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A Tribute to Our Veterans, all!
Where ever the seeds of democracy take root, they are always watered with the blood of American hero's! Those hero's who gave their life, limbs, and time to uphold the Constitution, to remove tyranny, and to retard communism. They laid their lives down on the alter of freedom, for us, and others to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our founders wrote the Constitution ...:In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Our hero's enshrined those words on our hearts and minds, written by the finger of God dipped in their blood. God Bless America! Thank you veterans, all!
May we all remember freedom isn't free! And, we all owe it to those that perished on the alter of freedom to remove domestic tyranny whenever and where ever it rears its ugly head. Allowing one instance of any form of tyranny to remain in the United States is an insult, a disgrace, and a slap in the face to all those that paid to remove it.
Alright folks---here we have it. An Open Invitation to Angelo Mule' and Alex Abrams to come on Tea Party Radio Monday night @ 9 p.m. EST.
Angelo is a frequent poster here on Tea Party.org. Alex has also made his presence known. Personally, I have never been shy either. As I will be hosting Tea Party Radio Monday night, and there appears to be a small confict of opinion and/or ideals between these gentlemen, let's just get this in the open. This ties in with what we are all concerned with in this movement, and all others across this country. It's one thing to sit down at an impersonal keyboard, and quite another to open yourself up to the realm of open opinion and discussion, LIVE, with thousands of people listening, and clattering away in the chat-room, and project and maintain your ideals and beliefs, and defend them.
Angelo had just posted me that I should ask Alex on. Alright. Alex--COME ON IN. Call-in # is 646-200-4032.
Angelo, I'm going to ask that you meet the challenge you issued to Alex---YOU KNOW THE NUMBER.
Leah Lax will be there along with our perennial host/co-host David Toy. Dale---wish you were here, and God Bless you and all our Vets on this Memorial Day.
Let's make them all proud, get vocal and get loud!!!!
God Bless you all and God Bless the United States of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Read this article regarding the jihad in Christian Ethiopia. You would never get a chance to read it in any of our beloved newspapers. God bless the Internet, the last bastion of truely balanced reporting. Is there a double standard in reporting and in the way Muslims interact in the world? Let the facts speak for themselves! You be the judge!
May 22, 2011
Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia Lessons for the West
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
http://victorhanson.com/articles/ibrahim052211.html
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Posted on Canada Free Press-By Move America Forward-On May 27, 2011:
“In the latest and most outrageous move, the Obama administration wants to cut pay and/or benefits for our troops and their families, even those deployed overseas fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, in order to reign in budgetary spending.
It’s the classic game that the liberals play whenever they are in power – they are always quick to claim they support the troops, but the military is always first on the chopping block. Yesterday Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed that the Obama Administration was considering cutting military paychecks when he said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
“The defense secretary said the strategic review could require politicians to look at other uncomfortable choices, including pay levels for service members, new approaches for retirement and pensions, or higher healthcare costs for working-age retirees.” - David Alexander, Reuters 24 MAY 2011
Thanks to the Obama Administration, the gilded age where America supported it’s troops in times of war may be coming to an end, and this commander-in-chief may be asking our troops to fight two wars while at the same time GIVING UP pay, and benefits both for themselves, their spouses and their children!
At Move America Forward we advocate on behalf of our troops and their missions in the war on terror, and that goes beyond sending care packages to the troops on the front lines. We will stand and fight the Administration on this because it’s unconscionable to ask our troops to take a pay cut while there are a million other places in the budget to cut. Our troops deserve fair and decent compensation, and they deserve for their families to be taken care of after what they sacrifice for us every day!
If you ever wonder about what our troops go through for our sake, just remember where they are serving – it’s almost June now, and these troops are out in the middle of the desert in Baghdad where temperatures reach blazing triple digits on a daily basis.
Afghanistan also reaches extreme temperatures, even worse because it has extreme highs in the summer and extreme cold snaps in the winter.
With Memorial Day coming up this Monday, we must show that we support our troops, and in high temperatures like these, our troops are going to need these care packages! Each care package comes with Gatorade to help cool off our troops and keep them hydrated in the hot desert sun!
MEMORIAL DAY IS ALMOST HERE! SEND A CARE PACKAGE WITH SOME GATORADE FOR OUR THIRSTY TROOPS NOW!
Can you imagine what it would feel like to be serving overseas, fighting the war on terror in Iraq or Afghanistan, far away from your family, and then you receive a letter in from your own Government, saying that your paycheck is going to get cut and the prescription medicine for your kid’s ear infection that used to get covered by your militaryhealthcare plan is now going to have to be paid out of pocket and there’s nothing you can do about it because you’re 6,700 miles away from home dodging bullets and trying to shoot back and kill these crazy radical Islamic terrorists!
It’s a slap in the face to our military for the Obama administration to be pushing for this, and it is despicable that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is doing the dirty work for President Obama and breaking the news to the troops who have served under him. What a horrid legacy to leave. He will retire next month on this weak note of failure to find a more suitable place to cut the $500 million that Obama has demanded the Pentagon cut.”
Source:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36951#When:10:54:51Z
Note: The following article and/or blog post reveals that Gates is also targeting Veteran retirement pay and healthcare-You Decide:
Gates Targets Retirement, Health Care!-Posted on MOAA.org-On May 27, 2011:
In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute this week Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated his assertion that DoD needs to fundamentally change the way it does business. He said procurement overhaul already has produced significant savings, and identified force size and structure, military compensation, retirement, and health care as additional targets for budget cuts to achieve a planned $400 billion in DoD budget savings over the next 10 years.
Gates launched a comprehensive review of DoD’s future needs last week to identify specific recommendations. Among the specifics he cited were:
- Lowering military compensation in light of strong recruiting and retention numbers
- Eliminating the “one size fits all” military retirement system in favor of a tiered and targeted retirement system that weights compensation towards the most in-demand specialties
- Increasing health care cost-sharing for working-age retirees
Considering the staggering debt facing the nation, the reality is that anything the government spends money on is going to come under great pressure for cutbacks in coming years.
But it’s troubling to hear Pentagon leadership citing the same old arguments that led to short-sighted changes of the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s that ultimately caused significant retention and readiness problems.
Sustaining pay comparability – through good budget times and bad – is a fundamental underpinning of the all-volunteer force. We’ve spent the last decade recovering from the follies of the past. Cutting back on military pay every year we experience satisfactory recruiting and retention is a proven method to create future retention problems. It’s the equivalent of driving a car by looking only in the rear-view mirror. Sooner or later, you’re going to crash.
On the retirement front, the country should thank its lucky stars it has the current 20-year retirement system, because it’s the primary reason we’ve been able to sustain the force through the last decade of war. The last retirement reform – the REDUX system of 1986 that cut lifetime retirement value by 22% for subsequent entrants – had to be repealed after it caused retention problems.
Now DoD budgeteers envision saving money by cutting retirement even more than REDUX did – by making military people fund more of their own retirement, delaying eligibility for retired pay until age 57 or later, and changing the retirement contribution every year based on the shortage skills of the time. They propose making it “fairer” by vesting military retirement benefits after 10 years of service.
