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Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On July 15, 2011:
“(CNSNews.com) – Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus repeated his party’s commitment to stronger voter identification laws, saying that the GOP would not give up the fight against voter fraud.
“I think that we need to make it easy to vote, hard to cheat, and I think that that’s a mantra that we ought to shout from the rooftops all over the country as a Party,” Priebus told conservative bloggers on a conference call on Thursday.
Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) Chairman David Norcross said that voter fraud issues were very real, despite complaints from liberals that it is largely a phantom problem. Cross cited several cases where states had found thousands of ineligible votes after elections were already over.
“Voter fraud is real, this is not anybody’s imagination,” Norcross said.
“The Milwaukee police department reported some detailed fraud in the 2004 presidential election in Wisconsin. The Colorado Secretary of State found last year that 5,000 non-citizens voted in their Senate race, which was decided by a close margin. And probably all will remember Minnesota in 2008 when more ineligible voters were identified than the margin between the winning and losing Senate candidates.”
Norcross also pushed back against the argument that strict voter I.D. laws depress poor and minority turnout, a claim made famous by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), who said such laws would “literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws,” a reference to the racist segregation-era laws that prevented southern blacks form voting.
“And as for people who don’t have photo I.D., American University Center for Democracy in Election Management found recently that 99 percent of eligible voters posses the proper I.D.,” said Cross. “Really, the purpose for this call is to make sure that we preserve this initiative, keep it going, and that we protect voter I.D. and the rights of legitimate voters,” Cross said.
Representative Todd Rokita (R-Ind.), formerly Indiana Secretary of State, said that after Indiana issued a voter I.D. law, it saw turnout go up, not down, charging that attacks against voter I.D. laws were “the sky is falling” arguments.
“All the ‘sky is falling’ arguments that were made in accusation of what was billed as some kind of draconian, or tyrannical law never came to pass,” said Rokita. “In fact, our voting went up 2 percent as we introduced the photo I.D. law. We attribute that to the confidence that the law inspired in the voting public.”
Democrats are also making more of an issue out of voter I.D. laws, holding a Capitol Hill press conference on Friday to criticize Republican-led states that have strengthened I.D. laws as trying to suppress the minority vote.
“I guess they don’t think that we understand that they’re trying to keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting, we are not stupid,” Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) told CNSNews.com’s Nicholas Ballasy after the conference.
“We understand that this is by design,” said Fudge, adding that “when you go to every state that a Republican governor, where there’s a Republican governor, they are doing this across this country and we’re just not going to take it.”
Such charges, Norcross said, were nothing but “cynical” attacks against a proven policy – one that has the support of most Americans. .
“But we have seen recently what I suspect many of you have, a cynical and calculated and coordinated effort by the Democrats to spread lies about the reasons for and effect of voter I.D.,” said Norcross.
“In fact, most Americans support voter I.D. A June 2011 Rasmussen Poll had 75 percent of Americans believing voters should be required to show photo ID. This breaks down into 85 percent of Republicans , 77 percent of Independents, and 63 percent of Democrats.”
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gop-push-voter-id-laws-through-2012-says
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I. Democrats Claim GOP Conspiracy: Showing Photo ID at Polls Keeps Poor, Minorities From Voting!
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Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On July 15, 2011:
“Would being required to show a photo ID at the voting booth prior to casting your ballot deter you from voting? According to some Democrats, yes, it can, and will. Especially if you are a minority, a senior, a student, or are poor.
But who are the ones Democrats claim are seeking to discourage minorities from voting? Republicans, of course.
Rev. Jessie Jackson and Congresswoman Marcia Fudge along with their supporters claim a “Rovian” conspiracy is underway by the GOP to bar minorities, students, the elderly, and the poor from accessing the ballot box.
During a press conference attended by House Democrats including Sheila Jackson Lee, Fudge said of Republicans:
“I guess they don’t think that we understand that they’re trying to keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting, we are not stupid,” she told reporters at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday alongside liberal activist Rev. Jesse Jackson.
“We understand that this is by design — when you go to every state that a Republican governor, where there’s a Republican governor, they are doing this across this country and we’re just not going to take it,” said Fudge.
Currently, there are 16 states that now have laws “requiring” or “requesting” voters to present photo ID prior to casting a ballot, but even that is apparently too many for Democrats, who seem to think no real identification should be required at all.
Jackson went on to explain to CNSNews what types of identifying documents he deems appropriate to show at the polls:
“You can use a utilities ID in some instances, a driver’s license or a Social Security number, a whole range of personal identifications – a phone bill,” Jackson told CNSNews.com.
Isn‘t a driver’s license a photo ID? And, what, exactly is a “utilities ID?” Did Jackson trip himself up a bit, perhaps?
Jackson also believes moving Election Day from Sunday to Tuesday is another “scheme” to quash minorities’ votes.
“Even, for example, moving voting from Tuesday – Sunday back to Tuesday – well, Tuesday’s a day when most people work. That’s always a scheme to suppress the vote and you have higher turnout on the weekends,” he said.
One of Jackson’s supporters even went so far as to suggest showing your photo ID to election judges could invite“ stalkers” into your life, when he told CNSNews that his daughter is “terrified” of showing her ID as it contains her school dorm’s address.
“Terrified?“ Of showing an ID at a voting booth because of the ”stalking-risks?” Surely, he jests. Does his daughter mind presenting her ID before purchasing alcohol at the supermarket, or upon entering a nightclub, or bar? What about when she goes to the movies and tries to get the student-rate ticket? Surely she must show her student ID then…
Watch Democrats try to rationalize their position to CNSNews on photo ID’s below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGX1dH-T5WY&feature=player_embedded
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II. GOP Push to Tighten State Voting Laws Prompts Dem Backlash!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Judson Berger-On July 7, 2011:
III. Black Activists “Deeply Disappointed” in President Clinton’s “Disingenuous” Racial Attack on Ballot Security Measures!-Posted on The National Center for Public Policy Research-On July 7, 2011:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-VoterID_070711.html
IV. Senators Seek to Stymie Polling Place Protections!-Posted on The National Center For Public Policy Research-On July 1, 2011:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-VoterID_070111.html
V. Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights!-Posted on The Center For Public Policy Research-On June 22, 2011:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Jackson_062211.html
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Massive Voter Fraud-Again!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/massive-voter-fraud-again/
Court overturns Arizona’s proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration!
Active complaint to the FEC over President Obama’s campaign finances!
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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God Bless the U.S.A.!
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Semper Fi!
Jake
My space and your attention are limited so I will get right to the point. Obama and his Leftwing radical friends embrace an evil agenda which is to destroy a free nation by driving it off a cliff economically and socially so they can collect the ashes and transform this nation into a third-world Fascist totalitarian state. Many of their tactics are not readily visible to mainstream America since the Left ‘owns’ the pimp street television media, but a few organizations such as Judicial Watch seek to find and expose the truth through the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to our Congress and the American people. The White House and its federal agencies frequently violate requests for public information in order to hide their tactics, in which case Judicial Watch brings lawsuits for contempt against the Administration and its agencies such as Department of Justice. Here are five major areas of interest about which all Americans should be aware.
1. Obamacare: HHS (Dept of Health and Human Services) is already engaged in reviews of new life-saving cancer treatments with the apparent objective of determining which will be paid for by Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) based upon cost considerations which violates the Department’s own guidelines. The drug most recently in question is Provenge to treat prostate cancer. Under pressure from Judicial Watch, CMS recently approved coverage for this life-saving drug while denying that cost considerations were a factor in its review. This is but one example of the newly created Obamacare ‘death panels’ which will ration care based on financial considerations unless the law is repealed. Meanwhile, release of documents to Judicial Watch under the FOIA reveals the Obama administration has launched a 200 million dollar taxpayer-funded media campaign to promote Obamacare in order to manipulate public opinion!
2. Illegal alien issues: thanks to Judicial Watch, a college in New Jersey which had been granting discounted tuition to illegal aliens was forced to reverse this policy which is a violation of state and Federal laws. Meanwhile, it appears the Obama administration and its complicit Homeland Security department are working on multiple avenues for ‘stealth amnesty’---that is to legalize illegal aliens through Presidential mandates while removing Congress---and thus the electorate---from the process. Under the FOIA, Judicial Watch has filed for release of White House and Department of Homeland Security documents pertaining to such communications but the Administration has not complied. Therefore, suit has been filed against the Obama Administration for contempt. Immigration attorneys in Houston seeking deportation of illegals have reported that many 34000 deportations were suspended last year and they have been ordered to drop prosecution of such cases unless a criminal act has been committed. Is not illegal immigration a criminal act?
3. The Department of Injustice: Attorney General Eric Holder has colluded with the Obama administration to commit heinous acts of sedition and harm to American citizens in many ways, not only by not enforcing Federal immigration laws but actively subverting those laws to create a new voting bloc for Obama’s reelection, while simultaneously bringing harm to Americans living along the Mexican border. Judicial Watch has discovered collusion between DOJ and anti-American ACLU in the legal attack against Arizona’s immigration enforcement law; apparent collusion between the racist NAACP and DOJ to drop voter intimidation charges against the Black Panthers in Philadelphia during the ’08 election; the DOJ has thus far refused to release pertinent documents requested by Judicial Watch under the FOIA (for fear of being found out?). The DOJ has clearly violated Federal laws through its racist and politically-motivated ways.
