I've ever accepted of me is my own- NOT what others attempt to impose.

 By Niels Lesniewski

• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 21, 2012, 3:32 p.m.

Sen. Jim DeMint would rather see Congress go over the fiscal cliff than have a group of “zombie legislators” make tax and spending policy in final post-election weeks of the 112th Congress.

In a report on the dangers of legislating in lame-duck sessions, the South Carolina Republican argues, “The American people were never presented with competing ‘lame duck’ agendas, so Washington has no business trying to pass one. Conservatives may not like the policy outcome in any case, but rejecting the ‘lame duck’ and achieving an honest, transparent process respectful of the American people and our republican institutions is significant in its own right.”

The report — entitled “No Lame Deal in the Lame Duck” — adds that even if a lame-duck deal negotiated at the leadership level were to be blocked with a mix of liberal and conservative votes, “the precedent against ‘lame ducks’ is worth fighting for nonetheless.”

The report likens lame-duck lawmakers — those who have lost a re-election campaign or are retiring but are still in office until the 113th Congress convenes in January — to zombies.

“They are free, for two months and at taxpayer expense, to vote for whatever they please ... without their constituents being able to do anything about it,” the report says.

DeMint’s report also draws on conventional wisdom to outline what an agreement drafted by the White House and Congressional leaders might look like. That includes some increases in taxes and what the report calls “accounting gimmicks” to generate budget savings. DeMint rejects the idea of including any tax increases in the agreement.

Senate Budget ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., expressed his opposition to achieving savings through budget-scoring tricks in his own letter sent Wednesday to House and Senate leaders. He notes that the discussions on avoiding the year-end combination of tax increases and spending cuts through sequestration set up by last year’s debt limit law may include effective increases in federal spending.

“Offsets for any of these changes must also be achieved through real savings, not gimmicks like counting baseline savings from future war spending that is not expected to occur,” Sessions wrote.

Sessions is referencing the practice of taking advantage of budget-scoring rules that allow counting savings for the wind down of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Numerous lawmakers have tossed around the idea of using that money to block a cut in payment rates for doctors treating Medicare patients.

DeMint’s objections to the lame-duck agenda does not end with the big deal on fiscal policy. He alludes to a list of potential lame-duck agenda items assembled by Democratic leadership staff as other items that he believes did not receive serious debate during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Those issues range from an extension of expanded unemployment benefits to the stalled farm bill to a bill regarding the regulation of Internet gambling. That last measure, which would establish limits on online gaming and set up requirements for state-level regulation of web poker games, is a home-state priority of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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McIntyre Campaign Slams Rouzer for Recount Expense

By Joshua Miller Posted at 2:56 p.m. on Nov. 20

The campaign of McIntyre, above, said Rouzer's request for a recount is an unnecessary cost to taxpayers. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

The campaign of Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., begrudgingly accepted a recount of the vote in the 7th Congressional District but slammed Republican David Rouzer for requesting one. McIntyre currently leads the state senator by 655 votes.

McIntyre campaign manager Lachlan McIntosh said Rouzer’s request is hypocritical because he supports fiscal responsibility and is “asking taxpayers to pay for his pursuit of his own personal political ambition.”

“While we respect the legal right for a recount, it is unfortunate that taxpayer dollars, time, and resources will be spent on a process that has been closely monitored,”  McIntosh said in a statement. ”All twelve county boards of elections in the 7th District have carefully reviewed the votes and the results have already shown Mike McIntyre to be the winner.”

The recount will begin after Thanksgiving. Don Wright, the general counsel for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said that each county in the district would meet, conduct the recount and report the results to the state board of elections.

Although a timeline for a congressional recount is not set by statute, Wright said he expected counting on Nov. 26 and 27 and a conclusion to the process by the end of Nov. 27 or sometime on Nov. 28.

The 7th District race is the final outstanding House race from the Nov. 6 elections. One other House race in Louisiana will be decided by a December runoff.

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Dear Mindy,

Many Right to Work supporters have called recently asking me what will happen now that Big Labor re-elected Barack Obama and held the majority in the U.S. Senate.

Well I can tell you, the union bosses are already scheming to seize more power.

In a revealing interview just before Election Day, top AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka promised that Big Labor's Card Check Forced Unionism Bill will be a top priority in Barack Obama's second term.

As you may remember, the Card Check Bill would STRIP workers of the right to a secret ballot in union elections, allowing union thugs to intimidate workers one-on-one -- or three-on-one -- into signing so-called "union authorization cards."

But Trumka didn't stop there.

He even pledged to unleash Big Labor's forced-dues-backed political war chest to oust members of Congress in 2014 who won't do the union bosses' bidding.

Not only that, the union bosses will scheme to kill pro-worker freedom legislation like the National Right to Work Act and Freedom From Union Violence Act.

And then there's "Plan B."

In his first term, Obama wasn't shy about paying back his union-boss benefactors through the National Labor Relations Board.

Now that Obama is no longer accountable to the voters, we must be on high alert for an all-out assault on worker freedom through the federal bureaucracy.

The good news is, Right to Work remains popular.