But this system would blatantly take money from people who serve a career to pay people who leave early, creating a retention and readiness time bomb.
If you had 10 years of service, were facing a fourth tour to Afghanistan, and were given the choice of separating with a pro-rata retirement or being required to keep serving until age 57 to earn a regular retirement (knowing the military will still want to push most people off active duty well before that age), what would you do?
Budget-cutters always focus on short-term fiscal needs, recognizing that any negative consequences will be their successors’ problem to solve. Their fatal flaw, from a national readiness standpoint, is that they plan for the best-case scenario, when a volatile real-world never follows that scenario (see the “Quote of the Week” sidebar in this legislative update).
While all military compensation programs are going to come under very close budget scrutiny, MOAA will focus on reminding Congress of the lessons (hopefully) learned from past ill-considered cutbacks.
Observing Memorial Day:
It goes without saying that this is a special weekend for all members of the uniformed services and veteran’s community. Memorial Day carries a particular significance for MOAA members and families when our Nation is at war. Please keep all service members, veterans, survivors, and their families in your thoughts.
If you’re traveling this weekend, please do so safely. Your family, your compatriots in uniform, and your country still need you.”
Continue Reading: http://www.moaa.org/action_update_110527.htm
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Push for Pentagon cuts tops Panetta’s agenda-Posted on Idaho Stateswman-By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press-On April 27, 2011:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/04/27/v-print/1625708/push-for-pentagon-cuts-tops-panettas.html
The Plot to Destroy the US Military!-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Daniel Greenfield-On March 21, 2011:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34646
Wife of White House mouthpiece behind Petraeus attack: ‘Lee given new post to battle 'negative' reporting about president’-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On May 25, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=303121
MoveOn.org Ad Takes Aim at Petraeus: “Ad From Liberal Activist Group Takes on Petraeus and the GOP Finds a New Talking Point”-Posted on ABCNews.go.com-By JAKE TAPPER-On September 10, 2007:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Decision2008/story?id=3581727&page=1
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
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/
Rules of Engagement Killing Marines and U.S. Soldiers!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/rules-of-engagement-killing-marines-and-u-s-soldiers/
Treason in America: Move Over ‘Hanoi Jane’!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/treason-in-america-move-over-‘hanoi-jane’/
Is Pelosi Wrong On Defense Spending?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/is-pelosi-wrong-on-defense-spending/Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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Note: The following videos seem extremely appropriate this Memorial Day weekend and always. Please keep our troops and their families in your thoughts and prayers:
Angel By My Side (Song for Our Military Heroes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIyDOaQ-dI&feature=related
Farewell Marine:
http://00f2630.netsolhost.com/farewellmarine.html
Heaven Was Needing A Hero – fallen soldier tribute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJf9ZezTZE&feature=related
“I Honor Back” by Jon Kahn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgY0wSk42M&feature=player_embedded
Note: As a retired Marine Corps Mustang Officer, I believe that our nation must do a better job of supporting and/or taking care of our men and women in uniform that have and/or are currently contributing their time, their sanity, their health, and, above all, their lives to the service of their country as a means of upholding the freedom that too many “Americans in Name Only” take for granted, as evidenced by these outrages actions by this President and his minions-You Decide:
“Food For Thought”
“God Bless & Keep Our Troops & Their Families Safe”
Semper Fi!
Jake
When I was a child, I was very insecure and impressed by what by what adults thought. I was made to feel that God was looking down at me from Heaven and frowning at my sinful thoughts. I wished so that I could be in control of my life. That was not to be. At age 49, my business enterprise was on the rocks and my second wife was divorcing me. I felt that my life was over. I was forced to change. I cut from the herd and went on my own, according to everyone I knew, not the thing to do. No one wished me well, and especially the IRS. They took from me what was not theirs to take. I’d nobody to blame but myself. I had the gall to tell Uncle Sam in a letter to the Attorney General that the United States was unconstitutional in its tax collection practices. I had notions about tax that most would have said were psychotic. Common sense says you don’t question the income tax. Everyone must pay his fair share of the tax burden, like it or not.
Coincidentally, I departed my north Texas home on Good Friday, March 1975, and arrived in Miami on Easter Sunday for the first day of my new life. Since I’d been self-employed, I was not government entitled to unemployment pay. I was forced to immediately find work. America was in a deep recession in 1975, yet on my third phone call I found work. Down the street from my one-room pad, there was a mile-long food stamp line. Why work on jobs like I took when you were better off to collect unemployment benefits—out of my meager pay.
Since I was single with no deductions, a substantial part of my wages was withheld by my employer to pay Uncle Sam, who was redistributing the revenue to certain people who were not working.
I could not make ends meet with my take-home pay. I was locked out of my room for non-payment of rent, not a good thing for entry-level workers struggling to get a foothold, and especially for this 49 year-old. Uncle Sam does not make this fact of life for millions of workers known. Legal but lawless, Uncle Sam cares not about making people like me homeless. Nazi law was the same. The good of all is all that counts. A revolution is taking place. People being taken by corrupt politicians are causing the world to go through a radical change.
Nobody I’ve heard in American politics seems to know what I know, whether they be advocates of, especially, the religious right, or conservative, or liberal, or independent. I’m a voice thousands are hearing and on which they comment favorably (at www.mymiraclemessage.com ). The truth, stranger than fiction, is something most people are terribly reluctant to hear. Most, especially liberals, prefer to live in hope. How many times have I heard from liberals, “we can hope,” or “pray for peace,” or “just give Obama a chance; he inherited Bush’s abomination?” Rationalize till the cows come home. It doesn’t change the facts. America is going down the tube. For every rich citizen, there are a hundred poor citizens, and the poor are getting poorer, and more dependent on government. Will we never learn that government entitlement is against natural law?
In the second chapter of The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Visit of the Magi; that is, the visit the “three wise men,” Persian priests—astrologers—in those days advisors of rulers, they arrived in Jerusalem saying, “where is he that is born King of Jews?” When King Herod heard this he was troubled, and all of Jerusalem. We read that Herod gathered the chief priests and scribes of the people, those who read the stars and advised kings. Herod demanded of them to let him know where Jesus would be born. They told Herod Jesus would be born in Bethlehem, that a new star had appeared over Bethlehem. So we read, the Magi were led by the Star of Bethlehem to the Christ-child’s birthplace.
In the sixth chapter of Matthew, concerning prayer, Jesus told his following, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven (heaven spelled with a small h).” Then Jesus rebuked external authority. “That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father, which is in secret (and not in a place called Heaven), and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. . .” Jesus, with regard to the kingdom, said, “Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon earth. . .but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven (with a small h), for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. . .” Jesus went on to say, “No man can serve two masters.” Quite obviously, Jesus had reference to external authority, for he followed with, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Jesus clearly distinguished heaven and earth as different than the kingdom of God. Thus, thy kingdom come, whose will be done in earth as it is in heaven? The kingdom of God lies in our hearts and souls. You don’t listen and do what authority tells you to do. Jesus didn’t listen and do what the priests and scribes told him to do. Instead, Jesus turned over the moneychangers tables in the temple, the source of the priests and scribes revenue. Why wasn’t I taught this in my Christian religion? It wasn’t my sins that got Jesus hung from the cross. I wasn’t “born in sin.” I was born innocent. What the clergy teaches about Jesus is quite different than what Jesus taught. It’s a control thing.