Worse than that is Eric Holder’s false testimony last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as to his knowledge of and involvement in Project Gunrunner, specifically Project ‘Fast and Furious’ in which BATFE agents (under the DOJ) were ordered to look the other way as straw buyers purchased over 2500 assault weapons from American gun dealers, those weapons destined for Mexican drug cartels under the pretense that BATFE was tracking where these weapons would go. But the real scheme was for DOJ and the Obama Administration to build a case for firearms restrictions in America (in violation of the Second Amendment!) by manufacturing a situation whereby guns recovered from crime scenes committed by cartels could be ‘blamed’ on the availability of guns from American gun dealers. So far over 800 of these guns have been recovered from crime scenes as far as 20 miles north of the Mexican border, one of which resulted in the death of U. S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose family has demanded an investigation by Congress, and that anyone who was involved in this seditious scheme should be prosecuted and brought to justice. Could that be AG Eric Holder or even Obama? Current data from STRATFOR indicates that less than 12 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes south of the border in 2008 were obtained in the United States.
4. Voter fraud: the Chicago-based ‘community organizing group’ ACORN has reorganized across America under many different names (Project Vote for one) and is being funded by the Administration and the Left to continue its commission of massive voter fraud in order to get Obama reelected in 2012. Meanwhile, the ‘old’ ACORN has been investigated and convicted on at least 35 documented election fraud schemes in 17 states leading up to the 2008 election of Barack Obama. We are talking about at least 400,000 fraudulent votes! Examples include cases in Nevada where convicted felons and drug addicts were paid to register new voters who did not exist; Philadelphia, where tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms were submitted; other cases in St. Louis, Connecticut, Washington State, and Texas. Methodologies range from bussing people across state lines to vote, voting names more than once, enlisting convicted felons in voter registration drives and allowing them to vote, voting on behalf of dead people, and falsifying voter registrations. I am amazed that all voters are not required to present photo ID at which time they would be checked off as having voted. Such a simple solution at the national level has been challenged as ‘racist’ by the Left!
5. Labor Unions: the Obama administration is using the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and unions to infringe on rights of companies to expand and compete, thereby further inhibiting the private sector’s economic recovery. Boeing has decided to build a plant in South Carolina. That state, like most, is a right-to-work state which does not force workers to join unions. But organized labor under the Obama Administration does not agree and is trying to prevent Boeing from expanding into South Carolina under the pretense that the company is circumventing organized labor at the expense of union workers in the state of Washington. No one is being laid off at the plant in Washington, and it is Boeing’s or any other company’s right to build where they want and employ whomever they determine to be qualified---that is America! Ultimately, Boeing must prevail or the company will do as many others have done and move overseas which further hinders America’s economic recovery. The Administration leans on its labor union supporters to be openly tyrannical and anti-American.
Obama, Holder, and their anti-American cronies must be removed, prosecuted, convicted, and punished for their crimes against humanity and America. These animals are hell bent on destroying the private sector (the U.S. economy) through a wall of expensive regulations, by openly supporting organized labor unions who helped elect them, and preventing America from achieving energy independence and national security. They will stop at nothing to disarm patriots, and abolish our freedom of religious expression and free speech. This spendthrift narcissistic president and his family jet around the world on lavish vacations at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, with no annual federal budget for this year or next, no plan for addressing the huge national debt, nor any true compassion for economic hardships endured by average Americans. This Administration also spends hundreds of billions of dollars the country does not have (except by printing and devaluing the currency) on its pet bureaucratic agencies and their objectives framed by the impractical and costly ideologies of the Left. There are a number of organizations engaged in investigating, exposing and achieving justice such as Judicial Watch, Alliance Defense Fund, Liberty Counsel and NRA, all of which deserve our support to at this most critical time to help defend against a total transformation (destruction) by the Left.
Ok, we're told by Obama: Time to "eat our peas" and pass debt deal. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20078418-503544.html
Sounds like a parent talking to a child.
For our future attendance to events:
Everyone eat a can of peas, without cutting the lid entirely off. Then get a handful of dry hard peas and put them in the can and close up the lid and tape it shut. Leave your paper Peas label on the can.
Now we have a rattle made of a can of peas.
Now we attend in peaceful protest in mass, with a Gadsden flag, with our cans of peas, and raise our canned fists and rattle them together.
One massive showing of warning, "DON"T TREAD ON ME" , the buzz/rattle warning like the rattlesnake, of WE THE PEOPLE.
We already ate our peas! (you jackass arrogant pResident!!)
Posted on The Red State-By RealQuiet-On July 15, 2011:
“Amazing how the Democratic majority Senate hasn’t passed a budget in over two years. Wait a minute, they haven’t even presented one.
They just vote down whatever budget comes out of the House and don’t present any alternative to avoid taking tough votes because there are 23 Democratic senators up for re-election in 2012.
And now suddenly President Obama is very, very anxious to get something big put together and stop kicking the can down the road. Anyone find that ironic? I didn’t think so. We’ve become so used to this since he was inaugurated that it is no surprise to us.
For all the pressure, coaxing, and persuading the GOP to give in to Obama’s demands and let him get re-elected compromise and forget their pledges prior to the 2010 elections, the GOP has hit Obama’s nerve. I don’t know if anyone has picked up on this, the GOP has known it all along but didn’t know how to exploit it until now, or suddenly the chink in Obama’s armor has been in plain sight all along.
Let’s think about this. Remember Obamacare? It really doesn’t start kicking in until 2013…the year after the 2012 elections. Why didn’t the President and the Democratic Congress write the bill to get Obamacare rolling right off the bat in 2010 and not 2013? After all, if the legislation was so good that Americans would see the benefits and Democrats would reap the laurels of political gain, where was the confidence of the Democratic party to get Obamacare started right away?
Because it was a bad, bad bill that was going to cause a tremendous amount of damage to the American economy as a whole and would imperil their hold on the presidency and their congressional majorities. So they wrote the legislation to shield themselves as best they could from the political ramifications of their bad legislation. Whether President Obama and Democrats in Congress want to face this fact or not, when Obamacare was passed, business hiring became stagnant at best, cutting their work forces because the uncertainty the legislation has created, and have been hoarding capital to shield themselves from the hurricane that will devastate this country’s wealth in a few years. This could be interpreted as a vote of no confidence in President Obama. So long as Obamacare is law, it will be this way. Job hiring is going to remain anemic, unemployment will remain high, and a sizeable portion of people will be miserable and mired in despair. The GOP presidential nominee will rightly point out to the American people “It doesn’t have to be this way.”
Fast forward to now. The same thing is happening again. Obama is all about keeping his presidency. He and the Democrats know what a crushing disadvantage having the debt ceiling and the economy, with a side salad of Obamacare and other government regulation hindering job creation being the main course for the American people to eat and ponder before voting in 2012. A short term fix and making this an issue in the 2012 elections is their nightmare scenario. The only way he can keep the presidency is by the GOP caving, raising the debt ceiling and raising taxes while cutting spending. He is becoming unnerved at the GOP’s steadfast insistence (let’s hope this lasts) about cutting spending, not raising the debt ceiling and getting our financial house in order. It all became apparent with Eric Cantor’s offer of a short term solution that would put the debt ceiling issue back on the table next year prior to the 2012 elections and his temper tantrum that followed.
No Grand Bargain:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the whole ball game of the debt ceiling debate. The Democrats know that they are going to lose the Senate and will not win back the House. Their only hope of having any power in the legislative and executive branches after 2012 is for the GOP to give it to them by caving. They can’t stomach a plan that cuts government because that would imperil their left wing base from showing up in November 2012.
The MSM is trying their best to aid the Democrats any way they can by framing the GOP as the ones who are willing to take down the country by defaulting. As Erick Erickson rightly pointed out earlier, people don’t blame Congress for the calamities that fall upon our nation, the lion’s share of the blame always falls on the president. Barack Obama knows this and is engaged in a liar’s poker game for his presidency’s survival.
The GOP would be wise to remember that if there is no deal done and a catastrophe ensues, Barack Obama would put himself in a class by himself. He would have a presidential legacy of being Herbert Hoover plus Jimmy Carter combined together. He would have a legacy so infamous that the mere mention of his name would be odious to a vast majority of Americans.
Just as George W. Bush went along with TARP in fear of having a legacy of becoming Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama finds him in the same predicament as President Bush was in 2008. The GOP has all the cards here minus the media as the Democrats did in 2008. Either Barack Obama goes along with cutting government spending so that there is a zero net increase in the debt ceiling (69% of Americans agree with the GOP on the debt ceiling issue and spending in a CBS(!) poll) or he validates a portion of Americans who believe that his motive for attaining the presidency was to destroy our country and becomes the American version of Nero. Mark Levin is right. It is a no win situation for him if the GOP doesn’t cave.
