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Al Stefanelli

A Voice of Reason in an Unreasonable World

About People Who Vote Against Their Own Interests.

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rage.jpg?w=144&h=150The 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 Now as a man well into his 60s he’s feeling the wrath of age discrimination, he’s finding his skills becoming outdated & his pay & benefits today (for the last 10 years) are lower than what they’ve been in the last 30 for him.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.

Written by Al Stefanelli  

March 10, 2011 at 7:46 pm

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Hell, yes!!!

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Rowan

March 10, 2011 at 8:05 pm

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

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Greg

March 16, 2011 at 9:57 am

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.

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March 16, 2011 at 4:45 p
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Before the Debt Hits the Fan

I 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?

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Captain Fields is a Christian being forced against his will to attend a two hour MUSLIM proselitizing service!

 

Listen to your CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION

Persecution is beginning!

 

 

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To Immediately Reinstate Captain Paul Fields!


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Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America - (Hardcover)


By P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry


Undercover exposé – a six-month penetration of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that resulted in the collection of thousands of pages of revealing documents as well as inside secrets.


This is what "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry delivers.

It has all the elements of a top-flight mystery novel, but the situations and conversations are absolutely real. The book’s frightening allegations are well supported by more than twelve thousand pages of confidential, internal CAIR documents secretly extracted during an unprecedented undercover operation.

"Listen to what General Gerald Boykin has to say about this breakthrough book."

http://superstore.wnd.com/books/WND-Books/Muslim-Mafia-Inside-the-Secret-Underworld-Thats-Conspiring-to-Islamize-America-Hardcover_2

The long term question which we must seriously consider is will this unrelenting goal of of radical Muslims in America lead us into a Civil War sometime in the future? This book tells you how radical Muslims in America have a 5 step plan to make our entire country Islamic. History indicates clearly that was never done in other countries peacefully but by the sword! Are we going to allow this nonsense to continue until we reach the stage where it will end in a Civil War? Or will we track down these terrorists here in America before it is too late to do anything but have a Civil War?

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

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Radical Group Seeks Islamic World Order!

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Posted on NewsMax.com-By Steve Emerson-On July 11, 2011:

A radical Islamist group which claims a presence in nearly 50 countries is so confident it can help establish a global Muslim government — or caliphate — that it distributed a draft constitution during a recent conference outside of Chicago.

It calls for the death penalty for apostates and for creating a government department dedicated to jihad.

The latest Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) gathering drew more than 300 people to a DoubleTree Hotel ballroom on June 26.

Although it is officially committed to nonviolence, HT preaches a virulent brand of hatred for the United States, and for Western democracy in general. Its alumni include such violent Islamists as Khaiid Sheikh Mohammad, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and the late Iraqi jihadist Abu Musab Zarqawi.

At the conference, activists portrayed Islam as the only real force in the world standing up to the United States and the West. With Soviet communism gone, the West is now confronted with the threat posed by Islam, said a speaker identified as Reza Imam.

"And they see the return of Islam," he warned.

At the conference, HT activists distributed a brochure detailing how the Muslim state would be governed. The document is “to be studied by Muslims while they are working to establish the Islamic State that will carry the Islamic da’wah [proselytizing] to the world,” it says. The document would govern “the Islamic State in the Islamic world” and does not target individual countries.

The pamphlet, entitled “Khilafah State Structure: Introduction to the Constitution,” contains charts illustrating how a caliphate government would function along with a draft constitution.

“Those that are guilty of apostasy from Islam are to be executed according to the rule of apostasy, provided they have themselves renounced Islam,” says Article 7. Moreover, “if they are born as non-Muslims, i.e., if they are the sons of apostates, then they are treated as non-Muslims . . .”

The caliphate government would establish an “Internal Affairs Department” which would include a division of “Apostasy.”

Waging jihad would be a top priority for the government. The caliphate cabinet includes a senior-level “Private Secretary” for jihad. The “Military Department,” which appears to be a cabinet-level agency, would be headed by a “Field Marshall,” who appoints a “Director of Jihad,” his second in command. Included within the Treasury department would be something called a “Department of Jihad.”

Articles 51 through 55 of the draft constitution would establish an “Amir [military leader] of Jihad” who would supervise holy war-related activities in government agencies.

The group believes that this year’s revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and other states offer Muslims an opportunity to throw off the shackles of Western colonialism.

A flyer for the conference appears on the HT website: “Will the Muslim world rid itself of Western colonial interference? Will these events lead to the application of Islam and the re-establishment of the Khilafah [caliphate] State?”

Arab rulers are pretending to be legitimate leaders just as Soviet Communist Party leaders used to do, Imam told the conference.

While HT has struggled to win followers in the United States, its name has come up in connection with several recent terror-related arrests.

Farooque Ahmed, 34, was arrested last October and charged with plotting to blow up Washington, D.C., metro stops and a D.C. hotel frequented by members of the military. Authorities found HT literature when they searched Ahmed’s suburban Virginia home. In April, he pleaded guilty to terror-related charges and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Antonio Martinez, a 21-year-old Muslim convert who also goes by the name of Muhammad Hussain, was arrested in December and charged with plotting to blow up an Army recruiting center near Baltimore. He reportedly followed the teachings of Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Muslim Brotherhood member who founded HT in England.

HT seeks to re-establish the caliphate that had existed during the Ottoman Empire, abolished by Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk in 1924. Once it is in place, “our problems would disappear and the forces of Satan would be pushed back,” Abu Atallah said. Once the caliphate is established, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem “would be taken back from the Crusaders [Israel],” Atallah said.

Audience members responded enthusiastically to the attacks on the United States and quoted writings from columnist Patrick Buchanan portraying Islam as ascendant and the West in decline, interrupting speakers time and again with shouts of “Takbir” and “Allahu Akbar.” The speakers responded by joining the chants themselves.”

Source:

http://www.newsmax.com/Emerson/Hizbut-Tahrir-RadicalIslam/2011/07/11/id/403148

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I.  Obama's Plan to Islamicize America!

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Posted on Israel Today-By Victor Mordechai-On June 28, 2011:

At a meeting of the David Allen Lewis “Eschatology Club” a year ago in Springfield, Missouri, where I was the featured speaker, I was told by the organizers that in the previous monthly meeting, Pastor Don Jones made a disturbing statement about President Barack Obama’s plan to Islamicize America.

Jones went to one of his orphanages in Haiti after the massive earthquake there and met with a senior UN official, who said Obama had told him that the US would be a Muslim country by 2016, or by the end of his second term in office.

While that may seem far-fetched, it is not beyond the realm of possibility. First, Obama’s biological father was a Muslim— which makes the President a Muslim. His stepfather was an Indonesian Muslim who raised Obama as a Muslim in a mosque and madrassa (Islamic religious school) in Indonesia until age 11. His halfbrothers in Kenya are Muslims.

My wife Rachel, who is a radio and TV monitor in the Arabic language for Israel Radio in Jerusalem, has picked up many broadcasts indicating that the Arabs see Obama as a Muslim. In one broadcast prior to the 2008 elections, the Saudis claimed that “we will have a Muslim in the White House.”

Another Saudi broadcast said: “Obama’s job is to terminate the Shiite threat [Iran] and the Jewish threat [Israel]. And if he cannot do this, he should pack his bags and go home.”

America has always been a Judeo- Christian nation, but demographically at least, this is no longer true.  While there are more than 250 million Christians in the US, the 6 million Jews are now outnumbered by Muslims who total about 20 million (9 million Iranians who fled after the fall of the Shah, 7 million Arabs and at least 3 million black Muslims, with the remainder being from Somalia and the former Yugoslavia).

Numerically, the Jews are now no. 3 or 4 along with the Hindus in the US, whose population is about the same as the Jews. According to Obama’s Inauguration Day speech, America is a “Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu” country. Numerically, he is right. So much for Judeo-Christian America.

In the June edition of Israel Today, I wrote about the worsening conditions of the Christians in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. International investment in Egypt has all but dried up since the Revolution. What international (Christian) corporation will invest in a country, which is killing and ethnically cleansing its Christians? So the Egyptian economy appears doomed to collapse, which would create fertile ground for a takeover by the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

This would leave 70 million Muslims in Egypt in dire poverty.

The same applies to other countries in the Middle East that could be taken over by Islamic militants. In the case of Syria, the ruling Muslim Alawite sect will probably share the same fate as the Christians. This could lead to a flood of Arab Muslims to greener pastures in the West.

The Bible says Egypt will be a desolation and Egyptians will flee to other countries because the nation will be uninhabitable for 40 years (Ezekiel 29). If the official Syrian newspaper Tishrin is correct in saying that 600,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians will march on the Golan Heights to reclaim their land, then a war with Syria is inevitable, which means that Syria will be a desolation as well (Isaiah 17).

The result could be tens of millions of Muslims fleeing to the US and Europe. President Obama would welcome these “brethren” on humanitarian grounds, and in effect, America would become a Muslim country.

I was just convicted and given a three-year jail sentence in Switzerland for helping defeat a plan to build minarets at the nation’s mosques by a 57 percent majority.

But the Muslims in Switzerland are already returning with a new minaret initiative. They are tenacious in their plans to Islamicize Switzerland and Europe. Why not the US?”