As a Christian, I was taught that Adam and Eve were disobedient to God’s command. They were not to partake in the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Serpent told Eve if she ate from said tree she would have the knowledge of the gods. What life on earth knows not evil? All life save humans. God, the authority, wants us to know only good. Nice work if you can get it. Obey authority—be animals jumping through hoops—for authority knows what is good for us; we, the people, don’t. Yes, President Obama’s edict will bring us “collective salvation,” and put an end to Israel in the process—for the good of all.
Should we blindly trust authority, religious or otherwise, give up our own lives? Jesus made it quite clear that your pie is not in the sky but in your heart and soul. And where does your Constitution leave authority? “We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Those words say authority is subject to the will of the people, not its will. So why not?
America was not founded on the Judeo-Christian faith. In God we trust—in the Higher Law, the background of the Constitution, in natural law, for, “We are born for justice, and right is not the mere arbitrary construction of opinion but an institution of nature.” Cicero. “We are the law’s slaves that we may be free.”
Jesus taught that we are our brother’s keeper. “We” do not yet know who we are and why we are here. External authority, be it religious or secular, thinks it is here to help us do the best we can. In so doing, authority robs the individual of his rights and responsibilities. What chance do we have of being our sacred selves?
In 1975, I was forced to make a change. I started over, coincidentally, on Easter Sunday, to build a new life. The world was against me.
In principle, government entitlement is no different that Nazi law—some entitled, some not—by the will of power. Anything can be seen as good for all by those in control, including taking all power away, that which the Creator gave the individual. Thomas Jefferson wrote on this in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” God-given rights, those in the heart and soul.
Once the gate is opened and the horse is out it is hard to get him back. Once you give a politician power over you, it is next to impossible to get it back. Politicians are for the good of all at your individual expense. Consequently, when I began anew to make a life, as an entry level worker, as a single with no deductions, my withholding tax deprived me of a basic existence. That is not good for entry-level workers. It is not good for non-workers. It is good for authority. Nobody else counts. We are pawns. It gives authority control, authority with the ability to borrow against future taxpayers unlimitedly. It is not good now or ever, butt it is being done by the people the Tea Party elected. You can’t depend on any of them. Money goes where money flows. The rich get richer; the poor get poorer by means of government entitlement. But, pray tell me, why would mindless, power hungy government want to rid itself of the uncontrolled growth of power? Uncontrolled, government, like a cancer, will grow until it kills the society it governs. History is replete with examples.
There is no valid reason why an individual of sound mind and body should receive a government entitlement. It is not God’s will. It is not written in the Constitution, or even implied. All any student of the law can rightly say is that government entitlement is the law of might makes right. At the present, government entitlement is America’s biggest bone of contention. With more than half of the people benefitting from government entitlement, the majority vote keeps the greatest fraud of all times in place, and currently bankrupting the nation morally, spiritually, and fiscally.
No one can give you the answer that will save you from a coming disaster the likes of which the world has never seen, but here’s the good news. Jesus was here at the beginning of the Age of Pisces. Pisces people are extremely responsive to other people, the way I was before my change. They desperately want to do the right thing, exactly the way I was. Why didn’t the people I was associated with know that? Pisces people are easily influenced by external factors, the way I was. It is par for the course, their symbol two attached fish swimming in opposite directions. We are now in a war that will end all wars.
Astrologers say that in my forties I’d be inclined to change my immature way of life. When I was 49, I cut from the herd and went strictly on my own. I discovered the real me. I was reborn. Astrologer’s Handbook says that “individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity have as their symbol the water-bearer, who spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy.” We are at the dawn of the age when peace and good will abound.
Debbie Washingmachine Shultz is from Florida (Throw up) and she is National Chairman of Democratic Chairman.
Is she a Marxist?
She says if Republicans were in charge at the time that all Americans would be driving Foreign Cars.
What kind of car does Debbie Washingmachine Shultz Drive? A HONDA.!
Is she a Jewish American Princess?
Would she make Israel poud of her? No!
My beloved friends and love one ones in the United States and around the world, I am sending this urgent message to you asking for your support on a very important issue involving a young woman who was attacked and brutalized by Georgia law-enforcement. In that incident her unborn child was viciously murdered. On March 02, 2011, I suffered while resting in the comfort of her Jonesboro Georgia home, committed no crimes, out of the blue my home was surrounded by swat teams and officers from three different law-enforcement agencies within Clayton county. She was terrorizes; she called 911 frantic for hekp but 911 dispachers were so cruel to this young womam, they threatened her and went as far as telling her not to call back. She was denied critical emergency services rgat could have saved the lives of her unborn child.
Hoverer, when she was trapped into her home with nowhere to go and no one to help, this pregnant victim was left to suffer some of the worse, if not the worse brutality in recent history. Her front door was kicked in and she was brutally attacked in her home by all male officers whom held me at gun point, and tortured her. She was photographed naked before my children and was brutalized to the point where she started bleeding ot the scene, resulted into the vicious murder of her unborn child "Baby Angel"
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To date, this young woman had filed numerous complaints with Attorney General Eric Holder and state law-enforcement agencies. She had also written numerous letters to President Obama asking the president to insure that a thorough investigation is is completed into this case. But until present, no investigation has been conducted an no one is held accounted for these egregious crimes. To the contrary, this innocent victim was framed and set up to stand trial on 15 fraudulent charges that carries maximum penalty of fifteen years in prison and 15 thousand dollars in fines. Please copy and paste the following link to your computer and sign her petition calling upon the attorney general to investigate this gruesome murder.
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I have been more than patient with these people.
9 attempts over the last 4 months has netted me the whole of 1 blog and no messages either way, and I'm tired of them all making me out to look like a fool.
Yeah I'm hot right now.
Ridiculous is being nice.
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Posted on Israel National News-By Hillel Fendel-On May 26, 2011:
“Analyst and former Israeli Ambassador Yoram Ettinger says Obama’s pro-Muslim advisors keep him unbridgeably away from understanding Netanyahu.
Amidst all the commentary and verbiage regarding the recent speeches by Obama and Netanyahu, American-Israeli expert Yoram Ettinger says the cultural and political gap between the two is unbridgeable – largely because of Obama’s pro-Muslim advisors and tilt.
The gap won’t be spanned, Ettinger writes, ”as long as the President assumes that the ethnic, religious, tribal and ideological violent power struggles on the Arab street constitute ‘a story of self-determination’ and ‘the vanguard of democracy.’”