The way I see this playing out is the GOP will pass a reasonable package in the House when something will need to be passed shortly before August 2nd that cuts spending and has a zero net increase in the debt ceiling and send it up to the Senate for a vote, putting the onus on Harry Reid and Barack Obama to squawk and stomp their feet about how bad this is but in the end, will have to take a vote on this or worse, do something that Harry Reid doesn’t want to do: Actually offer up a bill of their own which would require vulnerable Democratic Senators who are up for election to take a vote on. If they vote the GOP bill down without offering any plan of their own, the anger of the American people against Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate will be so great that it could yield a 60 plus majority in the Senate for the GOP in 2012. If they pass the bill and send it to Obama’s desk…oh boy…now that will be something I will want to see Obama trying to explain his way out of by means of a veto, thus incurring the wrath that the Senate would have had if the bill had been voted down. If they vote the GOP bill down and take a vote on their bill which will be tax increases, bigger government, and incurring more debt and send to the House, just imagine the squirming of those vulnerable Democratic Senators and Harry Reid.
Finally, whomever the GOP winds up nominating for President, they can start right now by taking their case and the 2012 campaign to the public.
"LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE THE FATE OF THIS COUNTRY
If you are for exploding deficits, more debt, more spending, less jobs, more taxes, then vote for our current president.
If you are for less debt, less spending, less taxes, more jobs, fiscal responsibility and a balanced budget, then join us.”
It’s that simple. We can only hope that the GOP doesn’t go the way of a Mitch McConnell a couple of days ago (he redeemed himself today) and be persuaded by the MSM and Obama’s game of liar’s poker.
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I. Defeating Obama With the Debt Ceiling!
Posted on American Thinker-By Adam Yoshida-On July 15, 2011:
“If President Obama’s decidedly un-presidential explosion at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during a White House meeting on Wednesday suggests anything, it’s that the stress is getting to the man. Everything that we’ve ever seen suggests that the president is fairly thin-skinned. As someone who had virtually everything in his life handed to him—and who made it nearly to the age of fifty living in isolated realms (Hawaii prep schools, Ivy League universities, Chicago Democratic politics) where he’d never have to even speak to, let alone deal seriously with, a genuine conservative—he’s not someone used to dealing with those who disagree with his premises. This gives the GOP an opening.
Politically, the Democrats still hold more power. Control of the White House and the Senate ensures that Republicans will not be able to get the sort of genuine reforms—serious changes to entitlements, pro-growth tax reform, broad spending cuts, government reorganization—that will genuinely end the debt crisis. Even assuming that the president is reelected in 2012, the contours of the 2012 political battlefield make it at least a 50/50 proposition that the Republicans will control the Senate as well come January 3, 2013. Therefore, there is little political incentive for Republicans to strike a “Grand Bargain” at the present time—especially in light of the fact that one can be certain that, whatever its details, the media will credit such a deal to Obama and use it to kick-start the sort of “shift-to-the-center” narrative that he’ll need in order to win another term. With these considerations in mind, the correct Republican strategy for the debt ceiling is to play the man, not the ball.
The present debate is plainly one that Obama would rather not be having. Not only does endless talk about how to reduce spending run counter to his belief in an ever-expanding government, but it’s pretty clear at this point that this president is not really all that interested or suited for the day-to-day business of governing. His remarkably light schedule, frequent breaks, and general demeanor suggests that the man is someone whose personal energy level is not consistent with that of an active Commander-in-Chief.
He’s energized by the crowds and the adulation of the campaign trail—not the adult business of managing a republic. This presents Republicans with a tremendous opportunity: if the president will not agree to the sorts of fundamental reforms that are required to truly end the crisis, then the correct course of action is to wage a war of attrition against the president on a personal level, one designed to besiege him in the White House and then to break him on a psychological level.
Forcing a series of debt limit debates will increase the likelihood of a presidential gaffe, limit the ability of the president to propose policy in other areas, and—as I’ll get to in a moment—likely kick off by forcing a humiliating presidential climb-down from a nonsensical promise to veto any short-term increase in the limit.
On a strategic level, the goal of all sieges is to fix an opponent in place and to then compel his surrender through a sustained campaign. The Republican House can do exactly this on the debt limit by calling the president’s self-admitted bluff and passing a series of short-term increases in the debt limit along with bite-sized cuts in government spending.
There’s absolutely no reason why the House should accept the president’s desire for a debt limit increase that will run through the end of 2012. The fact that the president is disinterested in having to campaign and govern at the same time is irrelevant to the American people.
The numbers that we’re speaking about are so large that they’re beyond the capability of most citizens to fully grasp. If the Congress passes, say, a $500-billion increase in the limit—along with $600 billion or so in spending cuts—does it really seem probable that the president will veto it and then either default on payments on the debt or fail to make Social Security payments?
Even with the aid of all of the persuasive powers of the media, it is nearly impossible to conceive of how the blame for whatever would happen in the aftermath of such a veto would not fall squarely upon the president.
Indeed, the House Republicans would do well to remember two vital episodes in recent history: the 2008 TARP vote and the final vote on ObamaCare. The bill that became the latter was not the first choice of many Democrats—it was forced to become so after the election of Scott Brown to the Senate foreclosed the possibility of a second bill making its way through that body. It became the bill by default. In the case of TARP, market panic resulted in a bill being forced through the Congress in near-record time with the votes of frightened members who had just rejected more or less the same proposal.
A House proposal that’s ready to go could, if already passed and either on the president’s desk (assuming cooperation can be forced from the Senate) or in the Senate hopper could become a final bill by default.”
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/playing_the_man_defeating_obama_with_the_debt_ceiling.html
II. 10 Signs That The American People Are Starting To Freak Out About The Condition Of The Economy!-Posted on Prison Planet-On July 16, 2011:
III. Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black!-Posted on The Hill-By Josiah Ryan-On July 15, 2011:
IV. Video: Dem Congresswoman Brings Obama's Race Into Debt Ceiling Fight!-Posted on RealClearPolitics-On July 15, 2011:
V. Ignored Seniors Can Win 2012 White House for GOP!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Henry J. Reske and Kathleen Walter-On July 16, 2011:
VI. The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating!-Posted on The Wall Street Journal-On July 15, 2011:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203304576446332084493902.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
VII. Video: Hugely Partisan and the Deathly Debt Ceiling!-Posted on Conservative Byte-On July 15, 2011:
http://conservativebyte.com/2011/07/hugely-partisan-and-the-deathly-debt-ceiling/
VIII. Obama Drops Debt Bomb: ‘The American People Are Sold’ on My Debt Proposal!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On July 15, 2011:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-drops-debt-bomb-80-of-americans-sold-on-my-debt-proposal/
IX. Greenspan: Dumb Americans Deserve Unemployment!-Posted on Prison Planet-By Kurt Nimmo, Prisonplanet.com-On July 15, 2011:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/greenspan-dumb-americans-deserve-unemployment.html
X. Republican leaders embrace 'Cut, Cap and Balance' plan; vote set for next week!-Posted on The Hill-By Molly K. Hooper and Russell Berman-On July 15, 2011:
XI. U.S. Downgrade Would Ripple Into Every Home!-Posted on FOXBusiness.com-By Dunstan Prial, FOXBusiness-On July 15, 2011:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/07/15/us-aaa-downgrade-would-ripple-into-every-home/?test=MM
XII. Of Obama’s $86 million, 40% from bundlers!-Posted on Politico-By GLENN THRUSH & KENNETH P. VOGEL-On July 15, 2011:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59136.html
XIII. Europe's crumbling economy leaving West defenseless?-Posted on WND.com-On July 15, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=322397
XIV. Obama isn’t going to be the dealmaker!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Jennifer Rubin-On July 14, 2011:
XV. S&P sees a 50 percent chance of downgrade for US credit rating!-Posted on The Hill-By Peter Schroeder-On July 14, 2011:
XVI. Obama Thwarts Debt-Ceiling Deal by Clinging to Wasteful Green-Jobs and Stimulus Spending!-Posted on GlobalWarming.org-By HANS BADER-On July 14, 2011:
XVII. Obama: Job Losses Prove Stimulus Worked!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Fred Lucas-On July 11, 2011:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-job-losses-prove-stimulus-worked
XVIII. Obama Debt Solution 'Smoke and Mirrors'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella-On July 9, 2011:
XIX. Miss America: Obama Shirking the Constitution!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Tom O'Connell-On Juy 13, 2011:
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/MissAmerica-BarackObama-Constitution/2011/07/13/id/403443
XX. Video: Hollywood Attacks Capitalism!-Posted on The Patriot Update-On July 16, 2011:
http://patriotupdate.com/videos/larry-crowne-hollywood-attacks-capitalism
XXI. Video: Around the World on $69 Million in Welfare Funds!-Posted on AFP’s “Common Sense”:
http://videos2view.net/welfare-vacations.htm
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President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!
Is there a Christian basis for combating the threat of global warming?
Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?
Does President Obama Suffer From NPD?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/does-president-obama-suffer-from-npd/
Is Obama and The American Public on Different Pages, if not Different Books?
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
To whom it may concern:
I CANNOT CONTAIN MYSELF!
We, the people of the United States of America, We-The-People; have been duped for lo these many decades by Satan himself.