Source:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22844/language/en-US/Default.aspx

II.   48th Annual Muslim Brotherhood-linked ISNA Convention, July 1-4 USA!-Posted on Creeping Ssharia-By creeping-On July 1, 2011:

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/

III. Radicals Targeting US Military Installations!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Steve Emerson-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Emerson/islam-terroristscair/2011/07/08/id/402929

IV. Saudi Arabian dollars buying American influence!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 11, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=321169

V. The Tipping Point: Embracing the Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Center for Security Policy-By Frank Gaffney, Jr.-On July 2, 2011:

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18757.xml

VI. CAIR Observatory: Exposing CAIR as an Unregistered Foreign Agent!-Posted on The CAIR Observatory-On July 6, 2011:

http://cairunmasked.org/

VII. New Name, Same Old Focus for Islamic Bloc!-Posted on CNSNews.com- By Patrick Goodenough-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/new-name-same-old-focus-islamic-bloc

VIII. Self-Deception and The Jihad!-Posted on National Review Online-By CLIFFORD D. MAY-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270812/self-deception-and-jihad-clifford-d-may

IX. Video: Is Our President A Terrorist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-fmtJ5kh-50#at=2334

Note:  What follows is a web site that reveals a George Soros funded group titled “Arab American Institute (AAI)”, which is a self-described "nonpartisan" group, that was established in 1985 to promote "Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system" and to advocate for the "domestic and policy concerns" of that demographic.  The AAI has developed a strong reputation for organizing "voter-education" campaigns and acting as a liaison between the Arab American community and the major national political parties. The AAI opposed the end of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime and opposes Israel’s security wall. 

Also included is an excerpt from a booklet that reveals the historical background of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. and Canada, along with revealing that communities of Arab Americans and American born Muslims are now dominated by advocacy organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s and have assumed a particularly important role after 9/11. These groups are linked in the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), which was set up by the former American Muslim Alliance (AMA), since linked with the Muslim American Society (MAS), along with the American Muslim Council (AMC), the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC):

Arab American Institute (AAI)-Posted on DiscoverNetWorks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6174

An Activist's Guide to Arab and Muslim Campus and Community Organizations in North America!-Posted on FrontPageMag.com-By: Stephen Schwartz-On May 26, 2003:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=18058

Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways, to include one that strives to eradicate America's national borders and institute a system of mass, unregulated migration into and out of the United States -- thereby rendering all distinctions between legal and illegal immigrants anachronistic, and making it much easier for aspiring terrorists to enter our country-You Decide: 

Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America-Will America Notice!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/muslim-brotherhood-declares-war-on-america-will-america-notice/

What are CAIRs obstructionist goals?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/6951/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Sen. Obama's Radical Islamic Past and Ties To Terrorist Groups:

http://WeroInNM.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/17/sen_obamas_radical_islamic_past_and_ties_to_terrorist_groups.thtml

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/

Should Americans Fear Islam?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/should-americans-fear-islam/

Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/middle-eastern-illegals-find-easy-entrance-into-u-s-from-mexico/

Radical Movement’s Leader Forecasts America’s Demise!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/radical-movements-leader-forecasts-americas-demise/

Europe’s Looming Demise: Changes on the Continent Cloud Our Future!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/europes-looming-demise-changes-on-the-continent-cloud-our-future/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake

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Tomorrow, Tuesday July 12th, we have a chance to pick up a critical and near impossible congressional seat in the House of Representatives in of all places -- Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Craig Huey is running for Jane Harman’s seat against the reprehensible LA councilwoman Janice Hahn.

Tomorrow, Tues July 12th - SPECIAL ELECTION IN LOS ANGELES 36th - Tea Party-backed CRAIG HUEY http://bit.ly/qG9Pg3

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This isn't Rocket Science Mr. Speaker!

Budget Negotiations Obama Style.

Obama wants no short term fixes, FANTASTIC! - Then why the heck are you folding again, and reducing our starting amount of deficit reduction from 4 Trillion to 2 !

It appears that Obama has just outflanked you once again. I am all for long term responsible politics but let's get something straight; the longer the term of the fix the higher the amount we are going to demand. If anything Mr. Boehner you should be raising our demand from 4 Trillion to 6, not reducing it! The longer Obama wants to draw this out the higher the amount of the reduction MUST BE!

Obama is very proud of his slick double talker and most of the time he is impressed with himself. He acts as if he has something to offer when in fact he is pulling one over on you. There is absolutely nothing Obama has to offer, which is why he does not operate with concessions in mind! It is He who has dug himself into a hole, not us. We are merely trying to get him out of it and that is going to cost him! Listen to what Dumbo has just said to the media - he just told them that he wants to get as much as he can, and you tell him that we are reducing our demand!? That even sounds like something President Carter would have said.

Here is the deal: The LONGER THE TERM of deficit reduction THE HIGHER THE AMOUNT will be! We do not negotiate the rate of reduction, but if Obama wants a longer term deal then give it to him and raise the amount!

You folded the last time and he still pulled one over on you, don't fold again! Deficit ceiling and reduction is not negotiable! If Obama wants a long term deal then lay it out for him, tell him how many years we'll give government to get the debt wiped out, and if that comes to a 2 Trillion per year then tell him we'll give him the short, or long term. 2 Trillion (per year) for short term, and 4 Trillion (per two years) for the long term. End of discussion! 

If Obama wants to reduce the amount from 4 Trillion to 2, then we'll give it to him, in half the time - Amen!

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The whole of government consists of the art of being honest.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
Obama Lies 26 Times in Friday’s,
Saturday’s Speeches on Debt-Ceiling Debate
Holder’s Lies May Bring Administration Down
 
 
  
                As the pressure mounts on the economic front and in the debt-ceiling debate with the loyal opposition, President Obama is becoming more and more comfortable unabashedly piling up “Frequent Liar Miles.” Mr. Obama is now well set to fly non-stop around the globe for the next 84 years. Allow us to present some of the low-lights of our mendacious Liar-in-Chief’s recent utterances: the big picture about the Debt-Ceiling argument according to Mr. Obama is that he says he believes “in a balanced approach.” That single lie should, in all honesty, be worth about a three hundred normal, old fashioned cross-my-heart-hope-to-die-lies while crossing all ten fingers behind your back . . . but propriety demands we only count it as one puny lie, alas! 
Of course, Mr. Obama when a senator told us that the attempt by then President Bush to raise the debt-limit indicated an ineptness in government . . . so Mr. Obama talks to the American people out of both sides of his mouth . . . often at the same time . . . but that’s not surprising anyone anymore . . . just par for the course. President Obama most definitely does NOT believe in a balanced approach. Mr. Obama is the most radical occupant ever to sit in the Oval Office. He has displayed tunnel-vision and one-track loyalty toward rapid expansion of government at any cost. Where is Mr. Obama’s ballyhooed “balance” with regard to energy policy?    As you can verify in the links below: he has sworn in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that his energy policies will “bankrupt the coal industry”; and will “necessarily cause electricity prices to skyrocket” . . . is that balance? 
http://www.
http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
americanthinker.com/2010/07/carbon_cronyism_why_capandtrad.html
 
And make no bones about it, energy costs and the cost of DEpendence upon foreign oil is a big part of our economic woes and our debt and spending woes.
            He has taken $787 Billion from the taxpayers to create a stimulus program that produced one job for every $678, 000 in subsidies but refuses to consider leaving the taxpayers holding their own money and allowing the free market to create jobs for, oh say, $180,000. Is that the balance he’s talking about? He has given us the most swollen bureaucracy in the history of the country producing one new government job for every 2.3 jobs lost because of the subsidies’ negative effect on the economy . . . surely he’s not calling that “balance.” Rajjpuut is feeling so UNbalanced by all the president’s lying that in this blog he’s only been able to deal with one among all the recent false Obama output . . . Ouch!   Mr. Obama believes we can spend, borrow, and tax our way to prosperity . . . that is surely the product of an UNbalanced mind, eh? Speaking of UNbalanced minds    . . . .
            By the way as the link above shows, President Obama seems to have no monopoly upon lies within his administration.   According to charges raised by Black freshman Florida Representative Alan West, Obama’s attorney general and incompetent-in-chief, Eric Holder, on April 2, 2009 (was he writing this speech on April Fool’s Day?) in Cuernavava, Mexico, told a Mexican audience about a "major new effort” to deal with the violent Mexican drug cartels.
 I would like to thank the Mexican and U.S. experts who have worked so hard on this issue.  On our side, Secretary Napolitano and I are committed to putting the resources in place to increase our attack on arms trafficking into Mexico.

            Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels.  My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner, DEA is adding 16 new positions on the border, as well as mobile enforcement teams, and the FBI is creating a new intelligence group focusing on kidnapping and extortion.  DHS is making similar commitments, as Secretary Napolitano will detail.
 