Similarly, “Netanyahu cannot bridge the gap between himself and Obama as long as the President’s world view is heavily influenced/shaped by his senior advisors: Valery Jarrett, who is the favorite of Muslim organizations in the U.S., Ambassador Susan Rice, who considers Israel part of the exploiting Western world and the Palestinians part of the exploited Third World, and Samantha Power, who is one of Israel’s harshest critics in the U.S. In addition,Obama considers Prof. Rashid Khalidi, who was a key PLO spokesman in the U.S., a luminary on the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
Another issue preventing Obama from understanding Israel is his underlying assumption that the Israel-PLO issue is the “root cause of Middle East turbulence, the core cause of anti-U.S. Islamic terrorism, and the crown jewel of Arab policy-making.”
Assumption of Security in Insecure Borders:
And possibly most significant of all, according to Ettinger, Obama “assumes that Israel can be secure - in the most violent and volatile region of the world - within the 1967 borders. Such borders would rob the Jewish State of its Cradle of History and would reduce its waistline to 9-15 miles (over-towered by the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria) - the distance between JFK and LaGuardia airports...”
“How can the gap be bridged,” Ettinger asks, “when Obama considers the 1967 lines - and not hate-education in Abu Mazen’s schools, media and mosques - the crux of the conflict?” Ettinger has long said, and continues to say, that Israel must respond to illogical American demands with firmness and facts on the ground – as it has done, with positive results, several times in recent decades. Ben-Gurion defied the State Department; Eshkol built in and reunited Jerusalem over Johnson’s objections; Golda built four new Jerusalem neighborhoods when Nixon proposed the Rogers Plan; and Shamir rebuffed Presidential pressure in several areas.
On the other hand, Ettinger says, Netanyahu should focus Israel’s relations with the U.S. on issues such as enhanced strategic cooperation, the mounting threats to U.S. interests, the absence of any reliable/capable Arab ally, the intensified Iranian threat, the increased Russian and Chinese profile in the Middle East, the development of energy alternatives, water technologies, homeland security, and more.”
Source:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144510#replies
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Is Israel the next Arab Facebook Campaign?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/is-israel-the-next-arab-facebook-campaign/
Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/
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“Food For Thought”
“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”
Semper Fi!
Jake
Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On May 25, 2011:
“The wife of President Obama’s new online response team leader is a top official at Moveon.org and was the promoter of the group’s notorious attacks on Gen. David H. Petraeus.
This week the White House named its online guru, Jesse Lee, to a new position within itscommunications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response.
The Huffington Post reports Lee will be responsible for responding to negative stories as Obama prepares for his reelection bid.
Last April, Lee married Nita Chaudhary, a progressive activist.
Choudhary has led MoveOn’s campaigns on the Iraq War and U.S. Constitution as well as running the group’s fundraising program for MoveOn’s 2008 electoral effort. She is MoveOn’s campaign director for political action.
MoveOn is funded by philanthropist George Soros.
During the period Choudhary led the group’s Iraq campaign, MoveOn was behind a notorious ad accusing Petraeus of “cooking the books for the White House.” The ad also labeled him “General Betray Us.”
Choudhary stood by the Petraeus ad after it created national political controversy.
“It’s unfortunate that they’re concentrating on the headlines instead of the facts in the ad,” said Chaudhary. “We stand by every single fact [in the ad], and we challenge Boehner ... and any other politician to refute those facts.”
At MoveOn, Choudhary advocated against what she called “right wing extremists.”
In an August 2009 email from the organization, Choudhary wrote, “Right-wing extremists have been crashing tons of events and trying to dominate the national debate.”
Continued Choudhary: “But MoveOn members won’t let them succeed-we’re pushing back with Real Voices for Change, an ambitious campaign to show that the overwhelming majority of Americans continue to support President Obama’s plans for change.”
Two months later, she sent out a blast email decrying “big insurance” companies.
“We need to make sure Democrats who side with ‘Big Insurance’ face consequences with the voters back home,” she wrote.
In a dispatch last June, Choudary warned against a “secret cabal” of “conservatives” trying to slash Social Security and Medicare.
Wrote Choudhary: “It sounds like something Glenn Beck would cook up: a powerful cabal of right-wing ideologues hatches a secret plan to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and they’re on the verge of succeeding. But it’s true.
“Right now, the stars are aligned for conservatives who’ve spent decades trying to cut Social Security — the heart of the New Deal.
“And instead of articulating a progressive response, Democrats seem frozen, like deer in the headlights,” she wrote.
Choudhary previously was director of online organizing for the Voter Contact Department of the Democratic National Committee.
In 2007, she was a trainer at the MoveOn-created progressive New Organizing Institute boot camp.
The NOI board of directors includes Color of Change, an environmental group founded and run by Van Jones, Obama’s former “green” jobs czar. Jones resigned in September 2009 after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and called for “resistance” against the U.S. government.
With research by Brenda J. Elliott”
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http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=303121#ixzz1NTyxAvHK
Note: What follows is the 2007 ABC News article and/or blog post by Jake Tapper that revealed the MoveOn.org Ad that took aim at General Petraeus:
MoveOn.org Ad Takes Aim at Petraeus: “Ad From Liberal Activist Group Takes on Petraeus and the GOP Finds a New Talking Point”-Posted on ABCNews.go.com-By JAKE TAPPER-On September 10, 2007:
“A newspaper ad from the anti-war group MoveOn.org that attacks Gen. David Petraeus has prompted a Republican outcry in Washington, D.C., as supporters of the surge strategy in Iraq change the subject from the progress in Iraq to the rhetoric used by war opponents.
“General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” reads the full-page ad (CLICK HERE), which cost the liberal group MoveOn.org approximately $65,000 and ran in section A of today’s New York Times.
The ad accuses the general of “Cooking the Books for the White House” and asserts “General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts,” citing optimistic statements the general has made about Iraq in the past.
White House spokesman Tony Snow called it “a boorish, childish, unworthy attack” and called on members of Congress to condemn the ad. By the end of the day, 30 Republican senators and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., had written to the Democratic Senate Leader, asking him to “join us in making it clear that you do not share the views of Moveon.org, and that you will not join Moveon.org in attacking the character of this fine officer” and House Republicans had introduced a resolution condemning the ad.
A Democratic leadership aide on Capitol Hill told ABC News that the ad was “not helpful” because it allowed Republicans to refocus attention from “what’s happening on the ground in Iraq and the fact that everyone, even Gen. Petraeus, agrees that political progress is lacking.”
In addition to liberal activist groups such as MoveOn.org, Democrats in both the House and Senate have impugned Petraeus’ testimony today, and those tuning in to the House hearing today to hear from Petraeus had to wait longer than scheduled because the general’s microphone was not functioning, prompting a brief recess.
The microphones of his GOP defenders were fully amplified, however. The ranking Republican on the House Armed Services committee, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, took much of the limited time he had to make remarks at Petraeus’ briefing this afternoon to decry the MoveOn.org ad and other attacks on the general’s credibility, noting that Petraeus had been unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate earlier this year.