We have been an active, willing accomplice to the desecration of our faith. We have acquiesced to the denial that there is a GOD or that HE even exists; causing our children to be taught the fallacy that “there are no absolute truths”.
In spite of the facts of our revolution; the first landing; the many infallible proofs of existence of GOD; we cling to evolution without thinking; because it is easier than arguing for our faith. Tell me then; who are we asking to heal our land? From what? Why? I am more guilty than those who don’t believe because I have seen miracles with my own eyes; Things that cannot be explained away.
You say faith has no place in politics? You are dead wrong; were it not for faith, we would not have won that victory over the strongest nation in the world over two hundred thirty some years ago. If we don’t have faith what are we struggling for?
Furthermore, explain to me why there is such a war against faith as we see going on today? “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no GOD”. Why is there such a fight FOR ignorance by people who have so little time in their heads? They say that no “faith mantra” over and over. They are trying to deny history! Look at the different forums; why do they have the stipulation “don’t post about faith”? Has the A.C.L.U. Do we not recognize the truth of our faith? Where and how it was started? There have been many who have placed faith on trial, as in a court room; they ALL failed! As seen in “THE CASE FOR FAITH”.
The vast majority of conservative people are Christian. Why? We believe what is written in our HISTORY. WE are the shakers and movers. WE are not expecting to get anything for free. WE worked all through our lives to leave the world a better place when we leave; now they want us to abandon hope!
These things, RECORDED IN HISTORY happened; exactly as recorded, IN SPITE of what the N.Y.T. or any other liberal, socialistic, communist says!
10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. [1]
12And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. 13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 17And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; 18Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. 19But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. 21And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house? 22And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
[2]Chapter 28
1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 9The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 27The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: 29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. 30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 31Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. 32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. 33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 36The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. 38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 46And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: 51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. 63And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
The liberal brain does not collect and process information in a logical, reasonable, and objective manner. Rather, liberal thinking is dominated by an obsession with power, and use of that power to preserve elitist advantages.
This distorted perspective makes it very difficult to understand exactly how liberals think without advanced training in Abnormal Psychology.Nonetheless, the following non-technical summary should be useful to lay people.
How liberals think on 10 major issues of the day:
1. The U.S. Constitution Is Unconstitutional
According to liberal dogma, the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights are unconstitutional because all were crafted by an exclusive conclave of white male Christians.
Women, Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, gays, lesbians, transsexuals, the handicapped, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and the blind were all under represented, if at all.
Because of this devastating lack of diversity, the Constitution must be regarded as a “living document,” subject to change in accordance with ever changing demographics and contemporary values.
2. Free Speech
Freedom of speech must never be quashed, except for criticism directed at minorities and sensitive constituencies of the Democrat party.
Burning Old Glory is protected free speech, whereas expressions of conservative values by people like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are unacceptable “hate speech,” which must be subjected to “fairness” censoring by the federal government.
3. Abortion, the Death Penalty and Assisted Suicide
On issues of life and death, liberals are especially vulnerable to tripping on their own hypocritical double talk.
Namely:
A woman’s right to abort the life of an innocent child is inalienable; whereas execution of a convicted killer is cruel, unusual & barbaric.
Starving a helpless victim like Terri Schaivo to death is acceptable; but using lethal injection to end the life of a brutal killer is not.
4. Religion
Religious faith and belief in God are outdated pagan concepts, which do more harm than good. Sophisticated citizens can rely on the Democrat party for support from cradle to grave, obviating the need to rely on beliefs and rituals long since debunked.
Symbols of Christianity such as the Ten Commandments, the Cross, Christmas trees, nativity scenes, and the like must be hidden from public view so as to offend no one.
Publicly wishing a friend or family member “Merry Christmas” is clearly an act of civil disobedience and unconstitutional.
While Christianity is to be suppressed at all costs, Islam must be openly promoted in the name of religious awareness, sensitivity and tolerance.
The separation of state and government applies fully when dealing with Christianity or Judaism, but is irrelevant with regard to Islam and all other religions.
Delivery of Christmas cards and gifts by the United States Postal Service is an unconstitutional violation of state-religion separation and must end immediately.
5. Taxes
Leveling the playing field between haves and have-nots is the most important function of government, even more critical than national security.
To support that objective, no government role is more essential than levying and collecting taxes, otherwise known as redistribution of wealth.
Tax cuts are wrong when returned to people who actually paid taxes, but are perfectly fine when sent to those who paid none.
Although most liberals deny that Jesus even lived, many use the quote in Matthew 22:21, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s…” to justify higher taxes.
Paying taxes is the “Christian Conservative” thing to do!
6. Marriage and Same-Sex Issues
The traditional American family consisting of one man and one woman is just one of several possible arrangements, all of which are equally moral and acceptable.
Marriage is no longer necessary to sanctify man-woman relationships.
Although the institution of marriage is no longer vital to heterosexual partners, it is absolutely essential that same-sex couples be allowed to marry. To deny them that basic right is discriminatory, immoral, unfair, and clearly unconstitutional.
7 Racism, Diversity and Affirmative Action
Liberals believe that discrimination based on race or gender is wrong. Except when waged against Caucasian men, in which case it is mandated by law and called Affirmative Action.
“Our Diversity Is our Greatest Strength” is the liberal pledge of allegiance to socialism.
Enforcing U.S. borders and immigration laws, including deportation of illegal aliens, is wrong because it targets Hispanics, obviously based on racial profiling.
Those who support English as the official language of America are racists. But those who prefer Spanish and other foreign languages over English are not because of the inherent value of diversity.
Conservatives who seek to preserve American language and culture are bigoted hate mongers, whereas new immigrants, including illegal aliens, must be allowed to maintain and celebrate their cultural heritage at all costs, even if it interferes with assimilation into mainstream America.
8. Preserving the American Dream for Working Class Americans
According to liberal propaganda, they are the only hope for American families, notwithstanding the fact that Democrats support the influx of millions of illegal aliens who work for lower wages and without benefits, and drive down the standard of living for working families.
Skyrocketing gasoline prices devastate working American families, but protecting Alaskan wild life is a greater priority.
Businesses are oppressive institutions that must not be allowed to become too large and powerful. By contrast, government creates wealth & happiness and should be expanded whenever possible.
Outsourcing of American jobs to foreign nations is driven by immoral corporate greed.By contrast, open borders and amnesty are acceptable because most illegal aliens are future Democrats.
Huge profits are obscene and un-American, except when enjoyed by Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and other liberals.
9. Global Warming, the Environment, and Energy Independence
According to liberal technocrats like Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, and Dennis Kucinich, global warming is a greater threat to the health and well being of humanity than the war on terror.
Some liberal extremists even think that the colors of the American flag should be changed to green, white, and blue so as to reflect the importance of the environment to our nation, while simultaneously deleting the color red, which symbolizes blood shed in illegal wars waged by Bushes 41 and 43.
10. Use of Military Force, Invading Foreign Nations
Military force must never be used, except when needed to advance interests not vital to the United States, or to obscure a Democrat president’s sexual misconduct in the Oval Office.
Invading a foreign nation is wrong, except when aliens from Mexico invade America.
Bottom line: Understanding liberal thinking is probably more trouble than it is worth. The more prudent action would be to take all necessary steps to assure that liberals are not elected or reelected to political office.
This distorted perspective makes it very difficult to understand exactly how liberals think without advanced training in Abnormal Psychology.Nonetheless, the following non-technical summary should be useful to lay people.
How liberals think on 10 major issues of the day:
1. The U.S. Constitution Is Unconstitutional
According to liberal dogma, the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights are unconstitutional because all were crafted by an exclusive conclave of white male Christians.
Women, Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, gays, lesbians, transsexuals, the handicapped, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and the blind were all under represented, if at all.
Because of this devastating lack of diversity, the Constitution must be regarded as a “living document,” subject to change in accordance with ever changing demographics and contemporary values.
2. Free Speech
Freedom of speech must never be quashed, except for criticism directed at minorities and sensitive constituencies of the Democrat party.
Burning Old Glory is protected free speech, whereas expressions of conservative values by people like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are unacceptable “hate speech,” which must be subjected to “fairness” censoring by the federal government.
3. Abortion, the Death Penalty and Assisted Suicide
On issues of life and death, liberals are especially vulnerable to tripping on their own hypocritical double talk.
Namely:
A woman’s right to abort the life of an innocent child is inalienable; whereas execution of a convicted killer is cruel, unusual & barbaric.
Starving a helpless victim like Terri Schaivo to death is acceptable; but using lethal injection to end the life of a brutal killer is not.
4. Religion
Religious faith and belief in God are outdated pagan concepts, which do more harm than good. Sophisticated citizens can rely on the Democrat party for support from cradle to grave, obviating the need to rely on beliefs and rituals long since debunked.
Symbols of Christianity such as the Ten Commandments, the Cross, Christmas trees, nativity scenes, and the like must be hidden from public view so as to offend no one.
Publicly wishing a friend or family member “Merry Christmas” is clearly an act of civil disobedience and unconstitutional.
While Christianity is to be suppressed at all costs, Islam must be openly promoted in the name of religious awareness, sensitivity and tolerance.