This week, voters in Michigan -- long considered a stronghold for Big Labor -- rejected the union bosses' ballot questions to expand their power over workers and taxpayers.

And in January when the new Congress is seated, the ranks of U.S Senators who signed a Committee survey 100% in favor of Right to Work will increase.

But we knew the union bosses would do whatever it took to re-elect Obama. And they're already demanding payback.

We must be ready to fight back.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

Simply, our Constitution demands it. We do not have another year to wait. ARMED with fully charged 10 million of us walk in and around White House, Congress, call the US Marshalls out to arrest every Traitor from the top to House, Senate, all of O cabinet and szars. Line them up, ship them out to 800 FEMA Concentration camps all over the U.S. and have the SEALS at them!

Obama’s administration has produced the greatest ever reliance on the state in US history. Never have Americans had the option of being so dependent on welfare programs as today.

What is welfare dependence and what does it deliver to the despot or dictator. If a person becomes lost in the vacuum which is non-work, they lose a number of basic but fundamental freedoms. Life as a non worker is one of marginalization, ones sense of value is lessened, and you lose self confidence and independence. Your choices become increasingly limited as the financial trap is set. You don't get to choose your clothes as you can't afford. You can't choose your food as you can't afford and you don't drive the car you want as you can't afford. However, you can get welfare assisted clothing, food and even a mobile phone thanks to the great leader.  The great leader provides for you as you have no other choice. You don't have the freedom that comes with earning a living wage. 

What frightens a welfare slave? Well what frightens everyone? Having things taken away, no money, food, totally losing everything?  The strategic benefit for the despotic regime is that you provide the things. You control everything! You control fear! Someone disagrees with, you take away the things. You blame dissenters for the problems and the fact that no ambition can be fulfilled. They don't believe so they are anti-progressive, an enemy of everyone. After all if they succeed the great leader will not be able to give you things anymore. One day a citizen wakes to find they have no say, choice or chance.

When a person works and chooses their work destiny is based on their effort, their determination and inherent drive to succeed. America is about the chance to succeed without limits. You can drive a Bentley, wear Hugo Boss or eat at any restaurant you choose if only you work for it. That is not unfair. The successful did build that.

The nice liberal term of art for Socialism or Marxism is now social justice. Lets face it its redistribution by any other name. This holds “there should be no disparity in society between the rich or the poor, the lazy or productive”. Its utopianism at its most naive and simply results in mediocrity.  The famous comment from Soviet Workers “While they pretend to pay us we will pretend to work” defines its danger.

Conclusion, socialism isn't about social welfare, social care, social justice or even concern for your fellow man. Its a delivery model for power; its a methodology by which you make an underclass without power or hope. What socialism presumes is that a small elite of theoreticians know better than the majority and therefore, democracy doesn't work as the voters are just not competent. 

Our danger, once you reach the level when a majority of the populace is totally dependent on the benevolence of a great leader, and his bi weekly check. Then democracy fails and we become a dictatorship.

Obama and his key advisor's are socialists, and they do think they are the smartest in the room. We have a great leader in waiting.

11/24/12

Howdy all!  I am finally out of the fog of Percocet!  Knee is almost back to original size, and I am able to walk again.  I did ask the nurse if I would be able to play the violin afterwards.  She asked if I could play already, which I responded “yes, but it’s been decades.”  So true to form, as any good nurse would be, she came right back with “Well I guess you’ll have to practice a lot, won’t you?”

Any hoo (said with a big Jack Benny sigh)

Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, I will never fail you. I will never abandon you. ~ Hebrews 13:5

I missed talking to my family on Thanksgiving Day, since they were all out at other family member’s houses for the big meal.  I did get them today.  My sister told me about the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy (they live on Long Island NY).  I grew up on the last bit of natural land south of Merrick Rd.  So the potential of damage was real to me.  But when I finally heard, my heart sank.  The house is about 1.5 to 2 miles from the water leading up from the ocean through a series of natural and man-made canals.  The water line during Sandy made it up to only 3 houses to their south, and the street was flooded another mile to the north.  Yet, the only damage to the house was 3 small puddles in the basement.  Outside, the water came to the front stoop, but no further.  My Mom was out, as were most of the folks living there.  But my sister was with my dad, who is 81 and suffers from a myriad of troubles.  They had to watch everything in real time.  But the house survived.  That basement, which is always flooded during even the simplest of rain storms, only had three small puddles.  My brother-in-law’s parent’s house didn’t do so good.  The sheet rock from the floor up 2 feet had to be ripped off and replaced.  They live on slab foundation, in the man-made part of the neighborhood.  The only thing left on the first floor was the HDTV, mounted to the wall above the water line.  My sister, then my Mom rattled off name after family name that I remember as a kid; all losing most if not all of their homes.  My family, 3 puddles, oh yeah, Dad’s computer, which he believes fried upon return of the power.  The town I grew up in will never be the same.  The fantastic beaches of Jones Beach State Park destroyed.  The bath houses, the restaurants, the boardwalks, the miles of the whitest sand you could find anywhere in the world are all gone.  The high way along the beach area washed out.  Fire Island is now 2 islands.  Some of the beach communities are still closed off.  The damage hasn’t been estimated yet, except for the silly numbers mentioned in the news.  But no estimate will ever compare to the damages to memories.  All this saddens me, for the neighborhood I grew up in, the parks and beaches I played in throughout my childhood are no longer there.  But, my family survived.  Their friends survived.  My brother-in-law, who works for a company that installs heating systems, comes home late every night with a happy chant, “Another woman has heat tonight!”  I am blessed that my family has each other.  They have friends who are still their friends, even with the loss of their homes.  It reminds me of when my wife, pregnant at the time, pushed away a dog jumping to her wastes, when her wedding band and engagement rings flew into the autumn brush and leaves.  She cried as she told me what happened; only to get mad when I told her it was just ‘stuff’ and we are still married.  (Boy, did she get MAD!)