          Holder, of course, recently lied to House Chairman of the Oversight Committee Dan Issa and said he had no knowledge of the badly bungled “Operation Fast and Furious” which altered the Bush game plan in “Project Gun Runner.”  Holder admitted to only learning about Operation Fast and Furious seven weeks after its role in the deaths of two Americans (one Immigration agent and one Homeland Security officer) was going viral on the internet.
Project Gun Runner, which was in effect when Obama and Holder took office, was an ongoing sting operation which caught Mexican and Americans in the middle of transacting arms deals and arrested them. The ill-conceived and badly botched Operation Fast and Furious (OFF) actually allowed the purchases of tens of thousands of weapons to take place and attempted to follow the guns into Mexico. Of course with almost no variance, once the guns crossed the border, all trace of them was lost unless they wound up at the scene of a crime . . . as they did in the deaths of the two American officers. Mexican officials are enraged, as they suspect that the sharp recent rise in deaths on their side of the border was exacerbated by OFF weapons. They claim that thousands of Mexican citizens may have died from bullets sprayed from OFF weaponry.  If you’ll re-read the Holder quote above from April, 2009, you’ll notice that it appears that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and President Obama were aware and complicit in the creation of OFF as well. 
Besides its obvious stupidity, OFF featured Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Holder’s Justice Department deliberately withholding information from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF or just ATF) which had been conducting Bush’s Project Gun Runner so that the ATF spent huge amounts of time trying to piece together information already in the hands of the other three federal departments (such as the identity of the arms traffic ringleaders in Mexico and the U.S. Was this by design? It appears to be so, because it took ATF a long time to figure out that OFF was dramatically different (and flawed) from Gun Runner. Once ATF discovered this the agents in the field began to howl like stuck pigs about the foolish operation. Of course, right now the ATF is turning tons of documents proving all this to Chairman Issa’s Oversight Committee even while Holder and the Obama administration is trying to push the blame upon the ATF and stonewalling Issa’s committee.  Notice:  not only does it appears that OFF began not later than early April, 2009, notice that in the link above on the second video clip which is President Obama meeting with Mexican President Felipe Caldero`n and answering a reporter’s questions by referring to “gun tracing” initiatives. It appears that President Obama was in on this from the start. Ah, lying, it gets contagious doesn’t it? 
Rep. Allen West has revealed all this and added:
"Eric Holder has to be brought before an investigative committee and if those charges are warranted he needs to be held accountable but at least the President needs to realize that Eric Holder needs to be removed from the Department of Justice or else I believe President Obama is complicit and in approval of the actions of his Attorney General."
 
 The $64,000 Question is, of course, WHY?  Why was Operation Fast and Furious created?  Why was the temporary head of ATF never replaced by the Obama administration?  Why was temporary ATF Director Ken Melson and the entire ATF deliberately kept in the dark about what exactly OFF was and what was going on in OFF?  Why was Holder referring to "Project Gun Runner" in his speech; why would he publicly alert anyone about a sting project created by the Bush administration?  Why was OFF designed to allow weapons to get all the way into Mexico where we have no jurisdiction?  Is there a logical answer to these questions?
The problem solving principle known as "Occam's Razor" (lex parsimoniae -- "the simplest explanation requiring the least assumptions is most likely the correct one") holds the likely answer to all these questions.  Melson was left in charge of the ATF and he and the ATF were not kept current on exactly what OFF was because they were being set up as scape goats.  Even as late as last week, the ATF whistle-blowers who'd been complaining loud and long about what was going on in OFF and about the change in emphasis and tactics were still referring to OFF by its name under the Bush administration (back in the days when it worked and made logical sense) "Project Gun Runner."  The purpose of all this:  to give Obama data backing up the left's claim that 90% of the guns owned by the Mexican Drug cartels came from American gun sales.  Obama has long been promising the anti-gun fringe of his supporters that he would outlaw automatic weapons . . . apparently thinking that the best way to do this was by helping the Mexican drug cartels get their hands on thousands of automatic weapons -- your tax dollars at work corrupting the world!
Let's see how long it is before the mainstream/lame-stream media begins to cover this boondoggle and the cover-up!
 
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
 
 
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The Great American Awakening!

Posted on MSNBC-By Rep. Jim DeMint-On July 11, 2011:

“US Senator Jim DeMint gives his perspective on the rise of the Tea Party and the state of the nation in ‘The Great American Awakening.’ Here’s an excerpt.

Americans Join the Fight:

By April 15, Tax Day 2009, Americans were ready to fight back. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets across the country in what were called Tea Party protests. I was invited to speak at Tea Parties all across South Carolina. Thousands attended and audiences roared with approval when I was introduced as the senator who fought the bailout bill, the stimulus bill, and wasteful pork-barrel earmarks.

The isolation I felt in Washington disappeared as I realized millions of Americans were willing to stand and fight with me. They demanded Washington stop spending, stop borrowing, stop increasing the debt, and stop the government takeovers. They even demanded term limits for congressmen and senators! These freedom loving Americans were my real colleagues. They convinced me to keep fighting the Washington establishment, despite the pain and long odds of success.

On September 12, 2009, a national tea party was held in Washington. Numerous conservative organizations and grassroots groups came together for an event on the National Mall that came to be known as 9/12. Hundreds of thousands of Americans came to protest the healthcare bill and the expansion of the federal government. I was honored to be asked to speak at the event. Before speaking, I spent most of the day mingling among the crowd and talking to people from all over the country.

Many of the marchers encouraged me with comments like: “Thanks for fighting, we’re praying for you, and what can we do?” These people were not partisan ideologues; they were afraid for their country and seemed almost desperate to stop Washington from pushing it over a cliff.

The 9/12 rally convinced me there was something deeply spiritual about what was happening in the nation. Call it a revival of the American spirit or an awakening of the American conscious – whatever their motivation, it was far deeper than political ideology. One lady who rode on a bus all night from South Carolina simply said, “I’ve never done anything like this before, but I had to do something.”

Many in the crowd were clearly motivated by their faith, but they were not in Washington to ask the government to promote religion or morality. Their concern for our country’s future seemed to have awakened their faith and stirred a sense of patriotism, civic responsibility, and a call to action. They knew their rights and freedoms came from God, not government, and they believed an expansive, debt-ridden government would destroy freedom in America.

Despite this incredible show of support for conservative principles on our front porch, Republicans in the Senate continued business as usual. At our weekly Republican Policy lunch on the Tuesday after the historic 9/12 rally, there was not even a mention of what happened within a few feet of where we were sitting. At the end of the meeting, I stood up and said, “Friends, we have talked of the need for a ‘big tent’ Republican Party. Well, that ‘big tent’ came to Washington last weekend and invited us to join them. They want all the things we say we believe in: less government, less spending, less debt, and less taxes. They are not going to embrace us until we embrace them.” I looked around the room. Silence. No comment.

Trying to change the Senate is akin to paddling up Niagara Falls. I was discouraged and tired of beating my head against the marble walls in Washington. Debbie and I struggled for many months about the decision to run for re-election in 2010. I didn’t want to spend another six years in Washington with the same people I’d been with for the last six years. Many wonderful people serve in the Congress from both parties. But too few believe in constitutional, limited government. Even fewer have the courage to stand for the proven principles of freedom when they are faced with demands from those who want more from government.

I can honestly say I have fought with all my strength and put it all on the line. Today – Election Day – I will find out if Americans have answered the call. What has happened in America over the last two years has been truly stunning. From the conflicts and drama behind the scenes in Washington to the revolutionary awakening of the American people, the battle for America’s soul is a story every citizen should know. And it is the story I tell in this book.

This is my personal story and it is written from my vantage point as a U.S. Senator. It is not intended to suggest in any way I was a central figure in this great American awakening. Millions of Americans led this effort and no one person or group can take credit for the historic changes that occurred in the two years leading up to Election Day 2010.

Throughout the battle, I have sensed the power of prayer from thousands of Americans and it has profoundly changed me. What seemed impossible with human strength became a reality because of the hope, work, and prayers of the American people. I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to have played a small role in the fight to save freedom.

Source:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43709768/ns/today-books/t/great-american-awakening-senator-demint-shares-his-vision/

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I. Five Reasons to be Optimistic About America’s Future!

Posted on Godfather Politics-By PENTANGELI-On July 8, 2011:

I am very optimistic about America’s, as well as the world’s, future. We are in a unique part of world history that has ideas and worldview clashing in such a way where there is no way to escape the onslaught of progressive paganism except to engage it head on. World War I and II brought this unique time into full view of, well, the world. Back then it was a literal war. It was so in-your-face that you couldn’t escape the reality of it. There was literally no where to hide from the destruction and if there was, there was no easy way to get there.

We live in a similar world today, but instead of massive physical wars (there are plenty of wars going on now, but not on the scale of the early 20th century) we are engaged in a war of ideas. The battle has been mainly waged in the classroom by Secular Humanism in an attempt to brainwash children into continuing the Secular cause. These so-called Secular trained Progressives have infiltrated all areas of our society and have changed our country from within with us being the willful recipients of their “change.” We were only willful because their changed happened so slowly we almost didn’t notice it. All of that is changing now. The disgusting fruit of this change has put a sour taste in our mouths and we now realize it is in no way nutritious and we want something better. I believe Americans are willing to fight these so called intellectuals at their own game and force them out of their closet of lies.

My optimism has encouraged me to come up with a short list for why we should be looking forward to our future and not depressed about it.

1.     There is nowhere to run. This is a good thing. We must take a stand and fight or become complacent and accept the inevitable. I believe America’s history shows we never stand down from a fight that threatens our very freedoms. The first settlers to America were able to flee Europe for a better life. We should be thankful they made that decision. Europe is a decaying mess. Europe suffered as a result of that exodus. Americans have nowhere to run that provides for more freedoms than we already have. The only thing to do now is to fix the problems here. The mother of invention is necessity. The mother of worthwhile change is nowhere to run. The reason for America’s success in wars up through WWII was that we had something to fight for. We have something to fight for today.

2.    Democrats and specifically Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. To win a fight you need a truly awful villain. You need a villain you just love to hate and we got that in Nancy P. and President Obama. The amount of lies and double-speak these two have engaged in over the past 4 years is almost unbelievable. The Democrats take advantage of the internet whenever possible to push their Socialist agenda but always forget about it when telling lies. These things always come back to haunt you. In this day and age the idea of your sins finding you out isn’t a remote possibility. We know about it instantly. The plethora of evidence of the lies these two have told are so numerous it isn’t funny, but it has built a fire in our chest.