The separation of state and government applies fully when dealing with Christianity or Judaism, but is irrelevant with regard to Islam and all other religions.
Delivery of Christmas cards and gifts by the United States Postal Service is an unconstitutional violation of state-religion separation and must end immediately.
5. Taxes
Leveling the playing field between haves and have-nots is the most important function of government, even more critical than national security.
To support that objective, no government role is more essential than levying and collecting taxes, otherwise known as redistribution of wealth.
Tax cuts are wrong when returned to people who actually paid taxes, but are perfectly fine when sent to those who paid none.
Although most liberals deny that Jesus even lived, many use the quote in Matthew 22:21, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s…” to justify higher taxes.
Paying taxes is the “Christian Conservative” thing to do!
6. Marriage and Same-Sex Issues
The traditional American family consisting of one man and one woman is just one of several possible arrangements, all of which are equally moral and acceptable.
Marriage is no longer necessary to sanctify man-woman relationships.
Although the institution of marriage is no longer vital to heterosexual partners, it is absolutely essential that same-sex couples be allowed to marry. To deny them that basic right is discriminatory, immoral, unfair, and clearly unconstitutional.
7 Racism, Diversity and Affirmative Action
Liberals believe that discrimination based on race or gender is wrong. Except when waged against Caucasian men, in which case it is mandated by law and called Affirmative Action.
“Our Diversity Is our Greatest Strength” is the liberal pledge of allegiance to socialism.
Enforcing U.S. borders and immigration laws, including deportation of illegal aliens, is wrong because it targets Hispanics, obviously based on racial profiling.
Those who support English as the official language of America are racists. But those who prefer Spanish and other foreign languages over English are not because of the inherent value of diversity.
Conservatives who seek to preserve American language and culture are bigoted hate mongers, whereas new immigrants, including illegal aliens, must be allowed to maintain and celebrate their cultural heritage at all costs, even if it interferes with assimilation into mainstream America.
8. Preserving the American Dream for Working Class Americans
According to liberal propaganda, they are the only hope for American families, notwithstanding the fact that Democrats support the influx of millions of illegal aliens who work for lower wages and without benefits, and drive down the standard of living for working families.
Skyrocketing gasoline prices devastate working American families, but protecting Alaskan wild life is a greater priority.
Businesses are oppressive institutions that must not be allowed to become too large and powerful. By contrast, government creates wealth & happiness and should be expanded whenever possible.
Outsourcing of American jobs to foreign nations is driven by immoral corporate greed.By contrast, open borders and amnesty are acceptable because most illegal aliens are future Democrats.
Huge profits are obscene and un-American, except when enjoyed by Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and other liberals.
9. Global Warming, the Environment, and Energy Independence
According to liberal technocrats like Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, and Dennis Kucinich, global warming is a greater threat to the health and well being of humanity than the war on terror.
Some liberal extremists even think that the colors of the American flag should be changed to green, white, and blue so as to reflect the importance of the environment to our nation, while simultaneously deleting the color red, which symbolizes blood shed in illegal wars waged by Bushes 41 and 43.
10. Use of Military Force, Invading Foreign Nations
Military force must never be used, except when needed to advance interests not vital to the United States, or to obscure a Democrat president’s sexual misconduct in the Oval Office.
Invading a foreign nation is wrong, except when aliens from Mexico invade America.
Bottom line: Understanding liberal thinking is probably more trouble than it is worth. The more prudent action would be to take all necessary steps to assure that liberals are not elected or reelected to political office.
I notice we, the world or the United States, is expecting some "hyper inflation".
Could there be some reasons?
Such as What is expected of in prophecy?
Compare this portion of prophecy with today's hapenings.
Hurt not the oil and the wine is gives the indication of how some eat a salad, indicating wealth in their eating habits; oil and wine/vinegar. We will always have poor as well as rich people.
7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth
Kill with sword, hunger and
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
IF THE GOVERNMENT DEFAULT'S ON AUGUST 2ND. ~ ALL FINANCIAL AGREEMENTS ARE OFF THE TABLE !!
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-depression-youve-never-heard-of-1920-1921/
Sheila Jackson Lee TRUMPS Reality
By Playing “the Race Card”
You may have just heard that Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has just claimed that the primary reason that President Barack Obama is being challenged on raising the debt ceiling is because of resentment that our bi-racial president is GASP! Black. The purpose of this blog is to answer that charge conclusively and drop a little common sense upon the congresswoman below her notorious “hair tiara.” In a phrase, Ms. Jackson, NO! the actual reason Mr. Obama is being challenged on his present desire to increase the national debt ceiling (he opposed such an increase when George W. Bush requested it) is because the federal government has become a monstrous burden upon the people and because Mr. Obama has rapidly accelerated that trend, period.
Since the United States Constitution was created in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1791 (two documents seeking above all to control the size, scope and burdensome interference of government upon the voting citizens’ wallets and lives), except for the Presidential administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, the size and onerous nature of the federal government has always expanded and seldom or almost never contracted.
It is worth noting that Harding’s policies which cut back the government spending of Woodrow Wilson’s administration by roughly 50%; eliminated 49% of federal taxes; and paid the national debt down by 30% also turned the 1920-21 Depression under Wilson into the “Invisible Depression” even though it appeared to start off much worse than the far more infamous so-called “Great Depression” begun in October, 1929. That Harding-Coolidge “Depression You NEVER Heard of” holds great lessons to all of us: among other things it lit off the Roaring Twenties, just about the greatest economic boom in the history of the nation.
Government INEFFICIENCY is nothing new. In 1929 Herbert Hoover began to expand the government to undreamed of size. The very next presidential administration, that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after promising to cut taxes, cut spending, pay down the national debt and eliminate waste, corruption and abuse in the government . . . not only continued every single one of Hoover’s programs; not only did nothing to manage government waste, corruption and abuse; but added 39 completely new federal agencies and dramatically increased the cost and interference of government.
Today just one new law in 2010, “Obamacare” alone has added 384 brand new federal agencies. Many other new financial agencies; new college loan agencies; and other regulatory agencies have also been added in the last two years while the workforce in existing government agencies has expanded by roughly 9% and the size of government has expanded overall from 16% of the Gross Domestic Product to its present 23.2% of the GDP. It’s long past time to start to get a handle on the federal government.
Runaway government spending and government corruption, abuse and waste are huge problems in their own right but federal government redundancy is perhaps an even greater example of the ugly-side of government interference in our lives . . . not including Obamacare’s unheard of expansions . . . burdensome federal taxes now support 1165 separate agencies to handle the 19 separate areas enumerated below:
A. A. 342 economic development programs;
- 130 programs serving the disabled;
- 130 programs serving at-risk youth;
- 90 early childhood development programs;
- 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities;
- 72 federal programs dedicated to assuring safe water;
- 50 homeless assistance programs;
- 45 federal agencies conducting federal criminal investigations;
- 40 separate employment and training programs;
- 28 rural development programs;
- 27 teen pregnancy programs;
- 26 small, extraneous K-12 school grant programs;
- 23 agencies providing aid to the former Soviet republics;
- 19 programs fighting substance abuse;
- 17 rural water and waste-water programs in eight agencies;
- 17 trade agencies monitoring 400 international trade agreements;
- 12 food safety agencies;
- 11 principal statistics agencies; and
- Four overlapping land management agencies.
Eliminating 100% of all redundancy is probably an impossible goal. Some overlap is inevitable because some agencies are defined by whom they serve (e.g., veterans, Native Americans, urbanites, and rural families), while others are defined by what they provide (e.g., housing, education, health care, and economic development). If we were to make obvious eliminations of duplicative programs and services the list might, for example, look something like this:
A. 6 economic development programs
B. 3 programs serving the disabled
C. 3 programs serving at-risk youth
D. 3 early childhood development programs
E. 6 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities
F. 3 federal programs dedicated to assuring safe water;
G. 3 homeless assistance programs
H. 3 federal agencies conducting federal criminal investigations
I. 3 separate employment and training programs
J. 1 rural development program
K. 1 teen pregnancy program
L. 1 K-12 school grant program
M. 1 programs fighting substance abuse
N. 2 rural water and waste-water programs in one agency
O. 5 trade agencies monitoring 400 international trade agreements
P. 2 food safety agencies
Q. 1 principal statistics agencies and
R. 1 land management agency
S. ZERO agencies providing aid to the former Soviet republics and Rajjpuut would recommend elimination of at least 90% of all foreign aid until such a time that our own house is in order . . . . PROPOSED NEW AGENCIES:
T. 1 agency working hand-in-hand with the House and Senate Oversight committees and federal criminal investigations and dealing with FRAUD by recipients etc.
U. 1 agency working hand-in-hand with the House and Senate Oversight committees and federal criminal investigations and dealing with ABUSE by recipients, and government agencies
V. 1 agency working hand-in-hand with the House and Senate Oversight committees and federal criminal investigations and dealing with CORRUPTION by government officials and agencies
W. 1 agency working hand-in-hand with the House and Senate Oversight committees and federal criminal investigations and dealing with undesirable duplication of effort and coverage among government agencies.