“Let us start off this hearing with this stipulation,” Hunter said, Petraeus will offer “a candid independent assessment delivered with integrity.”
The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said the ad “is outrageous and it is deplorable” and called upon her “colleagues on both sides of the aisle” to condemn the ad and, somewhat inexplicably, to apologize to the general for the impugning of his integrity.
The GOP presidential candidates added their voices to the chorus as well, with Arizona Sen. John McCain calling the ad a “McCarthyite attack on an American patriot. … No matter where you stand on the war, we should all agree on the character and decency of this exceptional American.”
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, wrote on the National Review blog “The Corner,” that “(l)ike the men he commands, (Petraeus) is risking his life to protect our freedoms here at home. We should not prejudge him or his testimony, or give him anything less than the full respect he deserves.
Outside a South Carolina barbecue joint Monday afternoon, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., called the ad “outrageous” and said, “MoveOn.org has today, in effect, said that the General leading our brave troops in Iraq is betraying his country. This is the group that funds the Democratic Party. all upon the Democratic Party and all of the Democratic candidates for President to repudiate the libel of this patriotic American.”
But Democrats said doing so would be falling into a GOP trap and criticized Republicans for trying to change the subject from the substance of Petraeus’s testimony.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said while the ad gave Republicans “a new talking point,” Reid would not be decrying the ad.
“They have every right to buy an ad in The New York Times,” said Reid spokesman Jim Manley. “The issue isn’t Gen. Petraeus, who’s a good man and a fine soldier. The problem is that he is being brought in during the fourth quarter and the administration is trying to give him ownership of the entire game. They cannot deflect responsibility like this. The American people know how we got to this point and know that it is time to change course.”
Asked if they would condemn the MoveOn.org ad, the Democratic presidential frontrunners all demurred but tellingly, all of them refrained from criticizing Gen. Petraeus personally.
“Sen. Obama’s question is not about General Petraeus’s patriotism,” said Bill Burton, spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. “It’s about his logic. There’s no evidence that this surge is producing the political progress needed to resolve the civil war in Iraq, or that it will be accomplished through more of the same.
Phil Singer, spokesman for the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, said that “America’s troops have done all that has been asked of them and then some, but the reality is that there is no military solution to what is going on in Iraq which is why our focus must remain on getting the president to change course.”
As for the ad, Singer said, “It is unfortunate that Republican presidential candidates are focused on generating a political sideshow instead of discussing the President’s failed war policy. Sen. Clinton is going to keep her focus where it should be, on ending the war.”
Eric Schultz, spokesman for the campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., said that “Sen. Edwards honors General Petraeus’s service and patriotism, but the General is wrong to believe that the American people or Congress should give President Bush’s failed Iraq strategy more time. John Edwards believes Congress should stand firm and hold President Bush responsible for changing course with a simple and strong message—no timetable, no funding, no excuses.”
MoveOn.org says it stands by its ad.
“Every major independent study and many major news organizations cast serious doubt on Petraeus’ claims,” said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org’s political action committee. Pariser said recent studies by the Government Accountability Office, the National Intelligence Estimate and retired Marine Gen. James Jones contradict any assertions that the surge has been a success.
“Gen. Petraeus’ claims have come under critical scrutiny,” Pariser said. “The facts all point in one direction — the surge isn’t working — and Gen. Petraeus and the White House are pointing in another.”
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Decision2008/story?id=3581727&page=1
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At WH Request, Newspaper Censors Mildly Negative Sentence About Michelle Obama-Posted on News Busters-By Lachlan Markay-On May 03, 2011:
“This White House faced strikingly little press criticism during the 2008 presidential campaign and through most of its first two years in office. So seldom is this White House meaningfully criticized in fact, that even the most mild jab apparently inspires backlash against the press.
Just last week it was revealed that a San Francisco Chronicle reporter was booted from the White House press pool for the crime of recording an anti-Obama protest with her smartphone. Then today, the Pleasanton Weekly, a small newspaper in Pleasanton, California, revealed that the White House had asked that the paper remove a passage it felt reflected poorly on First Lady Michelle Obama.
And, amazingly, the paper obliged. It removed the passage, saying it didn’t want to make a “fuss.” The White House is grateful for the self-censorship, I’m sure.
The passage in question dared to note that Mrs. Obama hadn’t spoken with the pilots of Marine One in the reporter’s presence, the Daily Caller reported on Tuesday:
“In an email to The Daily Caller, Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly in Pleasanton, California, said that her paper “received a call from the White House asking us to take out part of the story because it reflected poorly on the First Lady.”
The story in question was a soft feature about Marine One titled, “Inside Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter,” that ran in the paper on April 20. Pleasanton staffer Amory Gutierrez “didn’t get to ride in ‘Marine One,’” she wrote in her story, “but I did get the VIP tour and took photographs of the otherwise unseen aircraft.”
She also wrote a sentence that the White House thought made FLOTUS look snooty.
“Basically the reporter said that the First Lady didn’t speak to the pilots but acknowledged them by making eye contact,” Allen wrote in her email.
Allen says she “complied” with the White House’s request “because it was not worth making a fuss over.”
She added, “I thought it was interesting, though, that the [White House] was concerned enough about image to contact a little weekly paper in Pleasanton.”
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Oliver North: Releasing Raid Details Threatens US-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Hiram Reisner-On May 13, 2011:
Obama Overridden By Military And Intel Officials In Takeout Of OBL?-Posted on Atlas Shrugs-On May 3, 2011:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/skulking-towards-bin-laden-obama-overridden-by-military-and-intel-officials-in-takeout-of-obl.htmlRep. Allen West slams military diversity report-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Caroline May, The Daily Caller-On March 11, 2011:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/11/rep-allen-west-slams-military-diversity-report/
Lieutenant Commander Ernest Huber-Posted on Elect.ErnestHuberForCongress.com:
http://elect.ErnestHuberForCongress.com/
Why I quit… Desert Storm vet explains decision to leave Air Force after 22 years-Posted on Daily Inter Lake-By MIKE BANZE-On November 7, 2010:
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/dailyinterlake.com/article_dbcfb820-e9f6-11df-9f3f-001cc4c002e0.html
Officers counter ‘PC’ Fort Hood memorial: ‘Counter-terror group of 1st-responders present alternative remembrance’-Posted on WND.com-On November 5, 2010:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=224385
Buzz Patterson: Obama’s ‘Conduct Unbecoming’-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jim Meyers-On September 27, 2010:
Obama’s Secret Link to Hamas-Posted on Human Events-By Buzz Patterson-On September 8, 2010:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38893
8 questions with ‘Conduct Unbecoming’ author Buzz Patterson-Posted on The Daily Caller-On September 5, 2010:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/05/8-questions-with-conduct-unbecoming-author-buzz-patterson/
Retired Navy SEAL Reacts to Charges Against SEALs-Posted on USNavySeals.com-On December 6, 2009:
http://blog.usnavyseals.com/2009/12/retired-navy-seal-reacts-to-charges-against-seals.html#back
Barack Obama Ignores D-Day Anniversary – Goes to Theatre Party Instead-Posted on ExposeObama.com-By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit-On June 7, 2010:
Obama to Skip Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery-Posted on NewsMax.com-On May 25, 2010:
OBAMA DOESN’T ATTEND HEROES BALL, BUT THE QUESTION IS “WHY?”: “For the first time, a newly-inaugurated Presidentmisses ball for Medal of Honor recipients”-Posted on VA Watchdog dot Org-By Larry Scott-On January 23, 2009:
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfjan09/nf012309-1.htm
Jim Moran to veteran: Sit down or leave-Posted on The Daily Caller-On April 8, 2011:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/08/jim-moran-to-veteran-sit-down-or-leave/
Krauthammer criticizes Obama for treating U.S. troop shooting in Germany like ‘a bus accident’-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Jeff Poor, The Daily Caller-On March 3, 2011:
Commander-in-Chief Turns His Back on America’s Military-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On April 8, 2011:
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/08/morning-bell-commander-in-chief-turns-his-back-on-america’s-military/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBellLevin: Obama Does Not “Have Sufficient Respect For The Armed Forces”-Posted on Real Clear Politics-On April 7, 2011:
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The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!