God did not fail us then.  I found the rings.  God did not fail my family.  They survived, with all the devastation around them.  It doesn’t matter how much loss of property that was had, only the blessing of friends that are still friends.  The value of what is left, or lost does not matter.  What matters is that Survival was successful.  Memories are still memories, regardless if the places where they were made are there or not.  Forget the value of what was lost.  Be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.

That was the best phone call to home I’ve had in a long time!

Take care, God bless and especially, ESPECIALLY at this time in history,

STAND WITH ISRAEL!!!

Tom Kiley

   Should Lindsey Stone's employer be blamed for  Facebook photo of her 

       disrespecting Arlington Cemetery Tomb of Unknown Soldiers

Lindsey Stone’s photograph on her Facebook page disrespecting the solemn military burial ground of Arlington National Cemetery sent shockwaves across the nation. Unfortunately her former employer, Living Independently Forever, Inc. (LIFE), was caught in the Facebook photograph crossfire. It appears that a lot of the anger that was generated by outraged Americans was also laid at the doorstep of the organization.

This does raise several crucial questions that many employers and employees have to come to terms with. How responsible or even liable are employers for bad conduct that their employees engage in outside of the office? Is it fair to hold any organization, morally liable if an employee like Lindsey Stone decides to engage in outlandish disrespectful and dishonorable actions?

Should an organization like LIFE, or any other employer initiate an employment policy that includes forbidding employees from engaging in conduct that embarrasses their employer? Would that employment policy also include, posting of photographs on Facebook that may harm the organization’s ability to conduct its business or delivery of services.

Certainly, many Americans feel it is unreasonable to assign any liability for the immature 30-year-old Lindsey Stone’s conduct at Arlington Cemetery to LIFE. This notable non-profit organization has a solid reputation for proving quality services for adults with disabilities in Cape Cod, Mass. In fact, the organization responded to the disturbing behavior by stating in part:

Living Independently Forever, Inc. (LIFE) Statement

“This photograph in no way reflects the opinions or values of the LIFE organization, which holds our nation’s veterans in the highest regard. We are proud to have veterans serving on our staff and board of trustees, and we value their service. The men and women who have selflessly fought and sacrificed their lives to protect the rights and lives of Americans deserve our utmost respect and gratitude. We are acutely aware that this photo has done a disservice to veterans and we are deeply saddened that it was taken and shared in a public medium.”

The organization’s deep sincere regret expressed by the former employer of Lindsey Stone and her co-worker Jamie Schuh, demonstrates clearly that every employer in America needs to have a chat with their employees and examine their employee policies. Unruly conduct on and off the premises of an organization, business or employment location, does have consequences.

Employees may claim that they have 1st Amendment “Freedom of Speech" rights under the U.S. Constitution. However those constitutional rights do not extend entirely to certain types of postings on an employee’s private Facebook page. ( Click to read more )

Sun-Tzu made the famous observation “lose the battle win the war” yet when translated into fiscal policy it’s not desirable, yet our GOP leadership are going to roll hoping to come back later.  I recently made the move to the Tea Party as I cannot in good faith watch the GOP leadership horse trade with peoples lives. The fiscal cliff will be seen in the coming years as just one of many artificial dramas engineered by leaders on both sides as part of a process. That process is called “real politik” but it simply defends the status quo. 

What we need is a dramatic change in direction as a nation; education delivers generations into welfare slavery. We spend like a lotto winner in Vegas and the “Washington Crowd” simply posture while making no radical proposals. We are going broke yet we act like the irresponsible sub-prime borrower.  

I am a Venture Capitalist; I invest in innovation and entrepreneurship, the very driving forces which put this great nation at the top of the world. Yet I wonder, do any of our leaders understand it anymore? In the real world you must spend less than you receive and build strategic reserves so you can weather a harsh winter. Under the stewardship of our leaders we have become dependent on the benevolence of other nations.  We are on welfare!

So what's the solution?  Well as hard it will be, we need to cut benefits. We need to loosen the death grip the extremist environmental movement has on our energy pioneers. I could go on yet what we have to do as a matter of urgency is start with a joint understanding that the country cannot continue to borrow, whilst overseeing the destruction of our ability to produce wealth.  If you lose your job, its not a good idea to keep spending on Visa.

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