X. 1 agency that oversees NEW AGENCIES T, U, V, and W; manages supply and logistical concerns; and serves as the taxpayer’s and Congresses Efficiency Watchdog.
Since elimination of repetitive programs and consolidation of duplicative agencies saves money and improves government service; and since many of the programs now in force should be eliminated entirely . . . Congress should set about consolidating wherever possible and desirable. This simple and obvious plan would eliminate 1112 existing federal agencies and consolidate them into 48 government programs while adding five brand new oversight agencies to manage these programs.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
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Note: After finding his website (treasury.gov/) to be totally user-unfriendly and being unable to communicate the following information with our Treasury Secretary, Rajjpuut left a link to his Townhall.com blogsite and printed this blog . . . .
21 Facts You Presumably Know (#1-21 with #19 referring directly to the actions of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner)
7 Facts You May Not Be Aware of (A-G with letter G referring directly to the actions of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner)
The obvious conclusions . . . .
21 Facts You Presumably Know
- In 1975 the United States had by far the highest private home ownership in the world with 64%. Besides newcomers to the workforce, college students, the young and the scarcely-educated, virtually every American with gumption could own** their own home after a few years of renting.
2. In 1975 the “suspect” home loan rate stood at roughly 0.24% or only about one in every 404 loans. Before 1977, the usual and customary down payment had long been 20%. These suspect loans granted at 3% down payment or less were not only exceedingly rare, they were typically granted to veterans with jobs and great credit working their way through college under the GI Bill.
- In 1985 the suspect home loan rate had risen to roughly 0.51% or about one in every 196 home loans. Something small had changed . . . . What?
- In 1995 the suspect home loan rate was roughly 14% or about one in every seven home loans. Something big had changed . . . . What?
- By 2005, just two years before the financial meltdown, about the time of widespread PUBLIC realization that sub-prime home loans were causing huge problems: the suspect home loan rate was roughly 34% or more than one in every three home loans. Something enormous had changed . . . . What?
- Between item #2 and item #3 above, in 1977 two things had changed. The Community Reinvestment Act was passed in 1977 (CRA ’77) by the Carter administration and Democrat’s House and Senate. For the first time in history home loan lenders were forced to knowingly make bad loans to unqualified would-be home buyers.
- Wade Rathke, a lieutenant of George Wiley, (more on this later) in 1977 with the passing of CRA ’77 created the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which was a “test organization” (more on this later) with two commandments from Wiley, Richard Cloward, and his wife Frances Piven (more on all of them later) in 1975, following up on this TRIO’s expressed desiderata for their followers to expand their endeavors (more on this later) into 1. Voter registration and 2. Home lending. Arkansas was chosen because of the existence in that small state of an up-and-coming young politician (the lieutenant governor elected in 1976, Bill Clinton) and his wife were very compatible with the TRIO’s politics.
- Between item #3 and item #4 above, in 1977 six major things had changed. ACORN had been approved of and expanded to all 50 states. The ACORN acronym had been switched to a new meaning: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Voter registration activities which had elected their candidate in Arkansas were now expanded to the entire country; and their overload-the-CRA ’77-law campaign that had already doubled the suspect loan rate of the whole nation just by their efforts in Arkansas was likewise a nation-wide campaign.
- Bill Clinton, the ACORN candidate, had been elected governor of Arkansas for 12 of the next 14 years.
- Clinton had become the ACORN president in 1992.
- President George H. W. Bush who prevailed on 45 of his 46 vetoes did not veto a big bill he was largely in favor of. His veto was needed for a small part of that bill which added in an expansion of CRA ’77 to federal mortgage agencies Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae.
- President Clinton used his Presidential powers to expand CRA ’77 in 1993 by huge regulatory fiat.
- President Clinton out-maneuvered the Republican Congress and got CRA law expanded twice during 1995. By the way, President Barack Obama was an ACORN lawyer for two years before and after this time, browbeating home mortgage companies and banks into making knowingly unwise loans to undeserving unqualified home loan applicants. He was known for also getting ACORN contributions simultaneously.
- Between items #4 and #5 only one major change took place in CRA ’77 but it was huge! Bill Clinton was now popular again and he was able to get a steroid version^^ of CRA ’77 passed in 1998.
- The changes after the CRA steroid version was passed in 1998 were no longer just quantitative but hugely QUALITATIVE as well. To wit:
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- It became easier for ACORN to push for $440,000 homes after 2000 then it had been to seek $110,000 homes in 1990.
- Not having a job; having only food stamps to declare as “income” and having horrific credit ratings were no longer a problem in buying very expensive homes.
- Across the Southwestern United States even illegal aliens were able to get CRA-guaranteed treatment from ACORN.
- Many of these CRA loans were now being made to EVEN LESS qualified loan applicants than before. A large percentage of these loans were now granted at 0% down payment.
- To repeat, by 2005, suspect home loans had risen to 34% of all home loans.
- In November, 2003 James Stack of Investech.com began running a chart of the Housing Industry Bubble in stocks within the home-building and financial industry and discussing the danger to the economy from the sub-prime lending crisis. The Stack Housing Industry Bubble showed a 1400% increase. Housing prices had been booming for well over a decade.
- By early January, 2005 (less than 14 months later), the Bush administration had become seriously concerned about this problem. Their bill to repeal virtually all the most dangerous provisions of CRA legislation was defeated by Congressional Democrats.
- Bush would make a total of 19 speeches about the sub-prime lending process and seek to change CRA legislation for the next 30 months. Finally, in July, 2007 a full two years and a half after the Bush administration had begun trying to change CRA law, a very weak bi-partisan bill was passed by the Congress.
- That new law would prove to be way too little, way too late . . . but it would definitely help avoid much of the worst potential consequences of the sub-prime lending crisis. While the Obama administration was passing on the lie about Bush, conservatives, and the free market causing the financial meltdown (“driving the car into the ditch”), one honest and thinking man within the administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recognized the truth and spoke it. In mid-2010, Geithner praised Bush for his efforts and eventual success in passing the July, 2007, anti-CRA law. Geithner said that Bush’s actions prevented a decline into a much worse recession and especially for an all-out plummeting of home prices.
- As mentioned the new law helped but proved too little, too late to turn things totally around . . . and the financial meltdown hit us hard.
- On at least 206 occasions, President Obama has used the “car (economy) in the ditch” metaphor implying that he and the Democrats and especially the Progressives within both parties had nothing to do with the problem. This is a lie. For 34+ years the Progressive laws have violated the free markets and forced low-down payment and no-down payment loans which must be granted to totally Undeserving and Unqualified home loan applicants.
7 Facts You May Not Be Aware of
A. Following the “War on Poverty” and “Great Society” initiatives of the Lyndon Johnson administration, in mid-1966, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, two neo-Marxist sociology professors from New York’s Columbia University who admitted being inspired by the Watts Riots and the writings of Saul Alinsky, published an article in The Nation magazine entitled The Weight of the Poor: a Strategy for Ending Poverty. The article suggested that by “overloading” the nation’s newly expanded welfare system and using poor citizens as storm troopers . . . a financial crisis could be brought about forcing the then-dominant Democratic party to see that a GNI (Guaranteed National Income) law be passed and thus POOF! In one fell swoop ending poverty. This “overload the system and create orchestrated chaos” plan has been much discussed by the left-wing and become known as “Cloward-Piven Strategy” or “C-P Strategy.” The suggested Saul Alinsky tactics within this strategy included “street theater" demonstrations and “making them live up to their playbook.”
B. In 1967 Cloward and Piven and a Black militant Marxist, George Wiley, created the NWRO (National Welfare Rights Organization) to put C-P Strategy to work. They were able to put four million new recipients onto the New York State welfare rolls and almost double that many onto the nation’s welfare rolls between 1968 and 1970. A huge number of these additional welfare people lived in New York City.
C. Between 1968 and 1975 the NWRO had placed over eight million new welfare recipients on the rolls in New York State and almost sixteen million new people onto the rolls. A virtual two year long recession from early 1973 to January 1975 hit the stock market with its biggest losses since the Great Depression. In 1975 NYC went bankrupt and was bailed out by the federal government. New York State teetered upon the edge of bankruptcy.
D. Even though a GNI was never seriously considered in Congress, Cloward and Piven and Wiley declared “victory” in numerous speaking engagements and in print. They advised their followers to move into voter registration and housing. Wiley’s lieutenant Wade Rathke (who’d been sent to Arkansas in 1970 by the NWRO) had been assigned the task of creating a C-P strategy for a future campaign. Between President Carter; the Democratic Congress in 1977 and Wade Rathke’s creation of ACORN in Arkansas that task was successfully completed.
E. In 1993, shortly after being elected to his first term, President Bill Clinton oversaw the creation of the Motor Voter Bill (called by many “a superhighway to voter fraud). ACORN which had been pushing for loosened standards of proof for voters for 16 years was represented at the signing ceremony by Richard Cloward and Frances Piven standing directly behind his desk while he signed the new law.