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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/
Treason in America: Move Over ‘Hanoi Jane’!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/treason-in-america-move-over-‘hanoi-jane’/
Rules of Engagement Killing Marines and U.S. Soldiers!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/rules-of-engagement-killing-marines-and-u-s-soldiers/
Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility!
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Ken Cuccinelli was elected Attorney General of Virginia in Novemeber 2009. From 2002-09 he was a member of the Virginia State Senate. Prior to that he was a partner in the law firm of Cuccinelli and Day, where he specialized in business law. A graduate of the University of Virginia, he has an M.A. in international relations from George Mason University School of Law and Economics.
Posted on The Sun News-By Tim Funk, McClatchy Newspapers-On May. 22, 2011:
“CHARLOTTE, N.C.—As he gives sound bites condemning Islam, promoting top Republicans and raising questions about President Obama’s Christianity, North Carolina’s Franklin Graham is sounding less these days like the next Billy Graham and more like the new Jerry Falwell.
In the younger Graham’s controversial comments - offered recently and over the years on a host of TV news shows - religion scholars, political historians and even some of Graham’s fellow evangelical Christians say they hear strident echoes of the combative Falwell.
Throughout the 1980s, as head of the Moral Majority, Falwell lambasted liberals, forged alliances with the GOP and elevated issues such as abortion, homosexuality and public prayer.
The 58-year-old Graham, who came of age in a more religiously pluralistic America than the one that made his father famous, has spoken out against Islam in a way that American Muslims say encourages prejudice - and worse - against them. And though Billy Graham lost some credibility for promoting Richard Nixon during a time of American discord, his son readily mixes theological commentary with doses of political punditry.
Franklin Graham commands no Moral Majority-like political operation, though he told McClatchy he wouldn’t rule out launching one “if I thought it could save this country” from Washington politicians of both parties “who have wheeled and dealed, spent the money of our grandchildren and put us in a debt hole.”
He does lead two large evangelical organizations - Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Together, they reach millions of mostly conservative Christians via TV specials, websites, crusade like festivals, a magazine, the Billy Graham Library and more.
And as a Graham, he’s royalty in evangelical circles - a status that offers him a potentially formidable megaphone. He has easy access to everybody from pastors to politicians, from Christian music stars to TV talk show hosts. At Fox News, nighttime host Greta Van Susteren and her camera crew have followed Graham around the world, doing stories on him from North Korea, Haiti and the Operation Christmas Child warehouse in Charlotte.
Graham, who lives in Boone, N.C., with his wife, Jane, is widely lauded for his humanitarian efforts as CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian charity. And, so far, he appears to have kept the Gospel message center stage at his festivals.
But as the country prepares to move into another presidential election year, Graham has increasingly veered into politics.
The most obvious example involves possible GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
In 2009, he sent a Samaritan’s Purse plane to pick up Palin, then on a book tour, and bring her to Montreat to have dinner with himself and Billy Graham. Late last year, Palin flew to Haiti for a highly publicized inspection, with Graham, of relief efforts by Samaritan’s Purse. And, this year, after pundits criticized Palin for her gun imagery in the wake of the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Graham put out a news release defending the former Alaska governor.
Type in “Sarah Palin” on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website and up comes a video of “Sarah Palin on Finding Faith” and photos of her cradling babies in Haiti.
The Graham seal of approval.
Will other Republican White House wannabes get similar treatment?
Graham, who’s mastered the art of the photo op and of extending his seal of approval, has spoken highly of a few of them. He told McClatchy that U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, a tea party favorite, is “a class act [who] understands the problem we’re facing,” and that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is “a sharp guy.”
He also touted former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who could benefit the most from Graham’s warm words at a time when many evangelical Christians are suspicious of his Mormonism.
“He may be a Mormon, but that doesn’t bother me a bit,” Graham said. “He has a lot of the same values that I hold dear. I’d rather have him than some other people on the Republican and Democratic side because at least he has a moral foundation.”
And Democrat Obama?
The president also has visited with Billy Graham - and his son - at the Montreat homestead in the N.C. mountains. Franklin Graham said Obama is “a very nice man” who inherited a sour economy and bloated budget deficit. But he’s surrounded himself with “ultra-left-wing socialists,” Graham said on Canadian TV. And, he told McClatchy, “his policies are making [things] worse ... It’s going to take new leadership in Washington.”
Graham said he has no plans yet to personally campaign for any candidates - including himself: “God’s called me to a higher calling.”
Still, he frequently offers his opinions - political and otherwise - on the nightly cable TV talkathons and on Sunday morning news shows whose hosts are hungry for headline-making quotes.
“A lot of talk shows used to love to have Falwell or [Pat] Robertson on. They could count on them to go far to the right and give them that sound bite,” said Bill Leonard, former dean of Wake Forest Divinity School and now a professor of church history and religion.
“When Franklin Graham talks like that today, he may be the new Falwell ... the person you go to, to get the money quote.”
Graham doesn’t accept or reject the comparison to Falwell, whom he called “a great man.” But he said that he doesn’t set out to create a storm.
All he’s doing, he said, is answering reporters’ questions, honestly.
“And I have as much right to speak out as a citizen of the United States as anybody else. I mean, the gays and lesbians get involved in politics. How come a Christian can’t? What’s happening is that people are trying to say that Christians - even though we have a voice - shouldn’t speak out. I just don’t agree.”
Evangelicals take sides.
Some of Graham’s recent critics have been Christians who either didn’t like what he said or how he said it.
Still other evangelicals may line up with Graham on theological and political positions, but cringe at his tone.
“This [evangelical] group says: ‘I may agree with what he’s saying, but I wish he’d said it differently,’” said the Rev. David Chadwick, pastor of Charlotte’s Forest Hill Church. “He feels inflammatory and too in-your-face for a group of Christians who believe, as it says in Colossians, that speech is supposed to be seasoned with grace.”