3.    The Republican Party. I have already made a list of why today’s Republican Party stinks but they were very useful to us during the Bush years and not in a “they did such a great job way.” The Republicans have so far acted just like the Democrats. They have been so aligned with the Liberals in their spending and political correctness that they have awakened Conservatives from our complacency. We know the Republican Party has been no friend to Conservatism for the past decade or so. They have been buddies with Democrats in destroying our nation, but now we are wise to their act and are currently in the process of eradicating our closet Communists.

4.    The TEA Party participants, Ron Paul, and Sarah Palin. Love them or hate them, these people have been a blessing for Americans. They have been on the offensive and aren’t afraid of the media. Americans love a good fight and Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, and the TEA Party participants have been winning almost every battle. The sleeping giant is awake inside America and we want our country back. The media can’t keep up. At every turn it tries to defame and destroy these people and at every turn the media ends up looking like a whining baby. Every day, we are rallied by these men and women to understand our history, Constitution, and laws and participate once again as “We the people…”

5.     Elections are held every 2 years. Sometimes it seems like an eternity, but 2010 showed us that we can stop the destruction with our votes. 2012 will show us that we can reverse the destruction. We can keep voting until Congress, the President, and every politician understands that being voted in once is not a lifetime job with benefits. Every politician must be held accountable and with every election I believe that will be made known across the nation.

America is not done yet. Our collapse is not certain unless we stay on our current path. I believe Americans are clamoring for individual responsibility and they will fight until they get it back.”

Source:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/168/five-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-americas-future/

II. Liberals, Democrats More Likely to Disbelieve Bible!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On July 9, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/liberals-democrats-more-likely-disbeliev

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Faith of Our Forefathers!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/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.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake

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America, the Europe of the West?

Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On July 11, 2011:

Last night, President Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders failed to reach agreement on a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit.

Meanwhile, it has been more than 800 days since the U.S. Senate passed a budget, liberals in Washington are pushing for higher taxes, unemployment is soaring, the deficit keeps growing, and America is careening toward an economic future as the Europe of the West.

That’s a future of crippling debt, spending, and permanently high unemployment that some in Congress are trying to avoid.

On Saturday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R–OH) pulled the plug on a debt ceiling increase that would have raised taxes in exchange for reductions in spending. It was the right move. Tax increases are the last thing America needs as it struggles with 9.2 percent unemployment and stagnant job growth.

But America’s dismal economic reality–and the policy of taxing and spending–are facts of life the Obama Administration would like America to accept, along with their explanation of why growth has been so slow to date.

On yesterday’s Meet the Press, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner insisted that tax increases are necessary (though he used the code words “raising revenues”) and trotted out a long list of reasons why recovery has been so slow, including high gas prices, terrible weather, local governments making cutbacks, and the Japanese earthquake. What’s more, Geithner said that the President is “being too hard on himself” over America’s frustration with the economy and said that “we don’t have the ability, because of the overhang in housing and the problems in the financial system, to do—to engineer artificially . . . a stronger recovery.”

In other words, “It’s not our fault, don’t blame us, and get used to it.” The Heritage Foundation’s Mike Franc says that the White House’s defeatist tone likely will likely fall on deaf ears as Americans demand a future of growth, not decline:

It’s a message of resignation. Yes, it says, we’re doomed for economic decline no matter what, but trust us to manage it more gracefully than anyone else.

But Americans will likely stand athwart such defeatism and say “Stop!” There is no need, they will say, to tolerate European levels of unemployment. It’s an increasingly easy sell: Jettison the President’s European-style economic policies, and you jettison European-style unemployment.

The reality is that Americans need not resign themselves to the future that the White House would have them embrace. Flawed policies are holding back the U.S. economy, and there is room to grow if the government gets out of the way.

As Heritage’s Bill Beach explains that, “Based on our talents, resources, and capital structure, the economy should be growing now at 4—5 percent. That growth rate would produce over 250,000 jobs per month…enough to reduce the unemployment rate.” But because of big government policies, we’re not realizing those gains.

Washington can start on the path toward liberating that entrepreneurial capacity by making the right decisions on the debt limit. Higher taxes aren’t the right direction; cutting spending is.

Heritage’s James Sherk and Rea Hederman write that “Creating a hostile or favorable business climate is a policy choice . . . The tax and regulatory burden is a policy choice made by the government. If America creates a French-style social welfare state that erects barriers to entrepreneurship, then America will also get French levels of unemployment.”

America doesn’t have to be France. It doesn’t have to carry a European-style debt and tax burden. But the White House and congressional leaders must choose to enact policies that reject a European-style future.

Source:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/11/morning-bell-america-the-europe-of-the-west/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

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I. AP Blasts Democrats: Obama Refuses to Admit He Wants to Raise Taxes!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On July 11, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-blasts-democrats-obama-refuses-to-admit-he-wants-to-raise-taxes/

II. Mitt Romney says Barack Obama will add more debt than 43 prior presidents!-Posted on PoliticFact.com-By Mitt Romney-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/10/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obama-will-add-more-debt-4/

III. Will Jobless Graduates Hurt Obama’s Reelection?-Posted on National Journal-By Jim Tankersley-On July 11, 2011:

http://nationaljournal.com/magazine/recent-grads-economic-struggles-could-hurt-obama-20110707

IV. Obama: Raising taxes in a recession ‘last thing you want to do’!-Posted on The Weekly Standard-BySTEPHEN F. HAYES-On July 11, 2011: 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-vs-obama_576524.html

V. Get Used to It! Geithner Says the Economy Will Suck “For a Long Time”!-Posted on The State Column-By The State Column Staff-On July 10, 2011:

http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/timothy-geithner-hard-times-will-continue/

VI. This Is the Obama Depression!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Hiram Reisner-On July 10, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/NewtGingrich-BarackObama-JohnBoehner-DebtLimit/2011/07/10/id/403065

VII. The disappearing black middle class!-Posted on Chicago Sun Times-By JESSE WASHINGTON-On July 10, 2011:

http://www.suntimes.com/6397110-417/the-disappearing-black-middle-class.html

VIII. Obama Plan: 'Spike' Energy Costs and Kill 1.4 Million Jobs!-Posted on WND.com-By Drew Zahn-On July 9, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=320209

IX. Under Obama, Tax Revenues Have Exceeded Combined Costs of Interest, Entitlements and Federal Wages!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/default-under-obama-tax-revenues-have-ex

X. 2.4 Million Fewer Americans Working Now Than When Obama Signed Economic Stimulus!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By By Matt Cover-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/24-million-fewer-jobs-obama-signed-econo

XI. Real Unemployment Rises to 16.2% in June -- 25.3 Million People!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/real-unemployment-rises-162-june-253-mil

XII. Analysis: Flat jobs data signal weakest recovery in decades!-Posted on Yahoo! News-By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer-On July 8, 2011:

http://news.yahoo.com/flat-jobs-data-signal-weakest-recovery-decades-211320802.html

XIII. Liberalism: Out of a Job!-Posted on Pajamas Media-By Richard Fernandez-July 8, 2011:

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/08/out-of-a-job/

XIV. Main Stream Media’s Deplorable Notable Quotables on Debt Solutions!-Posted on July 11, 2011:

http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/nq/2011/20110710111817.aspx

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Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/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.!

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Jake

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Although many Congressmen and most Senators are millionaires, no one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay for retirement. While politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.
 
Monday on Fox news, they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
 
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.  This is an idea that we should address.
 
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
 
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
 
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."

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Posted on The Hill-By Andrew Restuccia-On July 7, 2011:

The Environmental Protection Agency issued final regulations Thursday aimed at slashing toxic air pollution from power plants that crosses state lines and potentially puts thousands of lives at risk.

The regulations put new limits on sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from power plant smokestacks in 27 Eastern states. The power plant emissions, EPA says, travel across state lines, threatening the health of thousands of people.

“No community should have to bear the burden of another community’s polluters or be powerless to prevent air pollution that leads to asthma, heart attacks and other harmful illnesses,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Thursday. “These Clean Air Act safeguards will help protect the health of millions of Americans and save lives by preventing smog and soot pollution from traveling hundreds of miles and contaminating the air they breathe.”

It’s the latest effort by EPA to reduce air pollution. The agency is targeting pollution from industrial boilers as well as greenhouse gases, mercury and other air toxins from power plants. EPA says it will unveil long-delayed ozone standards in July. 

But Republicans and some Democrats are working to block or delay EPA’s regulations, arguing they are overly burdensome.



The states covered by Thursday’s rule will work with power plants to install technology to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions, which contribute to ozone and fine-particle pollution. EPA says many power plants have already begun installing the necessary equipment.

By 2014, the regulations will cut SO2 emissions by 73 percent and NOx emissions by 54 percent below 2005 levels, EPA says. The agency said that will prevent 34,000 premature deaths, 15,000 heart attacks and 400,000 cases of asthma starting in 2014, which would amount to $280 billion a year in health benefits.

Fewer states are covered under the final regulations. A proposed rule unveiled by the agency last year covered 31 states.

The “clean air transport rule,” which EPA has renamed the “cross-state air pollution rule,” replaces a set of 2005 Bush administration regulations that were struck down by the courts. 

Jackson said Thursday that the regulations will have the added benefit of increasing visibility in many state and national parks, and improving the health of steams and lakes.

Environmental and public health groups applauded the regulations Thursday.

“Today’s finalization of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is a vital component of the EPA’s effort to protect the health of millions of Americans who live downwind of power plants that belch out life-threatening pollution,” said Albert Rizzo, national volunteer chair at the American Lung Association, in a statement.

Still, some clean air groups said the rule is not stringent enough.