F. Corruption was rampant, Democratic leaders like Barney Frank and especially Fanny Mae head Franklin Raines (who it's believed personally profited over $150 million from the scandal) maintained over and over throughout the period from 2004 to 2007 while speaking about Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac that these were solid investments for the public. Anyone who dared to point out the dangers was castigated and demagogued as a racist or non-patriotic person. Today more than three million potential new foreclosures are about to be added to the housing market. Even one foreclosure in a neighborhood can devastate the local home values. Fanny’s and Freddy’s future is still very much in the air.G. Only one honest voice has come out discussing about 1% of this very serious and critical matter: Timothy Geithner.
The obvious conclusions . . . .
The truth about these matters is not only of great financial import but also critical to the awareness of the American voters. It is clearly no exaggeration to say that the nation’s security is in play. The truth is needed, what trusted source will reveal it? I pray, sir, that honest source will be you . . . .
Sincerely,
Bob VanDeHey
Centennial, CO 80122
Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** Just exactly what is so wrong with renting homes and apartments^^ anyway? What tiny percentage of today's college students, other young people, high school dropouts and other scarcely-educated people, (the people who typically have bad credit, no credit or are inexperienced) and the people without jobs earning themselves at least $40,000 yearly or more can be counted upon to pay off ANY mortgage loans they'd be given?
If they can't put down even 10% down payment, what are the chances they'll ever actually own their own homes rather than the bank owning it? The whole CRA thing was a huge Ponzi scheme based upon the idea that housing prices NEVER go down . . . which is patent nonsense. Of course IF housing prices NEVER go down, then these people who are getting home loans which objectively they do NOT deserve will indeed make a profit . . . so this is a share-the-wealth project as well. But, of course, no investment grows to heaven . . . home prices routinely drop, that is reality. Renting is a time-honored tradition of the young, of students, of low educated people. Many of them end up owning a home later . . . but once the government prohibited free market loan evaluations, everything becomes irreparably corrupted.
If they can't put down even 10% down payment, what are the chances they'll ever actually own their own homes rather than the bank owning it? The whole CRA thing was a huge Ponzi scheme based upon the idea that housing prices NEVER go down . . . which is patent nonsense. Of course IF housing prices NEVER go down, then these people who are getting home loans which objectively they do NOT deserve will indeed make a profit . . . so this is a share-the-wealth project as well. But, of course, no investment grows to heaven . . . home prices routinely drop, that is reality. Renting is a time-honored tradition of the young, of students, of low educated people. Many of them end up owning a home later . . . but once the government prohibited free market loan evaluations, everything becomes irreparably corrupted.
^^ Another way to look at this is that CRA legislation was class warfare against the upwardly mobile middle-class. These are the people who invest in rental properties. If no one rents what happens to these people? What happens to upward mobility? What happens to the American Dream? This is the classic "Broken Windown Fallacy" where this category of taxpayers is made "invisible" so that they can be abused to the benefit of people who do not pay taxes. This brief link says it all . . . .
The doomsayers tell us the year 2012 will be our last. I agree, but rejoice, we are going to cross the threshold to the new age; that is, those of us who look within for their answers.
We learn by doing. Some of us become musicians, some actors, some artists. Every parent knows that each of his children is born with his or her own personality. Something exists before birth. From this undeniable fact comes religion—lots of religions, lots of holy wars—lots of wrong-headed thinking, and lots of atheists.
Numerology, the art of using numbers to make sense, gives me the number 7 as my life lesson number. I have a mind that develops logical answers. Naturally, I’m not religious nor am I an atheist. I believe we are each created with special talents, and with the native ability to cope. I believe necessity is the mother of invention. I believe in natural law and nature’s God.
With the above thoughts in mind, let us proceed, through my special talent for making logic, to totally and forever disprove consensus of opinion. This definition of anarchy in my Webster’s College Dictionary: “theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal.” Hello! This is anarchy? How Ridiculous! Continuing with this definition, “and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.” Convention comes up with this bad joke as anarchy—sustainers sustaining La La Land. Constitutional government described as anarchy is 180 degrees off course. The world has gone whacko!
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011, a red letter day in history, I viewed Glenn Beck, the man of the hour, addressing the Knesset, Israel’s legislative assembly. Glenn said that he sees people as just wanting to live their lives without official interference; it’s the power structure that brings about chaos. His words brought to mind my dictionary definition of anarchy.
I’ve never heard Glenn mention astrology. My astrological chart shows Saturn, my learning planet, to be angularly aligned with Pluto, the generational planet, in what is called a trine. This alignment means that I would know the subtle workings of the universe. I would be able to slowly make fundamental and irrevocable changes in my life and others lives.
The day before Glenn’s speech, on July 11, 2011, I learned that the UN, the US, the EU, and Russia were meeting to decide the fate of Israel, without Israel’s participation, because Israel had not worked out a suitable agreement with Palestine. What!
Glenn Beck told his Knesset audience that Israel and the western way of life were in grave danger. The prophet Habakkuk, toward the end of the Old Testament, lamented, “O Lord, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Glen tells us to look within for our answers. Jesus said to first seek the kingdom of God. There is a distinction between the Habakkuk’s kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. There are omissions in the kingdom of heaven. Everyone is included in the kingdom of God. There are no boundaries in man’s spiritual domain. Why a promised land exclusively for Jews? That’s Old Testament theology. It didn’t work; it doesn’t work. The reaction is godless socialism. Palestine is socialist. America is on the brink of becoming a socialist state.
All religions are welcome in Israel. Not so in socialist Palestine. Why is the world on Palestine’s side? It isn’t. It is the freaks in control. Jesus came to save the world. He was crucified. We have yet to learn the distinction between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. The kingdom of heaven is dimensional. We are still fighting holy wars. Jesus was everyone’s messiah. Thanks to religious zealots, we are getting the wrong message. The world is in peril of being socialist enslaved.
IRAN ~ STATE SPONSORED TERROR FOR 30
YEARS !! AT WAR WITH US !!
Al Stefanelli
A Voice of Reason in an Unreasonable World
About People Who Vote Against Their Own Interests.
The following is quoted from an internet forum post by a person with the screen name “yeahiknow5″. It was brought to my attention by one of my Facebook friends, Joe Markey. Neither Joe nor I wrote this. Except for paragraph formatting, it has not been changed, including the language.
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“You should read “What’s the Matter with Kansas” & “Deer Hunting With Jesus”. Both are great takes on a working class, anti-intellectual, redneck culture that has been convinced to consistently vote against their own best interests. I listen to my own father, who has been the victim of layoffs from corporate merger after merger, who’s had his retirement fucked, who’s lost money on wall street – he’s done everything he was ‘supposed’ to do. He joined the military, went to college, had 2 kids, bought the house, invested & saved his money, worked his fucking ass off all his life & he still has squat to show for it. Now as a man well into his 60s he’s feeling the wrath of age discrimination, he’s finding his skills becoming outdated & his pay & benefits today (for the last 10 years) are lower than what they’ve been in the last 30 for him. Living the american life he finds his health failing as he’s a lifetime smoker with a growing waistline.
He’s the prototypical uncultured, red-blooded american male. He slathers his streak in ketchup, votes conservatives down the line, and wants the good old days before the women, blacks and fags took over. He’s a flag waver, supports his troops, and fends for himself. He’s always bitching about how much money corporations have to spend bc of regulation & about how the upper class need a tax cut. Nothing in the world makes him angrier than “socialism” & the so-called welfare state. Working people getting needed services bothers him tremendously because a few extreme token examples get painted as degenerate leeches by the likes of AM Radio & Fox News. ANd then he’ll turn right around & support corporate subsidy for just about anything from corn to oil – b/c it “stimulates jobs” and it “trickles down”.
He refuses to recognize that we as a nation spend more money at the beckoning of corporate America than we even begin to touch what we spend on our own citizenry through what he claims is “welfare” or infrastructure. He’s a working class guy who’s been fucked by the system all his life. He still puts his suit on with a kind of sad pride, every day, & goes to work downtown to phone-monkey job nowadays. He’s doing a job any body could do but he likes to pretend all his education & experience has gotten him somewhere. He’s deluded about what America’s exceptional way of life has brought him personally as he is deluded about what the world is like at large. So he denies global warming, blames the unions, blames teachers & other government workers, blames regulation, blames the EPA & the FDA, blames those struggling to make it in this world, blames the blacks, blames the immigrants, blames everyone & anyone but those at the top.
He’d rather blame fellow working people trying to grab a piece of the pie, rather than blame the crooks who deprive us all. Because somehow – be it by gender identity, racial identity, national identity, he thinks his class, his type belongs at the top. He’s the top dog! But he’s not. He’s a nigger, i’m a nigger, muslims are niggers and mexicans are niggers, teachers and steel workers, and farmers too. To people like the Koch Brothers, we’re all niggers and my dad can’t see that. This is an us vs them game and people like my father are fucking deluded as to what side they’re on or can be on one day. Somewhere deep down inside, he admires those at the top – he wants to be them & even though he knows he’ll never be one of them, he likes to pretend.