Graham’s pull-no-punches style does have its defenders - including the Rev. Jonathan Falwell, who succeeded his famous father as senior pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va.
If preaching against sin brings controversy, so be it, said the son of Jerry Falwell: “Dad said God never called him to be popular.”
‘Seems to relish controversy’
Some of the same observers who note the similarities between Graham and Jerry Falwell also point to the contrasts between Franklin Graham and Billy Graham - especially in their rhetoric.
The father turned away from his fundamentalist roots, and for most of his career, took pains to be diplomatic and inclusive. The son is a straight shooter who dismisses Islam as “wicked” and told the Observer that evangelical pastor Rob Bell is a “a heretic” and compared him to Satan for suggesting in a new book that non-Christians may have a place in heaven.
Billy Graham cozied up to presidents of both parties, but later regretted “sometimes crossing the line,” as he put it in a January interview with Christianity Today.
Franklin Graham says he’s never voted to put a Democrat in the White House and is unapologetic about his GOP leanings - including his friendship with Palin and his enthusiasm for several likely 2012 challengers to Obama.
When Falwell was at his politically active peak, Billy Graham kept his distance. When Falwell died, Franklin Graham spoke at his funeral.
And while Billy Graham, 92, is beloved - his recent hospital stay brought the kind of daily news updates usually reserved for ex-presidents - his son has become a divisive figure who, last year, saw his invitation to a Pentagon prayer service withdrawn because of his past comments about Islam.
“Had Billy Graham been dis-invited to such a national event, people would have been at the Pentagon with pitchforks,” said Leonard. “He was the nation’s chaplain.”
Added Randall Balmer, author of “God in the White House”: Billy Graham “was allergic to controversy. He ran from it. He hated conflict. Franklin seems to relish controversy.”
Ask and he answers.
Has Graham ever thought about following his father’s late-in-life advice for clergy to steer clear of politics? Maybe decline to comment when asked about the race for the White House?
“First of all, I’m not my father,” he said.
Graham said he’s only giving his opinions when asked, not out giving speeches.
“I’m not out fighting Muslims. And you’ve never heard me go out and speak against gay people,” he said.
“Just because I happen to have opinions about our country, I get criticized.”
With Donald Trump out of the race, and Obama’s long-form birth certificate now public, Graham’s last controversial comments have begun to fade.
“But I’m sure there will be other stories in the future, on this or that,” he said. “And I’m not going to dodge” any questions about them.
And he won’t rule out endorsing somebody for president in 2012.
Said Graham: “This might be the most critical election of our life.”
Source:
http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/05/22/2173033/franklin-graham-the-next-jerry.html#ixzz1NJkZ4FoU
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USA Today challenges Oprah on Jesus Christ: 'Absolutely contrary to the true teaching of Scripture and historic Christianity'-Posted on WND.com-By Joe Kovacs-On May 25, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=303173
The book that changed the world-Posted on theage.com-By Barney Zwartz-ON May 27, 2011:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-book-that-changed-the-world-20110526-1f68t.html
NFL player seeks to grow Christian apparel company-Posted on LA-Plaquemine Post South-By GateHouse News Service-On May 26, 2011:
http://www.postsouth.com/lifestyle/x1148651181/Religion-News-NFL-player-seeks-to-grow-Christian-apparel-companyChristianity: Growing, and under siege!-Posted on Star Tribune-By MARK GRANQUIST-On May 22, 2011:
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/122366424.html
Praying Grads Risk Arrest in Tennessee-Posted on Charisma News Online-By Jennifer LeClaire-On May 20, 2011:
http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/31033-praying-grads-risk-arrest-in-tennessee
Islamist Indoctrination In American Schools-Posted on YouTube.com-By OccidentalSoapbox-On Oct 24, 2008:
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Should Americans Fear Islam?
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Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
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Does Europe have a future?
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Posted on WND.com-On May 25, 2011:
“Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who staged a weeks-long public campaign questioning Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president during March and April – and rose to the top of the pool of potential candidates for the 2012 GOP nomination then as a result – says he believes the “birth certificate” released by the White House is forged.
His comments came yesterday in a telephone call to WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., who is appearing on wall-to-wall radio programs – between 10 and 20 per day – to respond to questions about his latest best-seller, “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama is Not Eligible to be President.”
Trump asked Corsi about the book, its evidence and what is happening next in the effort to document whether Obama is, in fact, constitutionally qualified for the presidency under Article 2, Section 1’s “natural born citizen” requirement.
Trump said his period of almost-complete silence on the issue following the release by the White House on April 27 of the image of a “Certificate of Live Birth” from the state of Hawaii was not because he was satisfied with the document.
“I always said I wanted to know if it was real,” Trump told Corsi.
The image has been challenged by a number of experts in the field, and the original, of course, has yet to be seen, much less analyzed.
The state of Hawaii said it inserted “safety paper” into a copy machine and copied onto the new paper the original image from its state records. However, state officials were unwilling to confirm to WND after the image was released that what was issued by the White House was, in fact, an accurate representation of their original records.
During their conversation, Trump told Corsi his own computer expert told him at the release that it was a computer-generated document.
That opinion has been repeated many times, and WND has reported on a few of the objections that have been raised by various experts:
- Ivan Zatkovich, of Tampa-based eComp Consultants, for example, analyzed the various layers in the PDF file released by the White House, and concluded: “The content clearly indicates that the document was knowingly and explicitly edited and modified before it was placed on the web.”
The image that was released, described by the White House as “proof positive” of Obama’s Hawaiian birth:
{…}
Zatkovich, with 28 years experience in computer science and document management and for more than 10 years an expert witness providing testimony in federal court in both criminal and civil litigation, said the multiple PDF document layers are unusual.
“When a paper document is scanned on a scanner and saved as a PDF file it normally contains only a single layer of graphical information. The PDF that appears on the White House website however, contains multiple layers of graphic information. Multiple layers usually appear in a document like this when it is being edited or modified in some fashion.
“It is possible to take a single layer PDF and inadvertently create multiple layers, without changing the image in any fashion. But that does not appear to be the case here. The multiple layers in the PDF document are a result of changes made to the image,” his report said.
Among the various items that were separated into different layers include the main text, the mother’s occupation, the dates accepted, the stamp and signature of the state registrar and the time stamp of the state registrar:
{…}
The background layer – with all of the additional layers removed – essentially has the text removed except some random portions of signatures and a white border where the text appears on other layers:
{…}
Also, the main layer of text reveals most of the wording on the document, with strange exceptions such as the first part of Stanley Ann Dunham Obama’s signature. The main text layer has only “unham Obama.” Likewise, “Kenya” is spelled “enya” and “Barack” is spelled Ba ack.”
{…}
- Secondly, Karl Denninger, the former of CEO of MCSNet, a Chicago networking and Internet company, said the presence of “kerning” in the text confirms manipulation.