“But as significant as today’s action is, it represents only a step toward a greater goal with respect to transported air pollution,” said National Association of Clean Air Agencies Executive Director Bill Becker. “The NOx emissions cap is simply not sufficient to control the magnitude of emissions that come from power plants.”

Republicans quickly blasted the new regulations Thursday.

“This Administration proves time and time again that they just don’t understand how its actions crush jobs across the country,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said in a statement.

“Today’s economically devastating rule is just the latest strike in the Administration’s ongoing war against traditional sources of American energy.”



Industry groups echoed Barrasso’s concerns.

“The EPA is ignoring the cumulative economic damage new regulations will cause,” American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity President Steve Miller said in a statement. “America’s coal-fueled electric industry has been doing its part for the environment and the economy, but our industry needs adequate time to install clean coal technologies to comply with new regulations.

Unfortunately, EPA doesn’t seem to care.”

Source:

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/170165-epa-finalizes-rules-for-cross-state-air-pollution

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Obama Plan: 'Spike' Energy Costs and Kill 1.4 Million Jobs!-Posted on WND.com-By Drew Zahn-On July 9, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=320209

II. Video: More Bad News for the Economy and Obama!-Posted on The Patriot Update-On July 9, 2011:

http://patriotupdate.com/videos/more-bad-news-for-the-economy-and-obama

III. The Obama Effect Hits Businesses!-Posted on Conservative Byte-On July 6, 2011

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/07/the-obama-effect-hits-businesses/

IV. Gov’t Announces New Way To Protect Spotted Owls: Kill Their Competition!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/govt-announces-new-way-to-protect-spotted-owls-kill-their-competition/

V. Congress Must Shift Climate Battle From Cap-and-Trade to EPA Agenda, Says Inhofe!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Penny Starr-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/congress-must-shift-climate-battle-cap-a

VI. EPA Gives Millions In Foreign Handouts!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On June 28, 2011:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/epa-gives-millions-foreign-handouts

VII. EPA and Coast Guard Target Air Pollution From Ships!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On June 28, 2011:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ahoy-matey-its-feds-epa-and-coast-guard

VIII. Fuel-Economy Hocus Pocus!-Posted on National Review Online-By Henry Payne-On June 27, 2011: 

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/270578/fuel-economy-hocus-pocus-henry-payne

IX. Help Wanted: For an 'Aggressive Program to Go After ... Deniers' of Climate Change!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Michael W. Chapman-On June 24, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/democrat-senator-climate-change-causes-u

X. Ted Turner: Climate Change ‘Most Serious ... Problem Humanity Has Ever Faced’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Pete Winn-On June 24, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ted-turner-climate-change-most-serious-m

XI. Gore promoting fewer children to curb pollution!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Jeff Poor, The Daily Caller-Updated on June 22, 2011:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/21/gore-promoting-fewer-children-to-curb-pollution/

Note The following web site reveals George Soros funded Organizations that promote radical environmentalism:

Groups in this category typically oppose mining and logging initiatives, commercial fishing enterprises, development and construction in wilderness areas, the use of coal, the use of pesticides, and oil and gas exploration in “environmentally sensitive” locations. Moreover, they claim that human industrial activity leads to excessive carbon-dioxide emissions, which, in turn, cause a potentially cataclysmic phenomenon called “global warming.” Examples of such Soros donees include Earthjustice, Green For All, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Alliance for Climate Protection, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth Island Institute.

Another major recipient of Soros money is the Tides Foundation, which receives cash from all manner of donorsindividuals, groups, and other foundationsand then funnels it to designated left-wing recipients. Having given more than $400 million to “progressive nonprofit organizations” since 2000, Tides is a heavy backer of environmental organizations, though its philanthropy extends also into many other areas-You Decide:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Is there a Christian basis for combating the threat of global warming?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/is-there-a-christian-basis-for-combating-the-threat-of-global-warming/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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America's Law is Hogwash

Prominent politician Mike Huckabee, on his Fox News show yesterday,  gave me prominent defense lawyer Alan  Dershowitz to talk about the Casey Anthony case. Dershowitz informed me that American justice is based legal precedence, not on moral or ethical principles.  Thus “reasonable doubt,” the golden rule of defense lawyers.  Hitler was legal. Were those who followed Hitler’s law innocent? No.

 

The law in practice in America is the reason America is morally and ethically going down the tube; why America is divided; why Sharia law is a threat.  Clearly, the American people, as well as the Anthony jury, are ignorant of the law.  Don’t listen to me. The lawyer’s dictionary, Black’s Law Dictionary, makes Dershowitz a bald-faced liar. Read for yourself under “lawful” that the law is based on morals and ethics.  Lies, the absence of truth, won a killer mother’s freedom.   

 

Legal is merely a form of law in practice, in America’s case, based on defense lawyers twisting the law. It is all about money. This non-conformist nobody, a  boat-rocker, the type that makes people nervous, has a record of shooting down the law in practice.  Would that I was the lawyer for the deceased child, Anthony would have gotten a life sentence.  But I didn’t get my legal training in a law school.

 

By the way, I was called for jury duty only once. I was foreman of the jury.  Half of the jurors were for the plaintiff, an individual who was taxiing his private plane in a restricted area.  He was blown over by the backwash of a jet being tested.  The airline defendant had insurance.  That was of no consequence.  I would not yield.  The half for the plaintiff were anxious to get on with their own thing.  Two hours of resisting them was all it took. Were I the foreman of the Anthony jury, the outcome would have been based on morals and ethics, not on legal precedence.

 

My law practice came from Law Professor Edwin S. Corwin’s essay, The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law. It came from my going to the county law library and personally reading the law and legal precedence. During my study of the law, I felt that voices of the past were personally speaking to me.  I heard nothing of what Dershowitz claims. I rattle cages. I win every time. Lawyer lose.  Voices of the past or Dershowitz? I beat the IRS lawyers. I beat the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser.  The county attorney and two lawyers from the State lost. I used Donald Trump’s case against the Property Appraiser.  I obtained a copy of it from the county clerk. I beat the attorney for the City of West Palm Beach, and the defendant’s lawyer, in two instances. I helped considerably in the replacement of the mayor. When a county judge saw me appear against my bank he recused himself.  He was the judge on property appraiser case.   Lawyers are professional liars.  They lie for money. I represent the truth.

 

 Judges are not trained for the truth.  They can’t deal with it. The same witnesses were brought to testify over and over in the Anthony case. What the hell was going on?  The father of the defendant broke down and cried uncontrollably when accused of being a bad father for the umpteenth time, while his daughter scowled and clicked a pen, the defense’s ploy to confuse the jury.

 

This comes to mind.  The United States is heading for the rocks. The great blizzard of 1839 inspired Longfellow to write the Wreck of the Hesperous.  Longfellow wrote, Wouldst thou know the secret of the sea. Only those who brave its dangers comprehend its mysteries. I spent two years at sea on a sloop I named Bold Venture.  While at sea on a small boat the universe’s energy concentrates in the individual.

 In August 1976, while sailing from Nassau in the Bahamas to Palm Beach, Florida with three friends, we sailed into Tropical Storm Dottie.  We experienced one of those talked about time warps, only instead of disappearing and never seen again, we were placed at our destination.  Seas were breaking completely across Lake Worth Inlet.  We sailed into the breakers. The sea behind us never broke. We slid down it into the inlet.

 I had studied the U. S. Constitution and felt that voices of the past were speaking to me.  I had a bigger than life calling. From that point on my life changed for the better. My blogs inform the public of what voices of the past tell me.

 Defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz is a professional liar. He is paid to establish reasonable doubt. American justice is the biggest scam of all times. It is not going to change unless and until the American people understand that freedom requires personal involvement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Europe Rejects Global-Warming,
But Many Americans Believe Gore
And Liberal Media Totally Refuses
Climate-Gate Story Coverage
 
 
               