He goes to his Applebee’s, Red Lobster & Outback & bitches about all the blacks there. I think this is important to note – it’s indicative of his whole perspective. He is the same CLASS of people as these folks, he’s spending roughly the same amount on dinner as them, but thinks things are going to hell because they are there. He doesn’t get that he IS THEM. He’s the same fucking class, in the same fucking boat. He’s got relatively the same education level, roughly the same pay checks, living roughly the same way of life. But he’s been convinced to fight, to hate, to dislike his own class of people & to admire & defend the class that basically owns & controls his life & all our lives. He has been perfectly trained to rail against the ‘other’.
Against feminists, environmentalists, labor movements, racial minorities, immigrants, public sector workers, union members. These people aren’t HIS brothers & sisters – they are his enemy. He’s so busy hating “otherness” that he doesn’t realize he is them – and we’re all getting fucked by the same small group of people at the top. This is the same thing as him blaming unions & the welfare state. He has been indoctrinated through the years to fight amongst, to disagree with, to blame, & sometimes to outright hate people in the same boat as him. Not only kiss the ass of, but actively defend & fight on behalf of those who would take everything away from him, his wife & his family if they could make a buck on it – because he believes in an American dream & a way of life that simply doesn’t exist. He talks of freedom of those who have all the capital, but he doesn’t worry about his own freedom. He doesn’t worry about the freedom of his neighbors.
All he see’s as those liberal that take away rich people’s money are the same people telling him where he can & cannot smoke and that he should put his seatbelt on – so liberals must “hate freedom!”. Those damned reading elitist liberal communists! He has been convinced, as have many Americans – to hate their own & to defend their masters. To squabble over our petty & even cosmetic differences, rather than to unite on our common interests to fight for proper pay, benefits, rights as a consumer & as a worker, & for a clean environment. This is what happens when you have a class of people who were never taught to think for themselves, who act like reading is for fags, who are more willing to listen to hot heads like Beck & Limbaugh than to read any kind of political theorists, scientists, or economists.
This is what happens when you close your mind & you become one who’s always looking for that “other” to hate & to blame for your problems rather than to look at yourself or open your eyes to the bigger picture. People like my dad are willing to accept AM radio, Fox News talk shows, & even Fwd chain emails as official sources, & then single-handedly ignore any material the talking heads on these shows didn’t point him to. Because you can’t trust anyone but them! The ability to critically think, verify, discern the credibility of sources, to do the damned research yourself, is completely lost on these folks. That’s what these fucking Tea Party & GOP talking heads hope for. They hope to god that their lies they spew get echoed in the public sphere so often that it becomes reality. That people are too dumb or too lazy to verify what they spout.
This makes it so that people who are trying to get real shit done have to waste our time correcting mis-truths & disinformation just to garnish the slightest bit of public support to make progress anywhere. People don’t realize how dangerous this shit is. Right now the economy is & had been in the shitter. People are scared. People have lost their jobs & they’re angry. They have organized & mobilized into this populist “tea party”. They even think it’s a real grassroots org & dismissing the fact that they’re being led by billionaires & a corporate media. These are the angry masses that will eat up any scapegoat that their “leaders” feed them.
We’ve seen this in history before. I’m not trying to evoke Godwins Law or anything but i see a lot of correlations between the right-wing disenfranchised populist uprising here in America & a lot of what people experience in Wiemar Germany. There was a lot of angry people, scared about the loss of their jobs & an economy in bad shape. Those angry, uneducated people were looking for someone to blame. They didn’t care if they sided with a political party that would be responsible for fucking them over & destroying their democracy, not to mention the massive harm they would do to other groups. No, all that mattered was they found leaders who pretended to have answers. People like quick & simple answers & fixes, certainty & shared anger.
That’s what the Nazi Party gave them. That’s what the Tea Party/Fox News/AM Radio & portions of the GOP are giving this right wing uprising too. Anything intellectual is ignored or met with disinformation & a general air an superior anti-intellectualism. Everywhere I go: home to my parents, at work in the break room, flip on the tv, browse the internet – i see the same message: “My opinion is better than your facts”. This approach is rooted deeply in ignorance & anger most of the time. When the populace stops listening to those with brains & ignores factual information, & opts for those that shout opinions, we got a problem. The Tea Party would be an extremely powerful force if they had a politician that was worth a damn. Every time they have someone who is charismatic, they’re an obvious idiot or crook.
If somebody comes along who is charismatic & honest the US is in trouble bc of the frustration, disillusionment, justified anger & the absence of any coherent response from liberals. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants from Mexico, the Muslims, teachers, unions, Planned Parenthood, NPR, & blacks (you can toss in atheists, homosexuals & liberals too). We will be told that WASPy private sector males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves & the honor of the nation. instead of fixing problems that truly affect the all of the working class, the nation will be convinced to support legislation that will further protect & consolidate power for the corporate elite.
All those privacy rights, the voice we have in our government, & due process checks & balances that protect us all? Those things just get in the way of security & stability. The right-wing that supports these parties & leaders get hurt too, just in a more subtle way – they give away their rights & are too stupid to realize what they’ve done to themselves.
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What is the point in this? – Seems like its just spreading stereotypical hate against middle-america… Whether it be true or not.
What about the closed minded liberal who completely disregards everything said from the other side, as lies…. who classifies everything that comes from Fox as lies… and classifies everyone who watches/listened to fox and am radio as racist, bigoted, homophobes…. What about those people. Do they have the right to just generalize all those who disagree with them, whether they be factually incorrect, or just misinformed. Should these people be hailed as our saviors?
Think for yourselves people… dont EVER listen to blanket stereotypes
No it’s not stereotypical hate against middle America. The point of this? It’s actually pointing to a very sad fact about how some people think. The point, Greg, is that the only thing thing you ever hear coming from the people they listen to who spew hatred from the extreme “conservative” media are complaints, and attacks. They’re not offering solutions that would help ALL Americans. They are weaving propaganda that fuels fear and hatred, which keeps the working class, and the vanishing middle class in the dark about the FACT that the top 2% have all the money and control the “system” they buy politicians, and install them to do their bidding. There is no love or compassion for the common man. And by the way, Greg, I do think for myself, question authority and information. I consider myself to be a liberal. That means I care about my fellow man. Even the poor misguided ignorant fools who vote against themselves. I want their lives to be better too. I see the larger view of all mankind being more similar than different. It is the illusion of separateness that causes one group to blame another group. Causes war over religious beliefs.
Steven Paul Perry
March 16, 2011 at 4:45 pI just want to take an informal survey of my peers. Answer the following questions yes or no and we'll go from there.
- Do you believe that you will be a recipient of the Social Security funds that you have paid into the system?
- Do you believe that the government will in any way give you financial support in your old age?
- Do you believe that you will have subsidized medical care in old age in the form of Medicare?
- Do you believe that you will be able to retire at the age of 65?
- Do you believe that the current social models of retirement homes, assisted living facilities and extended-care medical institutions will be available to you in your late years?
- Do you believe that you will have to depend upon your family or faith congregation to meet your old age needs?
- Do you believe you will have the means to live independently in your old age?
- Do you believe that the current debt crisis and addiction to spending on the part of the federal government will turn upside down the entitlement programs that have been available to elderly Americans since FDR?
This is not a test. And I don't really care how you answered these questions. But I hope that I have caused you to reflect upon the future for Americans just now entering their 50s and 60s.
I am a late Boomer, born in 1961. I have had the gut feeling (knowledge) since about 1989 that I would not be a part of the Social Security generation. I frankly don't believe the projections that Medicare will become insolvent in 2024 and Social Security in 2036. I think it is around the corner. There will be an upheaval in the immediate future, whether gradual or sudden, that will completely alter the lives and expectations of the American aging class.
I put a post on Twitter yesterday that said "Are you ready to be part of the generation who disengages from government dependence?" The next tweets followed: "Are you ready to become the generation who will be self-reliant in old age? Are you prepared to work as long as you can? Are you prepared to find support in old age the old fashioned way, through family and church?"
This to some is horrifying. No safety net? No government to care for those who have no church or willing family to help them as they age and contend with illness and impending death?
This is the reality check of the century and our thinking and approach to life as elderly people will require a drastic reset if we are to survive past this point.
The victories of Socialism via Obama, and decades of a burgeoning government and the dependence of individuals thereon, are made downright tragic by the effect of the assault on families and churches that have left so many of the Boomer generation alone, and faithless. In the 1960s couples started to shrink their families and chose to bear few or no children. Children are traditionally the most reliable form of security to aging parents. Many have chosen not to marry and as families of origin die out, they are left alone. Churches and strong congregations remain, but many individuals have abandoned the faiths of their childhood and lack the essential ties to a church family that are often a compassionate and effective source of support for the elderly and lonely.
Our children have a little time to adjust to a life style of total self-reliance. As far as they're concerned, the sooner the reset occurs, the better. But for the Boomers and those entering their 40s, we are in for some pain.
My plan is simply to:
- Stay healthy and be in charge of my own wellness
- Keep working indefinitely or until illness or accident takes away my ability to do so
- Always have a little savings in the bank
- Have home storage which includes food and other essentials sufficient for at least 6 months
- Live each day with the understanding that I will have to take care of my own needs now and throughout my old age and when I am unable to care for myself I will have to lean on my children and on my church
What is your plan?
Hell, yes!!!