Denninger posted a series of reports online, including on YouTube, where he explains his concerns, which focus around the lettering as it appears on the document that reportedly is a photocopy on green “safety paper” of the original record in Hawaii.
He explains that the type on the birth document show evidence of “kerning,” the squeezing of letters into a line so that they intrude into adjacent letter spaces. Kerning is routine since the advent of word processors and computers, but impossible with a typewriter.
“This process, of course, requires that you know what the next letter is. With a computer this is pretty easy, since the computer can retroactively go back and adjust, and it also can typeset the current letter with the knowledge of what the previous one was,” he reported. “A typewriter, on the other hand, is a mechanical device. It does not know what the next letter is that you will type, nor does it know what the last letter was that you typed. It thus has a typeface that alwaysleaves physical space between the boundary of each character.”
His full explanation is on video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOfYwYyS_c&feature=player_embedded
“To refute this point you must come up with a typewriter that contains a flux capacitor and thus is capable of accurately predicting the future,” he said. “This document has been assembled by somebody on a computer.”
- Then there was a YouTube poster, who identified himself as orangegold1, and posted a video that claimed the White House either was ignorant in posting the document, or was submarined by someone inside the walls who wanted people to suspect the document.{…}
Perhaps most significant unresolved issues is that two weeks before Obama finally released his “long-form birth certificate,” Hawaii’s former Health Department chief Chiyome Fukino – the one official who claimed to have examined Obama’s original birth document – was interviewed by NBC News’ national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff, who reported that Fukino told him she had seen the original birth certificate and that it was “half typed and half handwritten.”
However, the document released by the White House was entirely typed. Only the signatures and two dates at the very bottom were “handwritten.” What Fukino described is apparently a different document from what Obama released to the public.
Among other questions that remain about the document:
- The objectivity of “experts” cited by the mainstream media to verify the birth certificate is suspect, including that of Fox News Channel’s Jean-Claude Tremblay, who assured America they “should not be suspicious” of the document, but who, WND discovered, had heralded Obama’s election victory in an online post.
- Obama’s posted birth certificate contains the same anomalies as a well-known forgery that claimed he was born in Kenya, suggesting the anomalous markings came from the same source. “How could Obama’s ‘real’ birth certificate share these unique characteristics with an obvious forgery?” asks Farah. “For the life of me, I can’t figure out an answer other than they were created by the same person or persons.”
- The birth certificate’s reported delivering physician, Dr. David Sinclair, differs from previously published reportsand even the myth-busting Snopes.com’s original entry, which named Dr. Rodney T. West as the doctor of record.
- Obama’s purported birth certificate contains over a dozen differences in form from the verified, Hawaii copy of the birth certificate issued to the Nordyke twins, born the next day at the same reported hospital.
- The local registrar listed in the Nordyke twins’ birth certificate is notably different than the local registrar on the Obama birth certificate.
- Though Obama was born before the Nordyke twins, and though his birth was filed with the registrar three days before the twins’ birth, Obama’s purported birth certificate has a higher registration number.
- The age of Obama’s father, as listed on the document, conflicts with previously discovered documents about Barack Obama Sr.
- There are no notations on the document indicating Obama’s adoption by his Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, as are often made – even replacing the name of the birth parents – when a child in the U.S. is adopted.
In addition, the SmokingGun.com website notes several irregularities with the Obama birth certificate that do not appear on the Nordyke twin’s birth certificates:
- In Box 3, “This Birth,” there are two “Xs” above “Twin” and “Triplet” – why are these “Xs” here and what do they signify?
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- What is the meaning of the smudges in the Obama birth certificate in the box containing the name of the attending physician?
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- What is the significance of the numbers, seen vertically, on the right side of the Obama birth certificate?
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There are those Obama critics, too, who says that the document released by the White House, if authentic, actually proves Obama’s ineligibility. They cite the indication that Barack Obama Sr. was listed as the father, but he never was a U.S. citizen. They contend those who wrote the requirement for presidents to be a “natural born citizen” disqualified dual citizens at birth, such as Obama.
Obama Jr. himself even seemed to hold that position, suggesting in a resolution he co-sponsored to address Sen. John McCain’s status as a “natural born Citizen” that the status requires “American citizen” parents.
Listen to Corsi’s account of the conversation with Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvYsKKuwEM&feature=player_embedded
“I told him he needs to publicly say that the document in the vault, the original long-form birth certificate, needs to be exposed and examined independently,” Corsi said. “The doctor’s records, the Kapiolani records of Ann Dunham to corroborate she was in that hospital.”
“I told him if you don’t press these issues you can’t be surprised if there are those who think you’re working with Barack Obama [on the dispute],” Corsi added.
During much of April Trump made regular appearances on talk shows and news broadcasts, and almost every time either he or the interviewer raised questions about Obama’s eligibility. At the same time, he regularly was in conversation with Corsi and others who helped Corsi investigate the Obama eligibility dispute about the evidence that exists.
As a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll demonstrated, by raising questions about Obama’s eligibility repeatedly, going as far as suggesting Obama’s tenure might be illegal, Trump rose in popularity among GOP voters.
In that poll, 19 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they’d likely support Trump for the 2012 GOP nomination.
His support rose from only 10 percent just a month earlier.
WND has reported on Trump’s statements regarding Obama’s eligibility:
“There’s something fishy about the whole thing,” Trump has said of Obama’s background, birth story and constant refusal to release a wide range of documents that would reveal information about his heritage and upbringing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUKvoA-DbA4&feature=player_embedded
Trump has also been skeptical regarding the oft-cited 1961 Honolulu newspaper notices.
“I see so much fraud in this world, an ad like that could have been staged. I see so many fraudulent things going on that would be like the least of it,” Trump said.
He suggested it was incredible that no doctor, nurse or other person has come forward to recall the birth of such a famous person.
Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly the significance of the dispute isn’t clear to many people.
Trump also was on MSNBC, where he was asked whether it was a serious issue:
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“There is certainly a chance that he was not born in this country. Now if he was not born in this country, that means he can’t be president. It’s very simple,” Trump explained.”
Source:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=303181#ixzz1NSh9DVCW
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and video relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Subpoena Issued for Loretta Fuddy, Director of Hawaii Department of Health; Must Show Original 1961 Typewritten Birth Certificate For Obama!-Posted on Obama Release Your Records-On May 24, 2011:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/05/subpoena-issued-for-loretta-fuddy.html
Unpublished WND Report: Corsi Warned About Future Release of Fraudulent Obama Birth Records Two Months Prior to Actual Release-Posted on Obama Release Your Records-On May 24, 2011:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/05/unpublished-wnd-report-corsi-warned.html
Video: Sean & Frank Show; Jerome Corsi Interview; The Audacity of Seal: Dreams from a Mother; Obama Fake! All The Evidence!-Posted on BirtherReportDotCom-On May 25, 2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahSs8e8kw4o&feature=player_embedded
Note: My following blog post contains numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newly-released-colb-be-a-forgery/
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