                Oh what a difference the Atlantic Ocean makes . . . roughly two years after Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his “documentary” pseudo-pscience-FICTION work “An Inconvenient Truth” (the film also won an Oscar from the Hollywood crowd), European newspapers and television became awash in the revelations of the Climate-Gate Scandal (see link #1 above). Very quickly the embarrassing frauds and cover-ups and phony pscience pshenanigans drove Europe, which had been far more gung-ho about man-caused global warming than America, into a solidly sensibly refusal to honor environmental extremism in any way, shape or form. 
Today Europeans call environmental extremists and ecotage advocates “mean-greenies” and “watermelons” (green on the outside but pink or even RED on the inside . . . meaning they are mere pretenders at environmentalism who use the contrived global warming scenario in hopes of instituting greater socialistic and even communistic-type totalitarian regimes); and carbon-trading or cap-and-trade schemes there are all but dead. Of course, Global-Warming is still a big argument on this side of the Atlantic where the liberal-mainstream media considers the East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit’s (CRU) scandalous behavior a non-story and continues to support Al Gore’s lies. The second and third link above gives the details of how CRU deliberately omitted data from the warmest 350 years in recent history (a time when Greenland was indeed Green; when the Vikings could settle there and even push on to explore North America: a time called the Medieval Warm Period. 
When you eliminate records of the warmest 350 years in a 2,500 year study you’re definitely going to get an average temperature for the earth that is much cooler than the real honest average. That’s the kind of people that are pushing the global-warming agenda . . . corrupt politicians and corrupt scientists.
                For Al Gore and about 60 of his well-known progressive**cronies (including but definitely NOT limited to Franklin Raines, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joel Rogers, Richard Sandor, John Ayers, George Soros, Valerie Jarret, the head men at Goldman-Sachs, etc., etc. ad nauseum all up to their eye-teeth involved in CCX, the Chicago Climate eXchange) the Climate-Gate scandal was a monstrous personal financial disaster that prevented them from pocketing hundreds of Billion$$$ and even TRillion$$$. With all their influence in Europe gone seemingly overnight, the difficulties caused by the 2009 U.S. Senate’s refusal to ratify a Cap and Trade bill, earlier passed in Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives by five votes, brought about the elimination of CCX entirely – almost ten years work and scheming down the drain.
Nevertheless multi-billionaire currency-manipulator George Soros (“The man who broke the Bank of England”) and his toady Barack Obama soldier on striving for greater federal government control of our natural resources. How? By seeking to use presidential-regulatory fiat via the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to eliminate the entire coal industry and virtually handcuff the petroleum industry in America. If you’ll examine the last two links above, you’ll hear Barack Obama’s interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in which he promised to bankrupt the coal industry and that his policies “will necessarily cause the price of electricity to sky-rocket.” The Chronicle did NOT publish this story and the mainstream-lamestream media has sat on it unwilling to tell Americans the truth for over three years now. The EPA, then, is Barack Obama’s tool for carrying out those two stupid and evil promises. Right now the coal industry which provides the power that gives us 49% of our electricity is under fire from the EPA and some American coal mines and some American coal-fired power plants are already being forced toward bankruptcy. Not only Millions of jobs, but also Billions of dollar$$$ in increased electrical bills are at stake.
Al Gore came within a whisker of becoming the world’s first “green Billionaire,” with a B, despite having a personal ‘carbon-footprint’^^ the size of Las Vegas:  including three huge mansions (the last one in California cost over $8 Million) and two private jets. Barack Obama, however as he revealed in his first autobiography Dreams from My Father is a communist son of a communist father who, in his only known published writing, shows a heavy interest in 100% taxation, government seizing land and business, and government controlling all aspects of the economy. 
Barack Obama is driven toward higher goals than mere money and mere power. Barack Obama believes in the necessity, efficacy and benefit of Totalitarian Communism just as his father did. He is a “watermelon” . . . pretending interest in green activity on the outside to further socialistic and communistic aims that lie deep within his heart. Our liberal media is now committed to advancing Obama’s re-election campaign as they did his original election . . . and to advancing the progressive agenda no matter what the cost to America and to her people. Americans are being denied the information necessary to make intelligent decisions by the media which thinks they, like Obama, know more about what’s good for us, than we ourselves do. Inform your friends and neighbors and every intelligent voter you can find, this “movement” for global-warming is a red herring for total government control. But, first, do NOT trust me. Do not trust the greenies, read the links above, get all the information you can find and make an informed evaluation of where exactly the truth in this matter lies.## 
Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
** Progressivism is the doctrine that we must “progress” beyond the “ill-conceived and outdated U.S. Constitution” if we are to ever make “progress” toward an earthly Utopia.
^^ Of course carbon dioxide is vital to life on this planet including creating our oxygen and even is crucial for the production of rain. When CO2 is low, droughts ensue.
 
## Rajjpuut recently wrote a blog on the 13 most dangerous items ever published
the part of that article which might shock you is that counting down from #13 to #1, the single most dangerous thing ever published in Rajjpuut’s not-so-humble opinion was: 
   The book: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson  
Whatever was said about global warming pseudo-pscientific pshenanigans is true in spades about environmental “research” into products that keep humanity safe . . . such as DDT.
While the verdict is still out on whether Cap and Trade legislation or regulatory edict will take hold and cripple America’s economy, Ms. Carson has quietly passed Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, the Cuban combo of Castro and Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin and Chairman Mao to move onto the throne as the all-time #1 mass murderer. She did it with her little science-FICTION book masquerading as real science:  Silent Spring. Despite documenting no actual science, Ms. Carson was able to practically create the extremist wing of the environmental movement single-handedly; and to influence the American government and the United Nations to institute a worldwide ban on DDT, the most effective and most harmless insecticide ever created.
By 1972, deaths from just one tropical mosquito-borne disease, malaria, had dropped to 41,400 worldwide. Now and for virtually every single one of the 38 years since the DDT ban took effect malaria deaths stand at roughly 2.1 million yearly, not to mention the even greater number of surviving millions who will now spend every third day of their life suffering the ravages of malaria’s fever. All told, considering all the nine deadly tropical diseases dramatically reduced using DDT which are now running rampant, Ms. Carson has killed about 98 million people.
Rajjpuut has been told about a showman who purportedly would drink DDT as tea and also use it as salad dressing. The safety of the substance is seen in the fact that it was sprayed directly upon U.S. servicemen in World War II; and upon their clothing and tents; and that today many African nations are starting to avoid the DDT ban and use DDT again – their favorite way? They spray their huts inside and out three times yearly.
Despite Ms. Carson’s undocumented claims of testing, no human has ever been proved to have developed cancer from DDT exposure; no animals with fewer than six legs has ever been shown to have been harmed by DDT; and DDT has never been shown to actually make birds’ eggshells thinner: QED.  But lack of DDT, definitely kills 2.1 million people a year. As Hippocrates said, “First do NO HARM.”
Speaking of harm . . . although the Climate-Gate scandal wasn’t uncovered in Europe until early November, 2009, in March of 2009 the British Parliament published its results into an investigation of the East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) and man-caused global-warming. The progressives in control of Parliament at that time did their best to hide the real meat of the investigation. In volume two of the report, there is a memorandum submitted as evidence from Lord Lawson of Blaby, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which was in response to four very significant questions from the investigating committee. This memo confirms the claims by many global warming skeptics that the scientists at CRU were trying to hide data and silence the skeptics. The questions asked by the investigative committee are as follows:
(i) Have the CRU scientists been manipulating the raw surface temperature data in a way that is less than wholly objective and dispassionate?
 
(ii) Have they refused dissenting scientists and/or other outsiders with a bona fide interest in global warming access to the raw data, contrary to the proper canons of scientific research and to the demands of scientific integrity?
 
(iii) Have they been improperly seeking to avoid answering Freedom of information Act requests?
 
(iv) Have they actively sought to prevent papers by dissenting scientists, statisticians, or other informed commentators from being peer-reviewed and/or published, again contrary to the proper canons of scientific research and to the demands of scientific integrity?
Lord Lawson's response to these questions is damning:
“We believe that there is compelling evidence both independent of the leaked email exchanges and arising from those emails to suggest that the answers to (ii), (iii) and (iv) above are clearly 'yes'.”
However, Lord Lawson chooses his words more carefully in answering the smoking-gun question at the top of the list: “Moreover, we are disturbed by the CRU scientists' treatment of the so-called divergence problem. That is the fact that, for that period of time where both a proxy global temperature series and a recorded global temperature series are available, the two series markedly diverge. This clearly suggests either that the proxy series is unreliable or that the recorded series is unreliable (or possibly both: the point is that they cannot both be true). The CRU scientists' attempt to hide the problem by concealing the divergence demonstrates, we believe, a lack of integrity.”
If this study had been taken seriously in Europe there’s a good chance that Climate-Gate would have happened many, many months earlier. If it and the Climate-Gate scandal had been reported here (as well as Barack Obama’s, Al Gore’s and George Soros’ conflict of interest with regard to CCX) in America, there’s a good chance that our economy would now be humming again as Congress responded to the American people’s awareness and disgust with Washington corruption on energy and the environment. As American Thinker tells us, “Integrity is at the very heart of the Man-Caused GW debate -- not just the integrity of the discredited scientists involved, but also the integrity of the data used by the CRU. For many years, the global warming skeptics have been citing that the differing data sets are not in agreement and have asked the simple question "why?" Their assertion has always been that until a scientific explanation for the differences is found, there can be no definitive conclusion concerning M-CGW. This question was always avoided by the now-discredited Dr. Jones, who headed up the CRU. But finally, some light has been shed onto the question of integrity of the data.”
By the way, in the United States the cost of carbon-trading tax legislation would reach $10 Trillion yearly or 40% of the economy without producing a good or service. Since the entire real economy is worth only $15 Trillion that means that costs of all other goods and services would rise 67% with the profits going to Gore and his cronies ($10 TR/$15 TR = 67%). Nevertheless Gore and his buddy George Soros are still pushing global warming and carbon trading via the United Nations and Soros’ lackey Barack Obama has pledged to comply with whatever programs the U.N. comes up with. 
 
 
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Posted on WND.com-By Tom Tancredo-On July 9, 2011:

Another Border Patrol agent on the southwest border is facing a long prison sentence for doing his job. Isn’t it amazing how this happens only on the southwest border and never the Canadian border?

Veteran agent Jesus Diaz faces a sentence of five to 25 years in federal prison for “mistreating” an illegal alien who was apprehended crossing the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2008.

The man was handcuffed, and allegedly, Diaz lifted his handcuffs to force him to the ground because he was not cooperative. For this “offense” Diaz was prosecuted by U.S. attorney for the West Texas region, Johnny Sutton, and convicted and will be sentenced in September.

Diaz’s “victim,” who was carrying a backpack with 50 pounds of marijuana at the time, was subsequently given a visa and is free to enter and leave the U.S. any time he chooses.

We remember U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton as the prosecutor in the Ramos and Compean case. Border Patrol officers Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos went to prison and later had their sentences commuted by President Bush in January 2009.

The “victim” in their case, a well-known smuggler named Oswaldo Aldrete-Davila, also got a visa but – surprise! – was later arrested and convicted for drug smuggling.

These two Border Patrol prosecutions have more in common than the eternal vigilance of Johnny Sutton. In these cases and many others, the U.S. attorney’s office was responding to protests from the Mexican government that its citizens were being mistreated by Border Patrol agents.

In 2008 the U.S. attorney’s office in southern Arizona declined to prosecute a Border Patrol agent after he accidentally killed an illegal alien who was in a group of four he was trying to subdue a hundred yards from the border fence near Naco, Ariz. But in this instance, the local Cochise County attorney decided to prosecute the agent under state law after the Mexican government protested the lack of action against the agent. He was prosecuted twice, but when both juries ended in deadlock, the government gave up trying to put him in prison.

The family of the Mexican national who had been killed then sued the Border Patrol agent for damages in civil court.

In San Diego last month, an illegal alien was shot by a Border Patrol agent in self-defense after a group of illegal aliens came at him with cement blocks that had nails embedded in them.

The man who was shot had a long criminal history and had been deported twice, yet the Mexican government is demanding prosecution of the Border Patrol officer involved.

In Texas this week, a “Mexican citizen” was executed for the brutal murder of a teenage girl he had met at a party. He confessed his crime, was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

In the last weeks before the scheduled July 7 execution, President Obama got involved and asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order Texas to delay the execution.

Why? Because the man had not been advised before trial that under a U.S. treaty with Mexico, as a citizen of Mexico he had a right to ask for assistance from the Mexican government. He confessed his crime and had a fair trial in every respect, but the government of Mexico was offended.

In response to the Mexican protests, Obama asked the Supreme Court to delay the execution so Congress can have time to pass a law ordering Texas to give the man a new trial. You heard that right: Obama asked the court to rule on the basis of a law that had not yet been enacted – and may never be enacted. Five justices of the court ignored Obama, as did the state of Texas. Two cheers for Texas!

Why do we see this acute sensitivity to the wishes and interests of the corrupt government of Mexico in matters of U.S. criminal law and U.S. border security?

This is almost laughable, but to the 20,400 officers of the Border Patrol, it is more than a nuisance. It is a threat held over their heads daily. Rock-throwing incidents and other physical assaults on Border Patrol officers have increased dramatically in recent years.

It is a well-established fact that the Mexican military and Mexican law enforcement at both the state and local levels is thoroughly penetrated by the drug cartels – yet the Border Patrol and the sheriffs of border counties are required to “collaborate” and cooperate with Mexican agencies.

About 1,000 illegal aliens are apprehended on a typical day on the southwest border. In each Border Patrol station, as these trespassers are processed for “voluntary removal,” the nearest Mexican consulate must be called and allowed to interview the illegal interlopers to determine if any person was mistreated. To the Border Patrol agent walking the line, this is a recipe for manufacturing allegations of misconduct.

The government of Mexico should focus its efforts on getting its own house in order. After that has been accomplished, and after they stop encouraging and facilitating “northward migration,” we might be interested in their opinions on the American criminal justice system.

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=320157

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and video relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Obama Fails To Save Convicted Killer-Rapist; Goal Was to Subvert U.S. Law in Favor of International Law and U.N. Treaties!-Posted a12iggymom Blog-By America’s Survival-On July 8, 2011:

http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/good-riddence-to-bad-and-illegal-rubbish/

II. The Reckless Folly of the "Undocumented Immigrant"!-Posted on Human Events-By Michelle Malkin-On June 24, 2011:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44421

III. Beware Obama’s Backdoor Amnesty Dream!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On July 5, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/05/morning-bell-beware-obamas-backdoor-amnesty-dream/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

IV. Arizona Gearing Up to Raise Cash for Border Fence!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By The Associated Press-On July 4, 2011:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/04/arizona-gearing-up-to-raise-cash-for-border-fence/

V. NY immigration advocates to Obama: Bypass Congress to stop ‘unjust’ deportations!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Caroline May-On July 1, 2011:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/30/ny-immigration-advocates-to-obama-bypass-congress-to-stop-unjust-deportations/

VI. Video: Forget The Elected House and Senate Dream Act Kids Aren’t Going To Take Their Bulls**t!-Posted on The Blaze-By Naked Emperor News-On July 3, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/forget-the-elected-house-senate-dream-act-kids-aren’t-going-to-take-their-bullst-classy-congressman-says-youth-illegal-aliens-demand-obama-decreed-amnesty-no-bullst/

VII. Obama 'defiance' of Constitution earns impeachment call!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=316881

VIII. Why Does America Welcome Immigrants?-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/why-does-america-welcome-immigrants?utm_source=strategicmktg&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=understandingamerica

Note:  The following web site reveals several George Soros Open Society Institute funded organizations that litigate on behalf of illegal aliens against the U.S. government and lobby in Congress for open-borders legislation-You Decide:

American Immigration Council (AIC)-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7529

Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways, to include one which strives to eradicate America's national borders and institute a system of mass, unregulated migration into and out of the United States -- thereby rendering all distinctions between legal and illegal immigrants anachronistic, and making it much easier for aspiring terrorists to enter our country-You Decide: 

Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

How the "illegal Immigration" issue affects our everyday lives!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/how-the-“illegal-immigration”-issue-affects-our-everyday-lives/

Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/middle-eastern-illegals-find-easy-entrance-into-u-s-from-mexico/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Congressmen Smarter than 6th Graders?

From TeaParty.org -Senate Democrats have drafted a sweeping debt-reduction plan that would slice $4 trillion from projected borrowing over the next decade without touching the expensive health and retirement programs targeted by President Obama.

Instead, Senate Democrats are proposing to stabilize borrowing through sharp cuts at the Pentagon and other government agencies, as well as $2 trillion in new taxes, primarily on families earning more than $1 million year, according to a copy of the plan obtained by The Washington Post.

With debt-reduction talks under way between Obama and congressional leaders, Senate Democrats are unlikely to adopt the blueprint. However, it has gained broad support among those eager to chart a path to solving the nation’s budget problems without making politically painful cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

“The very strong feeling was we needed to get this into the conversation, because it provides an alternative view,” said a Senate Democrat familiar with the blueprint, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it has not been publicly released. “What’s striking is how modest the changes need to be to get us back on track.”

 

Joela wrote: Is it me or will the Liberals destroy America instead of cutting the spending? 

The math is simple. When your 'out-go', exceeds your 'income', then your 'up-keep' is your down fall!

Are Congressmen smarted than a 6th grader?

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What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on WND.com-By Stewart Stogel-On July 9. 2011:

NEW YORK – As Leon Panetta begins his first trip to Afghanistan as secretary of defense, controversy has already arisen: Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has accused Iran of supplying missiles that have directly resulted in the deaths of U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan.

In a private conference call earlier in the week, Oren told participants: “Iran has been involved in the [Taliban’s] shooting of American soldiers [in Afghanistan] ... killing at least eight of them in the last week and a half with missiles [that] have been imported directly from Tehran.”

The charge comes as the Pentagon prepares to begin its first phase of reducing U.S. military involvement in the region with troops slated to leave later this month.

Oren’s allegations would seem to confirm that despite NATO efforts to block military aid to the Afghan insurgents, the Taliban has succeeded in obtaining both small and major arms shipments – its main source: Iran.

Congressional sources who have been monitoring the situation are not surprised.

While refusing any on-the-record comments, sources within the House Foreign Affairs Committee admitted that Iran’s covert arms shipments to Afghanistan have been so extensive, it was only a “matter of time” that some would reach rebels in the field.

And it all comes as Panetta arrives to survey the status of American forces.

With the U.S. reducing its “footprint” in the region, Oren says Tehran is intent on filling any vacuum:“We see an immense increase in Iranian military involvement in these areas, a brazenness at a time when [the international community’s] focus on the region is falling elsewhere and not on Iran.”

One area the Israeli highlighted was Iran’s problem-plagued nuclear program.

Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful in nature, but the White House insists the program is really a secret shell for an atomic weapons project, and Washington succeeded in getting the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions over it.

Nonetheless, Iran has proceeded with the project, headlined by the recent completion of a massive nuclear power station near the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr.

The program first began under the Shah in the late 1970s with German assistance. When the Islamists took power, the project was mothballed, only to be resurrected by Tehran with Russian help in the mid-1990s.

The power station, finally completed last year, more than 5 years late and several billion dollars over budget, went online briefly and then shut down due a “mysterious” computer virus thought to have been covertly seeded by Washington or Jerusalem.

Those problems have apparently been solved by Russian and Iranian technicians, and Bushehr is now expected to be fully operational by early autumn, says Tehran.

Oren explained: “Iran has overcome the technical difficulties it experienced last year in its nuclear program. According to Israeli/American sources and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran is now producing enriched uranium [the core fuel for an atomic bomb] at a rate that is very impressive and increasing that enrichment rate to a much higher level. ... At the same time, it is very vigorously pursuing its missile-development program with missiles that can hit anywhere in the Middle East and southern Europe. Within 5-10 years they will be able to reach the East Coast of the United States.”

The Israeli diplomat cautioned: “All of this is going on at a time when the Iranian regime is openly committed to destroying Israel, deny the Holocaust. ... We hope that in spite of the great distractions going on in the Middle East, and they are significant, that the international community will regain its focus on Iran and work swiftly and decisively to prevent Iran from developing its military and nuclear capabilities and to stem a pernicious Iranian hegemony throughout the Middle East.”

That hegemony is likely to take shape at the United Nations General Assembly to be held in New York City in September.

Both Presidents Barack Obama and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are expected to participate.

Top on the list will be an effort by the Palestinians to gain official statehood status by the world body. The move is heavily backed by Iran, while Washington and Jerusalem oppose the effort.

A vote of approval would come in the U.N. General Assembly, where no veto exists. At this point, the vote is expected to be close. Only a simple majority of the U.N.’s 192 members is needed for approval.

The U.S. Congress has threatened to cut off all U.S. funding of U.N. activities if it approves Palestinian statehood.

Neither the US/UN Mission or the executive office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would offer any comment for this story.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=320465

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. U.S. Envoy Blames Iran Following Deadly Month for U.S. Forces in Iraq!-Posted on CNSNews.com-ByPatrick Goodenough-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-envoy-blames-iran-following-deadly-mo

II. Obama, Soros create ‘Palestine’: ‘Invest in Arab ‘country’ that lacks recognition’-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On February 11, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=262077#ixzz1MteI0asq

III. Obama’s Secret Link to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and More!-Posted on Human Events-By Buzz Patterson-On September 8, 2010:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38893

IV. U.S. Chaplains Vetted By Muslim Who Condemns Jewish 'Trickery'!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=320161

V. Jake Tapper Concedes Media’s Bias on Obama Medal of Honor Gaffe & Double Standard on Bachmann!-Posted on The Media Research Center-By Scott Whitlock-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110705044506.aspx

VI. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=43b350b9f6-EO_04_27_20114_27_2011&utm_medium=email

Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways: (a) by characterizing the United States as an evil, militaristic, oppressive nation that exploits vulverable populations all over the globe; (b) by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions; (c) by depicting America's  military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and  immoral-You Decide: 

Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts reveal that the president is an Alinskyite, so steeped in the ideology of the seminal community organizer that he became a top instructor in Alinskyite tactics for other up-and-coming fifth-column radicals, whose single, animating ambition is to overthrow the capitalist social order, which they claim to see as racist, corrupt, exploitative, imperialist, etc. He also frames national security as a distraction from his more important work socializing our economy and thus knows that as long as he is tepidly supportive of a military mission, even one that neither aims to achieve nor can possibly achieve victory over America’s enemies, conservatives will not only overlook the slights, but will anxiously commend him and help the New York Times take the lash to those who won’t-You Decide:

Alinsky Does Afghanistan! (Part I)-Posted on National Review Online- By Andrew C. McCarthy-On December 4, 2010:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228741/alinsky-does-afghanistan/andrew-c-mccarthy

Alinksy Does Afghanistan! (Part II)-Posted on National Review Online-By Andrew C. McCarthy-On June 23, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270378/alinksi-does-afghanistan-part-ii-andrew-c-mccarthy

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The President Must Stop Voting "Present" on Iran!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-president-must-stop-voting-“present”-on-iran/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Is Israel the next Arab Facebook Campaign?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/is-israel-the-next-arab-facebook-campaign/

The Military Pays the Price for Obama's Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/

Veterans and members of our Armed Forces under attack!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/veterans-and-members-of-our-armed-forces-under-attack/

Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fair-and-balanced-airwaves-and-news-outlets/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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The Case of Casey Anthony

I turned on my computer this morning and got this question on the MSN browser page. What are your chances of being attacked by a shark while vacationing at the beach, or being attacked by norovirus on a cruiseship, or being murdered while on vacation in Mexico?  Not to worry, my friends, though the thought came to me about the hundreds of millions of people that do not live a full life by reason of religion, even die in the name of religion.

 

I can’t think of a news story that has attracted more interest than the Casey Anthony trial. It concerns a human life that was snuffed out at age two, a heart-felt tragedy.  Now that Anthony has been acquitted of murdering her child, the interest persists, the issue reasonable doubt. How Anthony’s daughter died is not known, but the question was raised of why an accident turned into a murder trial; why Anthony didn’t report her missing child to the police; why she changed her story over and over?  The facts of the case were held by the jury to be secondary.  The principle of reasonable doubt prevailed.  Lying, the absence of truth, won.   The jury was sickened but felt it had no choice. American society is badly mixed up. We can’t get over this.  It will stick with us. I’d like to offer my take.

 

Nice work if you can get it.  When we lie, it leaves reasonable doubt. What lying politicians have wrought on America leaves reasonable doubt. Nevertheless, the American people voted into office Barack Obama.  Factually, a bad situation became a terrible situation, but there remains reasonable doubt. The lying continues. Jesus accused the scribes and Pharisees of being hypocrites—“for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men” (Mt.23:13).  Jesus was prosecuted. The jury decided to crucify Jesus.  No doubt about it, Jesus was guilty of attacking the recognized authority. As long as reasonable doubt prevails, and the authorities shut up the kingdom of heaven, hundreds of millions will die. Jesus said he would return.

 

Jesus often referred to the kingdom of heaven. He said, “in earth as it is in heaven.”  In order to make his points, he spoke in parables designed to teach the truth in terms people could understand.  But he made a distinction.  Jesus said, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Mt. 6:33). The kingdom of God is not on earth or in heaven. God cannot be here and there at the same time. But it is essential for recognized authorities, both secular and ecclesiastical, they must keep reasonable doubt alive about where God is, and it goes much further.

 

Cicero, the father of modern law, said, “We are born for justice, and right is not the mere arbitrary construction of opinion but an institution of nature.”  An inalienable right, an institution of nature, as I read in Black’s Law Dictionary, is not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the consent of the one possessing such rights.  In other words, we are not like properties that can be bought, sold, bartered—or eliminated and left to rot—but surely have the personal responsibility to be self governed.  Earthbound authority leaves us with reasonable doubt.  For what purpose?  What would we be if there was no doubt that we are all God’s children, as Jesus indicated, first seek ye the kingdom of God?  Would reasonable doubt be at issue?  Jesus said, let he who is not with sin cast the first stone, and indeed, justice is an ever shifting moral principle.  I don’t think that’s what Jesus meant. What would we be if there was no doubt in the world that each of us is a child of God?  Would a little child whose loss we grieve not be alive today? There is a lesson to be learned in this little child’s murder.

 

I’ve the experience to speak on seeking first the kingdom of God.  My awareness has been considerably expanded.  I know that suffering humanity is the result of being out of sync mentally with the harmony of the universe.  God’s blessing, immaterial, our actuating cause of life, out of this comes justice and the freedom of spirit.  We begin to live the life intended when we look for guidance to the internal God in each of us. Our doubts vanish like mist in the morning sun.  We discover hidden powers and all manner of possibilities.   Man’s law ceases to be confusing and dominating. We become water-bearers, our brother’s keeper pouring out spiritual energy.

 

Welcome the second coming of Jesus Christ. Welcome the Age of Aquarius.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LET US KNOW YOU ARE LISTENING

MISTERS: Senators PAUL DE MINT, COBURN, CHAMBLIS, ISAACSON, RUBIO, TOOMEY, WOODALL,   MR.SPEAKER and MR OBAMA:
Will no-one listen to the people that hired us?
Let us know you are listening!

I am having trouble understanding so many things that are being attributed to Congress and the Senate.
   I understand Mr. Obama, Reid and Ms. Pelosi; they are socialists similar to about a third of both of the Houses of Congress.
   What I am finding puzzling is the way they are treating their employer; US!
Why are you taxing the American citizen instead of the bankers, Federal Reserve and billionaire companies?
Some things including the treatment of G. E., Goggle and other high dollar businesses with the amounts of income versus taxes withheld do not compute and need communications to the public;  namely WE-THE-PEOPLE! Let's hear how you are going to get yourselves re-elected; or not! Hiding money offshore is another thing! I know I am fragmenting these facts, but there are so many its difficult not to.
Then there's the National Grants where the sex lives of ants are investigated and the Mosques are studied and approved. America should not be granting money for Mosques or ant investigations.
There are companies that are created specifically for granting these grants and are a waste of tax monies! YOU should be aware of how much money is being given away in this frivolous manner, so you can stop it!
Then there are other things you need to be aware of with Mr. Obama starting a war without knowing what he is doing. He asked every ones permission except the people he should have asked! WE-THE-PEOPLE; not the U. N. or Hugo Chavez!

He has created a depression out of Bush's recession, forced a huge portion of America into default over his policies exponentially increased abortion on demand without our consent, created a situation in our society where the National Guard should be called in to quell the union riots; because the police won't protect and serve; the riots ARE the teachers and police!
I have seen some of the riots where individuals were attacked and the police refuse to act.
AND Who will pay for the repair and cleaning of the desecrated WI mess?
I pray the people that caused the riots! WILL the will the union bosses  pay, and NOT WE-THE-PEOPLE!?
Who will pay for the actions of Mr. Obama? The Arab League? The Saudis? The Christians are still being persecuted in the Middle East, not by the Jews, but by the Muslims!
This nation was built on the premise of Christianity and freedom. Mr. Jefferson went to Tripoli to free the white AND black slaves in the sixteenth century! The women and Christians are being persecuted and you say nothing! Let's do something about this! Let's hear some complaints about the Chinese, Russian  AND Muslimpersecution!
 Another point: How many billions are we paying these countries that hate us to be nasty to us? Can you understand why we have formed the tea parties?
Let's stop that; only pay FRIENDLY NATIONS! And only if they need the help!
 Mr. Obama prefers the United Nations over our Constitution that you signed an oath to uphold and protect! WE-THE-PEOPLE need to know who he represents; AND who YOU are going to represent! The United States or the United Nations!
You need to call him on this! There is most likely going to be a tea party response to these and more of these issues you need to be listening to, so HEADS UP!
   Richard D Gregory Sr
      Daddysr7@att.net


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